UI/UX Designer Contracts

User Interface/User Experience Designer
UK

The median User Interface/User Experience Designer daily rate in the UK is £513, 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 527 591 618
Rank change year-on-year +64 +27 -104
Contract jobs requiring a UI/UX Designer 57 106 232
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.19% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.20% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 72 181
10th Percentile £370 £300 £345
25th Percentile £402 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £490
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £588 £688 £575
90th Percentile £650 £838 £660
UK excluding London median daily rate £422 £350 £440
% change year-on-year +20.43% -20.45% +25.71%

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%

UI/UX Designer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for UI/UX Designer in the UK

UI/UX Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing UI/UX Designer.

Daily rate trend for UI/UX Designer in the UK

UI/UX Designer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for UI/UX Designer in the UK

UI/UX Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing UI/UX Designer.

Hourly rate trend for UI/UX Designer in the UK

UI/UX Designer
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UI/UX 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 +46 55 £513 -2.38% 24
London +43 34 £563 -5.94% 14
UK excluding London +29 19 £422 +20.43% 18
Work from Home +78 18 £513 +2.50% 22
South East +21 8 £565 +109.26% 1
Midlands +17 4 £418 +28.62% 2
East Midlands +8 4 £418 +11.47% 2
South West +2 3 £425 +6.25% 2
North of England +9 2 - - 5
Scotland - 2 £450 - 3
North West +14 1 - - 4
Yorkshire +8 1 - -

UI/UX Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, UI/UX 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 UI/UX Designer in the job title.

1 57 (100.00%) User Experience
2 53 (92.98%) UX Design
3 31 (54.39%) Figma
4 19 (33.33%) Wireframes
5 16 (28.07%) Social Skills
6 15 (26.32%) User Research
6 15 (26.32%) Sketch
6 15 (26.32%) HTML
6 15 (26.32%) Adobe
7 12 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (19.30%) CSS
8 11 (19.30%) Finance
9 10 (17.54%) JavaScript
9 10 (17.54%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 9 (15.79%) Agile
10 9 (15.79%) Marketing
11 8 (14.04%) Adobe XD
11 8 (14.04%) Prototyping
11 8 (14.04%) Typography
12 7 (12.28%) Health Technology
12 7 (12.28%) InVision
12 7 (12.28%) Degree
12 7 (12.28%) Photoshop
13 6 (10.53%) Games
13 6 (10.53%) React
13 6 (10.53%) Accessibility
13 6 (10.53%) Product Ownership
13 6 (10.53%) Project Delivery
14 5 (8.77%) Analytical Skills
14 5 (8.77%) Mobile App

UI/UX 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 15 (26.32%) Sketch
2 8 (14.04%) Adobe XD
3 7 (12.28%) InVision
3 7 (12.28%) Photoshop
4 5 (8.77%) Adobe Illustrator
5 3 (5.26%) InDesign
6 2 (3.51%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (3.51%) OmniGraffle
6 2 (3.51%) UXPin
7 1 (1.75%) Chatbot
7 1 (1.75%) Zeplin
Cloud Services
1 31 (54.39%) Figma
2 2 (3.51%) Power Platform
3 1 (1.75%) Adobe Analytics
3 1 (1.75%) Miro
3 1 (1.75%) Pendo
3 1 (1.75%) Unqork
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.51%) Big Data
1 2 (3.51%) BusinessObjects
1 2 (3.51%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (8.77%) Axure RP
2 2 (3.51%) Balsamiq
2 2 (3.51%) Bitbucket
2 2 (3.51%) Git
General
1 16 (28.07%) Social Skills
2 11 (19.30%) Finance
3 9 (15.79%) Marketing
4 7 (12.28%) Health Technology
5 6 (10.53%) Games
6 5 (8.77%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (8.77%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (7.02%) Advertising
8 3 (5.26%) Front Office
8 3 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (3.51%) Banking
9 2 (3.51%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.75%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.75%) Publishing
10 1 (1.75%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (26.32%) HTML
2 11 (19.30%) CSS
3 6 (10.53%) React
4 4 (7.02%) CSS3
5 3 (5.26%) Framer.js
6 2 (3.51%) HTML5
7 1 (1.75%) HTML5 Canvas
7 1 (1.75%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.53%) Product Ownership
2 5 (8.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (8.77%) Graphic Design
2 5 (8.77%) Mobile App
3 4 (7.02%) Derivative
3 4 (7.02%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (5.26%) Animation
4 3 (5.26%) Digital Media
4 3 (5.26%) Fixed Income
4 3 (5.26%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.51%) Augmented Reality
5 2 (3.51%) Virtual Reality
6 1 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.75%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.75%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.75%) Android
1 1 (1.75%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (100.00%) User Experience
2 53 (92.98%) UX Design
3 19 (33.33%) Wireframes
4 15 (26.32%) User Research
5 12 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (17.54%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 9 (15.79%) Agile
8 8 (14.04%) Prototyping
8 8 (14.04%) Typography
9 6 (10.53%) Project Delivery
10 5 (8.77%) Design Thinking
10 5 (8.77%) Interaction Design
10 5 (8.77%) Rapid Prototyping
10 5 (8.77%) Time Management
10 5 (8.77%) Web Development
11 4 (7.02%) B2B
11 4 (7.02%) Creative Thinking
11 4 (7.02%) Service Design
11 4 (7.02%) Usability Testing
11 4 (7.02%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 10 (17.54%) JavaScript
2 3 (5.26%) Java
2 3 (5.26%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (12.28%) Degree
2 1 (1.75%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.53%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 15 (26.32%) Adobe
2 3 (5.26%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.51%) MicroStrategy
3 2 (3.51%) Salesforce