Content Designer Contracts in England

Content Designer
UK > England

The median Content Designer daily rate in England is £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 May 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 476 531 616
Rank change year-on-year +55 +85 -110
Contract jobs requiring a Content Designer 60 123 167
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.25% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.26% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 103 126
10th Percentile £325 £330 £325
25th Percentile £375 £403 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £450 £500 £500
90th Percentile £528 £619 £550
UK median daily rate £425 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £25.30
25th Percentile - £36.25 £27.63
Median hourly rate - £37.50 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year - +10.29% +65.85%
75th Percentile - £38.75 £39.13
90th Percentile - - £40.70
UK median hourly rate - £37.50 £34.00
% change year-on-year - +10.29% +65.85%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 34,391 47,499 67,898
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 94.62% 95.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,834 33,731 48,300
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,437 1,404 1,900
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.34 £44.77 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.83% +98.96% +0.36%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.66 £76.85 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £36.42 £45.00 £23.14
% change year-on-year -19.07% +94.45% +2.04%

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 2 May 2024.

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
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 2 May 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
London +74 38 £425 -12.82% 4
North of England +24 19 £425 - 2
North West +6 7 £388 -3.13%
North East +24 6 - - 1
Yorkshire +20 6 £425 -11.69% 1
South West +22 1 - - 2
Midlands +14 1 - - 1
West Midlands +7 1 - - 1
Content Designer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2024, 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 22 (36.67%) User Experience
2 17 (28.33%) Public Sector
3 14 (23.33%) Accessibility
3 14 (23.33%) Content Strategy
4 12 (20.00%) Content Management
5 11 (18.33%) Agile
5 11 (18.33%) CMS
5 11 (18.33%) UX Design
6 9 (15.00%) Security Cleared
6 9 (15.00%) User Research
7 8 (13.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 8 (13.33%) Publishing
7 8 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (11.67%) SEO
8 7 (11.67%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (11.67%) Social Skills
9 6 (10.00%) Figma
9 6 (10.00%) Information Architecture
9 6 (10.00%) Analytics
9 6 (10.00%) Legal
10 5 (8.33%) Finance
10 5 (8.33%) SC Cleared
10 5 (8.33%) Service Design
10 5 (8.33%) Design Thinking
11 4 (6.67%) Systems Thinking
11 4 (6.67%) Prototyping
11 4 (6.67%) Web Application Development
12 3 (5.00%) DBS Check
12 3 (5.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 3 (5.00%) Adobe

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 11 (18.33%) CMS
2 2 (3.33%) Headless CMS
2 2 (3.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (5.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (3.33%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (3.33%) Photoshop
3 1 (1.67%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.67%) InDesign
3 1 (1.67%) InVision
3 1 (1.67%) Marvel
3 1 (1.67%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 6 (10.00%) Figma
2 2 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (3.33%) Miro
3 1 (1.67%) Azure
3 1 (1.67%) Contentful
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.67%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.33%) Looker
Development Applications
1 2 (3.33%) JIRA
2 1 (1.67%) Maven
General
1 17 (28.33%) Public Sector
2 8 (13.33%) Publishing
3 7 (11.67%) Social Skills
4 6 (10.00%) Legal
5 5 (8.33%) Finance
6 3 (5.00%) Banking
6 3 (5.00%) Marketing
7 2 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (3.33%) Local Government
8 1 (1.67%) Advertising
8 1 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.67%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (3.33%) Mobile App
2 2 (3.33%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.33%) Social Media
2 2 (3.33%) Taxonomies
2 2 (3.33%) Virtual Team
3 1 (1.67%) Animation
3 1 (1.67%) Blog
3 1 (1.67%) Handset
3 1 (1.67%) NHS
3 1 (1.67%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.67%) Photography
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (36.67%) User Experience
2 14 (23.33%) Content Strategy
3 12 (20.00%) Content Management
4 11 (18.33%) Agile
4 11 (18.33%) UX Design
5 9 (15.00%) User Research
6 8 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 8 (13.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 7 (11.67%) SEO
8 6 (10.00%) Analytics
8 6 (10.00%) Information Architecture
9 5 (8.33%) Design Thinking
9 5 (8.33%) Service Design
10 4 (6.67%) Prototyping
10 4 (6.67%) Systems Thinking
10 4 (6.67%) Web Application Development
11 3 (5.00%) Content Writing
11 3 (5.00%) Customer Experience
11 3 (5.00%) Strategic Thinking
11 3 (5.00%) UX Research
Qualifications
1 9 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (11.67%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 3 (5.00%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (23.33%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.33%) QA
2 2 (3.33%) WCAG
3 1 (1.67%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.67%) GDPR
Vendors
1 3 (5.00%) Adobe
2 2 (3.33%) Google
3 1 (1.67%) ServiceNow
3 1 (1.67%) Virgin Media