UX Design Contract Job Trends

User Experience Design (UXD)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring UX Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 255 205 211
Rank change year-on-year -50 +6 -41
Contract jobs citing UX Design 525 437 487
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.00% 1.35% 1.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.17% 1.49% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 330 287 336
10th Percentile £363 £306 £350
25th Percentile £405 £363 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £459 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.50% -8.21% -9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £548 £603
90th Percentile £663 £622 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +8.24% -5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 13 8
10th Percentile £21.12 £34.63 £30.17
25th Percentile £26.31 £35.25 £32.73
Median hourly rate £42.72 £47.50 £37.37
Median % change year-on-year -10.07% +27.10% -35.00%
75th Percentile £70.63 £70.16 £52.00
90th Percentile £90.38 £91.22 £88.61
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.09 £70.16 £91.44
% change year-on-year -59.96% -23.27% +30.30%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

UX Design falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 44,833 29,276 36,875
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.19% 90.47% 85.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,910 18,456 23,540
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.48% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,660 1,489 2,488
10th Percentile £14.95 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.44 £16.25
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% -6.25%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £24.66 £38.12
% change year-on-year +80.45% -35.31% -3.62%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing UX Design relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

UX Design job vacancy trend in the UK

UX Design
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing UX Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing UX Design

UX Design
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UX Design over the 6 months to 10 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for UX Design in the UK

UX Design
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing UX Design.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing UX Design

UX Design
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing UX Design over the 6 months to 10 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for UX Design in the UK

UX Design
Top 17 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UX Design within the UK over the 6 months to 10 July 2026. 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 -28 439 £475 +3.50% 221
London -35 246 £500 +6.95% 136
UK excluding London -52 216 £460 +8.24% 111
Work from Home -54 133 £500 +17.65% 116
North of England -58 68 £413 +3.13% 32
South West -7 38 £475 +6.26% 12
Scotland -6 36 £510 +9.55% 8
North West -34 35 £375 -6.25% 18
Midlands -36 33 £550 +54.49% 9
South East -61 28 £550 +21.15% 37
West Midlands -46 26 £500 +66.67% 6
Yorkshire -43 19 £500 - 8
North East -27 14 £450 +5.88% 6
East of England -28 12 £410 -14.14% 7
East Midlands -15 7 £588 +65.03% 3
Wales -12 2 - -
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 6

UX Design
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:

