UX Designer Contracts in the North of England

User Experience Designer
England > North of England

The median User Experience Designer daily rate in the North of England is £494, 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 151 186 189
Rank change year-on-year +35 +3 +27
Contract jobs requiring a UX Designer 11 6 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.28% 0.12% 0.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.13% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 46
10th Percentile £319 £203 £300
25th Percentile £403 £281 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £388 £493
Median % change year-on-year +27.42% -21.32% -1.50%
75th Percentile £567 £450 £540
90th Percentile £587 £473 £588
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +5.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 3,654 4,594 6,986
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.02% 93.39% 95.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,980 3,135 4,992
10th Percentile £263 £262 £225
25th Percentile £386 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £675
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 223 236
10th Percentile £15.39 £15.75 £10.20
25th Percentile £18.00 £17.88 £15.50
Median hourly rate £31.00 £27.50 £21.25
Median % change year-on-year +12.73% +29.41% +21.43%
75th Percentile £48.75 £46.18 £44.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £61.59 £70.00
England median hourly rate £41.50 £45.94 £30.00
% change year-on-year -9.66% +53.13% +50.00%

UX Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for UX Designer in the North of England

UX Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing UX Designer in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for UX Designer in the North of England

UX Designer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UX Designer in the North of England over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for UX Designer in the North of England

UX Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing UX Designer in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for UX Designer in the North of England

UX Designer
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England 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
Yorkshire +19 5 £538 +72.00% 3
North West +28 4 £438 +2.94% 7
North East -5 2 £450 +28.57% 1
UX Designer
England

UX Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 31 October 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 North of England region featuring UX Designer in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) UX Design
1 11 (100.00%) User Experience
2 8 (72.73%) Figma
3 6 (54.55%) Finance
4 5 (45.45%) Legal
4 5 (45.45%) Wireframes
5 3 (27.27%) Adobe
5 3 (27.27%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
6 2 (18.18%) User Research
6 2 (18.18%) Product Ownership
6 2 (18.18%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (18.18%) Heuristic Evaluation
6 2 (18.18%) Adobe XD
6 2 (18.18%) Psychology
6 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (18.18%) Usability Testing
6 2 (18.18%) Actionable Insight
6 2 (18.18%) Field Research
7 1 (9.09%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
7 1 (9.09%) Customer-Centricity
7 1 (9.09%) Customer-Centric Approach
7 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
7 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
7 1 (9.09%) Prototyping
7 1 (9.09%) Workflow
7 1 (9.09%) Agile
7 1 (9.09%) Banking
7 1 (9.09%) Retail

UX Designer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Adobe XD
Cloud Services
1 8 (72.73%) Figma
2 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Axure RP
General
1 6 (54.55%) Finance
2 5 (45.45%) Legal
3 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
4 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (9.09%) Banking
5 1 (9.09%) Marketing
5 1 (9.09%) Retail
5 1 (9.09%) Retail Banking
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (18.18%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) User Experience
1 11 (100.00%) UX Design
2 5 (45.45%) Wireframes
3 3 (27.27%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 2 (18.18%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (18.18%) Field Research
4 2 (18.18%) Heuristic Evaluation
4 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (18.18%) Psychology
4 2 (18.18%) Usability Testing
4 2 (18.18%) User Research
5 1 (9.09%) Agile
5 1 (9.09%) Competitor Analysis
5 1 (9.09%) Customer-Centric Approach
5 1 (9.09%) Customer-Centricity
5 1 (9.09%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
5 1 (9.09%) Interaction Design
5 1 (9.09%) Journey Map
5 1 (9.09%) Prototyping
5 1 (9.09%) Workflow
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Adobe