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 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 225 232 243
Rank change year-on-year +7 +11 -93
Contract jobs citing UX Design 456 390 482
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.28% 1.08% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.42% 1.25% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 302 233 320
10th Percentile £319 £313 £325
25th Percentile £376 £382 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £512
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% -2.34% -6.91%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £600
90th Percentile £623 £638 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +5.88% -10.53% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 6 11
10th Percentile £33.58 £30.97 £50.00
25th Percentile £35.25 £31.89 £67.54
Median hourly rate £36.50 £33.07 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.37% -54.39% +33.03%
75th Percentile £60.25 £34.26 £81.25
90th Percentile £70.16 £44.13 £82.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.55 £32.21 £77.50
% change year-on-year +29.01% -58.44% +23.02%

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 32,049 31,289 41,011
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 89.77% 86.33% 88.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,064 18,819 27,584
10th Percentile £300 £310 £308
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,120 1,102 1,587
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.11 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.14 £19.03
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +27.14%
75th Percentile £45.00 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £33.54 £44.50
% change year-on-year -31.43% -24.63% +50.85%

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 19 November 2025.

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 19 November 2025.

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 19 November 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 -3 372 £461 -8.89% 393
London -1 218 £475 -9.52% 217
UK excluding London +12 173 £450 +5.88% 208
Work from Home +3 138 £460 +2.22% 231
North of England -5 63 £380 -10.59% 63
North West -4 38 £375 -1.96% 41
Midlands -15 35 £425 +19.38% 20
Scotland +3 28 £475 +8.57% 6
West Midlands -6 27 £443 -27.76% 11
Yorkshire -31 20 £494 -4.82% 10
South East -9 19 £519 +32.00% 86
South West +13 14 £450 -21.74% 19
East of England -17 11 £443 +7.27% 9
East Midlands -20 8 £404 +13.34% 9
North East -2 5 £375 - 12
Wales +5 4 £513 +20.59% 5
Northern Ireland -10 1 £625 +13.64% 2

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 20 (4.39%) Confluence
2 18 (3.95%) CMS
3 6 (1.32%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.32%) SugarCRM
4 3 (0.66%) Apache
4 3 (0.66%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.44%) Drupal
5 2 (0.44%) Headless CMS
5 2 (0.44%) Sitecore CMS
5 2 (0.44%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.22%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.22%) Moodle
6 1 (0.22%) nginx
6 1 (0.22%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.22%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.22%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 51 (11.18%) Sketch
2 21 (4.61%) Adobe XD
3 14 (3.07%) Chatbot
4 13 (2.85%) InVision
5 7 (1.54%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 7 (1.54%) Adobe Illustrator
6 6 (1.32%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.88%) Adobe After Effects
7 4 (0.88%) OmniGraffle
7 4 (0.88%) UXPin
8 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
8 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
9 2 (0.44%) Adobe Premiere
9 2 (0.44%) Blender
9 2 (0.44%) CINEMA 4D
9 2 (0.44%) MS Visio
9 2 (0.44%) Trello
9 2 (0.44%) UserZoom
9 2 (0.44%) Zeplin
10 1 (0.22%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 5 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.22%) Maximo
3 1 (0.22%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.22%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 125 (27.41%) Figma
2 57 (12.50%) AWS
3 53 (11.62%) Azure
4 29 (6.36%) SaaS
5 24 (5.26%) GCP
6 17 (3.73%) Miro
7 14 (3.07%) Power Platform
8 12 (2.63%) GitHub
9 9 (1.97%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (1.97%) Google Analytics
10 8 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (1.32%) Firebase
11 6 (1.32%) Microsoft 365
12 5 (1.10%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 5 (1.10%) Cloud Run
12 5 (1.10%) Contentful
13 4 (0.88%) ChatGPT
13 4 (0.88%) Entra ID
13 4 (0.88%) PowerApps
13 4 (0.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.10%) Internet
2 3 (0.66%) HTTP
2 3 (0.66%) Network Security
3 1 (0.22%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.22%) Intranet
3 1 (0.22%) LAN
3 1 (0.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (3.51%) NoSQL
2 13 (2.85%) MongoDB
3 11 (2.41%) Power BI
4 10 (2.19%) MySQL
5 9 (1.97%) Mixpanel
5 9 (1.97%) SQL Server
6 6 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (1.32%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.66%) BigQuery
7 3 (0.66%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.44%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (0.44%) Looker
8 2 (0.44%) Metadata
8 2 (0.44%) Tableau
9 1 (0.22%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.22%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.22%) Big Data
9 1 (0.22%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.22%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 50 (10.96%) Git
2 37 (8.11%) JIRA
3 23 (5.04%) Axure RP
4 22 (4.82%) Jenkins
5 14 (3.07%) Xcode
6 13 (2.85%) GitLab
7 12 (2.63%) Cypress.io
8 11 (2.41%) Gradle
9 9 (1.97%) webpack
10 8 (1.75%) JUnit
11 7 (1.54%) Android Studio
11 7 (1.54%) Balsamiq
12 5 (1.10%) Visual Website Optimizer
13 4 (0.88%) Eclipse
14 3 (0.66%) CircleCI
14 3 (0.66%) Grunt
14 3 (0.66%) gulp
14 3 (0.66%) Lerna
14 3 (0.66%) SonarQube
15 2 (0.44%) Maven
General
1 151 (33.11%) Social Skills
2 111 (24.34%) Finance
3 60 (13.16%) Banking
4 56 (12.28%) Public Sector
5 41 (8.99%) Analytical Skills
6 35 (7.68%) Marketing
7 18 (3.95%) Retail
8 13 (2.85%) Financial Institution
9 12 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (2.19%) Automotive
10 10 (2.19%) Legal
11 8 (1.75%) Investment Banking
12 7 (1.54%) Publishing
12 7 (1.54%) Retail Banking
13 6 (1.32%) Corporate Banking
13 6 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 4 (0.88%) Wearables
16 3 (0.66%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 167 (36.62%) Designer
2 112 (24.56%) Developer
3 111 (24.34%) UX Designer
4 66 (14.47%) Senior
5 35 (7.68%) UI Designer
6 33 (7.24%) Lead
7 28 (6.14%) Senior Designer
7 28 (6.14%) UI/UX Designer
8 26 (5.70%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 21 (4.61%) User Researcher
10 19 (4.17%) Senior UX Designer
11 16 (3.51%) Analyst
11 16 (3.51%) Business Analyst
12 15 (3.29%) Content Designer
13 14 (3.07%) Product Designer
13 14 (3.07%) React Developer
14 13 (2.85%) iOS Developer
14 13 (2.85%) Service Designer
15 12 (2.63%) Consultant
15 12 (2.63%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (19.08%) CSS
1 87 (19.08%) HTML
2 55 (12.06%) React
2 55 (12.06%) RESTful
3 33 (7.24%) REST
4 27 (5.92%) AngularJS
4 27 (5.92%) HTML5
5 20 (4.39%) .NET
5 20 (4.39%) CSS3
6 19 (4.17%) Node.js
7 17 (3.73%) Next.js
8 16 (3.51%) Redux
9 15 (3.29%) Jest
9 15 (3.29%) Playwright
10 14 (3.07%) Spring
11 13 (2.85%) React Native
12 11 (2.41%) GraphQL
12 11 (2.41%) SOAP
12 11 (2.41%) Spring Boot
13 10 (2.19%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 62 (13.60%) Mobile App
2 57 (12.50%) Product Ownership
3 28 (6.14%) Onboarding
4 14 (3.07%) Low-Code
5 12 (2.63%) Virtual Team
6 9 (1.97%) Greenfield Project
6 9 (1.97%) Mobile Banking
7 7 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.32%) NHS
9 5 (1.10%) Blog
9 5 (1.10%) RIA
9 5 (1.10%) W3C
10 4 (0.88%) Digital Media
10 4 (0.88%) e-Learning
10 4 (0.88%) Learning Management System
10 4 (0.88%) Life Science
10 4 (0.88%) Management Information System
10 4 (0.88%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 35 (7.68%) Android
2 33 (7.24%) Apple iOS
3 6 (1.32%) Windows
4 4 (0.88%) Linux
5 3 (0.66%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.44%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.22%) VMS
7 1 (0.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 456 (100.00%) User Experience
2 205 (44.96%) Agile
3 102 (22.37%) User Research
4 91 (19.96%) Problem-Solving
5 83 (18.20%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 82 (17.98%) Wireframes
7 76 (16.67%) Front End Development
8 71 (15.57%) Usability Testing
9 69 (15.13%) CI/CD
10 68 (14.91%) Analytics
11 63 (13.82%) Prototyping
12 61 (13.38%) Service Design
13 56 (12.28%) UX Research
14 49 (10.75%) Interaction Design
14 49 (10.75%) Scrum
15 44 (9.65%) Continuous Improvement
16 41 (8.99%) AI
16 41 (8.99%) DevOps
16 41 (8.99%) Microservices
17 39 (8.55%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 82 (17.98%) JavaScript
2 47 (10.31%) TypeScript
3 45 (9.87%) Java
4 26 (5.70%) SQL
5 24 (5.26%) Python
6 20 (4.39%) Kotlin
6 20 (4.39%) Swift
7 17 (3.73%) C#
8 15 (3.29%) Objective-C
9 10 (2.19%) Ruby
10 9 (1.97%) Scala
11 8 (1.75%) C++
12 7 (1.54%) C
12 7 (1.54%) PHP
13 4 (0.88%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.44%) Bash
14 2 (0.44%) COBOL
14 2 (0.44%) Groovy
14 2 (0.44%) JSX
14 2 (0.44%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 49 (10.75%) Degree
2 35 (7.68%) Security Cleared
3 22 (4.82%) SC Cleared
4 20 (4.39%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (0.88%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.44%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.22%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.22%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.22%) CBAP
8 1 (0.22%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.22%) MCP
8 1 (0.22%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (26.10%) Accessibility
2 32 (7.02%) WCAG
3 31 (6.80%) QA
4 13 (2.85%) GDPR
5 7 (1.54%) Actionable Recommendations
5 7 (1.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (0.88%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.88%) SLA
7 2 (0.44%) Section 508
8 1 (0.22%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 32 (7.02%) Docker
2 3 (0.66%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (4.39%) Kubernetes
2 9 (1.97%) Terraform
3 5 (1.10%) Ansible
3 5 (1.10%) Grafana
4 3 (0.66%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.22%) Consul
5 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.22%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.22%) SCCM
5 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 36 (7.89%) Adobe
2 35 (7.68%) Microsoft
3 29 (6.36%) Google
4 17 (3.73%) Salesforce
5 11 (2.41%) Hotjar
5 11 (2.41%) SAP
5 11 (2.41%) ServiceNow
6 9 (1.97%) Oracle
7 8 (1.75%) Optimizely
8 6 (1.32%) Apple
8 6 (1.32%) Hopewiser
9 5 (1.10%) Amplitude
9 5 (1.10%) IBM
9 5 (1.10%) OutSystems
10 4 (0.88%) Genesys
10 4 (0.88%) Mercator
10 4 (0.88%) OpenAI
11 3 (0.66%) Dataiku
11 3 (0.66%) OneTrust
12 2 (0.44%) Pega