Interaction Designer Contracts

Interaction Designer
UK

The median Interaction Designer daily rate in the UK is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 538 623 605
Rank change year-on-year +85 -18 +24
Contract jobs requiring an Interaction Designer 46 74 246
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.13% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.14% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 58 178
10th Percentile £363 £450 £421
25th Percentile £455 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £553 £530
Median % change year-on-year -9.50% +4.25% +9.84%
75th Percentile £550 £638 £585
90th Percentile £588 £688 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £559 £543
% change year-on-year -26.17% +2.90% +9.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £46.35 £29.25
Median % change year-on-year - +58.44% -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

Interaction Designer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Interaction Designer in the UK

Interaction Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Interaction Designer in the UK

Interaction Designer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Interaction Designer over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Interaction Designer in the UK

Interaction Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Interaction Designer.

Hourly rate trend for Interaction Designer in the UK

Interaction Designer
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Interaction Designer within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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 +68 37 £498 -11.95%
Work from Home +103 22 £500 -9.09%
London +65 18 £500 -10.71%
UK excluding London +25 17 £413 -26.17%
North of England +20 13 £375 -31.82%
North West +17 6 £375 -30.23%
North East +12 5 £625 -4.94%
South West +4 4 £510 -10.72%
Yorkshire +12 2 £450 -18.18%

Interaction Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Interaction 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 Interaction Designer in the job title.

1 46 (100.00%) Interaction Design
2 23 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 21 (45.65%) Prototyping
4 20 (43.48%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 19 (41.30%) SC Cleared
6 18 (39.13%) Social Skills
7 17 (36.96%) Public Sector
7 17 (36.96%) User Experience
8 14 (30.43%) Wireframes
9 12 (26.09%) User Research
10 11 (23.91%) UX Design
10 11 (23.91%) Agile
10 11 (23.91%) Accessibility
11 8 (17.39%) Adobe
12 6 (13.04%) HTML
12 6 (13.04%) Degree
12 6 (13.04%) Design Patterns
12 6 (13.04%) Adobe XD
12 6 (13.04%) Sketch
12 6 (13.04%) Figma
12 6 (13.04%) Service Design
13 5 (10.87%) CSS
13 5 (10.87%) Usability Testing
14 4 (8.70%) JavaScript
14 4 (8.70%) Project Management
14 4 (8.70%) Business Analysis
14 4 (8.70%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
14 4 (8.70%) Low-Fidelity Prototypes
14 4 (8.70%) Collaborative Working
14 4 (8.70%) Problem-Solving

Interaction 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 6 (13.04%) Adobe XD
1 6 (13.04%) Sketch
2 3 (6.52%) InVision
3 2 (4.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
Cloud Services
1 6 (13.04%) Figma
2 1 (2.17%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Axure RP
General
1 18 (39.13%) Social Skills
2 17 (36.96%) Public Sector
3 4 (8.70%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (6.52%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.04%) HTML
2 5 (10.87%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.35%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.17%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.17%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (100.00%) Interaction Design
2 21 (45.65%) Prototyping
3 20 (43.48%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 17 (36.96%) User Experience
5 14 (30.43%) Wireframes
6 12 (26.09%) User Research
7 11 (23.91%) Agile
7 11 (23.91%) UX Design
8 6 (13.04%) Design Patterns
8 6 (13.04%) Service Design
9 5 (10.87%) Usability Testing
10 4 (8.70%) Business Analysis
10 4 (8.70%) Collaborative Working
10 4 (8.70%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
10 4 (8.70%) Human-Centred Design
10 4 (8.70%) Low-Fidelity Prototypes
10 4 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (8.70%) Project Management
10 4 (8.70%) UX Research
11 2 (4.35%) Digital Strategy
Programming Languages
1 4 (8.70%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 23 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 19 (41.30%) SC Cleared
3 6 (13.04%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (23.91%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.17%) QA
2 1 (2.17%) WCAG
Vendors
1 8 (17.39%) Adobe
2 2 (4.35%) SAP