Senior Designer Contracts in London

Senior Designer
England > London

The median Senior Designer daily rate in London is £515, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 297 338 391
Rank change year-on-year +41 +53 -5
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Designer 56 53 102
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.45% 0.30% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.32% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 35 65
10th Percentile £360 £378 £400
25th Percentile £450 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £588 - £650
90th Percentile £777 £565 £748
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
England median hourly rate £30.40 - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - +75.20%

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 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £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 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Senior Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Designer in London

Senior Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Designer in London

Senior Designer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Designer in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Designer in London

Senior Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Designer in London

Senior 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 Senior Designer within the London region over the 6 months to 1 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 - 5 £550 - 1
Senior Designer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior Designer in the job title.

1 30 (53.57%) Figma
2 28 (50.00%) User Experience
3 26 (46.43%) Social Skills
4 24 (42.86%) UX Design
5 18 (32.14%) Adobe
6 14 (25.00%) Prototyping
6 14 (25.00%) Finance
6 14 (25.00%) Banking
6 14 (25.00%) User Research
7 13 (23.21%) Agile
7 13 (23.21%) Interaction Design
8 11 (19.64%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 11 (19.64%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 11 (19.64%) Animation
9 10 (17.86%) Service Design
9 10 (17.86%) Accessibility
10 9 (16.07%) E-Commerce
11 8 (14.29%) B2B
11 8 (14.29%) Motion Graphics
11 8 (14.29%) UX Research
12 7 (12.50%) Mobile App
12 7 (12.50%) Mentoring
12 7 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
12 7 (12.50%) Public Sector
12 7 (12.50%) Photoshop
12 7 (12.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
12 7 (12.50%) Adobe Illustrator
12 7 (12.50%) Adobe Premiere
12 7 (12.50%) Photography
13 6 (10.71%) InDesign

Senior 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 6 (10.71%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.79%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.79%) nginx
Applications
1 11 (19.64%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 7 (12.50%) Adobe Illustrator
2 7 (12.50%) Adobe Premiere
2 7 (12.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (12.50%) Photoshop
3 6 (10.71%) InDesign
4 3 (5.36%) Adobe After Effects
4 3 (5.36%) Adobe XD
4 3 (5.36%) CINEMA 4D
4 3 (5.36%) Final Cut Pro
4 3 (5.36%) Sketch
5 2 (3.57%) Blender
6 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 30 (53.57%) Figma
2 3 (5.36%) Miro
3 2 (3.57%) BigCommerce
3 2 (3.57%) Slack
4 1 (1.79%) AWS
4 1 (1.79%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.79%) Mixpanel
General
1 26 (46.43%) Social Skills
2 14 (25.00%) Banking
2 14 (25.00%) Finance
3 7 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 5 (8.93%) Marketing
5 3 (5.36%) Retail
6 2 (3.57%) Games
6 2 (3.57%) Legal
6 2 (3.57%) Police
7 1 (1.79%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.79%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.57%) Framer.js
1 2 (3.57%) VML
2 1 (1.79%) CSS
2 1 (1.79%) HTML
2 1 (1.79%) React
Miscellaneous
1 11 (19.64%) Animation
2 8 (14.29%) Motion Graphics
3 7 (12.50%) Mobile App
3 7 (12.50%) Photography
4 2 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.57%) Graphic Design
4 2 (3.57%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.79%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (1.79%) iPhone
5 1 (1.79%) Social Media
5 1 (1.79%) Video Editing
5 1 (1.79%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.79%) Android
1 1 (1.79%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (50.00%) User Experience
2 24 (42.86%) UX Design
3 14 (25.00%) Prototyping
3 14 (25.00%) User Research
4 13 (23.21%) Agile
4 13 (23.21%) Interaction Design
5 11 (19.64%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 10 (17.86%) Service Design
7 9 (16.07%) E-Commerce
8 8 (14.29%) B2B
8 8 (14.29%) UX Research
9 7 (12.50%) Mentoring
9 7 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (10.71%) Product Strategy
10 6 (10.71%) Wireframes
11 5 (8.93%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
11 5 (8.93%) Inclusive Design
11 5 (8.93%) Information Architecture
11 5 (8.93%) Responsive Web Design
11 5 (8.93%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.79%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (3.57%) Degree
1 2 (3.57%) DV Cleared
1 2 (3.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (17.86%) Accessibility
2 3 (5.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (1.79%) Docker
Vendors
1 18 (32.14%) Adobe
2 2 (3.57%) Salesforce
2 2 (3.57%) SAP
2 2 (3.57%) Sitecore
3 1 (1.79%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (1.79%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.79%) Optimizely
3 1 (1.79%) Samsung
3 1 (1.79%) YouTube