Interaction Design Contracts in the North of England

Interaction Design (IxD)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Interaction Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Interaction Design over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 154 175 165
Rank change year-on-year +21 -10 -20
Contract jobs citing Interaction Design 28 36 83
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.58% 0.66% 1.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 0.73% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 27 65
10th Percentile £290 £434 £413
25th Percentile £363 £468 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £450 £625 £575
90th Percentile £568 £650 £600
England median daily rate £494 £575 £530
% change year-on-year -14.13% +8.49% +12.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.25 - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 - -
75th Percentile £63.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £53.75 £43.25
% change year-on-year +16.28% +24.28% -0.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Interaction 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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,060 4,911 6,324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 83.80% 90.04% 88.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,422 3,380 4,591
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £670 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 399 204 251
10th Percentile £11.10 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.55 £15.54 £13.57
Median hourly rate £21.00 £25.00 £19.09
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +30.96% +7.43%
75th Percentile £46.18 £43.41 £34.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £56.38 £63.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £35.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +6.38% +37.27% +14.13%

Interaction Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Interaction Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Interaction Design in the North of England

Interaction Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Interaction Design in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Interaction Design in the North of England

Interaction Design
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Interaction Design in the North of England over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Interaction Design in the North of England

Interaction Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Interaction Design in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Interaction Design in the North of England

Interaction Design
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Interaction Design within the North of England region over the 6 months to 11 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
Yorkshire +1 14 £381 -25.97%
North East +16 7 £625 -4.94% 1
North West +5 7 £375 -34.78% 3
Interaction Design
England

Interaction Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 7 (25.00%) Photoshop
2 4 (14.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 4 (14.29%) Adobe Illustrator
2 4 (14.29%) InVision
3 3 (10.71%) Adobe After Effects
3 3 (10.71%) Blender
3 3 (10.71%) Maya
Development Applications
1 4 (14.29%) Axure RP
General
1 9 (32.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.71%) Games
3 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.57%) Finance
4 1 (3.57%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 25 (89.29%) Designer
2 13 (46.43%) Interaction Designer
3 5 (17.86%) Senior
3 5 (17.86%) Senior Designer
3 5 (17.86%) Service Designer
4 3 (10.71%) Content Designer
4 3 (10.71%) Senior Service Designer
4 3 (10.71%) Software Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) C++ Software Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Senior Interaction Designer
5 2 (7.14%) UI Designer
6 1 (3.57%) Graphic Designer
6 1 (3.57%) Senior Graphic Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (32.14%) HTML
2 8 (28.57%) CSS
3 3 (10.71%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Product Ownership
2 4 (14.29%) Mobile App
3 3 (10.71%) Augmented Reality
3 3 (10.71%) Virtual Reality
4 1 (3.57%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (53.57%) User Research
2 14 (50.00%) Prototyping
2 14 (50.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 11 (39.29%) User Experience
4 10 (35.71%) Agile
5 7 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 7 (25.00%) UX Design
6 5 (17.86%) Coaching
6 5 (17.86%) Mentoring
6 5 (17.86%) Service Design
6 5 (17.86%) Typography
6 5 (17.86%) Wireframes
7 4 (14.29%) Business Analysis
7 4 (14.29%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
7 4 (14.29%) Low-Fidelity Prototypes
7 4 (14.29%) Mobile Application Development
7 4 (14.29%) Responsive Web Design
7 4 (14.29%) Usability Testing
7 4 (14.29%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 4 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 2 (7.14%) C++
Qualifications
1 5 (17.86%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.57%) WCAG
Vendors
1 7 (25.00%) Adobe
2 2 (7.14%) SAP
3 1 (3.57%) Brio