Sketch Contracts in the North of England

Sketch
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Sketch skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Sketch over the 6 months leading up to 27 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 180 166 192
Rank change year-on-year -14 +26 +47
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Sketch 7 3 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.17% 0.071% 0.14%
As % of the Applications category 1.82% 1.21% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 5
10th Percentile £302 - £380
25th Percentile £304 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +26.67%
75th Percentile £345 - £506
90th Percentile £354 - £527
England median daily rate £420 £469 £500
% change year-on-year -10.45% -6.20% -

All Software Application Skills
North of England

Sketch falls under the Software Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring software application skills in the North of England.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 384 247 428
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 9.56% 5.87% 8.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 128 273
10th Percentile £194 £162 £151
25th Percentile £296 £210 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £400 £338
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% +18.52% -10.00%
75th Percentile £473 £506 £488
90th Percentile £550 £597 £575
England median daily rate £425 £408 £425
% change year-on-year +4.29% -4.12% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 58 51
10th Percentile £17.00 - £15.75
25th Percentile £19.07 £10.95 £17.60
Median hourly rate £22.32 £14.34 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year +55.67% -32.73% +6.55%
75th Percentile £35.50 £34.50 £36.25
90th Percentile £62.04 £57.50 £50.00
England median hourly rate £23.10 £16.23 £23.07
% change year-on-year +42.33% -29.65% +4.86%

Sketch
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Sketch as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Sketch in the North of England

Sketch
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Sketch.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Sketch

Sketch
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Sketch.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Sketch

Sketch
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Sketch within the North of England region over the 6 months to 27 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West - 5 £313 - 3
Yorkshire -9 2 - - 3
Sketch
England

Sketch
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (85.71%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) InVision
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Figma
2 2 (28.57%) Adobe Creative Cloud
General
1 6 (85.71%) Finance
2 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Legal
3 1 (14.29%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Designer
2 4 (57.14%) UX Designer
3 2 (28.57%) Content Designer
4 1 (14.29%) Consultant
4 1 (14.29%) Graphic Designer
4 1 (14.29%) Interface Designer
4 1 (14.29%) UI Consultant
4 1 (14.29%) UI Designer
4 1 (14.29%) User Experience Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Onboarding
2 1 (14.29%) Client/Server
2 1 (14.29%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Interaction Design
1 7 (100.00%) User Experience
2 6 (85.71%) Personalization
2 6 (85.71%) UX Design
3 5 (71.43%) Content Management
3 5 (71.43%) Validation
4 4 (57.14%) Agile
4 4 (57.14%) Usability Testing
5 2 (28.57%) Front End Development
5 2 (28.57%) Information Architecture
5 2 (28.57%) Prototyping
5 2 (28.57%) User Research
6 1 (14.29%) Content Writing
6 1 (14.29%) Customer Experience
6 1 (14.29%) SEO
6 1 (14.29%) Unit Testing
6 1 (14.29%) Web Accessibility
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (85.71%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Hopewiser
2 2 (28.57%) Adobe
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft