UX Design Contracts

User Experience Design (UXD)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for UX Design skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited UX Design over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 210 172 128
Rank change year-on-year -38 -44 -13
Contract jobs citing UX Design 498 881 1,845
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.14% 1.47% 2.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.32% 1.63% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 351 602 1,355
10th Percentile £350 £382 £400
25th Percentile £401 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £623 £623 £588
90th Percentile £675 £725 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +21.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 12 17
10th Percentile £30.17 £36.43 £24.00
25th Percentile £31.71 £43.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate £41.68 £48.25 £55.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.63% -13.06% +52.05%
75th Percentile £75.94 £62.57 £63.75
90th Percentile £88.61 £74.53 £71.98
UK excluding London median hourly rate £91.44 £59.59 £55.50
% change year-on-year +53.45% +7.36% +48.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

UX Design is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,600 53,916 80,351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.32% 89.91% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,240 37,368 56,382
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,433 1,775 1,932
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +48.00% -
75th Percentile £59.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +4.29% +75.00% -8.34%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing UX Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for UX Design in the UK

UX Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for UX Design in the UK

UX Design
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UX Design over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for UX Design in the UK

UX Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for UX Design in the UK

UX Design
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing UX Design over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for UX Design in the UK

UX Design
Top 17 Contract 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 26 April 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 -51 408 £538 -2.27% 319
London -24 266 £540 -6.09% 138
Work from Home -35 190 £525 -4.55% 180
UK excluding London -21 136 £450 -5.26% 182
North of England -39 44 £425 -18.47% 67
Scotland +40 34 £438 -0.57% 14
South East +23 27 £488 +14.76% 24
North West -8 26 £403 -30.00% 43
Midlands +14 16 £500 +2.56% 43
West Midlands +17 12 £500 +5.26% 28
Yorkshire -22 10 £425 -10.53% 17
North East +18 8 £700 +39.30% 7
South West +6 7 £438 -2.78% 14
Northern Ireland +13 6 £513 -
East Midlands +22 4 £418 -17.43% 15
Wales +9 1 £425 +21.43% 2
East of England -2 1 £500 - 21

