Designer Contracts in the South East

Designer
England > South East

The median Designer daily rate in the South East is £544 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 91 170 141
Rank change year-on-year +79 -29 -39
Contract jobs requiring a Designer 114 56 127
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.06% 0.96% 1.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.23% 1.02% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 37 84
10th Percentile £200 £372 £386
25th Percentile £390 £400 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £500 £552
Median % change year-on-year +8.75% -9.42% +29.88%
75th Percentile £625 £688 £628
90th Percentile £654 £805 £688
England median daily rate £495 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -5.71% - +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 0 2
10th Percentile £45.00 - £37.66
25th Percentile £53.40 - £40.91
Median hourly rate £57.35 - £46.63
75th Percentile £61.30 - £52.16
90th Percentile - - £55.29
England median hourly rate £57.35 £43.75 £43.50
% change year-on-year +31.09% +0.57% +56.94%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 5,114 5,511 7,446
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 94.54% 95.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,065 3,843 5,039
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £400 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £615 £606 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 478 238 337
10th Percentile £12.78 £18.08 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.32 £22.18 £15.63
Median hourly rate £47.50 £48.40 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% +130.48% -16.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.45 £43.50
90th Percentile £76.90 £75.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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
Hampshire +40 49 £550 -24.14% 5
Thames Valley +16 46 £525 +20.00% 14
Berkshire +17 42 £600 +50.00% 4
Surrey +26 17 £527 -6.11% 3
Buckinghamshire +17 3 £180 -64.88% 8
Oxfordshire -1 1 £550 +15.79% 2
West Sussex - 1 - - 1
Sussex - 1 - -
Designer
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, 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 42 (36.84%) Electronics
2 39 (34.21%) FPGA
3 33 (28.95%) Schematic Capture
3 33 (28.95%) CPLD
3 33 (28.95%) Degree
3 33 (28.95%) VHDL
3 33 (28.95%) Ethernet
3 33 (28.95%) EMC
4 23 (20.18%) Marketing
5 17 (14.91%) Security Cleared
5 17 (14.91%) Coaching
6 16 (14.04%) Continuous Improvement
6 16 (14.04%) Adobe
6 16 (14.04%) Social Skills
7 14 (12.28%) Storytelling
7 14 (12.28%) SC Cleared
7 14 (12.28%) User Experience
7 14 (12.28%) Strategic Thinking
8 13 (11.40%) Microsoft
8 13 (11.40%) Microsoft Office
9 11 (9.65%) Azure
10 10 (8.77%) Node.js
10 10 (8.77%) UX Design
10 10 (8.77%) AngularJS
10 10 (8.77%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 10 (8.77%) Agile
10 10 (8.77%) Accessibility
11 9 (7.89%) Figma
11 9 (7.89%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 9 (7.89%) Azure Key Vault

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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (2.63%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.88%) Appian
2 1 (0.88%) Confluence
Applications
1 13 (11.40%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (8.77%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 9 (7.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (7.02%) Adobe After Effects
4 8 (7.02%) Adobe Premiere
4 8 (7.02%) CINEMA 4D
5 7 (6.14%) Photoshop
6 6 (5.26%) InDesign
7 5 (4.39%) Microsoft Excel
8 3 (2.63%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.88%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.88%) InVision
9 1 (0.88%) Sketch
9 1 (0.88%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 5 (4.39%) SmartPlant
2 1 (0.88%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 11 (9.65%) Azure
2 9 (7.89%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 9 (7.89%) Azure Key Vault
2 9 (7.89%) Figma
3 8 (7.02%) Azure Cognitive Search
3 8 (7.02%) Azure Monitor
3 8 (7.02%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (0.88%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (0.88%) Azure Functions
4 1 (0.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 33 (28.95%) Ethernet
2 6 (5.26%) Wireless
3 2 (1.75%) Cisco Firepower
3 2 (1.75%) Software-Defined Radio
3 2 (1.75%) VPN
4 1 (0.88%) Firewall
4 1 (0.88%) LTE
4 1 (0.88%) VoLTE
Development Applications
1 5 (4.39%) Git
2 1 (0.88%) JIRA
General
1 42 (36.84%) Electronics
2 23 (20.18%) Marketing
3 16 (14.04%) Social Skills
4 9 (7.89%) Telecoms
5 7 (6.14%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.39%) Advertising
7 2 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.88%) Automotive
8 1 (0.88%) Brand Awareness
8 1 (0.88%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.88%) Multimedia
8 1 (0.88%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.77%) AngularJS
1 10 (8.77%) Node.js
2 6 (5.26%) CSS
2 6 (5.26%) HTML
3 1 (0.88%) React
3 1 (0.88%) Smarty
Miscellaneous
1 39 (34.21%) FPGA
2 33 (28.95%) CPLD
2 33 (28.95%) VHDL
3 8 (7.02%) Motion Graphics
4 6 (5.26%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.51%) Animation
6 3 (2.63%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.75%) Photography
7 2 (1.75%) Social Media
8 1 (0.88%) Graphic Design
8 1 (0.88%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (28.95%) Schematic Capture
2 17 (14.91%) Coaching
3 16 (14.04%) Continuous Improvement
4 14 (12.28%) Storytelling
4 14 (12.28%) Strategic Thinking
4 14 (12.28%) User Experience
5 10 (8.77%) Agile
5 10 (8.77%) UX Design
6 8 (7.02%) API Design
6 8 (7.02%) API Development
6 8 (7.02%) DevOps
6 8 (7.02%) Visual Effects
7 6 (5.26%) CI/CD
7 6 (5.26%) Project Delivery
8 5 (4.39%) 3D Modelling
8 5 (4.39%) Bill of Materials
8 5 (4.39%) Data-Driven Testing
8 5 (4.39%) Security Testing
8 5 (4.39%) Test Automation
8 5 (4.39%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (7.02%) JavaScript
2 5 (4.39%) PHP
3 1 (0.88%) C
3 1 (0.88%) Java
3 1 (0.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 33 (28.95%) Degree
2 17 (14.91%) Security Cleared
3 14 (12.28%) SC Cleared
4 8 (7.02%) JNCIS
5 2 (1.75%) CCNA
5 2 (1.75%) CCNP
5 2 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.88%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.77%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.63%) SLA
3 1 (0.88%) WCAG
Vendors
1 33 (28.95%) EMC
2 16 (14.04%) Adobe
3 13 (11.40%) Microsoft
4 9 (7.89%) Juniper
5 5 (4.39%) Xilinx
6 4 (3.51%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.63%) Cisco
7 3 (2.63%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.75%) F5
9 1 (0.88%) IBM
9 1 (0.88%) TIBCO