Designer Contracts in the North West

Designer
England > North West

The median Designer daily rate in the North West is £404, 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 95 115 96
Rank change year-on-year +20 -19 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Designer 25 22 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.27% 0.80% 1.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.37% 0.85% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 12 40
10th Percentile £317 £329 £311
25th Percentile £375 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £404 £394 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.48% -17.11% -3.06%
75th Percentile £469 £450 £620
90th Percentile £488 £521 £675
England median daily rate £457 £498 £525
% change year-on-year -8.14% -5.24% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £30.40 - £40.00
England median hourly rate £30.40 £57.35 £43.75
% change year-on-year -46.99% +31.09% +0.57%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 1,821 2,603 3,030
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.53% 94.48% 94.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,205 1,698 2,172
10th Percentile £250 £281 £300
25th Percentile £378 £393 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £588
90th Percentile £652 £675 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 266 133
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.07 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.44 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £29.23 £26.53 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +10.20% -13.15% +50.37%
75th Percentile £59.24 £46.18 £47.50
90th Percentile £83.41 £63.75 £65.00
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Designer in the North West

Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Designer in the North West

Designer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Designer in the North West

Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Designer in the North West

Designer
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +10 13 £400 +6.67% 33
Cheshire - 6 £405 - 8
Lancashire - 6 £475 - 9
Cumbria - 1 £447 - 3
Designer
England

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

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 West region featuring Designer in the job title.

1 7 (28.00%) User Experience
2 6 (24.00%) UX Design
2 6 (24.00%) Service Design
3 5 (20.00%) Accessibility
4 4 (16.00%) Business Strategy
4 4 (16.00%) Figma
4 4 (16.00%) Decision-Making
4 4 (16.00%) ServiceNow
4 4 (16.00%) Finance
4 4 (16.00%) Agile
4 4 (16.00%) Oracle
4 4 (16.00%) Microsoft
5 3 (12.00%) Cisco
5 3 (12.00%) Project Management
5 3 (12.00%) Change Management
5 3 (12.00%) Marketing
5 3 (12.00%) Legal
5 3 (12.00%) Asset Management
5 3 (12.00%) Product Marketing
5 3 (12.00%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (12.00%) Test Management
5 3 (12.00%) Customer Insight
5 3 (12.00%) Social Media
5 3 (12.00%) Mobile App
5 3 (12.00%) Defect Management
5 3 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (12.00%) Strategic Thinking
5 3 (12.00%) Chatbot
5 3 (12.00%) Content Marketing
5 3 (12.00%) Requirements Gathering

Designer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (8.00%) CICS
1 2 (8.00%) CMS
2 1 (4.00%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Chatbot
2 1 (4.00%) Adobe XD
2 1 (4.00%) Siemens NX
2 1 (4.00%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.00%) Figma
2 2 (8.00%) AWS
2 2 (8.00%) Azure
2 2 (8.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) BGP
1 2 (8.00%) Firewall
1 2 (8.00%) MPLS
1 2 (8.00%) Network Security
1 2 (8.00%) OSPF
1 2 (8.00%) VLAN
1 2 (8.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) Easytrieve
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Balsamiq
General
1 4 (16.00%) Finance
2 3 (12.00%) Legal
2 3 (12.00%) Marketing
2 3 (12.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Banking
3 2 (8.00%) Local Government
3 2 (8.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (8.00%) CSS
2 2 (8.00%) HTML
2 2 (8.00%) REST
2 2 (8.00%) Web Services
3 1 (4.00%) .NET
3 1 (4.00%) Bootstrap
3 1 (4.00%) jQuery
3 1 (4.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Mobile App
1 3 (12.00%) Onboarding
1 3 (12.00%) Social Media
2 2 (8.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (8.00%) Mainframe
2 2 (8.00%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (28.00%) User Experience
2 6 (24.00%) Service Design
2 6 (24.00%) UX Design
3 4 (16.00%) Agile
3 4 (16.00%) Business Strategy
3 4 (16.00%) Decision-Making
4 3 (12.00%) Asset Management
4 3 (12.00%) Change Management
4 3 (12.00%) Content Marketing
4 3 (12.00%) Conversational UI
4 3 (12.00%) Customer Insight
4 3 (12.00%) Customer Service
4 3 (12.00%) Defect Management
4 3 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (12.00%) Product Marketing
4 3 (12.00%) Project Management
4 3 (12.00%) Requirements Gathering
4 3 (12.00%) Strategic Thinking
4 3 (12.00%) Test Management
4 3 (12.00%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.00%) COBOL
1 2 (8.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (8.00%) JCL
Qualifications
1 2 (8.00%) CCIE
1 2 (8.00%) CCNP
1 2 (8.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (8.00%) Degree
1 2 (8.00%) JNCIE
1 2 (8.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (8.00%) QA
3 1 (4.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 4 (16.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (16.00%) Oracle
1 4 (16.00%) ServiceNow
2 3 (12.00%) Cisco
3 2 (8.00%) F5
3 2 (8.00%) Fortinet
4 1 (4.00%) Adobe