UX Design
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 18 (3.61%) CMS
2 7 (1.41%) Confluence
3 5 (1.00%) WordPress
4 4 (0.80%) Apache
5 3 (0.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.60%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.40%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.20%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.20%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.20%) Drupal
7 1 (0.20%) Jadu
Applications
1 61 (12.25%) Sketch
2 32 (6.43%) Adobe XD
3 20 (4.02%) InVision
4 14 (2.81%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 11 (2.21%) Photoshop
6 9 (1.81%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (1.00%) UserZoom
8 3 (0.60%) InDesign
8 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
8 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
8 3 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 1 (0.20%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.20%) Final Cut Pro
9 1 (0.20%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.20%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 2 (0.40%) WebTrends
2 1 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 122 (24.50%) Figma
2 64 (12.85%) AWS
3 43 (8.63%) Azure
4 14 (2.81%) GitHub
5 12 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (2.41%) Miro
6 11 (2.21%) GCP
7 9 (1.81%) Power Platform
8 8 (1.61%) SaaS
9 6 (1.20%) Azure App Service
9 6 (1.20%) Serverless
10 5 (1.00%) Azure AKS
10 5 (1.00%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (0.80%) Azure Key Vault
11 4 (0.80%) Azure Service Bus
12 3 (0.60%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 3 (0.60%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (0.60%) Google Analytics
12 3 (0.60%) npm
12 3 (0.60%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.80%) Internet
2 2 (0.40%) HTTP
2 2 (0.40%) Intranet
3 1 (0.20%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (9.24%) Apache Cassandra
2 18 (3.61%) MongoDB
3 11 (2.21%) MySQL
4 10 (2.01%) NoSQL
5 9 (1.81%) Power BI
5 9 (1.81%) SQL Server
6 5 (1.00%) BusinessObjects
6 5 (1.00%) Relational Database
7 4 (0.80%) Big Data
8 3 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.40%) Data Mining
9 2 (0.40%) Looker
9 2 (0.40%) Tableau
10 1 (0.20%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.20%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.20%) HBase
10 1 (0.20%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.20%) Metadata
10 1 (0.20%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.20%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 27 (5.42%) Git
2 17 (3.41%) Axure RP
3 15 (3.01%) JIRA
4 10 (2.01%) webpack
5 7 (1.41%) Jenkins
6 6 (1.20%) Cypress.io
7 5 (1.00%) Gradle
8 4 (0.80%) Babel
8 4 (0.80%) Maven
8 4 (0.80%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.40%) Android Studio
9 2 (0.40%) Ant
9 2 (0.40%) Capybara
9 2 (0.40%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.40%) Visual Website Optimizer
10 1 (0.20%) Crashlytics
10 1 (0.20%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.20%) Oracle APEX
10 1 (0.20%) Selenium
10 1 (0.20%) Subversion
General
1 138 (27.71%) Social Skills
2 67 (13.45%) Finance
3 42 (8.43%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (7.23%) Public Sector
5 31 (6.22%) Banking
5 31 (6.22%) Marketing
6 18 (3.61%) Presentation Skills
7 14 (2.81%) Games
8 11 (2.21%) Telecoms
9 10 (2.01%) Retail
10 9 (1.81%) Health Technology
11 7 (1.41%) Front Office
11 7 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (1.41%) Legal
11 7 (1.41%) Local Government
11 7 (1.41%) Pharmaceutical
11 7 (1.41%) Retail Banking
12 6 (1.20%) Advertising
12 6 (1.20%) Financial Institution
12 6 (1.20%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 218 (43.78%) Designer
2 158 (31.73%) UX Designer
3 113 (22.69%) Senior
4 105 (21.08%) Developer
5 57 (11.45%) UI Designer
6 52 (10.44%) Software Engineer
6 52 (10.44%) UI/UX Designer
7 45 (9.04%) Senior Designer
8 40 (8.03%) Senior UX Designer
9 38 (7.63%) Senior Software Engineer
10 28 (5.62%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 27 (5.42%) React Developer
12 22 (4.42%) Lead
13 18 (3.61%) Senior Developer
13 18 (3.61%) User Researcher
14 17 (3.41%) Content Designer
15 16 (3.21%) UX Developer
16 15 (3.01%) Full Stack Developer
16 15 (3.01%) Product Designer
16 15 (3.01%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (15.66%) HTML
2 75 (15.06%) React
3 70 (14.06%) CSS
4 47 (9.44%) Kafka
5 38 (7.63%) AngularJS
6 31 (6.22%) RESTful
7 28 (5.62%) .NET
8 17 (3.41%) CSS3
9 16 (3.21%) HTML5
10 14 (2.81%) Vue
11 12 (2.41%) Node.js
11 12 (2.41%) Redux
12 11 (2.21%) REST
12 11 (2.21%) SAML
13 7 (1.41%) Ajax
13 7 (1.41%) jQuery
13 7 (1.41%) Tailwind CSS
13 7 (1.41%) Web Services
14 6 (1.20%) .NET Framework
14 6 (1.20%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 52 (10.44%) Product Ownership
2 45 (9.04%) Mobile App
3 12 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
3 12 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (2.01%) Fixed Income
4 10 (2.01%) Graphic Design
5 7 (1.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 7 (1.41%) Onboarding
6 6 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.00%) Cloud Native
7 5 (1.00%) Distributed Architecture
7 5 (1.00%) Educational Technology
7 5 (1.00%) Mobile Banking
7 5 (1.00%) Virtual Team
8 4 (0.80%) Animation
9 3 (0.60%) Derivative
9 3 (0.60%) Digital Media
9 3 (0.60%) Hedge funds
9 3 (0.60%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.60%) Mobile Games
Operating Systems
1 22 (4.42%) Android
2 19 (3.82%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.40%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 498 (100.00%) User Experience
2 196 (39.36%) Agile
3 155 (31.12%) User Research
4 101 (20.28%) UX Research
5 93 (18.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 87 (17.47%) Wireframes
7 75 (15.06%) Front End Development
8 69 (13.86%) Software Engineering
9 58 (11.65%) Problem-Solving
10 55 (11.04%) Fintech
11 52 (10.44%) Prototyping
12 50 (10.04%) Usability Testing
13 46 (9.24%) Service Design
14 38 (7.63%) Interaction Design
15 31 (6.22%) Customer Experience
15 31 (6.22%) Mentoring
16 30 (6.02%) E-Commerce
17 28 (5.62%) Stakeholder Management
18 26 (5.22%) Full Stack Development
18 26 (5.22%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 78 (15.66%) JavaScript
2 46 (9.24%) Go
3 27 (5.42%) TypeScript
4 25 (5.02%) SQL
5 24 (4.82%) Python
6 23 (4.62%) C#
7 21 (4.22%) Java
8 6 (1.20%) Bicep
8 6 (1.20%) PHP
9 4 (0.80%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.60%) Ruby
11 1 (0.20%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.20%) Bash
11 1 (0.20%) Dart
11 1 (0.20%) Groovy
11 1 (0.20%) JSX
11 1 (0.20%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.20%) Swift
11 1 (0.20%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 46 (9.24%) Degree
2 21 (4.22%) Security Cleared
3 14 (2.81%) SC Cleared
4 10 (2.01%) Master's Degree
5 9 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (0.60%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.40%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.40%) MBA
7 2 (0.40%) Tableau Certification
8 1 (0.20%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.20%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.20%) ISEB
8 1 (0.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (16.27%) Accessibility
2 24 (4.82%) QA
3 13 (2.61%) WCAG
4 11 (2.21%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (0.60%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 2 (0.40%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.20%) GRC
7 1 (0.20%) HL7
System Software
1 50 (10.04%) Docker
2 1 (0.20%) HDFS
2 1 (0.20%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 49 (9.84%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.01%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.20%) Grafana
3 1 (0.20%) Hadoop YARN
3 1 (0.20%) Oozie
3 1 (0.20%) Terraform
Vendors
1 57 (11.45%) Adobe
2 15 (3.01%) Google
3 11 (2.21%) Salesforce
4 9 (1.81%) Microsoft
5 7 (1.41%) SAP
6 5 (1.00%) MicroStrategy
7 4 (0.80%) Black Duck
7 4 (0.80%) Databricks
7 4 (0.80%) Oracle
7 4 (0.80%) Virgin Media
8 2 (0.40%) Apple
8 2 (0.40%) Maxymiser
8 2 (0.40%) Optimizely
8 2 (0.40%) Proofpoint
9 1 (0.20%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.20%) Ping Identity
9 1 (0.20%) Qualtrics
9 1 (0.20%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.20%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.20%) TSYS