UX Designer Contracts

User Experience Designer
UK

The median User Experience Designer daily rate in the UK is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 433 380 316
Rank change year-on-year -53 -64 -45
Contract jobs requiring a UX Designer 154 352 779
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.36% 0.61% 0.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.64% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 263 572
10th Percentile £371 £370 £400
25th Percentile £400 £425 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £535 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.21% +1.90% +10.53%
75th Percentile £550 £638 £600
90th Percentile £589 £738 £656
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £440 £488
% change year-on-year -3.41% -9.74% +18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £60.93
25th Percentile - - £61.61
Median hourly rate - £45.00 £62.98
Median % change year-on-year - -28.55% +67.95%
75th Percentile - - £64.11
90th Percentile - - £64.64
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 39,893 55,060 83,598
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.65% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,957 38,445 58,715
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,673 1,534 2,047
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.89
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +5.89%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +2.56%

UX Designer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured UX Designer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for UX Designer in the UK

UX Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing UX Designer.

Daily rate trend for UX Designer in the UK

UX Designer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UX Designer over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for UX Designer in the UK

UX Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing UX Designer.

Hourly rate trend for UX Designer in the UK

UX Designer
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UX Designer within the UK over the 6 months to 12 May 2024. 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 -57 124 £513 -2.38% 65
London -24 91 £533 -7.79% 32
UK excluding London +45 55 £425 -3.41% 36
Work from Home -6 51 £506 -3.11% 40
Scotland +63 24 £413 -17.29% 5
South East +27 13 £400 -1.54% 4
North of England -6 8 £450 -1.10% 14
Midlands +27 5 £418 +39.33% 9
Yorkshire -5 4 £488 +2.63% 1
East Midlands +24 3 £418 +52.00%
North West +19 3 - - 13
South West 0 3 £425 -2.86% 2
West Midlands +12 2 £444 +36.54% 9
Northern Ireland - 2 £563 -
North East +13 1 £450 +11.11%

UX Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 12 May 2024, UX Designer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring UX Designer in the job title.

1 154 (100.00%) User Experience
2 150 (97.40%) UX Design
3 82 (53.25%) Figma
4 62 (40.26%) Social Skills
5 48 (31.17%) Wireframes
6 46 (29.87%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 45 (29.22%) User Research
8 43 (27.92%) Sketch
9 42 (27.27%) Agile
10 30 (19.48%) Adobe
11 29 (18.83%) Accessibility
12 26 (16.88%) Product Ownership
12 26 (16.88%) Finance
13 25 (16.23%) Prototyping
14 24 (15.58%) Usability Testing
15 22 (14.29%) Mobile App
16 20 (12.99%) Adobe XD
16 20 (12.99%) Problem-Solving
17 17 (11.04%) Visualisation
17 17 (11.04%) Marketing
18 16 (10.39%) HTML
18 16 (10.39%) Analytical Skills
18 16 (10.39%) UX Research
19 15 (9.74%) Workshop Facilitation
19 15 (9.74%) React
19 15 (9.74%) Azure
20 14 (9.09%) User Stories
21 13 (8.44%) Storyboarding
21 13 (8.44%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
21 13 (8.44%) Apple iOS

UX Designer Skill Set
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 1 (0.65%) Confluence
Applications
1 43 (27.92%) Sketch
2 20 (12.99%) Adobe XD
3 11 (7.14%) InVision
4 8 (5.19%) Photoshop
5 6 (3.90%) Adobe Illustrator
6 4 (2.60%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 3 (1.95%) InDesign
8 1 (0.65%) Zeplin
Cloud Services
1 82 (53.25%) Figma
2 15 (9.74%) Azure
3 7 (4.55%) SaaS
4 6 (3.90%) Miro
5 4 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (2.60%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.65%) Adobe Analytics
6 1 (0.65%) Pendo
6 1 (0.65%) Unqork
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.30%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.49%) MongoDB
2 4 (2.60%) Power BI
3 3 (1.95%) Big Data
4 2 (1.30%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.65%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (7.79%) Axure RP
2 1 (0.65%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.65%) Git
2 1 (0.65%) JIRA
General
1 62 (40.26%) Social Skills
2 26 (16.88%) Finance
3 17 (11.04%) Marketing
4 16 (10.39%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (7.79%) Public Sector
6 10 (6.49%) Banking
6 10 (6.49%) Games
7 8 (5.19%) Health Technology
8 7 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (3.25%) Advertising
9 5 (3.25%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (3.25%) Retail
10 4 (2.60%) Front Office
11 3 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.95%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.30%) Investment Banking
12 2 (1.30%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.65%) Corporate Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (10.39%) HTML
2 15 (9.74%) React
3 12 (7.79%) CSS
4 2 (1.30%) CSS3
4 2 (1.30%) Unity (Game Engine)
5 1 (0.65%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.65%) COM+
5 1 (0.65%) Framer.js
5 1 (0.65%) HTML5 Canvas
5 1 (0.65%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 26 (16.88%) Product Ownership
2 22 (14.29%) Mobile App
3 9 (5.84%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (5.19%) Graphic Design
5 5 (3.25%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (3.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (2.60%) Derivative
6 4 (2.60%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.95%) Animation
7 3 (1.95%) Digital Media
7 3 (1.95%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.30%) Augmented Reality
8 2 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.30%) Mobile Games
8 2 (1.30%) Virtual Reality
8 2 (1.30%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.65%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.65%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.65%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 13 (8.44%) Android
1 13 (8.44%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (100.00%) User Experience
2 150 (97.40%) UX Design
3 48 (31.17%) Wireframes
4 46 (29.87%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 45 (29.22%) User Research
6 42 (27.27%) Agile
7 25 (16.23%) Prototyping
8 24 (15.58%) Usability Testing
9 20 (12.99%) Problem-Solving
10 17 (11.04%) Visualisation
11 16 (10.39%) UX Research
12 15 (9.74%) Workshop Facilitation
13 14 (9.09%) User Stories
14 13 (8.44%) E-Commerce
14 13 (8.44%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
14 13 (8.44%) Storyboarding
15 12 (7.79%) Interaction Design
16 11 (7.14%) B2B
16 11 (7.14%) Service Design
17 10 (6.49%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (8.44%) Python
2 11 (7.14%) JavaScript
3 4 (2.60%) Java
4 1 (0.65%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 13 (8.44%) Degree
2 4 (2.60%) Security Cleared
3 3 (1.95%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.30%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.65%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (18.83%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.90%) WCAG
3 2 (1.30%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 30 (19.48%) Adobe
2 5 (3.25%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.95%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.30%) Apple
4 2 (1.30%) MicroStrategy
4 2 (1.30%) SAP
5 1 (0.65%) Virgin Media