UX Designer Contracts in London

User Experience Designer
England > London

The median User Experience Designer daily rate in London is £533 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 306 270 273
Rank change year-on-year -36 +3 -70
Contract jobs requiring a UX Designer 89 219 394
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.51% 0.85% 1.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.89% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 167 275
10th Percentile £359 £400 £413
25th Percentile £428 £450 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £575 £535
Median % change year-on-year -7.39% +7.48% +7.00%
75th Percentile £564 £650 £600
90th Percentile £600 £750 £665
England median daily rate £513 £528 £525
% change year-on-year -2.84% +0.48% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £60.93
25th Percentile - - £61.61
Median hourly rate - - £62.98
75th Percentile - - £64.11
90th Percentile - - £64.64
England median hourly rate - - £62.98
% change year-on-year - - +67.95%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,328 24,595 36,745
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.43% 95.20% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,803 17,870 26,915
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £445 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 318 283 439
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.07 £22.69 £23.12
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - +10.62%
75th Percentile £46.05 £62.25 £49.80
90th Percentile £65.32 £80.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.92 £44.77 £23.00
% change year-on-year -17.54% +94.63% +4.55%

UX Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for UX Designer in London

UX Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing UX Designer in London.

Daily rate trend for UX Designer in London

UX Designer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UX Designer in London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for UX Designer in London

UX Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing UX Designer in London.

Hourly rate trend for UX Designer in London

UX Designer
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UX Designer within the London region over the 6 months to 17 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
Central London +36 7 £506 -1.22% 5
South London -6 1 £450 -25.00% 1
East London - 1 £540 - 2
UX Designer
England

UX Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 17 May 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 job ads across the London region featuring UX Designer in the job title.

1 89 (100.00%) UX Design
1 89 (100.00%) User Experience
2 49 (55.06%) Figma
3 40 (44.94%) Social Skills
4 31 (34.83%) Wireframes
5 28 (31.46%) User Research
6 25 (28.09%) Agile
7 24 (26.97%) Adobe
7 24 (26.97%) Sketch
8 22 (24.72%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 22 (24.72%) Finance
9 20 (22.47%) Usability Testing
10 17 (19.10%) Mobile App
10 17 (19.10%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (15.73%) Adobe XD
11 14 (15.73%) HTML
12 12 (13.48%) CSS
12 12 (13.48%) Accessibility
13 11 (12.36%) Degree
14 10 (11.24%) Marketing
14 10 (11.24%) E-Commerce
15 9 (10.11%) JavaScript
15 9 (10.11%) Stakeholder Management
15 9 (10.11%) Self-Motivation
15 9 (10.11%) Workshop Facilitation
16 8 (8.99%) Design Thinking
16 8 (8.99%) UX Research
16 8 (8.99%) Graphic Design
17 7 (7.87%) Banking
17 7 (7.87%) Digital Marketing

UX Designer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 24 (26.97%) Sketch
2 14 (15.73%) Adobe XD
3 6 (6.74%) InVision
3 6 (6.74%) Photoshop
4 4 (4.49%) Adobe Illustrator
5 3 (3.37%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 3 (3.37%) InDesign
6 1 (1.12%) Zeplin
Cloud Services
1 49 (55.06%) Figma
2 6 (6.74%) Miro
3 5 (5.62%) Azure
4 4 (4.49%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (4.49%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.25%) SaaS
6 1 (1.12%) Adobe Analytics
6 1 (1.12%) Pendo
6 1 (1.12%) Unqork
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.49%) Power BI
2 2 (2.25%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 7 (7.87%) Axure RP
2 1 (1.12%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.12%) Git
General
1 40 (44.94%) Social Skills
2 22 (24.72%) Finance
3 10 (11.24%) Marketing
4 7 (7.87%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (7.87%) Banking
4 7 (7.87%) Games
5 5 (5.62%) Health Technology
6 4 (4.49%) Front Office
6 4 (4.49%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (4.49%) Retail
7 3 (3.37%) Advertising
7 3 (3.37%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.25%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.25%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.25%) Publishing
9 1 (1.12%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.12%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.12%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (15.73%) HTML
2 12 (13.48%) CSS
3 5 (5.62%) React
4 2 (2.25%) AngularJS
4 2 (2.25%) CSS3
4 2 (2.25%) Unity (Game Engine)
5 1 (1.12%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 17 (19.10%) Mobile App
2 9 (10.11%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (8.99%) Graphic Design
4 5 (5.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (5.62%) Product Ownership
5 4 (4.49%) Derivative
5 4 (4.49%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (3.37%) Animation
6 3 (3.37%) Digital Media
6 3 (3.37%) Fixed Income
7 2 (2.25%) Augmented Reality
7 2 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.25%) Mobile Games
7 2 (2.25%) Virtual Reality
8 1 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.12%) Educational Technology
8 1 (1.12%) Hedge funds
8 1 (1.12%) Low-Code
8 1 (1.12%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.12%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.12%) Android
1 1 (1.12%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (100.00%) User Experience
1 89 (100.00%) UX Design
2 31 (34.83%) Wireframes
3 28 (31.46%) User Research
4 25 (28.09%) Agile
5 22 (24.72%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 20 (22.47%) Usability Testing
7 17 (19.10%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (11.24%) E-Commerce
9 9 (10.11%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (10.11%) Workshop Facilitation
10 8 (8.99%) Design Thinking
10 8 (8.99%) UX Research
11 7 (7.87%) Digital Marketing
11 7 (7.87%) Interaction Design
11 7 (7.87%) Prototyping
12 6 (6.74%) B2B
12 6 (6.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 6 (6.74%) Storyboarding
12 6 (6.74%) Typography
Programming Languages
1 9 (10.11%) JavaScript
2 4 (4.49%) Java
3 3 (3.37%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (12.36%) Degree
2 1 (1.12%) DV Cleared
2 1 (1.12%) Master's Degree
2 1 (1.12%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.48%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 24 (26.97%) Adobe
2 4 (4.49%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.25%) Apple
3 2 (2.25%) MicroStrategy