Interaction Design Contracts in the North West

Interaction Design (IxD)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Interaction Design skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Interaction Design over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 129 139 151
Rank change year-on-year +10 +12 -45
Contract jobs citing Interaction Design 7 16 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.26% 0.53% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.59% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 11 24
10th Percentile - £463 £413
25th Percentile £363 £506 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £575 £528
Median % change year-on-year -34.78% +9.00% +5.50%
75th Percentile £388 £644 £582
90th Percentile - £650 £626
England median daily rate £494 £575 £530
% change year-on-year -14.13% +8.49% +14.59%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Interaction Design is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,323 2,731 3,570
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 85.19% 89.84% 88.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,453 1,917 2,598
10th Percentile £307 £313 £240
25th Percentile £401 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £575
90th Percentile £679 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £543
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.38% +8.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 139 160
10th Percentile £11.00 £16.24 £10.48
25th Percentile £14.00 £22.27 £14.25
Median hourly rate £26.46 £35.00 £22.75
Median % change year-on-year -24.41% +53.85% +30.34%
75th Percentile £46.18 £48.38 £51.95
90th Percentile £66.61 £66.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year - +50.00% +11.11%

Interaction Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Interaction Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Interaction Design in the North West

Interaction Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Interaction Design in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Interaction Design in the North West

Interaction Design
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Interaction Design within the North West region over the 6 months to 31 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
Manchester +6 7 £375 -40.00% 2
Interaction Design
England

Interaction Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Designer
2 6 (85.71%) Interaction Designer
3 1 (14.29%) Content Designer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Designer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Interaction Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) CSS
1 4 (57.14%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 7 (100.00%) User Research
1 7 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 4 (57.14%) Business Analysis
2 4 (57.14%) Design Patterns
2 4 (57.14%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
2 4 (57.14%) Low-Fidelity Prototypes
2 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Front End Development
3 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
4 1 (14.29%) Inclusive Design
4 1 (14.29%) Technical Debt
4 1 (14.29%) Typography
4 1 (14.29%) User Experience
4 1 (14.29%) User Stories
4 1 (14.29%) UX Design
4 1 (14.29%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
1 1 (14.29%) WCAG