Designer Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Designer
South East > Berkshire

The median Designer daily rate in Berkshire is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
20 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 63 75
Rank change year-on-year -29 +12 +30
Contract jobs requiring a Designer 18 43 47
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.21% 2.87% 2.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.33% 3.18% 2.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 10 21
10th Percentile £351 £223 £200
25th Percentile £450 £244 £318
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £421 £550
Median % change year-on-year +24.63% -23.41% +22.22%
75th Percentile £563 £582 £575
90th Percentile £581 £639 £600
South East median daily rate £525 £504 £513
% change year-on-year +4.22% -1.71% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £45.21
75th Percentile - - £49.53
90th Percentile - - £52.12
South East median hourly rate £69.65 - £51.90

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Berkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Berkshire. 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 Berkshire with a recognized job title 1,350 1,352 1,622
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.03% 90.13% 94.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 916 770 995
10th Percentile £304 £265 £213
25th Percentile £413 £404 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £544 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.05% +8.75% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £613
90th Percentile £650 £685 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £507
% change year-on-year -1.96% +0.69% +1.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 33 72
10th Percentile £14.75 £20.70 £24.26
25th Percentile £18.97 £42.50 £48.40
Median hourly rate £43.96 £59.00 £61.45
Median % change year-on-year -25.50% -3.98% +96.63%
75th Percentile £87.94 £63.43 £67.75
90th Percentile £96.75 £65.62 £76.06
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £42.69 £53.50
% change year-on-year -41.09% -20.21% +52.86%

Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Designer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Designer job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Designer
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Designer job vacancies in Berkshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Designer job vacancies in Berkshire

Designer
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Designer in Berkshire over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Designer in Berkshire

Designer
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Designer job vacancies in Berkshire.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Designer job vacancies in Berkshire

Designer
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Designer within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 20 December 2025. 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
Reading -16 11 £450 +50.00% 2
Bracknell - 1 - -
Designer
South East

Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire

For the 6 months to 20 December 2025, Designer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Berkshire region featuring Designer in the job title.

1 7 (38.89%) Cisco
1 7 (38.89%) Juniper
1 7 (38.89%) LAN
2 6 (33.33%) Ansible
2 6 (33.33%) AWS
2 6 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 6 (33.33%) BGP
2 6 (33.33%) CCIE
2 6 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (33.33%) F5
2 6 (33.33%) Fortinet
2 6 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 6 (33.33%) JNCIE
2 6 (33.33%) MPLS
2 6 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
2 6 (33.33%) OpenShift
2 6 (33.33%) OpenStack
2 6 (33.33%) OSPF
2 6 (33.33%) Python
2 6 (33.33%) SNMP
2 6 (33.33%) TACACS
2 6 (33.33%) Terraform
2 6 (33.33%) Validation
2 6 (33.33%) VMware
2 6 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (33.33%) VMware NSX
2 6 (33.33%) WAN
2 6 (33.33%) Wireless
3 4 (22.22%) Agile
3 4 (22.22%) Data Modelling

Designer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (33.33%) OpenStack
2 3 (16.67%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Adobe After Effects
1 2 (11.11%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (11.11%) Photoshop
2 1 (5.56%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (5.56%) Adobe Premiere
2 1 (5.56%) Blender
2 1 (5.56%) Chatbot
2 1 (5.56%) CINEMA 4D
2 1 (5.56%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Oracle BRM
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) AWS
1 6 (33.33%) OpenShift
2 1 (5.56%) dbt
2 1 (5.56%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 7 (38.89%) LAN
2 6 (33.33%) BGP
2 6 (33.33%) MPLS
2 6 (33.33%) OSPF
2 6 (33.33%) SNMP
2 6 (33.33%) TACACS
2 6 (33.33%) WAN
2 6 (33.33%) Wireless
3 3 (16.67%) Broadband
3 3 (16.67%) GPRS
3 3 (16.67%) GSM
4 1 (5.56%) DWDM
4 1 (5.56%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) BigQuery
1 1 (5.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Git
1 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 9 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Billing
4 2 (11.11%) Marketing
4 2 (11.11%) Telecoms
5 1 (5.56%) Finance
5 1 (5.56%) Legal
5 1 (5.56%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) CSS
1 1 (5.56%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 6 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (16.67%) IPTV
3 2 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (11.11%) Onboarding
4 1 (5.56%) Animation
4 1 (5.56%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (5.56%) Motion Graphics
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) Incident Response
1 6 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
1 6 (33.33%) Validation
2 4 (22.22%) Agile
2 4 (22.22%) Data Modelling
3 3 (16.67%) User Experience
4 2 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (11.11%) Data Protection
4 2 (11.11%) Service Design
4 2 (11.11%) Storytelling
4 2 (11.11%) UX Design
5 1 (5.56%) 3D Animation
5 1 (5.56%) B2B
5 1 (5.56%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (5.56%) Data Governance
5 1 (5.56%) Data Transformation
5 1 (5.56%) Machine Learning
5 1 (5.56%) Mentoring
5 1 (5.56%) Performance Engineering
5 1 (5.56%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) Python
2 4 (22.22%) SQL
3 3 (16.67%) Java
3 3 (16.67%) PL/SQL
4 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 6 (33.33%) CCIE
1 6 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 6 (33.33%) JNCIE
2 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 6 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 6 (33.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (33.33%) Ansible
1 6 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Cisco
1 7 (38.89%) Juniper
2 6 (33.33%) F5
2 6 (33.33%) Fortinet
2 6 (33.33%) VMware
3 3 (16.67%) Oracle
4 2 (11.11%) Adobe
4 2 (11.11%) Salesforce
4 2 (11.11%) Virgin Media
5 1 (5.56%) Nokia
39 Designer jobs in the South East