UX Design Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

User Experience Design (UXD)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 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 66 57 72
Rank change year-on-year -9 +15 -3
Contract jobs citing UX Design 17 10 7
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 1.85% 1.42% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.16% 1.64% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 4 4
10th Percentile £408 £465 -
25th Percentile £469 £488 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £519 £456
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% +13.70% -13.10%
75th Percentile £538 £547 £495
90th Percentile £568 £553 £543
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £519 £450
% change year-on-year -3.61% +15.28% -14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 786 610 1,049
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 85.62% 86.77% 89.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 531 380 667
10th Percentile £290 £300 £313
25th Percentile £400 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £515
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -7.77% -1.90%
75th Percentile £575 £563 £600
90th Percentile £650 £681 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £482 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.47% -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 22 13
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.27 £13.60
25th Percentile £14.63 £17.43 £16.92
Median hourly rate £21.30 £32.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.46% +71.05% -11.63%
75th Percentile £27.63 £40.81 £21.97
90th Percentile £81.25 £92.60 £29.42
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £22.50 £21.31
% change year-on-year +11.78% +5.58% +0.88%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

UX Design job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

UX Design
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

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

UX Design
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for UX Design in West Yorkshire

UX Design
Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

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

UX Design
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 UX Design within the West Yorkshire 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
Leeds -13 12 £506 -2.41% 4
Halifax - 3 £513 -
Bradford - 2 £494 -
UX Design
Yorkshire

UX Design
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (17.65%) Confluence
2 1 (5.88%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Adobe XD
1 1 (5.88%) InVision
1 1 (5.88%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 7 (41.18%) Azure
2 6 (35.29%) AWS
2 6 (35.29%) GCP
3 1 (5.88%) Adobe Creative Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (41.18%) Git
2 3 (17.65%) JIRA
3 2 (11.76%) CircleCI
4 1 (5.88%) Cypress.io
General
1 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Banking
2 3 (17.65%) Finance
2 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.88%) Legal
3 1 (5.88%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Designer
2 7 (41.18%) Senior
3 5 (29.41%) UX Designer
4 4 (23.53%) Software Engineer
5 3 (17.65%) Senior Designer
5 3 (17.65%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (11.76%) Developer
6 2 (11.76%) iOS Developer
6 2 (11.76%) Senior UX Designer
6 2 (11.76%) Service Designer
7 1 (5.88%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 1 (5.88%) Junior
7 1 (5.88%) Junior Designer
7 1 (5.88%) Lead
7 1 (5.88%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 1 (5.88%) Senior Service Designer
7 1 (5.88%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (47.06%) RESTful
2 5 (29.41%) Node.js
2 5 (29.41%) React
3 2 (11.76%) SwiftUI
4 1 (5.88%) AngularJS
4 1 (5.88%) CSS
4 1 (5.88%) CSS3
4 1 (5.88%) HTML
4 1 (5.88%) HTML5
4 1 (5.88%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Mobile App
1 2 (11.76%) NHS
2 1 (5.88%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) User Experience
2 6 (35.29%) Clean Code
2 6 (35.29%) Containerisation
2 6 (35.29%) Customer Experience
2 6 (35.29%) Event-Driven
2 6 (35.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 6 (35.29%) Microservices
2 6 (35.29%) Service Design
2 6 (35.29%) User Research
3 5 (29.41%) Agile
3 5 (29.41%) Software Engineering
3 5 (29.41%) Software Testing
3 5 (29.41%) Workshop Facilitation
4 4 (23.53%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 3 (17.65%) Backlog Refinement
5 3 (17.65%) Prototyping
5 3 (17.65%) Re-Platforming
5 3 (17.65%) Sprint Planning
5 3 (17.65%) Systems Thinking
5 3 (17.65%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) JavaScript
2 2 (11.76%) Swift
2 2 (11.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) Accessibility
1 2 (11.76%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (35.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Adobe