Application Platforms
1 27 (5.14%) CMS
2 21 (4.00%) Confluence
3 5 (0.95%) WordPress
4 4 (0.76%) Headless CMS
4 4 (0.76%) Kentico
4 4 (0.76%) Umbraco
5 2 (0.38%) Mendix
5 2 (0.38%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.19%) Apache
6 1 (0.19%) Camunda
6 1 (0.19%) Drupal
6 1 (0.19%) Moodle
6 1 (0.19%) nginx
6 1 (0.19%) Strapi
6 1 (0.19%) Traefik
Applications
1 26 (4.95%) Sketch
2 15 (2.86%) Adobe XD
3 11 (2.10%) Adobe After Effects
3 11 (2.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 10 (1.90%) Photoshop
5 8 (1.52%) Adobe Illustrator
5 8 (1.52%) Chatbot
6 6 (1.14%) Final Cut Pro
7 4 (0.76%) MS Visio
8 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
9 2 (0.38%) InVision
9 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
9 2 (0.38%) UserZoom
10 1 (0.19%) Adobe Captivate
10 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 1 (0.19%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.95%) Shopify
2 2 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.19%) Eloqua
3 1 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.19%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.19%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 153 (29.14%) Figma
2 64 (12.19%) Azure
3 30 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
4 27 (5.14%) AWS
5 22 (4.19%) Power Platform
6 15 (2.86%) GitHub
6 15 (2.86%) SaaS
7 13 (2.48%) GitHub Actions
8 11 (2.10%) Firebase
9 9 (1.71%) GCP
9 9 (1.71%) Microsoft Copilot
10 7 (1.33%) Serverless
10 7 (1.33%) Slack
11 6 (1.14%) Google Play
11 6 (1.14%) Miro
12 5 (0.95%) Azure AI
13 4 (0.76%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (0.76%) BigCommerce
13 4 (0.76%) Copilot Studio
13 4 (0.76%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.19%) Bluetooth
1 1 (0.19%) Internet
1 1 (0.19%) NFC
1 1 (0.19%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (2.67%) Power BI
2 10 (1.90%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (1.52%) SQL Server
4 6 (1.14%) Metadata
4 6 (1.14%) NoSQL
4 6 (1.14%) Power Query
5 4 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (0.76%) MongoDB
6 3 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (0.57%) MySQL
6 3 (0.57%) Redis
6 3 (0.57%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (0.57%) Star Schema
7 2 (0.38%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.38%) SQLite
8 1 (0.19%) Db2
8 1 (0.19%) Flink
8 1 (0.19%) Pinecone
8 1 (0.19%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 33 (6.29%) JIRA
2 27 (5.14%) Git
3 18 (3.43%) Jenkins
4 17 (3.24%) Cypress.io
5 12 (2.29%) GitLab
6 10 (1.90%) fastlane
7 6 (1.14%) Android Studio
7 6 (1.14%) Gradle
7 6 (1.14%) Vite
7 6 (1.14%) webpack
8 5 (0.95%) Crashlytics
8 5 (0.95%) JUnit
8 5 (0.95%) Storybook
8 5 (0.95%) Xcode
9 3 (0.57%) Axure RP
9 3 (0.57%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.38%) Jasmine
10 2 (0.38%) Karma Test Runner
10 2 (0.38%) Mocha
10 2 (0.38%) Selenium
General
1 153 (29.14%) Social Skills
2 108 (20.57%) Public Sector
3 88 (16.76%) Finance
4 53 (10.10%) Banking
5 29 (5.52%) Retail
6 26 (4.95%) Analytical Skills
7 20 (3.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (3.81%) Presentation Skills
8 17 (3.24%) Marketing
9 16 (3.05%) Publishing
10 15 (2.86%) Automotive
11 10 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
11 10 (1.90%) Legal
12 8 (1.52%) Military
13 6 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (0.95%) Games
14 5 (0.95%) Law
15 4 (0.76%) Investment Banking
15 4 (0.76%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 266 (50.67%) Designer
2 145 (27.62%) UX Designer
3 88 (16.76%) Senior
4 73 (13.90%) Developer
5 65 (12.38%) UI Designer
6 49 (9.33%) UI/UX Designer
7 47 (8.95%) Content Designer
7 47 (8.95%) Senior Designer
8 44 (8.38%) Lead
9 33 (6.29%) Product Designer
10 29 (5.52%) Senior UX Designer
11 26 (4.95%) User Researcher
12 21 (4.00%) Analyst
13 19 (3.62%) Service Designer
14 18 (3.43%) Business Analyst
14 18 (3.43%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 18 (3.43%) User Experience Researcher
15 16 (3.05%) Architect
16 14 (2.67%) Consultant
