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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 254 195 217
Rank change year-on-year -59 +22 -44
Contract jobs citing UX Design 495 426 473
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.97% 1.42% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% 1.56% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 325 285 323
10th Percentile £363 £300 £350
25th Percentile £405 £363 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £454 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.63% -9.20% -9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £545 £611
90th Percentile £663 £625 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £425 £425
% change year-on-year +11.76% - -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 8
10th Percentile £20.58 £34.48 £30.17
25th Percentile £25.25 £35.25 £32.73
Median hourly rate £31.04 £36.50 £37.37
Median % change year-on-year -14.96% -2.33% -27.08%
75th Percentile £67.19 £61.33 £52.00
90th Percentile £95.13 £96.49 £88.61
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.67 £70.16 £91.44
% change year-on-year -60.57% -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 43,108 27,270 37,060
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.89% 91.01% 84.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,889 17,271 23,587
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £502 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.09% -4.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £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 2,584 1,289 2,614
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.70
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +7.14%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £72.50 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +76.94% -34.02% +17.29%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 -54 407 £475 +5.56% 155
London -53 231 £493 +5.91% 100
UK excluding London -43 200 £475 +11.76% 91
Work from Home -63 118 £488 +14.71% 70
North of England -52 62 £450 +12.50% 23
North West -27 37 £384 -0.90% 12
Scotland -8 36 £525 +14.13% 5
Midlands -33 33 £550 +54.49% 9
South West -14 32 £475 +11.76% 3
West Midlands -38 26 £500 +25.00% 7
South East -63 25 £550 +21.68% 34
Yorkshire -51 14 £500 +24.84% 6
East of England -24 11 £410 -14.14% 10
North East -28 11 £450 +5.88% 5
East Midlands -18 7 £588 +65.03% 2
Wales -13 2 £450 +2.86% 2
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 24 (4.85%) CMS
2 18 (3.64%) Confluence
3 4 (0.81%) Kentico
3 4 (0.81%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.81%) Umbraco
3 4 (0.81%) WordPress
4 3 (0.61%) Headless CMS
5 2 (0.40%) Mendix
6 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.20%) Apache
6 1 (0.20%) Camunda
6 1 (0.20%) Drupal
6 1 (0.20%) Moodle
6 1 (0.20%) nginx
6 1 (0.20%) Strapi
6 1 (0.20%) Traefik
Applications
1 31 (6.26%) Sketch
2 17 (3.43%) Adobe XD
3 11 (2.22%) Adobe After Effects
3 11 (2.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 10 (2.02%) Chatbot
4 10 (2.02%) Photoshop
5 8 (1.62%) Adobe Illustrator
6 6 (1.21%) Final Cut Pro
6 6 (1.21%) InVision
7 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
7 3 (0.61%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
8 2 (0.40%) UserZoom
9 1 (0.20%) Adobe Captivate
9 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 1 (0.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.01%) Shopify
2 2 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.20%) Eloqua
3 1 (0.20%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.20%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 149 (30.10%) Figma
2 60 (12.12%) Azure
3 30 (6.06%) AWS
4 26 (5.25%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (3.64%) Power Platform
6 13 (2.63%) GitHub
6 13 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
7 12 (2.42%) SaaS
8 10 (2.02%) Firebase
9 8 (1.62%) GCP
10 7 (1.41%) Microsoft Copilot
10 7 (1.41%) Serverless
11 6 (1.21%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (1.01%) Amazon S3
12 5 (1.01%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (1.01%) Google Play
12 5 (1.01%) Slack
13 4 (0.81%) BigCommerce
13 4 (0.81%) Microsoft 365
13 4 (0.81%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.20%) Internet
1 1 (0.20%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (2.02%) Power BI
1 10 (2.02%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (1.21%) Metadata
3 6 (1.21%) Power Query
4 4 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (0.81%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.61%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.61%) Pinecone
5 3 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (0.61%) Star Schema
6 2 (0.40%) CockroachDB
6 2 (0.40%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.40%) Redis
6 2 (0.40%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.20%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.20%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.20%) Flink
7 1 (0.20%) MySQL
7 1 (0.20%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 30 (6.06%) JIRA
2 26 (5.25%) Git
3 16 (3.23%) Cypress.io
3 16 (3.23%) Jenkins
4 13 (2.63%) GitLab
5 10 (2.02%) fastlane
6 6 (1.21%) Axure RP
7 5 (1.01%) Android Studio
7 5 (1.01%) Crashlytics
7 5 (1.01%) Gradle
7 5 (1.01%) Xcode
8 4 (0.81%) CircleCI
8 4 (0.81%) JUnit
8 4 (0.81%) Visual Studio
8 4 (0.81%) Vite
8 4 (0.81%) webpack
9 3 (0.61%) Mocha
10 2 (0.40%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.40%) Selenium
10 2 (0.40%) Storybook
General
1 147 (29.70%) Social Skills
2 94 (18.99%) Public Sector
3 82 (16.57%) Finance
4 59 (11.92%) Banking
5 26 (5.25%) Retail
6 25 (5.05%) Analytical Skills
7 20 (4.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (3.84%) Presentation Skills
9 15 (3.03%) Automotive
10 13 (2.63%) Publishing
11 11 (2.22%) Marketing
12 8 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (1.41%) Legal
14 6 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
15 5 (1.01%) Games
16 4 (0.81%) Investment Banking
16 4 (0.81%) Law
16 4 (0.81%) Local Government
16 4 (0.81%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 245 (49.49%) Designer
2 132 (26.67%) UX Designer
3 82 (16.57%) Senior
4 71 (14.34%) Developer
5 59 (11.92%) UI Designer
6 44 (8.89%) Senior Designer
7 43 (8.69%) Content Designer
8 41 (8.28%) UI/UX Designer
9 39 (7.88%) Lead
10 33 (6.67%) Product Designer
11 29 (5.86%) Senior UX Designer
12 22 (4.44%) User Researcher
13 19 (3.84%) Analyst
14 18 (3.64%) User Experience Researcher
15 17 (3.43%) Service Designer
16 15 (3.03%) Architect
16 15 (3.03%) Business Analyst
16 15 (3.03%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
17 14 (2.83%) Consultant
18 13 (2.63%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (13.13%) React
2 58 (11.72%) CSS
3 56 (11.31%) HTML
4 39 (7.88%) RESTful
5 28 (5.66%) AngularJS
6 25 (5.05%) .NET
7 24 (4.85%) HTML5
8 23 (4.65%) CSS3
9 18 (3.64%) REST
10 14 (2.83%) Jest
11 13 (2.63%) OAuth
11 13 (2.63%) Redux
11 13 (2.63%) Spring
12 12 (2.42%) Node.js
12 12 (2.42%) Spring Boot
13 11 (2.22%) Vue
14 9 (1.82%) ASP.NET
15 8 (1.62%) .NET Framework
15 8 (1.62%) VML
16 7 (1.41%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 66 (13.33%) Product Ownership
2 41 (8.28%) Mobile App
3 15 (3.03%) Animation
4 14 (2.83%) Onboarding
5 13 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (2.22%) Cloud Native
7 9 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (1.82%) Graphic Design
8 8 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (1.62%) Taxonomies
9 7 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.01%) AI Agents
10 5 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.01%) Virtual Reality
11 4 (0.81%) Algorithms
11 4 (0.81%) Data Structures
11 4 (0.81%) Digital Wallet
11 4 (0.81%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 4 (0.81%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.61%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.42%) Android
2 10 (2.02%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.20%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 495 (100.00%) User Experience
2 203 (41.01%) Agile
3 124 (25.05%) User Research
4 102 (20.61%) Prototyping
5 94 (18.99%) Wireframes
6 87 (17.58%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 81 (16.36%) AI
8 80 (16.16%) Service Design
9 70 (14.14%) Usability Testing
10 68 (13.74%) UX Research
11 63 (12.73%) CI/CD
11 63 (12.73%) Interaction Design
12 61 (12.32%) Analytics
13 59 (11.92%) Problem-Solving
14 55 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
15 52 (10.51%) DevOps
16 49 (9.90%) Customer Experience
17 48 (9.70%) Workshop Facilitation
18 45 (9.09%) Journey Map
19 42 (8.48%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 60 (12.12%) JavaScript
2 49 (9.90%) TypeScript
3 30 (6.06%) Java
4 28 (5.66%) Python
5 20 (4.04%) C#
6 17 (3.43%) SQL
7 8 (1.62%) Kotlin
8 7 (1.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (1.01%) C++
9 5 (1.01%) Korn
9 5 (1.01%) Lua
9 5 (1.01%) Swift
10 3 (0.61%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.40%) Bicep
11 2 (0.40%) 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 70 (14.14%) Security Cleared
2 55 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 49 (9.90%) Degree
4 10 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (2.02%) DV Cleared
4 10 (2.02%) Master's Degree
5 4 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (0.61%) CCA
6 3 (0.61%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.20%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.20%) Citrix Certification
7 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 172 (34.75%) Accessibility
2 65 (13.13%) WCAG
3 25 (5.05%) QA
4 9 (1.82%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.01%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 2 (0.40%) GDPR
8 1 (0.20%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.20%) GMP
8 1 (0.20%) GRC
8 1 (0.20%) GxP
8 1 (0.20%) PMO
8 1 (0.20%) WAI
8 1 (0.20%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 19 (3.84%) Docker
2 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 16 (3.23%) Kubernetes
2 14 (2.83%) Terraform
3 2 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.20%) Ansible
4 1 (0.20%) Grafana
4 1 (0.20%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 44 (8.89%) Adobe
2 25 (5.05%) Microsoft
3 18 (3.64%) Salesforce
4 10 (2.02%) Dynatrace
5 9 (1.82%) Google
6 8 (1.62%) SAP
7 6 (1.21%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.01%) Apple
9 4 (0.81%) Sitecore
10 3 (0.61%) Foundry
10 3 (0.61%) Oracle
10 3 (0.61%) Progress
10 3 (0.61%) Xamarin
11 2 (0.40%) Blue Prism
11 2 (0.40%) Databricks
11 2 (0.40%) OpenAI
12 1 (0.20%) Automation Anywhere
12 1 (0.20%) MuleSoft
12 1 (0.20%) Pardot
12 1 (0.20%) Qualtrics