Designer Contracts in Glasgow

Designer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Designer daily rate in Glasgow is £443, 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 64 62 64
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 -31
Contract jobs requiring a Designer 15 20 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 1.88% 2.28% 2.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.97% 2.40% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 15 18
10th Percentile £321 - £410
25th Percentile £400 - £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £400 £482
Median % change year-on-year +10.63% -17.06% +7.17%
75th Percentile £546 £525 £625
90th Percentile £606 £584 £701
Scotland median daily rate £469 £465 £478
% change year-on-year +0.81% -2.77% -1.39%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Glasgow

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Glasgow. 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 Glasgow with a recognized job title 761 833 871
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.36% 94.98% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 479 548 646
10th Percentile £308 £268 £313
25th Percentile £379 £377 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £590
90th Percentile £600 £675 £701
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +4.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 39 16
10th Percentile £16.75 £13.50 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.17 £16.00 £13.97
Median hourly rate £19.83 £24.26 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year -18.24% -15.63% +12.55%
75th Percentile £46.38 £47.35 £58.75
90th Percentile £69.10 £65.00 £63.56
Scotland median hourly rate £20.94 £33.25 £23.18
% change year-on-year -37.02% +43.44% -10.53%

Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Designer in Glasgow

Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for Designer in Glasgow

Designer
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

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

Daily rate histogram for Designer in Glasgow

Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Hourly rate trend for Designer in Glasgow

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Glasgow region featuring Designer in the job title.

1 8 (53.33%) Azure
1 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (46.67%) Finance
3 6 (40.00%) UX Design
3 6 (40.00%) User Experience
3 6 (40.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 5 (33.33%) Figma
4 5 (33.33%) User Research
4 5 (33.33%) Microservices
5 4 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (26.67%) Agile
5 4 (26.67%) Python
5 4 (26.67%) Usability Testing
5 4 (26.67%) Sketch
5 4 (26.67%) Public Sector
5 4 (26.67%) Service Design
5 4 (26.67%) Wireframes
6 3 (20.00%) Prototyping
6 3 (20.00%) Workshop Facilitation
6 3 (20.00%) Accessibility
6 3 (20.00%) React
6 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
6 3 (20.00%) Active Directory
6 3 (20.00%) Linux
6 3 (20.00%) VMware
7 2 (13.33%) Data Security
7 2 (13.33%) Banking
7 2 (13.33%) Windows
7 2 (13.33%) Oracle
7 2 (13.33%) SQL Server

Designer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (13.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (6.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Sketch
2 2 (13.33%) Adobe XD
3 1 (6.67%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) Azure
2 5 (33.33%) Figma
3 1 (6.67%) AWS
3 1 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (6.67%) GCP
3 1 (6.67%) PaaS
3 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) DHCP
1 2 (13.33%) DNS
1 2 (13.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) MongoDB
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Git
1 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (46.67%) Finance
3 4 (26.67%) Public Sector
4 2 (13.33%) Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) React
2 2 (13.33%) Node.js
3 1 (6.67%) CSS
3 1 (6.67%) HTML
3 1 (6.67%) RESTful
3 1 (6.67%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Linux
2 2 (13.33%) Android
2 2 (13.33%) Apple iOS
2 2 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (13.33%) Windows
2 2 (13.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) User Experience
1 6 (40.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
1 6 (40.00%) UX Design
2 5 (33.33%) Microservices
2 5 (33.33%) User Research
3 4 (26.67%) Agile
3 4 (26.67%) Service Design
3 4 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (26.67%) Usability Testing
3 4 (26.67%) Wireframes
4 3 (20.00%) Prototyping
4 3 (20.00%) Workshop Facilitation
5 2 (13.33%) A/B Testing
5 2 (13.33%) CI/CD
5 2 (13.33%) Decision-Making
5 2 (13.33%) Design Thinking
5 2 (13.33%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
5 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (13.33%) Strategic Thinking
5 2 (13.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) Python
2 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (13.33%) NIST
3 1 (6.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (13.33%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (20.00%) VMware
2 2 (13.33%) Adobe
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle
2 2 (13.33%) Red Hat
3 1 (6.67%) Atlassian