Content Designer Contracts in England

Content Designer
UK > England

The median Content Designer daily rate in England is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 July 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
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 455 509 523
Rank change year-on-year +54 +14 +141
Contract jobs requiring a Content Designer 39 45 115
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.15% 0.12% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.13% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 27 89
10th Percentile £207 £325 £333
25th Percentile £375 £368 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £410 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.54% -13.68% +5.56%
75th Percentile £473 £438 £500
90th Percentile £571 £525 £530
UK median daily rate £425 £425 £475
% change year-on-year - -10.53% +5.56%
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 - - +10.29%

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 23,627 34,496 44,733
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.12% 92.91% 94.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,455 22,543 31,717
10th Percentile £290 £298 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £663
90th Percentile £748 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,101 2,588 1,360
10th Percentile £13.85 £12.86 £14.41
25th Percentile £17.88 £16.72 £19.50
Median hourly rate £28.18 £39.55 £43.93
Median % change year-on-year -28.75% -9.97% +75.72%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.51 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £37.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year -29.33% -12.79% +69.37%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Content Designer in England.

Daily rate trend for Content Designer in England

Content Designer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Content Designer in England over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Content Designer in England

Content Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Content Designer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Content Designer in England

Content Designer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Content Designer in England over the 6 months to 1 July 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 1 July 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 +45 23 £438 +6.71% 33
North of England +8 14 £400 -3.03% 19
North West +11 5 £400 +3.23% 11
North East -1 5 £375 - 3
Yorkshire 0 4 £475 +15.15% 5
South West +36 1 £450 - 13
Midlands +14 1 £463 - 9
West Midlands +7 1 £463 - 2
Content Designer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 July 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 21 (53.85%) User Experience
2 16 (41.03%) UX Design
3 15 (38.46%) Public Sector
4 13 (33.33%) Accessibility
5 12 (30.77%) Agile
6 11 (28.21%) Figma
7 9 (23.08%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 7 (17.95%) CMS
9 6 (15.38%) Marketing
9 6 (15.38%) Mobile App
9 6 (15.38%) Content Strategy
9 6 (15.38%) Onboarding
10 5 (12.82%) Requirements Gathering
10 5 (12.82%) User Research
10 5 (12.82%) Content Management
10 5 (12.82%) SEO
10 5 (12.82%) Finance
10 5 (12.82%) Legal
11 4 (10.26%) Publishing
11 4 (10.26%) Drupal
11 4 (10.26%) Systems Thinking
11 4 (10.26%) Conversational UI
11 4 (10.26%) Strategic Thinking
11 4 (10.26%) Virgin Media
12 3 (7.69%) Chatbot
12 3 (7.69%) Content Marketing
12 3 (7.69%) Collaborative Working
12 3 (7.69%) Decision-Making
12 3 (7.69%) Social Media
12 3 (7.69%) Customer Insight

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 7 (17.95%) CMS
2 4 (10.26%) Drupal
3 1 (2.56%) Confluence
3 1 (2.56%) EPiServer
Applications
1 3 (7.69%) Chatbot
2 1 (2.56%) Adobe Premiere
2 1 (2.56%) Adobe XD
2 1 (2.56%) Photoshop
2 1 (2.56%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 11 (28.21%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.13%) Intranet
Development Applications
1 1 (2.56%) JIRA
General
1 15 (38.46%) Public Sector
2 6 (15.38%) Marketing
3 5 (12.82%) Finance
3 5 (12.82%) Legal
4 4 (10.26%) Publishing
5 3 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.13%) Local Government
6 2 (5.13%) Social Skills
7 1 (2.56%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.56%) HTML
1 1 (2.56%) Semantic HTML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.38%) Mobile App
1 6 (15.38%) Onboarding
2 3 (7.69%) Social Media
3 2 (5.13%) Graphic Design
4 1 (2.56%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (2.56%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.56%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (53.85%) User Experience
2 16 (41.03%) UX Design
3 12 (30.77%) Agile
4 9 (23.08%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 6 (15.38%) Content Strategy
6 5 (12.82%) Content Management
6 5 (12.82%) Requirements Gathering
6 5 (12.82%) SEO
6 5 (12.82%) User Research
7 4 (10.26%) Conversational UI
7 4 (10.26%) Strategic Thinking
7 4 (10.26%) Systems Thinking
8 3 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence
8 3 (7.69%) Asset Management
8 3 (7.69%) Business Strategy
8 3 (7.69%) Collaborative Working
8 3 (7.69%) Customer Service
8 3 (7.69%) Decision-Making
8 3 (7.69%) Logistics
8 3 (7.69%) Product Marketing
Qualifications
1 2 (5.13%) SC Cleared
1 2 (5.13%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (2.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (33.33%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.13%) WCAG
Vendors
1 4 (10.26%) Virgin Media
2 1 (2.56%) Adobe
2 1 (2.56%) Optimizely