Content Designer Contracts

Content Designer
UK

The median Content Designer daily rate in the UK is £424, 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 464 493 573
Rank change year-on-year +29 +80 +32
Contract jobs requiring a Content Designer 56 89 145
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.20% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.22% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 64 117
10th Percentile £201 £325 £329
25th Percentile £369 £354 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £424 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.24% -10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £494 £450 £506
90th Percentile £575 £525 £608
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £425 £450
% change year-on-year -5.88% -5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £22.75 - £36.25
Median hourly rate £23.50 - £37.50
75th Percentile £24.25 - £38.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Content Designer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Content Designer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Content Designer in the UK

Content Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Content Designer.

Daily rate trend for Content Designer in the UK

Content Designer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Content Designer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Content Designer in the UK

Content Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Content Designer.

Hourly rate trend for Content Designer in the UK

Content Designer
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Content Designer within the UK 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
England +40 43 £406 -4.41% 10
London +23 23 £418 -1.59% 4
UK excluding London +50 22 £400 -5.88% 6
Work from Home +26 17 £415 -0.60% 3
North of England +13 13 £375 -11.76%
North West +17 7 £400 +3.23%
Scotland +5 6 £550 +33.33%
South West +50 5 £381 - 3
North East -2 4 £375 -
Yorkshire +4 2 £400 -5.88%
Midlands +22 1 £463 -
West Midlands +14 1 £463 -

Content Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

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

1 28 (50.00%) User Experience
2 22 (39.29%) Public Sector
3 20 (35.71%) UX Design
4 17 (30.36%) Agile
5 15 (26.79%) Accessibility
6 14 (25.00%) User Research
7 12 (21.43%) Content Strategy
7 12 (21.43%) CMS
8 11 (19.64%) SC Cleared
8 11 (19.64%) Security Cleared
8 11 (19.64%) Figma
9 8 (14.29%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 8 (14.29%) Content Management
10 7 (12.50%) Finance
11 6 (10.71%) SEO
11 6 (10.71%) Marketing
11 6 (10.71%) Collaborative Working
11 6 (10.71%) Onboarding
12 5 (8.93%) Requirements Gathering
12 5 (8.93%) Service Design
12 5 (8.93%) Strategic Thinking
12 5 (8.93%) Taxonomies
12 5 (8.93%) Legal
12 5 (8.93%) Publishing
13 4 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
13 4 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence
13 4 (7.14%) Drupal
13 4 (7.14%) Mobile App
13 4 (7.14%) Interaction Design
13 4 (7.14%) Decision-Making

Content Designer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 12 (21.43%) CMS
2 4 (7.14%) Drupal
3 3 (5.36%) EPiServer
4 2 (3.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (5.36%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.79%) Adobe XD
2 1 (1.79%) Photoshop
2 1 (1.79%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 11 (19.64%) Figma
2 1 (1.79%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.57%) Intranet
Development Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Git
1 2 (3.57%) Postman
2 1 (1.79%) JIRA
General
1 22 (39.29%) Public Sector
2 7 (12.50%) Finance
3 6 (10.71%) Marketing
4 5 (8.93%) Legal
4 5 (8.93%) Publishing
5 3 (5.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (5.36%) Social Skills
6 2 (3.57%) Retail
7 1 (1.79%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.79%) Local Government
7 1 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.57%) HTML
1 2 (3.57%) JSON
1 2 (3.57%) OAuth
1 2 (3.57%) OAuth2
1 2 (3.57%) OpenAPI
1 2 (3.57%) RESTful
1 2 (3.57%) Swagger
1 2 (3.57%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.71%) Onboarding
2 5 (8.93%) Taxonomies
3 4 (7.14%) Mobile App
4 3 (5.36%) Marketing Technology
4 3 (5.36%) Social Media
5 2 (3.57%) Graphic Design
5 2 (3.57%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.79%) Android
1 1 (1.79%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (50.00%) User Experience
2 20 (35.71%) UX Design
3 17 (30.36%) Agile
4 14 (25.00%) User Research
5 12 (21.43%) Content Strategy
6 8 (14.29%) Content Management
6 8 (14.29%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 6 (10.71%) Collaborative Working
7 6 (10.71%) SEO
8 5 (8.93%) Requirements Gathering
8 5 (8.93%) Service Design
8 5 (8.93%) Strategic Thinking
9 4 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence
9 4 (7.14%) Content Marketing
9 4 (7.14%) Decision-Making
9 4 (7.14%) Interaction Design
9 4 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
10 3 (5.36%) Asset Management
10 3 (5.36%) Logistics
10 3 (5.36%) Product Marketing
Qualifications
1 11 (19.64%) SC Cleared
1 11 (19.64%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.79%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (26.79%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.57%) WCAG
3 1 (1.79%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 4 (7.14%) Virgin Media
2 3 (5.36%) Optimizely
3 2 (3.57%) Adobe
3 2 (3.57%) Microsoft