Designer Contracts in London

Designer
England > London

The median Designer daily rate in London is £498 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 154 108 100
Rank change year-on-year -46 -8 -7
Contract jobs requiring a Designer 279 658 1,093
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.58% 2.43% 2.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.69% 2.55% 2.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 486 747
10th Percentile £325 £363 £385
25th Percentile £400 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -9.55% +2.33% +13.76%
75th Percentile £550 £638 £606
90th Percentile £601 £738 £684
England median daily rate £495 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -5.71% - +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 17
10th Percentile - £27.87 £26.25
25th Percentile £15.50 £35.36 £27.25
Median hourly rate £28.25 £39.00 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.56% -22.77% +44.29%
75th Percentile £49.00 £49.44 £61.45
90th Percentile £63.85 £54.05 £68.00
England median hourly rate £57.35 £43.75 £43.50
% change year-on-year +31.09% +0.57% +56.94%

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 16,503 25,805 37,110
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.18% 95.30% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,929 18,697 27,064
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £443 £463 £469
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 337 292 447
10th Percentile £16.01 £17.98 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.50 £22.03
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.99% +0.71% +11.13%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £77.83 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%

Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Designer in London

Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Designer in London

Designer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Designer in London

Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Designer in London

Designer
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

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

Hourly rate histogram for Designer in London

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 Designer within the London 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
Central London +2 28 £513 +1.49% 12
West London -25 4 £60 -89.09% 6
South London +3 2 £519 -13.54% 3
East London -4 1 £540 -10.00% 1
Designer
England

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

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 London region featuring Designer in the job title.

1 143 (51.25%) User Experience
2 125 (44.80%) UX Design
3 93 (33.33%) Figma
4 82 (29.39%) Social Skills
5 71 (25.45%) User Research
6 64 (22.94%) Service Design
7 60 (21.51%) Agile
8 56 (20.07%) Adobe
9 53 (19.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 51 (18.28%) Finance
11 44 (15.77%) Public Sector
11 44 (15.77%) Prototyping
12 41 (14.70%) Accessibility
13 40 (14.34%) Wireframes
14 37 (13.26%) Problem-Solving
15 34 (12.19%) Interaction Design
15 34 (12.19%) Sketch
16 32 (11.47%) Usability Testing
17 29 (10.39%) Marketing
17 29 (10.39%) Degree
17 29 (10.39%) Design Thinking
17 29 (10.39%) Workshop Facilitation
18 28 (10.04%) Photoshop
18 28 (10.04%) Mobile App
19 26 (9.32%) Adobe Illustrator
20 25 (8.96%) Stakeholder Management
20 25 (8.96%) Security Cleared
21 23 (8.24%) Typography
22 21 (7.53%) Collaborative Working
22 21 (7.53%) SC Cleared

