Senior UX Designer Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Senior User Experience Designer
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median Senior User Experience Designer daily rate in West Yorkshire is £531, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 - 77
Rank change year-on-year - - +42
Contract jobs requiring a Senior UX Designer 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.22% - 0.085%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% - 0.088%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £511 - -
25th Percentile £517 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 - -
75th Percentile £542 - -
90th Percentile £547 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £531 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in West Yorkshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in West Yorkshire with a recognized job title 865 663 1,131
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.54% 94.31% 96.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 583 412 721
10th Percentile £290 £263 £281
25th Percentile £400 £374 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £574 £552 £600
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £482 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.47% -5.00% -0.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 33 12
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.02 £15.48
25th Percentile £18.87 £19.50 £17.14
Median hourly rate £26.00 £24.18 £19.85
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% +21.80% -7.66%
75th Percentile £81.25 £38.75 £23.17
90th Percentile - £53.50 £29.75
Yorkshire median hourly rate £29.68 £23.34 £21.31
% change year-on-year +27.16% +9.53% +0.28%

Senior UX Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior UX Designer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Senior UX Designer job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Senior UX Designer
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior UX Designer job vacancies in West Yorkshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior UX Designer job vacancies in West Yorkshire

Senior UX Designer
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior UX Designer within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 18 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
Leeds - 2 £531 - 1
Senior UX Designer
Yorkshire

Senior UX Designer Skill Set
Top 23 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 18 December 2025, Senior UX Designer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the West Yorkshire region featuring Senior UX Designer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
1 2 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
1 2 (100.00%) User Research
1 2 (100.00%) UX Design
2 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (50.00%) Adobe
2 1 (50.00%) Adobe XD
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Figma
2 1 (50.00%) Inclusive Design
2 1 (50.00%) Interaction Design
2 1 (50.00%) Rainbow Teams
2 1 (50.00%) Service Design
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Usability Testing
2 1 (50.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 1 (50.00%) WCAG
2 1 (50.00%) Wireframes
2 1 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation

Senior UX Designer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 (50.00%) Adobe XD
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Figma
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
1 2 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
1 2 (100.00%) User Research
1 2 (100.00%) UX Design
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Inclusive Design
2 1 (50.00%) Interaction Design
2 1 (50.00%) Rainbow Teams
2 1 (50.00%) Service Design
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Usability Testing
2 1 (50.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 1 (50.00%) Wireframes
2 1 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (50.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Adobe