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 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 394 334 369
Rank change year-on-year -60 +35 +119
Contract jobs citing InDesign 6 12 21
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.036% 0.094% 0.12%
As % of the Applications category 0.61% 1.29% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 11 7
10th Percentile £322 £200 £200
25th Percentile £342 £304 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £370 £325
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% +13.85% -
75th Percentile £403 £380 £575
90th Percentile £416 - £580
England median daily rate £380 £370 £325
% change year-on-year +2.70% +13.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £14.06
Median hourly rate - - £14.37
75th Percentile - - £26.72
90th Percentile - - £33.94
England median hourly rate £37.12 - £14.37
% change year-on-year - - -72.63%

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 976 931 1,243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 5.87% 7.31% 6.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 606 598 823
10th Percentile £275 £206 £185
25th Percentile £391 £313 £253
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +5.88% -15.00%
75th Percentile £583 £575 £588
90th Percentile £675 £713 £712
England median daily rate £450 £413 £400
% change year-on-year +9.09% +3.13% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 37 83
10th Percentile £17.50 £15.84 £12.88
25th Percentile £18.25 £20.45 £16.13
Median hourly rate £25.15 £26.32 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% +25.33% -17.40%
75th Percentile £30.59 £38.11 £27.25
90th Percentile £46.75 £54.35 £56.70
England median hourly rate £19.91 £27.50 £18.93
% change year-on-year -27.60% +45.27% -47.42%

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

InDesign
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
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing InDesign within the London region over the 6 months to 21 March 2026. 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
West London - 1 - -
InDesign
England

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 (33.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Adobe Illustrator
1 6 (100.00%) Photoshop
2 4 (66.67%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 3 (50.00%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (16.67%) Acrobat
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Adobe Creative Cloud
1 2 (33.33%) Figma
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (16.67%) Dreamweaver
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Advertising
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Legal
2 2 (33.33%) Marketing
2 2 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Designer
2 2 (33.33%) Artworker
2 2 (33.33%) Digital Designer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Conceptual Designer
3 1 (16.67%) Creative Artworker
3 1 (16.67%) Graphic Designer
3 1 (16.67%) PowerPoint Designer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Artworker
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Designer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Graphic Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Social Media
1 2 (33.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (16.67%) Animation
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Creative Thinking
1 3 (50.00%) Project Management
1 3 (50.00%) Typography
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) Content Writing
2 2 (33.33%) Multichannel Marketing
2 2 (33.33%) Storytelling
3 1 (16.67%) AI
3 1 (16.67%) Asset Management
3 1 (16.67%) Customer Experience
3 1 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Time Management
3 1 (16.67%) Visualisation
3 1 (16.67%) Workflow
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Adobe
2 2 (33.33%) Atlassian
3 1 (16.67%) Sitecore