Designer Contracts in the East Midlands

Designer
England > East Midlands

The median Designer daily rate in the East Midlands is £418 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 62 79 72
Rank change year-on-year +17 -7 -23
Contract jobs requiring a Designer 5 6 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.65% 0.58% 1.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.69% 0.61% 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 18
10th Percentile £380 £306 £363
25th Percentile £389 £353 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £444 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.80% -1.39% +32.35%
75th Percentile £434 £513 £488
90th Percentile - £520 £506
England median daily rate £493 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -6.19% - +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £8.75 - -
Median hourly rate £12.50 - -
75th Percentile £16.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £57.35 £49.25 £43.50
% change year-on-year +16.45% +13.22% +42.93%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands. 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 Midlands with a recognized job title 726 980 1,349
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.92% 94.05% 94.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 490 754 985
10th Percentile £166 £213 £181
25th Percentile £261 £325 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £414 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +5.88% +13.33%
75th Percentile £550 £564 £508
90th Percentile £625 £700 £600
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 62 94
10th Percentile £11.81 £11.80 £9.59
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.56
Median hourly rate £17.50 £20.36 £17.29
Median % change year-on-year -14.05% +17.74% +16.45%
75th Percentile £26.15 £31.50 £24.38
90th Percentile £51.91 £64.50 £35.00
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.36%

Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Designer in the East Midlands

Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Designer in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Designer in the East Midlands

Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Designer in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Designer in the East Midlands

Designer
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. 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
Leicestershire +11 2 £418 +28.12% 1
Derbyshire +4 1 - - 5
Northamptonshire - 1 £400 - 4
Designer
England

Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, 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 East Midlands region featuring Designer in the job title.

1 3 (60.00%) UX Design
1 3 (60.00%) User Experience
2 2 (40.00%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (40.00%) Axure RP
2 2 (40.00%) Web Application Development
2 2 (40.00%) HTML
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) Photoshop
2 2 (40.00%) Adobe
2 2 (40.00%) Games
2 2 (40.00%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (40.00%) Web Development
2 2 (40.00%) Adobe XD
2 2 (40.00%) Sketch
2 2 (40.00%) Figma
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Wireframes
3 1 (20.00%) Autodesk Inventor
3 1 (20.00%) Creative Thinking
3 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (20.00%) Inclusive Design
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) WCAG
3 1 (20.00%) QA
3 1 (20.00%) Strategic Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Systems Analysis

Designer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 2 (40.00%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (40.00%) Adobe XD
1 2 (40.00%) Photoshop
1 2 (40.00%) Sketch
2 1 (20.00%) AutoCAD
2 1 (20.00%) Autodesk Inventor
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Figma
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Axure RP
General
1 2 (40.00%) Games
1 2 (40.00%) Influencing Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) User Experience
1 3 (60.00%) UX Design
2 2 (40.00%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (40.00%) Web Application Development
2 2 (40.00%) Web Development
2 2 (40.00%) Wireframes
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Creative Thinking
3 1 (20.00%) CRM
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (20.00%) Inclusive Design
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Software Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Strategic Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Systems Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (20.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (20.00%) QA
1 1 (20.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Adobe