Lead Designer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Lead Designer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Lead Designer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 13 May 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
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 368 441 481
Rank change year-on-year +73 +40 -53
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Designer 14 11 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.069% 0.047% 0.085%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.074% 0.050% 0.089%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 15
10th Percentile - £575 £453
25th Percentile £575 £628 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £625 £684 £650
90th Percentile £631 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £563 £675 £550
% change year-on-year -16.67% +22.73% +2.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 18,841 22,170 29,329
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.51% 94.33% 95.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,467 15,486 20,548
10th Percentile £213 £225 £203
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,255 1,134 1,466
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +3.98%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £44.03
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +6.13%

Lead Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Designer in the UK excluding London

Lead Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Designer in the UK excluding London

Lead Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead Designer in the UK excluding London

Lead 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 Lead Designer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 May 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
South East +26 13 £600 +0.63%
Scotland - 1 - - 2
Lead Designer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 May 2024, Lead 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 Lead Designer in the job title.

1 10 (71.43%) Coaching
2 7 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 7 (50.00%) Azure
2 7 (50.00%) Node.js
3 6 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (42.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 6 (42.86%) Azure Key Vault
4 5 (35.71%) Storytelling
4 5 (35.71%) Strategic Thinking
4 5 (35.71%) API Development
4 5 (35.71%) API Design
4 5 (35.71%) Marketing
4 5 (35.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (35.71%) Azure Monitor
4 5 (35.71%) Azure Cognitive Search
5 4 (28.57%) CINEMA 4D
5 4 (28.57%) Agile
5 4 (28.57%) Adobe After Effects
5 4 (28.57%) Adobe Premiere
5 4 (28.57%) Motion Graphics
5 4 (28.57%) DevOps
5 4 (28.57%) Visual Effects
5 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
6 3 (21.43%) Accessibility
6 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (21.43%) Animation
6 3 (21.43%) JavaScript
7 2 (14.29%) PHP
7 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
7 2 (14.29%) CSS

Lead 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 5 (35.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (28.57%) Adobe After Effects
2 4 (28.57%) Adobe Premiere
2 4 (28.57%) CINEMA 4D
3 2 (14.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) Azure
2 6 (42.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 6 (42.86%) Azure Key Vault
3 5 (35.71%) Azure Cognitive Search
3 5 (35.71%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Functions
5 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Git
General
1 5 (35.71%) Marketing
2 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 7 (50.00%) Node.js
2 2 (14.29%) CSS
2 2 (14.29%) HTML
3 1 (7.14%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Motion Graphics
2 3 (21.43%) Animation
3 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Coaching
2 6 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (35.71%) API Design
3 5 (35.71%) API Development
3 5 (35.71%) Storytelling
3 5 (35.71%) Strategic Thinking
4 4 (28.57%) Agile
4 4 (28.57%) DevOps
4 4 (28.57%) Visual Effects
5 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 2 (14.29%) Data-Driven Testing
5 2 (14.29%) Integration Testing
5 2 (14.29%) Security Testing
5 2 (14.29%) Software Testing
5 2 (14.29%) System Testing
5 2 (14.29%) Test Automation
5 2 (14.29%) Unit Testing
6 1 (7.14%) Storyboarding
6 1 (7.14%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 1 (7.14%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) JavaScript
2 2 (14.29%) PHP
3 1 (7.14%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) Accessibility
2 1 (7.14%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Adobe
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft