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 8 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 203 219
Rank change year-on-year -47 +16 -46
Contract jobs citing UX Design 522 436 487
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.00% 1.36% 1.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% 1.51% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 330 288 334
10th Percentile £363 £304 £350
25th Percentile £405 £362 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £459 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.50% -8.21% -9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £611
90th Percentile £663 £622 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £425 £425
% change year-on-year +9.41% - -10.53%
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 44,398 28,953 36,844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.10% 90.63% 85.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,615 18,257 23,517
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.28% -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 2,640 1,439 2,494
10th Percentile £14.80 £14.20 £12.74
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.70 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% -6.25%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.75 £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% +1.65%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 -42 436 £475 +4.06% 266
London -42 244 £500 +7.24% 141
UK excluding London -39 214 £465 +9.41% 157
Work from Home -52 131 £500 +17.65% 196
North of England -56 68 £431 +7.81% 50
Scotland -4 36 £510 +9.55% 11
South West -13 36 £475 +6.26% 13
North West -40 35 £384 -4.00% 25
Midlands -40 33 £550 +54.49% 16
South East -64 28 £550 +21.15% 46
West Midlands -38 26 £500 +66.67% 9
Yorkshire -36 19 £500 - 16
North East -27 14 £450 +5.88% 9
East of England -21 12 £410 -14.14% 10
East Midlands -14 7 £588 +65.03% 7
Wales -15 2 - - 6
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 26 (4.98%) CMS
2 20 (3.83%) Confluence
3 5 (0.96%) WordPress
4 4 (0.77%) Kentico
4 4 (0.77%) Umbraco
5 3 (0.57%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.38%) Mendix
6 2 (0.38%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.19%) Apache
7 1 (0.19%) Camunda
7 1 (0.19%) Drupal
7 1 (0.19%) Moodle
7 1 (0.19%) nginx
7 1 (0.19%) Strapi
7 1 (0.19%) Traefik
Applications
1 26 (4.98%) Sketch
2 15 (2.87%) Adobe XD
3 11 (2.11%) Adobe After Effects
3 11 (2.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 10 (1.92%) Photoshop
5 8 (1.53%) Adobe Illustrator
5 8 (1.53%) Chatbot
6 6 (1.15%) Final Cut Pro
7 4 (0.77%) 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 (0.96%) 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
1 152 (29.12%) Figma
2 64 (12.26%) Azure
3 30 (5.75%) Azure DevOps
4 27 (5.17%) AWS
5 22 (4.21%) Power Platform
6 16 (3.07%) GitHub
7 15 (2.87%) SaaS
8 14 (2.68%) GitHub Actions
9 11 (2.11%) Firebase
10 9 (1.72%) GCP
10 9 (1.72%) Microsoft Copilot
11 7 (1.34%) Serverless
11 7 (1.34%) Slack
12 6 (1.15%) Google Play
12 6 (1.15%) Miro
13 5 (0.96%) Azure AI
14 4 (0.77%) AWS Lambda
14 4 (0.77%) BigCommerce
14 4 (0.77%) Copilot Studio
14 4 (0.77%) PowerApps
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 (2.68%) Power BI
2 10 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (1.53%) SQL Server
4 6 (1.15%) Metadata
4 6 (1.15%) NoSQL
4 6 (1.15%) Power Query
5 4 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (0.77%) 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 32 (6.13%) JIRA
2 28 (5.36%) Git
3 18 (3.45%) Cypress.io
3 18 (3.45%) Jenkins
4 13 (2.49%) GitLab
5 10 (1.92%) fastlane
6 6 (1.15%) Android Studio
6 6 (1.15%) Gradle
6 6 (1.15%) JUnit
6 6 (1.15%) Vite
6 6 (1.15%) webpack
7 5 (0.96%) Crashlytics
7 5 (0.96%) Storybook
7 5 (0.96%) Xcode
8 4 (0.77%) CircleCI
9 3 (0.57%) Axure RP
9 3 (0.57%) Claude Code
9 3 (0.57%) Mocha
10 2 (0.38%) Jasmine
10 2 (0.38%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 153 (29.31%) Social Skills
2 108 (20.69%) Public Sector
3 86 (16.48%) Finance
4 52 (9.96%) Banking
5 29 (5.56%) Retail
6 26 (4.98%) Analytical Skills
