UI/UX Designer Contracts in the UK excluding London

User Interface/User Experience Designer
UK > UK excluding London

The median User Interface/User Experience Designer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 380 419 465
Rank change year-on-year +39 +46 -59
Contract jobs requiring a UI/UX Designer 19 19 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.091% 0.083% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.099% 0.088% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 13 43
10th Percentile £303 £185 £243
25th Percentile £388 £263 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £350 £440
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% -20.45% +25.71%
75th Percentile £488 £433 £450
90th Percentile £515 £516 £488
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £490
% change year-on-year -2.38% +7.14% -6.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 19,202 21,479 29,126
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.41% 94.24% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,609 14,946 20,475
10th Percentile £213 £225 £205
25th Percentile £363 £390 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,406 1,077 1,407
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.03 £14.91
Median hourly rate £40.00 £43.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +115.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £45.02
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.50 £61.06
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.15
% change year-on-year -16.67% +86.37% +9.75%

UI/UX Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for UI/UX Designer in the UK excluding London

UI/UX Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for UI/UX Designer in the UK excluding London

UI/UX Designer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for UI/UX Designer in the UK excluding London

UI/UX Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for UI/UX Designer in the UK excluding London

UI/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 UI/UX Designer within the UK excluding London 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
South East +16 7 £565 +109.26% 2
Midlands +22 3 £418 +52.00% 1
North of England +18 3 - - 2
East Midlands +15 3 £418 +5.82% 1
South West +9 3 £425 +6.25% 2
Scotland - 3 £463 - 5
North West +19 2 - - 1
Yorkshire +10 1 - -
UI/UX Designer
UK

UI/UX Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 31 May 2024, UI/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 UI/UX Designer in the job title.

1 19 (100.00%) User Experience
2 15 (78.95%) UX Design
3 11 (57.89%) Figma
4 6 (31.58%) Wireframes
5 5 (26.32%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 5 (26.32%) Sketch
5 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
6 4 (21.05%) Project Delivery
6 4 (21.05%) B2B
6 4 (21.05%) HTML
6 4 (21.05%) Marketing
6 4 (21.05%) Product Ownership
7 3 (15.79%) Health Technology
7 3 (15.79%) Web Development
7 3 (15.79%) JavaScript
7 3 (15.79%) Adobe
7 3 (15.79%) Axure RP
7 3 (15.79%) Big Data
7 3 (15.79%) Adobe XD
7 3 (15.79%) Accessibility
7 3 (15.79%) UX Research
7 3 (15.79%) Mobile App
8 2 (10.53%) Mobile First
8 2 (10.53%) Virtual Team
8 2 (10.53%) InVision
8 2 (10.53%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (10.53%) Collaborative Working
8 2 (10.53%) Service Design
8 2 (10.53%) Interaction Design
8 2 (10.53%) Roadmaps

UI/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:

Applications
1 5 (26.32%) Sketch
2 3 (15.79%) Adobe XD
3 2 (10.53%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (10.53%) InVision
3 2 (10.53%) Photoshop
4 1 (5.26%) OmniGraffle
4 1 (5.26%) UXPin
Cloud Services
1 11 (57.89%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Axure RP
2 1 (5.26%) Balsamiq
General
1 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Marketing
3 3 (15.79%) Health Technology
4 2 (10.53%) Games
4 2 (10.53%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (10.53%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (21.05%) HTML
2 2 (10.53%) CSS
3 1 (5.26%) CSS3
3 1 (5.26%) Framer.js
3 1 (5.26%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Product Ownership
2 3 (15.79%) Mobile App
3 2 (10.53%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (10.53%) Virtual Team
4 1 (5.26%) Graphic Design
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (100.00%) User Experience
2 15 (78.95%) UX Design
3 6 (31.58%) Wireframes
4 5 (26.32%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 4 (21.05%) B2B
5 4 (21.05%) Project Delivery
6 3 (15.79%) UX Research
6 3 (15.79%) Web Development
7 2 (10.53%) Agile
7 2 (10.53%) Collaborative Working
7 2 (10.53%) Deadline-Driven
7 2 (10.53%) Interaction Design
7 2 (10.53%) Mobile First
7 2 (10.53%) Product Roadmap
7 2 (10.53%) Product Strategy
7 2 (10.53%) Psychology
7 2 (10.53%) Roadmaps
7 2 (10.53%) Service Design
7 2 (10.53%) User Research
7 2 (10.53%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.79%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Adobe
2 2 (10.53%) Salesforce