Interaction Design Contract Job Trends in Wales

Interaction Design (IxD)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Interaction Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 35 -
Rank change year-on-year -16 - -
Contract jobs citing Interaction Design 5 6 0
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 0.81% 1.69% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.09% 1.97% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 0
10th Percentile £393 £304 -
25th Percentile £438 £305 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £306 -
Median % change year-on-year +83.98% - -
75th Percentile £675 £326 -
90th Percentile - £503 -
UK median daily rate £475 £468 £488
% change year-on-year +1.60% -4.10% -15.22%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Wales

Interaction Design falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 458 304 324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 74.35% 85.63% 72.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 277 191 201
10th Percentile £300 £190 £143
25th Percentile £375 £285 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £488 £550
90th Percentile £675 £625 £625
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 45 48
10th Percentile £12.21 £13.08 £13.58
25th Percentile £20.56 £15.00 £15.73
Median hourly rate £22.00 £20.50 £24.33
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -15.74% +24.83%
75th Percentile £45.40 £25.15 £49.06
90th Percentile £54.50 - £60.63
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -10.31%

Interaction Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Interaction Design relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Interaction Design job vacancy trend in Wales

Interaction Design
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Interaction Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Interaction Design

Interaction Design
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Interaction Design in Wales over the 6 months to 21 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Interaction Design in Wales

Interaction Design
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Interaction Design within the Wales region over the 6 months to 21 July 2026. 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
South Wales -15 3 £650 +112.60% 1
West Wales - 2 £425 - 1
Interaction Design
UK

Interaction Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Adobe XD
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Figma
General
1 5 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Designer
2 4 (80.00%) Interaction Designer
3 3 (60.00%) Senior
3 3 (60.00%) Senior Designer
4 2 (40.00%) Senior Interaction Designer
5 1 (20.00%) Lead
5 1 (20.00%) Lead Designer
5 1 (20.00%) Senior Service Designer
5 1 (20.00%) Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) CSS
1 1 (20.00%) HTML
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Service Design
2 4 (80.00%) Prototyping
3 3 (60.00%) Agile
3 3 (60.00%) User Research
3 3 (60.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 2 (40.00%) Co-Design
4 2 (40.00%) Systems Thinking
5 1 (20.00%) Coaching
5 1 (20.00%) Community of Practice
5 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 1 (20.00%) Usability Testing
5 1 (20.00%) User Experience
5 1 (20.00%) UX Design
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (40.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Adobe