Technical Designer Contract Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Technical Designer
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The median Technical Designer daily rate in Northamptonshire is £402, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 January 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Designer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 0.34% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £402 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Northamptonshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Northamptonshire. 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 Northamptonshire with a recognized job title 273 126 150
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.81% 86.90% 92.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 223 92 113
10th Percentile £313 £307 £213
25th Percentile £358 £356 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £400 £460
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -13.04% +8.24%
75th Percentile £475 £488 £520
90th Percentile £550 £575 £569
East Midlands median daily rate £424 £425 £445
% change year-on-year -0.29% -4.49% -1.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 13
10th Percentile - - £10.96
25th Percentile - £23.10 £11.83
Median hourly rate - £24.20 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year - +38.29% -1.24%
75th Percentile - £25.30 £25.18
90th Percentile - - £41.00
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +6.75%

Technical Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Technical Designer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire.

Technical Designer job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

Technical Designer
Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Designer job vacancies in Northamptonshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Designer job vacancies in Northamptonshire

Technical Designer
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 21 January 2026. 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
Northampton - 1 £402 - 1
Technical Designer
East Midlands

Technical Designer Skill Set
Top 15 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire

For the 6 months to 21 January 2026, Technical Designer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Northamptonshire region featuring Technical Designer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Apex Code
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (100.00%) SOQL
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Visualforce

Technical Designer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
1 1 (100.00%) Visualforce
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Apex Code
1 1 (100.00%) SOQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce