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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 241 197 213
Rank change year-on-year -44 +16 -43
Contract jobs citing UX Design 517 406 483
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.04% 1.39% 1.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% 1.53% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 350 273 338
10th Percentile £363 £313 £352
25th Percentile £402 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £469 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.28% -6.20% -9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £620
90th Percentile £651 £635 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £425 £425
% change year-on-year +11.76% - -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 8 8
10th Percentile £20.58 - £30.17
25th Percentile £25.25 £35.25 £32.73
Median hourly rate £31.04 £48.25 £37.37
Median % change year-on-year -35.67% +29.11% -27.08%
75th Percentile £66.25 £76.74 £52.00
90th Percentile £94.75 £97.11 £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 42,104 26,621 36,920
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.75% 90.94% 85.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,283 16,896 23,594
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £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 2,537 1,167 2,565
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £43.96 £27.50 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.85% -24.66% +1.67%
75th Percentile £67.89 £56.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £81.24 £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 9 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 9 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 9 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 -42 431 £475 +0.64% 179
London -38 235 £495 -1.00% 98
UK excluding London -19 217 £475 +11.76% 104
Work from Home -53 131 £475 +9.83% 105
North of England -32 76 £450 +12.50% 27
North West -6 50 £401 +0.25% 16
Midlands -32 41 £500 +40.45% 17
West Midlands -32 33 £463 +15.63% 13
South West -10 32 £475 +11.76% 5
Scotland -6 31 £525 +14.13% 3
South East -59 25 £538 +19.44% 31
Yorkshire -53 17 £506 +32.27% 6
North East -20 9 £450 +5.88% 6
East of England -29 9 £410 -14.58% 10
East Midlands -26 8 £575 +62.89% 4
Wales -8 4 £450 +2.86% 4
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 7

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 (4.45%) CMS
2 19 (3.68%) Confluence
3 5 (0.97%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.77%) Kentico
4 4 (0.77%) Umbraco
4 4 (0.77%) WordPress
5 3 (0.58%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.19%) Apache
6 1 (0.19%) Appian
6 1 (0.19%) Camunda
6 1 (0.19%) Drupal
6 1 (0.19%) Mendix
6 1 (0.19%) Moodle
6 1 (0.19%) nginx
6 1 (0.19%) Strapi
6 1 (0.19%) Traefik
Applications
1 35 (6.77%) Sketch
2 22 (4.26%) Adobe XD
3 11 (2.13%) Photoshop
4 10 (1.93%) Chatbot
5 9 (1.74%) Adobe After Effects
5 9 (1.74%) Adobe Illustrator
6 7 (1.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 7 (1.35%) InVision
7 4 (0.77%) Final Cut Pro
8 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
8 3 (0.58%) MS Visio
9 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
9 2 (0.39%) UserZoom
10 1 (0.19%) Adobe Captivate
10 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 1 (0.19%) OmniGraffle
10 1 (0.19%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.97%) Shopify
2 2 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.19%) Eloqua
3 1 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.19%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 154 (29.79%) Figma
2 60 (11.61%) Azure
3 31 (6.00%) AWS
4 23 (4.45%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (3.68%) Power Platform
6 16 (3.09%) GitHub
6 16 (3.09%) GitHub Actions
7 14 (2.71%) SaaS
8 9 (1.74%) Firebase
8 9 (1.74%) GCP
9 8 (1.55%) Serverless
10 7 (1.35%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (1.16%) Amazon S3
11 6 (1.16%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (1.16%) Microsoft Copilot
12 5 (0.97%) Google Play
12 5 (0.97%) Miro
12 5 (0.97%) Slack
13 4 (0.77%) Microsoft 365
13 4 (0.77%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.19%) HTTP
1 1 (0.19%) Internet
1 1 (0.19%) Intranet
1 1 (0.19%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (1.74%) Power BI
1 9 (1.74%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.16%) Metadata
2 6 (1.16%) NoSQL
2 6 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (0.97%) Power Query
4 4 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (0.77%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.58%) DynamoDB
5 3 (0.58%) Pinecone
5 3 (0.58%) Relational Database
5 3 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.39%) CockroachDB
6 2 (0.39%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.19%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.19%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.19%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.19%) Flink
7 1 (0.19%) Redis
7 1 (0.19%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 35 (6.77%) Git
2 30 (5.80%) JIRA
3 20 (3.87%) Cypress.io
4 16 (3.09%) GitLab
5 15 (2.90%) Jenkins
6 8 (1.55%) Axure RP
6 8 (1.55%) CircleCI
6 8 (1.55%) fastlane
7 7 (1.35%) JUnit
8 6 (1.16%) Gradle
8 6 (1.16%) Mocha
9 5 (0.97%) Android Studio
9 5 (0.97%) Crashlytics
10 4 (0.77%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.77%) Xcode
11 3 (0.58%) Vite
11 3 (0.58%) webpack
12 2 (0.39%) REST Assured
12 2 (0.39%) Selenium
12 2 (0.39%) Storybook
General
1 151 (29.21%) Social Skills
2 98 (18.96%) Public Sector
3 85 (16.44%) Finance
4 58 (11.22%) Banking
5 30 (5.80%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (4.45%) Presentation Skills
6 23 (4.45%) Retail
7 18 (3.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (3.09%) Marketing
9 14 (2.71%) Automotive
10 11 (2.13%) Publishing
11 8 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (1.55%) Pharmaceutical
12 6 (1.16%) Legal
12 6 (1.16%) Local Government
13 5 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (0.97%) Games
14 4 (0.77%) Corporate Banking
14 4 (0.77%) Investment Banking
14 4 (0.77%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 256 (49.52%) Designer
2 143 (27.66%) UX Designer
3 87 (16.83%) Senior
4 76 (14.70%) Developer
5 60 (11.61%) UI Designer
6 44 (8.51%) Content Designer
6 44 (8.51%) Senior Designer
6 44 (8.51%) UI/UX Designer
7 40 (7.74%) Lead
8 37 (7.16%) Product Designer
9 30 (5.80%) Senior UX Designer
10 23 (4.45%) Service Designer
11 21 (4.06%) User Researcher
12 19 (3.68%) Analyst
12 19 (3.68%) User Experience Researcher
13 17 (3.29%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 16 (3.09%) Architect
15 15 (2.90%) Business Analyst
15 15 (2.90%) Full-Stack Developer
16 13 (2.51%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (14.89%) React
2 65 (12.57%) CSS
3 64 (12.38%) HTML
4 44 (8.51%) RESTful
5 33 (6.38%) AngularJS
6 29 (5.61%) HTML5
7 28 (5.42%) CSS3
8 26 (5.03%) .NET
9 23 (4.45%) REST
10 17 (3.29%) Jest
11 16 (3.09%) Node.js
11 16 (3.09%) Spring
12 15 (2.90%) Spring Boot
13 14 (2.71%) Redux
14 13 (2.51%) OAuth
15 11 (2.13%) Vue
16 10 (1.93%) Playwright
17 9 (1.74%) JSON
18 8 (1.55%) GraphQL
18 8 (1.55%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 64 (12.38%) Product Ownership
2 40 (7.74%) Mobile App
3 13 (2.51%) Animation
3 13 (2.51%) Onboarding
4 12 (2.32%) Cloud Native
5 11 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (1.74%) Graphic Design
7 8 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (1.55%) Taxonomies
8 7 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (1.35%) Virtual Team
9 6 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (0.97%) AI Agents
10 5 (0.97%) Data Structures
10 5 (0.97%) Digital Wallet
10 5 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (0.97%) NHS
10 5 (0.97%) Virtual Reality
11 4 (0.77%) Educational Technology
11 4 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.13%) Android
2 8 (1.55%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.19%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 517 (100.00%) User Experience
2 218 (42.17%) Agile
3 140 (27.08%) User Research
4 104 (20.12%) Prototyping
5 100 (19.34%) Wireframes
6 93 (17.99%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 82 (15.86%) Service Design
7 82 (15.86%) Usability Testing
8 80 (15.47%) AI
9 73 (14.12%) UX Research
10 71 (13.73%) CI/CD
11 65 (12.57%) Problem-Solving
12 62 (11.99%) Interaction Design
13 58 (11.22%) Analytics
14 54 (10.44%) Stakeholder Management
15 53 (10.25%) DevOps
16 51 (9.86%) Workshop Facilitation
17 45 (8.70%) Customer Experience
17 45 (8.70%) Journey Map
18 44 (8.51%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 68 (13.15%) JavaScript
2 54 (10.44%) TypeScript
3 33 (6.38%) Java
4 28 (5.42%) Python
5 19 (3.68%) C#
6 15 (2.90%) SQL
7 9 (1.74%) Kotlin
8 6 (1.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (0.97%) C++
9 5 (0.97%) Korn
9 5 (0.97%) Lua
10 4 (0.77%) Swift
11 2 (0.39%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.39%) Bicep
11 2 (0.39%) 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 72 (13.93%) Security Cleared
2 52 (10.06%) Degree
2 52 (10.06%) SC Cleared
3 13 (2.51%) Master's Degree
4 10 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (1.93%) DV Cleared
5 5 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (0.58%) CCA
6 3 (0.58%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.19%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.19%) Citrix Certification
8 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 179 (34.62%) Accessibility
2 70 (13.54%) WCAG
3 28 (5.42%) QA
4 7 (1.35%) Data Quality
5 5 (0.97%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.19%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.19%) GDPR
7 1 (0.19%) GMP
7 1 (0.19%) GRC
7 1 (0.19%) GxP
7 1 (0.19%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.19%) PMO
7 1 (0.19%) WAI
7 1 (0.19%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 20 (3.87%) Docker
2 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 17 (3.29%) Kubernetes
2 15 (2.90%) Terraform
3 2 (0.39%) Grafana
3 2 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.19%) Ansible
4 1 (0.19%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.19%) Podman
Vendors
1 45 (8.70%) Adobe
2 24 (4.64%) Microsoft
3 19 (3.68%) Salesforce
4 9 (1.74%) Google
5 8 (1.55%) Dynatrace
6 7 (1.35%) SAP
7 6 (1.16%) MuleSoft
7 6 (1.16%) ServiceNow
8 4 (0.77%) Apple
8 4 (0.77%) Sitecore
9 3 (0.58%) Foundry
9 3 (0.58%) Progress
9 3 (0.58%) Xamarin
10 2 (0.39%) Blue Prism
10 2 (0.39%) Databricks
10 2 (0.39%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.39%) Oracle
11 1 (0.19%) Automation Anywhere
11 1 (0.19%) Qualtrics
11 1 (0.19%) UiPath