Designer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Designer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Designer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 May 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 150 181 119
Rank change year-on-year +31 -62 -19
Contract jobs requiring a Designer 274 309 664
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.35% 1.34% 2.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.46% 1.43% 2.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 212 467
10th Percentile £277 £325 £333
25th Percentile £378 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £586
90th Percentile £625 £687 £654
UK median daily rate £475 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -8.65% -0.95% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 7 7
10th Percentile £45.00 £40.45 £27.78
25th Percentile £53.40 £50.88 £30.86
Median hourly rate £57.35 £65.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.77% +80.56% +75.61%
75th Percentile £61.30 £70.50 £54.69
90th Percentile - £86.59 £61.33
UK median hourly rate £57.35 £46.25 £43.50
% change year-on-year +24.00% +6.32% +102.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,796 21,663 29,128
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 94.29% 95.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,463 15,116 20,427
10th Percentile £213 £225 £203
25th Percentile £363 £393 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.82% +2.90% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,267 1,107 1,446
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.73 £18.02 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £44.92
90th Percentile £73.85 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Designer in the UK excluding London

Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Designer in the UK excluding London

Designer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Designer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Designer in the UK excluding London

Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Designer in the UK excluding London

Designer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Designer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Designer in the UK excluding London

Designer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 May 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
South East +65 109 £527 +0.29% 41
North of England -17 71 £425 -14.57% 90
Scotland +46 56 £458 -2.97% 21
Yorkshire -4 37 £429 -9.79% 20
Midlands +20 21 £400 -15.79% 28
North West -17 21 £375 -25.00% 55
North East +11 13 £538 -6.52% 16
West Midlands +9 12 £400 -15.79% 18
South West -20 11 £425 -7.61% 14
East Midlands +17 9 £400 -17.95% 11
East of England 0 4 £650 +57.58% 17
Northern Ireland - 2 £563 -
Designer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 May 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 UK excluding London region featuring Designer in the job title.

1 83 (30.29%) User Experience
2 64 (23.36%) UX Design
3 50 (18.25%) Agile
4 48 (17.52%) Degree
5 47 (17.15%) Social Skills
6 43 (15.69%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 43 (15.69%) Electronics
7 42 (15.33%) Adobe
8 41 (14.96%) Accessibility
8 41 (14.96%) Prototyping
9 40 (14.60%) Figma
10 38 (13.87%) FPGA
10 38 (13.87%) User Research
11 34 (12.41%) Security Cleared
12 33 (12.04%) CPLD
12 33 (12.04%) VHDL
12 33 (12.04%) EMC
12 33 (12.04%) Ethernet
12 33 (12.04%) Public Sector
12 33 (12.04%) Schematic Capture
13 31 (11.31%) Product Ownership
13 31 (11.31%) Marketing
14 30 (10.95%) Interaction Design
15 29 (10.58%) Service Design
16 27 (9.85%) HTML
16 27 (9.85%) Photoshop
17 26 (9.49%) Wireframes
18 24 (8.76%) Adobe Illustrator
19 23 (8.39%) SC Cleared
19 23 (8.39%) Adobe Creative Suite

Designer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 (2.92%) CMS
2 4 (1.46%) Confluence
3 3 (1.09%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.36%) Appian
4 1 (0.36%) Jadu
Applications
1 27 (9.85%) Photoshop
2 24 (8.76%) Adobe Illustrator
3 23 (8.39%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 18 (6.57%) Sketch
5 14 (5.11%) Adobe After Effects
6 13 (4.74%) Microsoft Office
7 10 (3.65%) InVision
8 9 (3.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 7 (2.55%) Adobe Premiere
9 7 (2.55%) CINEMA 4D
9 7 (2.55%) InDesign
10 6 (2.19%) Adobe XD
11 5 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
12 4 (1.46%) Adobe Captivate
13 1 (0.36%) AutoCAD
13 1 (0.36%) Autodesk Inventor
13 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
13 1 (0.36%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 5 (1.82%) SmartPlant
2 1 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 40 (14.60%) Figma
2 20 (7.30%) Azure
3 10 (3.65%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (2.55%) Adobe Creative Cloud
5 6 (2.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 6 (2.19%) Azure Key Vault
5 6 (2.19%) SaaS
6 5 (1.82%) Azure Cognitive Search
6 5 (1.82%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (1.46%) AWS
8 3 (1.09%) Apigee
9 2 (0.73%) Canva
10 1 (0.36%) AWS CodePipeline
10 1 (0.36%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.36%) Azure Functions
10 1 (0.36%) GCP
10 1 (0.36%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 33 (12.04%) Ethernet
2 7 (2.55%) Wireless
3 3 (1.09%) SSL
4 2 (0.73%) Broadband
4 2 (0.73%) Cisco Firepower
4 2 (0.73%) Internet
4 2 (0.73%) Intranet
4 2 (0.73%) Software-Defined Radio
4 2 (0.73%) VPN
5 1 (0.36%) 5G
5 1 (0.36%) Firewall
5 1 (0.36%) LTE
5 1 (0.36%) VoLTE
5 1 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.01%) MongoDB
2 6 (2.19%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.09%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (1.09%) Big Data
3 3 (1.09%) Metadata
4 1 (0.36%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 7 (2.55%) Axure RP
1 7 (2.55%) Dreamweaver
2 4 (1.46%) JIRA
3 3 (1.09%) Git
3 3 (1.09%) gulp
3 3 (1.09%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.09%) Maven
4 2 (0.73%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.36%) Bitbucket
General
1 47 (17.15%) Social Skills
2 43 (15.69%) Electronics
3 33 (12.04%) Public Sector
4 31 (11.31%) Marketing
5 17 (6.20%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (4.74%) Finance
7 10 (3.65%) Influencing Skills
7 10 (3.65%) Telecoms
8 8 (2.92%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (2.55%) Publishing
10 5 (1.82%) Advertising
10 5 (1.82%) Banking
10 5 (1.82%) Multimedia
11 4 (1.46%) Health Technology
12 3 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.09%) Legal
12 3 (1.09%) Retail
13 2 (0.73%) Games
14 1 (0.36%) Automotive
14 1 (0.36%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (9.85%) HTML
2 22 (8.03%) CSS
3 12 (4.38%) React
4 11 (4.01%) Node.js
5 7 (2.55%) AngularJS
6 3 (1.09%) .NET
6 3 (1.09%) JSON
6 3 (1.09%) OAuth
6 3 (1.09%) OpenID
6 3 (1.09%) RESTful
6 3 (1.09%) SAML
7 2 (0.73%) Ajax
7 2 (0.73%) CSS3
7 2 (0.73%) HTML5
7 2 (0.73%) Java EE
7 2 (0.73%) LESS
7 2 (0.73%) Sass
7 2 (0.73%) Spring
8 1 (0.36%) Express.js
8 1 (0.36%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 38 (13.87%) FPGA
2 33 (12.04%) CPLD
2 33 (12.04%) VHDL
3 31 (11.31%) Product Ownership
4 11 (4.01%) Mobile App
5 10 (3.65%) Animation
5 10 (3.65%) Motion Graphics
6 7 (2.55%) Social Media
7 5 (1.82%) Graphic Design
8 4 (1.46%) Digital Media
9 3 (1.09%) Operational Technology
9 3 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.73%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.73%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.73%) Photography
10 2 (0.73%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.73%) Taxonomies
10 2 (0.73%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.47%) Android
1 15 (5.47%) Apple iOS
2 4 (1.46%) Windows
2 4 (1.46%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.09%) Linux
4 2 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.73%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (0.73%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (30.29%) User Experience
2 64 (23.36%) UX Design
3 50 (18.25%) Agile
4 43 (15.69%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 41 (14.96%) Prototyping
6 38 (13.87%) User Research
7 33 (12.04%) Schematic Capture
8 30 (10.95%) Interaction Design
9 29 (10.58%) Service Design
10 26 (9.49%) Wireframes
11 23 (8.39%) Coaching
12 19 (6.93%) User Stories
13 18 (6.57%) Problem-Solving
14 17 (6.20%) Continuous Improvement
15 14 (5.11%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
15 14 (5.11%) Storytelling
15 14 (5.11%) Strategic Thinking
15 14 (5.11%) Visualisation
16 12 (4.38%) Mentoring
16 12 (4.38%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (6.20%) JavaScript
2 16 (5.84%) Python
3 9 (3.28%) Java
4 6 (2.19%) SQL
5 2 (0.73%) PHP
5 2 (0.73%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.36%) C
6 1 (0.36%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 48 (17.52%) Degree
2 34 (12.41%) Security Cleared
3 23 (8.39%) SC Cleared
4 8 (2.92%) JNCIS
5 4 (1.46%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.46%) MCITP
5 4 (1.46%) MCTS
5 4 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.73%) CCNA
6 2 (0.73%) CCNP
6 2 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (0.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.73%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (14.96%) Accessibility
2 9 (3.28%) WCAG
3 6 (2.19%) Disclosure Scotland
4 5 (1.82%) QA
5 3 (1.09%) SLA
6 1 (0.36%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (2.19%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (1.09%) Ansible
2 1 (0.36%) Terraform
Vendors
1 42 (15.33%) Adobe
2 33 (12.04%) EMC
3 21 (7.66%) Microsoft
4 9 (3.28%) Juniper
5 6 (2.19%) dotdigital
6 5 (1.82%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.82%) Xilinx
7 4 (1.46%) Google
7 4 (1.46%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.46%) SAP
8 3 (1.09%) Cisco
8 3 (1.09%) Oracle
9 2 (0.73%) F5
9 2 (0.73%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.73%) Virgin Media
9 2 (0.73%) VMware
9 2 (0.73%) Workday
10 1 (0.36%) Facebook
10 1 (0.36%) Instagram
10 1 (0.36%) Twitter