UI/UX Designer Contract Job Trends

User Interface/User Experience Designer
UK

The median User Interface/User Experience Designer daily rate in the UK is £435, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 564 500 563
Rank change year-on-year -64 +63 +67
Contract jobs requiring a UI/UX Designer 27 41 34
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.073% 0.12% 0.077%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.080% 0.13% 0.083%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 31 21
10th Percentile £361 £350 £325
25th Percentile £400 £381 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £550 £463
Median % change year-on-year -20.91% +18.92% -15.91%
75th Percentile £486 £653 £501
90th Percentile £552 £825 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £388 £413
% change year-on-year +6.45% -6.06% -15.22%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 33,545 31,624 41,095
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.00% 92.80% 93.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,197 19,461 27,642
10th Percentile £293 £300 £288
25th Percentile £404 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £643
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,986 989 1,457
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.60 £15.14
25th Percentile £18.08 £21.22 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £33.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.93% -25.56% +50.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.69 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.44 £72.55 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -27.78% +82.48%

UI/UX Designer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'UI/UX Designer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

UI/UX Designer job vacancy trend in the UK

UI/UX Designer
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for UI/UX Designer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for UI/UX Designer job vacancies in the UK

UI/UX Designer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UI/UX Designer over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for UI/UX Designer in the UK

UI/UX Designer
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for UI/UX Designer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for UI/UX Designer job vacancies in the UK

UI/UX Designer
Top 8 Contract Job 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 20 December 2025. 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 -47 25 £435 -20.91% 10
London -5 17 £470 -16.44% 5
Work from Home -14 9 £425 +9.68% 3
UK excluding London -40 8 £413 +6.45% 6
East of England - 4 £425 -
Midlands -34 3 £400 +12.36% 2
West Midlands - 3 £400 -
South East -24 1 - - 1

UI/UX Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 20 December 2025, UI/UX Designer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring UI/UX Designer in the job title.

1 27 (100.00%) User Experience
1 27 (100.00%) UX Design
2 14 (51.85%) Figma
3 13 (48.15%) Wireframes
4 12 (44.44%) Agile
5 11 (40.74%) Usability Testing
6 10 (37.04%) Accessibility
7 9 (33.33%) Salesforce
8 8 (29.63%) CSS
8 8 (29.63%) HTML
8 8 (29.63%) Sketch
8 8 (29.63%) User Research
9 7 (25.93%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 6 (22.22%) Interaction Design
11 5 (18.52%) Adobe
11 5 (18.52%) Prototyping
12 4 (14.81%) Adobe XD
12 4 (14.81%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
12 4 (14.81%) JavaScript
13 3 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
13 3 (11.11%) CSS3
13 3 (11.11%) Git
13 3 (11.11%) Google
13 3 (11.11%) HTML5
13 3 (11.11%) Lightning Web Components
13 3 (11.11%) Qualitative Research
13 3 (11.11%) Quantitative Research
13 3 (11.11%) Responsive Web Design
13 3 (11.11%) Typography
13 3 (11.11%) WCAG

UI/UX Designer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 8 (29.63%) Sketch
2 4 (14.81%) Adobe XD
3 1 (3.70%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (3.70%) Adobe Premiere
3 1 (3.70%) Chatbot
3 1 (3.70%) InVision
3 1 (3.70%) Moqups
3 1 (3.70%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (51.85%) Figma
2 2 (7.41%) Contentful
3 1 (3.70%) Google Analytics
3 1 (3.70%) Miro
3 1 (3.70%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Git
2 2 (7.41%) JIRA
3 1 (3.70%) Visual Studio
3 1 (3.70%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 6 (22.22%) Finance
2 5 (18.52%) Banking
2 5 (18.52%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.41%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Arabic Language
4 1 (3.70%) Back Office
4 1 (3.70%) Front Office
4 1 (3.70%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.70%) Wearables
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (29.63%) CSS
1 8 (29.63%) HTML
2 3 (11.11%) CSS3
2 3 (11.11%) HTML5
2 3 (11.11%) Lightning Web Components
3 2 (7.41%) AngularJS
3 2 (7.41%) Framer.js
3 2 (7.41%) React
3 2 (7.41%) RESTful
4 1 (3.70%) .NET
4 1 (3.70%) Blazor
4 1 (3.70%) jQuery
4 1 (3.70%) Razor View Engine
4 1 (3.70%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Mobile App
2 4 (14.81%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.70%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Android
1 1 (3.70%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (100.00%) User Experience
1 27 (100.00%) UX Design
2 13 (48.15%) Wireframes
3 12 (44.44%) Agile
4 11 (40.74%) Usability Testing
5 8 (29.63%) User Research
6 7 (25.93%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 6 (22.22%) Interaction Design
8 5 (18.52%) Prototyping
9 4 (14.81%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
10 3 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
10 3 (11.11%) Qualitative Research
10 3 (11.11%) Quantitative Research
10 3 (11.11%) Responsive Web Design
10 3 (11.11%) Typography
10 3 (11.11%) Workshop Facilitation
11 2 (7.41%) Continuous Improvement
11 2 (7.41%) Kanban
11 2 (7.41%) Mobile First
11 2 (7.41%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 4 (14.81%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (7.41%) SC Cleared
1 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.70%) Degree
2 1 (3.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (37.04%) Accessibility
2 3 (11.11%) WCAG
Vendors
1 9 (33.33%) Salesforce
2 5 (18.52%) Adobe
3 3 (11.11%) Google
4 2 (7.41%) Microsoft
4 2 (7.41%) MuleSoft
5 1 (3.70%) Hotjar
5 1 (3.70%) Oracle
5 1 (3.70%) SAP
5 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow