UX Designer Contracts

User Experience Designer
UK

The median User Experience Designer daily rate in the UK is £475, 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 439 392 311
Rank change year-on-year -47 -81 -27
Contract jobs requiring a UX Designer 146 334 744
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.33% 0.60% 0.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.64% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 250 536
10th Percentile £369 £325 £396
25th Percentile £400 £425 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.44% +3.33% +10.53%
75th Percentile £550 £638 £600
90th Percentile £600 £725 £665
UK excluding London median daily rate £422 £440 £475
% change year-on-year -4.20% -7.37% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £45.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -30.77% +84.79%
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%

UX Designer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for UX Designer in the UK

UX Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for UX Designer in the UK

UX Designer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for UX Designer in the UK

UX Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for UX Designer in the UK

UX Designer
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 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 -76 114 £511 -3.68% 61
London -34 81 £525 -8.70% 32
UK excluding London +8 56 £422 -4.20% 37
Work from Home +6 49 £500 - 32
Scotland +70 25 £400 -19.80% 4
South East +22 13 £464 +15.94% 4
North of England -9 7 £450 +2.27% 15
Midlands +12 6 £400 +14.29% 6
East Midlands +9 5 £409 +9.07% 5
Yorkshire -8 4 £488 +8.94% 2
South West -14 3 £425 -5.56% 3
North West +11 2 - - 12
Northern Ireland - 2 £563 - 4
West Midlands +11 1 £388 +19.23% 1
North East +8 1 £450 -5.26% 1

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

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

1 146 (100.00%) User Experience
2 142 (97.26%) UX Design
3 78 (53.42%) Figma
4 55 (37.67%) Social Skills
5 50 (34.25%) User Research
6 49 (33.56%) Wireframes
7 43 (29.45%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 41 (28.08%) Sketch
9 36 (24.66%) Agile
10 30 (20.55%) Prototyping
11 29 (19.86%) Adobe
12 28 (19.18%) Accessibility
13 25 (17.12%) Problem-Solving
14 24 (16.44%) Product Ownership
14 24 (16.44%) Usability Testing
15 22 (15.07%) HTML
15 22 (15.07%) Finance
16 21 (14.38%) Mobile App
17 19 (13.01%) Adobe XD
18 17 (11.64%) CSS
19 16 (10.96%) User Stories
19 16 (10.96%) Visualisation
19 16 (10.96%) React
20 15 (10.27%) UX Research
20 15 (10.27%) Azure
20 15 (10.27%) Analytical Skills
20 15 (10.27%) JavaScript
20 15 (10.27%) Degree
21 13 (8.90%) Marketing
21 13 (8.90%) Python

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 41 (28.08%) Sketch
2 19 (13.01%) Adobe XD
3 11 (7.53%) InVision
4 8 (5.48%) Photoshop
5 6 (4.11%) Adobe Illustrator
6 4 (2.74%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 3 (2.05%) InDesign
8 2 (1.37%) OmniGraffle
8 2 (1.37%) UXPin
9 1 (0.68%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.68%) Zeplin
Cloud Services
1 78 (53.42%) Figma
2 15 (10.27%) Azure
3 6 (4.11%) Miro
3 6 (4.11%) SaaS
4 5 (3.42%) Power Platform
5 4 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.68%) Adobe Analytics
6 1 (0.68%) Pendo
6 1 (0.68%) Unqork
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.37%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.85%) MongoDB
2 5 (3.42%) Power BI
3 2 (1.37%) Big Data
3 2 (1.37%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.68%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (6.85%) Axure RP
2 2 (1.37%) Balsamiq
2 2 (1.37%) Bitbucket
2 2 (1.37%) Git
General
1 55 (37.67%) Social Skills
2 22 (15.07%) Finance
3 15 (10.27%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (8.90%) Marketing
5 9 (6.16%) Banking
5 9 (6.16%) Games
5 9 (6.16%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.79%) Health Technology
6 7 (4.79%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (3.42%) Advertising
7 5 (3.42%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (2.74%) Front Office
9 3 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.05%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.05%) Publishing
9 3 (2.05%) Retail
9 3 (2.05%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.68%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.68%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.68%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (15.07%) HTML
2 17 (11.64%) CSS
3 16 (10.96%) React
4 4 (2.74%) CSS3
5 3 (2.05%) AngularJS
5 3 (2.05%) Framer.js
6 2 (1.37%) HTML5
6 2 (1.37%) Unity (Game Engine)
7 1 (0.68%) COM+
7 1 (0.68%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 24 (16.44%) Product Ownership
2 21 (14.38%) Mobile App
3 9 (6.16%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (5.48%) Graphic Design
5 5 (3.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (2.74%) Derivative
6 4 (2.74%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.05%) Animation
7 3 (2.05%) Digital Media
7 3 (2.05%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.37%) Augmented Reality
8 2 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.37%) Mobile Games
8 2 (1.37%) Virtual Reality
9 1 (0.68%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.68%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.68%) Over-the-Top Content
9 1 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (8.90%) Android
1 13 (8.90%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (100.00%) User Experience
2 142 (97.26%) UX Design
3 50 (34.25%) User Research
4 49 (33.56%) Wireframes
5 43 (29.45%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 36 (24.66%) Agile
7 30 (20.55%) Prototyping
8 25 (17.12%) Problem-Solving
9 24 (16.44%) Usability Testing
10 16 (10.96%) User Stories
10 16 (10.96%) Visualisation
11 15 (10.27%) UX Research
12 13 (8.90%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
12 13 (8.90%) Workshop Facilitation
13 11 (7.53%) B2B
14 10 (6.85%) Design Thinking
14 10 (6.85%) E-Commerce
14 10 (6.85%) Interaction Design
14 10 (6.85%) Service Design
15 9 (6.16%) Typography
Programming Languages
1 15 (10.27%) JavaScript
2 13 (8.90%) Python
3 4 (2.74%) Java
4 1 (0.68%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 15 (10.27%) Degree
2 4 (2.74%) Master's Degree
2 4 (2.74%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.37%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.68%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (19.18%) Accessibility
2 5 (3.42%) WCAG
3 2 (1.37%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 29 (19.86%) Adobe
2 6 (4.11%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.05%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.37%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (0.68%) Apple
5 1 (0.68%) SAP
5 1 (0.68%) Virgin Media