InDesign Contract Job Trends

Adobe InDesign
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring InDesign skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 570 519 578
Rank change year-on-year -51 +59 +161
Contract jobs citing InDesign 15 15 20
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.040% 0.048% 0.045%
As % of the Applications category 0.53% 0.64% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 13 9
10th Percentile £185 £200 £200
25th Percentile £220 £207 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £300 £325
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £413 £380 £575
90th Percentile £435 - £578
UK excluding London median daily rate £240 £213 £238
% change year-on-year +12.94% -10.53% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £30.45 - -
25th Percentile £35.58 - £14.06
Median hourly rate £45.30 - £14.37
75th Percentile £55.10 - £14.69
90th Percentile £60.29 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.09 - -

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 2,807 2,358 3,689
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.41% 7.48% 8.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,646 1,387 2,074
10th Percentile £200 £170 £163
25th Percentile £313 £250 £217
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £550
90th Percentile £665 £639 £667
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £356 £350
% change year-on-year +19.38% +1.71% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 333 204 438
10th Percentile £12.82 £15.62 £12.09
25th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £19.91 £26.50 £21.11
Median % change year-on-year -24.87% +25.55% -32.21%
75th Percentile £29.61 £43.75 £42.50
90th Percentile £63.31 £73.88 £54.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.85 £26.50 £21.10
% change year-on-year -28.89% +25.59% -34.06%

InDesign
Job Vacancy Trend

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

InDesign job vacancy trend in the UK

InDesign
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing InDesign

InDesign
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing InDesign over the 6 months to 25 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for InDesign in the UK

InDesign
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing InDesign

InDesign
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing InDesign over the 6 months to 25 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for InDesign in the UK

InDesign
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 InDesign within the UK over the 6 months to 25 January 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 -66 13 £380 +26.67% 10
London -22 8 £390 +20.00% 2
UK excluding London -65 7 £240 +12.94% 8
Work from Home -13 5 £220 -2.22% 4
Scotland - 2 - -
South East -23 1 £240 +6.67% 3
North West -27 1 £400 +100.00% 1
North of England -56 1 £400 +100.00% 2
South West - 1 £200 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £450 -
Midlands - 1 £450 -
East of England - 1 £175 - 3

InDesign
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 2 (13.33%) Confluence
1 2 (13.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (6.67%) CMS
2 1 (6.67%) Umbraco
Applications
1 15 (100.00%) Adobe Illustrator
2 14 (93.33%) Photoshop
3 7 (46.67%) Adobe After Effects
4 6 (40.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 4 (26.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (13.33%) Acrobat
6 2 (13.33%) Adobe Premiere
6 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
6 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) Adobe Creative Cloud
2 4 (26.67%) Figma
3 1 (6.67%) Canva
3 1 (6.67%) Dropbox
3 1 (6.67%) GitHub
3 1 (6.67%) Google Drive
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) JIRA
2 1 (6.67%) Dreamweaver
General
1 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (46.67%) Marketing
3 4 (26.67%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Advertising
4 2 (13.33%) Finance
4 2 (13.33%) Legal
4 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
5 1 (6.67%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 14 (93.33%) Designer
2 7 (46.67%) Graphic Designer
3 3 (20.00%) Junior
3 3 (20.00%) Junior Designer
4 2 (13.33%) Digital Designer
4 2 (13.33%) Junior Graphic Designer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Designer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Graphic Designer
5 1 (6.67%) Conceptual Designer
5 1 (6.67%) Photoshop Designer
5 1 (6.67%) PowerPoint Designer
5 1 (6.67%) Project Officer
5 1 (6.67%) Project Support Officer
5 1 (6.67%) Service Designer
5 1 (6.67%) Support Officer
5 1 (6.67%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) HTML
2 1 (6.67%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Social Media
2 5 (33.33%) Graphic Design
3 2 (13.33%) Animation
3 2 (13.33%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (13.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (6.67%) e-Learning
4 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
4 1 (6.67%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Android
1 1 (6.67%) Apple iOS
1 1 (6.67%) Mac OS
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Typography
2 5 (33.33%) Time Management
3 4 (26.67%) Creative Thinking
4 2 (13.33%) Agile
4 2 (13.33%) Content Writing
4 2 (13.33%) Customer-Centricity
4 2 (13.33%) Multichannel Marketing
4 2 (13.33%) Outbound Marketing
4 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (13.33%) Project Delivery
4 2 (13.33%) Project Management
4 2 (13.33%) Prototyping
4 2 (13.33%) Storytelling
4 2 (13.33%) User Experience
4 2 (13.33%) UX Design
5 1 (6.67%) Adaptive Web Design
5 1 (6.67%) Change Management
5 1 (6.67%) Information Management
5 1 (6.67%) Web Design
5 1 (6.67%) Workflow
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (6.67%) GDPR
Vendors
1 15 (100.00%) Adobe
2 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
3 2 (13.33%) Atlassian
4 1 (6.67%) Facebook
4 1 (6.67%) Google
4 1 (6.67%) Instagram