Designer Contracts in the East of England

Designer
England > East of England

The median Designer daily rate in the East of England is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 103 113 127
Rank change year-on-year +10 +14 -47
Contract jobs requiring a Designer 6 12 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.32% 0.57% 0.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.63% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 12
10th Percentile £307 £199 £368
25th Percentile £351 £251 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £413 £425
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -2.94% -10.53%
75th Percentile £675 £520 £591
90th Percentile - £612 £611
England median daily rate £494 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -5.95% - +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £47.50 - -
Median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% - -
75th Percentile £52.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £57.35 £49.25 £43.50
% change year-on-year +16.45% +13.22% +42.93%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the East of England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the East of England with a recognized job title 1,700 1,913 2,419
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.57% 91.53% 93.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 790 1,170 1,391
10th Percentile £208 £185 £163
25th Percentile £315 £300 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £560 £600 £540
90th Percentile £662 £700 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 574 302 375
10th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £43.00 £35.40 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.47% +128.39% -5.62%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £39.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £70.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -22.22% +100.00% +0.36%

Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings that featured Designer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Designer in the East of England

Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Designer in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Designer in the East of England

Designer
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Designer in the East of England over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Designer in the East of England

Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Designer in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Designer in the East of England

Designer
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Designer within the East of England region over the 6 months to 23 April 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
Hertfordshire 0 3 £650 +136.36% 7
Essex - 2 £400 - 2
Cambridgeshire +3 1 - - 5
Designer
England

Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 23 April 2024, Designer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the East of England region featuring Designer in the job title.

1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (33.33%) High Availability
2 2 (33.33%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (33.33%) PLM
2 2 (33.33%) PTC
2 2 (33.33%) Windchill
2 2 (33.33%) PKI
2 2 (33.33%) Linux
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Adobe
2 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 2 (33.33%) Migration
2 2 (33.33%) VMware
2 2 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 2 (33.33%) Technology Roadmap
2 2 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (16.67%) Adobe XD
3 1 (16.67%) Figma
3 1 (16.67%) Customer-Centricity

Designer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (33.33%) Windchill
2 1 (16.67%) Adobe After Effects
2 1 (16.67%) Adobe XD
2 1 (16.67%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Adobe Creative Cloud
1 1 (16.67%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Aerospace
2 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
2 1 (16.67%) Marketing
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) PKI
2 1 (16.67%) e-Learning
2 1 (16.67%) Graphic Design
2 1 (16.67%) Motion Graphics
2 1 (16.67%) Photography
2 1 (16.67%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
1 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) High Availability
1 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (33.33%) Migration
1 2 (33.33%) PLM
1 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
1 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
1 2 (33.33%) Technology Roadmap
2 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
2 1 (16.67%) Customer-Centricity
2 1 (16.67%) SEO
2 1 (16.67%) Social Commerce
2 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) Degree
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Adobe
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (33.33%) PTC
1 2 (33.33%) Red Hat
1 2 (33.33%) VMware