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 11 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 246 191 212
Rank change year-on-year -55 +21 -41
Contract jobs citing UX Design 511 418 485
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.02% 1.42% 1.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.21% 1.56% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 344 283 339
10th Percentile £363 £307 £352
25th Percentile £402 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £465 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% -7.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £618
90th Percentile £659 £625 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £425 £425
% change year-on-year +11.76% - -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 8 8
10th Percentile £20.31 - £30.17
25th Percentile £24.50 £35.25 £32.73
Median hourly rate £28.09 £48.25 £37.37
Median % change year-on-year -41.78% +29.11% -27.08%
75th Percentile £58.58 £76.74 £52.00
90th Percentile £97.50 £97.11 £88.61
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.24 £70.16 £91.44
% change year-on-year -61.17% -23.27% +37.83%

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 42,291 26,731 37,187
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.76% 91.01% 85.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,385 16,984 23,772
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £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 2,541 1,182 2,587
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £43.96 £27.28 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +61.14% -25.26% +1.39%
75th Percentile £68.00 £56.00 £61.16
90th Percentile £81.25 £73.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +78.93% -34.02% +8.91%

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 11 June 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 11 June 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 11 June 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 -49 425 £475 +2.15% 178
London -51 233 £500 +1.01% 101
UK excluding London -23 215 £475 +11.76% 107
Work from Home -60 127 £475 +11.76% 112
North of England -40 76 £450 +12.50% 31
North West -17 49 £400 +3.23% 18
Midlands -43 35 £550 +54.49% 12
Scotland -7 34 £525 +14.13% 8
South West -6 32 £475 +11.76% 5
West Midlands -39 27 £488 +21.88% 10
South East -59 27 £538 +19.44% 32
Yorkshire -47 17 £506 +26.40% 7
North East -22 10 £450 +5.88% 6
East of England -22 9 £410 -14.58% 9
East Midlands -25 8 £575 +62.89% 2
Wales -10 3 £450 +2.86% 5
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 5

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 23 (4.50%) CMS
2 19 (3.72%) Confluence
3 4 (0.78%) Kentico
3 4 (0.78%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.78%) Umbraco
3 4 (0.78%) WordPress
4 3 (0.59%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.20%) Apache
5 1 (0.20%) Appian
5 1 (0.20%) Camunda
5 1 (0.20%) Drupal
5 1 (0.20%) Mendix
5 1 (0.20%) Moodle
5 1 (0.20%) nginx
5 1 (0.20%) Strapi
5 1 (0.20%) Traefik
Applications
1 31 (6.07%) Sketch
2 17 (3.33%) Adobe XD
3 11 (2.15%) Photoshop
4 10 (1.96%) Adobe After Effects
4 10 (1.96%) Chatbot
5 9 (1.76%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 9 (1.76%) Adobe Illustrator
6 7 (1.37%) InVision
7 5 (0.98%) Final Cut Pro
8 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
8 3 (0.59%) MS Visio
9 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
9 2 (0.39%) UserZoom
10 1 (0.20%) Adobe Captivate
10 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 1 (0.20%) OmniGraffle
10 1 (0.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.98%) Shopify
2 2 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.20%) Eloqua
3 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.20%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 152 (29.75%) Figma
2 60 (11.74%) Azure
3 31 (6.07%) AWS
4 24 (4.70%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (3.52%) Power Platform
6 15 (2.94%) GitHub
6 15 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
7 14 (2.74%) SaaS
8 9 (1.76%) Firebase
8 9 (1.76%) GCP
9 8 (1.57%) Serverless
10 7 (1.37%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (1.37%) Microsoft Copilot
11 6 (1.17%) Amazon S3
11 6 (1.17%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (1.17%) Google Play
12 5 (0.98%) Miro
12 5 (0.98%) Slack
13 4 (0.78%) BigCommerce
13 4 (0.78%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.20%) Internet
1 1 (0.20%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (1.76%) Power BI
1 9 (1.76%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.17%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (0.98%) Metadata
3 5 (0.98%) NoSQL
3 5 (0.98%) Power Query
4 4 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (0.59%) DynamoDB
5 3 (0.59%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.59%) Pinecone
5 3 (0.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.39%) CockroachDB
6 2 (0.39%) Redis
6 2 (0.39%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.39%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.20%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.20%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.20%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.20%) Flink
7 1 (0.20%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 30 (5.87%) JIRA
2 28 (5.48%) Git
3 18 (3.52%) Cypress.io
4 15 (2.94%) GitLab
4 15 (2.94%) Jenkins
5 9 (1.76%) fastlane
6 8 (1.57%) Axure RP
7 7 (1.37%) CircleCI
8 6 (1.17%) Android Studio
8 6 (1.17%) Gradle
8 6 (1.17%) JUnit
9 5 (0.98%) Crashlytics
9 5 (0.98%) Mocha
10 4 (0.78%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.78%) Xcode
11 3 (0.59%) Vite
11 3 (0.59%) webpack
12 2 (0.39%) REST Assured
12 2 (0.39%) Selenium
12 2 (0.39%) Storybook
General
1 150 (29.35%) Social Skills
2 100 (19.57%) Public Sector
3 84 (16.44%) Finance
4 58 (11.35%) Banking
5 27 (5.28%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (4.70%) Retail
7 21 (4.11%) Presentation Skills
8 19 (3.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (3.13%) Marketing
10 14 (2.74%) Automotive
11 11 (2.15%) Publishing
12 8 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (1.37%) Pharmaceutical
14 6 (1.17%) Legal
14 6 (1.17%) Local Government
15 5 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
15 5 (0.98%) Games
16 4 (0.78%) Corporate Banking
16 4 (0.78%) Investment Banking
16 4 (0.78%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 255 (49.90%) Designer
2 141 (27.59%) UX Designer
3 89 (17.42%) Senior
4 73 (14.29%) Developer
5 59 (11.55%) UI Designer
6 46 (9.00%) Senior Designer
7 45 (8.81%) Content Designer
8 42 (8.22%) UI/UX Designer
9 37 (7.24%) Lead
9 37 (7.24%) Product Designer
10 31 (6.07%) Senior UX Designer
11 22 (4.31%) User Researcher
12 19 (3.72%) Analyst
12 19 (3.72%) Service Designer
12 19 (3.72%) User Experience Researcher
13 16 (3.13%) Architect
13 16 (3.13%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 15 (2.94%) Business Analyst
15 14 (2.74%) Full-Stack Developer
16 13 (2.54%) Junior Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (13.70%) React
2 59 (11.55%) CSS
3 57 (11.15%) HTML
4 39 (7.63%) RESTful
5 28 (5.48%) AngularJS
6 25 (4.89%) .NET
7 24 (4.70%) HTML5
8 23 (4.50%) CSS3
9 21 (4.11%) REST
10 15 (2.94%) Jest
10 15 (2.94%) Node.js
10 15 (2.94%) Spring
11 14 (2.74%) Redux
11 14 (2.74%) Spring Boot
12 13 (2.54%) OAuth
13 11 (2.15%) Vue
14 9 (1.76%) ASP.NET
14 9 (1.76%) Playwright
15 8 (1.57%) .NET Framework
15 8 (1.57%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 66 (12.92%) Product Ownership
2 39 (7.63%) Mobile App
3 14 (2.74%) Animation
4 13 (2.54%) Onboarding
5 12 (2.35%) Cloud Native
5 12 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (1.76%) Graphic Design
7 8 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (1.57%) Taxonomies
8 7 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (1.37%) Virtual Team
9 6 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (0.98%) AI Agents
10 5 (0.98%) Digital Wallet
10 5 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (0.98%) Virtual Reality
11 4 (0.78%) Data Structures
11 4 (0.78%) Educational Technology
11 4 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (0.78%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.15%) Android
2 8 (1.57%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.20%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 511 (100.00%) User Experience
2 213 (41.68%) Agile
3 137 (26.81%) User Research
4 105 (20.55%) Prototyping
5 100 (19.57%) Wireframes
6 95 (18.59%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 81 (15.85%) AI
7 81 (15.85%) Service Design
7 81 (15.85%) Usability Testing
8 74 (14.48%) UX Research
9 64 (12.52%) CI/CD
10 63 (12.33%) Interaction Design
11 59 (11.55%) Analytics
11 59 (11.55%) Problem-Solving
12 55 (10.76%) Stakeholder Management
13 53 (10.37%) DevOps
14 52 (10.18%) Workshop Facilitation
15 47 (9.20%) Customer Experience
16 46 (9.00%) Journey Map
17 44 (8.61%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 63 (12.33%) JavaScript
2 52 (10.18%) TypeScript
3 32 (6.26%) Java
4 28 (5.48%) Python
5 20 (3.91%) C#
6 16 (3.13%) SQL
7 9 (1.76%) Kotlin
8 6 (1.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (0.98%) C++
9 5 (0.98%) Korn
9 5 (0.98%) Lua
10 4 (0.78%) Swift
11 2 (0.39%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.39%) Bicep
11 2 (0.39%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.20%) C
12 1 (0.20%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.20%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.20%) SPARQL
12 1 (0.20%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 74 (14.48%) Security Cleared
2 54 (10.57%) SC Cleared
3 49 (9.59%) Degree
4 10 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (1.96%) DV Cleared
5 9 (1.76%) Master's Degree
6 4 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (0.59%) CCA
7 3 (0.59%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.20%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.20%) Citrix Certification
8 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 176 (34.44%) Accessibility
2 67 (13.11%) WCAG
3 25 (4.89%) QA
4 7 (1.37%) Data Quality
5 5 (0.98%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.20%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.20%) GDPR
7 1 (0.20%) GMP
7 1 (0.20%) GRC
7 1 (0.20%) GxP
7 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.20%) PMO
7 1 (0.20%) WAI
7 1 (0.20%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 21 (4.11%) Docker
2 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 17 (3.33%) Kubernetes
2 15 (2.94%) Terraform
3 2 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.20%) Ansible
4 1 (0.20%) Grafana
4 1 (0.20%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.20%) Podman
Vendors
1 42 (8.22%) Adobe
2 24 (4.70%) Microsoft
3 19 (3.72%) Salesforce
4 10 (1.96%) Google
5 9 (1.76%) Dynatrace
6 7 (1.37%) SAP
7 6 (1.17%) ServiceNow
8 4 (0.78%) Apple
8 4 (0.78%) Sitecore
9 3 (0.59%) Foundry
9 3 (0.59%) Progress
9 3 (0.59%) Xamarin
10 2 (0.39%) Blue Prism
10 2 (0.39%) Databricks
10 2 (0.39%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.39%) Oracle
11 1 (0.20%) Automation Anywhere
11 1 (0.20%) Qualtrics
11 1 (0.20%) Telerik
11 1 (0.20%) TOWER Software