Lead Designer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Lead Designer
UK > Work from Home

The median Lead Designer daily rate in Work from Home is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 340 453 552
Rank change year-on-year +113 +99 -81
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Designer 9 11 58
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.060% 0.044% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.065% 0.046% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 38
10th Percentile £465 £427 £488
25th Percentile £488 £463 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £545
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +19.27% -1.36%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £638
90th Percentile £610 £713 £665
UK median daily rate £563 £675 £550
% change year-on-year -16.67% +22.73% +2.33%

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 13,932 23,816 42,408
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.57% 95.33% 95.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,353 16,817 30,671
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 £721
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 545 603
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.50 £13.50
25th Percentile £23.22 £25.71 £19.30
Median hourly rate £44.87 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.53% +50.00% +44.03%
75th Percentile £63.75 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.15 £68.65
UK median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -17.38% +88.21% +6.27%

Lead Designer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Lead Designer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Lead 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 Lead Designer.

Lead Designer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Designer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Lead Designer over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Lead Designer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 14 May 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Lead Designer in the job title.

1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
1 6 (66.67%) Strategic Thinking
1 6 (66.67%) Marketing
2 5 (55.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (55.56%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (55.56%) Coaching
2 5 (55.56%) Storytelling
3 3 (33.33%) Visual Effects
3 3 (33.33%) Motion Graphics
3 3 (33.33%) CINEMA 4D
3 3 (33.33%) Animation
3 3 (33.33%) Adobe
3 3 (33.33%) Adobe Premiere
3 3 (33.33%) Adobe After Effects
4 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
4 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (22.22%) UX Design
4 2 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (22.22%) User Experience
4 2 (22.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (22.22%) Accessibility
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Cognitive Search
5 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (11.11%) Interaction Design
5 1 (11.11%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 1 (11.11%) Content Strategy
5 1 (11.11%) Adobe XD

Lead 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:

Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (33.33%) Adobe After Effects
2 3 (33.33%) Adobe Premiere
2 3 (33.33%) CINEMA 4D
3 2 (22.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (11.11%) Adobe XD
4 1 (11.11%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Cognitive Search
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (11.11%) Figma
General
1 6 (66.67%) Marketing
1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
1 1 (11.11%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Animation
1 3 (33.33%) Motion Graphics
2 1 (11.11%) Over-the-Top Content
2 1 (11.11%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Strategic Thinking
2 5 (55.56%) Coaching
2 5 (55.56%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (55.56%) Storytelling
3 3 (33.33%) Visual Effects
4 2 (22.22%) User Experience
4 2 (22.22%) UX Design
5 1 (11.11%) Agile
5 1 (11.11%) API Design
5 1 (11.11%) API Development
5 1 (11.11%) B2C
5 1 (11.11%) Content Strategy
5 1 (11.11%) Digital Marketing
5 1 (11.11%) Interaction Design
5 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
5 1 (11.11%) Performance Metrics
5 1 (11.11%) Scrum
5 1 (11.11%) SDLC
5 1 (11.11%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Adobe
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft