Lead Designer Contracts in London

Lead Designer
England > London

The median Lead Designer daily rate in London is £488 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 384 473 560
Rank change year-on-year +89 +87 -125
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Designer 15 29 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.084% 0.11% 0.092%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.090% 0.11% 0.097%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 19 26
10th Percentile £333 £446 -
25th Percentile £450 £538 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £700 £534
Median % change year-on-year -30.36% +31.15% +9.49%
75th Percentile £559 - £634
90th Percentile £589 £740 £713
England median daily rate £588 £650 £545
% change year-on-year -9.62% +19.27% +9.00%

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 16,628 25,954 37,220
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.14% 95.32% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,036 18,763 27,151
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £442 £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 342 294 454
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.98 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.53 £22.03
Median hourly rate £27.66 £35.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.55% +0.71% +12.90%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £64.45 £77.48 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -21.11% +100.00% +0.36%

Lead Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Designer in London

Lead Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Designer in London

Lead Designer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Designer in London over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Designer in London

Lead Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead Designer in London

Lead 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 Lead Designer within the London region over the 6 months to 24 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 +33 7 - -
South London - 1 £450 -
West London - 1 £60 - 1
Lead Designer
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, Lead 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 Lead Designer in the job title.

1 10 (66.67%) User Experience
1 10 (66.67%) UX Design
2 7 (46.67%) User Research
3 5 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 5 (33.33%) Prototyping
3 5 (33.33%) Figma
3 5 (33.33%) Agile
3 5 (33.33%) Marketing
4 4 (26.67%) Typography
4 4 (26.67%) Iconography
4 4 (26.67%) Service Design
4 4 (26.67%) Marketing Strategy
4 4 (26.67%) Storytelling
4 4 (26.67%) UX Research
5 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
5 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
5 3 (20.00%) Workshop Facilitation
6 2 (13.33%) ITIL
6 2 (13.33%) B2B
6 2 (13.33%) Project Management
6 2 (13.33%) Design Thinking
7 1 (6.67%) Adobe XD
7 1 (6.67%) Sketch
7 1 (6.67%) Requirements Gathering
7 1 (6.67%) SD-WAN
7 1 (6.67%) UserZoom
7 1 (6.67%) Quantitative Research
7 1 (6.67%) Programme Delivery
7 1 (6.67%) Co-Creation
7 1 (6.67%) Problem-Solving

Lead 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:

Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Adobe XD
1 1 (6.67%) Sketch
1 1 (6.67%) UserZoom
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) Figma
2 1 (6.67%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) SD-WAN
1 1 (6.67%) WAN
General
1 5 (33.33%) Marketing
2 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Games
3 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (6.67%) Law
3 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) Unity (Game Engine)
1 1 (6.67%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
1 1 (6.67%) Over-the-Top Content
1 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
1 1 (6.67%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) User Experience
1 10 (66.67%) UX Design
2 7 (46.67%) User Research
3 5 (33.33%) Agile
3 5 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 5 (33.33%) Prototyping
4 4 (26.67%) Iconography
4 4 (26.67%) Marketing Strategy
4 4 (26.67%) Service Design
4 4 (26.67%) Storytelling
4 4 (26.67%) Typography
4 4 (26.67%) UX Research
5 3 (20.00%) Workshop Facilitation
6 2 (13.33%) B2B
6 2 (13.33%) Design Thinking
6 2 (13.33%) ITIL
6 2 (13.33%) Project Management
7 1 (6.67%) B2C
7 1 (6.67%) GAP Analysis
7 1 (6.67%) Service Management
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) Adobe
1 1 (6.67%) Virgin Media