UX Design Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

User Experience Design (UXD)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring UX Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 102 110
Rank change year-on-year -10 +8 +30
Contract jobs citing UX Design 24 8 7
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.09% 0.44% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% 0.53% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 3 5
10th Percentile £406 £533 £378
25th Percentile £419 £544 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £575 £463
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% +24.32% -17.41%
75th Percentile £510 £638 £513
90th Percentile £520 £668 £595
England median daily rate £465 £506 £525
% change year-on-year -8.15% -3.57% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £27.00 £30.75 -
25th Percentile £30.00 £31.21 -
Median hourly rate £35.60 £32.21 -
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% - -
75th Percentile - £32.98 -
90th Percentile - £33.32 -
England median hourly rate £40.50 £33.27 £72.50
% change year-on-year +21.73% -54.11% +33.03%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,944 1,523 1,626
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 87.96% 84.24% 85.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,236 956 1,104
10th Percentile £263 £250 £263
25th Percentile £400 £400 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £588 £612 £600
90th Percentile £675 £713 £700
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 52 53
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.70 £15.50
25th Percentile £16.13 £16.07 £17.72
Median hourly rate £20.00 £21.80 £24.60
Median % change year-on-year -8.24% -11.40% +38.98%
75th Percentile £30.00 £34.06 £50.00
90th Percentile £40.46 £52.25 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

UX Design job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

UX Design
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

UX Design
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UX Design in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for UX Design in the West Midlands

UX Design
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

UX 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 UX Design within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 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
Warwickshire +3 12 £435 - 5
Shropshire - 6 £520 - 3
Coventry -14 3 £425 - 2
Birmingham -9 1 £325 -43.48% 7
UX Design
England

UX 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (12.50%) SugarCRM
2 1 (4.17%) Drupal
Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (4.17%) Adobe After Effects
2 1 (4.17%) Blender
2 1 (4.17%) CINEMA 4D
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.17%) Moqups
2 1 (4.17%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (12.50%) Azure
1 3 (12.50%) Figma
2 2 (8.33%) AWS
3 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (4.17%) GCP
3 1 (4.17%) Lucidchart
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) MySQL
2 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (20.83%) Git
2 3 (12.50%) JIRA
3 1 (4.17%) Visual Studio
3 1 (4.17%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 13 (54.17%) Social Skills
2 8 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
3 5 (20.83%) Automotive
4 4 (16.67%) Public Sector
5 3 (12.50%) Aerospace
6 2 (8.33%) Finance
7 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (4.17%) Legal
7 1 (4.17%) Marketing
7 1 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (41.67%) Developer
2 6 (25.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 5 (20.83%) Designer
4 3 (12.50%) React Developer
4 3 (12.50%) UX Designer
5 2 (8.33%) Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) Business Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) Product Owner
5 2 (8.33%) UI Designer
6 1 (4.17%) Animator
6 1 (4.17%) Business IT Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Business Systems Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Data Business Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) IT Business Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Java Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Solutions Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Solutions Designer
6 1 (4.17%) UI/UX Designer
6 1 (4.17%) User Experience Researcher
6 1 (4.17%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (25.00%) CSS
1 6 (25.00%) Material-UI
1 6 (25.00%) Playwright
1 6 (25.00%) React
2 5 (20.83%) HTML
3 3 (12.50%) REST
3 3 (12.50%) SOAP
4 2 (8.33%) RESTful
5 1 (4.17%) .NET
5 1 (4.17%) CSS3
5 1 (4.17%) Drush
5 1 (4.17%) GraphQL
5 1 (4.17%) HTML5
5 1 (4.17%) jQuery
5 1 (4.17%) Node.js
5 1 (4.17%) OAuth
5 1 (4.17%) OAuth2
5 1 (4.17%) Razor View Engine
5 1 (4.17%) Sass
5 1 (4.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.17%) Animation
2 1 (4.17%) Data Structures
2 1 (4.17%) Driving Licence
2 1 (4.17%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.17%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (4.17%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.17%) Motion Graphics
2 1 (4.17%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Android
1 1 (4.17%) Apple iOS
1 1 (4.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (100.00%) User Experience
2 9 (37.50%) Agile
2 9 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (33.33%) Front End Development
4 7 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
5 6 (25.00%) Programme Management
5 6 (25.00%) Progressive Enhancement
6 5 (20.83%) Prototyping
7 4 (16.67%) API Integration
7 4 (16.67%) MVC
8 3 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
8 3 (12.50%) CRM
8 3 (12.50%) Project Management
8 3 (12.50%) Scrum
8 3 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 3 (12.50%) User Stories
8 3 (12.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 3 (12.50%) Wireframes
9 2 (8.33%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 7 (29.17%) Java
2 6 (25.00%) TypeScript
3 5 (20.83%) JavaScript
4 4 (16.67%) PHP
5 1 (4.17%) Python
5 1 (4.17%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (4.17%) Degree
2 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.83%) Accessibility
1 5 (20.83%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (4.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (12.50%) Adobe
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.17%) Google
3 1 (4.17%) SAP
3 1 (4.17%) Workday