Adobe Illustrator Contract Job Trends

Adobe Illustrator
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Adobe Illustrator skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 588 499 515
Rank change year-on-year -89 +16 +96
Contract jobs citing Adobe Illustrator 40 27 75
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.084% 0.092% 0.17%
As % of the Applications category 1.42% 1.11% 2.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 20 28
10th Percentile £295 £150 £218
25th Percentile £306 £244 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £319 £348 £325
Median % change year-on-year -8.27% +6.92% -17.46%
75th Percentile £379 £380 £434
90th Percentile £438 £593 £605
UK excluding London median daily rate £319 £475 £350
% change year-on-year -32.89% +35.71% -9.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 10
10th Percentile £20.31 - £13.95
25th Percentile £25.35 - £14.60
Median hourly rate £32.00 - £28.75
75th Percentile £33.99 - £38.75
90th Percentile £34.93 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.00 - £37.50

All Software Application Skills
UK

Adobe Illustrator 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 2,817 2,432 3,392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 5.93% 8.33% 7.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,645 1,430 1,701
10th Percentile £250 £188 £163
25th Percentile £344 £263 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £413 £400
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +3.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £565 £540 £538
90th Percentile £654 £650 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £434 £375 £350
% change year-on-year +15.73% +7.14% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 314 252 628
10th Percentile £13.39 £14.20 £11.50
25th Percentile £16.35 £15.62 £14.00
Median hourly rate £20.35 £22.70 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.35% +29.71% -48.91%
75th Percentile £34.54 £43.94 £39.19
90th Percentile £72.60 £73.38 £57.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.00 £22.25 £16.06
% change year-on-year -10.11% +38.54% -48.64%

Adobe Illustrator
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Adobe Illustrator relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Adobe Illustrator job vacancy trend in the UK

Adobe Illustrator
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Adobe Illustrator.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Illustrator
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Adobe Illustrator over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Adobe Illustrator in the UK

Adobe Illustrator
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Adobe Illustrator.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Illustrator
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Adobe Illustrator over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Adobe Illustrator in the UK

Adobe Illustrator
Top 12 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Adobe Illustrator within the UK over the 6 months to 12 May 2026. 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
England -114 38 £319 -13.85% 35
UK excluding London -87 26 £319 -32.89% 27
London -61 14 £349 +7.31% 8
Midlands - 11 £550 - 9
West Midlands - 11 £550 - 8
South West -26 7 £310 -46.09% 2
Work from Home -47 4 £310 +18.10% 16
South East -54 3 £425 - 9
East of England -28 2 £350 -26.32% 3
Scotland - 2 - -
Yorkshire -54 1 - - 2
North of England -67 1 - - 6

Adobe Illustrator
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (10.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (5.00%) CMS
3 1 (2.50%) Confluence
3 1 (2.50%) nginx
3 1 (2.50%) Umbraco
Applications
1 35 (87.50%) Photoshop
2 15 (37.50%) Adobe After Effects
3 12 (30.00%) InDesign
4 9 (22.50%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 6 (15.00%) Adobe Premiere
6 5 (12.50%) CINEMA 4D
6 5 (12.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 3 (7.50%) Maya
7 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Excel
7 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Office
8 2 (5.00%) Siemens NX
9 1 (2.50%) 3ds Max
9 1 (2.50%) Acrobat
9 1 (2.50%) Blender
9 1 (2.50%) Camtasia
9 1 (2.50%) InVision
9 1 (2.50%) MS Visio
9 1 (2.50%) OmniGraffle
9 1 (2.50%) Sketch
9 1 (2.50%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (2.50%) Shopify
2 1 (2.50%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 12 (30.00%) Figma
2 5 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (7.50%) Adobe Creative Cloud
3 3 (7.50%) Canva
4 2 (5.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.50%) AWS
5 1 (2.50%) ChatGPT
5 1 (2.50%) GitHub
5 1 (2.50%) Lucidchart
5 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (2.50%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.00%) Power BI
2 1 (2.50%) MySQL
2 1 (2.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (5.00%) JIRA
2 1 (2.50%) Axure RP
2 1 (2.50%) Dreamweaver
2 1 (2.50%) Git
2 1 (2.50%) Vite
General
1 13 (32.50%) Marketing
2 12 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 9 (22.50%) Automotive
4 6 (15.00%) Organisational Skills
4 6 (15.00%) Retail
5 5 (12.50%) Manufacturing
6 4 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (10.00%) Wearables
7 3 (7.50%) Finance
8 2 (5.00%) Aerospace
8 2 (5.00%) Agriculture
8 2 (5.00%) Legal
8 2 (5.00%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (5.00%) Public Sector
9 1 (2.50%) Advertising
9 1 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (2.50%) Multimedia
9 1 (2.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 27 (67.50%) Designer
2 11 (27.50%) Senior
2 11 (27.50%) UI Designer
3 9 (22.50%) Senior Designer
4 8 (20.00%) Senior UI Designer
5 6 (15.00%) Graphic Designer
6 5 (12.50%) Motion Designer
7 3 (7.50%) Artworker
7 3 (7.50%) Marketing Manager
8 2 (5.00%) Creative Artworker
8 2 (5.00%) Senior Artworker
8 2 (5.00%) Senior Graphic Designer
8 2 (5.00%) UI/UX Designer
8 2 (5.00%) UX Designer
9 1 (2.50%) 3D Designer
9 1 (2.50%) e-Learning Specialist
9 1 (2.50%) Senior UI/UX Designer
9 1 (2.50%) Support Officer
9 1 (2.50%) Technical Illustrator
9 1 (2.50%) Video Content Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.50%) CSS
1 1 (2.50%) HTML
1 1 (2.50%) Laravel
1 1 (2.50%) LEMP Stack
1 1 (2.50%) Tailwind CSS
1 1 (2.50%) V-Ray
1 1 (2.50%) Vue
1 1 (2.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (40.00%) Animation
2 9 (22.50%) Graphic Design
3 4 (10.00%) IoT
3 4 (10.00%) Motion Graphics
3 4 (10.00%) Social Media
4 3 (7.50%) Data Centre
4 3 (7.50%) e-Learning
5 2 (5.00%) Product Ownership
5 2 (5.00%) Vector Graphics
6 1 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.50%) NHS
6 1 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.50%) Taxonomies
6 1 (2.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (35.00%) User Experience
2 11 (27.50%) Storytelling
3 9 (22.50%) UX Design
4 6 (15.00%) Collaborative Working
4 6 (15.00%) Interaction Design
5 5 (12.50%) Creative Thinking
5 5 (12.50%) Design Thinking
5 5 (12.50%) Prototyping
5 5 (12.50%) Time Management
5 5 (12.50%) Typography
5 5 (12.50%) Visualisation
6 4 (10.00%) Agile
6 4 (10.00%) Asset Management
6 4 (10.00%) Marketing Strategy
6 4 (10.00%) Visual Effects
7 3 (7.50%) Analytical Thinking
7 3 (7.50%) Collaborative Culture
7 3 (7.50%) Iconography
7 3 (7.50%) Lead Generation
7 3 (7.50%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.50%) Bash
1 1 (2.50%) JavaScript
1 1 (2.50%) PHP
Qualifications
1 10 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (2.50%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (5.00%) QA
2 1 (2.50%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (7.50%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.50%) Docker
Vendors
1 33 (82.50%) Adobe
2 6 (15.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (7.50%) Salesforce
4 2 (5.00%) Siemens
4 2 (5.00%) Sitecore
5 1 (2.50%) Alias
5 1 (2.50%) Atlassian