Designer Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Designer
England > East of England

The median Designer daily rate in the East of England is £477, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 June 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 80 107
Rank change year-on-year +10 +27 -6
Contract jobs requiring a Designer 46 4 4
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.08% 0.41% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.28% 0.47% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 3 3
10th Percentile £303 £365 £347
25th Percentile £322 £397 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £475 £650
Median % change year-on-year +0.42% -26.92% +109.68%
75th Percentile £538 £490 £675
90th Percentile - £496 -
England median daily rate £459 £457 £475
% change year-on-year +0.44% -3.79% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £37.40 - -
25th Percentile £51.50 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £30.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +150.00% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £33.99 £40.75 £57.35
% change year-on-year -16.59% -28.95% +28.88%

All Contract IT Job Roles
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East of England. 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 East of England with a recognized job title 2,015 848 1,703
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.01% 87.15% 88.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 941 432 749
10th Percentile £193 £200 £206
25th Percentile £356 £361 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £681 £675 £650
England median daily rate £518 £517 £525
% change year-on-year +0.10% -1.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 557 170 603
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.73 £16.95 £16.30
Median hourly rate £32.00 £42.50 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.71% -1.16% -1.44%
75th Percentile £66.00 £72.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.25 £85.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £29.27 £38.00
% change year-on-year +53.74% -22.97% -15.56%

Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Designer job vacancy trend in the East of England

Designer
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Designer job vacancies in the East of England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Designer job vacancies in the East of England

Designer
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Designer in the East of England over the 6 months to 4 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Designer in the East of England

Designer
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Designer job vacancies in the East of England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Designer job vacancies in the East of England

Designer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Designer in the East of England over the 6 months to 4 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Designer in the East of England

Designer
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Designer within the East of England region over the 6 months to 4 June 2026. 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
Suffolk - 22 £438 -
Norfolk - 12 £506 -
Bedfordshire - 6 £410 -
Hertfordshire -16 5 £441 +5.19% 2
Cambridgeshire +7 1 - - 11
Designer
England

Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 4 June 2026, 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 East of England region featuring Designer in the job title.

1 20 (43.48%) Wi-Fi
2 10 (21.74%) AWS
2 10 (21.74%) DevOps
2 10 (21.74%) Translating Business Requirements
3 9 (19.57%) Firewall
3 9 (19.57%) IPsec
3 9 (19.57%) Load Balancing
4 8 (17.39%) Customer Experience
4 8 (17.39%) User Experience
5 7 (15.22%) Broadband
5 7 (15.22%) Customer Requirements
6 6 (13.04%) Network Security
6 6 (13.04%) Security Cleared
6 6 (13.04%) UX Design
7 4 (8.70%) Data Migration
7 4 (8.70%) Data Modelling
7 4 (8.70%) Migration
7 4 (8.70%) Network Design
7 4 (8.70%) Validation
8 3 (6.52%) Analytics
8 3 (6.52%) GDPR
8 3 (6.52%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (6.52%) Workshop Facilitation
9 2 (4.35%) Agile
9 2 (4.35%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (4.35%) Auto-Scaling
9 2 (4.35%) AWS CDK
9 2 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation

Designer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 (2.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (2.17%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (2.17%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 10 (21.74%) AWS
2 2 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (4.35%) Serverless
2 2 (4.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (2.17%) Azure
3 1 (2.17%) Boomi
3 1 (2.17%) GCP
3 1 (2.17%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 20 (43.48%) Wi-Fi
2 9 (19.57%) Firewall
2 9 (19.57%) IPsec
3 7 (15.22%) Broadband
4 6 (13.04%) Network Security
5 2 (4.35%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.35%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (4.35%) Data Vault
1 2 (4.35%) Metadata
1 2 (4.35%) MySQL
1 2 (4.35%) NoSQL
1 2 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
General
1 3 (6.52%) Manufacturing
2 2 (4.35%) Electronics
2 2 (4.35%) Pharmaceutical
2 2 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (4.35%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.17%) Marketing
3 1 (2.17%) Multimedia
3 1 (2.17%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.35%) AWS CDK
1 2 (4.35%) JSON
1 2 (4.35%) Kafka
1 2 (4.35%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 10 (21.74%) IoT
2 9 (19.57%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.35%) Marketing Technology
3 2 (4.35%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.35%) Reference Data
4 1 (2.17%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.17%) Graphic Design
4 1 (2.17%) Motion Graphics
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (21.74%) DevOps
1 10 (21.74%) Translating Business Requirements
2 9 (19.57%) Load Balancing
3 8 (17.39%) Customer Experience
3 8 (17.39%) User Experience
4 7 (15.22%) Customer Requirements
5 6 (13.04%) UX Design
6 4 (8.70%) Data Migration
6 4 (8.70%) Data Modelling
6 4 (8.70%) Migration
6 4 (8.70%) Network Design
6 4 (8.70%) Validation
7 3 (6.52%) Analytics
7 3 (6.52%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (6.52%) Workshop Facilitation
8 2 (4.35%) Auto-Scaling
8 2 (4.35%) Capacity Management
8 2 (4.35%) Data Governance
8 2 (4.35%) Kalman Filter
8 2 (4.35%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.35%) Bash
1 2 (4.35%) PowerShell
1 2 (4.35%) Python
1 2 (4.35%) Ruby
1 2 (4.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.35%) Degree
3 1 (2.17%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.52%) GDPR
2 2 (4.35%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.35%) GMP
2 2 (4.35%) GxP
2 2 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.35%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 2 (4.35%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (4.35%) Cadence
1 2 (4.35%) EMC
1 2 (4.35%) Oracle
2 1 (2.17%) Adobe
2 1 (2.17%) Computacenter
2 1 (2.17%) Informatica
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.17%) MuleSoft
2 1 (2.17%) Talend