Content Designer Contracts

Content Designer
UK

The median Content Designer daily rate in the UK is £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 504 564 602
Rank change year-on-year +60 +38 -119
Contract jobs requiring a Content Designer 83 142 231
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.25% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.26% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 117 187
10th Percentile £325 £329 £313
25th Percentile £370 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £450 £500 £495
90th Percentile £525 £600 £575
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.88% +23.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £25.30
25th Percentile - £36.25 £27.63
Median hourly rate - £37.50 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year - +10.29% +65.85%
75th Percentile - £38.75 £39.13
90th Percentile - - £40.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £27.50
% change year-on-year - - +31.97%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 39,586 54,569 84,106
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.66% 95.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,744 38,105 59,089
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.01%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,669 1,523 2,070
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.45 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.02 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

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 14 May 2024.

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 14 May 2024. 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 +53 56 £425 -10.53% 8
London +50 35 £425 -12.82% 3
Work from Home +86 31 £425 -12.82% 3
UK excluding London +41 31 £413 -8.33% 5
North of England +16 18 £425 - 3
Scotland +38 11 £400 -14.53%
Yorkshire +21 6 £425 -11.69% 1
North East +17 6 - - 2
North West +14 6 £388 -3.13%
Midlands +15 1 - -
West Midlands +12 1 - -
South West +6 1 - - 2

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

For the 6 months to 14 May 2024, 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 31 (37.35%) User Experience
2 30 (36.14%) Accessibility
3 28 (33.73%) Content Strategy
4 25 (30.12%) Public Sector
5 22 (26.51%) Agile
6 19 (22.89%) Content Management
7 18 (21.69%) CMS
7 18 (21.69%) UX Design
7 18 (21.69%) User Research
8 17 (20.48%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 15 (18.07%) Publishing
10 13 (15.66%) Social Skills
11 12 (14.46%) Security Cleared
12 9 (10.84%) User Stories
12 9 (10.84%) Stakeholder Management
13 7 (8.43%) SEO
13 7 (8.43%) Figma
13 7 (8.43%) BPSS Clearance
14 6 (7.23%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (7.23%) Information Architecture
14 6 (7.23%) SC Cleared
14 6 (7.23%) Finance
15 5 (6.02%) Legal
15 5 (6.02%) WCAG
15 5 (6.02%) Analytics
15 5 (6.02%) Customer Experience
15 5 (6.02%) Service Design
15 5 (6.02%) Design Thinking
15 5 (6.02%) Strategic Thinking
16 4 (4.82%) Systems Thinking

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 18 (21.69%) CMS
2 2 (2.41%) Headless CMS
2 2 (2.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.61%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (2.41%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (2.41%) Photoshop
2 2 (2.41%) Sketch
3 1 (1.20%) Adobe XD
3 1 (1.20%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.20%) InDesign
3 1 (1.20%) InVision
3 1 (1.20%) Marvel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 7 (8.43%) Figma
2 2 (2.41%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (2.41%) Miro
3 1 (1.20%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.20%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.41%) Looker
1 2 (2.41%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 2 (2.41%) JIRA
2 1 (1.20%) Maven
General
1 25 (30.12%) Public Sector
2 15 (18.07%) Publishing
3 13 (15.66%) Social Skills
4 6 (7.23%) Finance
4 6 (7.23%) Influencing Skills
5 5 (6.02%) Legal
6 3 (3.61%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.61%) Banking
6 3 (3.61%) Marketing
7 2 (2.41%) Local Government
8 1 (1.20%) Advertising
8 1 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.20%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.61%) Management Information System
1 3 (3.61%) Mobile App
2 2 (2.41%) Social Media
2 2 (2.41%) Taxonomies
2 2 (2.41%) Virtual Team
3 1 (1.20%) Animation
3 1 (1.20%) Blog
3 1 (1.20%) Handset
3 1 (1.20%) NHS
3 1 (1.20%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.20%) Photography
3 1 (1.20%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (37.35%) User Experience
2 28 (33.73%) Content Strategy
3 22 (26.51%) Agile
4 19 (22.89%) Content Management
5 18 (21.69%) User Research
5 18 (21.69%) UX Design
6 17 (20.48%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 9 (10.84%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (10.84%) User Stories
8 7 (8.43%) SEO
9 6 (7.23%) Information Architecture
10 5 (6.02%) Analytics
10 5 (6.02%) Customer Experience
10 5 (6.02%) Design Thinking
10 5 (6.02%) Service Design
10 5 (6.02%) Strategic Thinking
11 4 (4.82%) Prototyping
11 4 (4.82%) Systems Thinking
11 4 (4.82%) Web Application Development
12 3 (3.61%) UX Research
Qualifications
1 12 (14.46%) Security Cleared
2 7 (8.43%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (7.23%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.61%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.20%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (36.14%) Accessibility
2 5 (6.02%) WCAG
3 2 (2.41%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (2.41%) QA
4 1 (1.20%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.20%) GDPR
Vendors
1 4 (4.82%) Adobe
2 2 (2.41%) Google
3 1 (1.20%) IBM
3 1 (1.20%) Oracle
3 1 (1.20%) ServiceNow
3 1 (1.20%) Virgin Media