UX Designer Contracts

User Experience Designer
UK

The median User Experience Designer daily rate in the UK is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
1 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 425 422 385
Rank change year-on-year -3 -37 -80
Contract jobs requiring a UX Designer 95 161 362
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.37% 0.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.40% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 102 268
10th Percentile £324 £353 £377
25th Percentile £375 £400 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -13.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £638
90th Percentile £608 £588 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £422 £440
% change year-on-year -5.10% -4.20% -9.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.25 - -
Median hourly rate £47.50 - £45.00
75th Percentile £48.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

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 1 May 2025.

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 14 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 1 May 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 +5 79 £475 -7.32% 108
London -6 53 £495 -7.04% 69
UK excluding London +43 33 £400 -5.10% 46
Work from Home +19 32 £400 -20.99% 48
Scotland +1 10 £388 -3.13% 2
North of England +19 8 £400 -13.51% 17
South West +50 7 £375 -11.76% 9
North West +20 6 £400 - 11
Midlands +22 5 £405 -3.11% 5
West Midlands +15 3 £475 +7.04% 1
East of England - 3 £475 - 4
South East +35 2 £550 +37.50% 13
East Midlands +9 2 £318 -24.04% 3
Yorkshire +5 2 £383 -17.24% 3

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 95 (100.00%) User Experience
2 94 (98.95%) UX Design
3 68 (71.58%) Figma
4 41 (43.16%) User Research
5 38 (40.00%) Prototyping
6 35 (36.84%) Wireframes
7 29 (30.53%) Finance
8 28 (29.47%) Social Skills
9 27 (28.42%) Agile
10 26 (27.37%) Accessibility
11 24 (25.26%) Usability Testing
12 23 (24.21%) Sketch
13 22 (23.16%) Adobe
14 21 (22.11%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 17 (17.89%) Banking
15 17 (17.89%) Adobe XD
15 17 (17.89%) Interaction Design
16 13 (13.68%) HTML
16 13 (13.68%) CSS
16 13 (13.68%) Analytics
16 13 (13.68%) Mobile App
17 12 (12.63%) JavaScript
18 11 (11.58%) Information Architecture
18 11 (11.58%) Axure RP
18 11 (11.58%) Service Design
19 10 (10.53%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
19 10 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
20 9 (9.47%) Responsive Web Design
20 9 (9.47%) Retail
20 9 (9.47%) Design Thinking

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 2 (2.11%) CMS
2 1 (1.05%) Drupal
2 1 (1.05%) Moodle
2 1 (1.05%) nginx
Applications
1 23 (24.21%) Sketch
2 17 (17.89%) Adobe XD
3 5 (5.26%) InVision
4 3 (3.16%) Chatbot
4 3 (3.16%) Photoshop
5 2 (2.11%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (2.11%) OmniGraffle
5 2 (2.11%) UXPin
5 2 (2.11%) Zeplin
6 1 (1.05%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (1.05%) Camtasia
6 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 68 (71.58%) Figma
2 5 (5.26%) SaaS
3 3 (3.16%) AWS
3 3 (3.16%) Azure
4 2 (2.11%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (2.11%) Miro
5 1 (1.05%) GCP
5 1 (1.05%) Google Analytics
5 1 (1.05%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.05%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.11%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.05%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.05%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (11.58%) Axure RP
2 4 (4.21%) JIRA
3 2 (2.11%) Balsamiq
4 1 (1.05%) Git
General
1 29 (30.53%) Finance
2 28 (29.47%) Social Skills
3 17 (17.89%) Banking
4 9 (9.47%) Public Sector
4 9 (9.47%) Retail
5 4 (4.21%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.21%) Legal
5 4 (4.21%) Marketing
6 2 (2.11%) Corporate Banking
6 2 (2.11%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.11%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.11%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.11%) Publishing
6 2 (2.11%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.05%) Games
7 1 (1.05%) Local Government
7 1 (1.05%) Multimedia
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (13.68%) CSS
1 13 (13.68%) HTML
2 7 (7.37%) React
3 3 (3.16%) RESTful
3 3 (3.16%) Vue
4 2 (2.11%) AngularJS
4 2 (2.11%) CSS3
4 2 (2.11%) Framer.js
4 2 (2.11%) HTML5
4 2 (2.11%) Node.js
5 1 (1.05%) React Native
5 1 (1.05%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.68%) Mobile App
2 9 (9.47%) Product Ownership
3 6 (6.32%) Onboarding
4 4 (4.21%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (3.16%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (3.16%) Social Media
6 2 (2.11%) Educational Technology
6 2 (2.11%) IVR
6 2 (2.11%) Learning Management System
7 1 (1.05%) 3D Graphics
7 1 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.05%) e-Learning
7 1 (1.05%) Tandem
7 1 (1.05%) Taxonomies
7 1 (1.05%) Virtual Reality
7 1 (1.05%) VLE
7 1 (1.05%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.16%) Android
1 3 (3.16%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (100.00%) User Experience
2 94 (98.95%) UX Design
3 41 (43.16%) User Research
4 38 (40.00%) Prototyping
5 35 (36.84%) Wireframes
6 27 (28.42%) Agile
7 24 (25.26%) Usability Testing
8 21 (22.11%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 17 (17.89%) Interaction Design
10 13 (13.68%) Analytics
11 11 (11.58%) Information Architecture
11 11 (11.58%) Service Design
12 10 (10.53%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
12 10 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
13 9 (9.47%) Design Thinking
13 9 (9.47%) Front End Development
13 9 (9.47%) Responsive Web Design
13 9 (9.47%) UX Research
14 8 (8.42%) Customer Insight
14 8 (8.42%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 12 (12.63%) JavaScript
2 6 (6.32%) Python
3 2 (2.11%) TypeScript
4 1 (1.05%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (5.26%) SC Cleared
1 5 (5.26%) Security Cleared
2 4 (4.21%) Degree
3 2 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.05%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (27.37%) Accessibility
2 8 (8.42%) WCAG
3 4 (4.21%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.05%) Docker
Vendors
1 22 (23.16%) Adobe
2 3 (3.16%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.05%) Avaya
3 1 (1.05%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (1.05%) Genesys
3 1 (1.05%) Google
3 1 (1.05%) Hotjar
3 1 (1.05%) Salesforce
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