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 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 624 508 545
Rank change year-on-year -116 +37 +124
Contract jobs citing InDesign 14 12 28
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.029% 0.041% 0.066%
As % of the Applications category 0.50% 0.49% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 10 13
10th Percentile £263 £150 £180
25th Percentile £307 £191 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £318 £370 £250
Median % change year-on-year -14.19% +48.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £378 £380 £300
90th Percentile £463 - £335
UK excluding London median daily rate £318 - £190
% change year-on-year - - -24.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 5
10th Percentile £28.03 - £13.42
25th Percentile £29.55 £42.50 £14.06
Median hourly rate £32.61 £45.00 £14.37
Median % change year-on-year -27.54% +213.15% -72.63%
75th Percentile £35.13 £47.50 £38.75
90th Percentile £36.32 - £47.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.61 £45.00 £14.00
% change year-on-year -27.54% +221.43% -

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 2,806 2,448 3,333
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 5.84% 8.40% 7.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,636 1,431 1,683
10th Percentile £250 £188 £163
25th Percentile £340 £263 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £413 £400
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +3.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £568 £538 £538
90th Percentile £650 £650 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £430 £375 £350
% change year-on-year +14.67% +7.14% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 309 255 626
10th Percentile £13.38 £14.20 £11.50
25th Percentile £16.35 £15.62 £14.00
Median hourly rate £20.35 £22.50 £17.11
Median % change year-on-year -9.56% +31.50% -47.35%
75th Percentile £34.56 £43.75 £38.43
90th Percentile £69.85 £67.50 £57.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.33 £21.73 £16.06
% change year-on-year -6.47% +35.31% -41.60%

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 16 May 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
Top 9 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 16 May 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 -118 12 £318 -14.19% 17
UK excluding London -99 8 £318 - 8
London -67 6 £349 -5.74% 10
Work from Home -21 4 £310 -4.62% 4
South West - 4 £314 - 1
Scotland - 2 - -
South East -68 1 - - 4
Midlands - 1 £350 -
West Midlands - 1 £350 -

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 3 (21.43%) SharePoint
2 1 (7.14%) CMS
2 1 (7.14%) Confluence
2 1 (7.14%) IIS
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (7.14%) Umbraco
Applications
1 12 (85.71%) Adobe Illustrator
2 11 (78.57%) Photoshop
3 8 (57.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (14.29%) Adobe After Effects
5 2 (14.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (7.14%) 3ds Max
6 1 (7.14%) Acrobat
6 1 (7.14%) Maya
6 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (7.14%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) Figma
2 3 (21.43%) Adobe Creative Cloud
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (7.14%) Azure
4 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (7.14%) ChatGPT
4 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
4 1 (7.14%) Google Analytics
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (7.14%) OneDrive
4 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) HTTP
1 1 (7.14%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (7.14%) GIS
1 1 (7.14%) Power BI
1 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
1 1 (7.14%) MSI
1 1 (7.14%) webpack
General
1 6 (42.86%) Organisational Skills
2 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
3 3 (21.43%) Marketing
3 3 (21.43%) Retail
4 2 (14.29%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
5 1 (7.14%) Advertising
5 1 (7.14%) Finance
5 1 (7.14%) Legal
5 1 (7.14%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) Designer
2 4 (28.57%) Artworker
3 3 (21.43%) Creative Artworker
3 3 (21.43%) Graphic Designer
4 2 (14.29%) Digital Designer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Artworker
5 1 (7.14%) 3D Designer
5 1 (7.14%) C++ Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Creative Designer
5 1 (7.14%) Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Digital Artworker
5 1 (7.14%) Junior
5 1 (7.14%) Junior Designer
5 1 (7.14%) Junior Graphic Designer
5 1 (7.14%) PowerPoint Designer
5 1 (7.14%) Project Officer
5 1 (7.14%) Service Designer
5 1 (7.14%) Support Officer
5 1 (7.14%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) .NET
1 1 (7.14%) .NET Framework
1 1 (7.14%) ASP.NET
1 1 (7.14%) ASP.NET Core
1 1 (7.14%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (7.14%) ATL
1 1 (7.14%) Blazor
1 1 (7.14%) COM
1 1 (7.14%) Entity Framework
1 1 (7.14%) GeoJSON
1 1 (7.14%) MFC
1 1 (7.14%) Razor View Engine
1 1 (7.14%) REST
1 1 (7.14%) SignalR
1 1 (7.14%) V-Ray
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Graphic Design
2 2 (14.29%) Animation
2 2 (14.29%) Motion Graphics
2 2 (14.29%) Social Media
3 1 (7.14%) Data Structures
3 1 (7.14%) e-Learning
3 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
3 1 (7.14%) NHS
3 1 (7.14%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Typography
2 5 (35.71%) Time Management
3 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (14.29%) Asset Management
4 2 (14.29%) Creative Thinking
4 2 (14.29%) Project Management
4 2 (14.29%) Prototyping
4 2 (14.29%) Storytelling
4 2 (14.29%) Visualisation
4 2 (14.29%) Workflow
5 1 (7.14%) 3D Visualisation
5 1 (7.14%) Analytics
5 1 (7.14%) Data Privacy
5 1 (7.14%) Data Visualisation
5 1 (7.14%) Decision-Making
5 1 (7.14%) DevOps
5 1 (7.14%) High Availability
5 1 (7.14%) Innovative Thinking
5 1 (7.14%) Line Management
5 1 (7.14%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) Bicep
1 1 (7.14%) C#
1 1 (7.14%) C++
1 1 (7.14%) Java
1 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
1 1 (7.14%) PL/SQL
1 1 (7.14%) SQL
1 1 (7.14%) T-SQL
1 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) DBS Check
1 1 (7.14%) Degree
1 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) Accessibility
2 1 (7.14%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (100.00%) Adobe
2 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 2 (14.29%) Sitecore
4 1 (7.14%) Alias
4 1 (7.14%) Atlassian
4 1 (7.14%) Google
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle