Digital Designer Contracts in the South West

Digital Designer
England > South West

The median Digital Designer daily rate in the South West is £375, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 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
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 - 157
Rank change year-on-year - - +13
Contract jobs requiring a Digital Designer 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.12% - 0.058%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% - 0.062%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - £280
25th Percentile £363 - £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - £400
75th Percentile £388 - £475
90th Percentile - - £520
England median daily rate £321 £285 £550
% change year-on-year +12.72% -48.18% +18.92%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South 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 South West with a recognized job title 1,543 2,947 3,209
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.52% 93.11% 92.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 977 1,874 2,397
10th Percentile £216 £213 £275
25th Percentile £375 £400 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.53% -2.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £613 £613 £644
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 150 414 251
10th Percentile £18.48 £14.00 £18.09
25th Percentile £25.15 £27.50 £50.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +41.30%
75th Percentile £68.00 £71.25 £72.98
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £83.40
England median hourly rate £29.15 £37.18 £44.77
% change year-on-year -21.60% -16.94% +94.63%

Digital Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Digital Designer in the South West

Digital Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Digital Designer in the South West

Digital Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Digital Designer in the South West

Digital Designer
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Digital Designer within the South West region over the 6 months to 21 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
Wiltshire - 2 £375 -
Digital Designer
England

Digital Designer Skill Set
Top 15 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 21 May 2025, Digital 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 West region featuring Digital Designer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 2 (100.00%) Adobe
1 2 (100.00%) Usability Testing
1 2 (100.00%) UX Design
1 2 (100.00%) Product Management
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
1 2 (100.00%) Wireframes
1 2 (100.00%) Adobe XD
1 2 (100.00%) Sketch
1 2 (100.00%) Figma
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 2 (100.00%) User Research

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

Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Adobe XD
1 2 (100.00%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Figma
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 2 (100.00%) Product Management
1 2 (100.00%) Usability Testing
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
1 2 (100.00%) User Research
1 2 (100.00%) UX Design
1 2 (100.00%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Adobe