UX Design Contracts

User Experience Design (UXD)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with 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 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 207 170 139
Rank change year-on-year -37 -31 -24
Contract jobs citing UX Design 490 850 1,723
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.14% 1.52% 1.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.33% 1.69% 2.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 345 595 1,245
10th Percentile £354 £376 £400
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £713 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -10.53% -5.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 12 13
10th Percentile £29.65 £36.43 £21.50
25th Percentile £32.39 £43.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate £41.68 £51.25 £55.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.68% -7.66% +50.00%
75th Percentile £62.17 £65.38 £63.75
90th Percentile £90.65 £74.53 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £91.44 £66.34 £38.50
% change year-on-year +37.83% +72.31% +35.23%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,802 50,277 79,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.47% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,632 34,811 55,790
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,673 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.72 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for UX Design in the UK

UX Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for UX Design in the UK

UX Design
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UX Design over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for UX Design in the UK

UX Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for UX Design in the UK

UX Design
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing UX Design over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for UX Design in the UK

UX Design
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UX Design 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 -54 402 £525 -4.55% 285
London -28 262 £538 -6.52% 138
Work from Home -27 184 £519 -5.73% 144
UK excluding London -47 138 £425 -10.53% 157
North of England -31 45 £450 -11.76% 41
Scotland +48 38 £425 +11.84% 24
North West +3 28 £426 -25.87% 26
South East -1 21 £375 -6.25% 31
Midlands +1 15 £488 -2.74% 35
West Midlands -8 11 £554 +10.70% 20
North East +10 9 £575 -4.17% 4
South West -10 8 £450 - 14
Yorkshire -20 8 £425 -10.53% 11
Northern Ireland - 6 £513 - 4
East Midlands +12 4 £409 -18.40% 15
East of England -7 4 £413 -17.50% 8
Wales +11 1 £425 +21.43% 1

