Product Designer Contracts in England

Product Designer
UK > England

The median Product Designer daily rate in England is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 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
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 411 503 569
Rank change year-on-year +92 +66 +50
Contract jobs requiring a Product Designer 57 33 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.23% 0.089% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.096% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 25 69
10th Percentile £392 £404 £423
25th Percentile £410 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £539 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.43% -2.09% +5.77%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £650
90th Percentile £573 £633 £729
UK median daily rate £450 £539 £550
% change year-on-year -16.43% -2.09% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.25 £32.50 £46.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £35.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +35.71% -26.32% -17.03%
75th Percentile £48.75 £37.50 £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £35.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +35.71% -26.32% -18.98%

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 22,563 34,396 47,499
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.72% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,024 22,838 33,731
10th Percentile £300 £280 £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 £640 £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 907 2,437 1,404
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.45 £36.34 £44.77
Median % change year-on-year -16.20% -18.83% +98.96%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.66 £76.85
UK median hourly rate £28.88 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% -19.07% +94.45%

Product Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Designer in England

Product Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Product Designer in England

Product Designer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Designer in England over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Designer in England

Product Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Product Designer in England

Product 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 Product Designer within the England region over the 6 months to 3 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 +74 50 £450 -17.73% 72
North of England +15 5 £525 - 6
North East - 4 £600 -
South East +31 1 £313 -37.50% 18
North West - 1 £450 - 6
East Midlands - 1 £468 -
Midlands - 1 £468 - 1
Product Designer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2025, Product 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 Product Designer in the job title.

1 34 (59.65%) User Experience
2 32 (56.14%) Figma
3 24 (42.11%) Social Skills
4 20 (35.09%) UX Design
5 19 (33.33%) Prototyping
6 18 (31.58%) Wireframes
7 16 (28.07%) User Research
8 13 (22.81%) E-Commerce
9 12 (21.05%) Agile
10 11 (19.30%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (19.30%) Interaction Design
11 10 (17.54%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 9 (15.79%) Design Thinking
13 8 (14.04%) Usability Testing
13 8 (14.04%) Finance
13 8 (14.04%) Accessibility
13 8 (14.04%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
13 8 (14.04%) Fintech
14 7 (12.28%) Android
14 7 (12.28%) Apple iOS
15 6 (10.53%) Mobile App
15 6 (10.53%) Adobe
15 6 (10.53%) Strategic Thinking
16 5 (8.77%) Typography
16 5 (8.77%) Miro
16 5 (8.77%) Product Strategy
16 5 (8.77%) Product Thinking
16 5 (8.77%) Storyboarding
16 5 (8.77%) B2C
16 5 (8.77%) SC Cleared

Product 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 1 (1.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (1.75%) CMS
1 1 (1.75%) Moodle
Applications
1 4 (7.02%) Sketch
2 3 (5.26%) Adobe XD
3 2 (3.51%) Autodesk Smoke
3 2 (3.51%) InVision
4 1 (1.75%) Zeplin
Cloud Services
1 32 (56.14%) Figma
2 5 (8.77%) Miro
3 3 (5.26%) Slack
4 1 (1.75%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.75%) SaaS
4 1 (1.75%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.75%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.75%) Metadata
1 1 (1.75%) Mixpanel
General
1 24 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 8 (14.04%) Finance
3 5 (8.77%) Banking
3 5 (8.77%) Marketing
4 3 (5.26%) Retail
5 1 (1.75%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (1.75%) Games
5 1 (1.75%) Health Technology
5 1 (1.75%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.75%) Local Government
5 1 (1.75%) Music Industry
5 1 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.75%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.75%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.51%) CSS
1 2 (3.51%) HTML
2 1 (1.75%) Framer.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.53%) Mobile App
2 3 (5.26%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.51%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.75%) Educational Technology
4 1 (1.75%) iPhone
4 1 (1.75%) Learning Management System
4 1 (1.75%) Sports Betting
4 1 (1.75%) Taxonomies
4 1 (1.75%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.28%) Android
1 7 (12.28%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (59.65%) User Experience
2 20 (35.09%) UX Design
3 19 (33.33%) Prototyping
4 18 (31.58%) Wireframes
5 16 (28.07%) User Research
6 13 (22.81%) E-Commerce
7 12 (21.05%) Agile
8 11 (19.30%) Interaction Design
8 11 (19.30%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (17.54%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 9 (15.79%) Design Thinking
11 8 (14.04%) Fintech
11 8 (14.04%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
11 8 (14.04%) Usability Testing
12 6 (10.53%) Strategic Thinking
13 5 (8.77%) B2C
13 5 (8.77%) Product Thinking
13 5 (8.77%) Rapid Prototyping
13 5 (8.77%) Responsive Web Design
13 5 (8.77%) Typography
Qualifications
1 5 (8.77%) SC Cleared
1 5 (8.77%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.75%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (14.04%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.75%) WCAG
Vendors
1 6 (10.53%) Adobe
2 2 (3.51%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.75%) Facebook
3 1 (1.75%) Google
3 1 (1.75%) Optimizely
3 1 (1.75%) Samsung