Data Designer Contract Job Trends in London

Data Designer
England > London

The median Data Designer daily rate in London is £438, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 430 - 401
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Data Designer 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.005% - 0.006%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.005% - 0.006%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 - £575
75th Percentile - - £588
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £438 - £575
% change year-on-year - - -14.81%

All Contract IT Job Roles
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 18,355 12,645 16,308
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.89% 93.24% 94.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,046 8,538 11,642
10th Percentile £359 £331 £330
25th Percentile £447 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £542 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 322 199 292
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.98 £16.25
25th Percentile £22.43 £22.83 £20.50
Median hourly rate £39.00 £31.50 £29.25
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% +7.69% -21.83%
75th Percentile £60.25 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £79.88 £63.75 £69.43
England median hourly rate £46.73 £28.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +66.89% -30.00% -6.98%

Data Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Data Designer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Data Designer job vacancy trend in London

Data Designer
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Designer job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Designer job vacancies in London

Data Designer Skill Set
Top 26 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 16 July 2026, Data Designer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Data Designer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Design
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Domain Models
1 1 (100.00%) ER Studio
1 1 (100.00%) ERwin
1 1 (100.00%) Logical Data Model
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata Management
1 1 (100.00%) Physical Data Model
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
1 1 (100.00%) Reference Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) Validation

Data Designer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) ER Studio
1 1 (100.00%) ERwin
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (100.00%) Pricing Data
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (100.00%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Design
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Domain Models
1 1 (100.00%) Logical Data Model
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata Management
1 1 (100.00%) Physical Data Model
1 1 (100.00%) Reference Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks