UX Design Contracts

User Experience Design (UXD)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring UX Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited UX Design over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 197 209 169
Rank change year-on-year +12 -40 -27
Contract jobs citing UX Design 431 485 856
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.36% 1.12% 1.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.49% 1.31% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 283 334 591
10th Percentile £301 £350 £363
25th Percentile £359 £406 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.20% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £611 £625
90th Percentile £619 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £425 £475
% change year-on-year - -10.53% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 8 14
10th Percentile £34.63 £30.17 £36.78
25th Percentile £35.25 £32.73 £45.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £37.37 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.10% -35.00% +5.50%
75th Percentile £70.16 £52.00 £68.95
90th Percentile £91.22 £88.61 £83.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.16 £91.44 £70.18
% change year-on-year -23.27% +30.30% +226.40%

All Process and 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 28,850 36,964 50,614
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.71% 85.28% 89.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,170 23,592 34,850
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £405 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +0.92%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,420 2,515 1,729
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £12.00
25th Percentile £17.42 £16.18 £16.61
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £37.34
Median % change year-on-year -33.82% +1.77% +43.62%
75th Percentile £53.75 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £75.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.66 £38.12 £35.00
% change year-on-year -35.31% +8.91% +66.67%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing UX Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for UX Design in the UK

UX Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing UX Design.

Daily rate trend for UX Design in the UK

UX Design
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UX Design over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for UX Design in the UK

UX Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing UX Design.

Hourly rate trend for UX Design in the UK

UX Design
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing UX Design over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for UX Design in the UK

UX Design
Top 16 Contract 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 5 July 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 +18 332 £450 -14.29% 1,806
London +13 213 £465 -11.43% 1,174
Work from Home -9 141 £425 -15.00% 821
UK excluding London +43 135 £425 - 705
North of England +10 43 £400 -11.11% 212
South East +36 28 £454 +21.07% 186
Scotland -5 28 £466 +6.40% 34
North West +9 27 £400 -11.11% 148
South West +42 14 £447 -0.67% 84
Midlands +5 14 £356 -25.05% 92
Yorkshire +9 12 £445 +6.27% 53
East of England +31 8 £478 +15.76% 52
East Midlands +5 8 £356 -13.70% 33
West Midlands +2 6 £300 -45.80% 58
North East -6 4 £425 -26.09% 11
Wales +6 1 £438 +2.94% 24

UX Design
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 24 (5.57%) Confluence
2 10 (2.32%) CMS
3 6 (1.39%) Apache
3 6 (1.39%) Drupal
4 4 (0.93%) IBM Domino
4 4 (0.93%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.93%) Tomcat
5 3 (0.70%) JBoss
6 2 (0.46%) Moodle
7 1 (0.23%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.23%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.23%) nginx
7 1 (0.23%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.23%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.23%) WebSphere
Applications
1 45 (10.44%) Sketch
2 24 (5.57%) Adobe XD
3 20 (4.64%) Chatbot
4 14 (3.25%) InVision
5 8 (1.86%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 7 (1.62%) Trello
7 6 (1.39%) Autodesk Smoke
8 5 (1.16%) Adobe Illustrator
9 4 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
9 4 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 4 (0.93%) OmniGraffle
9 4 (0.93%) Photoshop
9 4 (0.93%) UserZoom
9 4 (0.93%) UXPin
10 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
10 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
10 2 (0.46%) Zeplin
11 1 (0.23%) MadCap Flare
11 1 (0.23%) Maple
11 1 (0.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.23%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.23%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 146 (33.87%) Figma
2 59 (13.69%) Azure
3 34 (7.89%) AWS
4 16 (3.71%) Power Platform
5 15 (3.48%) SaaS
6 14 (3.25%) GCP
7 13 (3.02%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (3.02%) Miro
8 12 (2.78%) Serverless
9 8 (1.86%) GitHub
10 7 (1.62%) Google Analytics
11 6 (1.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 6 (1.39%) npm
12 5 (1.16%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (0.93%) Amazon SQS
13 4 (0.93%) Azure Functions
13 4 (0.93%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (0.93%) Microsoft 365
14 3 (0.70%) ChatGPT
14 3 (0.70%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.16%) HTTP
2 2 (0.46%) Internet
2 2 (0.46%) Intranet
2 2 (0.46%) Network Security
2 2 (0.46%) WebEx
3 1 (0.23%) LAN
3 1 (0.23%) WAN
3 1 (0.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (4.64%) NoSQL
2 17 (3.94%) MongoDB
3 15 (3.48%) Power BI
4 10 (2.32%) SQL Server
5 7 (1.62%) DynamoDB
6 6 (1.39%) Mixpanel
7 5 (1.16%) Relational Database
8 4 (0.93%) BigQuery
8 4 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (0.93%) MySQL
8 4 (0.93%) Qlik Sense
8 4 (0.93%) Spotfire
9 3 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.70%) Looker
9 3 (0.70%) Metadata
9 3 (0.70%) Neo4j
9 3 (0.70%) Tableau
10 2 (0.46%) Electronic Patient Records
10 2 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.23%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 41 (9.51%) JIRA
2 29 (6.73%) Git
3 26 (6.03%) Axure RP
4 13 (3.02%) Xcode
5 12 (2.78%) Cypress.io
5 12 (2.78%) Jenkins
6 11 (2.55%) webpack
7 8 (1.86%) Balsamiq
8 7 (1.62%) Vite
9 6 (1.39%) Gradle
9 6 (1.39%) Visual Studio Code
10 5 (1.16%) Android Studio
10 5 (1.16%) Bitbucket
10 5 (1.16%) GitLab
10 5 (1.16%) JUnit
11 4 (0.93%) Babel
11 4 (0.93%) NUnit
11 4 (0.93%) Selenium
11 4 (0.93%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.70%) TeamCity
General
1 123 (28.54%) Social Skills
2 87 (20.19%) Finance
3 67 (15.55%) Public Sector
4 46 (10.67%) Analytical Skills
5 39 (9.05%) Banking
6 31 (7.19%) Marketing
7 26 (6.03%) Retail
8 13 (3.02%) Presentation Skills
9 11 (2.55%) Legal
10 9 (2.09%) Investment Banking
10 9 (2.09%) Retail Banking
11 8 (1.86%) Corporate Banking
11 8 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (1.62%) Telecoms
13 5 (1.16%) Automotive
13 5 (1.16%) Local Government
13 5 (1.16%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.93%) Law
14 4 (0.93%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 171 (39.68%) Designer
2 125 (29.00%) Developer
3 91 (21.11%) UX Designer
4 66 (15.31%) Senior
5 33 (7.66%) React Developer
5 33 (7.66%) UI Designer
6 28 (6.50%) Product Designer
6 28 (6.50%) UI/UX Designer
7 26 (6.03%) Lead
7 26 (6.03%) Senior Designer
8 23 (5.34%) Analyst
9 22 (5.10%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 21 (4.87%) Business Analyst
10 21 (4.87%) Content Designer
10 21 (4.87%) Full-Stack Developer
11 16 (3.71%) .NET Developer
12 15 (3.48%) Senior UX Designer
13 13 (3.02%) Product Owner
13 13 (3.02%) UI Developer
14 12 (2.78%) Interaction Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (19.03%) HTML
2 78 (18.10%) CSS
3 67 (15.55%) React
4 51 (11.83%) RESTful
5 40 (9.28%) AngularJS
6 35 (8.12%) .NET
7 23 (5.34%) HTML5
8 21 (4.87%) Redux
9 20 (4.64%) Node.js
9 20 (4.64%) REST
10 19 (4.41%) jQuery
11 17 (3.94%) .NET Core
12 13 (3.02%) Vue
13 12 (2.78%) CSS3
14 11 (2.55%) GraphQL
14 11 (2.55%) React Native
15 10 (2.32%) ASP.NET
15 10 (2.32%) Framer.js
16 9 (2.09%) Jest
16 9 (2.09%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 68 (15.78%) Mobile App
1 68 (15.78%) Product Ownership
2 16 (3.71%) Enterprise Software
3 15 (3.48%) Onboarding
4 13 (3.02%) Low-Code
5 10 (2.32%) Virtual Team
6 9 (2.09%) Algorithms
7 7 (1.62%) Animation
7 7 (1.62%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.39%) Cloud Native
8 6 (1.39%) Credit Risk
8 6 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.39%) iPad
8 6 (1.39%) iPhone
8 6 (1.39%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.16%) IoT
9 5 (1.16%) Learning Management System
9 5 (1.16%) Motion Graphics
9 5 (1.16%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 41 (9.51%) Android
2 34 (7.89%) Apple iOS
3 4 (0.93%) Windows
4 3 (0.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 431 (100.00%) User Experience
2 188 (43.62%) Agile
3 101 (23.43%) Problem-Solving
3 101 (23.43%) User Research
4 100 (23.20%) Wireframes
5 90 (20.88%) Prototyping
6 71 (16.47%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 68 (15.78%) CI/CD
8 67 (15.55%) Scrum
9 63 (14.62%) Usability Testing
10 54 (12.53%) Front End Development
11 51 (11.83%) UX Research
12 50 (11.60%) Analytics
13 47 (10.90%) Stakeholder Management
14 45 (10.44%) Interaction Design
15 44 (10.21%) Service Design
16 42 (9.74%) Microservices
17 40 (9.28%) Decision-Making
18 39 (9.05%) Continuous Improvement
18 39 (9.05%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 86 (19.95%) JavaScript
2 38 (8.82%) SQL
3 35 (8.12%) C#
4 33 (7.66%) TypeScript
5 22 (5.10%) Python
6 14 (3.25%) Java
6 14 (3.25%) Kotlin
7 12 (2.78%) Swift
8 10 (2.32%) Objective-C
9 6 (1.39%) Scala
10 5 (1.16%) Ruby
11 4 (0.93%) Apex Code
11 4 (0.93%) C
11 4 (0.93%) C++
11 4 (0.93%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.46%) JSX
13 1 (0.23%) Dart
13 1 (0.23%) Go
13 1 (0.23%) Korn
Qualifications
1 43 (9.98%) Degree
2 38 (8.82%) Security Cleared
3 32 (7.42%) SC Cleared
4 12 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.16%) Master's Degree
7 4 (0.93%) CBAP
8 3 (0.70%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.23%) MBA
9 1 (0.23%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.23%) PMP
9 1 (0.23%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (27.38%) Accessibility
2 29 (6.73%) WCAG
3 21 (4.87%) QA
4 5 (1.16%) GDPR
5 4 (0.93%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 4 (0.93%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.46%) Section 508
6 2 (0.46%) SLA
7 1 (0.23%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.23%) PMO
System Software
1 20 (4.64%) Docker
2 4 (0.93%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (4.41%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.39%) Terraform
3 2 (0.46%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 1 (0.23%) Grafana
Vendors
1 39 (9.05%) Adobe
2 27 (6.26%) Microsoft
3 16 (3.71%) SAP
4 13 (3.02%) Google
5 11 (2.55%) Salesforce
6 10 (2.32%) OutSystems
6 10 (2.32%) ServiceNow
7 7 (1.62%) Genesys
8 5 (1.16%) Databricks
8 5 (1.16%) Hotjar
8 5 (1.16%) IBM
8 5 (1.16%) Oracle
9 4 (0.93%) CA Agile Central
9 4 (0.93%) Optimizely
10 2 (0.46%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.46%) Mercator
10 2 (0.46%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.46%) OneTrust
10 2 (0.46%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.46%) Pega