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 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 385 431 463
Rank change year-on-year +46 +32 +81
Contract jobs citing Figma 197 275 458
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.46% 0.48% 0.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.42% 1.31% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 186 348
10th Percentile £350 £333 £336
25th Percentile £400 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £516
Median % change year-on-year - -3.15% +21.47%
75th Percentile £572 £595 £575
90th Percentile £600 £683 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £418 £425 £450
% change year-on-year -1.65% -5.56% +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% +83.41%
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 13,842 21,041 34,006
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.54% 36.74% 38.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,846 15,232 24,816
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 £748 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 347 332 411
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.06 £18.50 £15.35
Median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.94% +59.09% -2.22%
75th Percentile £38.13 £66.00 £53.88
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £25.00 £19.25
% change year-on-year -29.12% +29.89% -3.76%

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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 20 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 20 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 +26 153 £500 - 144
London +27 113 £513 -2.38% 82
Work from Home +68 76 £509 -3.14% 73
UK excluding London +55 58 £418 -1.65% 74
Scotland +55 21 £425 -10.53% 5
South East +32 18 £500 +5.26% 18
North of England +19 12 £350 -16.42% 32
Yorkshire +13 7 £363 -14.71% 9
North West +12 5 £350 -30.86% 23
Midlands +12 3 £418 -24.00% 12
East Midlands - 2 £418 - 6
Northern Ireland - 2 £563 -
West Midlands +13 1 £400 -27.27% 6
East of England +9 1 £285 +3.64% 5
South West +1 1 £325 -27.78% 2

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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 (4.57%) Confluence
2 5 (2.54%) CMS
3 4 (2.03%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.51%) EPiServer
4 1 (0.51%) SharePoint 2013
4 1 (0.51%) Umbraco
Applications
1 67 (34.01%) Sketch
2 32 (16.24%) Adobe XD
3 16 (8.12%) InVision
4 14 (7.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 10 (5.08%) Photoshop
6 9 (4.57%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (2.03%) Adobe After Effects
7 4 (2.03%) InDesign
8 2 (1.02%) Adobe Premiere
8 2 (1.02%) UserZoom
8 2 (1.02%) Zeplin
9 1 (0.51%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.51%) Final Cut Pro
9 1 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.52%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 21 (10.66%) Azure
2 13 (6.60%) Miro
3 10 (5.08%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (4.06%) SaaS
5 6 (3.05%) AWS
6 4 (2.03%) Power Platform
7 3 (1.52%) Adobe Creative Cloud
7 3 (1.52%) BigCommerce
7 3 (1.52%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.51%) Adobe Analytics
8 1 (0.51%) Basecamp
8 1 (0.51%) Datadog
8 1 (0.51%) GitHub
8 1 (0.51%) Google Analytics
8 1 (0.51%) npm
8 1 (0.51%) Pendo
8 1 (0.51%) Sentry
8 1 (0.51%) Unqork
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.02%) Internet
2 1 (0.51%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.58%) MongoDB
2 4 (2.03%) BusinessObjects
2 4 (2.03%) Power BI
3 3 (1.52%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.51%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 11 (5.58%) JIRA
2 10 (5.08%) Axure RP
3 5 (2.54%) Git
4 4 (2.03%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.52%) Cypress.io
5 3 (1.52%) Storybook
5 3 (1.52%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (1.02%) Postman
6 2 (1.02%) Selenium
7 1 (0.51%) Balsamiq
7 1 (0.51%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.51%) rollup.js
7 1 (0.51%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.51%) webpack
General
1 65 (32.99%) Social Skills
2 37 (18.78%) Finance
3 26 (13.20%) Marketing
4 13 (6.60%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (6.60%) Banking
4 13 (6.60%) Public Sector
5 12 (6.09%) Presentation Skills
5 12 (6.09%) Retail
6 8 (4.06%) Legal
7 7 (3.55%) Games
8 6 (3.05%) Advertising
9 5 (2.54%) Automotive
10 4 (2.03%) Retail Banking
11 3 (1.52%) Publishing
12 2 (1.02%) Health Technology
12 2 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.51%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.51%) Front Office
13 1 (0.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 137 (69.54%) Designer
2 81 (41.12%) UX Designer
3 31 (15.74%) UI Designer
4 28 (14.21%) Developer
5 27 (13.71%) UI/UX Designer
6 25 (12.69%) Product Designer
6 25 (12.69%) Senior
7 21 (10.66%) Senior Designer
8 12 (6.09%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 12 (6.09%) Senior UX Designer
9 10 (5.08%) Lead
9 10 (5.08%) UX Developer
10 8 (4.06%) Service Designer
11 7 (3.55%) Content Designer
11 7 (3.55%) Interaction Designer
11 7 (3.55%) Senior Product Designer
12 6 (3.05%) Lead Designer
12 6 (3.05%) React Developer
13 5 (2.54%) UI Specialist
13 5 (2.54%) UX Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (19.29%) CSS
2 36 (18.27%) HTML
3 26 (13.20%) React
4 8 (4.06%) React Native
5 7 (3.55%) AngularJS
6 6 (3.05%) CSS3
6 6 (3.05%) Node.js
7 5 (2.54%) Jest
7 5 (2.54%) Vue
8 4 (2.03%) .NET
8 4 (2.03%) GraphQL
8 4 (2.03%) jQuery
8 4 (2.03%) Redux
8 4 (2.03%) REST
8 4 (2.03%) Sass
9 3 (1.52%) ASP.NET
9 3 (1.52%) ASP.NET Core
9 3 (1.52%) Framer.js
9 3 (1.52%) HTML5
9 3 (1.52%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 27 (13.71%) Product Ownership
2 20 (10.15%) Mobile App
3 11 (5.58%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (4.57%) Graphic Design
5 4 (2.03%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.52%) Animation
7 2 (1.02%) Augmented Reality
7 2 (1.02%) Biopharmaceutical
7 2 (1.02%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.02%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.02%) Mobile Banking
7 2 (1.02%) Online Banking
7 2 (1.02%) Social Media
7 2 (1.02%) Taxonomies
7 2 (1.02%) Virtual Reality
7 2 (1.02%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.51%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.51%) Motion Graphics
Operating Systems
1 18 (9.14%) Android
2 17 (8.63%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (74.11%) User Experience
2 108 (54.82%) UX Design
3 53 (26.90%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 51 (25.89%) User Research
4 51 (25.89%) Wireframes
5 46 (23.35%) Prototyping
6 43 (21.83%) Agile
7 32 (16.24%) Usability Testing
8 28 (14.21%) Problem-Solving
9 26 (13.20%) Interaction Design
10 24 (12.18%) UX Research
11 22 (11.17%) Visualisation
12 21 (10.66%) Analytics
13 19 (9.64%) Front End Development
13 19 (9.64%) User Stories
14 17 (8.63%) Web Development
15 16 (8.12%) B2B
16 15 (7.61%) Service Design
16 15 (7.61%) Workshop Facilitation
17 13 (6.60%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
Programming Languages
1 25 (12.69%) JavaScript
2 13 (6.60%) Python
3 6 (3.05%) C#
4 5 (2.54%) TypeScript
5 3 (1.52%) Java
6 1 (0.51%) Bash
6 1 (0.51%) PHP
Qualifications
1 26 (13.20%) Degree
2 9 (4.57%) Security Cleared
3 8 (4.06%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.05%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (18.78%) Accessibility
2 8 (4.06%) WCAG
3 1 (0.51%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (2.03%) Terraform
2 1 (0.51%) Bugsnag
2 1 (0.51%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 52 (26.40%) Adobe
2 7 (3.55%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.03%) MicroStrategy
3 4 (2.03%) Xamarin
4 3 (1.52%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.52%) SAP
4 3 (1.52%) Sitecore
5 2 (1.02%) Apple
5 2 (1.02%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.51%) Foundry
6 1 (0.51%) Google
6 1 (0.51%) Optimizely