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 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 602 504 560
Rank change year-on-year -98 +56 +141
Contract jobs citing InDesign 17 14 24
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.039% 0.048% 0.054%
As % of the Applications category 0.58% 0.59% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 12 7
10th Percentile £284 £210 £260
25th Percentile £309 £306 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £348 £325
Median % change year-on-year +9.35% +6.92% -
75th Percentile £425 £380 £575
90th Percentile £478 - £580
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile £28.03 - £13.42
25th Percentile £29.55 - £14.06
Median hourly rate £32.61 - £14.37
75th Percentile £35.13 - £38.75
90th Percentile £36.32 - £47.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.61 - £14.00
% change year-on-year - - -38.29%

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 2,907 2,353 3,548
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 6.61% 8.10% 8.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,702 1,440 1,847
10th Percentile £213 £188 £158
25th Percentile £336 £263 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £406 £400
Median % change year-on-year +10.84% +1.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £551 £538 £538
90th Percentile £650 £638 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £375 £350
% change year-on-year +13.33% +7.14% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 342 235 621
10th Percentile £12.97 £14.73 £11.50
25th Percentile £15.81 £16.12 £14.00
Median hourly rate £19.91 £26.34 £18.93
Median % change year-on-year -24.40% +39.12% -45.91%
75th Percentile £29.50 £45.65 £42.64
90th Percentile £60.00 £75.75 £57.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.07 £26.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -28.04% +49.55% -46.30%

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 26 March 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 11 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 26 March 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 -98 15 £380 +9.35% 12
UK excluding London -91 9 £375 - 8
London -48 8 £380 +9.35% 3
Work from Home -39 5 £355 +12.70% 5
South West - 3 £310 - 1
West Midlands - 2 £400 - 1
Scotland - 2 - -
Midlands - 2 £400 - 2
North of England -64 1 £400 - 2
North West - 1 £400 - 2
South East - 1 - - 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 3 (17.65%) SharePoint
2 2 (11.76%) Confluence
3 1 (5.88%) CMS
3 1 (5.88%) IIS
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (5.88%) Umbraco
Applications
1 15 (88.24%) Adobe Illustrator
2 14 (82.35%) Photoshop
3 9 (52.94%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 4 (23.53%) Adobe After Effects
5 3 (17.65%) Acrobat
5 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Excel
6 2 (11.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (5.88%) 3ds Max
7 1 (5.88%) Maya
7 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (5.88%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 6 (35.29%) Figma
2 5 (29.41%) Adobe Creative Cloud
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.88%) Azure
4 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (5.88%) ChatGPT
4 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.88%) Google Analytics
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (5.88%) OneDrive
4 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) HTTP
1 1 (5.88%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (5.88%) GIS
1 1 (5.88%) Power BI
1 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) JIRA
2 1 (5.88%) Dreamweaver
2 1 (5.88%) MSI
2 1 (5.88%) webpack
General
1 8 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 7 (41.18%) Organisational Skills
3 5 (29.41%) Marketing
4 2 (11.76%) Advertising
4 2 (11.76%) Finance
4 2 (11.76%) Legal
4 2 (11.76%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 2 (11.76%) Retail
5 1 (5.88%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 12 (70.59%) Designer
2 6 (35.29%) Graphic Designer
3 3 (17.65%) Artworker
3 3 (17.65%) Digital Designer
3 3 (17.65%) Senior
4 2 (11.76%) Creative Artworker
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Designer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Graphic Designer
5 1 (5.88%) C++ Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Creative Designer
5 1 (5.88%) Developer
5 1 (5.88%) IT Trainer
5 1 (5.88%) Junior
5 1 (5.88%) Junior Designer
5 1 (5.88%) Junior Graphic Designer
5 1 (5.88%) Photoshop Designer
5 1 (5.88%) Project Officer
5 1 (5.88%) Project Support Officer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Artworker
5 1 (5.88%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) .NET
1 1 (5.88%) .NET Framework
1 1 (5.88%) ASP.NET
1 1 (5.88%) ASP.NET Core
1 1 (5.88%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (5.88%) ATL
1 1 (5.88%) Blazor
1 1 (5.88%) COM
1 1 (5.88%) Entity Framework
1 1 (5.88%) GeoJSON
1 1 (5.88%) HTML
1 1 (5.88%) MFC
1 1 (5.88%) Razor View Engine
1 1 (5.88%) REST
1 1 (5.88%) SignalR
1 1 (5.88%) V-Ray
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Graphic Design
2 4 (23.53%) Social Media
3 2 (11.76%) Animation
3 2 (11.76%) Motion Graphics
3 2 (11.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (5.88%) Data Structures
4 1 (5.88%) e-Learning
4 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
4 1 (5.88%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
1 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Time Management
2 6 (35.29%) Typography
3 5 (29.41%) Creative Thinking
4 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (17.65%) Project Management
6 2 (11.76%) Agile
6 2 (11.76%) AI
6 2 (11.76%) Content Writing
6 2 (11.76%) Multichannel Marketing
6 2 (11.76%) Project Delivery
6 2 (11.76%) Prototyping
6 2 (11.76%) Storytelling
6 2 (11.76%) Visualisation
6 2 (11.76%) Workflow
7 1 (5.88%) Customer Experience
7 1 (5.88%) Customer Service
7 1 (5.88%) Industrial Design
7 1 (5.88%) Log Analytics
7 1 (5.88%) Logistics
7 1 (5.88%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.88%) Bicep
1 1 (5.88%) C#
1 1 (5.88%) C++
1 1 (5.88%) Java
1 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
1 1 (5.88%) PL/SQL
1 1 (5.88%) SQL
1 1 (5.88%) T-SQL
1 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) DBS Check
2 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.88%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (100.00%) Adobe
2 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.76%) Atlassian
4 1 (5.88%) Alias
4 1 (5.88%) Google
4 1 (5.88%) Oracle
4 1 (5.88%) Sitecore