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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 209 209 175
Rank change year-on-year 0 -34 -47
Contract jobs citing UX Design 382 499 877
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.31% 1.14% 1.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.44% 1.33% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 271 353 602
10th Percentile £313 £350 £380
25th Percentile £400 £402 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £623 £617
90th Percentile £650 £675 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £456 £475
% change year-on-year -6.85% -3.95% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 11
10th Percentile £53.97 £30.17 £36.25
25th Percentile £65.54 £31.71 £41.50
Median hourly rate £91.69 £41.68 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +120.01% -12.26% -14.41%
75th Percentile £97.52 £75.94 £65.13
90th Percentile £98.14 £88.61 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £91.69 £91.44 £59.59
% change year-on-year +0.28% +53.45% +7.36%

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 26,551 37,621 53,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.82% 86.30% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,137 24,254 37,244
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.80% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,437 1,746
10th Percentile £14.70 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%
75th Percentile £62.00 £59.95 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.94 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -23.45% +1.39% +80.00%

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 30 April 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 30 April 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 30 April 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 -13 292 £475 -11.63% 567
London -4 199 £500 -7.41% 325
Work from Home +4 139 £440 -16.19% 315
UK excluding London +24 104 £425 -6.85% 267
Scotland +3 28 £425 -2.86% 11
South East +42 26 £425 -12.87% 56
North of England +3 20 £400 -8.57% 83
South West +54 15 £400 -8.57% 33
Midlands +19 10 £356 -28.80% 37
North West -6 10 £400 -6.16% 58
Yorkshire +13 8 £463 +8.88% 18
East of England +38 6 £478 -4.50% 37
East Midlands +12 5 £356 -14.83% 10
West Midlands +9 5 £405 -19.00% 27
North East -6 2 £388 -44.64% 7
Northern Ireland -13 1 £450 -12.20% 6

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 22 (5.76%) Confluence
2 15 (3.93%) CMS
3 5 (1.31%) Drupal
4 4 (1.05%) nginx
5 3 (0.79%) Apache
5 3 (0.79%) JBoss
5 3 (0.79%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.52%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.52%) Mendix
6 2 (0.52%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.26%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.26%) Appian
7 1 (0.26%) Moodle
Applications
1 42 (10.99%) Sketch
2 31 (8.12%) Adobe XD
3 14 (3.66%) InVision
4 11 (2.88%) Chatbot
5 9 (2.36%) Autodesk Smoke
5 9 (2.36%) Trello
6 8 (2.09%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 3 (0.79%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.79%) UserZoom
7 3 (0.79%) Zeplin
8 2 (0.52%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.52%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.52%) Blender
8 2 (0.52%) CINEMA 4D
8 2 (0.52%) Final Cut Pro
8 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
8 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
8 2 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 2 (0.52%) OmniGraffle
8 2 (0.52%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 4 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.52%) SAP Hybris
2 2 (0.52%) Shopify
3 1 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.26%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 141 (36.91%) Figma
2 51 (13.35%) Azure
3 32 (8.38%) AWS
4 23 (6.02%) SaaS
5 13 (3.40%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (3.40%) Miro
5 13 (3.40%) Power Platform
6 12 (3.14%) Serverless
7 10 (2.62%) GCP
8 6 (1.57%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (1.57%) GitHub
9 5 (1.31%) Amazon SQS
9 5 (1.31%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (1.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 4 (1.05%) npm
11 3 (0.79%) Amazon Cognito
11 3 (0.79%) Amazon S3
11 3 (0.79%) Azure Functions
11 3 (0.79%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (0.79%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.05%) HTTP
2 2 (0.52%) Internet
2 2 (0.52%) Intranet
2 2 (0.52%) WebEx
3 1 (0.26%) Wireless
3 1 (0.26%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (4.45%) NoSQL
2 13 (3.40%) MongoDB
3 11 (2.88%) Power BI
4 8 (2.09%) SQL Server
5 7 (1.83%) DynamoDB
5 7 (1.83%) MySQL
5 7 (1.83%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.05%) Qlik Sense
6 4 (1.05%) Spotfire
7 3 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (0.79%) Metadata
7 3 (0.79%) Neo4j
8 2 (0.52%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.52%) Redis
8 2 (0.52%) Tableau
9 1 (0.26%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.26%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 40 (10.47%) JIRA
2 22 (5.76%) Axure RP
2 22 (5.76%) Git
3 10 (2.62%) Cypress.io
4 8 (2.09%) Jenkins
4 8 (2.09%) webpack
5 7 (1.83%) Visual Studio Code
6 6 (1.57%) Vite
7 5 (1.31%) Selenium
7 5 (1.31%) Xcode
8 4 (1.05%) Balsamiq
8 4 (1.05%) NUnit
9 3 (0.79%) Ant
9 3 (0.79%) Babel
9 3 (0.79%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.79%) JUnit
9 3 (0.79%) Mocha
9 3 (0.79%) Postman
9 3 (0.79%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.79%) TeamCity
General
1 117 (30.63%) Social Skills
2 81 (21.20%) Finance
3 71 (18.59%) Public Sector
4 43 (11.26%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (7.33%) Banking
6 23 (6.02%) Marketing
6 23 (6.02%) Retail
7 13 (3.40%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.09%) Legal
8 8 (2.09%) Telecoms
9 7 (1.83%) Wearables
10 6 (1.57%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.31%) Automotive
11 5 (1.31%) Corporate Banking
11 5 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.31%) Games
11 5 (1.31%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.31%) Publishing
11 5 (1.31%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 160 (41.88%) Designer
2 109 (28.53%) Developer
3 95 (24.87%) UX Designer
4 61 (15.97%) Senior
5 34 (8.90%) UI Designer
6 30 (7.85%) UI/UX Designer
7 27 (7.07%) Senior Designer
8 25 (6.54%) Analyst
8 25 (6.54%) React Developer
9 23 (6.02%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 22 (5.76%) Product Designer
11 21 (5.50%) Business Analyst
12 20 (5.24%) Content Designer
13 19 (4.97%) Full-Stack Developer
13 19 (4.97%) Lead
14 18 (4.71%) Interaction Designer
14 18 (4.71%) Senior UX Designer
15 15 (3.93%) Senior Developer
15 15 (3.93%) Service Designer
16 12 (3.14%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (20.68%) HTML
2 78 (20.42%) CSS
3 64 (16.75%) React
4 40 (10.47%) RESTful
5 37 (9.69%) AngularJS
6 34 (8.90%) .NET
7 26 (6.81%) HTML5
8 22 (5.76%) jQuery
9 21 (5.50%) Node.js
9 21 (5.50%) Redux
10 15 (3.93%) Vue
11 13 (3.40%) .NET Core
12 12 (3.14%) REST
13 11 (2.88%) CSS3
14 10 (2.62%) ASP.NET
15 9 (2.36%) Framer.js
15 9 (2.36%) OAuth
16 8 (2.09%) GraphQL
17 7 (1.83%) Jest
17 7 (1.83%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 57 (14.92%) Product Ownership
2 39 (10.21%) Mobile App
3 13 (3.40%) Onboarding
4 12 (3.14%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (3.14%) Low-Code
5 9 (2.36%) Animation
6 8 (2.09%) Algorithms
6 8 (2.09%) Analytical Mindset
6 8 (2.09%) IoT
7 6 (1.57%) Data Structures
7 6 (1.57%) Photography
8 5 (1.31%) Motion Graphics
8 5 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.05%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.05%) Learning Management System
9 4 (1.05%) Social Media
10 3 (0.79%) e-Learning
10 3 (0.79%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 17 (4.45%) Android
2 16 (4.19%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.79%) Windows
3 3 (0.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 382 (100.00%) User Experience
2 166 (43.46%) Agile
3 106 (27.75%) User Research
4 92 (24.08%) Wireframes
5 80 (20.94%) Prototyping
6 79 (20.68%) Problem-Solving
7 69 (18.06%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 65 (17.02%) Usability Testing
9 58 (15.18%) CI/CD
10 52 (13.61%) Scrum
11 49 (12.83%) Interaction Design
11 49 (12.83%) Stakeholder Management
12 47 (12.30%) Service Design
13 44 (11.52%) Analytics
14 43 (11.26%) Front End Development
15 39 (10.21%) DevOps
15 39 (10.21%) Microservices
16 35 (9.16%) Decision-Making
16 35 (9.16%) Responsive Web Design
17 34 (8.90%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 83 (21.73%) JavaScript
2 41 (10.73%) SQL
3 36 (9.42%) C#
4 33 (8.64%) TypeScript
5 15 (3.93%) Python
6 8 (2.09%) Java
7 5 (1.31%) Swift
8 4 (1.05%) Kotlin
8 4 (1.05%) Objective-C
8 4 (1.05%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.52%) Dart
9 2 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.52%) Scala
10 1 (0.26%) ABAP
10 1 (0.26%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.26%) Bash
10 1 (0.26%) Go
10 1 (0.26%) Groovy
10 1 (0.26%) PHP
10 1 (0.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 44 (11.52%) Security Cleared
2 41 (10.73%) SC Cleared
3 36 (9.42%) Degree
4 11 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.09%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.31%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.79%) CBAP
8 2 (0.52%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.52%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.52%) PMP
8 2 (0.52%) SAFe Agilist
9 1 (0.26%) CSPO
9 1 (0.26%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (26.18%) Accessibility
2 23 (6.02%) QA
3 22 (5.76%) WCAG
4 3 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (0.79%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.26%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.26%) GDPR
5 1 (0.26%) PMO
5 1 (0.26%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (5.24%) Docker
2 4 (1.05%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (3.93%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.83%) Terraform
3 1 (0.26%) Grafana
3 1 (0.26%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 45 (11.78%) Adobe
2 25 (6.54%) Microsoft
3 17 (4.45%) SAP
4 16 (4.19%) OutSystems
5 9 (2.36%) ServiceNow
6 8 (2.09%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.57%) Google
8 5 (1.31%) Databricks
9 4 (1.05%) CA Agile Central
9 4 (1.05%) Oracle
10 3 (0.79%) Sitecore
11 2 (0.52%) Genesys
11 2 (0.52%) Optimizely
11 2 (0.52%) Pega
12 1 (0.26%) Avaya
12 1 (0.26%) Hotjar
12 1 (0.26%) IBM
12 1 (0.26%) OneTrust
12 1 (0.26%) Qualtrics
12 1 (0.26%) TIBCO