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 £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 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
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 323 369 410
Rank change year-on-year +46 +41 -5
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Designer 20 28 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.14% 0.088%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.15% 0.093%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 11 16
10th Percentile £455 £400 £379
25th Percentile £479 - £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £450 £547
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% -17.73% -0.55%
75th Percentile £663 £523 £600
90th Percentile £675 £550 £663
UK median daily rate £515 £520 £598
% change year-on-year -0.96% -13.04% +8.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £31.91 - -
25th Percentile £34.18 - -
Median hourly rate £39.70 - -
75th Percentile £46.98 - -
90th Percentile £50.29 - -
UK median hourly rate £39.70 - £60.00
% 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 11,956 19,149 21,481
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.73% 92.41% 94.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,594 11,598 14,941
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 855 2,392 1,083
10th Percentile £13.78 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.75 £17.95
Median hourly rate £26.28 £40.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.30% -6.98% +115.00%
75th Percentile £62.24 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.00 £75.40
UK median hourly rate £28.17 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -24.89% -16.67% +87.50%

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 31 May 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior Designer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 31 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
Scotland 0 7 £650 +52.94%
Midlands - 6 £468 - 5
West Midlands - 5 - - 1
North of England +10 4 £500 - 11
North West +8 3 £500 - 7
South West +45 2 £575 +12.75% 2
Yorkshire +8 1 - - 1
Wales - 1 £650 -
East Midlands - 1 £468 - 4
East of England - 1 £475 - 2
Senior Designer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 2025, 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 12 (60.00%) User Experience
2 8 (40.00%) UX Design
2 8 (40.00%) Agile
3 7 (35.00%) Public Sector
4 5 (25.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 5 (25.00%) Virtual Reality
4 5 (25.00%) Accessibility
4 5 (25.00%) User Research
4 5 (25.00%) Service Design
4 5 (25.00%) Generative AI
4 5 (25.00%) TypeScript
4 5 (25.00%) Mobile Games
4 5 (25.00%) Games
5 4 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 4 (20.00%) Usability Testing
5 4 (20.00%) Unity (Game Engine)
5 4 (20.00%) Unreal Engine
5 4 (20.00%) Polish Language
5 4 (20.00%) Prototyping
6 3 (15.00%) Wireframes
6 3 (15.00%) Design Thinking
6 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
6 3 (15.00%) Figma
6 3 (15.00%) WCAG
6 3 (15.00%) Python
6 3 (15.00%) Adobe
7 2 (10.00%) Project Management
7 2 (10.00%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (10.00%) Data Security
7 2 (10.00%) Workflow

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:

Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (10.00%) Sketch
2 1 (5.00%) Adobe After Effects
2 1 (5.00%) Adobe Premiere
2 1 (5.00%) Adobe XD
2 1 (5.00%) CINEMA 4D
2 1 (5.00%) Final Cut Pro
2 1 (5.00%) OmniGraffle
2 1 (5.00%) Photoshop
2 1 (5.00%) Zeplin
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.00%) Figma
2 1 (5.00%) AWS
2 1 (5.00%) Azure
2 1 (5.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Git
General
1 7 (35.00%) Public Sector
2 5 (25.00%) Games
3 4 (20.00%) Polish Language
4 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
5 2 (10.00%) Finance
6 1 (5.00%) Local Government
6 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) Unity (Game Engine)
1 4 (20.00%) Unreal Engine
2 2 (10.00%) Node.js
3 1 (5.00%) CSS
3 1 (5.00%) HTML
3 1 (5.00%) React
3 1 (5.00%) RESTful
3 1 (5.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Mobile Games
1 5 (25.00%) Virtual Reality
2 1 (5.00%) Animation
2 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.00%) e-Learning
2 1 (5.00%) Graphic Design
2 1 (5.00%) Learning Management System
2 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.00%) Motion Graphics
2 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.00%) Social Media
2 1 (5.00%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Android
1 1 (5.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) User Experience
2 8 (40.00%) Agile
2 8 (40.00%) UX Design
3 5 (25.00%) Generative AI
3 5 (25.00%) Service Design
3 5 (25.00%) User Research
3 5 (25.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 4 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 4 (20.00%) Prototyping
4 4 (20.00%) Usability Testing
5 3 (15.00%) Design Thinking
5 3 (15.00%) Wireframes
6 2 (10.00%) A/B Testing
6 2 (10.00%) API Management
6 2 (10.00%) CI/CD
6 2 (10.00%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
6 2 (10.00%) Microservices
6 2 (10.00%) Performance Metrics
6 2 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (10.00%) UX Research
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) TypeScript
2 3 (15.00%) Python
3 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (5.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (25.00%) Accessibility
2 3 (15.00%) WCAG
3 1 (5.00%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Adobe
2 1 (5.00%) Cisco
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle
2 1 (5.00%) YouTube