UX Developer Contracts

User Experience Developer
UK

The median User Experience Developer daily rate in the UK is £550, 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 509 559 702
Rank change year-on-year +50 +143 +133
Contract jobs requiring a UX Developer 11 23 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.038% 0.053% 0.027%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.041% 0.057% 0.028%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 4
10th Percentile £455 £393 £384
25th Percentile £525 £413 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -2.33% -9.32%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £675
90th Percentile £601 £618 £765
UK excluding London median daily rate £511 £375 £475
% change year-on-year +36.20% -21.05% +6.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £25.75
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year - +50.94% -65.58%
75th Percentile - - £27.25
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 Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for UX Developer in the UK

UX Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for UX Developer in the UK

UX Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UX Developer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for UX Developer in the UK

UX Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for UX Developer in the UK

UX Developer
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UX Developer 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 +50 10 £550 - 10
London +29 7 £550 -4.35% 10
UK excluding London +65 3 £511 +36.20% 2
Work from Home +35 3 £409 -0.85% 4
South East +47 2 £409 +9.07% 2
South West - 1 £613 -

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, UX Developer 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 Developer in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) User Experience
2 8 (72.73%) React
2 8 (72.73%) UX Design
2 8 (72.73%) HTML
2 8 (72.73%) CSS
3 7 (63.64%) JavaScript
3 7 (63.64%) Wireframes
3 7 (63.64%) Figma
4 6 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (54.55%) Front End Development
4 6 (54.55%) Finance
4 6 (54.55%) Usability Testing
4 6 (54.55%) Responsive Web Design
5 5 (45.45%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (45.45%) Adobe
5 5 (45.45%) Adobe XD
5 5 (45.45%) Sketch
6 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
6 4 (36.36%) Accessibility
6 4 (36.36%) Full-Stack Development
6 4 (36.36%) Agile
6 4 (36.36%) TypeScript
6 4 (36.36%) Docker
6 4 (36.36%) AngularJS
6 4 (36.36%) RESTful
6 4 (36.36%) AWS
7 3 (27.27%) Visualisation
7 3 (27.27%) nginx
7 3 (27.27%) Product Management
7 3 (27.27%) SaaS

UX Developer 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 3 (27.27%) nginx
2 1 (9.09%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Adobe XD
1 5 (45.45%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) Figma
2 4 (36.36%) AWS
3 3 (27.27%) SaaS
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (9.09%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (9.09%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
1 1 (9.09%) Vite
General
1 6 (54.55%) Finance
2 5 (45.45%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Banking
4 1 (9.09%) German Language
4 1 (9.09%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (72.73%) CSS
1 8 (72.73%) HTML
1 8 (72.73%) React
2 4 (36.36%) AngularJS
2 4 (36.36%) RESTful
3 2 (18.18%) CSS3
3 2 (18.18%) HTML5
3 2 (18.18%) Vue
4 1 (9.09%) .NET
4 1 (9.09%) .NET Framework
4 1 (9.09%) Cocoa
4 1 (9.09%) Cocoa Touch
4 1 (9.09%) Framer.js
4 1 (9.09%) Kafka
4 1 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (9.09%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (18.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) User Experience
2 8 (72.73%) UX Design
3 7 (63.64%) Wireframes
4 6 (54.55%) Front End Development
4 6 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (54.55%) Responsive Web Design
4 6 (54.55%) Usability Testing
5 4 (36.36%) Agile
5 4 (36.36%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (27.27%) Asset Management
6 3 (27.27%) Collaborative Culture
6 3 (27.27%) Collaborative Working
6 3 (27.27%) Data Science
6 3 (27.27%) Data Visualisation
6 3 (27.27%) DevOps
6 3 (27.27%) Fintech
6 3 (27.27%) Machine Learning
6 3 (27.27%) Prototyping
6 3 (27.27%) User Research
6 3 (27.27%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) JavaScript
2 4 (36.36%) TypeScript
3 2 (18.18%) Python
4 1 (9.09%) C#
4 1 (9.09%) Objective-C
4 1 (9.09%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) Accessibility
2 1 (9.09%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Adobe
2 1 (9.09%) Pega