Senior UI/UX Designer Contracts

Senior User Interface/User Experience Designer
UK

The median Senior User Interface/User Experience Designer daily rate in the UK is £450, 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 576 685 813
Rank change year-on-year +109 +128 -98
Contract jobs requiring a Senior UI/UX Designer 8 12 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.018% 0.022% 0.040%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.020% 0.023% 0.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 26
10th Percentile £405 £583 £250
25th Percentile £413 £598 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £688 £596
Median % change year-on-year -34.55% +15.30% +8.41%
75th Percentile £488 £750 £635
90th Percentile £495 - £669
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 - -

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%

Senior UI/UX Designer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior UI/UX Designer in the UK

Senior UI/UX Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior UI/UX Designer in the UK

Senior UI/UX Designer
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior 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 +81 7 £450 -34.55% 6
London +76 6 £450 -34.55% 3
UK excluding London - 2 £450 - 10
Work from Home +115 1 £450 -28.00% 8
North of England - 1 - - 1
North West - 1 - - 1
Scotland - 1 £450 - 3

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

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

1 8 (100.00%) UX Design
1 8 (100.00%) User Experience
2 5 (62.50%) Adobe
3 4 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
3 4 (50.00%) Health Technology
4 3 (37.50%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (37.50%) B2C
4 3 (37.50%) Photoshop
4 3 (37.50%) Advertising
4 3 (37.50%) Adobe Illustrator
4 3 (37.50%) InDesign
4 3 (37.50%) Web Design
4 3 (37.50%) Digital Marketing
4 3 (37.50%) Time Management
4 3 (37.50%) Marketing
4 3 (37.50%) Degree
4 3 (37.50%) Graphic Design
4 3 (37.50%) Animation
4 3 (37.50%) Typography
4 3 (37.50%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (37.50%) Digital Media
5 2 (25.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 2 (25.00%) UX Research
6 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
6 1 (12.50%) Adobe XD
6 1 (12.50%) Sketch
6 1 (12.50%) Figma
6 1 (12.50%) Product Roadmap
6 1 (12.50%) Product Strategy
6 1 (12.50%) Fintech

Senior 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 3 (37.50%) Adobe Illustrator
1 3 (37.50%) InDesign
1 3 (37.50%) Photoshop
2 1 (12.50%) Adobe XD
2 1 (12.50%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Big Data
General
1 4 (50.00%) Health Technology
1 4 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 3 (37.50%) Advertising
2 3 (37.50%) Marketing
2 3 (37.50%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Animation
1 3 (37.50%) Digital Media
1 3 (37.50%) Graphic Design
1 3 (37.50%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Android
1 1 (12.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) User Experience
1 8 (100.00%) UX Design
2 3 (37.50%) B2C
2 3 (37.50%) Digital Marketing
2 3 (37.50%) Time Management
2 3 (37.50%) Typography
2 3 (37.50%) Web Design
3 2 (25.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 2 (25.00%) UX Research
4 1 (12.50%) Agile
4 1 (12.50%) Customer-Centricity
4 1 (12.50%) Fintech
4 1 (12.50%) Mobile First
4 1 (12.50%) Process Improvement
4 1 (12.50%) Product Roadmap
4 1 (12.50%) Product Strategy
4 1 (12.50%) Psychology
4 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
4 1 (12.50%) Service Design
4 1 (12.50%) Wireframes
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Degree
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Adobe
14 Senior UI/UX Designer jobs Nationwide