Instructional Design Contracts

Instructional Design
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Instructional Design skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Instructional Design over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 580 693 824
Rank change year-on-year +113 +131 -173
Contract jobs citing Instructional Design 20 20 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.046% 0.034% 0.036%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.053% 0.037% 0.040%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 9 26
10th Percentile £243 £401 -
25th Percentile £301 £425 £130
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £262
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +71.76% +20.46%
75th Percentile £488 £500 £347
90th Percentile £670 £540 £400
UK excluding London median daily rate £388 £450 £233
% change year-on-year -13.89% +93.55% -38.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile - £20.14 -
25th Percentile £49.00 £25.43 £24.25
Median hourly rate £51.00 £34.50 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.83% +35.29% +70.00%
75th Percentile £53.00 £36.75 £26.75
90th Percentile - £37.95 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £37.50 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Instructional Design is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,621 53,662 80,392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.30% 89.91% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,254 37,244 56,449
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,437 1,746 1,925
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.83% +49.20% -
75th Percentile £59.95 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.32
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +80.00% -7.24%

Instructional Design
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Instructional Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Instructional Design in the UK

Instructional Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Instructional Design.

Daily rate trend for Instructional Design in the UK

Instructional Design
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Instructional Design over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Instructional Design in the UK

Instructional Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Instructional Design.

Hourly rate trend for Instructional Design in the UK

Instructional Design
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Instructional Design within the UK over the 6 months to 29 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
England +104 17 £475 +5.56% 22
London +104 9 £475 -5.00% 9
Work from Home +121 8 £475 +13.10% 16
UK excluding London +69 8 £388 -13.89% 14
North of England - 5 £600 - 3
Yorkshire - 4 £600 - 1
Midlands +28 1 - - 1
West Midlands +28 1 - - 1
South East +18 1 £175 -61.11% 5
Scotland - 1 - - 3
North West - 1 - - 1

Instructional Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (5.00%) Moodle
Applications
1 7 (35.00%) Adobe Captivate
2 6 (30.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 6 (30.00%) Adobe Illustrator
2 6 (30.00%) Photoshop
3 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (5.00%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 7 (35.00%) Adobe Creative Cloud
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.00%) OCI
3 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Power BI
General
1 7 (35.00%) Multimedia
2 6 (30.00%) Influencing Skills
2 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (15.00%) Games
5 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (10.00%) Finance
5 2 (10.00%) Military
5 2 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (55.00%) Designer
2 4 (20.00%) Digital Designer
3 3 (15.00%) Digital Learning Designer
3 3 (15.00%) Lead
3 3 (15.00%) Trainer
4 2 (10.00%) IT Trainer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Designer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Digital Designer
5 1 (5.00%) Administrator
5 1 (5.00%) Cloud Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Digital Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Digital Learning Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Instructional Designer
5 1 (5.00%) Training Manager
Miscellaneous
1 7 (35.00%) e-Learning
2 6 (30.00%) Digital Media
3 4 (20.00%) Learning Management System
4 1 (5.00%) Housing Association
4 1 (5.00%) Life Science
4 1 (5.00%) Podcast
4 1 (5.00%) VLE
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) User Experience
2 6 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (15.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (15.00%) Strategic Planning
4 2 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (10.00%) Content Development
4 2 (10.00%) Project Management
5 1 (5.00%) Analytics
5 1 (5.00%) Content Management
5 1 (5.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (5.00%) Copywriting
5 1 (5.00%) Data Analysis
5 1 (5.00%) Decision-Making
5 1 (5.00%) ETRM
5 1 (5.00%) Gamification
5 1 (5.00%) Organisational Learning
5 1 (5.00%) Performance Metrics
5 1 (5.00%) Portfolio Management
5 1 (5.00%) Usability Testing
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Degree
2 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) Adobe
2 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (5.00%) Blackboard