Figma Contracts

Figma
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Figma skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Figma over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 391 413 468
Rank change year-on-year +22 +55 +83
Contract jobs citing Figma 191 285 429
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.44% 0.51% 0.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.37% 1.39% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 192 327
10th Percentile £349 £325 £325
25th Percentile £400 £413 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £569 £588 £575
90th Percentile £600 £675 £645
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +16.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 10
10th Percentile - £39.75 £27.15
25th Percentile £38.25 £45.00 £35.31
Median hourly rate £39.50 £47.50 £60.25
Median % change year-on-year -16.84% -21.16% +81.61%
75th Percentile £40.75 £62.00 £65.00
90th Percentile - £63.05 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £62.50 -

All Cloud Skills
UK

Figma is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,976 20,555 33,756
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.43% 36.46% 38.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,930 14,875 24,662
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £748 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 330 390
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.89
25th Percentile £16.06 £19.00 £15.40
Median hourly rate £21.46 £37.75 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.15% +71.59% +0.32%
75th Percentile £42.50 £69.88 £53.75
90th Percentile £69.80 £78.12 £69.61
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.80 £27.50 £19.17
% change year-on-year -35.27% +43.47% -4.16%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Figma as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Figma in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Figma in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Figma over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Figma in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Figma in the UK

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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 Figma within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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 0 149 £475 -5.00% 116
London +22 108 £509 -3.42% 60
Work from Home +55 72 £509 -3.37% 56
UK excluding London +42 60 £413 -8.33% 55
Scotland +53 21 £425 -5.56% 8
South East +16 16 £438 - 11
North of England +12 12 £350 -17.65% 24
Yorkshire +14 7 £363 -14.71% 4
North West +7 5 £350 -27.27% 19
Midlands +19 4 £409 -25.64% 4
East of England +9 4 £413 +50.00% 2
East Midlands +12 3 £418 -18.83% 1
Northern Ireland - 2 £563 -
West Midlands +7 1 £400 -27.27% 3
South West +2 1 £325 -27.78% 8

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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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (3.66%) Confluence
2 4 (2.09%) CMS
3 3 (1.57%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.52%) EPiServer
4 1 (0.52%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.52%) WordPress
Applications
1 62 (32.46%) Sketch
2 28 (14.66%) Adobe XD
3 15 (7.85%) InVision
4 14 (7.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 9 (4.71%) Photoshop
6 8 (4.19%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (2.09%) Adobe After Effects
8 3 (1.57%) InDesign
9 2 (1.05%) Adobe Premiere
9 2 (1.05%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.52%) Elementor
10 1 (0.52%) Final Cut Pro
10 1 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 1 (0.52%) UserZoom
10 1 (0.52%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 3 (1.57%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 18 (9.42%) Azure
2 13 (6.81%) Miro
3 8 (4.19%) AWS
3 8 (4.19%) SaaS
4 7 (3.66%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (2.09%) Power Platform
6 3 (1.57%) BigCommerce
7 2 (1.05%) Adobe Creative Cloud
7 2 (1.05%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.52%) Adobe Analytics
8 1 (0.52%) Basecamp
8 1 (0.52%) Datadog
8 1 (0.52%) GitHub
8 1 (0.52%) Google Analytics
8 1 (0.52%) Pendo
8 1 (0.52%) Sentry
8 1 (0.52%) Unqork
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.57%) Wireless
2 2 (1.05%) Internet
3 1 (0.52%) DNS
3 1 (0.52%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.76%) MongoDB
2 4 (2.09%) BusinessObjects
2 4 (2.09%) Power BI
3 2 (1.05%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.52%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 10 (5.24%) JIRA
2 7 (3.66%) Axure RP
3 5 (2.62%) Cypress.io
3 5 (2.62%) Git
4 4 (2.09%) Postman
4 4 (2.09%) Selenium
5 3 (1.57%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.57%) Storybook
6 2 (1.05%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.05%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 62 (32.46%) Social Skills
2 35 (18.32%) Finance
3 24 (12.57%) Marketing
4 13 (6.81%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (6.81%) Banking
5 12 (6.28%) Presentation Skills
6 11 (5.76%) Retail
7 10 (5.24%) Public Sector
8 8 (4.19%) Legal
9 7 (3.66%) Games
10 6 (3.14%) Advertising
11 4 (2.09%) Automotive
11 4 (2.09%) Publishing
12 3 (1.57%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (1.57%) Retail Banking
13 2 (1.05%) Health Technology
13 2 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.52%) Danish Language
14 1 (0.52%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.52%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 131 (68.59%) Designer
2 76 (39.79%) UX Designer
3 34 (17.80%) UI Designer
4 30 (15.71%) Developer
4 30 (15.71%) UI/UX Designer
5 24 (12.57%) Product Designer
6 23 (12.04%) Senior
7 18 (9.42%) Senior Designer
8 14 (7.33%) UX Developer
9 11 (5.76%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 10 (5.24%) Lead
11 9 (4.71%) Senior UX Designer
12 7 (3.66%) Content Designer
12 7 (3.66%) React Developer
12 7 (3.66%) Service Designer
13 6 (3.14%) Interaction Designer
13 6 (3.14%) Lead Designer
13 6 (3.14%) Senior Product Designer
13 6 (3.14%) UI Specialist
13 6 (3.14%) UX Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (20.94%) HTML
2 39 (20.42%) CSS
3 26 (13.61%) React
4 9 (4.71%) AngularJS
5 7 (3.66%) React Native
6 6 (3.14%) CSS3
6 6 (3.14%) GraphQL
6 6 (3.14%) Node.js
7 5 (2.62%) REST
8 4 (2.09%) Gherkin
8 4 (2.09%) jQuery
8 4 (2.09%) Redux
8 4 (2.09%) Vue
9 3 (1.57%) Framer.js
9 3 (1.57%) Jest
9 3 (1.57%) PySpark
9 3 (1.57%) Sass
9 3 (1.57%) WebGL
10 2 (1.05%) LESS
10 2 (1.05%) Semantic HTML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (13.61%) Product Ownership
2 19 (9.95%) Mobile App
3 10 (5.24%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (4.19%) Graphic Design
5 4 (2.09%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.57%) Animation
6 3 (1.57%) Biopharmaceutical
6 3 (1.57%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.57%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.05%) Augmented Reality
7 2 (1.05%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.05%) Mobile Banking
7 2 (1.05%) Online Banking
7 2 (1.05%) Social Media
7 2 (1.05%) Taxonomies
7 2 (1.05%) Virtual Reality
8 1 (0.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.52%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.52%) Mobile Games
Operating Systems
1 17 (8.90%) Android
2 16 (8.38%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (75.39%) User Experience
2 107 (56.02%) UX Design
3 52 (27.23%) Wireframes
4 47 (24.61%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 46 (24.08%) Prototyping
5 46 (24.08%) User Research
6 39 (20.42%) Agile
7 28 (14.66%) Problem-Solving
8 27 (14.14%) Usability Testing
9 23 (12.04%) UX Research
10 22 (11.52%) Analytics
10 22 (11.52%) Interaction Design
10 22 (11.52%) Visualisation
11 18 (9.42%) Front End Development
11 18 (9.42%) User Stories
11 18 (9.42%) Web Development
12 17 (8.90%) B2B
13 14 (7.33%) Service Design
13 14 (7.33%) Typography
14 13 (6.81%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
Programming Languages
1 28 (14.66%) JavaScript
2 17 (8.90%) Python
3 7 (3.66%) Java
4 5 (2.62%) C#
4 5 (2.62%) TypeScript
5 2 (1.05%) PHP
6 1 (0.52%) Bash
6 1 (0.52%) SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (13.09%) Degree
2 8 (4.19%) Security Cleared
3 7 (3.66%) Master's Degree
3 7 (3.66%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (16.23%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (0.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (1.57%) Terraform
2 1 (0.52%) Bugsnag
2 1 (0.52%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 45 (23.56%) Adobe
2 7 (3.66%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.09%) MicroStrategy
4 3 (1.57%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.57%) SAP
4 3 (1.57%) Sitecore
4 3 (1.57%) Xamarin
5 2 (1.05%) Apple
5 2 (1.05%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.52%) Google
6 1 (0.52%) Optimizely