Designer Contracts in Tyne and Wear

Designer
North East > Tyne and Wear

The median Designer daily rate in Tyne and Wear is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 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
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 22 26
Rank change year-on-year -3 +4 +6
Contract jobs requiring a Designer 10 10 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 4.08% 4.44% 5.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.27% 4.83% 6.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 11
10th Percentile £373 - £378
25th Percentile £375 £613 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +8.70% +17.65%
75th Percentile £534 £638 £643
90th Percentile £603 - £685
North East median daily rate £475 £538 £575
% change year-on-year -11.63% -6.52% +17.95%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Tyne and Wear

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Tyne and Wear. 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 Tyne and Wear with a recognized job title 234 207 278
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.51% 92.00% 97.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 97 215
10th Percentile £225 £327 £290
25th Percentile £358 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £573 £590 £650
90th Percentile £635 £650 £733
North East median daily rate £460 £475 £516
% change year-on-year -3.16% -7.99% +8.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 38 0
10th Percentile £11.60 £11.50 -
25th Percentile £12.50 £12.13 -
Median hourly rate £13.00 £13.99 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% - -
75th Percentile £19.54 £48.75 -
90th Percentile £49.08 £50.00 -
North East median hourly rate £13.00 £13.99 £40.75
% change year-on-year -7.08% -65.67% +139.71%

Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings that featured Designer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Designer in Tyne and Wear

Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Designer in Tyne and Wear.

Daily rate trend for Designer in Tyne and Wear

Designer
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Designer in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Designer in Tyne and Wear

Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Designer in Tyne and Wear.

Hourly rate trend for Designer in Tyne and Wear

Designer
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Designer within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 22 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -1 10 £475 -24.00% 18
Designer
North East

Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear

For the 6 months to 22 May 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 Tyne and Wear region featuring Designer in the job title.

1 5 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (40.00%) Virgin Media
3 3 (30.00%) Design Thinking
3 3 (30.00%) Agile
4 2 (20.00%) Finance
4 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (20.00%) Figma
4 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (20.00%) User Research
4 2 (20.00%) Wireframes
4 2 (20.00%) User Experience
4 2 (20.00%) Onboarding
5 1 (10.00%) Postman
5 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
5 1 (10.00%) Microservices
5 1 (10.00%) Translating Business Requirements
5 1 (10.00%) Swagger
5 1 (10.00%) Fintech
5 1 (10.00%) Service Design
5 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (10.00%) OpenAPI
5 1 (10.00%) UX Research
5 1 (10.00%) Zero Trust
5 1 (10.00%) End-to-End Testing
5 1 (10.00%) Interaction Design
5 1 (10.00%) NIST
5 1 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (10.00%) Azure
5 1 (10.00%) AWS

Designer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Figma
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (10.00%) GitHub
2 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Postman
General
1 5 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Middleware
1 1 (10.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (10.00%) REST
1 1 (10.00%) Swagger
1 1 (10.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Agile
1 3 (30.00%) Design Thinking
2 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (20.00%) User Experience
2 2 (20.00%) User Research
2 2 (20.00%) Wireframes
3 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (10.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (10.00%) Fintech
3 1 (10.00%) Interaction Design
3 1 (10.00%) Microservices
3 1 (10.00%) Security Architecture
3 1 (10.00%) Service Design
3 1 (10.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (10.00%) UML
3 1 (10.00%) User Stories
3 1 (10.00%) UX Research
3 1 (10.00%) Waterfall
3 1 (10.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Virgin Media