The first table below looks at the demand for the Visual Designer role in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Visual Designer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the City of London region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Visual Designer
Rank 200 208 237
Rank change year-on-year
+8 +29
Contract jobs requiring a Visual Designer 3 10 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.047% 0.127% 0.082%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.051% 0.139% 0.089%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 8
Average daily rate £255 £475 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-46.34% -4.95%
UK excluding London average daily rate £380 £425 £285
% change year-on-year
-10.58% +49.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £27.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
5894 7192 8993
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 92.40% 91.44% 91.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 4333 5169 6545
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £275 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 186 197
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +2.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £133.00 £41.28 £41.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Visual Designer
London

Visual Designer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Visual Designer across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

City of London Visual Designer Jobs Demand Trend

Visual Designer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Visual Designer across the City of London region.

City of London Visual Designer Daily Rate Trend

Visual Designer
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Visual Designer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Visual Designer in their job title.

1 7 (53.85%) Photoshop
2 5 (38.46%) Adobe
2 5 (38.46%) Finance
3 2 (15.38%) Graphic Design
3 2 (15.38%) CSS
3 2 (15.38%) HTML
3 2 (15.38%) User Experience Design
3 2 (15.38%) Digital Media
3 2 (15.38%) Visualisation
4 1 (7.692%) Responsive Web Design
4 1 (7.692%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.692%) iPad
4 1 (7.692%) Flash
4 1 (7.692%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.692%) Internet
4 1 (7.692%) XAML
4 1 (7.692%) Photography
4 1 (7.692%) Apache Flex
4 1 (7.692%) RIA
4 1 (7.692%) Security Cleared
4 1 (7.692%) Fixed Income
4 1 (7.692%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (7.692%) InDesign
4 1 (7.692%) Web Design
4 1 (7.692%) Degree

Visual Designer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Visual Designer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Visual Designer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (15.38%) CSS
1 2 (15.38%) HTML
2 1 (7.692%) Flash
2 1 (7.692%) Apache Flex
Applications
1 7 (53.85%) Photoshop
2 1 (7.692%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (7.692%) InDesign
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.692%) Internet
General
1 5 (38.46%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Graphic Design
1 2 (15.38%) Digital Media
1 2 (15.38%) Visualisation
2 1 (7.692%) iPad
2 1 (7.692%) Photography
2 1 (7.692%) RIA
2 1 (7.692%) Fixed Income
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (15.38%) User Experience Design
2 1 (7.692%) Responsive Web Design
2 1 (7.692%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.692%) JavaScript
1 1 (7.692%) XAML
Qualifications
1 1 (7.692%) Security Cleared
1 1 (7.692%) Degree
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Adobe
2 1 (7.692%) Microsoft
City, London
Our client, a large financial services organisation, currently requires the services a Digital / Visual Designers to work on initial 3-month contracts based in Canary Wharf. The Digital...
Experis IT
Rate: £230 - £280 per day
Posted: 23 May 2013