17 13 (2.48%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (12.38%) React
2 62 (11.81%) CSS
3 58 (11.05%) HTML
4 42 (8.00%) RESTful
5 29 (5.52%) AngularJS
6 26 (4.95%) HTML5
7 25 (4.76%) CSS3
8 22 (4.19%) .NET
9 20 (3.81%) REST
10 16 (3.05%) Jest
11 14 (2.67%) Redux
12 13 (2.48%) Node.js
13 12 (2.29%) Spring
14 11 (2.10%) Spring Boot
15 10 (1.90%) Playwright
15 10 (1.90%) Vue
16 9 (1.71%) .NET Framework
16 9 (1.71%) GraphQL
16 9 (1.71%) Next.js
16 9 (1.71%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 70 (13.33%) Product Ownership
2 47 (8.95%) Mobile App
3 15 (2.86%) Animation
4 14 (2.67%) Onboarding
4 14 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (2.29%) Cloud Native
6 10 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (1.71%) Graphic Design
8 8 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (1.52%) Taxonomies
9 7 (1.33%) AI Agents
9 7 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.14%) NHS
11 5 (0.95%) Virtual Reality
11 5 (0.95%) Virtual Team
12 4 (0.76%) Algorithms
12 4 (0.76%) Data Structures
12 4 (0.76%) IoT
12 4 (0.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.67%) Android
2 10 (1.90%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.38%) Windows
4 1 (0.19%) Linux
4 1 (0.19%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 525 (100.00%) User Experience
2 219 (41.71%) Agile
3 134 (25.52%) User Research
4 111 (21.14%) Prototyping
5 103 (19.62%) Wireframes
6 98 (18.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 88 (16.76%) AI
8 86 (16.38%) Service Design
9 78 (14.86%) Usability Testing
10 70 (13.33%) UX Research
11 68 (12.95%) Analytics
12 67 (12.76%) CI/CD
13 66 (12.57%) Interaction Design
14 64 (12.19%) Stakeholder Management
15 58 (11.05%) DevOps
16 57 (10.86%) Problem-Solving
17 54 (10.29%) Workshop Facilitation
18 53 (10.10%) Journey Map
19 51 (9.71%) Customer Experience
20 46 (8.76%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 56 (10.67%) JavaScript
2 50 (9.52%) TypeScript
3 32 (6.10%) Java
4 24 (4.57%) Python
5 19 (3.62%) SQL
6 17 (3.24%) C#
7 10 (1.90%) Kotlin
8 9 (1.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (0.95%) C++
9 5 (0.95%) Korn
9 5 (0.95%) Lua
9 5 (0.95%) Swift
10 4 (0.76%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.38%) Bicep
11 2 (0.38%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.19%) C
12 1 (0.19%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.19%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.19%) SPARQL
12 1 (0.19%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 86 (16.38%) Security Cleared
2 62 (11.81%) SC Cleared
3 53 (10.10%) Degree
4 14 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (2.29%) DV Cleared
6 10 (1.90%) Master's Degree
7 7 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (0.57%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.57%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.38%) CCA
10 1 (0.19%) Citrix Certification
10 1 (0.19%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.19%) IIBA
10 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 182 (34.67%) Accessibility
2 70 (13.33%) WCAG
3 28 (5.33%) QA
4 11 (2.10%) Data Quality
5 5 (0.95%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 2 (0.38%) GDPR
8 1 (0.19%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.19%) GMP
8 1 (0.19%) GRC
8 1 (0.19%) GxP
8 1 (0.19%) PMO
8 1 (0.19%) WAI
8 1 (0.19%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 20 (3.81%) Docker
2 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 16 (3.05%) Kubernetes
2 12 (2.29%) Terraform
3 1 (0.19%) Grafana
3 1 (0.19%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.19%) Kibana
Vendors
1 42 (8.00%) Adobe
2 30 (5.71%) Microsoft
3 19 (3.62%) Salesforce
4 10 (1.90%) Dynatrace
4 10 (1.90%) Google
5 8 (1.52%) SAP
6 6 (1.14%) ServiceNow
7 5 (0.95%) Apple
7 5 (0.95%) Foundry
8 4 (0.76%) Oracle
8 4 (0.76%) Sitecore
9 3 (0.57%) Progress
9 3 (0.57%) Xamarin
10 2 (0.38%) Blue Prism
10 2 (0.38%) Databricks
10 2 (0.38%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.19%) Alteryx
11 1 (0.19%) Automation Anywhere
11 1 (0.19%) Qualtrics
11 1 (0.19%) UiPath