Hybrid/Remote UX Design Contract Job Trends

User Experience Design (UXD)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring UX Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 197 176 214
Rank change year-on-year -21 +38 -72
Contract jobs citing UX Design 128 146 172
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.26% 1.26% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.38% 1.41% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 93 130
10th Percentile £350 £301 £349
25th Percentile £381 £350 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £565 £550 £600
90th Percentile £606 £601 £675
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 5
10th Percentile £39.92 £30.75 £58.03
25th Percentile £59.26 £31.21 £70.07
Median hourly rate £70.08 £32.21 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +117.59% -55.58% +47.96%
75th Percentile £70.16 £32.98 £78.75
90th Percentile - £33.32 £81.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £33.27 £72.50
% change year-on-year +42.77% -54.11% +33.03%

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 9,256 10,339 15,005
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 90.77% 89.31% 88.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,106 6,494 10,260
10th Percentile £331 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 328 209 360
10th Percentile £15.27 £17.98 £19.99
25th Percentile £20.47 £22.00 £28.03
Median hourly rate £42.75 £35.25 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +21.28% -34.42% -6.52%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.10 £70.53
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £86.60
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.84
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.86% +25.25%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing UX Design and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

UX Design job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

UX Design
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing UX Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing UX Design

UX Design
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing UX Design over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

UX Design daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

UX Design
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing UX Design.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing UX Design

UX Design
Hourly Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing UX Design over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

UX Design hourly rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid working options

UX Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 7 (5.47%) Confluence
2 3 (2.34%) CMS
3 2 (1.56%) Headless CMS
3 2 (1.56%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.78%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.78%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.78%) SugarCRM
4 1 (0.78%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.78%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.78%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (6.25%) Sketch
2 5 (3.91%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 4 (3.13%) Adobe XD
3 4 (3.13%) Chatbot
4 2 (1.56%) Adobe After Effects
4 2 (1.56%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (1.56%) Photoshop
4 2 (1.56%) Zeplin
5 1 (0.78%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.78%) Blender
5 1 (0.78%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.78%) InDesign
5 1 (0.78%) InVision
5 1 (0.78%) Moqups
5 1 (0.78%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 27 (21.09%) AWS
2 23 (17.97%) Figma
3 18 (14.06%) Azure
4 7 (5.47%) Miro
5 4 (3.13%) Power Platform
5 4 (3.13%) SaaS
5 4 (3.13%) Serverless
6 3 (2.34%) Azure Pipelines
6 3 (2.34%) GitHub
6 3 (2.34%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (1.56%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.56%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.56%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.56%) Contentful
7 2 (1.56%) GCP
7 2 (1.56%) Google Analytics
7 2 (1.56%) Lucidchart
7 2 (1.56%) PaaS
7 2 (1.56%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (0.78%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.13%) Internet
2 2 (1.56%) HTTP
2 2 (1.56%) Network Security
3 1 (0.78%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.91%) NoSQL
2 4 (3.13%) DynamoDB
2 4 (3.13%) MongoDB
2 4 (3.13%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.34%) Power BI
4 2 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.56%) MySQL
5 1 (0.78%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.78%) Big Data
5 1 (0.78%) MariaDB
5 1 (0.78%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (11.72%) JIRA
2 13 (10.16%) Git
3 9 (7.03%) Cypress.io
4 5 (3.91%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.91%) JUnit
5 3 (2.34%) GitLab
5 3 (2.34%) Gradle
6 2 (1.56%) Selenium
6 2 (1.56%) Xcode
7 1 (0.78%) Android Studio
7 1 (0.78%) git-flow
7 1 (0.78%) Jasmine
7 1 (0.78%) Mockito
7 1 (0.78%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.78%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.78%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.78%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.78%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.78%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.78%) webpack
General
1 38 (29.69%) Social Skills
2 25 (19.53%) Public Sector
3 22 (17.19%) Finance
4 14 (10.94%) Banking
5 7 (5.47%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (3.13%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (3.13%) Publishing
7 3 (2.34%) Automotive
7 3 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.34%) Marketing
7 3 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.56%) Front Office
8 2 (1.56%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.78%) Advertising
9 1 (0.78%) Back Office
9 1 (0.78%) Law
9 1 (0.78%) Legal
9 1 (0.78%) Local Government
9 1 (0.78%) Military
Job Titles
1 45 (35.16%) Designer
2 33 (25.78%) Developer
3 30 (23.44%) UX Designer
4 21 (16.41%) Senior
5 11 (8.59%) Lead
5 11 (8.59%) UI Designer
6 10 (7.81%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 10 (7.81%) Service Designer
7 9 (7.03%) UI/UX Designer
8 8 (6.25%) Analyst
8 8 (6.25%) User Researcher
9 7 (5.47%) React Developer
9 7 (5.47%) Senior Designer
10 6 (4.69%) Digital Designer
11 5 (3.91%) Senior Developer
11 5 (3.91%) Senior UX Designer
12 4 (3.13%) Architect
12 4 (3.13%) Content Designer
12 4 (3.13%) Java Developer
12 4 (3.13%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (18.75%) HTML
2 23 (17.97%) CSS
3 22 (17.19%) React
4 15 (11.72%) RESTful
5 10 (7.81%) AngularJS
6 9 (7.03%) Spring
7 8 (6.25%) Spring Boot
8 7 (5.47%) HTML5
8 7 (5.47%) REST
9 6 (4.69%) CSS3
9 6 (4.69%) Jest
10 5 (3.91%) Next.js
10 5 (3.91%) Playwright
10 5 (3.91%) Redux
11 4 (3.13%) .NET
12 3 (2.34%) GraphQL
12 3 (2.34%) Node.js
12 3 (2.34%) React Native
12 3 (2.34%) Web Services
13 2 (1.56%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 19 (14.84%) Product Ownership
2 14 (10.94%) Mobile App
3 9 (7.03%) Virtual Team
4 6 (4.69%) NHS
5 5 (3.91%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (3.91%) Onboarding
6 4 (3.13%) RIA
6 4 (3.13%) W3C
7 3 (2.34%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.56%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.56%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.56%) Graphic Design
8 2 (1.56%) Hedge funds
8 2 (1.56%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.78%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.78%) Animation
9 1 (0.78%) Digital Media
9 1 (0.78%) e-Learning
9 1 (0.78%) Motion Graphics
9 1 (0.78%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.91%) Android
1 5 (3.91%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.78%) VMS
2 1 (0.78%) Windows
2 1 (0.78%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (100.00%) User Experience
2 68 (53.13%) Agile
3 35 (27.34%) Front End Development
4 30 (23.44%) User Research
5 25 (19.53%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 23 (17.97%) Usability Testing
7 22 (17.19%) CI/CD
8 21 (16.41%) Service Design
9 20 (15.63%) Scrum
10 19 (14.84%) Continuous Improvement
10 19 (14.84%) Wireframes
11 18 (14.06%) Mentoring
12 17 (13.28%) Analytics
12 17 (13.28%) DevOps
12 17 (13.28%) Problem-Solving
13 16 (12.50%) Prototyping
14 14 (10.94%) Microservices
14 14 (10.94%) UX Research
15 13 (10.16%) Design Patterns
15 13 (10.16%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 23 (17.97%) JavaScript
2 16 (12.50%) Java
3 14 (10.94%) TypeScript
4 7 (5.47%) Python
5 4 (3.13%) SQL
6 3 (2.34%) Kotlin
6 3 (2.34%) Swift
7 2 (1.56%) Apex Code
7 2 (1.56%) C#
7 2 (1.56%) Ruby
7 2 (1.56%) Scala
8 1 (0.78%) Bash
8 1 (0.78%) BeanShell
8 1 (0.78%) C
8 1 (0.78%) C++
8 1 (0.78%) Korn
8 1 (0.78%) Objective-C
8 1 (0.78%) PHP
8 1 (0.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (13.28%) Security Cleared
2 16 (12.50%) Degree
3 10 (7.81%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.91%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.78%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (28.91%) Accessibility
2 13 (10.16%) WCAG
3 11 (8.59%) QA
4 4 (3.13%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (2.34%) GDPR
6 2 (1.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (1.56%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.56%) SLA
7 1 (0.78%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (7.03%) Docker
2 1 (0.78%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (4.69%) Terraform
2 5 (3.91%) Ansible
3 3 (2.34%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.56%) Grafana
5 1 (0.78%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 10 (7.81%) Adobe
2 9 (7.03%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.47%) Salesforce
4 6 (4.69%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.13%) Google
5 4 (3.13%) Mercator
5 4 (3.13%) Oracle
6 3 (2.34%) SAP
7 2 (1.56%) Dataiku
7 2 (1.56%) Hotjar
7 2 (1.56%) Progress
8 1 (0.78%) Apple
8 1 (0.78%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.78%) HP
8 1 (0.78%) IBM
8 1 (0.78%) OneLogin
8 1 (0.78%) Pega
8 1 (0.78%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (0.78%) Workday