Content Designer Contract Job Trends in England

Content Designer
UK > England

The median Content Designer daily rate in England is £413, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 September 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
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 474 505 521
Rank change year-on-year +31 +16 +177
Contract jobs requiring a Content Designer 43 31 90
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.15% 0.094% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.10% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 19 66
10th Percentile £241 £335 £382
25th Percentile £350 £361 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £418 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.20% -14.36% -1.52%
75th Percentile £450 £472 £506
90th Percentile £538 £560 £539
UK median daily rate £418 £425 £488
% change year-on-year -1.76% -12.82% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile £22.75 - -
25th Percentile £28.62 - £36.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 - £37.50
75th Percentile £37.75 - £38.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £36.50 - £37.50
% change year-on-year - - +103.25%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 England with a recognized job title 25,334 30,643 40,551
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.31% 93.04% 94.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,335 19,292 28,395
10th Percentile £280 £305 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.71% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,355 1,523 1,355
10th Percentile £13.71 £14.66 £15.21
25th Percentile £17.30 £21.25 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.05% +5.56% +70.66%
75th Percentile £53.75 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.33
% change year-on-year -41.51% -0.76% +66.65%

Content Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Content Designer in England

Content Designer
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Content Designer job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Content Designer job vacancies in England

Content Designer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Content Designer in England over the 6 months to 13 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Content Designer in England

Content Designer
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Content Designer job vacancies in England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Content Designer job vacancies in England

Content Designer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Content Designer in England over the 6 months to 13 September 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Content Designer in England

Content Designer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Content Designer within the England region over the 6 months to 13 September 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
London +47 28 £413 +1.85% 14
North of England -14 13 £419 -2.90% 1
North West -5 5 £413 -
Yorkshire -15 5 £505 +17.10% 1
South West +21 3 £450 -21.74%
North East -2 3 £375 -
Content Designer
UK

Content Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 13 September 2025, Content 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 England region featuring Content Designer in the job title.

1 17 (39.53%) User Experience
2 14 (32.56%) UX Design
2 14 (32.56%) Accessibility
3 12 (27.91%) Figma
3 12 (27.91%) Public Sector
3 12 (27.91%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 11 (25.58%) Agile
5 9 (20.93%) CMS
5 9 (20.93%) User Research
6 8 (18.60%) Content Management
7 6 (13.95%) Finance
7 6 (13.95%) Social Skills
7 6 (13.95%) Content Strategy
8 5 (11.63%) Requirements Gathering
8 5 (11.63%) Marketing
8 5 (11.63%) Content Writing
9 4 (9.30%) Systems Thinking
9 4 (9.30%) Collaborative Working
9 4 (9.30%) SC Cleared
9 4 (9.30%) Security Cleared
9 4 (9.30%) Publishing
9 4 (9.30%) SEO
9 4 (9.30%) Product Ownership
9 4 (9.30%) Onboarding
10 3 (6.98%) Customer Experience
10 3 (6.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (6.98%) Interaction Design
10 3 (6.98%) Stakeholder Management
10 3 (6.98%) Drupal
10 3 (6.98%) Logistics

Content Designer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (20.93%) CMS
2 3 (6.98%) Drupal
3 1 (2.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Sketch
2 1 (2.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (2.33%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (2.33%) Adobe Premiere
2 1 (2.33%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 12 (27.91%) Figma
2 2 (4.65%) Canva
3 1 (2.33%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (2.33%) JIRA
General
1 12 (27.91%) Public Sector
2 6 (13.95%) Finance
2 6 (13.95%) Social Skills
3 5 (11.63%) Marketing
4 4 (9.30%) Publishing
5 3 (6.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.65%) Advertising
6 2 (4.65%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (4.65%) Legal
7 1 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.33%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.33%) Local Government
7 1 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.33%) HTML
1 1 (2.33%) Semantic HTML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.30%) Onboarding
1 4 (9.30%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.65%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.33%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (39.53%) User Experience
2 14 (32.56%) UX Design
3 12 (27.91%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 11 (25.58%) Agile
5 9 (20.93%) User Research
6 8 (18.60%) Content Management
7 6 (13.95%) Content Strategy
8 5 (11.63%) Content Writing
8 5 (11.63%) Requirements Gathering
9 4 (9.30%) Collaborative Working
9 4 (9.30%) SEO
9 4 (9.30%) Systems Thinking
10 3 (6.98%) Analytics
10 3 (6.98%) Customer Experience
10 3 (6.98%) Interaction Design
10 3 (6.98%) Logistics
10 3 (6.98%) Stakeholder Management
11 2 (4.65%) Personalization
11 2 (4.65%) User Stories
11 2 (4.65%) Validation
Qualifications
1 4 (9.30%) SC Cleared
1 4 (9.30%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (2.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (32.56%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.33%) QA
2 1 (2.33%) WCAG
Vendors
1 3 (6.98%) Virgin Media
2 2 (4.65%) Hopewiser
3 1 (2.33%) Adobe
3 1 (2.33%) Brio
3 1 (2.33%) Microsoft