Junior Designer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Junior Designer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Junior Designer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £225, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 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
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 331 - 448
Rank change year-on-year - - +71
Contract jobs requiring a Junior Designer 3 0 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.023% - 0.029%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.025% - 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile £203 - £270
25th Percentile £206 - £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - +23.08%
75th Percentile £280 - -
90th Percentile £305 - £411
UK median daily rate £200 - £400
% change year-on-year - - +23.08%

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 11,771 19,161 22,551
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.14% 92.57% 94.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,545 11,699 15,818
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 836 2,248 1,160
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.79 £15.75 £18.08
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.22% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.88 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% -19.07% +94.45%

Junior Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Junior Designer in the UK excluding London

Junior Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Junior Designer in the UK excluding London

Junior Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Junior Designer in the UK excluding London

Junior 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 Junior Designer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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
Midlands - 2 £261 -
West Midlands - 1 £200 -
North of England - 1 £225 - 1
Yorkshire - 1 £225 -
East Midlands - 1 £322 -
Junior Designer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2025, Junior 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 Junior Designer in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) Prototyping
1 2 (66.67%) Interaction Design
1 2 (66.67%) Figma
1 2 (66.67%) Adobe
1 2 (66.67%) User Experience
1 2 (66.67%) UX Design
2 1 (33.33%) Web Accessibility
2 1 (33.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (33.33%) Typography
2 1 (33.33%) Wireframes
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) CSS
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Web Development
2 1 (33.33%) Animation
2 1 (33.33%) Photography
2 1 (33.33%) Usability Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (33.33%) User Research
2 1 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 1 (33.33%) Content Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Adobe XD
2 1 (33.33%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
2 1 (33.33%) Low-Fidelity Prototypes
2 1 (33.33%) A/B Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Contextual Inquiry
2 1 (33.33%) Information Architecture

Junior 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 1 (33.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (33.33%) Adobe XD
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Figma
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) CSS
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Animation
1 1 (33.33%) Motion Graphics
1 1 (33.33%) Photography
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Interaction Design
1 2 (66.67%) Prototyping
1 2 (66.67%) User Experience
1 2 (66.67%) UX Design
2 1 (33.33%) A/B Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Content Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Contextual Inquiry
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
2 1 (33.33%) Information Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Low-Fidelity Prototypes
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Typography
2 1 (33.33%) Usability Testing
2 1 (33.33%) User Research
2 1 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 1 (33.33%) Web Accessibility
2 1 (33.33%) Web Development
2 1 (33.33%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Adobe