Senior Product Designer Contracts

Senior Product Designer
UK

The median Senior Product Designer daily rate in the UK is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 500 573 704
Rank change year-on-year +73 +131 +107
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Product Designer 20 9 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.068% 0.021% 0.023%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.074% 0.022% 0.025%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 8 8
10th Percentile £429 £460 £443
25th Percentile £450 £494 £565
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £547 £623
Median % change year-on-year -8.59% -12.13% +10.67%
75th Percentile £541 £725 £718
90th Percentile £569 £800 £729
UK excluding London median daily rate £468 £500 -
% change year-on-year -6.50% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Senior Product Designer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Product Designer in the UK

Senior Product Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Product Designer in the UK

Senior Product Designer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Product Designer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Product Designer in the UK

Senior Product Designer
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Product Designer within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +71 20 £500 -4.21% 67
London +52 19 £500 -8.09% 58
Work from Home +40 5 £468 -33.21% 35
UK excluding London +63 1 £468 -6.50% 19
East Midlands - 1 £468 -
Midlands - 1 £468 -

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior Product Designer in the job title.

1 12 (60.00%) User Experience
2 11 (55.00%) Figma
3 10 (50.00%) Social Skills
4 8 (40.00%) Prototyping
4 8 (40.00%) UX Design
5 7 (35.00%) Agile
5 7 (35.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 7 (35.00%) User Research
6 6 (30.00%) E-Commerce
7 5 (25.00%) Adobe
8 4 (20.00%) Fintech
8 4 (20.00%) Mobile App
8 4 (20.00%) Rapid Prototyping
8 4 (20.00%) Finance
8 4 (20.00%) Banking
8 4 (20.00%) Marketing
8 4 (20.00%) Accessibility
8 4 (20.00%) Interaction Design
8 4 (20.00%) Product Strategy
9 3 (15.00%) UX Research
9 3 (15.00%) Wireframes
9 3 (15.00%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
9 3 (15.00%) Strategic Thinking
10 2 (10.00%) Customer-Centricity
10 2 (10.00%) Responsive Web Design
10 2 (10.00%) Copywriting
10 2 (10.00%) Android
10 2 (10.00%) Validation
10 2 (10.00%) Information Architecture
10 2 (10.00%) Apple iOS

Senior 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Adobe XD
1 2 (10.00%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 11 (55.00%) Figma
2 2 (10.00%) Miro
2 2 (10.00%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Mixpanel
General
1 10 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Banking
2 4 (20.00%) Finance
2 4 (20.00%) Marketing
3 1 (5.00%) Health Technology
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.00%) iPhone
3 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Android
1 2 (10.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) User Experience
2 8 (40.00%) Prototyping
2 8 (40.00%) UX Design
3 7 (35.00%) Agile
3 7 (35.00%) User Research
3 7 (35.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 6 (30.00%) E-Commerce
5 4 (20.00%) Fintech
5 4 (20.00%) Interaction Design
5 4 (20.00%) Product Strategy
5 4 (20.00%) Rapid Prototyping
6 3 (15.00%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
6 3 (15.00%) Strategic Thinking
6 3 (15.00%) UX Research
6 3 (15.00%) Wireframes
7 2 (10.00%) Copywriting
7 2 (10.00%) Information Architecture
7 2 (10.00%) Insurtech
7 2 (10.00%) Responsive Web Design
7 2 (10.00%) Validation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Adobe
2 1 (5.00%) Optimizely
2 1 (5.00%) Samsung