Freelance Product Designer Skills
The most common skills for freelance Product Designers are Figma, Design Systems, and Design Thinking, based on how often they appear in 379 rate submissions.
To see the individual submissions behind these numbers, browse the Product Designer hourly rates list, where you can filter by any skill below.
Skill frequency does not measure hiring demand or prove a skill increases rates. Skills with fewer than 5 records are omitted. Methodology
Most common skills — share of submissions
All tracked skills
| Skill | Share of submissions | Submissions | Rates |
|---|---|---|---|
| Figma | 81.8% | 310 | View → |
| Design Systems | 12.9% | 49 | View → |
| Design Thinking | 12.4% | 47 | View → |
| UX Design | 12.1% | 46 | View → |
| User Research | 11.6% | 44 | View → |
| UI Design | 8.7% | 33 | View → |
| Prototyping | 6.3% | 24 | View → |
| Sketch | 6.1% | 23 | View → |
| UX Research | 4.5% | 17 | View → |
| framer | 4.2% | 16 | View → |
| Adobe Photoshop | 4% | 15 | View → |
| FigJam | 3.7% | 14 | View → |
| Adobe Illustrator | 3.7% | 14 | View → |
| Adobe Creative Cloud | 3.7% | 14 | View → |
| User Journey | 3.2% | 12 | View → |
| Webflow | 3.2% | 12 | View → |
| Solidworks | 2.9% | 11 | View → |
| Miro | 2.9% | 11 | View → |
| HTML | 2.6% | 10 | View → |
| Interaction Design | 2.4% | 9 | View → |