Designer Contracts in the South East

Designer
England > South East

The median Designer daily rate in the South East is £440, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 July 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 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 131 99 158
Rank change year-on-year -32 +59 -9
Contract jobs requiring a Designer 24 112 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.76% 1.97% 0.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.84% 2.14% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 44 37
10th Percentile - £200 £338
25th Percentile £350 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £532 £500
Median % change year-on-year -17.29% +6.40% -9.42%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £688
90th Percentile £675 £659 £805
England median daily rate £453 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -9.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 40 1
10th Percentile £45.22 £45.00 -
25th Percentile £49.29 £53.40 £61.25
Median hourly rate £57.33 £57.35 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.04% -8.24% -
75th Percentile £64.11 £61.30 £63.75
90th Percentile £67.44 - -
England median hourly rate £36.50 £57.35 £41.50
% change year-on-year -36.36% +38.19% -4.60%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South 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 South East with a recognized job title 2,853 5,245 5,482
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.72% 92.42% 94.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,852 3,086 3,784
10th Percentile £213 £250 £225
25th Percentile £375 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £507 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.28% +1.30% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £604
90th Percentile £661 £691 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 215 538 244
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.88 £16.00
25th Percentile £15.53 £18.39 £21.18
Median hourly rate £30.00 £48.70 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.40% -2.60% +138.10%
75th Percentile £62.24 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.18 £39.55 £43.93
% change year-on-year -28.75% -9.97% +75.72%

Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Designer in the South East

Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Designer in the South East

Designer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Designer in the South East

Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Designer in the South East

Designer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Designer in the South East over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Designer in the South East

Designer
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South East region over the 6 months to 1 July 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
Thames Valley +1 15 £363 -29.27% 88
Berkshire -8 9 £350 -35.19% 47
Hampshire -8 8 £650 +18.18% 49
Oxfordshire +4 4 £363 -17.14% 19
Buckinghamshire +8 2 £550 +205.56% 23
West Sussex - 1 £440 - 16
Designer
England

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

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

1 8 (33.33%) Business Strategy
2 7 (29.17%) Telecoms
2 7 (29.17%) Agile
2 7 (29.17%) Billing
3 6 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (25.00%) CRM
3 6 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 5 (20.83%) Data Integration
4 5 (20.83%) JSON
4 5 (20.83%) UML
4 5 (20.83%) Frameworx
4 5 (20.83%) REST
4 5 (20.83%) ServiceNow
4 5 (20.83%) User Experience
4 5 (20.83%) Microservices
4 5 (20.83%) Service Delivery
4 5 (20.83%) Salesforce
4 5 (20.83%) Web Services
4 5 (20.83%) Enterprise Architecture
4 5 (20.83%) Customer Experience
4 5 (20.83%) Customer Service
4 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
4 5 (20.83%) TM Forum
4 5 (20.83%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (16.67%) Edge Computing
5 4 (16.67%) IoT
5 4 (16.67%) SC Cleared
5 4 (16.67%) Security Cleared
6 3 (12.50%) Data Mapping
6 3 (12.50%) Process Improvement

Designer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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:

Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (4.17%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (4.17%) InDesign
1 1 (4.17%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.17%) Adobe Creative Cloud
1 1 (4.17%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) Broadband
2 1 (4.17%) DHCP
2 1 (4.17%) DNS
2 1 (4.17%) iSCSI
2 1 (4.17%) SAN
2 1 (4.17%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Axure RP
General
1 7 (29.17%) Billing
1 7 (29.17%) Telecoms
2 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.17%) Finance
4 1 (4.17%) Legal
4 1 (4.17%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.83%) JSON
1 5 (20.83%) REST
1 5 (20.83%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Frameworx
1 5 (20.83%) TM Forum
2 4 (16.67%) IoT
3 3 (12.50%) Operational Technology
4 2 (8.33%) Onboarding
5 1 (4.17%) Digital Media
5 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (4.17%) FPGA
5 1 (4.17%) Graphic Design
5 1 (4.17%) Photography
5 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
5 1 (4.17%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (33.33%) Business Strategy
2 7 (29.17%) Agile
3 6 (25.00%) CRM
3 6 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 6 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (20.83%) Customer Experience
4 5 (20.83%) Customer Service
4 5 (20.83%) Data Integration
4 5 (20.83%) Enterprise Architecture
4 5 (20.83%) Microservices
4 5 (20.83%) Service Delivery
4 5 (20.83%) Technical Leadership
4 5 (20.83%) UML
4 5 (20.83%) User Experience
5 4 (16.67%) Edge Computing
6 3 (12.50%) Customer Journey Map
6 3 (12.50%) Journey Map
6 3 (12.50%) Project Delivery
6 3 (12.50%) User Research
6 3 (12.50%) UX Research
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) DV Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.17%) ISO 9001
2 1 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) vSphere
Vendors
1 5 (20.83%) Salesforce
1 5 (20.83%) ServiceNow
2 2 (8.33%) Adobe
2 2 (8.33%) BT
2 2 (8.33%) Openreach
2 2 (8.33%) Virgin Media
3 1 (4.17%) Cadence