Senior Designer Contracts

Senior Designer
UK

The median Senior Designer daily rate in the UK is £520 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 May 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 494 573 501
Rank change year-on-year +79 -72 +12
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Designer 84 143 403
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.24% 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.26% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 100 300
10th Percentile £385 £423 £425
25th Percentile £450 £479 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £650 £611
90th Percentile £603 £716 £673
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £575 £545
% change year-on-year -21.74% +5.50% +6.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £30.97
25th Percentile - - £31.73
Median hourly rate - £60.00 £34.25
Median % change year-on-year - +75.20% +4.25%
75th Percentile - - £36.01
90th Percentile - - £36.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £34.25
% change year-on-year - - -1.35%

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 40,246 55,892 84,695
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 94.62% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,216 39,044 59,517
10th Percentile £279 £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 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,676 1,569 2,074
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.25 £15.72
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £64.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.16 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.11% +115.96% +2.74%

Senior Designer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Designer in the UK

Senior Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Designer in the UK

Senior Designer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Designer over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Designer in the UK

Senior Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Designer in the UK

Senior Designer
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Designer within the UK over the 6 months to 6 May 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 +56 70 £523 -5.00% 74
London +66 50 £547 -5.69% 46
Work from Home +99 30 £550 -1.92% 43
UK excluding London +53 29 £450 -21.74% 33
North of England +25 12 £500 -11.11% 12
Scotland +35 9 £450 -26.98% 5
Yorkshire +20 7 £500 -8.88% 4
North West +28 5 - - 8
South East +20 4 £525 +33.42% 5
Midlands +30 2 £375 -27.88% 8
South West +23 2 £510 -2.86% 3
West Midlands +19 2 £375 -27.88% 6

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, Senior 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 Designer in the job title.

1 48 (57.14%) User Experience
2 42 (50.00%) UX Design
3 27 (32.14%) Social Skills
4 22 (26.19%) Figma
5 21 (25.00%) Agile
6 18 (21.43%) Service Design
7 15 (17.86%) Mobile App
8 14 (16.67%) Marketing
8 14 (16.67%) Adobe
8 14 (16.67%) Public Sector
8 14 (16.67%) Interaction Design
9 13 (15.48%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 13 (15.48%) Prototyping
9 13 (15.48%) User Research
9 13 (15.48%) Finance
10 12 (14.29%) Degree
11 11 (13.10%) Photoshop
11 11 (13.10%) Adobe Illustrator
11 11 (13.10%) Accessibility
12 10 (11.90%) Mentoring
13 9 (10.71%) E-Commerce
13 9 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
13 9 (10.71%) UX Research
14 8 (9.52%) InDesign
14 8 (9.52%) Graphic Design
14 8 (9.52%) Usability Testing
15 7 (8.33%) Digital Marketing
15 7 (8.33%) Typography
15 7 (8.33%) Coaching
15 7 (8.33%) Miro

Senior 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 4 (4.76%) CMS
2 2 (2.38%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (13.10%) Adobe Illustrator
1 11 (13.10%) Photoshop
2 8 (9.52%) InDesign
3 6 (7.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 5 (5.95%) Adobe After Effects
5 4 (4.76%) Adobe Premiere
5 4 (4.76%) InVision
6 3 (3.57%) Sketch
7 2 (2.38%) CINEMA 4D
8 1 (1.19%) Adobe XD
8 1 (1.19%) Final Cut Pro
8 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
8 1 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 22 (26.19%) Figma
2 7 (8.33%) Miro
3 4 (4.76%) Azure
3 4 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.19%) Adobe Creative Cloud
4 1 (1.19%) BigCommerce
4 1 (1.19%) Google Docs
4 1 (1.19%) Google Sheets
4 1 (1.19%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.19%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.38%) Big Data
1 2 (2.38%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 2 (2.38%) JIRA
2 1 (1.19%) Dreamweaver
General
1 27 (32.14%) Social Skills
2 14 (16.67%) Marketing
2 14 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 13 (15.48%) Finance
4 6 (7.14%) Health Technology
4 6 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (5.95%) Games
6 4 (4.76%) Advertising
6 4 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (4.76%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (4.76%) Publishing
6 4 (4.76%) Retail
7 3 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.38%) Legal
9 1 (1.19%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (1.19%) Banking
9 1 (1.19%) Danish Language
9 1 (1.19%) Front Office
9 1 (1.19%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.95%) CSS
1 5 (5.95%) HTML
2 3 (3.57%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 3 (3.57%) Unreal Engine
3 2 (2.38%) Spring
4 1 (1.19%) COM+
4 1 (1.19%) React
Miscellaneous
1 15 (17.86%) Mobile App
2 8 (9.52%) Graphic Design
3 5 (5.95%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (4.76%) Animation
4 4 (4.76%) Digital Media
5 3 (3.57%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.38%) e-Learning
6 2 (2.38%) Learning Management System
6 2 (2.38%) Motion Graphics
6 2 (2.38%) Photography
6 2 (2.38%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.19%) Blog
7 1 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.19%) NHS
7 1 (1.19%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.19%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.57%) Android
1 3 (3.57%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.19%) Windows
2 1 (1.19%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (57.14%) User Experience
2 42 (50.00%) UX Design
3 21 (25.00%) Agile
4 18 (21.43%) Service Design
5 14 (16.67%) Interaction Design
6 13 (15.48%) Prototyping
6 13 (15.48%) User Research
6 13 (15.48%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 10 (11.90%) Mentoring
8 9 (10.71%) E-Commerce
8 9 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
8 9 (10.71%) UX Research
9 8 (9.52%) Usability Testing
10 7 (8.33%) Coaching
10 7 (8.33%) Content Strategy
10 7 (8.33%) Digital Marketing
10 7 (8.33%) Typography
11 6 (7.14%) DevOps
12 5 (5.95%) B2B
12 5 (5.95%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (2.38%) Java
2 1 (1.19%) JavaScript
2 1 (1.19%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 12 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (13.10%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.38%) WCAG
3 1 (1.19%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.19%) QA
3 1 (1.19%) SLA
Vendors
1 14 (16.67%) Adobe
2 2 (2.38%) Apple
2 2 (2.38%) Atlassian
2 2 (2.38%) Oracle
3 1 (1.19%) Brio
3 1 (1.19%) Google
3 1 (1.19%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.19%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.19%) SAP
3 1 (1.19%) Sitecore
3 1 (1.19%) Virgin Media