Designer Contracts in the City of London

Designer
Central London > City of London

The median Designer daily rate in the City of London is £480, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 94 111
Rank change year-on-year +2 +17 -26
Contract jobs requiring a Designer 23 27 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.32% 1.25% 1.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.42% 1.32% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 17 47
10th Percentile £338 £324 £320
25th Percentile £413 £413 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -1.96% -11.57%
75th Percentile £591 £575 £688
90th Percentile £650 £630 £708
Central London median daily rate £471 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -5.75% -1.96% -11.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.25 - £16.61
Median hourly rate £47.50 - £17.25
75th Percentile £48.75 - £17.89
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £23.50 - £17.25
% change year-on-year - - -60.34%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of London. 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 1,622 2,052 3,327
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.11% 95.00% 95.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,014 1,445 2,262
10th Percentile £350 £350 £357
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -6.25% +5.26%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £820
Central London median daily rate £565 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 15 21
10th Percentile £22.00 £15.62 £15.50
25th Percentile £23.98 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.58 £23.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.59% -34.29% -6.04%
75th Percentile £47.50 £28.44 £58.75
90th Percentile £89.13 £40.00 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £28.61 £26.41 £35.00
% change year-on-year +8.35% -24.56% -6.67%

Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings that featured Designer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Designer in the City of London

Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Designer in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Designer in the City of London

Designer
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Designer in the City of London over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Designer in the City of London

Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Designer in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Designer in the City of London

Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 16 May 2025, 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 job ads across the City of London region featuring Designer in the job title.

1 12 (52.17%) User Experience
2 9 (39.13%) UX Design
3 8 (34.78%) Finance
3 8 (34.78%) User Research
4 7 (30.43%) Service Design
5 6 (26.09%) Wireframes
5 6 (26.09%) Figma
5 6 (26.09%) Microsoft
6 5 (21.74%) Marketing
7 4 (17.39%) Accessibility
7 4 (17.39%) Public Sector
7 4 (17.39%) Prototyping
7 4 (17.39%) Mobile App
7 4 (17.39%) Artificial Intelligence
7 4 (17.39%) Banking
7 4 (17.39%) Retail
8 3 (13.04%) Adobe
8 3 (13.04%) Investment Banking
8 3 (13.04%) Retail Banking
8 3 (13.04%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (13.04%) Usability Testing
8 3 (13.04%) Wealth Management
8 3 (13.04%) Android
8 3 (13.04%) Fintech
8 3 (13.04%) Apple iOS
8 3 (13.04%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
8 3 (13.04%) Sketch
8 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
8 3 (13.04%) Interaction Design
8 3 (13.04%) User-Centered Design (UCD)

Designer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 3 (13.04%) Sketch
2 2 (8.70%) Adobe XD
3 1 (4.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (26.09%) Figma
2 2 (8.70%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Copilot
2 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (4.35%) AWS
3 1 (4.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) 3G
1 1 (4.35%) 4G
1 1 (4.35%) 5G
1 1 (4.35%) LTE
1 1 (4.35%) VLAN
1 1 (4.35%) VSAN
1 1 (4.35%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) Mixpanel
General
1 8 (34.78%) Finance
2 5 (21.74%) Marketing
3 4 (17.39%) Banking
3 4 (17.39%) Public Sector
3 4 (17.39%) Retail
4 3 (13.04%) Corporate Banking
4 3 (13.04%) Investment Banking
4 3 (13.04%) Retail Banking
4 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Games
5 1 (4.35%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Mobile App
2 2 (8.70%) Graphic Design
2 2 (8.70%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.35%) FMCG
3 1 (4.35%) Private Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.04%) Android
1 3 (13.04%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (52.17%) User Experience
2 9 (39.13%) UX Design
3 8 (34.78%) User Research
4 7 (30.43%) Service Design
5 6 (26.09%) Wireframes
6 4 (17.39%) Artificial Intelligence
6 4 (17.39%) Prototyping
7 3 (13.04%) Fintech
7 3 (13.04%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
7 3 (13.04%) Interaction Design
7 3 (13.04%) Usability Testing
7 3 (13.04%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 3 (13.04%) Wealth Management
8 2 (8.70%) Case Management
8 2 (8.70%) Client Onboarding
8 2 (8.70%) Collaborative Working
8 2 (8.70%) Data Loss Prevention
8 2 (8.70%) Journey Map
8 2 (8.70%) Systems Thinking
8 2 (8.70%) Typography
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (17.39%) Accessibility
2 2 (8.70%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (4.35%) VMware NSX
1 1 (4.35%) vSphere
Vendors
1 6 (26.09%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.04%) Adobe
3 2 (8.70%) Optimizely
4 1 (4.35%) Ericsson
4 1 (4.35%) Mavenir
4 1 (4.35%) Nokia
4 1 (4.35%) Oracle
4 1 (4.35%) VMware