InDesign Contract Job Trends in London

Adobe InDesign
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring InDesign skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 370 362 393
Rank change year-on-year -8 +31 +148
Contract jobs citing InDesign 8 11 12
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.056% 0.073% 0.064%
As % of the Applications category 0.77% 1.12% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 10 7
10th Percentile £376 £206 £200
25th Percentile £376 £302 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £348 £550
Median % change year-on-year +12.23% -36.82% +80.33%
75th Percentile £414 £388 £581
90th Percentile £421 £409 £593
England median daily rate £380 £308 £313
% change year-on-year +23.58% -1.60% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.25 - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 - -
75th Percentile £63.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £12.00 -
% change year-on-year +420.83% - -

All Software Application Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 1,039 978 1,296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.26% 6.52% 6.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 651 614 885
10th Percentile £250 £200 £198
25th Percentile £350 £313 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - -7.93%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
England median daily rate £447 £413 £400
% change year-on-year +8.36% +3.13% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 22 34
10th Percentile £17.50 £15.27 £16.70
25th Percentile £18.31 £20.75 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £25.65 £29.47
Median % change year-on-year -1.93% -12.96% +20.27%
75th Percentile £27.83 £35.00 £42.06
90th Percentile £37.29 £43.13 £51.38
England median hourly rate £20.35 £25.00 £30.24
% change year-on-year -18.60% -17.32% +12.55%

InDesign
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing InDesign relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

InDesign job vacancy trend in London

InDesign
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing InDesign.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing InDesign

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Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing InDesign.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing InDesign

InDesign
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (100.00%) Adobe Illustrator
1 8 (100.00%) Photoshop
2 5 (62.50%) Adobe After Effects
3 3 (37.50%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 3 (37.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (25.00%) Adobe Premiere
4 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (12.50%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Adobe Creative Cloud
2 3 (37.50%) Figma
3 1 (12.50%) Dropbox
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub
3 1 (12.50%) Google Drive
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) Dreamweaver
General
1 4 (50.00%) Marketing
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Advertising
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Legal
2 2 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Designer
2 4 (50.00%) Graphic Designer
3 2 (25.00%) Digital Designer
3 2 (25.00%) Junior
3 2 (25.00%) Junior Designer
3 2 (25.00%) Junior Graphic Designer
4 1 (12.50%) Conceptual Designer
4 1 (12.50%) PowerPoint Designer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Designer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Graphic Designer
4 1 (12.50%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (12.50%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Social Media
2 2 (25.00%) Graphic Design
2 2 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (25.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (12.50%) Animation
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Android
1 1 (12.50%) Apple iOS
1 1 (12.50%) Mac OS
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Creative Thinking
1 3 (37.50%) Time Management
1 3 (37.50%) Typography
2 2 (25.00%) Agile
2 2 (25.00%) Content Writing
2 2 (25.00%) Customer-Centricity
2 2 (25.00%) Multichannel Marketing
2 2 (25.00%) Outbound Marketing
2 2 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (12.50%) AI
3 1 (12.50%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (12.50%) Project Delivery
3 1 (12.50%) Prototyping
3 1 (12.50%) Storytelling
3 1 (12.50%) User Experience
3 1 (12.50%) UX Design
3 1 (12.50%) Visualisation
3 1 (12.50%) Workflow
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Adobe
2 2 (25.00%) Atlassian
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Google