Figma Contracts

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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 390 419 470
Rank change year-on-year +29 +51 +76
Contract jobs citing Figma 190 284 432
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.44% 0.51% 0.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.36% 1.39% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 192 327
10th Percentile £349 £325 £325
25th Percentile £400 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £569 £588 £575
90th Percentile £600 £675 £647
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +18.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 10
10th Percentile - £39.75 £27.15
25th Percentile £38.25 £45.00 £35.31
Median hourly rate £39.50 £47.50 £60.25
Median % change year-on-year -16.84% -21.16% +81.61%
75th Percentile £40.75 £62.00 £65.00
90th Percentile - £63.05 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £62.50 -

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 13,969 20,420 33,677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.44% 36.43% 38.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,924 14,777 24,579
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 £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £746 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +9.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 332 392
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.06 £19.00 £15.47
Median hourly rate £21.46 £38.78 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -44.66% +73.10% +2.47%
75th Percentile £42.50 £68.94 £54.00
90th Percentile £69.80 £78.00 £69.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.80 £27.83 £19.25
% change year-on-year -36.04% +44.57% -3.75%

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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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -14 148 £475 -5.00% 111
London +16 107 £509 -3.42% 57
Work from Home +57 72 £509 -3.37% 54
UK excluding London +32 60 £413 -8.33% 52
Scotland +49 21 £425 -5.56% 7
South East +17 16 £438 - 12
North of England +7 12 £350 -17.65% 20
Yorkshire +11 7 £363 -14.71% 4
North West +13 5 £350 -27.27% 15
Midlands +17 4 £409 -25.64% 5
East of England +6 4 £413 +50.00% 2
East Midlands +14 3 £418 -18.83% 1
Northern Ireland - 2 £563 -
West Midlands +6 1 £400 -27.27% 4
South West -2 1 £325 -27.78% 8

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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 7 (3.68%) Confluence
2 4 (2.11%) CMS
3 3 (1.58%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.53%) EPiServer
4 1 (0.53%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.53%) WordPress
Applications
1 62 (32.63%) Sketch
2 28 (14.74%) Adobe XD
3 15 (7.89%) InVision
4 14 (7.37%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 9 (4.74%) Photoshop
6 8 (4.21%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (2.11%) Adobe After Effects
8 3 (1.58%) InDesign
9 2 (1.05%) Adobe Premiere
9 2 (1.05%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.53%) Elementor
10 1 (0.53%) Final Cut Pro
10 1 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 1 (0.53%) UserZoom
10 1 (0.53%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 3 (1.58%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 18 (9.47%) Azure
2 13 (6.84%) Miro
3 8 (4.21%) AWS
3 8 (4.21%) SaaS
4 7 (3.68%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (2.11%) Power Platform
6 3 (1.58%) BigCommerce
7 2 (1.05%) Adobe Creative Cloud
7 2 (1.05%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.53%) Adobe Analytics
8 1 (0.53%) Basecamp
8 1 (0.53%) Datadog
8 1 (0.53%) GitHub
8 1 (0.53%) Google Analytics
8 1 (0.53%) Pendo
8 1 (0.53%) Sentry
8 1 (0.53%) Unqork
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.58%) Wireless
2 2 (1.05%) Internet
3 1 (0.53%) DNS
3 1 (0.53%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.79%) MongoDB
2 4 (2.11%) BusinessObjects
2 4 (2.11%) Power BI
3 2 (1.05%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.53%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 10 (5.26%) JIRA
2 7 (3.68%) Axure RP
3 5 (2.63%) Cypress.io
3 5 (2.63%) Git
4 4 (2.11%) Postman
4 4 (2.11%) Selenium
5 3 (1.58%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.58%) Storybook
6 2 (1.05%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.05%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 62 (32.63%) Social Skills
2 35 (18.42%) Finance
3 24 (12.63%) Marketing
4 13 (6.84%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (6.84%) Banking
5 12 (6.32%) Presentation Skills
6 11 (5.79%) Retail
7 10 (5.26%) Public Sector
8 8 (4.21%) Legal
9 7 (3.68%) Games
10 6 (3.16%) Advertising
11 4 (2.11%) Automotive
11 4 (2.11%) Publishing
12 3 (1.58%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (1.58%) Retail Banking
13 2 (1.05%) Health Technology
13 2 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.53%) Danish Language
14 1 (0.53%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.53%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 130 (68.42%) Designer
2 75 (39.47%) UX Designer
3 33 (17.37%) UI Designer
4 30 (15.79%) Developer
5 29 (15.26%) UI/UX Designer
6 24 (12.63%) Product Designer
7 23 (12.11%) Senior
8 18 (9.47%) Senior Designer
9 14 (7.37%) UX Developer
10 11 (5.79%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 10 (5.26%) Lead
12 9 (4.74%) Senior UX Designer
13 7 (3.68%) Content Designer
13 7 (3.68%) React Developer
13 7 (3.68%) Service Designer
14 6 (3.16%) Interaction Designer
14 6 (3.16%) Lead Designer
14 6 (3.16%) Senior Product Designer
14 6 (3.16%) UI Specialist
14 6 (3.16%) UX Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (21.05%) HTML
2 39 (20.53%) CSS
3 26 (13.68%) React
4 9 (4.74%) AngularJS
5 7 (3.68%) React Native
6 6 (3.16%) CSS3
6 6 (3.16%) GraphQL
6 6 (3.16%) Node.js
7 5 (2.63%) REST
8 4 (2.11%) Gherkin
8 4 (2.11%) jQuery
8 4 (2.11%) Redux
8 4 (2.11%) Vue
9 3 (1.58%) Framer.js
9 3 (1.58%) Jest
9 3 (1.58%) PySpark
9 3 (1.58%) Sass
9 3 (1.58%) WebGL
10 2 (1.05%) LESS
10 2 (1.05%) Semantic HTML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (13.68%) Product Ownership
2 19 (10.00%) Mobile App
3 10 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (4.21%) Graphic Design
5 4 (2.11%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.58%) Animation
6 3 (1.58%) Biopharmaceutical
6 3 (1.58%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.58%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.05%) Augmented Reality
7 2 (1.05%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.05%) Mobile Banking
7 2 (1.05%) Online Banking
7 2 (1.05%) Social Media
7 2 (1.05%) Taxonomies
7 2 (1.05%) Virtual Reality
8 1 (0.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.53%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.53%) Mobile Games
Operating Systems
1 17 (8.95%) Android
2 16 (8.42%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (75.26%) User Experience
2 106 (55.79%) UX Design
3 52 (27.37%) Wireframes
4 47 (24.74%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 45 (23.68%) Prototyping
5 45 (23.68%) User Research
6 39 (20.53%) Agile
7 27 (14.21%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (14.21%) Usability Testing
8 23 (12.11%) UX Research
9 22 (11.58%) Analytics
9 22 (11.58%) Interaction Design
9 22 (11.58%) Visualisation
10 18 (9.47%) Front End Development
10 18 (9.47%) User Stories
10 18 (9.47%) Web Development
11 17 (8.95%) B2B
12 14 (7.37%) Service Design
12 14 (7.37%) Typography
13 13 (6.84%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
Programming Languages
1 28 (14.74%) JavaScript
2 17 (8.95%) Python
3 7 (3.68%) Java
4 5 (2.63%) C#
4 5 (2.63%) TypeScript
5 2 (1.05%) PHP
6 1 (0.53%) Bash
6 1 (0.53%) SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (13.16%) Degree
2 8 (4.21%) Security Cleared
3 7 (3.68%) Master's Degree
3 7 (3.68%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (16.32%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (0.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (1.58%) Terraform
2 1 (0.53%) Bugsnag
2 1 (0.53%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 45 (23.68%) Adobe
2 7 (3.68%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.11%) MicroStrategy
4 3 (1.58%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.58%) SAP
4 3 (1.58%) Sitecore
4 3 (1.58%) Xamarin
5 2 (1.05%) Apple
5 2 (1.05%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.53%) Google
6 1 (0.53%) Optimizely