Digital Designer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Digital Designer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Digital Designer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £344, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 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
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 333 346 437
Rank change year-on-year +13 +91 +52
Contract jobs requiring a Digital Designer 7 39 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.054% 0.19% 0.044%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.059% 0.21% 0.046%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 8
10th Percentile £200 - £222
25th Percentile £227 £200 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £344 £243 £550
Median % change year-on-year +41.75% -55.91% +12.24%
75th Percentile £388 £307 -
90th Percentile £419 £333 -
UK median daily rate £313 £285 £550
% change year-on-year +9.65% -48.18% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 33 0
Median hourly rate £60.00 £57.35 -
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% - -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £57.35 -
% change year-on-year +4.62% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,943 18,795 21,663
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.93% 92.49% 94.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,599 11,462 15,116
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.82% +2.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 852 2,267 1,107
10th Percentile £13.85 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.73 £18.02
Median hourly rate £27.13 £40.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.19% -5.88% +112.50%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.60 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.85 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.08 £36.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.08% -18.89% +88.21%

Digital Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Digital Designer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Digital Designer in the UK excluding London

Digital Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Digital Designer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Digital Designer in the UK excluding London

Digital Designer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Digital Designer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Digital Designer in the UK excluding London

Digital Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Digital Designer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Digital Designer in the UK excluding London

Digital Designer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 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
North of England +22 2 £450 +28.57% 12
Midlands - 2 £200 - 4
North West - 2 £450 - 8
South West - 2 £375 - 2
West Midlands - 2 £200 - 3
South East +7 1 £313 +56.25% 8
Digital Designer
UK

Digital Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 18 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 UK excluding London region featuring Digital Designer in the job title.

1 4 (57.14%) User Experience
1 4 (57.14%) Figma
1 4 (57.14%) Adobe
1 4 (57.14%) UX Design
2 3 (42.86%) Wireframes
3 2 (28.57%) Prototyping
3 2 (28.57%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (28.57%) Product Management
3 2 (28.57%) Animation
3 2 (28.57%) Photography
3 2 (28.57%) Usability Testing
3 2 (28.57%) HTML
3 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 2 (28.57%) CSS
3 2 (28.57%) E-Commerce
3 2 (28.57%) Interaction Design
3 2 (28.57%) Adobe XD
3 2 (28.57%) Sketch
3 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 2 (28.57%) User Research
3 2 (28.57%) Storyboarding
3 2 (28.57%) Motion Graphics
4 1 (14.29%) Journey Map
4 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Project Management
4 1 (14.29%) Finance
4 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (14.29%) Asset Management
4 1 (14.29%) Learning Management System
4 1 (14.29%) Information Architecture

Digital Designer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (28.57%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (28.57%) Adobe XD
1 2 (28.57%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Figma
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) CSS
1 2 (28.57%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Animation
1 2 (28.57%) Motion Graphics
1 2 (28.57%) Photography
2 1 (14.29%) Learning Management System
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) User Experience
1 4 (57.14%) UX Design
2 3 (42.86%) Wireframes
3 2 (28.57%) E-Commerce
3 2 (28.57%) Interaction Design
3 2 (28.57%) Product Management
3 2 (28.57%) Prototyping
3 2 (28.57%) Storyboarding
3 2 (28.57%) Usability Testing
3 2 (28.57%) User Research
4 1 (14.29%) Asset Management
4 1 (14.29%) Content Curation
4 1 (14.29%) Data Strategy
4 1 (14.29%) Human-Centred Design
4 1 (14.29%) Information Architecture
4 1 (14.29%) Journey Map
4 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) Project Management
4 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (14.29%) User Journey Map
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Adobe