Content Designer Contracts in London

Content Designer
England > London

The median Content Designer daily rate in London is £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 357 434 521
Rank change year-on-year +77 +87 -121
Contract jobs requiring a Content Designer 37 67 83
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.21% 0.25% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.26% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 59 62
10th Percentile £325 £346 £313
25th Percentile £394 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £488 £425
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% +14.71% -
75th Percentile £463 £500 £500
90th Percentile £538 £568 £584
England median daily rate £425 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £36.25 £39.25
Median hourly rate - £37.50 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year - -7.41% -
75th Percentile - £38.75 £41.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - £37.50 £34.00
% change year-on-year - +10.29% +65.85%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,505 25,769 37,084
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.17% 95.30% 95.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,930 18,667 27,033
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £443 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £788 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 337 289 447
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.50 £22.03
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - +11.13%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £76.05 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.38% +100.00% +0.29%

Content Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Content Designer in London

Content Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Content Designer in London

Content Designer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Content Designer in London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Content Designer in London

Content Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Content Designer in London

Content Designer
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Content Designer within the London region over the 6 months to 28 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
Central London +37 5 £513 +24.24% 1
Content Designer
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, Content 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 London region featuring Content Designer in the job title.

1 18 (48.65%) User Experience
2 12 (32.43%) Content Strategy
2 12 (32.43%) Accessibility
3 9 (24.32%) Public Sector
3 9 (24.32%) Content Management
3 9 (24.32%) UX Design
4 8 (21.62%) CMS
5 7 (18.92%) Agile
5 7 (18.92%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (18.92%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (18.92%) Social Skills
5 7 (18.92%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 6 (16.22%) Security Cleared
6 6 (16.22%) Publishing
7 5 (13.51%) SEO
7 5 (13.51%) SC Cleared
7 5 (13.51%) Design Thinking
8 4 (10.81%) User Research
8 4 (10.81%) Web Application Development
8 4 (10.81%) Analytics
9 3 (8.11%) Service Design
9 3 (8.11%) Content Writing
9 3 (8.11%) Strategic Thinking
9 3 (8.11%) Information Architecture
9 3 (8.11%) Finance
9 3 (8.11%) Legal
9 3 (8.11%) Management Information System
9 3 (8.11%) Banking
9 3 (8.11%) UX Research
9 3 (8.11%) Customer Experience

Content Designer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 8 (21.62%) CMS
2 2 (5.41%) Headless CMS
2 2 (5.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (2.70%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (2.70%) InDesign
2 1 (2.70%) InVision
2 1 (2.70%) Marvel
2 1 (2.70%) Photoshop
2 1 (2.70%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 3 (8.11%) Figma
2 2 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (5.41%) Miro
3 1 (2.70%) Azure
3 1 (2.70%) Contentful
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.41%) Looker
Development Applications
1 2 (5.41%) JIRA
2 1 (2.70%) Maven
General
1 9 (24.32%) Public Sector
2 7 (18.92%) Social Skills
3 6 (16.22%) Publishing
4 3 (8.11%) Banking
4 3 (8.11%) Finance
4 3 (8.11%) Legal
5 2 (5.41%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (5.41%) Local Government
6 1 (2.70%) Advertising
6 1 (2.70%) Marketing
6 1 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.11%) Management Information System
2 2 (5.41%) Mobile App
2 2 (5.41%) Virtual Team
3 1 (2.70%) Animation
3 1 (2.70%) Blog
3 1 (2.70%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.70%) Photography
3 1 (2.70%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (48.65%) User Experience
2 12 (32.43%) Content Strategy
3 9 (24.32%) Content Management
3 9 (24.32%) UX Design
4 7 (18.92%) Agile
4 7 (18.92%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (18.92%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 5 (13.51%) Design Thinking
5 5 (13.51%) SEO
6 4 (10.81%) Analytics
6 4 (10.81%) User Research
6 4 (10.81%) Web Application Development
7 3 (8.11%) Content Writing
7 3 (8.11%) Customer Experience
7 3 (8.11%) Information Architecture
7 3 (8.11%) Service Design
7 3 (8.11%) Strategic Thinking
7 3 (8.11%) UX Research
8 2 (5.41%) Prototyping
8 2 (5.41%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
Qualifications
1 7 (18.92%) BPSS Clearance
2 6 (16.22%) Security Cleared
3 5 (13.51%) SC Cleared
4 3 (8.11%) DBS Check
5 1 (2.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (32.43%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.41%) QA
3 1 (2.70%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (5.41%) Adobe
1 2 (5.41%) Google
2 1 (2.70%) Virgin Media