7 20 (3.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (3.83%) Presentation Skills
8 16 (3.07%) Publishing
9 15 (2.87%) Automotive
9 15 (2.87%) Marketing
10 10 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (1.72%) Legal
12 7 (1.34%) Military
13 6 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (0.96%) Games
14 5 (0.96%) Law
15 4 (0.77%) Investment Banking
15 4 (0.77%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 263 (50.38%) Designer
2 142 (27.20%) UX Designer
3 89 (17.05%) Senior
4 74 (14.18%) Developer
5 63 (12.07%) UI Designer
6 47 (9.00%) Content Designer
6 47 (9.00%) Senior Designer
6 47 (9.00%) UI/UX Designer
7 44 (8.43%) Lead
8 33 (6.32%) Product Designer
9 29 (5.56%) Senior UX Designer
10 26 (4.98%) User Researcher
11 20 (3.83%) Analyst
12 19 (3.64%) Service Designer
13 18 (3.45%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 18 (3.45%) User Experience Researcher
14 17 (3.26%) Business Analyst
15 16 (3.07%) Architect
16 14 (2.68%) Consultant
16 14 (2.68%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (12.84%) React
2 62 (11.88%) CSS
3 58 (11.11%) HTML
4 42 (8.05%) RESTful
5 28 (5.36%) AngularJS
6 26 (4.98%) HTML5
7 25 (4.79%) CSS3
8 22 (4.21%) .NET
9 21 (4.02%) REST
10 17 (3.26%) Jest
11 15 (2.87%) Redux
12 14 (2.68%) Node.js
13 13 (2.49%) Spring
14 12 (2.30%) Spring Boot
15 11 (2.11%) Playwright
16 10 (1.92%) GraphQL
16 10 (1.92%) Vue
17 9 (1.72%) .NET Framework
17 9 (1.72%) Next.js
17 9 (1.72%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 69 (13.22%) Product Ownership
2 47 (9.00%) Mobile App
3 15 (2.87%) Animation
4 14 (2.68%) Onboarding
4 14 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (2.30%) Cloud Native
6 10 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (1.72%) Graphic Design
8 8 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (1.53%) Taxonomies
9 7 (1.34%) AI Agents
9 7 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.15%) NHS
11 5 (0.96%) Virtual Reality
11 5 (0.96%) Virtual Team
12 4 (0.77%) Algorithms
12 4 (0.77%) Data Structures
12 4 (0.77%) IoT
12 4 (0.77%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.68%) Android
2 10 (1.92%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.38%) Windows
4 1 (0.19%) Linux
4 1 (0.19%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 522 (100.00%) User Experience
2 218 (41.76%) Agile
3 133 (25.48%) User Research
4 108 (20.69%) Prototyping
5 101 (19.35%) Wireframes
6 97 (18.58%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 87 (16.67%) AI
8 85 (16.28%) Service Design
9 76 (14.56%) Usability Testing
10 70 (13.41%) UX Research
11 68 (13.03%) Analytics
11 68 (13.03%) CI/CD
12 65 (12.45%) Interaction Design
13 64 (12.26%) Stakeholder Management
14 59 (11.30%) DevOps
15 58 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
16 53 (10.15%) Journey Map
16 53 (10.15%) Workshop Facilitation
17 51 (9.77%) Customer Experience
18 46 (8.81%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 58 (11.11%) JavaScript
2 52 (9.96%) TypeScript
3 33 (6.32%) Java
4 24 (4.60%) Python
5 19 (3.64%) SQL
6 17 (3.26%) C#
7 10 (1.92%) Kotlin
8 9 (1.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (0.96%) C++
9 5 (0.96%) Korn
9 5 (0.96%) Lua
9 5 (0.96%) Swift
10 4 (0.77%) 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 84 (16.09%) Security Cleared
2 62 (11.88%) SC Cleared
3 53 (10.15%) Degree
4 14 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (2.30%) DV Cleared
6 10 (1.92%) Master's Degree
7 7 (1.34%) 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 (34.87%) Accessibility
2 71 (13.60%) WCAG
3 28 (5.36%) QA
4 11 (2.11%) Data Quality
5 5 (0.96%) 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 (3.83%) Docker
2 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 16 (3.07%) Kubernetes
2 12 (2.30%) Terraform
3 1 (0.19%) Grafana
3 1 (0.19%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.19%) Kibana
Vendors
1 42 (8.05%) Adobe
2 30 (5.75%) Microsoft
3 19 (3.64%) Salesforce
4 10 (1.92%) Dynatrace
4 10 (1.92%) Google
5 8 (1.53%) SAP
6 6 (1.15%) ServiceNow
7 5 (0.96%) Apple
7 5 (0.96%) Foundry
8 4 (0.77%) Oracle
8 4 (0.77%) 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