Senior Designer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Senior Designer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Designer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 363 414 397
Rank change year-on-year +51 -17 -33
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Designer 32 38 120
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.16% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.17% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 31 100
10th Percentile £375 £450 £381
25th Percentile £450 £506 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £539
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +6.73% +7.75%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £588
90th Percentile £650 £665 £639
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £30.97
25th Percentile - - £31.73
Median hourly rate £45.00 - £34.25
75th Percentile - - £36.01
90th Percentile - - £36.30
UK median hourly rate £58.75 £60.00 £34.25
% change year-on-year -2.08% +75.20% +4.25%

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 19,260 22,774 29,857
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.67% 94.07% 95.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,836 15,954 20,879
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £594 £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 2,214 1,200 1,503
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.06
25th Percentile £15.66 £18.12 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -21.11% +95.65% +1.41%

Senior Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Designer in the UK excluding London

Senior Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Designer in the UK excluding London

Senior Designer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Designer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Designer in the UK excluding London

Senior Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Designer in the UK excluding London

Senior 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 Senior Designer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 24 April 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
North of England +38 12 £500 -11.11% 8
Scotland +29 12 £530 -13.82% 5
Yorkshire +25 7 £500 -8.88% 3
North West +21 5 - - 5
South East +12 4 £525 +33.42% 4
Midlands +36 2 £375 -29.58% 3
West Midlands +30 2 £375 -29.58% 2
South West +17 2 £510 -11.30% 1
Senior Designer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, Senior 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 Senior Designer in the job title.

1 16 (50.00%) Service Design
2 15 (46.88%) Public Sector
2 15 (46.88%) Agile
3 12 (37.50%) User Experience
4 11 (34.38%) Prototyping
5 9 (28.13%) Accessibility
5 9 (28.13%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 8 (25.00%) Interaction Design
6 8 (25.00%) UX Design
7 7 (21.88%) Coaching
8 6 (18.75%) Social Skills
8 6 (18.75%) User Research
9 5 (15.63%) Collaborative Working
10 4 (12.50%) Wireframes
10 4 (12.50%) Content Strategy
10 4 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (12.50%) Mentoring
10 4 (12.50%) User Stories
10 4 (12.50%) Degree
10 4 (12.50%) Content Management
10 4 (12.50%) CMS
11 3 (9.38%) HTML
11 3 (9.38%) CSS
11 3 (9.38%) Service Delivery
11 3 (9.38%) Continuous Improvement
11 3 (9.38%) Product Ownership
11 3 (9.38%) Journey Map
11 3 (9.38%) Health Technology
11 3 (9.38%) Product Strategy
11 3 (9.38%) Strategic Thinking

Senior 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (12.50%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Adobe After Effects
1 2 (6.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (6.25%) Adobe Premiere
1 2 (6.25%) CINEMA 4D
1 2 (6.25%) InVision
2 1 (3.13%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (3.13%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 2 (6.25%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.25%) Big Data
1 2 (6.25%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Dreamweaver
General
1 15 (46.88%) Public Sector
2 6 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 4 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (9.38%) Health Technology
5 2 (6.25%) Marketing
5 2 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (6.25%) Publishing
6 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Banking
6 1 (3.13%) Finance
6 1 (3.13%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.13%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.38%) CSS
1 3 (9.38%) HTML
2 2 (6.25%) Spring
3 1 (3.13%) COM+
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.38%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.25%) Mobile App
2 2 (6.25%) Motion Graphics
2 2 (6.25%) Photography
2 2 (6.25%) Virtual Team
3 1 (3.13%) Graphic Design
3 1 (3.13%) NHS
3 1 (3.13%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.13%) Android
1 1 (3.13%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (50.00%) Service Design
2 15 (46.88%) Agile
3 12 (37.50%) User Experience
4 11 (34.38%) Prototyping
5 9 (28.13%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 8 (25.00%) Interaction Design
6 8 (25.00%) UX Design
7 7 (21.88%) Coaching
8 6 (18.75%) User Research
9 5 (15.63%) Collaborative Working
10 4 (12.50%) Content Management
10 4 (12.50%) Content Strategy
10 4 (12.50%) Mentoring
10 4 (12.50%) User Stories
10 4 (12.50%) Wireframes
11 3 (9.38%) Co-Creation
11 3 (9.38%) Continuous Improvement
11 3 (9.38%) Product Strategy
11 3 (9.38%) Service Delivery
11 3 (9.38%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.25%) Java
2 1 (3.13%) JavaScript
2 1 (3.13%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (3.13%) HNC
2 1 (3.13%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (28.13%) Accessibility
2 2 (6.25%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (3.13%) QA
3 1 (3.13%) WCAG
Vendors
1 2 (6.25%) Adobe
2 1 (3.13%) Brio
2 1 (3.13%) Virgin Media