UX Specialist Contracts

User Experience Specialist
UK

The median User Experience Specialist daily rate in the UK is £588, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2024.

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

6 months to
20 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 575 - 845
Rank change year-on-year - - -118
Contract jobs requiring a UX Specialist 9 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% - 0.003%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% - 0.004%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £416 - -
25th Percentile £488 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +64.71%
75th Percentile £601 - £538
90th Percentile £601 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 - £525
% change year-on-year - - +90.91%

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 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

UX Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for UX Specialist in the UK

UX Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for UX Specialist in the UK

UX Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UX Specialist over the 6 months to 20 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for UX Specialist in the UK

UX Specialist
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 Specialist within the UK over the 6 months to 20 June 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
Work from Home - 7 £600 - 1
England - 6 £538 - 2
UK excluding London - 5 £600 - 2
London - 4 £423 -
Scotland - 3 £588 -
South East - 2 £601 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 20 June 2024, UX Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) User Experience
1 9 (100.00%) Wireframes
2 6 (66.67%) Figma
3 5 (55.56%) Analytics
4 4 (44.44%) User Research
4 4 (44.44%) Full Stack Development
4 4 (44.44%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 4 (44.44%) Usability Testing
4 4 (44.44%) Agile
5 3 (33.33%) Information Architecture
5 3 (33.33%) Balsamiq
5 3 (33.33%) Axure RP
5 3 (33.33%) HTML
5 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
5 3 (33.33%) CSS
5 3 (33.33%) Adobe
5 3 (33.33%) WCAG
5 3 (33.33%) Thought Leadership
5 3 (33.33%) Adobe XD
5 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
5 3 (33.33%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
5 3 (33.33%) Low-Fidelity Prototypes
5 3 (33.33%) Product Ownership
5 3 (33.33%) Accessibility
6 1 (11.11%) Master's Degree
6 1 (11.11%) Interaction Design
6 1 (11.11%) Prototyping
6 1 (11.11%) Chatbot
6 1 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering
6 1 (11.11%) Social Skills

UX Specialist 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:

Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Adobe XD
2 1 (11.11%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) Figma
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Axure RP
1 3 (33.33%) Balsamiq
General
1 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) CSS
1 3 (33.33%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) User Experience
1 9 (100.00%) Wireframes
2 5 (55.56%) Analytics
3 4 (44.44%) Agile
3 4 (44.44%) Full Stack Development
3 4 (44.44%) Usability Testing
3 4 (44.44%) User Research
3 4 (44.44%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 3 (33.33%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
4 3 (33.33%) Information Architecture
4 3 (33.33%) Low-Fidelity Prototypes
4 3 (33.33%) Thought Leadership
5 1 (11.11%) Conversational UI
5 1 (11.11%) Ergonomics
5 1 (11.11%) Human Factors
5 1 (11.11%) Interaction Design
5 1 (11.11%) Prototyping
5 1 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering
5 1 (11.11%) UX Design
5 1 (11.11%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) Accessibility
1 3 (33.33%) WCAG
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Adobe