Designer Contracts in England

Designer
UK > England

The median Designer daily rate in England is £495 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 165 141 109
Rank change year-on-year -24 -32 -13
Contract jobs requiring a Designer 518 981 1,770
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.40% 1.94% 2.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.51% 2.05% 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 720 1,218
10th Percentile £318 £363 £375
25th Percentile £393 £436 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £571 £625 £600
90th Percentile £625 £719 £675
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -9.52% - +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 14 29
10th Percentile £27.63 £33.76 £24.50
25th Percentile £45.00 £36.56 £27.00
Median hourly rate £57.35 £43.75 £43.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.09% +0.57% +56.94%
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £60.50
90th Percentile - £72.69 £65.45
UK median hourly rate £57.35 £46.25 £43.50
% change year-on-year +24.00% +6.32% +56.94%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in 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 England with a recognized job title 34,271 47,824 67,952
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.61% 95.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,751 33,955 48,268
10th Percentile £275 £312 £313
25th Percentile £412 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,410 1,422 1,902
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.71 £48.70
90th Percentile £72.54 £77.00 £62.24
UK median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -

Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Designer in England

Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Designer in England

Designer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Designer in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Designer in England

Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Designer in England

Designer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Designer in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Designer in England

Designer
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 27 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
London -46 279 £498 -9.55% 129
South East +79 114 £544 +8.75% 32
North of England -22 71 £425 -15.00% 58
Yorkshire -3 38 £429 -13.43% 18
North West -21 22 £394 -12.50% 35
Midlands +5 17 £400 -21.57% 33
West Midlands +11 12 £400 -23.44% 20
North East +10 11 £625 +8.70% 7
South West -4 11 £425 -10.53% 16
East Midlands +17 5 £418 -5.80% 14
East of England +10 5 £525 +27.27% 15
Designer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 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 England region featuring Designer in the job title.

1 208 (40.15%) User Experience
2 173 (33.40%) UX Design
3 121 (23.36%) Figma
3 121 (23.36%) Social Skills
4 100 (19.31%) User Research
4 100 (19.31%) Adobe
5 97 (18.73%) Agile
6 91 (17.57%) Service Design
7 84 (16.22%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 71 (13.71%) Prototyping
9 69 (13.32%) Degree
9 69 (13.32%) Accessibility
10 68 (13.13%) Interaction Design
11 64 (12.36%) Public Sector
12 63 (12.16%) Marketing
13 61 (11.78%) Security Cleared
14 58 (11.20%) Finance
15 56 (10.81%) Wireframes
16 55 (10.62%) Photoshop
17 50 (9.65%) Adobe Illustrator
18 49 (9.46%) HTML
19 46 (8.88%) Problem-Solving
20 45 (8.69%) Usability Testing
21 43 (8.30%) Sketch
22 42 (8.11%) Electronics
23 41 (7.92%) CSS
24 40 (7.72%) SC Cleared
24 40 (7.72%) Adobe Creative Suite
25 39 (7.53%) Mobile App
25 39 (7.53%) FPGA

Designer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 13 (2.51%) CMS
2 6 (1.16%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.77%) Confluence
4 2 (0.39%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.39%) WordPress
5 1 (0.19%) Appian
5 1 (0.19%) Jadu
Applications
1 55 (10.62%) Photoshop
2 50 (9.65%) Adobe Illustrator
3 43 (8.30%) Sketch
4 40 (7.72%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 27 (5.21%) Adobe XD
6 25 (4.83%) Adobe After Effects
7 24 (4.63%) InVision
8 21 (4.05%) InDesign
9 15 (2.90%) Microsoft Office
10 13 (2.51%) Adobe Premiere
10 13 (2.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
11 11 (2.12%) CINEMA 4D
12 8 (1.54%) Adobe Captivate
13 6 (1.16%) Zeplin
14 5 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
15 1 (0.19%) AutoCAD
15 1 (0.19%) Houdini
15 1 (0.19%) Maya
15 1 (0.19%) SOLIDWORKS
15 1 (0.19%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 5 (0.97%) SmartPlant
2 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.19%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 121 (23.36%) Figma
2 20 (3.86%) Azure
3 14 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (2.51%) Miro
5 12 (2.32%) Adobe Creative Cloud
6 9 (1.74%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 9 (1.74%) Azure Key Vault
7 8 (1.54%) Azure Cognitive Search
7 8 (1.54%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (0.97%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (0.77%) AWS
10 3 (0.58%) Apigee
10 3 (0.58%) Power Platform
11 2 (0.39%) Google Analytics
11 2 (0.39%) SaaS
12 1 (0.19%) Azure Functions
12 1 (0.19%) BigCommerce
12 1 (0.19%) Pendo
12 1 (0.19%) Serverless
12 1 (0.19%) Unqork
Communications & Networking
1 33 (6.37%) Ethernet
2 6 (1.16%) Wireless
3 3 (0.58%) SSL
4 2 (0.39%) Cisco Firepower
4 2 (0.39%) Firewall
4 2 (0.39%) Intranet
4 2 (0.39%) Software-Defined Radio
4 2 (0.39%) VPN
5 1 (0.19%) BGP
5 1 (0.19%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (0.19%) IOS XR
5 1 (0.19%) LTE
5 1 (0.19%) MPLS
5 1 (0.19%) RTP
5 1 (0.19%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.19%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.19%) VoLTE
5 1 (0.19%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.58%) Apache Cassandra
1 3 (0.58%) Big Data
1 3 (0.58%) BusinessObjects
1 3 (0.58%) Power BI
2 2 (0.39%) Looker
2 2 (0.39%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 23 (4.44%) Axure RP
2 8 (1.54%) JIRA
3 7 (1.35%) Dreamweaver
4 6 (1.16%) Git
5 4 (0.77%) Maven
6 3 (0.58%) gulp
6 3 (0.58%) Jenkins
General
1 121 (23.36%) Social Skills
2 64 (12.36%) Public Sector
3 63 (12.16%) Marketing
4 58 (11.20%) Finance
5 42 (8.11%) Electronics
6 23 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
7 17 (3.28%) Games
8 15 (2.90%) Banking
9 13 (2.51%) Multimedia
10 11 (2.12%) Retail
11 10 (1.93%) Advertising
11 10 (1.93%) Health Technology
11 10 (1.93%) Influencing Skills
11 10 (1.93%) Telecoms
12 9 (1.74%) Legal
12 9 (1.74%) Publishing
13 8 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
14 7 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 5 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (9.46%) HTML
2 41 (7.92%) CSS
3 13 (2.51%) Node.js
4 11 (2.12%) AngularJS
5 6 (1.16%) Unity (Game Engine)
6 5 (0.97%) React
7 4 (0.77%) Unreal Engine
8 3 (0.58%) .NET
8 3 (0.58%) CSS3
8 3 (0.58%) OAuth
8 3 (0.58%) OpenID
8 3 (0.58%) RESTful
8 3 (0.58%) SAML
9 2 (0.39%) SAPUI5
10 1 (0.19%) Framer.js
10 1 (0.19%) LESS
10 1 (0.19%) Material Design
10 1 (0.19%) React Native
10 1 (0.19%) Sass
10 1 (0.19%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 39 (7.53%) FPGA
1 39 (7.53%) Mobile App
2 33 (6.37%) CPLD
2 33 (6.37%) VHDL
3 25 (4.83%) Product Ownership
4 18 (3.47%) Graphic Design
4 18 (3.47%) Self-Motivation
5 17 (3.28%) Animation
6 11 (2.12%) Digital Media
6 11 (2.12%) Motion Graphics
6 11 (2.12%) Social Media
7 9 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (1.74%) Onboarding
8 8 (1.54%) e-Learning
9 6 (1.16%) Photography
9 6 (1.16%) Virtual Team
10 5 (0.97%) Podcast
11 4 (0.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (0.58%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.12%) Android
1 11 (2.12%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.39%) Linux
2 2 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
2 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (0.19%) Mac OS X
3 1 (0.19%) Windows
3 1 (0.19%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (40.15%) User Experience
2 173 (33.40%) UX Design
3 100 (19.31%) User Research
4 97 (18.73%) Agile
5 91 (17.57%) Service Design
6 84 (16.22%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 71 (13.71%) Prototyping
8 68 (13.13%) Interaction Design
9 56 (10.81%) Wireframes
10 46 (8.88%) Problem-Solving
11 45 (8.69%) Usability Testing
12 37 (7.14%) Workshop Facilitation
13 36 (6.95%) Design Thinking
14 35 (6.76%) Stakeholder Management
15 33 (6.37%) Schematic Capture
15 33 (6.37%) Strategic Thinking
15 33 (6.37%) Typography
16 31 (5.98%) Storytelling
17 30 (5.79%) Collaborative Working
18 27 (5.21%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 30 (5.79%) JavaScript
2 9 (1.74%) Python
3 8 (1.54%) Java
4 5 (0.97%) PHP
5 1 (0.19%) C
5 1 (0.19%) Ruby
5 1 (0.19%) SQL
Qualifications
1 69 (13.32%) Degree
2 61 (11.78%) Security Cleared
3 40 (7.72%) SC Cleared
4 12 (2.32%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (1.54%) JNCIS
6 6 (1.16%) DBS Check
6 6 (1.16%) DV Cleared
7 4 (0.77%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (0.58%) CCNP
8 3 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.39%) CCNA
9 2 (0.39%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (13.32%) Accessibility
2 13 (2.51%) WCAG
3 7 (1.35%) QA
4 6 (1.16%) SLA
5 2 (0.39%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.19%) GDPR
6 1 (0.19%) GRC
System Software
1 2 (0.39%) Active Directory
1 2 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (0.77%) Ansible
2 1 (0.19%) EMC NetWorker
2 1 (0.19%) Terraform
Vendors
1 100 (19.31%) Adobe
2 33 (6.37%) EMC
3 24 (4.63%) Microsoft
4 9 (1.74%) Juniper
5 8 (1.54%) Google
5 8 (1.54%) SAP
6 6 (1.16%) dotdigital
6 6 (1.16%) ServiceNow
6 6 (1.16%) Virgin Media
7 5 (0.97%) Salesforce
7 5 (0.97%) Xilinx
8 4 (0.77%) Cisco
8 4 (0.77%) Workday
9 2 (0.39%) Apple
9 2 (0.39%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.39%) F5
9 2 (0.39%) MicroStrategy
9 2 (0.39%) Oracle
9 2 (0.39%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.39%) VMware