InDesign Contracts

Adobe InDesign
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring InDesign skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited InDesign over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 507 570 679
Rank change year-on-year +63 +109 +129
Contract jobs citing InDesign 12 30 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.041% 0.069% 0.057%
As % of the Applications category 0.50% 0.87% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 15 31
10th Percentile £150 £180 £185
25th Percentile £175 £200 £234
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £370 £275 £325
Median % change year-on-year +34.55% -15.38% +30.00%
75th Percentile £380 £331 £465
90th Percentile - £575 £500
UK excluding London median daily rate - £190 £250
% change year-on-year - -24.00% +28.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
10th Percentile - £13.42 -
25th Percentile - £14.06 £51.25
Median hourly rate - £14.37 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - -72.63% +55.56%
75th Percentile - £38.75 £53.75
90th Percentile - £47.30 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £14.00 -

All Software Application Skills
UK

InDesign 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 2,424 3,448 4,405
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.29% 7.91% 7.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,446 1,743 2,896
10th Percentile £188 £163 £188
25th Percentile £261 £213 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -5.88% -0.76%
75th Percentile £541 £538 £575
90th Percentile £650 £650 £684
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £350 £391
% change year-on-year +7.14% -10.54% +4.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 255 635 264
10th Percentile £14.20 £11.57 £13.94
25th Percentile £15.62 £14.00 £18.48
Median hourly rate £23.59 £17.80 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +32.53% -51.23% +69.77%
75th Percentile £43.75 £39.92 £53.45
90th Percentile £70.00 £57.50 £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £16.06 £32.30
% change year-on-year +40.10% -50.28% +70.00%

InDesign
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing InDesign as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for InDesign in the UK

InDesign
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for InDesign in the UK

InDesign
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing InDesign over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for InDesign in the UK

InDesign
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for InDesign in the UK

InDesign
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing InDesign within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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 +46 12 £370 +34.55% 45
London +24 11 £370 +23.33% 24
Work from Home +39 2 £263 -12.50% 21
UK excluding London +48 1 - - 23
North of England - 1 - - 7
Yorkshire - 1 - - 5

InDesign
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 6 (50.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (100.00%) Adobe Illustrator
1 12 (100.00%) Photoshop
2 10 (83.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 9 (75.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (58.33%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (8.33%) Adobe After Effects
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) Figma
General
1 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Marketing
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (91.67%) Designer
2 6 (50.00%) Senior
2 6 (50.00%) Senior Designer
3 5 (41.67%) Graphic Designer
4 1 (8.33%) Animator
4 1 (8.33%) Artworker
4 1 (8.33%) Creative Artworker
4 1 (8.33%) Creative Designer
4 1 (8.33%) Creative Graphic Designer
4 1 (8.33%) Video Editor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) CSS
1 3 (25.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (58.33%) Animation
1 7 (58.33%) Motion Graphics
2 6 (50.00%) Photography
3 1 (8.33%) Video Editing
3 1 (8.33%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) B2B
2 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (25.00%) Web Design
3 2 (16.67%) B2C
3 2 (16.67%) Business Strategy
3 2 (16.67%) Competitor Analysis
3 2 (16.67%) Due Diligence
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) Adobe