Product Designer Contracts in London

Product Designer
England > London

The median Product Designer daily rate in London 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 298 372 425
Rank change year-on-year +74 +53 +29
Contract jobs requiring a Product Designer 50 21 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.40% 0.12% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.13% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 20 59
10th Percentile £400 £398 £425
25th Percentile £410 £421 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £547 £550
Median % change year-on-year -17.73% -0.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £653
90th Percentile £569 £639 £735
England median daily rate £450 £539 £550
% change year-on-year -16.43% -2.09% +5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.25 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 - £47.50
75th Percentile £48.75 - £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £47.50 £35.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +35.71% -26.32% -17.03%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 11,741 16,606 25,655
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.38% 93.28% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,053 12,006 18,582
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £441 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £680 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 338 289
10th Percentile £20.33 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.02 £22.50
Median hourly rate £34.65 £27.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -21.43% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.50 £65.00 £76.05
England median hourly rate £30.45 £36.34 £44.77
% change year-on-year -16.20% -18.83% +98.96%

Product Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Designer in London

Product Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Product Designer in London

Product Designer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Product Designer in London

Product Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Product Designer in London

Product Designer
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 Product Designer within the London 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
Central London +3 5 £550 -4.35%
Product Designer
England

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

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 London region featuring Product Designer in the job title.

1 34 (68.00%) User Experience
2 27 (54.00%) Figma
3 21 (42.00%) Social Skills
4 20 (40.00%) UX Design
5 18 (36.00%) Prototyping
6 16 (32.00%) User Research
7 13 (26.00%) Wireframes
7 13 (26.00%) E-Commerce
8 11 (22.00%) Agile
8 11 (22.00%) Interaction Design
9 10 (20.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 8 (16.00%) Usability Testing
10 8 (16.00%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
10 8 (16.00%) Accessibility
11 7 (14.00%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (14.00%) Fintech
12 6 (12.00%) Strategic Thinking
12 6 (12.00%) Adobe
12 6 (12.00%) Finance
12 6 (12.00%) Android
12 6 (12.00%) Apple iOS
12 6 (12.00%) Mobile App
13 5 (10.00%) Responsive Web Design
13 5 (10.00%) B2C
13 5 (10.00%) Marketing
13 5 (10.00%) Banking
13 5 (10.00%) Typography
13 5 (10.00%) Design Thinking
13 5 (10.00%) Miro
13 5 (10.00%) Product Strategy

Product Designer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (2.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (2.00%) CMS
1 1 (2.00%) Moodle
Applications
1 4 (8.00%) Sketch
2 3 (6.00%) Adobe XD
3 2 (4.00%) Autodesk Smoke
3 2 (4.00%) InVision
4 1 (2.00%) Zeplin
Cloud Services
1 27 (54.00%) Figma
2 5 (10.00%) Miro
3 3 (6.00%) Slack
4 1 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.00%) SaaS
4 1 (2.00%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.00%) Metadata
1 1 (2.00%) Mixpanel
General
1 21 (42.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (12.00%) Finance
3 5 (10.00%) Banking
3 5 (10.00%) Marketing
4 3 (6.00%) Retail
5 1 (2.00%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (2.00%) Games
5 1 (2.00%) Health Technology
5 1 (2.00%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.00%) Local Government
5 1 (2.00%) Music Industry
5 1 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.00%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.00%) CSS
1 2 (4.00%) HTML
2 1 (2.00%) Framer.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.00%) Mobile App
2 3 (6.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.00%) Educational Technology
4 1 (2.00%) iPhone
4 1 (2.00%) Learning Management System
4 1 (2.00%) Sports Betting
4 1 (2.00%) Taxonomies
4 1 (2.00%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 6 (12.00%) Android
1 6 (12.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (68.00%) User Experience
2 20 (40.00%) UX Design
3 18 (36.00%) Prototyping
4 16 (32.00%) User Research
5 13 (26.00%) E-Commerce
5 13 (26.00%) Wireframes
6 11 (22.00%) Agile
6 11 (22.00%) Interaction Design
7 10 (20.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 8 (16.00%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
8 8 (16.00%) Usability Testing
9 7 (14.00%) Fintech
9 7 (14.00%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (12.00%) Strategic Thinking
11 5 (10.00%) B2C
11 5 (10.00%) Design Thinking
11 5 (10.00%) Product Strategy
11 5 (10.00%) Product Thinking
11 5 (10.00%) Responsive Web Design
11 5 (10.00%) Typography
Qualifications
1 1 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (2.00%) Degree
1 1 (2.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (2.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (16.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 6 (12.00%) Adobe
2 2 (4.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.00%) Facebook
3 1 (2.00%) Google
3 1 (2.00%) Optimizely
3 1 (2.00%) Samsung