Freelance UX Designer Skills
The most common skills for freelance UX Designers are Figma, Adobe Photoshop, and UX Design, based on how often they appear in 476 rate submissions.
To see the individual submissions behind these numbers, browse the UX 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 | 75.8% | 361 | View → |
| Adobe Photoshop | 8.4% | 40 | View → |
| UX Design | 8% | 38 | View → |
| Adobe Creative Cloud | 7.4% | 35 | View → |
| User Research | 5.5% | 26 | View → |
| UX Research | 5.5% | 26 | View → |
| HTML | 5% | 24 | View → |
| Adobe Illustrator | 5% | 24 | View → |
| Design Thinking | 4.4% | 21 | View → |
| CSS | 4.2% | 20 | View → |
| Prototyping | 4% | 19 | View → |
| UI Design | 4% | 19 | View → |
| Wireframe | 3.8% | 18 | View → |
| Design Systems | 3.6% | 17 | View → |
| Wordpress | 3.4% | 16 | View → |
| Sketch | 2.7% | 13 | View → |
| Interaction Design | 2.5% | 12 | View → |
| User Testing | 2.5% | 12 | View → |
| Adobe After Effects | 2.1% | 10 | View → |
| Qualitative Research | 2.1% | 10 | View → |