Interaction Design Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Interaction Design (IxD)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Interaction Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 109 109
Rank change year-on-year -23 0 +35
Contract jobs citing Interaction Design 6 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.27% 0.059% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.069% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile - - £351
25th Percentile £410 - £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 - £463
Median % change year-on-year - - -17.41%
75th Percentile £430 - £491
90th Percentile - - £504
England median daily rate £455 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -8.08% -1.00% -9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,968 1,448 1,560
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 87.12% 86.09% 85.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,245 911 1,055
10th Percentile £263 £225 £263
25th Percentile £400 £400 £392
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £584 £612 £600
90th Percentile £673 £713 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 49 49
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.70 £14.46
25th Percentile £16.05 £16.75 £17.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £22.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.23% -4.35% +29.94%
75th Percentile £27.21 £33.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £39.21 £52.50 £67.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.85%

Interaction Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Interaction Design job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Interaction Design
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Interaction Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Interaction Design

Interaction Design
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Interaction Design.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Interaction Design

Interaction Design
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 21 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
Shropshire - 5 £420 -
Warwickshire - 1 - -
Interaction Design
England

Interaction Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (16.67%) Adobe After Effects
1 1 (16.67%) Blender
1 1 (16.67%) CINEMA 4D
General
1 2 (33.33%) Legal
2 1 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Designer
1 5 (83.33%) Interaction Designer
2 1 (16.67%) Animator
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) CSS
1 1 (16.67%) Framer.js
1 1 (16.67%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Animation
1 1 (16.67%) Motion Graphics
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) User Experience
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Service Design
2 3 (50.00%) User Research
2 3 (50.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 2 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 1 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (16.67%) Microinteractions
4 1 (16.67%) Programme Management
4 1 (16.67%) Prototyping
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (16.67%) Storyboarding
4 1 (16.67%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Java
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) OneLogin