UI/UX Designer Contracts

User Interface/User Experience Designer
UK

The median User Interface/User Experience Designer daily rate in the UK is £463 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 530 611 605
Rank change year-on-year +81 -6 -123
Contract jobs requiring a UI/UX Designer 56 111 229
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.18% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.20% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 80 186
10th Percentile £353 £263 £363
25th Percentile £400 £416 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £550 £490
Median % change year-on-year -15.91% +12.24% -6.67%
75th Percentile £563 £750 £587
90th Percentile £600 £838 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £300 £445
% change year-on-year +45.83% -32.58% +36.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £60.48
Median hourly rate - - £60.97
75th Percentile - - £61.45
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,482 56,783 84,604
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.58% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,407 39,621 59,331
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,607 2,111
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.45 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.60 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%

UI/UX Designer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured UI/UX Designer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for UI/UX Designer in the UK

UI/UX Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing UI/UX Designer.

Daily rate trend for UI/UX Designer in the UK

UI/UX Designer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UI/UX Designer over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for UI/UX Designer in the UK

UI/UX Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing UI/UX Designer.

Hourly rate trend for UI/UX Designer in the UK

UI/UX Designer
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UI/UX Designer within the UK over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +73 53 £463 -14.75% 14
London +56 30 £513 -14.58% 8
UK excluding London +74 21 £438 +45.83% 7
Work from Home +86 20 £513 -14.58% 10
South East +17 8 £475 +15.15% 1
North of England +27 4 £463 +60.87% 1
South West +25 4 £425 +6.25% 2
Scotland +27 3 £463 - 1
Midlands +26 2 £418 +52.00% 2
Yorkshire +23 2 £463 +85.00%
East Midlands +19 2 £418 +52.00%
North West +15 2 - - 1

UI/UX Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, UI/UX Designer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring UI/UX Designer in the job title.

1 56 (100.00%) User Experience
2 52 (92.86%) UX Design
3 28 (50.00%) Figma
4 14 (25.00%) Wireframes
4 14 (25.00%) Agile
4 14 (25.00%) Adobe
4 14 (25.00%) Social Skills
5 13 (23.21%) Sketch
6 11 (19.64%) HTML
7 10 (17.86%) User Research
7 10 (17.86%) Marketing
8 9 (16.07%) Finance
8 9 (16.07%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 8 (14.29%) Health Technology
10 7 (12.50%) Product Ownership
10 7 (12.50%) UX Research
10 7 (12.50%) Adobe XD
10 7 (12.50%) Photoshop
10 7 (12.50%) CSS
10 7 (12.50%) B2B
11 6 (10.71%) JavaScript
11 6 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (10.71%) Typography
12 5 (8.93%) Service Design
12 5 (8.93%) Analytical Skills
12 5 (8.93%) Mobile App
12 5 (8.93%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
12 5 (8.93%) Project Delivery
12 5 (8.93%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (8.93%) Games

UI/UX Designer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.79%) Confluence
Applications
1 13 (23.21%) Sketch
2 7 (12.50%) Adobe XD
2 7 (12.50%) Photoshop
3 5 (8.93%) Adobe Illustrator
4 4 (7.14%) InVision
5 3 (5.36%) InDesign
6 2 (3.57%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (1.79%) Zeplin
Cloud Services
1 28 (50.00%) Figma
2 2 (3.57%) Power Platform
3 1 (1.79%) Adobe Analytics
3 1 (1.79%) Miro
3 1 (1.79%) Pendo
3 1 (1.79%) Unqork
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.36%) Big Data
2 2 (3.57%) BusinessObjects
2 2 (3.57%) Power BI
3 1 (1.79%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (5.36%) Axure RP
2 1 (1.79%) JIRA
General
1 14 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (17.86%) Marketing
3 9 (16.07%) Finance
4 8 (14.29%) Health Technology
5 5 (8.93%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (8.93%) Games
5 5 (8.93%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (7.14%) Advertising
7 3 (5.36%) Front Office
7 3 (5.36%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (3.57%) Banking
8 2 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (3.57%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.79%) Automotive
9 1 (1.79%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.79%) Publishing
9 1 (1.79%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (19.64%) HTML
2 7 (12.50%) CSS
3 4 (7.14%) React
4 2 (3.57%) CSS3
5 1 (1.79%) .NET
5 1 (1.79%) Framer.js
5 1 (1.79%) Material Design
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 5 (8.93%) Mobile App
3 4 (7.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (5.36%) Animation
4 3 (5.36%) Derivative
4 3 (5.36%) Digital Media
4 3 (5.36%) Fixed Income
4 3 (5.36%) Graphic Design
4 3 (5.36%) Onboarding
4 3 (5.36%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (3.57%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.79%) Augmented Reality
6 1 (1.79%) Blog
6 1 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.79%) Infotainment
6 1 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.79%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.79%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.57%) Android
1 2 (3.57%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (100.00%) User Experience
2 52 (92.86%) UX Design
3 14 (25.00%) Agile
3 14 (25.00%) Wireframes
4 10 (17.86%) User Research
5 9 (16.07%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 7 (12.50%) B2B
6 7 (12.50%) UX Research
7 6 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (10.71%) Typography
8 5 (8.93%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
8 5 (8.93%) Project Delivery
8 5 (8.93%) Service Design
9 4 (7.14%) Analytics
9 4 (7.14%) Collaborative Working
9 4 (7.14%) Digital Marketing
9 4 (7.14%) Web Design
10 3 (5.36%) B2C
10 3 (5.36%) Scrum
10 3 (5.36%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 6 (10.71%) JavaScript
2 3 (5.36%) Java
2 3 (5.36%) Python
3 1 (1.79%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (5.36%) Degree
2 1 (1.79%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.79%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.14%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.79%) WCAG
Vendors
1 14 (25.00%) Adobe
2 3 (5.36%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.57%) MicroStrategy
3 2 (3.57%) Salesforce