UX Design
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 19 (3.88%) CMS
2 6 (1.22%) Apache
3 5 (1.02%) Confluence
3 5 (1.02%) WordPress
4 3 (0.61%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.61%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.41%) Drupal
5 2 (0.41%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.20%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.20%) Jadu
6 1 (0.20%) OpenStack
Applications
1 52 (10.61%) Sketch
2 24 (4.90%) Adobe XD
3 20 (4.08%) InVision
4 11 (2.24%) Photoshop
5 10 (2.04%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 9 (1.84%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.82%) UserZoom
8 3 (0.61%) InDesign
8 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
8 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
8 3 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 1 (0.20%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.20%) Final Cut Pro
9 1 (0.20%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.20%) OmniGraffle
9 1 (0.20%) UXPin
9 1 (0.20%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 3 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.41%) WebTrends
3 1 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 106 (21.63%) Figma
2 65 (13.27%) AWS
3 63 (12.86%) Azure
4 19 (3.88%) GCP
5 17 (3.47%) GitHub
6 14 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (2.45%) Power Platform
7 12 (2.45%) SaaS
8 11 (2.24%) Miro
9 10 (2.04%) Azure AKS
10 8 (1.63%) Cloud Computing
11 7 (1.43%) Serverless
12 6 (1.22%) Azure App Service
13 4 (0.82%) Azure Key Vault
13 4 (0.82%) Azure Service Bus
13 4 (0.82%) Dynamics 365
14 3 (0.61%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 3 (0.61%) Azure Machine Learning
14 3 (0.61%) npm
14 3 (0.61%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.61%) Internet
1 3 (0.61%) Wireless
2 2 (0.41%) HTTP
2 2 (0.41%) Intranet
3 1 (0.20%) 5G
3 1 (0.20%) DHCP
3 1 (0.20%) DNS
3 1 (0.20%) LTE
3 1 (0.20%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.20%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.20%) VoIP
3 1 (0.20%) VPN
3 1 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (8.57%) Apache Cassandra
2 19 (3.88%) MongoDB
3 14 (2.86%) MySQL
3 14 (2.86%) SQL Server
4 12 (2.45%) Power BI
5 9 (1.84%) NoSQL
6 8 (1.63%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.02%) BusinessObjects
8 4 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.61%) Big Data
10 2 (0.41%) Tableau
11 1 (0.20%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.20%) Crystal Reports
11 1 (0.20%) Data Mining
11 1 (0.20%) InfluxDB
11 1 (0.20%) MariaDB
11 1 (0.20%) Qlik Sense
11 1 (0.20%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 41 (8.37%) Git
2 16 (3.27%) JIRA
3 12 (2.45%) Axure RP
4 10 (2.04%) webpack
5 7 (1.43%) Jenkins
6 5 (1.02%) Babel
6 5 (1.02%) Gradle
7 4 (0.82%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.82%) Maven
7 4 (0.82%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.41%) Android Studio
8 2 (0.41%) Ant
8 2 (0.41%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.41%) Capybara
8 2 (0.41%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.41%) Visual Website Optimizer
9 1 (0.20%) Balsamiq
9 1 (0.20%) Crashlytics
9 1 (0.20%) Postman
General
1 133 (27.14%) Social Skills
2 62 (12.65%) Finance
3 43 (8.78%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 29 (5.92%) Banking
6 25 (5.10%) Marketing
7 15 (3.06%) Presentation Skills
8 14 (2.86%) Games
9 12 (2.45%) Telecoms
10 9 (1.84%) Health Technology
10 9 (1.84%) Pharmaceutical
10 9 (1.84%) Publishing
10 9 (1.84%) Retail
11 8 (1.63%) Advertising
12 7 (1.43%) Front Office
12 7 (1.43%) Legal
12 7 (1.43%) Local Government
13 6 (1.22%) Financial Institution
14 5 (1.02%) Retail Banking
14 5 (1.02%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 202 (41.22%) Designer
2 140 (28.57%) UX Designer
3 124 (25.31%) Developer
4 97 (19.80%) Senior
5 56 (11.43%) UI Designer
6 50 (10.20%) Software Engineer
6 50 (10.20%) UI/UX Designer
7 37 (7.55%) Senior Designer
8 35 (7.14%) Senior Software Engineer
9 34 (6.94%) React Developer
10 31 (6.33%) Senior UX Designer
11 25 (5.10%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 21 (4.29%) Full Stack Developer
12 21 (4.29%) UX Developer
13 18 (3.67%) .NET Developer
13 18 (3.67%) Lead
13 18 (3.67%) UI Developer
14 17 (3.47%) Architect
14 17 (3.47%) Content Designer
15 16 (3.27%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (20.41%) React
2 99 (20.20%) HTML
3 85 (17.35%) CSS
4 55 (11.22%) AngularJS
5 42 (8.57%) Kafka
5 42 (8.57%) RESTful
6 35 (7.14%) .NET
7 20 (4.08%) CSS3
8 19 (3.88%) HTML5
9 16 (3.27%) Node.js
10 15 (3.06%) REST
11 14 (2.86%) Vue
12 12 (2.45%) Redux
13 10 (2.04%) SAML
14 9 (1.84%) jQuery
14 9 (1.84%) Spring
14 9 (1.84%) YAML
15 8 (1.63%) Web Services
16 7 (1.43%) .NET Framework
16 7 (1.43%) Ajax
Miscellaneous
1 51 (10.41%) Product Ownership
2 40 (8.16%) Mobile App
3 12 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (2.04%) Fixed Income
4 10 (2.04%) Onboarding
5 9 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (1.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (1.43%) Graphic Design
8 6 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.22%) Renewable Energy
9 5 (1.02%) Cloud Native
9 5 (1.02%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.02%) Digital Media
9 5 (1.02%) Distributed Architecture
9 5 (1.02%) Educational Technology
9 5 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.02%) Mobile Banking
9 5 (1.02%) Virtual Team
10 4 (0.82%) Animation
10 4 (0.82%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 23 (4.69%) Android
2 20 (4.08%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.41%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 490 (100.00%) User Experience
2 187 (38.16%) Agile
3 128 (26.12%) User Research
4 94 (19.18%) UX Research
5 80 (16.33%) Wireframes
6 76 (15.51%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 71 (14.49%) Problem-Solving
8 70 (14.29%) Software Engineering
9 66 (13.47%) Front End Development
10 51 (10.41%) Fintech
11 50 (10.20%) Prototyping
12 40 (8.16%) Service Design
13 36 (7.35%) DevOps
14 34 (6.94%) CI/CD
14 34 (6.94%) Full Stack Development
14 34 (6.94%) Usability Testing
15 33 (6.73%) E-Commerce
16 30 (6.12%) User Stories
17 29 (5.92%) Visualisation
18 28 (5.71%) Interaction Design
Programming Languages
1 89 (18.16%) JavaScript
2 44 (8.98%) Go
3 38 (7.76%) TypeScript
4 35 (7.14%) Python
5 32 (6.53%) C#
6 30 (6.12%) SQL
7 29 (5.92%) Java
8 11 (2.24%) Bicep
9 7 (1.43%) PHP
10 4 (0.82%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.61%) Ruby
12 2 (0.41%) C++
13 1 (0.20%) Bash
13 1 (0.20%) Dart
13 1 (0.20%) JSX
13 1 (0.20%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.20%) Swift
13 1 (0.20%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.20%) VC++
Qualifications
1 44 (8.98%) Degree
2 26 (5.31%) Security Cleared
3 17 (3.47%) SC Cleared
4 13 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (2.45%) Master's Degree
6 4 (0.82%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.41%) MBA
8 2 (0.41%) Tableau Certification
9 1 (0.20%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (14.69%) Accessibility
2 26 (5.31%) QA
3 14 (2.86%) WCAG
4 6 (1.22%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.41%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 2 (0.41%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.20%) GRC
6 1 (0.20%) HL7
System Software
1 49 (10.00%) Docker
2 1 (0.20%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 49 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (1.02%) Terraform
4 1 (0.20%) Grafana
Vendors
1 47 (9.59%) Adobe
2 18 (3.67%) Microsoft
3 14 (2.86%) Google
4 9 (1.84%) SAP
5 6 (1.22%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.02%) MicroStrategy
7 4 (0.82%) Black Duck
7 4 (0.82%) Virgin Media
8 3 (0.61%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.41%) Apple
9 2 (0.41%) Maxymiser
9 2 (0.41%) Optimizely
9 2 (0.41%) Oracle
9 2 (0.41%) Proofpoint
9 2 (0.41%) Xamarin
10 1 (0.20%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.20%) Databricks
10 1 (0.20%) Qualtrics
10 1 (0.20%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.20%) Sitecore