UI Designer Contracts in the Midlands

User Interface Designer
England > Midlands

The median User Interface Designer daily rate in the Midlands is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 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
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 137 191
Rank change year-on-year +6 +54 -8
Contract jobs requiring a UI Designer 7 6 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.26% 0.22% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.23% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 15
10th Percentile £326 £388 £405
25th Percentile £356 £423 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £469 £440
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% +6.53% +1.85%
75th Percentile £538 £491 £484
90th Percentile - £509 £551
England median daily rate £525 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £41.25
Median hourly rate - - £42.50
75th Percentile - - £43.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - £62.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year - +47.06% +8.28%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 2,464 2,612 4,627
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.19% 95.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,534 1,824 3,265
10th Percentile £231 £213 £205
25th Percentile £363 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - +8.57%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £575
90th Percentile £687 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 120 131
10th Percentile £12.64 £13.93 £11.80
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.63 £14.50
Median hourly rate £23.82 £20.00 £17.56
Median % change year-on-year +19.10% +13.90% +17.07%
75th Percentile £33.80 £31.91 £20.84
90th Percentile £50.00 £67.50 £38.55
England median hourly rate £41.50 £45.94 £30.00
% change year-on-year -9.66% +53.13% +50.00%

UI Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for UI Designer in the Midlands

UI Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing UI Designer in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for UI Designer in the Midlands

UI Designer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UI Designer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for UI Designer in the Midlands

UI Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing UI Designer in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for UI Designer in the Midlands

UI Designer
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UI Designer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
East Midlands +7 4 £334 -24.89%
West Midlands +2 3 £525 +12.00%
UI Designer
England

UI Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 31 October 2024, UI 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 Midlands region featuring UI Designer in the job title.

1 4 (57.14%) Adobe
1 4 (57.14%) UX Design
1 4 (57.14%) Wireframes
1 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (57.14%) User Experience
1 4 (57.14%) Adobe XD
1 4 (57.14%) Sketch
1 4 (57.14%) Accessibility
2 3 (42.86%) User Research
2 3 (42.86%) Journey Map
2 3 (42.86%) Figma
2 3 (42.86%) Typography
2 3 (42.86%) Interaction Design
2 3 (42.86%) InVision
2 3 (42.86%) Qt
2 3 (42.86%) QML
2 3 (42.86%) Mobile App
2 3 (42.86%) C++
2 3 (42.86%) Degree
2 3 (42.86%) Graphic Design
2 3 (42.86%) Usability Testing
2 3 (42.86%) Time Management
3 1 (14.29%) Android
3 1 (14.29%) Axure RP
3 1 (14.29%) Apple iOS
3 1 (14.29%) Process Improvement
3 1 (14.29%) HTML
3 1 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) CSS

UI Designer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 4 (57.14%) Adobe XD
1 4 (57.14%) Sketch
2 3 (42.86%) InVision
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Figma
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Axure RP
General
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) QML
1 3 (42.86%) Qt
2 1 (14.29%) CSS
2 1 (14.29%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Graphic Design
1 3 (42.86%) Mobile App
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Android
1 1 (14.29%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (57.14%) User Experience
1 4 (57.14%) UX Design
1 4 (57.14%) Wireframes
2 3 (42.86%) Interaction Design
2 3 (42.86%) Journey Map
2 3 (42.86%) Time Management
2 3 (42.86%) Typography
2 3 (42.86%) Usability Testing
2 3 (42.86%) User Research
3 1 (14.29%) Agile
3 1 (14.29%) Customer-Centric Approach
3 1 (14.29%) Customer-Centricity
3 1 (14.29%) Line Management
3 1 (14.29%) Process Improvement
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (14.29%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 1 (14.29%) UX Research
3 1 (14.29%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) C++
2 1 (14.29%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Adobe