Designer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Designer
UK > Work from Home

The median Designer daily rate in Work from Home is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 15 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
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 141 108 90
Rank change year-on-year -33 -18 -21
Contract jobs requiring a Designer 225 549 1,282
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.52% 2.22% 2.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.62% 2.33% 3.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 406 906
10th Percentile £313 £377 £380
25th Percentile £400 £444 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £513
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +1.46% +13.89%
75th Percentile £552 £611 £588
90th Percentile £634 £706 £674
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -9.52% - +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 9
10th Percentile £37.75 £31.23 £26.50
25th Percentile - £37.50 £31.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £42.50 £57.25
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -25.76% +227.14%
75th Percentile £53.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £56.40 £76.25 £72.50
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
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,873 23,568 42,083
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.55% 95.33% 95.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,324 16,647 30,443
10th Percentile £325 £362 £356
25th Percentile £425 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £723
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 539 600
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.50 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.68 £25.71 £19.33
Median hourly rate £44.00 £53.35 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.53% +52.43% +44.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.13 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £68.16
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +6.67%

Designer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Designer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Designer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Designer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Designer.

Designer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Designer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Designer over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Designer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Designer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Designer.

Designer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Designer
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Designer over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Designer hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 15 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Designer in the job title.

1 89 (39.56%) User Experience
2 66 (29.33%) UX Design
3 64 (28.44%) Social Skills
4 49 (21.78%) Figma
5 43 (19.11%) User Research
6 41 (18.22%) Public Sector
6 41 (18.22%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 41 (18.22%) Service Design
7 39 (17.33%) Security Cleared
8 38 (16.89%) Agile
8 38 (16.89%) Accessibility
9 37 (16.44%) Interaction Design
9 37 (16.44%) Adobe
10 30 (13.33%) Wireframes
10 30 (13.33%) Prototyping
10 30 (13.33%) SC Cleared
11 29 (12.89%) Finance
12 27 (12.00%) Marketing
13 25 (11.11%) Usability Testing
14 19 (8.44%) Microsoft
15 18 (8.00%) HTML
15 18 (8.00%) Photoshop
15 18 (8.00%) Content Strategy
16 16 (7.11%) Problem-Solving
16 16 (7.11%) CSS
16 16 (7.11%) Stakeholder Management
16 16 (7.11%) Adobe Illustrator
16 16 (7.11%) Analytical Skills
17 15 (6.67%) Degree
18 14 (6.22%) Mobile App

Designer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (4.00%) CMS
2 1 (0.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 18 (8.00%) Photoshop
2 16 (7.11%) Adobe Illustrator
3 14 (6.22%) Sketch
4 13 (5.78%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 12 (5.33%) Adobe After Effects
6 9 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
6 9 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 8 (3.56%) Adobe XD
8 6 (2.67%) CINEMA 4D
8 6 (2.67%) InDesign
9 5 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
10 4 (1.78%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.44%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.44%) Autodesk Inventor
11 1 (0.44%) InVision
11 1 (0.44%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 5 (2.22%) SmartPlant
2 1 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 49 (21.78%) Figma
2 12 (5.33%) Azure
3 9 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (4.00%) Miro
4 6 (2.67%) SaaS
5 4 (1.78%) Adobe Creative Cloud
5 4 (1.78%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (0.89%) Apigee
6 2 (0.89%) AWS
6 2 (0.89%) OCI
6 2 (0.89%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.44%) Azure Cognitive Search
7 1 (0.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (0.44%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (0.44%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (0.44%) Google Docs
7 1 (0.44%) Google Sheets
7 1 (0.44%) IaaS
7 1 (0.44%) OneDrive
7 1 (0.44%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.89%) Firewall
1 2 (0.89%) SSL
2 1 (0.44%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (0.44%) Intranet
2 1 (0.44%) LTE
2 1 (0.44%) VoLTE
2 1 (0.44%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.33%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.89%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (0.89%) MongoDB
2 2 (0.89%) Power BI
3 1 (0.44%) Metadata
3 1 (0.44%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 6 (2.67%) Dreamweaver
2 3 (1.33%) Axure RP
3 2 (0.89%) gulp
3 2 (0.89%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.89%) JIRA
3 2 (0.89%) Maven
3 2 (0.89%) Oracle APEX
General
1 64 (28.44%) Social Skills
2 41 (18.22%) Public Sector
3 29 (12.89%) Finance
4 27 (12.00%) Marketing
5 16 (7.11%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (5.33%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (4.44%) Publishing
8 8 (3.56%) Telecoms
9 6 (2.67%) Retail
10 5 (2.22%) Banking
10 5 (2.22%) Games
11 3 (1.33%) Front Office
12 2 (0.89%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.89%) Legal
12 2 (0.89%) Military
13 1 (0.44%) Advertising
13 1 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.44%) Multimedia
13 1 (0.44%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (8.00%) HTML
2 16 (7.11%) CSS
3 6 (2.67%) React
4 3 (1.33%) Node.js
5 2 (0.89%) .NET
5 2 (0.89%) Ajax
5 2 (0.89%) AngularJS
5 2 (0.89%) CSS3
5 2 (0.89%) HTML5
5 2 (0.89%) LESS
5 2 (0.89%) OAuth
5 2 (0.89%) OpenID
5 2 (0.89%) RESTful
5 2 (0.89%) SAML
5 2 (0.89%) SAPUI5
5 2 (0.89%) Sass
6 1 (0.44%) Middleware
6 1 (0.44%) SwiftUI
6 1 (0.44%) Unity (Game Engine)
6 1 (0.44%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.22%) Mobile App
2 12 (5.33%) Product Ownership
3 9 (4.00%) Animation
4 7 (3.11%) Social Media
5 5 (2.22%) Motion Graphics
6 4 (1.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (1.78%) Graphic Design
6 4 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (1.78%) Photography
6 4 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.78%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.33%) Derivative
7 3 (1.33%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.33%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.89%) e-Learning
8 2 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.89%) Learning Management System
8 2 (0.89%) NHS
8 2 (0.89%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.89%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.67%) Android
2 5 (2.22%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.78%) Windows
4 3 (1.33%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.44%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (39.56%) User Experience
2 66 (29.33%) UX Design
3 43 (19.11%) User Research
4 41 (18.22%) Service Design
4 41 (18.22%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 38 (16.89%) Agile
6 37 (16.44%) Interaction Design
7 30 (13.33%) Prototyping
7 30 (13.33%) Wireframes
8 25 (11.11%) Usability Testing
9 18 (8.00%) Content Strategy
10 16 (7.11%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (7.11%) Stakeholder Management
11 14 (6.22%) UX Research
12 13 (5.78%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (5.78%) Strategic Thinking
12 13 (5.78%) Typography
13 11 (4.89%) Analytics
13 11 (4.89%) Coaching
13 11 (4.89%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 8 (3.56%) JavaScript
2 7 (3.11%) Python
3 6 (2.67%) Java
4 3 (1.33%) SQL
5 2 (0.89%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (17.33%) Security Cleared
2 30 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 15 (6.67%) Degree
4 4 (1.78%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.33%) DBS Check
5 3 (1.33%) MCITP
5 3 (1.33%) MCTS
5 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.89%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.44%) CCNA
7 1 (0.44%) CCNP
7 1 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.44%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.44%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (16.89%) Accessibility
2 5 (2.22%) WCAG
3 3 (1.33%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (1.33%) QA
3 3 (1.33%) SLA
4 2 (0.89%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (1.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (0.89%) Ansible
Vendors
1 37 (16.44%) Adobe
2 19 (8.44%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.11%) Oracle
4 6 (2.67%) dotdigital
5 4 (1.78%) SAP
6 3 (1.33%) Google
7 2 (0.89%) Palo Alto
7 2 (0.89%) Pegasus
8 1 (0.44%) Cisco
8 1 (0.44%) Cognizant
8 1 (0.44%) Databricks
8 1 (0.44%) F5
8 1 (0.44%) Facebook
8 1 (0.44%) IBM
8 1 (0.44%) Instagram
8 1 (0.44%) Juniper
8 1 (0.44%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.44%) Twitter