Designer Contracts in Newcastle upon Tyne

Designer
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The median Designer daily rate in Newcastle upon Tyne is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 17 25
Rank change year-on-year -5 +8 +4
Contract jobs requiring a Designer 10 11 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 4.67% 5.88% 6.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.88% 6.47% 6.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 11
10th Percentile £373 - £378
25th Percentile £375 £613 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +8.70% +17.35%
75th Percentile £534 £638 £643
90th Percentile £603 - £685
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £475 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -24.00% +8.70% +17.35%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Newcastle upon Tyne

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Newcastle upon Tyne. 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 Newcastle upon Tyne with a recognized job title 205 170 252
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.79% 90.91% 98.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 85 191
10th Percentile £236 £350 £305
25th Percentile £375 £400 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £560
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% -10.71% +12.00%
75th Percentile £555 £588 £650
90th Percentile £625 £641 £738
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £463 £475 £550
% change year-on-year -2.63% -13.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 20 0
10th Percentile £16.00 £12.26 -
25th Percentile £17.88 £17.75 -
Median hourly rate £19.97 £47.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -57.96% - -
75th Percentile £48.75 £50.00 -
90th Percentile £50.70 £68.75 -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £13.00 £13.99 -
% change year-on-year -7.08% - -

Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Job postings that featured Designer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Job vacancy trend for Designer in Newcastle upon Tyne

Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Designer in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Daily rate trend for Designer in Newcastle upon Tyne

Designer
Daily Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Designer in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Designer in Newcastle upon Tyne

Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Designer in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Hourly rate trend for Designer in Newcastle upon Tyne

Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne

For the 6 months to 28 May 2025, 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 Newcastle upon Tyne region featuring Designer in the job title.

1 5 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (40.00%) Virgin Media
3 3 (30.00%) Design Thinking
3 3 (30.00%) Agile
4 2 (20.00%) Finance
4 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (20.00%) Figma
4 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (20.00%) User Research
4 2 (20.00%) Wireframes
4 2 (20.00%) User Experience
4 2 (20.00%) Onboarding
5 1 (10.00%) Postman
5 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
5 1 (10.00%) Microservices
5 1 (10.00%) Translating Business Requirements
5 1 (10.00%) Swagger
5 1 (10.00%) Fintech
5 1 (10.00%) Service Design
5 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (10.00%) OpenAPI
5 1 (10.00%) UX Research
5 1 (10.00%) Zero Trust
5 1 (10.00%) End-to-End Testing
5 1 (10.00%) Interaction Design
5 1 (10.00%) NIST
5 1 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (10.00%) Azure
5 1 (10.00%) AWS

Designer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Figma
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (10.00%) GitHub
2 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Postman
General
1 5 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Middleware
1 1 (10.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (10.00%) REST
1 1 (10.00%) Swagger
1 1 (10.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Agile
1 3 (30.00%) Design Thinking
2 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (20.00%) User Experience
2 2 (20.00%) User Research
2 2 (20.00%) Wireframes
3 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (10.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (10.00%) Fintech
3 1 (10.00%) Interaction Design
3 1 (10.00%) Microservices
3 1 (10.00%) Security Architecture
3 1 (10.00%) Service Design
3 1 (10.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (10.00%) UML
3 1 (10.00%) User Stories
3 1 (10.00%) UX Research
3 1 (10.00%) Waterfall
3 1 (10.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Virgin Media