UX Design Contracts in the South East

User Experience Design (UXD)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring UX Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited UX 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 148 189 217
Rank change year-on-year +41 +28 -59
Contract jobs citing UX Design 31 30 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.74% 0.55% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 0.61% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 19 41
10th Percentile £315 £249 £363
25th Percentile £363 £335 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £386 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -14.22% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £517 £550
90th Percentile £559 £558 £600
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £66.29 -
England median hourly rate £33.07 £72.50 £54.50
% change year-on-year -54.39% +33.03% +31.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

UX 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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,528 4,905 6,958
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.52% 89.80% 89.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,149 3,239 4,780
10th Percentile £260 £225 £271
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £520 £513
Median % change year-on-year -1.70% +1.46% +7.89%
75th Percentile £625 £620 £623
90th Percentile £688 £700 £695
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 252 269
10th Percentile £16.25 £15.50 £13.00
25th Percentile £30.00 £23.81 £17.76
Median hourly rate £58.30 £52.30 £37.13
Median % change year-on-year +11.47% +40.86% +35.02%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.06 £62.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.53 £72.75
England median hourly rate £39.50 £44.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.24% +27.14% +70.73%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing UX Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for UX Design in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing UX Design in the South East.

Daily rate trend for UX Design in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UX Design in the South East over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for UX Design in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing UX Design in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for UX Design in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UX Design within the South East 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
Thames Valley +19 24 £393 +4.80% 6
Berkshire +20 21 £385 +2.67% 1
West Sussex +15 2 - - 1
Hampshire +14 2 £350 +114.72% 1
Oxfordshire +7 2 £488 +39.29% 5
Kent - 2 - - 2
Surrey +21 1 £500 +5.26% 2
Buckinghamshire +8 1 £525 -
UX Design
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (12.90%) CMS
2 2 (6.45%) Confluence
2 2 (6.45%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.23%) Apache
Applications
1 10 (32.26%) Sketch
2 7 (22.58%) InVision
3 4 (12.90%) OmniGraffle
3 4 (12.90%) UXPin
4 3 (9.68%) Adobe XD
5 1 (3.23%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (3.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (3.23%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (3.23%) InDesign
5 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (3.23%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 8 (25.81%) Figma
2 4 (12.90%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (3.23%) Bitrise
3 1 (3.23%) OneDrive
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.23%) MongoDB
1 1 (3.23%) MySQL
1 1 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (16.13%) Axure RP
1 5 (16.13%) JIRA
2 4 (12.90%) Balsamiq
3 1 (3.23%) Git
3 1 (3.23%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (41.94%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (19.35%) Social Skills
3 3 (9.68%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (6.45%) Finance
4 2 (6.45%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (6.45%) Wearables
5 1 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.23%) Marketing
5 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (54.84%) Designer
2 16 (51.61%) UX Designer
3 10 (32.26%) UI Designer
4 9 (29.03%) UI/UX Designer
5 8 (25.81%) Developer
6 4 (12.90%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 3 (9.68%) React Developer
7 3 (9.68%) UX Developer
8 2 (6.45%) Digital Product Owner
8 2 (6.45%) Product Owner
9 1 (3.23%) Android Engineer
9 1 (3.23%) Customer Insight Specialist
9 1 (3.23%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 1 (3.23%) JavaScript Developer
9 1 (3.23%) Product Designer
9 1 (3.23%) Software Designer
9 1 (3.23%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (38.71%) CSS
1 12 (38.71%) HTML
2 8 (25.81%) React
3 5 (16.13%) AngularJS
4 4 (12.90%) CSS3
4 4 (12.90%) Framer.js
4 4 (12.90%) HTML5
5 3 (9.68%) PySpark
6 2 (6.45%) React Native
6 2 (6.45%) Redux
7 1 (3.23%) Node.js
7 1 (3.23%) RxJava
Miscellaneous
1 7 (22.58%) Data Structures
2 5 (16.13%) Virtual Team
3 4 (12.90%) Product Ownership
4 3 (9.68%) Biopharmaceutical
5 2 (6.45%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (3.23%) Graphic Design
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.23%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (100.00%) User Experience
2 19 (61.29%) Agile
3 18 (58.06%) Wireframes
4 14 (45.16%) Prototyping
5 12 (38.71%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (35.48%) A/B Testing
7 10 (32.26%) User Research
7 10 (32.26%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 9 (29.03%) Analytics
8 9 (29.03%) Mobile First
9 8 (25.81%) Stakeholder Management
10 7 (22.58%) Responsive Web Design
10 7 (22.58%) Scrum
10 7 (22.58%) User Stories
11 6 (19.35%) Front End Development
11 6 (19.35%) Product Vision
12 5 (16.13%) Continuous Improvement
13 4 (12.90%) Machine Learning
13 4 (12.90%) Rapid Prototyping
13 4 (12.90%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 14 (45.16%) JavaScript
2 8 (25.81%) Python
3 5 (16.13%) Java
4 4 (12.90%) TypeScript
5 2 (6.45%) C++
6 1 (3.23%) Kotlin
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (38.71%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.23%) QA
2 1 (3.23%) WCAG
Vendors
1 9 (29.03%) Adobe
2 4 (12.90%) Google
2 4 (12.90%) Optimizely
3 1 (3.23%) Microsoft