Rates and Project Lengths for UX Freelancers

The most comprehensive study on freelancer day rates and project lengths in the UK UX industry, by the country's leading marketplace of premium talent.

Knowledge is power - for freelancer and hirer.

YunoJuno is committed to providing a new level of transparency to both freelancers and companies alike. The following data is from our 2019/20 Freelancer Rates Report - a study based on over 25,000 bookings on the YunoJuno platform in 2019.

Freelance Rates UX

Data for rates in the ux category

The user experience discipline is continually evolving with new technologies; the most common rate range was £351-£400 per day, with an overall average of £438 per day. These averages are amongst the highest in all disciplines. This reveals that freelancers within the sector create a unique intersection between creative skill sets and those of behavioural scientist in order to deliver projects and products that are truly user-centric.

Be flexible, it goes a long way especially during recession times. In selecting my rate, I ask peers as well as look at the employer profile.
Calliope Georgousi - UX Researcher
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Data for project lengths in the ux category

The average project length for freelancers within ux was nearly two months (36 working days) and the top 10% at nearly triple that, at 94 working days per project in 2019. The broad difference between these figures indicate that some  projects require deeper involvement for freelancers due to complexity or rolling out and testing of new products and digital services.

Freelance Rates UX

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YunoJuno IR35 process is a seamless experience and takes a lot of the stress away. YunoJuno really helps from an agility and productivity perspective, quickly answering the business needs and helping to create a much more diverse and output focused team. The quick payment of freelancers at YJ is a game changer. We've managed to reduce time to hire from a week to a couple of hours.

Senior Project Manager

YunoJuno has reduced the time and admin spent on completing IR35 compliance for all of our freelancers. It's revolutionised how quickly we can hire someone, in a fully compliant way.

Emma Hughes, Senior Creative Producer

YunoJuno is a great platform for finding the best freelancers and really happy with the support of the team there. Super easy to use and it takes care of all our freelancing requirements. All-in-all, it's been a great solution for me and for our Creative Studio at OVO Energy. Happy to recommend YunoJuno to all of my contacts.

Natasha Montgomery, Creative Resource Manager

The YunoJuno team have been super helpful and helped me find a talented engineer to support our MVP build in no time at all!

Winnie, Founder & CEO,

Freelance support can be a great option for your business. It gives you the advantage of flexibility and the power to hire specialist expertise when it’s truly needed. Independent contractors can be self managing and great additions to the team.

Claire, Head of Design

YunoJuno are my recruitment saviours! I’ve worked with them for a few years now and they’ve helped with many resourcing challenges. The platform is really easy to use, it provides a wide range of freelancers to interact with and also means I’m only dealing with one vendor – which makes my internal financing hassle free!

Steph Fair, Creative Services Manager

The freelancers on YunoJuno are consistently of the highest calibre. It is also the easiest and most transparent recruitment service I have ever dealt with.

Christian Anderson-Ramshall, Head of Digital Production

YunoJuno have been brilliant in identifying remote working freelancers who always deliver. From first introductions and telephone calls, to brief discussions and final delivery, the key has been good, clear and honest communication.

Nick Astor, Content Strategy & Execution Lead

We haven’t used a recruiter in ages, working closely with the YunoJuno Talent team we moved to sourcing 100% via the YJ Marketplace.

Marie Brittain, Resource Manager

I have to say a huge thanks to your team — YunoJuno has saved us on many occasions now.

Christine Richter, Creative Operations Manager

Frequently asked questions

When should I hire a UX expert?

There are several reasons why now might be the time to hire a ux freelancer. This includes:

Time — Skilled UX freelancers are able to carry out research, quickly and effectively, enabling you to improve your customers experience. Another advantage of hiring a freelancer gives you both the flexibility in working hours (evenings and weekends), and the ability to do work at very short notice.

Skills/knowledge —  Ux experts are experienced to make educated guesses about which design components will be problematic for users, based on the experience they have built up over time. As freelancers have worked on various projects, they can help bring this expertise and knowledge to your project, ensuring you benefit.

Communication — UX designers work very closely with developers, so are able to keep a constant discussion across the development of a project. Not only do they understand the objectives from the developers perspective, they also have a good understanding of the users needs, so can help bring the two together.

Results driven — A UX expert invests their time to not only understand the users perspective, they make informed decisions based on data. Quantitative and qualitative data is increasingly becoming a key ingredient in usability and user-experience work. With working on various projects, for various brands, freelancers are able to help bring the successes of their career to your project.

Why choose a YunoJuno UX Freelancer?

Each of our UX experts have been manually vetted by our dedicated onboarding team to ensure they have the right skills and experience to be considered an elite Freelancer. They have their own profile that outlines their skills and experience, giving you the opportunity to review this to ensure they have the right background for your project.

What type of UX Freelancer do I need?

We have various types of user experience experts including:

  • Information Architect (IA)
  • UI Designer
  • UX Designer
  • Service Designer
  • UX Architect
  • UX Researcher

Each of our UX freelancers have a profile page that outlines their skills and experience giving you the opportunity to review this information to  ensure you are hiring the right freelancer, with the right background for your project.

Alternatively, you can engage directly with our Talent Team. Not only can they help you create your brief, to detail exactly what you’re looking for, they can also help with shortlisting candidates, to ensure you find the right freelancer to get the job done.

Find out more about our UX freelancers.

Where can I download the full 2019/20 Rates Report?

We believe this information should be available and transparent to both freelancers and companies alike. That's why this report is completely free to download. No required email before downloading. No catch.

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