Product Designer Contracts

Product Designer
UK

The median Product Designer daily rate in the UK is £539 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 556 630 655
Rank change year-on-year +74 +25 -53
Contract jobs requiring a Product Designer 38 86 200
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.088% 0.14% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.095% 0.15% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 70 141
10th Percentile £393 £424 £413
25th Percentile £463 £466 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.09% +4.76% +17.98%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £600
90th Percentile £665 £728 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +13.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 10
10th Percentile - - £42.25
25th Percentile £32.50 £46.25 £52.28
Median hourly rate £35.00 £47.50 £58.63
Median % change year-on-year -26.32% -18.98% +33.24%
75th Percentile £37.50 £48.75 £65.00
90th Percentile - - £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £57.25

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,181 56,479 84,762
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.61% 95.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,164 39,476 59,482
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £491 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.87% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,646 1,570 2,098
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.29 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.49 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.03
Median % change year-on-year -20.10% +95.42% +0.12%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.75 £63.16
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.75 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.18% +117.95% +2.55%

Product Designer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Product Designer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Product Designer in the UK

Product Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Product Designer.

Daily rate trend for Product Designer in the UK

Product Designer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Designer over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Product Designer in the UK

Product Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Product Designer.

Hourly rate trend for Product Designer in the UK

Product Designer
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Product Designer within the UK over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. 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 34 £539 -2.09% 41
London +56 22 £547 -0.55% 31
Work from Home +99 21 £550 - 24
UK excluding London +62 8 £500 -4.76% 11
South East - 6 £500 - 1
North of England +29 1 - - 5
Scotland - 1 £500 -
Yorkshire - 1 - -

Product Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, Product Designer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Product Designer in the job title.

1 28 (73.68%) Figma
2 26 (68.42%) User Experience
3 15 (39.47%) UX Design
4 11 (28.95%) Finance
4 11 (28.95%) Product Ownership
5 9 (23.68%) Prototyping
6 8 (21.05%) Interaction Design
7 7 (18.42%) UX Research
7 7 (18.42%) Marketing
7 7 (18.42%) Adobe
8 6 (15.79%) Mobile App
8 6 (15.79%) Social Skills
8 6 (15.79%) User Research
9 5 (13.16%) Project Delivery
9 5 (13.16%) Android
9 5 (13.16%) Apple iOS
9 5 (13.16%) HTML
9 5 (13.16%) CSS
9 5 (13.16%) Degree
10 4 (10.53%) B2B
10 4 (10.53%) Wireframes
10 4 (10.53%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 4 (10.53%) Decision-Making
10 4 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (10.53%) Design Thinking
10 4 (10.53%) Product Thinking
11 3 (7.89%) Design Patterns
11 3 (7.89%) Customer Experience
11 3 (7.89%) Fintech
11 3 (7.89%) Adobe Creative Cloud

Product Designer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 3 (7.89%) InVision
1 3 (7.89%) Photoshop
1 3 (7.89%) Sketch
2 2 (5.26%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (5.26%) InDesign
3 1 (2.63%) Adobe After Effects
3 1 (2.63%) Adobe XD
3 1 (2.63%) Blender
3 1 (2.63%) Houdini
3 1 (2.63%) Maya
Cloud Services
1 28 (73.68%) Figma
2 3 (7.89%) Adobe Creative Cloud
3 2 (5.26%) Miro
4 1 (2.63%) SaaS
4 1 (2.63%) Unqork
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.63%) RTP
Development Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Axure RP
2 1 (2.63%) JIRA
General
1 11 (28.95%) Finance
2 7 (18.42%) Marketing
3 6 (15.79%) Social Skills
4 3 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.26%) Banking
5 2 (5.26%) Retail
6 1 (2.63%) Advertising
6 1 (2.63%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.63%) Games
6 1 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.16%) CSS
1 5 (13.16%) HTML
2 1 (2.63%) React Native
2 1 (2.63%) Smarty
2 1 (2.63%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 1 (2.63%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 11 (28.95%) Product Ownership
2 6 (15.79%) Mobile App
3 2 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (5.26%) Graphic Design
3 2 (5.26%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.63%) Augmented Reality
4 1 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.63%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.63%) Social Media
4 1 (2.63%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.16%) Android
1 5 (13.16%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (68.42%) User Experience
2 15 (39.47%) UX Design
3 9 (23.68%) Prototyping
4 8 (21.05%) Interaction Design
5 7 (18.42%) UX Research
6 6 (15.79%) User Research
7 5 (13.16%) Project Delivery
8 4 (10.53%) B2B
8 4 (10.53%) Decision-Making
8 4 (10.53%) Design Thinking
8 4 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (10.53%) Product Thinking
8 4 (10.53%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 4 (10.53%) Wireframes
9 3 (7.89%) Agile
9 3 (7.89%) B2C
9 3 (7.89%) Data Visualisation
9 3 (7.89%) Stakeholder Management
9 3 (7.89%) Visualisation
9 3 (7.89%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.63%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (13.16%) Degree
2 2 (5.26%) DV Cleared
2 2 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.89%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 7 (18.42%) Adobe
2 2 (5.26%) Microsoft