Lead UX Designer Contracts

Lead User Experience Designer
UK

The median Lead User Experience Designer daily rate in the UK is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 580 685 811
Rank change year-on-year +105 +126 -112
Contract jobs requiring a Lead UX Designer 4 11 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% 0.019% 0.040%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.010% 0.020% 0.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 28
10th Percentile £473 £548 -
25th Percentile £506 £619 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +23.81% +10.53%
75th Percentile £591 £717 £650
90th Percentile £593 £756 £665
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £600
% change year-on-year - - +26.32%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 39,482 54,195 83,684
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,718 37,839 58,825
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,674 1,507 2,030
10th Percentile £12.83 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.21 £15.90
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Lead UX Designer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead UX Designer in the UK

Lead UX Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Lead UX Designer.

Daily rate trend for Lead UX Designer in the UK

Lead UX Designer
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead UX Designer within the UK over the 6 months to 19 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 +99 3 £575 -11.54% 6
London +88 3 £575 -14.02% 5
Work from Home +110 1 £450 -30.77% 2
UK excluding London - 1 - - 1
Scotland - 1 - -

Lead UX Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 19 May 2024, Lead 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 featuring Lead UX Designer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) UX Design
1 4 (100.00%) User Experience
2 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (75.00%) Workshop Facilitation
3 2 (50.00%) Wireframes
3 2 (50.00%) User Research
3 2 (50.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) Marketing
4 1 (25.00%) Digital Marketing
4 1 (25.00%) Product Management
4 1 (25.00%) Video\Live Streaming
4 1 (25.00%) Scrum
4 1 (25.00%) B2C
4 1 (25.00%) Adobe
4 1 (25.00%) Project Management
4 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Metrics
4 1 (25.00%) SDLC
4 1 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (25.00%) Service Design
4 1 (25.00%) Information Architecture
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (25.00%) User Stories
4 1 (25.00%) Over-the-Top Content
4 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
4 1 (25.00%) UX Research
4 1 (25.00%) Storyboarding
4 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills

Lead UX Designer Skill Set
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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Adobe XD
1 1 (25.00%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Figma
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Marketing
2 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (25.00%) Over-the-Top Content
2 1 (25.00%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) User Experience
1 4 (100.00%) UX Design
2 3 (75.00%) Workshop Facilitation
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) User Research
3 2 (50.00%) Wireframes
4 1 (25.00%) B2C
4 1 (25.00%) Co-Creation
4 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
4 1 (25.00%) Digital Marketing
4 1 (25.00%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
4 1 (25.00%) Information Architecture
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Product Management
4 1 (25.00%) Project Management
4 1 (25.00%) Scrum
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (25.00%) Storyboarding
4 1 (25.00%) User Stories
4 1 (25.00%) UX Research
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Adobe