Technical Designer Contracts in London

Technical Designer
England > London

The median Technical Designer daily rate in London is £713, 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 350 - 475
Rank change year-on-year - - +122
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Designer 3 0 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.024% - 0.067%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.026% - 0.070%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £636 - £466
25th Percentile £653 - £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £713 - £488
75th Percentile £778 - £497
90th Percentile £799 - £499
England median daily rate £713 - £493
% change year-on-year - - -17.92%

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%

Technical Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Designer in London

Technical Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Designer in London

Technical Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Designer in London

Technical 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 Technical 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 - 1 £775 -
Technical Designer
England

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

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

1 3 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Customer Experience
2 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) Strategic Roadmap
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Degree
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (33.33%) Release Management
3 1 (33.33%) Temenos T24
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) Temenos
3 1 (33.33%) PMP
3 1 (33.33%) PMI Certification
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) Financial Institution
3 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Banking
3 1 (33.33%) TOGAF
3 1 (33.33%) Document Management
3 1 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Identification and Mitigation
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Team

Technical 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Banking
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) Process Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Customer Experience
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) Strategic Roadmap
3 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) Business Transformation
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Creative Thinking
3 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2
3 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Identification and Mitigation
3 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (33.33%) Technology Roadmap
3 1 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) PMI Certification
1 1 (33.33%) PMP
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Temenos