Typography Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Typography
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Typography skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 109 124
Rank change year-on-year -12 +15 +62
Contract jobs citing Typography 5 3 4
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.26% 0.16% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.18% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile £610 £305 -
25th Percentile £625 £306 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £315 £450
Median % change year-on-year +106.35% -30.00% -
75th Percentile - £330 £475
90th Percentile - £335 -
Central London median daily rate £650 £315 £450
% change year-on-year +106.35% -30.00% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

Typography falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,679 1,706 2,137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.98% 91.67% 89.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,164 1,021 1,526
10th Percentile £351 £363 £350
25th Percentile £426 £463 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £575 £569
Median % change year-on-year -7.39% +1.05% -4.77%
75th Percentile £675 £679 £688
90th Percentile £775 £780 £800
Central London median daily rate £540 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -6.09% +2.22% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 8 14
10th Percentile £20.02 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £28.94 £19.18
Median hourly rate £28.00 £40.50 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.86% +28.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £42.65 £64.56 £45.06
90th Percentile £49.36 £112.00 £66.70
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -14.43%

Typography
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Typography relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Typography job vacancy trend in the City of London

Typography
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Typography.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Typography

Typography
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (20.00%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (20.00%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Figma
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Publishing
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Design Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Designer
3 1 (20.00%) Creative Designer
3 1 (20.00%) Graphic Designer
3 1 (20.00%) Product Design Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Product Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Designer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Graphic Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Animation
1 1 (20.00%) Graphic Design
1 1 (20.00%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Android
1 3 (60.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) User Experience
2 3 (60.00%) AI
2 3 (60.00%) Interaction Design
2 3 (60.00%) LLM
2 3 (60.00%) Prototyping
2 3 (60.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 2 (40.00%) Design Patterns
3 2 (40.00%) Microinteractions
3 2 (40.00%) UX Design
3 2 (40.00%) UX Research
4 1 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (20.00%) Infographics
4 1 (20.00%) Open Source
4 1 (20.00%) Product Thinking
4 1 (20.00%) Prompt Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Systems Thinking
4 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
4 1 (20.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
1 3 (60.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Adobe