Senior Designer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Senior Designer
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Designer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 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
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 318 396 442
Rank change year-on-year +78 +46 -25
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Designer 25 49 192
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.17% 0.21% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.22% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 33 150
10th Percentile £435 £395 £413
25th Percentile £472 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £643 £650 £638
90th Percentile £800 £679 £701
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
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
UK median hourly rate - £60.00 £48.75
% change year-on-year - +23.08% +48.39%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 13,812 22,728 41,958
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.24% 95.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,312 16,121 30,511
10th Percentile £325 £359 £359
25th Percentile £425 £444 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 568 526 561
10th Percentile £14.26 £16.98 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.56 £25.00 £19.91
Median hourly rate £43.00 £50.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.85% +26.25% +70.21%
75th Percentile £63.19 £66.57 £59.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.00 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Senior Designer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Senior Designer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Senior 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 Senior Designer.

Senior Designer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Designer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Senior Designer over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Senior Designer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 11 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Senior Designer in the job title.

1 14 (56.00%) User Experience
2 11 (44.00%) UX Design
3 9 (36.00%) Finance
3 9 (36.00%) Agile
3 9 (36.00%) Figma
3 9 (36.00%) Social Skills
4 6 (24.00%) UX Research
5 5 (20.00%) Miro
5 5 (20.00%) User Research
5 5 (20.00%) Prototyping
5 5 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (20.00%) DevOps
5 5 (20.00%) Service Design
5 5 (20.00%) Azure
6 4 (16.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (16.00%) Usability Testing
6 4 (16.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (16.00%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (12.00%) Fintech
7 3 (12.00%) Content Strategy
7 3 (12.00%) Public Sector
7 3 (12.00%) Workshop Facilitation
7 3 (12.00%) Workflow
7 3 (12.00%) ITIL
7 3 (12.00%) Adobe
7 3 (12.00%) Mobile App
7 3 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (8.00%) Wireframes
8 2 (8.00%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
8 2 (8.00%) ServiceNow

Senior 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 2 (8.00%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (8.00%) InDesign
1 2 (8.00%) Photoshop
2 1 (4.00%) InVision
2 1 (4.00%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 9 (36.00%) Figma
2 5 (20.00%) Azure
2 5 (20.00%) Miro
3 4 (16.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.00%) Adobe Creative Cloud
4 1 (4.00%) AWS
4 1 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Git
1 1 (4.00%) Postman
General
1 9 (36.00%) Finance
1 9 (36.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (12.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.00%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Marketing
3 2 (8.00%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Publishing
4 1 (4.00%) Banking
4 1 (4.00%) Danish Language
4 1 (4.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) CSS
1 2 (8.00%) HTML
2 1 (4.00%) REST
2 1 (4.00%) RESTful
2 1 (4.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.00%) Graphic Design
2 1 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.00%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Windows
1 1 (4.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (56.00%) User Experience
2 11 (44.00%) UX Design
3 9 (36.00%) Agile
4 6 (24.00%) UX Research
5 5 (20.00%) DevOps
5 5 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (20.00%) Prototyping
5 5 (20.00%) Service Design
5 5 (20.00%) User Research
6 4 (16.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (16.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (16.00%) Usability Testing
7 3 (12.00%) Content Strategy
7 3 (12.00%) Fintech
7 3 (12.00%) ITIL
7 3 (12.00%) Workflow
7 3 (12.00%) Workshop Facilitation
8 2 (8.00%) Community of Practice
8 2 (8.00%) Interaction Design
8 2 (8.00%) Strategic Thinking
Qualifications
1 2 (8.00%) Degree
1 2 (8.00%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (4.00%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (4.00%) SLA
1 1 (4.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 3 (12.00%) Adobe
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.00%) ServiceNow