Senior Designer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Senior Designer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Designer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 373 411 398
Rank change year-on-year +38 -13 -17
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Designer 28 19 106
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.084% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.089% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 15 88
10th Percentile £410 £372 £414
25th Percentile £450 £419 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £572 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.51% +3.91% +10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £588
90th Percentile £620 £670 £673
UK median daily rate £538 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -10.42% +9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £30.47
Median hourly rate - - £32.50
75th Percentile - - £34.52
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £60.00 £48.75
% change year-on-year - +23.08% +48.39%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 19,709 21,379 29,050
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.42% 94.21% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,751 14,853 20,421
10th Percentile £213 £225 £208
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £593 £600 £575
90th Percentile £680 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,515 1,090 1,383
10th Percentile £12.63 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.92 £18.08 £15.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%
75th Percentile £62.83 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.68 £62.45
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Senior Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Designer in the UK excluding London

Senior Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Designer in the UK excluding London

Senior Designer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Designer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Designer in the UK excluding London

Senior Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Designer in the UK excluding London

Senior 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 Senior Designer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 June 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
Scotland +55 12 £425 -29.17% 5
North of England +22 11 £500 -14.89% 13
Yorkshire +19 7 £500 -3.85% 3
North West +16 4 - - 9
South East +13 3 £625 +58.83% 9
South West +2 2 £510 -20.00% 3
Senior Designer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 June 2024, Senior 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 Senior Designer in the job title.

1 16 (57.14%) Agile
2 15 (53.57%) Public Sector
3 13 (46.43%) Service Design
4 10 (35.71%) Accessibility
4 10 (35.71%) User Experience
5 9 (32.14%) Prototyping
6 7 (25.00%) Coaching
6 7 (25.00%) Interaction Design
6 7 (25.00%) Content Strategy
6 7 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (25.00%) User Stories
6 7 (25.00%) Content Management
6 7 (25.00%) CMS
7 6 (21.43%) UX Design
7 6 (21.43%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 6 (21.43%) User Research
7 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
8 5 (17.86%) Technical Debt
9 4 (14.29%) Publishing
9 4 (14.29%) Degree
9 4 (14.29%) Community of Practice
9 4 (14.29%) Workshop Facilitation
9 4 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (14.29%) Metadata
9 4 (14.29%) Mentoring
9 4 (14.29%) Wireframes
9 4 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
10 3 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
10 3 (10.71%) Product Ownership
10 3 (10.71%) Journey Map

Senior 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 7 (25.00%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (7.14%) InVision
2 1 (3.57%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (3.57%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 2 (7.14%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.29%) Metadata
2 1 (3.57%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Dreamweaver
General
1 15 (53.57%) Public Sector
2 7 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
3 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
4 4 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (14.29%) Publishing
5 3 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (7.14%) Health Technology
7 1 (3.57%) Banking
7 1 (3.57%) Finance
7 1 (3.57%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.14%) Spring
2 1 (3.57%) COM+
2 1 (3.57%) CSS
2 1 (3.57%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Product Ownership
2 2 (7.14%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.57%) Graphic Design
3 1 (3.57%) NHS
3 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) Android
1 1 (3.57%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (57.14%) Agile
2 13 (46.43%) Service Design
3 10 (35.71%) User Experience
4 9 (32.14%) Prototyping
5 7 (25.00%) Coaching
5 7 (25.00%) Content Management
5 7 (25.00%) Content Strategy
5 7 (25.00%) Interaction Design
5 7 (25.00%) User Stories
6 6 (21.43%) User Research
6 6 (21.43%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 6 (21.43%) UX Design
7 5 (17.86%) Technical Debt
8 4 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
8 4 (14.29%) Community of Practice
8 4 (14.29%) Mentoring
8 4 (14.29%) Wireframes
8 4 (14.29%) Workshop Facilitation
9 3 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (10.71%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.14%) Java
2 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
2 1 (3.57%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (14.29%) Degree
2 2 (7.14%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (35.71%) Accessibility
2 2 (7.14%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (7.14%) WCAG
3 1 (3.57%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (7.14%) Adobe
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
1 2 (7.14%) ServiceNow
2 1 (3.57%) Brio
2 1 (3.57%) Virgin Media