InDesign Contracts in England

Adobe InDesign
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring InDesign skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited InDesign over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 473 513 620
Rank change year-on-year +40 +107 +123
Contract jobs citing InDesign 12 29 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.049% 0.078% 0.065%
As % of the Applications category 0.58% 0.98% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 15 30
10th Percentile £150 £180 £185
25th Percentile £175 £200 £226
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £370 £275 £325
Median % change year-on-year +34.55% -15.38% +44.44%
75th Percentile £380 £331 £476
90th Percentile - £575 £507
UK median daily rate £370 £275 £325
% change year-on-year +34.55% -15.38% +30.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
10th Percentile - £13.32 -
25th Percentile - £13.79 £51.25
Median hourly rate - £14.37 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - -72.63% +87.50%
75th Percentile - £20.94 £53.75
90th Percentile - £31.63 -
UK median hourly rate - £14.37 £52.50
% change year-on-year - -72.63% +55.56%

All Software Application Skills
England

InDesign falls under the Software Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring software application skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 2,069 2,972 3,850
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 8.50% 7.99% 7.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,209 1,493 2,546
10th Percentile £188 £160 £194
25th Percentile £258 £213 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £400 £429
Median % change year-on-year +5.75% -6.76% +0.94%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £575
90th Percentile £650 £662 £688
UK median daily rate £413 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +3.13% -5.88% -0.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 584 229
10th Percentile £14.20 £11.69 £14.24
25th Percentile £15.62 £14.00 £19.35
Median hourly rate £24.40 £17.50 £39.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.44% -55.13% +81.40%
75th Percentile £44.63 £38.75 £52.97
90th Percentile £74.88 £57.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £23.59 £17.72 £36.50
% change year-on-year +33.13% -51.45% +69.77%

InDesign
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing InDesign as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for InDesign in England

InDesign
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for InDesign in England

InDesign
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing InDesign in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for InDesign in England

InDesign
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for InDesign in England

InDesign
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 InDesign 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 +27 11 £370 +23.33% 32
North of England - 1 - - 6
Yorkshire - 1 - - 3
InDesign
UK

InDesign
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 6 (50.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (100.00%) Adobe Illustrator
1 12 (100.00%) Photoshop
2 10 (83.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 9 (75.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (58.33%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (8.33%) Adobe After Effects
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) Figma
General
1 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Marketing
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (91.67%) Designer
2 6 (50.00%) Senior
2 6 (50.00%) Senior Designer
3 5 (41.67%) Graphic Designer
4 1 (8.33%) Animator
4 1 (8.33%) Artworker
4 1 (8.33%) Creative Artworker
4 1 (8.33%) Creative Designer
4 1 (8.33%) Creative Graphic Designer
4 1 (8.33%) Video Editor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) CSS
1 3 (25.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (58.33%) Animation
1 7 (58.33%) Motion Graphics
2 6 (50.00%) Photography
3 1 (8.33%) Video Editing
3 1 (8.33%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) B2B
2 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (25.00%) Web Design
3 2 (16.67%) B2C
3 2 (16.67%) Business Strategy
3 2 (16.67%) Competitor Analysis
3 2 (16.67%) Due Diligence
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) Adobe