Designer Contracts in the North East

Designer
England > North East

The median Designer daily rate in the North East is £438, 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 25 27 38
Rank change year-on-year +2 +11 -16
Contract jobs requiring a Designer 13 11 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 4.06% 3.25% 4.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.22% 3.61% 5.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 13
10th Percentile £374 - £479
25th Percentile £375 £613 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +8.70% +17.95%
75th Percentile £526 £638 £600
90th Percentile £601 - £673
England median daily rate £457 £498 £525
% change year-on-year -8.14% -5.24% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North East. 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 the North East with a recognized job title 308 305 414
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.25% 90.24% 97.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 140 319
10th Percentile £200 £190 £231
25th Percentile £344 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £475 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.89% -12.04% +13.68%
75th Percentile £558 £588 £625
90th Percentile £638 £653 £720
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 63 2
10th Percentile - £10.42 £32.98
25th Percentile £11.60 £11.50 £35.56
Median hourly rate £13.00 £13.99 £40.75
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% -65.67% +139.71%
75th Percentile £23.97 £34.50 £45.56
90th Percentile £49.73 £50.00 £47.93
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Designer in the North East

Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Designer in the North East.

Daily rate trend for Designer in the North East

Designer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

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

Daily rate histogram for Designer in the North East

Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Designer in the North East.

Hourly rate trend for Designer in the North East

Designer
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Designer within the North East 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
Tyne and Wear -3 11 £438 -30.00% 13
Designer
England

Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East

For the 6 months to 1 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 North East region featuring Designer in the job title.

1 5 (38.46%) Design Thinking
1 5 (38.46%) Public Sector
2 4 (30.77%) Figma
2 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (30.77%) Virgin Media
2 4 (30.77%) Wireframes
2 4 (30.77%) Agile
2 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
2 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 3 (23.08%) User Research
4 2 (15.38%) Onboarding
4 2 (15.38%) Degree
4 2 (15.38%) Finance
4 2 (15.38%) User Experience
4 2 (15.38%) Interaction Design
4 2 (15.38%) User Stories
5 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (7.69%) NIST
5 1 (7.69%) Postman
5 1 (7.69%) Microservices
5 1 (7.69%) Translating Business Requirements
5 1 (7.69%) Swagger
5 1 (7.69%) Fintech
5 1 (7.69%) Service Design
5 1 (7.69%) Prototyping
5 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (7.69%) Computer Science
5 1 (7.69%) Web Services

Designer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 4 (30.77%) Figma
2 1 (7.69%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (7.69%) GitHub
2 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Postman
General
1 5 (38.46%) Public Sector
2 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Finance
4 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) Middleware
1 1 (7.69%) OpenAPI
1 1 (7.69%) REST
1 1 (7.69%) Swagger
1 1 (7.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Design Thinking
2 4 (30.77%) Agile
2 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (30.77%) Wireframes
3 3 (23.08%) User Research
4 2 (15.38%) Interaction Design
4 2 (15.38%) User Experience
4 2 (15.38%) User Stories
5 1 (7.69%) Computer Science
5 1 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (7.69%) Fintech
5 1 (7.69%) Microservices
5 1 (7.69%) Prototyping
5 1 (7.69%) Security Architecture
5 1 (7.69%) Service Design
5 1 (7.69%) Translating Business Requirements
5 1 (7.69%) UML
5 1 (7.69%) UX Research
5 1 (7.69%) Waterfall
5 1 (7.69%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
1 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) Degree
3 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) NIST
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Virgin Media