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 19 April 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
19 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 430 388 303
Rank change year-on-year -42 -85 -36
Contract jobs requiring a UX Designer 157 366 817
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.36% 0.60% 0.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.64% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 269 609
10th Percentile £356 £381 £400
25th Percentile £400 £428 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.38% +0.95% +10.53%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £600
90th Percentile £588 £750 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £422 £444 £491
% change year-on-year -5.01% -9.67% +19.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - £47.45
25th Percentile £71.25 - £49.25
Median hourly rate £72.50 £45.00 £55.73
Median % change year-on-year +61.11% -19.26% +48.62%
75th Percentile £73.75 - £61.45
90th Percentile - - -
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 40,501 57,364 85,821
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.55% 95.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,442 40,011 60,276
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £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 £748 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,615 1,620 2,120
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.33 £15.47
Median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +95.65% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.77 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -14.12% +117.95% +2.63%

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 19 April 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 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 19 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 -57 127 £500 -4.76% 48
London -21 92 £525 -12.21% 26
UK excluding London +47 54 £422 -5.01% 21
Work from Home -5 52 £506 -5.81% 22
Scotland +55 22 £400 -19.80% 3
South East +20 13 £400 -9.86% 4
North of England +7 8 £463 +3.35% 5
Midlands +34 5 £418 +52.00% 6
Yorkshire -3 5 £463 -0.54% 1
South West +15 4 £425 -5.56% 2
North West +17 3 - - 4
East Midlands +16 3 £418 +52.00% 2
West Midlands +24 2 £444 +18.33% 4
Northern Ireland - 2 £563 -

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

For the 6 months to 19 April 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.

1 157 (100.00%) User Experience
2 153 (97.45%) UX Design
3 87 (55.41%) Figma
4 66 (42.04%) Social Skills
5 54 (34.39%) User Research
6 51 (32.48%) Wireframes
7 45 (28.66%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 45 (28.66%) Agile
8 41 (26.11%) Sketch
9 32 (20.38%) Adobe
10 30 (19.11%) Accessibility
11 26 (16.56%) Product Ownership
11 26 (16.56%) Finance
11 26 (16.56%) Mobile App
11 26 (16.56%) Usability Testing
12 25 (15.92%) Prototyping
13 21 (13.38%) Adobe XD
14 20 (12.74%) Problem-Solving
15 18 (11.46%) UX Research
15 18 (11.46%) Marketing
16 17 (10.83%) Analytical Skills
16 17 (10.83%) Workshop Facilitation
17 16 (10.19%) Visualisation
17 16 (10.19%) HTML
18 15 (9.55%) E-Commerce
18 15 (9.55%) Interaction Design
18 15 (9.55%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
19 14 (8.92%) Storyboarding
19 14 (8.92%) Degree
19 14 (8.92%) Axure RP

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 (0.64%) CMS
1 1 (0.64%) Confluence
Applications
1 41 (26.11%) Sketch
2 21 (13.38%) Adobe XD
3 11 (7.01%) InVision
4 8 (5.10%) Photoshop
5 6 (3.82%) Adobe Illustrator
6 5 (3.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 3 (1.91%) InDesign
Cloud Services
1 87 (55.41%) Figma
2 13 (8.28%) Azure
3 7 (4.46%) Miro
4 5 (3.18%) SaaS
5 4 (2.55%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.27%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.64%) Adobe Analytics
7 1 (0.64%) Pendo
7 1 (0.64%) Unqork
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.27%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.73%) MongoDB
2 3 (1.91%) Big Data
3 2 (1.27%) BusinessObjects
3 2 (1.27%) Power BI
4 1 (0.64%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (8.92%) Axure RP
2 1 (0.64%) JIRA
General
1 66 (42.04%) Social Skills
2 26 (16.56%) Finance
3 18 (11.46%) Marketing
4 17 (10.83%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (8.28%) Public Sector
6 10 (6.37%) Banking
7 8 (5.10%) Games
7 8 (5.10%) Health Technology
8 7 (4.46%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (3.18%) Advertising
9 5 (3.18%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (3.18%) Retail
10 4 (2.55%) Front Office
10 4 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.91%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.27%) Investment Banking
12 2 (1.27%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.64%) Corporate Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (10.19%) HTML
2 12 (7.64%) CSS
2 12 (7.64%) React
3 2 (1.27%) CSS3
4 1 (0.64%) .NET
4 1 (0.64%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.64%) COM+
4 1 (0.64%) Framer.js
4 1 (0.64%) Material Design
4 1 (0.64%) SAPUI5
4 1 (0.64%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 26 (16.56%) Mobile App
1 26 (16.56%) Product Ownership
2 9 (5.73%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (5.10%) Graphic Design
4 6 (3.82%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (2.55%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.91%) Animation
6 3 (1.91%) Derivative
6 3 (1.91%) Digital Media
6 3 (1.91%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.27%) Mobile Games
7 2 (1.27%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.64%) Infotainment
8 1 (0.64%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.64%) Over-the-Top Content
8 1 (0.64%) Smartphone
8 1 (0.64%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 13 (8.28%) Android
1 13 (8.28%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (100.00%) User Experience
2 153 (97.45%) UX Design
3 54 (34.39%) User Research
4 51 (32.48%) Wireframes
5 45 (28.66%) Agile
5 45 (28.66%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 26 (16.56%) Usability Testing
7 25 (15.92%) Prototyping
8 20 (12.74%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (11.46%) UX Research
10 17 (10.83%) Workshop Facilitation
11 16 (10.19%) Visualisation
12 15 (9.55%) E-Commerce
12 15 (9.55%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
12 15 (9.55%) Interaction Design
13 14 (8.92%) Storyboarding
14 13 (8.28%) B2B
15 12 (7.64%) Service Design
15 12 (7.64%) User Stories
16 11 (7.01%) Information Architecture
Programming Languages
1 11 (7.01%) JavaScript
1 11 (7.01%) Python
2 4 (2.55%) Java
3 1 (0.64%) C#
3 1 (0.64%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 14 (8.92%) Degree
2 3 (1.91%) Master's Degree
2 3 (1.91%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.64%) DV Cleared
3 1 (0.64%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (19.11%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.82%) WCAG
3 2 (1.27%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 32 (20.38%) Adobe
2 3 (1.91%) Microsoft
2 3 (1.91%) Salesforce
3 2 (1.27%) Apple
3 2 (1.27%) MicroStrategy
3 2 (1.27%) SAP
4 1 (0.64%) Virgin Media
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