Interaction Design Contracts in the North West

Interaction Design (IxD)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Interaction Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Interaction Design over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 116 136 163
Rank change year-on-year +20 +27 +1
Contract jobs citing Interaction Design 3 9 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.13% 0.32% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.36% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 22
10th Percentile - £498 £500
25th Percentile - £519 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -2.22% +12.50%
75th Percentile - £588 £619
90th Percentile - £655 £638
England median daily rate £488 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -10.55% -0.91% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Interaction Design falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,955 2,483 3,522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 83.51% 88.49% 89.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,056 1,712 2,571
10th Percentile £294 £270 £275
25th Percentile £394 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £656 £675 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 172 148
10th Percentile £16.78 £15.78 £10.55
25th Percentile £25.30 £18.00 £16.23
Median hourly rate £40.33 £35.50 £25.41
Median % change year-on-year +13.59% +39.74% +41.14%
75th Percentile £55.79 £46.18 £60.33
90th Percentile £70.90 £64.88 £75.00
England median hourly rate £39.50 £44.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.24% +27.14% +70.73%

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 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
Manchester +22 1 - -
Cheshire - 1 £600 -
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Figma
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Axure RP
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Military
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Retail Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Designer
1 3 (100.00%) Interaction Designer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Designer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Interaction Designer
3 1 (33.33%) UX Designer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 3 (100.00%) User Research
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) User Experience
2 2 (66.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 2 (66.67%) UX Design
2 2 (66.67%) Workshop Facilitation
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (33.33%) Competitor Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Cost Reduction
3 1 (33.33%) Customer-Centric Approach
3 1 (33.33%) Front End Development
3 1 (33.33%) Inclusive Design
3 1 (33.33%) Journey Map
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Storytelling
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Debt
3 1 (33.33%) Typography
3 1 (33.33%) Wireframes
3 1 (33.33%) Workflow
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (33.33%) WCAG
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Adobe