Senior Product Designer Contracts

Senior Product Designer
UK

The median Senior Product Designer daily rate in the UK is £484, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 August 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
27 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 540 560 644
Rank change year-on-year +20 +84 +175
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a Senior Product Designer 14 9 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.043% 0.023% 0.029%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.047% 0.025% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 6 10
10th Percentile - £294 £375
25th Percentile £450 £359 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £478 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.15% +0.68% -18.10%
75th Percentile £526 £505 £689
90th Percentile £537 £541 £728
UK excluding London median daily rate £521 - -

All DemandTrendContract 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 29,924 36,101 48,472
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.23% 92.99% 94.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,860 22,919 33,394
10th Percentile £280 £300 £305
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -1.83%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,584 1,920 1,497
10th Percentile £13.66 £14.16 £14.65
25th Percentile £17.06 £19.50 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.63
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -1.44% +67.81%
75th Percentile £53.89 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.18 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -41.51% +7.50% +86.05%

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
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Product Designer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Product Designer job vacancies in the UK

Senior Product Designer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Product Designer over the 6 months to 27 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Product Designer in the UK

Senior Product Designer
Top 8 DemandTrendContract 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 27 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +28 14 £484 -0.77% 61
London +31 12 £484 -0.77% 45
Work from Home +27 3 £468 +10.00% 25
UK excluding London - 2 £521 - 34
North of England - 1 £575 - 5
Yorkshire - 1 £575 -
East Midlands - 1 £468 -
Midlands - 1 £468 -

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

For the 6 months to 27 August 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 9 (64.29%) Figma
1 9 (64.29%) User Experience
2 7 (50.00%) UX Design
2 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (42.86%) Prototyping
4 5 (35.71%) E-Commerce
5 4 (28.57%) Agile
5 4 (28.57%) Banking
5 4 (28.57%) Mobile App
5 4 (28.57%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 3 (21.43%) Adobe
6 3 (21.43%) Finance
6 3 (21.43%) Accessibility
6 3 (21.43%) User Research
6 3 (21.43%) Strategic Thinking
7 2 (14.29%) Customer-Centricity
7 2 (14.29%) Product Thinking
7 2 (14.29%) UX Research
7 2 (14.29%) Inclusive Design
7 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (14.29%) Product Strategy
7 2 (14.29%) Copywriting
7 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (14.29%) Apple iOS
7 2 (14.29%) Responsive Web Design
7 2 (14.29%) Rapid Prototyping
7 2 (14.29%) Information Architecture
7 2 (14.29%) Android
7 2 (14.29%) Wireframes
7 2 (14.29%) Fintech

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:

Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Adobe XD
1 1 (7.14%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 9 (64.29%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Mixpanel
General
1 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Banking
3 3 (21.43%) Finance
4 1 (7.14%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Mobile App
2 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Android
1 2 (14.29%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) User Experience
2 7 (50.00%) UX Design
3 6 (42.86%) Prototyping
4 5 (35.71%) E-Commerce
5 4 (28.57%) Agile
5 4 (28.57%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 3 (21.43%) Strategic Thinking
6 3 (21.43%) User Research
7 2 (14.29%) Copywriting
7 2 (14.29%) Customer-Centricity
7 2 (14.29%) Fintech
7 2 (14.29%) Inclusive Design
7 2 (14.29%) Information Architecture
7 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (14.29%) Product Strategy
7 2 (14.29%) Product Thinking
7 2 (14.29%) Rapid Prototyping
7 2 (14.29%) Responsive Web Design
7 2 (14.29%) UX Research
7 2 (14.29%) Wireframes
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Adobe
2 1 (7.14%) Optimizely