UX Design Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

User Experience Design (UXD)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring UX Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited UX Design over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 167 167 144
Rank change year-on-year 0 -23 -36
Contract jobs citing UX Design 140 191 448
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.41% 1.24% 1.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.55% 1.42% 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 143 337
10th Percentile £312 £392 £400
25th Percentile £353 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.19% -4.55% +7.84%
75th Percentile £500 £675 £600
90th Percentile £590 - £696
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile £85.31 - £40.10
25th Percentile £86.04 £77.50 £43.25
Median hourly rate £92.39 £80.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.48% +77.78% -18.92%
75th Percentile £98.04 £82.50 £46.13
90th Percentile £98.35 - £48.15
UK median hourly rate £91.69 £41.68 £47.50
% change year-on-year +120.01% -12.26% -14.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

UX Design
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing UX Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

UX Design trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

UX Design
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing UX Design over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 remote working options 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 14 (10.00%) Confluence
2 8 (5.71%) CMS
3 3 (2.14%) JBoss
3 3 (2.14%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.43%) Apache
4 2 (1.43%) Drupal
4 2 (1.43%) Mendix
4 2 (1.43%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.71%) Appian
5 1 (0.71%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 9 (6.43%) Sketch
2 6 (4.29%) Trello
3 5 (3.57%) Adobe XD
4 3 (2.14%) Chatbot
5 2 (1.43%) InVision
6 1 (0.71%) MadCap Flare
6 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.71%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.71%) UserZoom
6 1 (0.71%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 41 (29.29%) Figma
2 24 (17.14%) Azure
3 17 (12.14%) AWS
4 9 (6.43%) Serverless
5 8 (5.71%) GCP
5 8 (5.71%) SaaS
6 6 (4.29%) Power Platform
7 5 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (3.57%) GitHub
7 5 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (2.14%) Amazon Cognito
9 3 (2.14%) Amazon S3
9 3 (2.14%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (2.14%) Miro
10 2 (1.43%) Azure Functions
10 2 (1.43%) Firebase
10 2 (1.43%) PowerApps
11 1 (0.71%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.71%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.14%) HTTP
2 1 (0.71%) Intranet
2 1 (0.71%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.00%) NoSQL
1 7 (5.00%) Relational Database
2 6 (4.29%) DynamoDB
3 5 (3.57%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.86%) MySQL
4 4 (2.86%) Power BI
5 3 (2.14%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (2.14%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.14%) Neo4j
6 2 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.71%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.71%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.71%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.71%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (0.71%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.71%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 23 (16.43%) JIRA
2 10 (7.14%) Git
3 8 (5.71%) Axure RP
4 4 (2.86%) NUnit
5 3 (2.14%) Bitbucket
5 3 (2.14%) Cypress.io
5 3 (2.14%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.14%) JUnit
5 3 (2.14%) Mocha
5 3 (2.14%) Postman
5 3 (2.14%) Selenium
5 3 (2.14%) SonarQube
5 3 (2.14%) Visual Studio Code
5 3 (2.14%) Vite
6 2 (1.43%) GitLab
6 2 (1.43%) webpack
6 2 (1.43%) Xcode
7 1 (0.71%) Hudson
7 1 (0.71%) Maven
7 1 (0.71%) Oracle APEX
General
1 39 (27.86%) Social Skills
2 36 (25.71%) Public Sector
3 17 (12.14%) Finance
4 14 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (9.29%) Marketing
6 8 (5.71%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (4.29%) Banking
8 5 (3.57%) Automotive
9 4 (2.86%) Advertising
9 4 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.86%) Legal
9 4 (2.86%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.86%) Retail
