UX Design Contract Job Trends in Wales

User Experience Design (UXD)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wales requiring UX Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 47 51
Rank change year-on-year +6 +4 +7
Contract jobs citing UX Design 5 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 1.05% 0.47% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.31% 0.55% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile £207 - -
25th Percentile £283 £413 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £538
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -21.00% -
75th Percentile £594 £438 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -5.00% -2.44% -6.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

UX 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 381 361 378
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 80.04% 85.34% 87.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 220 287
10th Percentile £183 £162 £174
25th Percentile £282 £213 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year -3.53% - -10.53%
75th Percentile £501 £550 £575
90th Percentile £613 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 45 24
10th Percentile £13.33 £18.93 £17.30
25th Percentile £16.72 £20.12 £21.32
Median hourly rate £18.18 £25.36 £26.58
Median % change year-on-year -28.31% -4.60% +40.24%
75th Percentile £23.71 £40.00 £52.81
90th Percentile £30.75 £48.75 £55.25
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.29% +24.29%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

UX Design job vacancy trend in Wales

UX Design
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

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

UX Design
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UX Design in Wales over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for UX Design in Wales

UX 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 UX Design within the Wales region over the 6 months to 20 December 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
South Wales +6 4 £435 +2.40% 5
West Wales - 1 £475 -
UX Design
UK

UX 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) CMS
1 1 (20.00%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (40.00%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Figma
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (20.00%) CloudFront
2 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (20.00%) DynamoDB
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Financial Institution
2 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Designer
2 2 (40.00%) UX Designer
3 1 (20.00%) Architect
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Architect
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Solution Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Digital Project Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Service Designer
3 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Digital Wallet
2 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) User Experience
2 3 (60.00%) User Research
3 2 (40.00%) Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (40.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 2 (40.00%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
3 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Usability Testing
3 2 (40.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 2 (40.00%) Wireframes
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (20.00%) Microservices
4 1 (20.00%) Observability
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (20.00%) Technology Roadmap
4 1 (20.00%) Thought Leadership
4 1 (20.00%) User Stories
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Adobe