Sketch Contracts in the UK excluding London

Sketch
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Sketch skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Sketch over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 328 376 407
Rank change year-on-year +48 +31 +28
Contract jobs citing Sketch 8 23 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.063% 0.11% 0.23%
As % of the Applications category 0.63% 1.13% 2.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 17 39
10th Percentile £321 £390 £364
25th Percentile £363 - £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £400 £420
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -6.67%
75th Percentile £500 £434 £461
90th Percentile £545 £490 £488
UK median daily rate £495 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +10.00% -5.26% -8.65%

All Software Application Skills
UK excluding London

Sketch falls under the Software Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring software application skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 1,265 2,042 2,224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.91% 9.83% 9.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 697 859 1,400
10th Percentile £161 £150 £164
25th Percentile £225 £200 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £350 £391
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.54% +4.33%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £500
90th Percentile £578 £625 £600
UK median daily rate £413 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +3.13% -5.88% -0.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 202 531 198
10th Percentile £14.20 £11.07 £13.29
25th Percentile £15.32 £13.75 £17.32
Median hourly rate £22.50 £16.06 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year +40.10% -50.28% +70.00%
75th Percentile £45.98 £38.85 £52.86
90th Percentile £76.13 £57.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £23.59 £17.72 £36.50
% change year-on-year +33.13% -51.45% +69.77%

Sketch
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Sketch as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Sketch in the UK excluding London

Sketch
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Sketch in the UK excluding London

Sketch
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sketch in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Sketch in the UK excluding London

Sketch
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Sketch in the UK excluding London

Sketch
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 Sketch within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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 +8 4 £400 - 3
South West - 3 £375 - 8
East of England - 1 £475 - 5
Sketch
UK

Sketch
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 (62.50%) Adobe XD
2 1 (12.50%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (12.50%) OmniGraffle
2 1 (12.50%) Zeplin
Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) Figma
2 3 (37.50%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) AWS
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Designer
2 7 (87.50%) UX Designer
3 2 (25.00%) Digital Designer
3 2 (25.00%) Digital UX Designer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Designer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior UX Designer
3 2 (25.00%) Service Designer
3 2 (25.00%) UI Designer
3 2 (25.00%) UI/UX Designer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Service Designer
4 1 (12.50%) UX Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) CSS
1 4 (50.00%) HTML
2 3 (37.50%) React
3 1 (12.50%) Node.js
3 1 (12.50%) RESTful
3 1 (12.50%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Product Ownership
2 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Android
1 2 (25.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) User Experience
1 8 (100.00%) UX Design
2 6 (75.00%) Wireframes
3 5 (62.50%) Usability Testing
3 5 (62.50%) User Research
3 5 (62.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 4 (50.00%) Prototyping
5 3 (37.50%) Agile
5 3 (37.50%) User Stories
6 2 (25.00%) A/B Testing
6 2 (25.00%) Analytics
6 2 (25.00%) E-Commerce
6 2 (25.00%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
6 2 (25.00%) Journey Map
6 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (25.00%) Product Management
6 2 (25.00%) Service Design
6 2 (25.00%) Visualisation
6 2 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
7 1 (12.50%) API Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (37.50%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Adobe
2 1 (12.50%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) Hotjar