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 9 (3.23%) CMS
2 3 (1.08%) Confluence
2 3 (1.08%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.72%) Headless CMS
3 2 (0.72%) WordPress
Applications
1 34 (12.19%) Sketch
2 28 (10.04%) Photoshop
3 26 (9.32%) Adobe Illustrator
4 19 (6.81%) Adobe XD
5 17 (6.09%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 14 (5.02%) InDesign
6 14 (5.02%) InVision
7 10 (3.58%) Adobe After Effects
8 5 (1.79%) Adobe Premiere
9 4 (1.43%) Adobe Captivate
9 4 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 4 (1.43%) Zeplin
10 3 (1.08%) CINEMA 4D
11 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
12 1 (0.36%) Blender
12 1 (0.36%) Final Cut Pro
12 1 (0.36%) Houdini
12 1 (0.36%) Marvel
12 1 (0.36%) Maya
12 1 (0.36%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 93 (33.33%) Figma
2 13 (4.66%) Miro
3 7 (2.51%) Adobe Creative Cloud
4 6 (2.15%) Azure
5 4 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (1.43%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (1.08%) Power Platform
7 2 (0.72%) Google Analytics
7 2 (0.72%) SaaS
8 1 (0.36%) Adobe Analytics
8 1 (0.36%) BigCommerce
8 1 (0.36%) Contentful
8 1 (0.36%) GitHub
8 1 (0.36%) Google Docs
8 1 (0.36%) Google Sheets
8 1 (0.36%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.36%) Pendo
8 1 (0.36%) Unqork
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.36%) BGP
1 1 (0.36%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (0.36%) IOS XR
1 1 (0.36%) MPLS
1 1 (0.36%) RTP
1 1 (0.36%) SD-WAN
1 1 (0.36%) Unified Communications
1 1 (0.36%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.08%) BusinessObjects
1 3 (1.08%) Power BI
2 2 (0.72%) Looker
Development Applications
1 14 (5.02%) Axure RP
2 7 (2.51%) JIRA
3 1 (0.36%) Git
3 1 (0.36%) Maven
General
1 82 (29.39%) Social Skills
2 51 (18.28%) Finance
3 44 (15.77%) Public Sector
4 29 (10.39%) Marketing
5 15 (5.38%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (5.38%) Banking
5 15 (5.38%) Games
6 8 (2.87%) Multimedia
6 8 (2.87%) Retail
7 7 (2.51%) Publishing
8 6 (2.15%) Health Technology
8 6 (2.15%) Legal
8 6 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.43%) Advertising
10 4 (1.43%) Front Office
10 4 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.43%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.72%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (7.17%) HTML
2 16 (5.73%) CSS
3 6 (2.15%) Unity (Game Engine)
4 4 (1.43%) React
4 4 (1.43%) Unreal Engine
5 2 (0.72%) CSS3
6 1 (0.36%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.36%) JSON
6 1 (0.36%) NETCONF
6 1 (0.36%) React Native
6 1 (0.36%) SwiftUI
6 1 (0.36%) WebGL
6 1 (0.36%) XML
6 1 (0.36%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 28 (10.04%) Mobile App
2 15 (5.38%) Graphic Design
2 15 (5.38%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (3.58%) Product Ownership
4 8 (2.87%) e-Learning
4 8 (2.87%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (2.51%) Animation
5 7 (2.51%) Digital Media
6 6 (2.15%) Social Media
7 5 (1.79%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.79%) Podcast
8 4 (1.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.43%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.08%) 3D Graphics
9 3 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.08%) Derivative
9 3 (1.08%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.08%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.08%) Mobile Games
9 3 (1.08%) Photography
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.51%) Android
1 7 (2.51%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.36%) Mac OS X
2 1 (0.36%) Windows
2 1 (0.36%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (51.25%) User Experience
2 125 (44.80%) UX Design
3 71 (25.45%) User Research
4 64 (22.94%) Service Design
5 60 (21.51%) Agile
6 53 (19.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 44 (15.77%) Prototyping
8 40 (14.34%) Wireframes
9 37 (13.26%) Problem-Solving
10 34 (12.19%) Interaction Design
11 32 (11.47%) Usability Testing
12 29 (10.39%) Design Thinking
12 29 (10.39%) Workshop Facilitation
13 25 (8.96%) Stakeholder Management
14 23 (8.24%) Typography
15 21 (7.53%) Collaborative Working
16 17 (6.09%) UX Research
17 16 (5.73%) E-Commerce
17 16 (5.73%) Visualisation
18 15 (5.38%) Journey Map
Programming Languages
1 11 (3.94%) JavaScript
2 4 (1.43%) Java
2 4 (1.43%) Python
3 1 (0.36%) SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (10.39%) Degree
2 25 (8.96%) Security Cleared
3 21 (7.53%) SC Cleared
4 11 (3.94%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (2.15%) DBS Check
6 4 (1.43%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.72%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.36%) CCNP
8 1 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (14.70%) Accessibility
2 7 (2.51%) WCAG
3 3 (1.08%) SLA
4 2 (0.72%) QA
5 1 (0.36%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.36%) GDPR
5 1 (0.36%) GRC
Systems Management
1 1 (0.36%) Ansible
1 1 (0.36%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 56 (20.07%) Adobe
2 5 (1.79%) Google
3 4 (1.43%) Microsoft
3 4 (1.43%) Virgin Media
4 2 (0.72%) Apple
4 2 (0.72%) Atlassian
4 2 (0.72%) MicroStrategy
4 2 (0.72%) Oracle
4 2 (0.72%) SAP
4 2 (0.72%) Workday
5 1 (0.36%) Cisco
5 1 (0.36%) Databricks
5 1 (0.36%) JDA
5 1 (0.36%) Nokia
5 1 (0.36%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.36%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.36%) Sitecore