Technical Designer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Technical Designer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Technical Designer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £453, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 328 - 460
Rank change year-on-year - - +50
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Designer 8 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.063% - 0.008%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.068% - 0.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £421 - £495
25th Percentile £430 - £529
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 - £593
Median % change year-on-year - - -1.25%
75th Percentile £468 - £649
90th Percentile £472 - £680
UK median daily rate £475 - £493
% change year-on-year - - -17.92%

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 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
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 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Technical Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Designer in the UK excluding London

Technical Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Designer in the UK excluding London

Technical Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Designer in the UK excluding London

Technical 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 Technical Designer 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
Midlands - 6 - -
West Midlands - 6 - -
Scotland - 2 £453 -
Technical Designer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Technical 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 Technical Designer in the job title.

1 6 (75.00%) TypeScript
1 6 (75.00%) Mobile Games
1 6 (75.00%) Games
1 6 (75.00%) Virtual Reality
2 5 (62.50%) User Experience
3 4 (50.00%) Polish Language
3 4 (50.00%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 4 (50.00%) Unreal Engine
3 4 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 4 (50.00%) Generative AI
4 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (25.00%) Impact Analysis
4 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 2 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (25.00%) Azure
4 2 (25.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 2 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (25.00%) VMware
4 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
4 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
4 2 (25.00%) Red Hat
4 2 (25.00%) Oracle
4 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
4 2 (25.00%) Windows
4 2 (25.00%) Linux
4 2 (25.00%) Python
5 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
5 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange

Technical 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 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (12.50%) DHCP
2 1 (12.50%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (75.00%) Games
2 4 (50.00%) Polish Language
3 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) Unity (Game Engine)
1 4 (50.00%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Mobile Games
1 6 (75.00%) Virtual Reality
2 2 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
1 2 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
1 2 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) User Experience
2 4 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (50.00%) Generative AI
3 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (25.00%) Impact Analysis
3 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (12.50%) Design Patterns
4 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (12.50%) Strategic Roadmap
4 1 (12.50%) Use Case
4 1 (12.50%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) TypeScript
2 2 (25.00%) Python
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle
1 2 (25.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (25.00%) VMware
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft