Product Designer Contracts in London

Product Designer
England > London

The median Product Designer daily rate in London is £470, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 August 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
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 328 371 410
Rank change year-on-year +43 +39 +69
Contract jobs requiring a Product Designer 56 24 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.41% 0.15% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.16% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 17 46
10th Percentile £325 £379 £450
25th Percentile £400 £406 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £472 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.32% -14.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £525 £631
90th Percentile £575 £600 £725
England median daily rate £468 £486 £550
% change year-on-year -3.86% -11.59% +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% -24.00%

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 12,754 15,330 22,885
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.93% 94.23% 94.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,634 10,896 16,762
10th Percentile £325 £344 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.92% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 203 201 241
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.75 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.83 £22.00 £23.46
Median hourly rate £30.00 £33.07 £37.34
Median % change year-on-year -9.28% -11.44% +12.30%
75th Percentile £50.50 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £71.88 £80.00
England median hourly rate £26.00 £45.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -42.22% +4.65% +68.63%

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 2 August 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 2 August 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 -1 4 £484 -10.00% 24
Product Designer
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 August 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 35 (62.50%) User Experience
2 34 (60.71%) Figma
3 25 (44.64%) UX Design
4 20 (35.71%) Wireframes
5 19 (33.93%) Prototyping
6 13 (23.21%) Social Skills
7 12 (21.43%) Accessibility
7 12 (21.43%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 11 (19.64%) User Research
8 11 (19.64%) Mobile App
9 10 (17.86%) Apple iOS
9 10 (17.86%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
10 9 (16.07%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (16.07%) Interaction Design
10 9 (16.07%) Android
10 9 (16.07%) E-Commerce
10 9 (16.07%) Agile
10 9 (16.07%) Marketing
11 8 (14.29%) Banking
11 8 (14.29%) Design Thinking
12 6 (10.71%) Customer Experience
13 5 (8.93%) Digital Marketing
13 5 (8.93%) Blog
13 5 (8.93%) Adobe
13 5 (8.93%) Finance
13 5 (8.93%) Web Design
13 5 (8.93%) Miro
13 5 (8.93%) A/B Testing
13 5 (8.93%) Conversion Rate Optimisation
13 5 (8.93%) Typography

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 (1.79%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (1.79%) Moodle
Applications
1 4 (7.14%) Zeplin
2 3 (5.36%) Sketch
3 1 (1.79%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (1.79%) Adobe XD
3 1 (1.79%) Autodesk Smoke
3 1 (1.79%) InVision
Cloud Services
1 34 (60.71%) Figma
2 5 (8.93%) Miro
3 1 (1.79%) Adobe Creative Cloud
3 1 (1.79%) SaaS
3 1 (1.79%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.79%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.79%) Metadata
1 1 (1.79%) Mixpanel
General
1 13 (23.21%) Social Skills
2 9 (16.07%) Marketing
3 8 (14.29%) Banking
4 5 (8.93%) Finance
5 4 (7.14%) Retail
6 2 (3.57%) Corporate Banking
6 2 (3.57%) Health Technology
6 2 (3.57%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.57%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.79%) Arabic Language
7 1 (1.79%) Games
7 1 (1.79%) Music Industry
7 1 (1.79%) Publishing
7 1 (1.79%) Thai Language
7 1 (1.79%) Urdu Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.57%) CSS
1 2 (3.57%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (19.64%) Mobile App
2 5 (8.93%) Blog
2 5 (8.93%) Onboarding
3 3 (5.36%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (5.36%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.79%) Educational Technology
4 1 (1.79%) iPhone
4 1 (1.79%) Learning Management System
4 1 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.79%) Sports Betting
4 1 (1.79%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 10 (17.86%) Apple iOS
2 9 (16.07%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (62.50%) User Experience
2 25 (44.64%) UX Design
3 20 (35.71%) Wireframes
4 19 (33.93%) Prototyping
5 12 (21.43%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 11 (19.64%) User Research
7 10 (17.86%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
8 9 (16.07%) Agile
8 9 (16.07%) E-Commerce
8 9 (16.07%) Interaction Design
8 9 (16.07%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (14.29%) Design Thinking
10 6 (10.71%) Customer Experience
11 5 (8.93%) A/B Testing
11 5 (8.93%) Conversion Rate Optimisation
11 5 (8.93%) Digital Marketing
11 5 (8.93%) Inclusive Design
11 5 (8.93%) Typography
11 5 (8.93%) Web Design
12 4 (7.14%) Responsive Web Design
Qualifications
1 2 (3.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.79%) Degree
2 1 (1.79%) DV Cleared
2 1 (1.79%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (21.43%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 5 (8.93%) Adobe
2 2 (3.57%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.79%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (1.79%) Google
3 1 (1.79%) Optimizely
3 1 (1.79%) Palantir
3 1 (1.79%) Samsung