UI/UX Designer Contracts in England

User Interface/User Experience Designer
UK > England

The median User Interface/User Experience Designer daily rate in England is £513 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 483 546 587
Rank change year-on-year +63 +41 -152
Contract jobs requiring a UI/UX Designer 48 100 191
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.13% 0.21% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.22% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 74 151
10th Percentile £381 £274 £363
25th Percentile £402 £403 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £490
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £588 £722 £580
90th Percentile £644 £838 £663
UK median daily rate £506 £525 £490
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.14% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £60.48
Median hourly rate - - £60.97
75th Percentile - - £61.45
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £60.97
% change year-on-year - - +47.79%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 33,767 45,838 67,777
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.60% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,422 32,556 48,342
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.14%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +8.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,441 1,340 1,860
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.18 £44.77 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.94% +94.63% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.05 £64.78
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

UI/UX Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured UI/UX Designer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for UI/UX Designer in England

UI/UX Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing UI/UX Designer in England.

Daily rate trend for UI/UX Designer in England

UI/UX Designer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UI/UX Designer in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for UI/UX Designer in England

UI/UX Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing UI/UX Designer in England.

Hourly rate trend for UI/UX Designer in England

UI/UX Designer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UI/UX Designer within the England region over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. 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
London +50 29 £569 -0.91% 12
South East +27 7 £400 +100.00% 1
North of England +22 3 - - 4
South West +9 3 £425 +6.25%
East Midlands +18 2 £418 +52.00% 2
Midlands +18 2 £418 +52.00% 3
North West +16 2 - - 3
Yorkshire +13 1 - - 1
UI/UX Designer
UK

UI/UX Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 20 May 2024, UI/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 job ads across the England region featuring UI/UX Designer in the job title.

1 48 (100.00%) User Experience
2 44 (91.67%) UX Design
3 25 (52.08%) Figma
4 13 (27.08%) Adobe
4 13 (27.08%) Social Skills
5 12 (25.00%) HTML
5 12 (25.00%) Sketch
6 11 (22.92%) Wireframes
7 10 (20.83%) Finance
8 9 (18.75%) Agile
8 9 (18.75%) Marketing
9 8 (16.67%) CSS
9 8 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (16.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 8 (16.67%) Health Technology
9 8 (16.67%) User Research
10 7 (14.58%) JavaScript
10 7 (14.58%) Photoshop
11 6 (12.50%) Games
11 6 (12.50%) Adobe XD
11 6 (12.50%) Typography
11 6 (12.50%) Product Ownership
12 5 (10.42%) UX Research
12 5 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
12 5 (10.42%) React
12 5 (10.42%) Project Delivery
12 5 (10.42%) Adobe Illustrator
12 5 (10.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 5 (10.42%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (8.33%) Advertising

UI/UX Designer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 1 (2.08%) Confluence
Applications
1 12 (25.00%) Sketch
2 7 (14.58%) Photoshop
3 6 (12.50%) Adobe XD
4 5 (10.42%) Adobe Illustrator
5 4 (8.33%) InVision
6 3 (6.25%) InDesign
7 2 (4.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (2.08%) Zeplin
Cloud Services
1 25 (52.08%) Figma
2 2 (4.17%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.08%) Adobe Analytics
3 1 (2.08%) Miro
3 1 (2.08%) Pendo
3 1 (2.08%) Unqork
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.25%) Big Data
2 2 (4.17%) BusinessObjects
2 2 (4.17%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (6.25%) Axure RP
2 1 (2.08%) Bitbucket
2 1 (2.08%) Git
2 1 (2.08%) JIRA
General
1 13 (27.08%) Social Skills
2 10 (20.83%) Finance
3 9 (18.75%) Marketing
4 8 (16.67%) Health Technology
5 6 (12.50%) Games
6 5 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (10.42%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (8.33%) Advertising
8 3 (6.25%) Front Office
8 3 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (4.17%) Banking
9 2 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (4.17%) Telecoms
10 1 (2.08%) Investment Banking
10 1 (2.08%) Publishing
10 1 (2.08%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (25.00%) HTML
2 8 (16.67%) CSS
3 5 (10.42%) React
4 2 (4.17%) CSS3
5 1 (2.08%) Framer.js
5 1 (2.08%) HTML5 Canvas
5 1 (2.08%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 5 (10.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (8.33%) Derivative
3 4 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (6.25%) Animation
4 3 (6.25%) Digital Media
4 3 (6.25%) Fixed Income
4 3 (6.25%) Graphic Design
4 3 (6.25%) Onboarding
5 2 (4.17%) Augmented Reality
5 2 (4.17%) Mobile App
5 2 (4.17%) Virtual Reality
5 2 (4.17%) Virtual Team
6 1 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.08%) Hedge funds
6 1 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.08%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.08%) Android
1 1 (2.08%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (100.00%) User Experience
2 44 (91.67%) UX Design
3 11 (22.92%) Wireframes
4 9 (18.75%) Agile
5 8 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (16.67%) User Research
5 8 (16.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 6 (12.50%) Typography
7 5 (10.42%) Project Delivery
7 5 (10.42%) UX Research
8 4 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
8 4 (8.33%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
8 4 (8.33%) Service Design
8 4 (8.33%) Web Design
8 4 (8.33%) Web Development
9 3 (6.25%) B2B
9 3 (6.25%) B2C
9 3 (6.25%) Digital Marketing
9 3 (6.25%) OOP
9 3 (6.25%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 7 (14.58%) JavaScript
2 3 (6.25%) Java
2 3 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (6.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.25%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.08%) WCAG
Vendors
1 13 (27.08%) Adobe
2 3 (6.25%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.17%) MicroStrategy
3 2 (4.17%) Salesforce