UX Design Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

User Experience Design (UXD)
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring UX Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 25 39
Rank change year-on-year -15 +14 +6
Contract jobs citing UX Design 2 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 0.69% 0.68% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 0.79% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £625 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - £425
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.56%
75th Percentile £675 - £438
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £475 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +11.76% -10.53% +11.76%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Sussex

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 West Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 229 127 238
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 78.97% 86.99% 91.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 78 175
10th Percentile £265 £248 £305
25th Percentile £352 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £456 £450
Median % change year-on-year +3.01% +1.39% -5.76%
75th Percentile £575 £547 £522
90th Percentile £712 £638 £588
South East median daily rate £513 £500 £501
% change year-on-year +2.50% -0.10% -1.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 13 13
10th Percentile £13.13 £15.39 £13.63
25th Percentile £23.53 £16.95 £18.20
Median hourly rate £43.56 £18.82 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +131.46% -12.47% -2.98%
75th Percentile £60.00 £36.25 £22.25
90th Percentile £66.75 £81.15 £28.05
South East median hourly rate £54.00 £28.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +92.86% -41.05% -3.06%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

UX Design job vacancy trend in West Sussex

UX Design
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

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

UX Design
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

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 Sussex region over the 6 months to 7 May 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
Gatwick - 1 £650 - 1
Horsham - 1 - -
UX Design
South East

UX Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex 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 (50.00%) CMS
1 1 (50.00%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) Power Query
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Power BI Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Web Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Backlog Management
2 1 (50.00%) Backlog Refinement
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) MVC
2 1 (50.00%) OWASP
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Responsive Web Design
2 1 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (50.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft