UX Design Contracts in the West Midlands

User Experience Design (UXD)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring UX Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited UX Design over the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 105 93 138
Rank change year-on-year -12 +45 -32
Contract jobs citing UX Design 8 31 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.42% 1.50% 1.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 1.75% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 22 33
10th Percentile £465 £326 £423
25th Percentile £488 £450 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £603 £600 £575
90th Percentile £654 - £667
England median daily rate £500 £550 £548
% change year-on-year -9.09% +0.32% +10.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £30.75 - -
25th Percentile £31.21 - -
Median hourly rate £32.21 - £63.00
75th Percentile £32.98 - -
90th Percentile £33.32 - -
England median hourly rate £33.07 £70.18 £55.00
% change year-on-year -52.87% +27.59% +67.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

UX Design falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,553 1,771 3,257
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 81.87% 85.76% 88.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 994 1,189 2,290
10th Percentile £250 £263 £279
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £586
90th Percentile £731 £725 £676
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +7.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 51 51
10th Percentile £14.70 £14.54 £12.00
25th Percentile £15.94 £20.43 £14.34
Median hourly rate £28.50 £27.50 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% +52.78% +17.42%
75th Percentile £42.88 £43.00 £22.72
90th Percentile £55.85 £67.50 £32.75
England median hourly rate £43.00 £43.90 £29.00
% change year-on-year -2.05% +51.38% +37.77%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing UX Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for UX Design in the West Midlands

UX Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for UX Design in the West Midlands

UX Design
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UX Design in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 20 September 2024.

Daily rate histogram for UX Design in the West Midlands

UX Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for UX Design in the West Midlands

UX Design
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
Birmingham -8 3 £475 -13.64% 8
Coventry +10 1 - -
Warwickshire -5 1 - - 1
UX Design
England

UX Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (25.00%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Figma
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
1 1 (12.50%) MySQL
1 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
1 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 2 (25.00%) Automotive
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
2 1 (12.50%) Marketing
2 1 (12.50%) Multimedia
2 1 (12.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Designer
1 3 (37.50%) Senior
1 3 (37.50%) Senior Designer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior UX Designer
2 2 (25.00%) UX Designer
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Content Strategist
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Digital Strategist
3 1 (12.50%) Flutter Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Implementation Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Interaction Designer
3 1 (12.50%) Programme Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Interaction Designer
3 1 (12.50%) Service Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Transformation Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Transformation Programme Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Web Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Web Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
1 1 (12.50%) CSS
1 1 (12.50%) Django
1 1 (12.50%) Flask
1 1 (12.50%) HTML
1 1 (12.50%) React
1 1 (12.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Product Ownership
2 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
2 1 (12.50%) Photography
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) User Experience
2 2 (25.00%) Agile
2 2 (25.00%) Data Analysis
2 2 (25.00%) Ergonomics
2 2 (25.00%) Human Factors
2 2 (25.00%) Human-Centred Design
2 2 (25.00%) Migration
2 2 (25.00%) Project Management
2 2 (25.00%) SEO
2 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (25.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 2 (25.00%) UX Research
3 1 (12.50%) Asset Management
3 1 (12.50%) Content Management
3 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
3 1 (12.50%) Industrial Design
3 1 (12.50%) ITIL
3 1 (12.50%) MVC
3 1 (12.50%) Supplier Management
3 1 (12.50%) WFM
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
1 1 (12.50%) Python
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Optimizely