UX Designer Contracts with Work from Home Options

User Experience Designer
UK > Work from Home

The median User Experience Designer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 292 298 266
Rank change year-on-year +6 -32 -41
Contract jobs requiring a UX Designer 49 161 440
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.33% 0.67% 1.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.71% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 122 310
10th Percentile £380 £344 £400
25th Percentile £450 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% +2.00%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £588
90th Percentile £578 £700 £650
UK median daily rate £475 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -12.44% +3.33% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £45.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -30.77% +46.07%
UK median hourly rate - £45.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -30.77% +84.79%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,801 22,740 41,944
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.25% 95.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,306 16,147 30,496
10th Percentile £325 £360 £358
25th Percentile £425 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 528 563
10th Percentile £14.27 £16.98 £14.05
25th Percentile £22.59 £25.00 £19.96
Median hourly rate £43.50 £50.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.00% +25.00% +70.21%
75th Percentile £63.56 £66.05 £59.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.15 £69.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

UX Designer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured UX Designer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

UX Designer trend for jobs with a WFH option

UX Designer
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 Designer.

UX Designer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

UX Designer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing UX Designer over the 6 months to 20 June 2024.

UX Designer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

UX Designer
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 Designer.

UX Designer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

UX Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 20 June 2024, UX Designer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with a WFH option featuring UX Designer in the job title.

1 49 (100.00%) User Experience
2 45 (91.84%) UX Design
3 25 (51.02%) Figma
4 22 (44.90%) User Research
5 18 (36.73%) Social Skills
6 17 (34.69%) Wireframes
7 15 (30.61%) Agile
8 14 (28.57%) Usability Testing
9 10 (20.41%) Finance
9 10 (20.41%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 10 (20.41%) Product Ownership
10 9 (18.37%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (16.33%) Analytical Skills
11 8 (16.33%) Prototyping
11 8 (16.33%) UX Research
12 7 (14.29%) Sketch
12 7 (14.29%) Analytics
12 7 (14.29%) Azure
12 7 (14.29%) Scrum
13 6 (12.24%) HTML
13 6 (12.24%) Adobe
13 6 (12.24%) Marketing
13 6 (12.24%) React
13 6 (12.24%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
13 6 (12.24%) Accessibility
14 5 (10.20%) Miro
14 5 (10.20%) Workshop Facilitation
14 5 (10.20%) Mobile App
14 5 (10.20%) DevOps
14 5 (10.20%) Microsoft

UX Designer Skill Set
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:

Applications
1 7 (14.29%) Sketch
2 4 (8.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (4.08%) Adobe XD
3 2 (4.08%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 25 (51.02%) Figma
2 7 (14.29%) Azure
3 5 (10.20%) Miro
4 4 (8.16%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (6.12%) SaaS
6 2 (4.08%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.08%) MongoDB
1 2 (4.08%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (6.12%) Axure RP
General
1 18 (36.73%) Social Skills
2 10 (20.41%) Finance
3 8 (16.33%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (12.24%) Marketing
5 4 (8.16%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (6.12%) Front Office
6 3 (6.12%) Public Sector
7 2 (4.08%) Banking
7 2 (4.08%) Health Technology
7 2 (4.08%) Publishing
7 2 (4.08%) Retail
8 1 (2.04%) Advertising
8 1 (2.04%) Games
8 1 (2.04%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.24%) HTML
1 6 (12.24%) React
2 5 (10.20%) CSS
3 2 (4.08%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.04%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 10 (20.41%) Product Ownership
2 5 (10.20%) Mobile App
3 4 (8.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (6.12%) Derivative
4 3 (6.12%) Fixed Income
5 2 (4.08%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (4.08%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.04%) Mobile Games
6 1 (2.04%) Over-the-Top Content
6 1 (2.04%) Smartphone
6 1 (2.04%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.08%) Android
1 2 (4.08%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (100.00%) User Experience
2 45 (91.84%) UX Design
3 22 (44.90%) User Research
4 17 (34.69%) Wireframes
5 15 (30.61%) Agile
6 14 (28.57%) Usability Testing
7 10 (20.41%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 9 (18.37%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (16.33%) Prototyping
9 8 (16.33%) UX Research
10 7 (14.29%) Analytics
10 7 (14.29%) Scrum
11 6 (12.24%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
12 5 (10.20%) DevOps
12 5 (10.20%) Visualisation
12 5 (10.20%) Workshop Facilitation
13 4 (8.16%) Project Delivery
13 4 (8.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 4 (8.16%) Storyboarding
14 3 (6.12%) Design Thinking
Programming Languages
1 5 (10.20%) Python
2 4 (8.16%) Java
2 4 (8.16%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (2.04%) Degree
1 1 (2.04%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.24%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 6 (12.24%) Adobe
2 5 (10.20%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.04%) SAP