Senior Designer Contracts in Scotland

Senior Designer
UK > Scotland

The median Senior Designer daily rate in Scotland is £650, 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 113 117 150
Rank change year-on-year +4 +33 -21
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Designer 3 12 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.18% 0.54% 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.57% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 12
10th Percentile - £400 £506
25th Percentile - £450 £591
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £530 £616
Median % change year-on-year +22.64% -14.00% +16.55%
75th Percentile - £655 £665
90th Percentile - £671 £679
UK median daily rate £515 £544 £575
% change year-on-year -5.33% -5.39% +4.55%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Scotland. 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 Scotland with a recognized job title 1,529 2,099 2,722
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.09% 94.68% 95.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,281 1,953
10th Percentile £263 £205 £238
25th Percentile £370 £369 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +4.40%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £553
90th Percentile £610 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 114 44
10th Percentile £15.98 £12.50 £12.86
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £16.91
Median hourly rate £20.94 £33.25 £23.18
Median % change year-on-year -37.02% +43.44% -10.53%
75th Percentile £24.66 £60.00 £59.41
90th Percentile £42.58 £66.00 £67.22
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Senior Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Designer in Scotland

Senior Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Designer in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Senior Designer in Scotland

Senior Designer
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Designer within the Scotland 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
Glasgow +2 2 £650 +44.44% 2
Lanarkshire - 1 - -
Senior Designer
UK

Senior Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior 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 Scotland region featuring Senior Designer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Service Design
1 3 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (66.67%) API Management
2 2 (66.67%) Design Thinking
2 2 (66.67%) Accessibility
2 2 (66.67%) User Research
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 2 (66.67%) Wireframes
2 2 (66.67%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
2 2 (66.67%) A/B Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Node.js
2 2 (66.67%) Data Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Information Governance
2 2 (66.67%) User Experience
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Metrics
2 2 (66.67%) Data Security
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Usability Testing
2 2 (66.67%) UX Design
3 1 (33.33%) RESTful
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) Git
3 1 (33.33%) Adobe
3 1 (33.33%) Degree
3 1 (33.33%) WCAG

Senior Designer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Adobe XD
1 1 (33.33%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Figma
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 3 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Node.js
2 1 (33.33%) CSS
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) React
2 1 (33.33%) RESTful
2 1 (33.33%) Vue
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Service Design
2 2 (66.67%) A/B Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) API Management
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Data Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Data Security
2 2 (66.67%) Design Thinking
2 2 (66.67%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
2 2 (66.67%) Information Governance
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Metrics
2 2 (66.67%) Usability Testing
2 2 (66.67%) User Experience
2 2 (66.67%) User Research
2 2 (66.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 2 (66.67%) UX Design
2 2 (66.67%) Wireframes
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (33.33%) WCAG
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Adobe