Data Designer Contract Job Trends

Data Designer
UK

The median Data Designer daily rate in the UK is £438, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 650 - 589
Rank change year-on-year - - +93
Contract jobs requiring a Data Designer 1 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.002% - 0.007%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.002% - 0.008%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £518
25th Percentile - - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -18.52%
75th Percentile - - £575
90th Percentile - - £583
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £525
% change year-on-year - - -22.22%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 48,701 29,792 39,645
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.54% 91.70% 93.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,482 18,952 25,549
10th Percentile £325 £287 £288
25th Percentile £419 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £495
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,274 1,409 2,702
10th Percentile £15.93 £13.75 £13.00
25th Percentile £21.27 £17.30 £17.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £26.21 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +71.69% -34.48% -5.88%
75th Percentile £67.84 £55.49 £63.75
90th Percentile £80.04 £74.00 £73.98
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.56 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +81.13% -37.13% +6.67%

Data Designer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Data Designer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Data Designer job vacancy trend in the UK

Data Designer
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Designer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Designer job vacancies in the UK

Data Designer
Top 2 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Designer within the UK over the 6 months to 16 July 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
London - 1 £438 -
England - 1 £438 -

Data Designer Skill Set
Top 26 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 16 July 2026, Data Designer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Data Designer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Design
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Domain Models
1 1 (100.00%) ER Studio
1 1 (100.00%) ERwin
1 1 (100.00%) Logical Data Model
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata Management
1 1 (100.00%) Physical Data Model
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
1 1 (100.00%) Reference Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) Validation

Data Designer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) ER Studio
1 1 (100.00%) ERwin
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (100.00%) Pricing Data
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (100.00%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Design
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Domain Models
1 1 (100.00%) Logical Data Model
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata Management
1 1 (100.00%) Physical Data Model
1 1 (100.00%) Reference Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks