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 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 546 545 618
Rank change year-on-year -1 +73 +191
Contract jobs citing InDesign 14 17 23
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.042% 0.046% 0.048%
As % of the Applications category 0.50% 0.67% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 13 17
10th Percentile £201 £201 £200
25th Percentile £274 £225 £208
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £325 £313
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% +4.00% +21.36%
75th Percentile £444 £388 £375
90th Percentile £463 £398 £543
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £213 £255
% change year-on-year +88.24% -16.67% +7.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £44.38 - -
25th Percentile £47.19 - -
Median hourly rate £53.75 £12.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +347.92% - -
75th Percentile £59.69 - -
90th Percentile £62.13 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £12.00 -
% change year-on-year +275.00% - -

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 2,788 2,547 3,766
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.41% 6.82% 7.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,566 1,447 2,400
10th Percentile £188 £165 £172
25th Percentile £298 £250 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £535 £550
90th Percentile £638 £638 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £375 £375
% change year-on-year +6.67% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 371 239 290
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.84 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.43 £15.62 £16.65
Median hourly rate £23.00 £21.46 £25.44
Median % change year-on-year +7.18% -15.64% +13.07%
75th Percentile £33.75 £36.75 £44.72
90th Percentile £58.25 £58.03 £53.81
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.32 £18.63 £22.64
% change year-on-year +19.81% -17.73% +4.62%

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 19 October 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing InDesign over the 6 months to 19 October 2025.

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 19 October 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 +10 14 £400 +25.00% 68
UK excluding London -16 8 £400 +88.24% 53
London +19 6 £400 +14.29% 31
Work from Home +10 5 £240 -26.15% 39
Midlands - 3 £450 - 2
South East +11 2 £240 +6.67% 38
North of England -28 2 £400 +100.00% 2
East Midlands - 2 £450 - 2
East of England -8 1 £175 - 10
North West -15 1 £400 +100.00% 2
Yorkshire - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 £450 -

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 1 (7.14%) CMS
1 1 (7.14%) Confluence
Applications
1 13 (92.86%) Adobe Illustrator
1 13 (92.86%) Photoshop
2 5 (35.71%) Adobe After Effects
3 4 (28.57%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 3 (21.43%) Adobe Premiere
5 2 (14.29%) Acrobat
5 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (14.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Sprinklr
1 1 (7.14%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) Adobe Creative Cloud
2 3 (21.43%) 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
2 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 8 (57.14%) Marketing
1 8 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Advertising
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Finance
2 1 (7.14%) Legal
2 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (7.14%) Publishing
2 1 (7.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (85.71%) Designer
2 8 (57.14%) Graphic Designer
3 3 (21.43%) Junior
3 3 (21.43%) Junior 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%) Digital 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 6 (42.86%) Social Media
2 4 (28.57%) Graphic Design
3 2 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (7.14%) Blog
4 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
4 1 (7.14%) Motion Graphics
4 1 (7.14%) Team-Oriented Environment
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%) Time Management
1 4 (28.57%) Typography
2 3 (21.43%) Creative Thinking
2 3 (21.43%) Project Delivery
2 3 (21.43%) Project Management
3 2 (14.29%) Agile
3 2 (14.29%) Customer-Centricity
3 2 (14.29%) Outbound Marketing
3 2 (14.29%) Workflow
4 1 (7.14%) API Management
4 1 (7.14%) Business Process Analysis
4 1 (7.14%) Content Writing
4 1 (7.14%) Customer Service
4 1 (7.14%) Data Ingestion
4 1 (7.14%) Multichannel Marketing
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
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 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 14 (100.00%) Adobe
2 2 (14.29%) Facebook
2 2 (14.29%) Instagram
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.14%) Atlassian
3 1 (7.14%) Avaya
3 1 (7.14%) Genesys
3 1 (7.14%) Google
3 1 (7.14%) Twitter
3 1 (7.14%) YouTube