10 3 (2.14%) Publishing
10 3 (2.14%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.43%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (1.43%) Electronics
11 2 (1.43%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.43%) Local Government
11 2 (1.43%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 47 (33.57%) Designer
2 44 (31.43%) Developer
3 32 (22.86%) UX Designer
4 14 (10.00%) Analyst
5 12 (8.57%) Business Analyst
5 12 (8.57%) UI Designer
5 12 (8.57%) UI/UX Designer
6 10 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
7 9 (6.43%) .NET Developer
7 9 (6.43%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 9 (6.43%) Lead
7 9 (6.43%) React Developer
7 9 (6.43%) Senior
8 8 (5.71%) Content Designer
8 8 (5.71%) Product Designer
9 7 (5.00%) Lead Developer
9 7 (5.00%) Product Owner
10 5 (3.57%) Agile Business Analyst
10 5 (3.57%) Java Developer
11 4 (2.86%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (20.71%) CSS
2 28 (20.00%) HTML
3 27 (19.29%) React
4 18 (12.86%) AngularJS
5 12 (8.57%) Node.js
5 12 (8.57%) RESTful
6 10 (7.14%) .NET
7 9 (6.43%) REST
8 8 (5.71%) .NET Core
8 8 (5.71%) ASP.NET
8 8 (5.71%) OAuth
9 7 (5.00%) Vue
10 6 (4.29%) OpenAPI
10 6 (4.29%) Swagger
11 5 (3.57%) GraphQL
11 5 (3.57%) HTML5
12 4 (2.86%) ARM Templates
12 4 (2.86%) Jest
12 4 (2.86%) OpenID
12 4 (2.86%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 24 (17.14%) Product Ownership
2 12 (8.57%) Mobile App
3 6 (4.29%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (3.57%) Data Structures
4 5 (3.57%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.86%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.14%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.14%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.14%) Low-Code
6 3 (2.14%) Vector Graphics
7 2 (1.43%) Animation
7 2 (1.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.43%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.43%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.71%) 3D Graphics
8 1 (0.71%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.71%) e-Learning
8 1 (0.71%) Photography
8 1 (0.71%) Robotics
8 1 (0.71%) SCORM
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.29%) Apple iOS
2 5 (3.57%) Android
3 3 (2.14%) Windows
3 3 (2.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (100.00%) User Experience
2 63 (45.00%) Agile
3 35 (25.00%) User Research
4 29 (20.71%) Wireframes
5 27 (19.29%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (17.86%) Scrum
7 24 (17.14%) Prototyping
8 23 (16.43%) CI/CD
8 23 (16.43%) Stakeholder Management
8 23 (16.43%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 21 (15.00%) Analytics
10 19 (13.57%) Full-Stack Development
11 18 (12.86%) DevOps
11 18 (12.86%) Service Design
12 17 (12.14%) Microservices
12 17 (12.14%) Usability Testing
13 16 (11.43%) Sprint Planning
14 14 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence
14 14 (10.00%) Interaction Design
14 14 (10.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 28 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 17 (12.14%) SQL
3 10 (7.14%) TypeScript
4 8 (5.71%) C#
5 6 (4.29%) Java
6 5 (3.57%) Python
7 4 (2.86%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.43%) Scala
9 1 (0.71%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.71%) Bash
9 1 (0.71%) Go
9 1 (0.71%) Objective-C
9 1 (0.71%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.71%) Swift
Qualifications
1 18 (12.86%) SC Cleared
1 18 (12.86%) Security Cleared
2 11 (7.86%) Degree
3 3 (2.14%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.43%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.43%) SAFe Agilist
5 1 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.71%) CSPO
5 1 (0.71%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.71%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (28.57%) Accessibility
2 13 (9.29%) WCAG
3 12 (8.57%) QA
4 1 (0.71%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (8.57%) Docker
2 3 (2.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (7.86%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (5.71%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.00%) Adobe
3 2 (1.43%) CA Agile Central
3 2 (1.43%) Google
3 2 (1.43%) Optimizely
3 2 (1.43%) Pega
3 2 (1.43%) Salesforce
3 2 (1.43%) SAP
4 1 (0.71%) Databricks
4 1 (0.71%) Genesys
4 1 (0.71%) GoldenSource
4 1 (0.71%) Oracle
4 1 (0.71%) OutSystems
4 1 (0.71%) ServiceNow