Figma
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Figma skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Figma over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 396 443 466
Rank change year-on-year +47 +23 +98
Contract jobs citing Figma 205 288 453
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.47% 0.49% 0.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.47% 1.32% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 196 349
10th Percentile £350 £346 £348
25th Percentile £400 £411 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% +22.35%
75th Percentile £575 £590 £575
90th Percentile £600 £675 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £418 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -7.11% - +38.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 8
10th Percentile - £38.00 £26.95
25th Percentile £38.25 £40.63 £46.94
Median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £60.25
Median % change year-on-year -12.22% -25.31% +83.41%
75th Percentile £40.75 £46.88 £66.88
90th Percentile - £48.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Cloud Skills
UK

Figma is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,936 21,745 34,245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.29% 36.81% 38.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,908 15,710 24,937
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £744 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 342 351 421
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.50
25th Percentile £15.92 £18.25 £15.33
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -4.72%
75th Percentile £34.69 £66.00 £49.52
90th Percentile £62.00 £78.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.69 £24.62 £19.00
% change year-on-year -28.15% +29.58% -5.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Figma as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Figma in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Figma.

Daily rate trend for Figma in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Figma over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Figma in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Figma.

Hourly rate trend for Figma in the UK

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Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Figma within the UK over the 6 months to 5 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
England +28 162 £500 - 142
London +46 122 £500 - 77
Work from Home +70 72 £513 +2.50% 88
UK excluding London +54 56 £418 -7.11% 68
Scotland +52 19 £425 -10.53% 7
South East +33 18 £500 +5.26% 7
North of England +20 12 £350 -17.65% 24
Yorkshire +14 7 £425 - 3
North West +22 5 £350 -31.71% 21
Midlands +21 3 £418 -18.44% 17
East Midlands +19 2 £418 +10.73% 8
Northern Ireland - 2 £563 -
East of England +15 1 £285 +3.64% 6
West Midlands +15 1 £400 -27.27% 9
South West +14 1 £325 -31.58% 7

