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 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 556 538 599
Rank change year-on-year -18 +61 +182
Contract jobs citing InDesign 14 19 24
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.040% 0.053% 0.051%
As % of the Applications category 0.48% 0.78% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 15 16
10th Percentile £201 £200 £200
25th Percentile £274 £216 £217
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £315 £313
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +0.80% +3.31%
75th Percentile £444 £388 £541
90th Percentile £463 £395 £581
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £213 £255
% change year-on-year +88.24% -16.67% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.25 - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 £12.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +420.83% - -
75th Percentile £63.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £12.00 -

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 2,908 2,434 3,650
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.22% 6.75% 7.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,650 1,417 2,315
10th Percentile £190 £163 £165
25th Percentile £300 £250 £241
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - -11.11%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £550
90th Percentile £638 £638 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £412 £375 £365
% change year-on-year +9.87% +2.74% -7.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 391 224 285
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.00 £14.15
25th Percentile £16.50 £15.62 £17.00
Median hourly rate £22.63 £22.53 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.44% -11.65% +6.25%
75th Percentile £32.75 £40.00 £45.21
90th Percentile £50.00 £63.15 £50.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.02 £21.46 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.04% -14.16% +11.11%

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 18 November 2025.

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
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 18 November 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 -39 14 £400 +30.08% 28
London +6 7 £400 +23.08% 9
UK excluding London -23 7 £400 +88.24% 21
Work from Home +1 4 £240 -23.81% 18
Midlands - 3 £450 - 1
North of England -35 2 £400 +100.00% 3
East Midlands - 2 £450 -
South East -2 1 £240 +6.67% 12
East of England -18 1 £175 - 4
North West -20 1 £400 +100.00% 3
Yorkshire - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 £450 - 1

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 (14.29%) Confluence
2 1 (7.14%) CMS
Applications
1 14 (100.00%) Photoshop
2 13 (92.86%) Adobe Illustrator
3 6 (42.86%) Adobe After Effects
4 5 (35.71%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 3 (21.43%) Adobe Premiere
6 2 (14.29%) Acrobat
6 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (14.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Sprinklr
1 1 (7.14%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) Adobe Creative Cloud
2 4 (28.57%) Figma
3 1 (7.14%) Canva
3 1 (7.14%) Dropbox
3 1 (7.14%) GitHub
3 1 (7.14%) Google Drive
3 1 (7.14%) SaaS
3 1 (7.14%) Vyond
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Dreamweaver
1 2 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 9 (64.29%) Marketing
2 8 (57.14%) Social Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Advertising
3 2 (14.29%) Finance
3 2 (14.29%) Legal
3 2 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (7.14%) Publishing
4 1 (7.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (85.71%) Designer
2 7 (50.00%) Graphic Designer
3 3 (21.43%) Junior
3 3 (21.43%) Junior Designer
4 2 (14.29%) Digital Designer
4 2 (14.29%) Junior Graphic Designer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Designer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Graphic Designer
5 1 (7.14%) Artworker
5 1 (7.14%) Conceptual Designer
5 1 (7.14%) Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) Creative Artworker
5 1 (7.14%) Creative Designer
5 1 (7.14%) Creative Graphic Designer
5 1 (7.14%) Implementation Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) Photoshop Designer
5 1 (7.14%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) HTML
2 2 (14.29%) CSS
3 1 (7.14%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 7 (50.00%) Social Media
2 3 (21.43%) Graphic Design
3 2 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (14.29%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (7.14%) Blog
4 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
4 1 (7.14%) Motion Graphics
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Android
1 1 (7.14%) Apple iOS
1 1 (7.14%) Mac OS
1 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) Creative Thinking
1 4 (28.57%) Project Management
1 4 (28.57%) Time Management
1 4 (28.57%) Typography
2 3 (21.43%) Agile
2 3 (21.43%) Project Delivery
3 2 (14.29%) Content Writing
3 2 (14.29%) Customer-Centricity
3 2 (14.29%) Multichannel Marketing
3 2 (14.29%) Outbound Marketing
3 2 (14.29%) Workflow
4 1 (7.14%) Business Process Analysis
4 1 (7.14%) Content Strategy
4 1 (7.14%) Data Ingestion
4 1 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (7.14%) Prototyping
4 1 (7.14%) RBAC
4 1 (7.14%) Resource Allocation
4 1 (7.14%) Social Media Management
4 1 (7.14%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
1 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.14%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 14 (100.00%) Adobe
2 2 (14.29%) Atlassian
2 2 (14.29%) Facebook
2 2 (14.29%) Instagram
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.14%) Avaya
3 1 (7.14%) Genesys
3 1 (7.14%) Google
3 1 (7.14%) YouTube