UX Design Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

User Experience Design (UXD)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in 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 116 76 97
Rank change year-on-year -40 +21 -1
Contract jobs citing UX Design 20 11 10
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 1.07% 0.95% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% 1.10% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 4 7
10th Percentile £415 £465 £300
25th Percentile £472 £488 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £519 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% +15.28% -14.29%
75th Percentile £531 £547 £503
90th Percentile £564 £553 £553
England median daily rate £475 £506 £525
% change year-on-year -6.17% -3.57% -4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,667 996 1,607
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 89.19% 86.01% 89.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,122 598 1,019
10th Percentile £252 £241 £300
25th Percentile £384 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.47% -5.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £682 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 29 25
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.06 £15.69
25th Percentile £17.48 £16.25 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.50 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year +11.78% +5.58% +0.88%
75th Percentile £43.59 £38.75 £23.75
90th Percentile £57.33 £64.33 £38.90
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +23.61%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

UX Design job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

UX Design
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

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

UX Design
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for UX Design in Yorkshire

UX Design
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

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

UX Design
Contract Job Locations in 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 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
West Yorkshire -9 17 £500 -3.61% 4
South Yorkshire -45 3 £500 - 2
UX Design
England

UX Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 (15.00%) Confluence
2 1 (5.00%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Adobe XD
1 1 (5.00%) InVision
1 1 (5.00%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 9 (45.00%) Azure
2 8 (40.00%) AWS
2 8 (40.00%) GCP
3 2 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.00%) Adobe Creative Cloud
4 1 (5.00%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (35.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (10.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (35.00%) Git
2 3 (15.00%) JIRA
3 2 (10.00%) CircleCI
3 2 (10.00%) GitLab
3 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (5.00%) Cypress.io
General
1 6 (30.00%) Banking
2 5 (25.00%) Finance
2 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.00%) Legal
4 1 (5.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) Designer
2 7 (35.00%) Senior
3 5 (25.00%) UX Designer
4 4 (20.00%) Developer
4 4 (20.00%) Software Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) Senior Designer
5 3 (15.00%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) Angular Developer
6 2 (10.00%) DevOps Developer
6 2 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (10.00%) iOS Developer
6 2 (10.00%) Node.js Developer
6 2 (10.00%) Senior UX Designer
6 2 (10.00%) Service Designer
7 1 (5.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 1 (5.00%) Junior Designer
7 1 (5.00%) Lead
7 1 (5.00%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 1 (5.00%) Senior Service Designer
7 1 (5.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (50.00%) RESTful
2 7 (35.00%) Node.js
3 5 (25.00%) React
4 3 (15.00%) AngularJS
4 3 (15.00%) CSS
4 3 (15.00%) CSS3
4 3 (15.00%) HTML
4 3 (15.00%) HTML5
5 2 (10.00%) Express.js
5 2 (10.00%) MEAN Stack
5 2 (10.00%) NestJS
5 2 (10.00%) NgRx
5 2 (10.00%) REST
5 2 (10.00%) Sass
5 2 (10.00%) SwiftUI
6 1 (5.00%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Mobile App
1 2 (10.00%) NHS
2 1 (5.00%) Client/Server
2 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.00%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) User Experience
2 8 (40.00%) Containerisation
2 8 (40.00%) Microservices
3 6 (30.00%) Clean Code
3 6 (30.00%) Customer Experience
3 6 (30.00%) Event-Driven
3 6 (30.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 6 (30.00%) Service Design
3 6 (30.00%) User Research
4 5 (25.00%) Agile
4 5 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 5 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 5 (25.00%) Software Testing
4 5 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
4 5 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
5 4 (20.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 3 (15.00%) Backlog Refinement
6 3 (15.00%) Information Architecture
6 3 (15.00%) Journey Map
6 3 (15.00%) Systems Thinking
Programming Languages
1 4 (20.00%) TypeScript
2 3 (15.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (10.00%) Python
3 2 (10.00%) SQL
3 2 (10.00%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (10.00%) QA
1 2 (10.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Adobe