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 9 (4.39%) Confluence
2 6 (2.93%) CMS
3 4 (1.95%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.49%) EPiServer
4 1 (0.49%) SharePoint 2013
4 1 (0.49%) Umbraco
Applications
1 72 (35.12%) Sketch
2 36 (17.56%) Adobe XD
3 21 (10.24%) InVision
4 15 (7.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 13 (6.34%) Photoshop
6 11 (5.37%) Adobe Illustrator
7 6 (2.93%) InDesign
8 5 (2.44%) Adobe After Effects
9 4 (1.95%) Zeplin
10 2 (0.98%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.49%) Blender
11 1 (0.49%) Chatbot
11 1 (0.49%) Final Cut Pro
11 1 (0.49%) Houdini
11 1 (0.49%) Maya
11 1 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
11 1 (0.49%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 3 (1.46%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 19 (9.27%) Azure
2 13 (6.34%) Miro
3 10 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (2.93%) AWS
4 6 (2.93%) SaaS
5 5 (2.44%) Adobe Creative Cloud
6 4 (1.95%) Power Platform
7 3 (1.46%) BigCommerce
7 3 (1.46%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (0.98%) GitHub
9 1 (0.49%) Adobe Analytics
9 1 (0.49%) Basecamp
9 1 (0.49%) Datadog
9 1 (0.49%) npm
9 1 (0.49%) Pendo
9 1 (0.49%) Sentry
9 1 (0.49%) Unqork
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.98%) Internet
2 1 (0.49%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.90%) MongoDB
2 4 (1.95%) BusinessObjects
2 4 (1.95%) Power BI
3 3 (1.46%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.49%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 15 (7.32%) Axure RP
2 9 (4.39%) JIRA
3 4 (1.95%) Git
3 4 (1.95%) SonarQube
4 3 (1.46%) Cypress.io
4 3 (1.46%) Storybook
4 3 (1.46%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (0.98%) Postman
5 2 (0.98%) Selenium
6 1 (0.49%) Balsamiq
6 1 (0.49%) rollup.js
6 1 (0.49%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.49%) webpack
General
1 69 (33.66%) Social Skills
2 41 (20.00%) Finance
3 26 (12.68%) Marketing
4 13 (6.34%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (6.34%) Banking
4 13 (6.34%) Presentation Skills
4 13 (6.34%) Public Sector
5 11 (5.37%) Retail
6 8 (3.90%) Legal
7 7 (3.41%) Games
8 6 (2.93%) Advertising
9 5 (2.44%) Automotive
10 4 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.95%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.98%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.49%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.49%) Danish Language
12 1 (0.49%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.49%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 144 (70.24%) Designer
2 84 (40.98%) UX Designer
3 31 (15.12%) UI Designer
4 28 (13.66%) Developer
5 27 (13.17%) UI/UX Designer
6 26 (12.68%) Product Designer
6 26 (12.68%) Senior
7 22 (10.73%) Senior Designer
8 13 (6.34%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 13 (6.34%) Senior UX Designer
9 10 (4.88%) Lead
9 10 (4.88%) Service Designer
10 9 (4.39%) Interaction Designer
11 8 (3.90%) UX Developer
12 7 (3.41%) React Developer
12 7 (3.41%) Senior Product Designer
13 6 (2.93%) Content Designer
13 6 (2.93%) Lead Designer
14 5 (2.44%) UI Specialist
14 5 (2.44%) UX Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (18.05%) CSS
2 34 (16.59%) HTML
3 24 (11.71%) React
4 8 (3.90%) React Native
5 6 (2.93%) AngularJS
5 6 (2.93%) Jest
6 5 (2.44%) CSS3
6 5 (2.44%) GraphQL
6 5 (2.44%) Node.js
6 5 (2.44%) Vue
7 4 (1.95%) .NET
7 4 (1.95%) jQuery
7 4 (1.95%) Redux
7 4 (1.95%) REST
8 3 (1.46%) ASP.NET
8 3 (1.46%) ASP.NET Core
8 3 (1.46%) Framer.js
8 3 (1.46%) Sass
8 3 (1.46%) Tailwind CSS
8 3 (1.46%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 27 (13.17%) Product Ownership
2 21 (10.24%) Mobile App
3 12 (5.85%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (4.88%) Graphic Design
5 6 (2.93%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.95%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.46%) Animation
7 3 (1.46%) Augmented Reality
7 3 (1.46%) Social Media
7 3 (1.46%) Virtual Reality
8 2 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.98%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.98%) Mobile Banking
8 2 (0.98%) Online Banking
8 2 (0.98%) Taxonomies
8 2 (0.98%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.49%) Biopharmaceutical
9 1 (0.49%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.49%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.49%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 19 (9.27%) Android
1 19 (9.27%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (72.68%) User Experience
2 112 (54.63%) UX Design
3 57 (27.80%) User Research
4 56 (27.32%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 52 (25.37%) Wireframes
6 48 (23.41%) Agile
7 47 (22.93%) Prototyping
8 37 (18.05%) Usability Testing
9 30 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
10 28 (13.66%) Interaction Design
11 23 (11.22%) UX Research
12 20 (9.76%) Design Thinking
13 19 (9.27%) User Stories
13 19 (9.27%) Visualisation
13 19 (9.27%) Workshop Facilitation
14 18 (8.78%) Analytics
14 18 (8.78%) Front End Development
14 18 (8.78%) Service Design
15 15 (7.32%) Journey Map
15 15 (7.32%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 24 (11.71%) JavaScript
2 9 (4.39%) Python
3 6 (2.93%) C#
3 6 (2.93%) TypeScript
4 3 (1.46%) Java
5 1 (0.49%) Bash
5 1 (0.49%) PHP
Qualifications
1 27 (13.17%) Degree
2 9 (4.39%) Security Cleared
3 8 (3.90%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.93%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (20.00%) Accessibility
2 10 (4.88%) WCAG
3 2 (0.98%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.49%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (1.95%) Terraform
2 1 (0.49%) Bugsnag
2 1 (0.49%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 60 (29.27%) Adobe
2 6 (2.93%) Microsoft
3 4 (1.95%) MicroStrategy
3 4 (1.95%) Salesforce
3 4 (1.95%) Xamarin
4 3 (1.46%) SAP
4 3 (1.46%) Sitecore
5 2 (0.98%) Apple
5 2 (0.98%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.49%) Foundry
6 1 (0.49%) Optimizely