UX Design Contracts with Work from Home Options

User Experience Design (UXD)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for UX Design skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited UX Design over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 164 144 114
Rank change year-on-year -20 -30 -15
Contract jobs citing UX Design 189 427 1,018
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.28% 1.72% 2.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.46% 1.92% 2.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 329 752
10th Percentile £400 £400 £400
25th Percentile £431 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £675 £600 £585
90th Percentile - £700 £643
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 8
10th Percentile - £41.50 £20.25
25th Percentile £77.50 £45.00 £45.00
Median hourly rate £80.00 £47.00 £56.38
Median % change year-on-year +70.21% -16.63% +28.13%
75th Percentile £82.50 £55.50 £65.00
90th Percentile - £60.63 £68.25
UK median hourly rate £41.68 £49.00 £55.50
% change year-on-year -14.95% -11.71% +52.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

UX Design is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,942 22,217 40,480
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.66% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,728 15,724 29,400
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.49% +3.62% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £633
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 567 510 538
10th Percentile £14.70 £18.63 £14.50
25th Percentile £24.13 £26.46 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +32.91% +64.58%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%

UX Design
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing UX Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

UX Design trend for jobs with a WFH option

UX Design
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing UX Design.

UX Design daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

UX Design
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing UX Design over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

UX Design daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

UX Design
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing UX Design.

UX Design hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

UX Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 6 (3.17%) CMS
2 5 (2.65%) Confluence
3 2 (1.06%) Apache
3 2 (1.06%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.53%) OpenStack
Applications
1 10 (5.29%) Sketch
2 5 (2.65%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 4 (2.12%) Adobe XD
4 2 (1.06%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.53%) InVision
5 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.53%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.53%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 37 (19.58%) AWS
2 33 (17.46%) Figma
3 26 (13.76%) Azure
4 8 (4.23%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (4.23%) Miro
5 6 (3.17%) GCP
5 6 (3.17%) SaaS
6 5 (2.65%) Power Platform
7 4 (2.12%) Azure AKS
8 2 (1.06%) Adobe Creative Cloud
8 2 (1.06%) Asana
8 2 (1.06%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (1.06%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.06%) Firebase
8 2 (1.06%) npm
8 2 (1.06%) Yarn
9 1 (0.53%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.53%) Commercetools
9 1 (0.53%) GitHub
9 1 (0.53%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.53%) 5G
1 1 (0.53%) DHCP
1 1 (0.53%) DNS
1 1 (0.53%) Internet
1 1 (0.53%) Intranet
1 1 (0.53%) LTE
1 1 (0.53%) Radio Access Network
1 1 (0.53%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.53%) VPN
1 1 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (15.34%) Apache Cassandra
2 13 (6.88%) SQL Server
3 9 (4.76%) MySQL
4 5 (2.65%) MongoDB
4 5 (2.65%) Power BI
5 2 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.06%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.53%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.53%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.53%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.53%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.53%) Metadata
6 1 (0.53%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (7.41%) Git
2 7 (3.70%) JIRA
3 4 (2.12%) Babel
3 4 (2.12%) webpack
4 3 (1.59%) Axure RP
4 3 (1.59%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.06%) Android Studio
5 2 (1.06%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.53%) Ant
6 1 (0.53%) Crashlytics
6 1 (0.53%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.53%) Gradle
6 1 (0.53%) Selenium
6 1 (0.53%) Subversion
6 1 (0.53%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.53%) TestNG
General
1 49 (25.93%) Social Skills
2 22 (11.64%) Finance
3 15 (7.94%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (7.94%) Public Sector
4 7 (3.70%) Banking
5 6 (3.17%) Marketing
5 6 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (2.65%) Financial Institution
6 5 (2.65%) Front Office
6 5 (2.65%) Retail
7 3 (1.59%) Publishing
7 3 (1.59%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.06%) Games
8 2 (1.06%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.06%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.53%) Advertising
9 1 (0.53%) Law
9 1 (0.53%) Legal
9 1 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 66 (34.92%) Designer
2 50 (26.46%) Developer
3 48 (25.40%) UX Designer
4 39 (20.63%) Senior
5 30 (15.87%) Software Engineer
6 16 (8.47%) React Developer
6 16 (8.47%) Senior Software Engineer
6 16 (8.47%) UI Designer
7 15 (7.94%) UI/UX Designer
8 14 (7.41%) .NET Developer
9 12 (6.35%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 11 (5.82%) Senior Designer
11 10 (5.29%) Full Stack Developer
11 10 (5.29%) Senior UX Designer
12 9 (4.76%) Senior Developer
13 7 (3.70%) Architect
13 7 (3.70%) Content Designer
13 7 (3.70%) Product Designer
13 7 (3.70%) UI Developer
13 7 (3.70%) UX Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (23.28%) React
2 37 (19.58%) HTML
3 35 (18.52%) CSS
4 29 (15.34%) Kafka
5 22 (11.64%) .NET
5 22 (11.64%) AngularJS
5 22 (11.64%) RESTful
6 8 (4.23%) Vue
7 6 (3.17%) CSS3
7 6 (3.17%) jQuery
7 6 (3.17%) REST
8 5 (2.65%) .NET Core
8 5 (2.65%) HTML5
8 5 (2.65%) Node.js
8 5 (2.65%) Redux
8 5 (2.65%) SAML
8 5 (2.65%) Web Services
9 4 (2.12%) Ajax
9 4 (2.12%) YAML
10 3 (1.59%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.41%) Mobile App
2 13 (6.88%) Product Ownership
3 10 (5.29%) Fixed Income
4 6 (3.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (1.59%) Algorithms
5 3 (1.59%) Derivative
5 3 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.06%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.06%) Mobile Banking
6 2 (1.06%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.06%) Photography
6 2 (1.06%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.06%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.53%) Graphic Design
7 1 (0.53%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.53%) Life Science
7 1 (0.53%) Online Games
7 1 (0.53%) Smartphone
7 1 (0.53%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.76%) Android
2 6 (3.17%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (100.00%) User Experience
2 80 (42.33%) Agile
3 65 (34.39%) User Research
4 48 (25.40%) UX Research
5 35 (18.52%) Software Engineering
6 34 (17.99%) Problem-Solving
7 32 (16.93%) Fintech
8 27 (14.29%) Front End Development
8 27 (14.29%) Wireframes
9 21 (11.11%) Code Quality
9 21 (11.11%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 19 (10.05%) Full Stack Development
11 17 (8.99%) Usability Testing
12 16 (8.47%) DevOps
13 15 (7.94%) Scrum
14 12 (6.35%) Prototyping
15 11 (5.82%) CI/CD
15 11 (5.82%) Microservices
15 11 (5.82%) Service Design
16 10 (5.29%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 42 (22.22%) JavaScript
2 29 (15.34%) Go
3 15 (7.94%) C#
4 14 (7.41%) TypeScript
5 13 (6.88%) Java
6 12 (6.35%) Python
7 8 (4.23%) SQL
8 5 (2.65%) Bicep
8 5 (2.65%) PHP
9 3 (1.59%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.53%) Bash
10 1 (0.53%) Groovy
10 1 (0.53%) JSX
10 1 (0.53%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.53%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (4.76%) Security Cleared
2 8 (4.23%) Degree
3 7 (3.70%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.06%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.53%) ISEB
6 1 (0.53%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (14.81%) Accessibility
2 12 (6.35%) QA
3 3 (1.59%) WCAG
4 2 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 1 (0.53%) HL7
System Software
1 35 (18.52%) Docker
2 1 (0.53%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 32 (16.93%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.12%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (1.59%) Terraform
4 1 (0.53%) Grafana
Vendors
1 12 (6.35%) Adobe
2 8 (4.23%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.12%) Google
3 4 (2.12%) SAP
4 2 (1.06%) Xamarin
5 1 (0.53%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.53%) ForgeRock
5 1 (0.53%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (0.53%) Okta
5 1 (0.53%) Oracle
5 1 (0.53%) Ping Identity
5 1 (0.53%) Salesforce