Content Designer Contracts in England

Content Designer
UK > England

The median Content Designer daily rate in England is £406, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 442 482 533
Rank change year-on-year +40 +51 +81
Contract jobs requiring a Content Designer 43 60 120
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.18% 0.16% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.17% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 39 98
10th Percentile £183 £325 £325
25th Percentile £355 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% -10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £481 £450 £501
90th Percentile £581 £528 £621
UK median daily rate £424 £425 £475
% change year-on-year -0.24% -10.53% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £22.75 - £36.25
Median hourly rate £23.50 - £37.50
75th Percentile £24.25 - £38.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £23.50 - £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 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

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 May 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
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 May 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 +23 23 £418 -1.59% 4
North of England +13 13 £375 -11.76%
North West +17 7 £400 +3.23%
South West +50 5 £381 - 3
North East -2 4 £375 -
Yorkshire +4 2 £400 -5.88%
Midlands +22 1 £463 -
West Midlands +14 1 £463 -
Content Designer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 (48.84%) User Experience
2 16 (37.21%) Public Sector
3 14 (32.56%) Agile
4 13 (30.23%) UX Design
4 13 (30.23%) Accessibility
5 11 (25.58%) CMS
6 10 (23.26%) User Research
7 9 (20.93%) SC Cleared
7 9 (20.93%) Security Cleared
8 8 (18.60%) Content Strategy
8 8 (18.60%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 7 (16.28%) Figma
9 7 (16.28%) Content Management
10 5 (11.63%) Strategic Thinking
10 5 (11.63%) Collaborative Working
10 5 (11.63%) Requirements Gathering
10 5 (11.63%) Onboarding
10 5 (11.63%) Service Design
10 5 (11.63%) SEO
10 5 (11.63%) Marketing
10 5 (11.63%) Taxonomies
11 4 (9.30%) Drupal
11 4 (9.30%) Finance
11 4 (9.30%) Legal
11 4 (9.30%) Mobile App
11 4 (9.30%) Interaction Design
11 4 (9.30%) Virgin Media
12 3 (6.98%) Prototyping
12 3 (6.98%) Chatbot
12 3 (6.98%) Content Marketing

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 (25.58%) CMS
2 4 (9.30%) Drupal
3 3 (6.98%) EPiServer
4 2 (4.65%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (6.98%) Chatbot
2 1 (2.33%) Adobe XD
2 1 (2.33%) Photoshop
2 1 (2.33%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 7 (16.28%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.65%) Intranet
Development Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Git
1 2 (4.65%) Postman
General
1 16 (37.21%) Public Sector
2 5 (11.63%) Marketing
3 4 (9.30%) Finance
3 4 (9.30%) Legal
4 3 (6.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (6.98%) Social Skills
5 2 (4.65%) Publishing
6 1 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.33%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.65%) HTML
1 2 (4.65%) JSON
1 2 (4.65%) OAuth
1 2 (4.65%) OAuth2
1 2 (4.65%) OpenAPI
1 2 (4.65%) RESTful
1 2 (4.65%) Swagger
1 2 (4.65%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.63%) Onboarding
1 5 (11.63%) Taxonomies
2 4 (9.30%) Mobile App
3 3 (6.98%) Marketing Technology
3 3 (6.98%) Social Media
4 2 (4.65%) Graphic Design
5 1 (2.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (48.84%) User Experience
2 14 (32.56%) Agile
3 13 (30.23%) UX Design
4 10 (23.26%) User Research
5 8 (18.60%) Content Strategy
5 8 (18.60%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 7 (16.28%) Content Management
7 5 (11.63%) Collaborative Working
7 5 (11.63%) Requirements Gathering
7 5 (11.63%) SEO
7 5 (11.63%) Service Design
7 5 (11.63%) Strategic Thinking
8 4 (9.30%) Interaction Design
9 3 (6.98%) Business Strategy
9 3 (6.98%) Content Marketing
9 3 (6.98%) Conversational UI
9 3 (6.98%) Customer Service
9 3 (6.98%) Decision-Making
9 3 (6.98%) Mentoring
9 3 (6.98%) Prototyping
Qualifications
1 9 (20.93%) SC Cleared
1 9 (20.93%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (30.23%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.33%) WCAG
Vendors
1 4 (9.30%) Virgin Media
2 3 (6.98%) Optimizely
3 2 (4.65%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.33%) Adobe