UX Designer Contracts in the South West

User Experience Designer
England > South West

The median User Experience Designer daily rate in the South West is £600, 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 128 142 146
Rank change year-on-year +14 +4 +13
Contract jobs requiring a UX Designer 1 13 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.041% 0.41% 0.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.045% 0.43% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 10 26
10th Percentile - £398 £278
25th Percentile £575 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +22.22% -16.28%
75th Percentile £625 £594 £523
90th Percentile - £650 £550
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +5.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South West. 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 South West with a recognized job title 2,234 3,004 3,528
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.28% 95.06% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,356 2,001 2,597
10th Percentile £230 £275 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% +2.38% +14.13%
75th Percentile £628 £640 £625
90th Percentile £704 £713 £710
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 312 246
10th Percentile £12.79 £17.70 £16.54
25th Percentile £31.97 £40.85 £38.45
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.49 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.06% -8.15% +29.47%
75th Percentile £71.25 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £83.31 £75.00
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 South West

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

Job vacancy trend for UX Designer in the South West

UX Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing UX Designer in the South West.

Daily rate trend for UX Designer in the South West

UX Designer
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South 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
Wiltshire +11 1 £600 +9.09%
UX Designer
England

UX Designer Skill Set
Top 21 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

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 South West region featuring UX Designer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) WCAG
1 1 (100.00%) Usability Testing
1 1 (100.00%) UX Design
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Wireframes
1 1 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe XD
1 1 (100.00%) Sketch
1 1 (100.00%) Figma
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) User Research

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

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe XD
1 1 (100.00%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Figma
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Usability Testing
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) User Research
1 1 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
1 1 (100.00%) UX Design
1 1 (100.00%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe