Technical Designer Contracts

Technical Designer
UK

The median Technical Designer daily rate in the UK is £513, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 July 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
7 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 531 588 665
Rank change year-on-year +57 +77 +203
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Designer 12 8 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.038% 0.018% 0.035%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.041% 0.020% 0.037%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 6
10th Percentile £415 - -
25th Percentile £430 £813 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £825 £475
Median % change year-on-year -37.88% +73.68% -
75th Percentile £575 £838 £495
90th Percentile - - £599
UK excluding London median daily rate £453 - £593

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 29,319 40,234 53,898
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.96% 93.01% 94.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,683 25,888 37,411
10th Percentile £287 £285 £313
25th Percentile £400 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +0.94%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,330 2,797 1,580
10th Percentile £13.75 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.36 £16.65 £19.00
Median hourly rate £26.39 £37.50 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.64% -12.79% +72.00%
75th Percentile £55.25 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.25 £74.00 £76.99
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £39.55
% change year-on-year -37.13% +1.14% +97.75%

Technical Designer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Designer in the UK

Technical Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Designer in the UK

Technical Designer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Designer over the 6 months to 7 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Designer in the UK

Technical Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Designer in the UK

Technical Designer
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Designer within the UK over the 6 months to 7 July 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 +54 9 £550 -33.33% 8
UK excluding London +53 8 £453 - 3
Midlands - 6 - -
West Midlands - 6 - -
London +30 3 £550 -33.33% 6
Work from Home +34 2 £453 - 6
Scotland - 2 £453 -

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

For the 6 months to 7 July 2025, Technical 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 Technical Designer in the job title.

1 6 (50.00%) Mobile Games
1 6 (50.00%) Games
1 6 (50.00%) TypeScript
1 6 (50.00%) Virtual Reality
2 5 (41.67%) User Experience
3 4 (33.33%) Polish Language
3 4 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
3 4 (33.33%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 4 (33.33%) Unreal Engine
3 4 (33.33%) Generative AI
4 3 (25.00%) Azure
4 3 (25.00%) Windows Server
4 3 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (25.00%) Impact Analysis
4 3 (25.00%) SaaS
4 3 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (25.00%) VMware
4 3 (25.00%) Finance
4 3 (25.00%) TCP/IP
4 3 (25.00%) Active Directory
4 3 (25.00%) Red Hat
4 3 (25.00%) Oracle
4 3 (25.00%) SQL Server
4 3 (25.00%) Windows
4 3 (25.00%) Linux
5 2 (16.67%) Python
5 2 (16.67%) SharePoint
5 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (16.67%) DHCP

Technical 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 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (16.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
1 3 (25.00%) SaaS
2 1 (8.33%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (8.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (16.67%) DHCP
2 2 (16.67%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Postman
General
1 6 (50.00%) Games
2 4 (33.33%) Polish Language
3 3 (25.00%) Finance
3 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) Unity (Game Engine)
1 4 (33.33%) Unreal Engine
2 1 (8.33%) Middleware
2 1 (8.33%) OpenAPI
2 1 (8.33%) REST
2 1 (8.33%) Swagger
2 1 (8.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Mobile Games
1 6 (50.00%) Virtual Reality
2 2 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Linux
1 3 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (25.00%) Windows
1 3 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) User Experience
2 4 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (33.33%) Generative AI
3 3 (25.00%) Impact Analysis
3 3 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 2 (16.67%) Data Protection
4 2 (16.67%) Decision-Making
4 2 (16.67%) Design Patterns
4 2 (16.67%) Use Case
5 1 (8.33%) Business Strategy
5 1 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (8.33%) Competitor Analysis
5 1 (8.33%) Computer Science
5 1 (8.33%) Customer Experience
5 1 (8.33%) Customer-Centricity
5 1 (8.33%) End-to-End Testing
5 1 (8.33%) Fintech
5 1 (8.33%) Requirements Gathering
5 1 (8.33%) UML
5 1 (8.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 2 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Oracle
1 3 (25.00%) Red Hat
1 3 (25.00%) VMware
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft