UX Design Contracts with Work from Home Options

User Experience Design (UXD)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for UX Design skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited UX Design over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 168 145 108
Rank change year-on-year -23 -37 -10
Contract jobs citing UX Design 190 459 1,087
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.23% 1.76% 2.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.40% 1.96% 2.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 344 808
10th Percentile £386 £400 £400
25th Percentile £431 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £510
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +7.84% +13.33%
75th Percentile £675 £600 £588
90th Percentile - £698 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 7
10th Percentile - £40.10 £20.25
25th Percentile £77.50 £43.25 £33.25
Median hourly rate £80.00 £45.00 £55.50
Median % change year-on-year +77.78% -18.92% +33.73%
75th Percentile £82.50 £46.13 £61.19
90th Percentile - £48.15 £69.34
UK median hourly rate £41.68 £48.25 £55.50
% change year-on-year -13.63% -13.06% +52.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

UX Design is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,569 23,472 40,758
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.77% 89.84% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,056 16,562 29,562
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.81%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 563 559 545
10th Percentile £14.90 £19.00 £13.50
25th Percentile £24.00 £30.65 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +57.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £69.25 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.90
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -

UX Design
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing UX Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

UX Design trend for jobs with a WFH option

UX Design
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing UX Design.

UX Design daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

UX Design
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing UX Design over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

UX Design daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

UX Design
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing UX Design.

UX Design hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

UX Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (3.16%) Confluence
2 4 (2.11%) CMS
3 3 (1.58%) Apache
4 2 (1.05%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.53%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 10 (5.26%) Sketch
2 8 (4.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 3 (1.58%) InVision
4 2 (1.05%) Adobe XD
4 2 (1.05%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.53%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.53%) UserZoom
Cloud Services
1 39 (20.53%) AWS
2 36 (18.95%) Figma
3 15 (7.89%) Azure
4 9 (4.74%) Miro
5 6 (3.16%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (2.11%) Power Platform
7 3 (1.58%) GCP
8 2 (1.05%) Adobe Creative Cloud
8 2 (1.05%) Asana
8 2 (1.05%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.05%) Firebase
8 2 (1.05%) npm
8 2 (1.05%) SaaS
8 2 (1.05%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 2 (1.05%) Yarn
9 1 (0.53%) Commercetools
9 1 (0.53%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.05%) RTP
2 1 (0.53%) Internet
2 1 (0.53%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (15.79%) Apache Cassandra
2 9 (4.74%) MySQL
2 9 (4.74%) SQL Server
3 4 (2.11%) MongoDB
3 4 (2.11%) Power BI
4 2 (1.05%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.05%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.53%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.53%) Apache Hive
5 1 (0.53%) Big Data
5 1 (0.53%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.53%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.53%) HBase
5 1 (0.53%) MariaDB
5 1 (0.53%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 11 (5.79%) Git
2 8 (4.21%) JIRA
3 4 (2.11%) Axure RP
3 4 (2.11%) webpack
4 3 (1.58%) Babel
4 3 (1.58%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.05%) Android Studio
5 2 (1.05%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.53%) Ant
6 1 (0.53%) Crashlytics
6 1 (0.53%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.53%) Gradle
6 1 (0.53%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.53%) Selenium
6 1 (0.53%) Subversion
6 1 (0.53%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.53%) TestNG
General
1 45 (23.68%) Social Skills
2 23 (12.11%) Finance
3 17 (8.95%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (7.89%) Public Sector
5 9 (4.74%) Marketing
6 8 (4.21%) Banking
7 7 (3.68%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.63%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.63%) Front Office
9 4 (2.11%) Retail
10 3 (1.58%) Games
10 3 (1.58%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.05%) Health Technology
11 2 (1.05%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.53%) Advertising
12 1 (0.53%) Law
12 1 (0.53%) Legal
12 1 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.53%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 68 (35.79%) Designer
2 49 (25.79%) UX Designer
3 45 (23.68%) Developer
4 42 (22.11%) Senior
5 30 (15.79%) Software Engineer
6 17 (8.95%) Senior Software Engineer
6 17 (8.95%) UI Designer
7 16 (8.42%) UI/UX Designer
8 14 (7.37%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 13 (6.84%) Senior Designer
10 12 (6.32%) React Developer
10 12 (6.32%) Senior UX Designer
11 9 (4.74%) .NET Developer
11 9 (4.74%) Product Designer
11 9 (4.74%) Senior Developer
12 8 (4.21%) Full Stack Developer
13 7 (3.68%) JavaScript Developer
13 7 (3.68%) UI Developer
13 7 (3.68%) UX Engineer
14 6 (3.16%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (19.47%) HTML
1 37 (19.47%) React
2 36 (18.95%) CSS
3 31 (16.32%) Kafka
4 19 (10.00%) AngularJS
4 19 (10.00%) RESTful
5 15 (7.89%) .NET
6 8 (4.21%) Vue
7 6 (3.16%) CSS3
7 6 (3.16%) jQuery
7 6 (3.16%) Node.js
8 5 (2.63%) HTML5
8 5 (2.63%) Redux
8 5 (2.63%) SAML
9 4 (2.11%) Ajax
9 4 (2.11%) REST
9 4 (2.11%) Tailwind CSS
10 3 (1.58%) Blazor
10 3 (1.58%) Next.js
10 3 (1.58%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.95%) Mobile App
2 11 (5.79%) Product Ownership
3 10 (5.26%) Fixed Income
4 6 (3.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (1.58%) Derivative
5 3 (1.58%) Graphic Design
5 3 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.05%) Mobile Banking
6 2 (1.05%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.05%) Photography
6 2 (1.05%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.53%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.53%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.53%) Life Science
7 1 (0.53%) Omics
7 1 (0.53%) Online Games
7 1 (0.53%) Over-the-Top Content
7 1 (0.53%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.79%) Android
2 8 (4.21%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (100.00%) User Experience
2 72 (37.89%) Agile
3 70 (36.84%) User Research
4 50 (26.32%) UX Research
5 36 (18.95%) Software Engineering
6 33 (17.37%) Fintech
7 31 (16.32%) Wireframes
8 29 (15.26%) Front End Development
9 28 (14.74%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (9.47%) Code Quality
11 16 (8.42%) Full Stack Development
11 16 (8.42%) Usability Testing
11 16 (8.42%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 15 (7.89%) Scrum
13 14 (7.37%) Service Design
14 13 (6.84%) Prototyping
15 12 (6.32%) Interaction Design
16 11 (5.79%) Journey Map
16 11 (5.79%) Workshop Facilitation
17 10 (5.26%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 44 (23.16%) JavaScript
2 30 (15.79%) Go
3 13 (6.84%) Java
4 10 (5.26%) TypeScript
5 9 (4.74%) C#
5 9 (4.74%) Python
6 8 (4.21%) SQL
7 5 (2.63%) PHP
8 3 (1.58%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.53%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.53%) Bash
9 1 (0.53%) Bicep
9 1 (0.53%) Groovy
9 1 (0.53%) JSX
9 1 (0.53%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.53%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (4.74%) Degree
1 9 (4.74%) Security Cleared
2 7 (3.68%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.53%) ISEB
4 1 (0.53%) ISTQB
4 1 (0.53%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (15.26%) Accessibility
2 10 (5.26%) QA
3 3 (1.58%) WCAG
4 2 (1.05%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 1 (0.53%) HL7
System Software
1 33 (17.37%) Docker
2 1 (0.53%) HDFS
2 1 (0.53%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 30 (15.79%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.11%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.53%) Grafana
3 1 (0.53%) Hadoop YARN
3 1 (0.53%) Oozie
3 1 (0.53%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (5.79%) Adobe
2 5 (2.63%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.11%) SAP
4 3 (1.58%) Google
5 2 (1.05%) Databricks
5 2 (1.05%) Oracle
5 2 (1.05%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.53%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.53%) ForgeRock
6 1 (0.53%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (0.53%) Okta
6 1 (0.53%) Ping Identity
6 1 (0.53%) TSYS