Senior UX Designer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Senior User Experience Designer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior User Experience Designer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £343, 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 365 407 493
Rank change year-on-year +42 +86 +6
Contract jobs requiring a Senior UX Designer 4 6 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.024% 0.029% 0.047%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.026% 0.031% 0.049%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 11
10th Percentile £277 £424 £500
25th Percentile £298 £442 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £343 £479 £525
Median % change year-on-year -28.50% -8.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £383 £510 £560
90th Percentile £402 £525 £624
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £30.75 - -
25th Percentile £31.21 - -
Median hourly rate £32.21 £70.07 -
Median % change year-on-year -54.04% - -
75th Percentile £32.98 - -
90th Percentile £33.32 - -
UK median hourly rate £32.21 £71.29 £65.00
% change year-on-year -54.82% +9.67% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 15,430 19,609 28,575
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.10% 93.93% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,847 13,032 20,128
10th Percentile £220 £213 £215
25th Percentile £375 £381 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,078 1,268 1,341
10th Percentile £14.73 £14.25 £12.48
25th Percentile £19.41 £18.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £44.50 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.73% +89.36% +31.43%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.50 £70.30
UK median hourly rate £38.00 £45.00 £27.73
% change year-on-year -15.56% +62.28% +38.65%

Senior UX Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Senior UX Designer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Senior UX Designer in the UK excluding London

Senior UX Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior UX Designer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Senior UX Designer in the UK excluding London

Senior UX Designer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior UX Designer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior UX Designer in the UK excluding London

Senior UX Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior UX Designer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Senior UX Designer in the UK excluding London

Senior UX Designer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior UX Designer within the UK excluding London 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
Midlands - 2 - - 1
West Midlands - 2 - -
North of England +29 1 £275 -35.29% 3
North West +26 1 £275 -35.29% 2
Scotland - 1 £410 -
Senior UX Designer
UK

Senior UX Designer Skill Set
Top 27 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 31 October 2024, Senior 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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior UX Designer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) User Experience
2 3 (75.00%) UX Design
3 2 (50.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (50.00%) Data Analysis
3 2 (50.00%) UX Research
3 2 (50.00%) Figma
3 2 (50.00%) Human-Centred Design
3 2 (50.00%) Project Management
3 2 (50.00%) Automotive
3 2 (50.00%) Marketing
3 2 (50.00%) Ergonomics
3 2 (50.00%) Human Factors
4 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (25.00%) Retail
4 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (25.00%) Service Design
4 1 (25.00%) Wireframes
4 1 (25.00%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
4 1 (25.00%) Systems Thinking
4 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Design Thinking
4 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (25.00%) User Research
4 1 (25.00%) Storyboarding
4 1 (25.00%) Customer Experience
4 1 (25.00%) Industrial Design
4 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering

Senior UX Designer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (50.00%) Figma
General
1 2 (50.00%) Automotive
1 2 (50.00%) Marketing
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (25.00%) Retail
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) User Experience
2 3 (75.00%) UX Design
3 2 (50.00%) Data Analysis
3 2 (50.00%) Ergonomics
3 2 (50.00%) Human Factors
3 2 (50.00%) Human-Centred Design
3 2 (50.00%) Project Management
3 2 (50.00%) UX Research
4 1 (25.00%) Customer Experience
4 1 (25.00%) Design Thinking
4 1 (25.00%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
4 1 (25.00%) Industrial Design
4 1 (25.00%) Service Design
4 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Storyboarding
4 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Systems Thinking
4 1 (25.00%) User Research
4 1 (25.00%) Wireframes