Typography Contracts

Typography
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Typography skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Typography over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 497 542 664
Rank change year-on-year +45 +122 +121
Contract jobs citing Typography 23 40 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.079% 0.092% 0.090%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.086% 0.11% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 19 24
10th Percentile £306 £250 £263
25th Percentile £315 £297 £291
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £373 £325 £375
Median % change year-on-year +14.62% -13.33% -30.00%
75th Percentile £431 £475 £459
90th Percentile £548 £544 £513
UK excluding London median daily rate £322 £275 £343
% change year-on-year +17.09% -19.71% -42.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £46.83 £14.95 -
25th Percentile £47.69 £17.88 -
Median hourly rate £49.75 £24.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +103.06% - -
75th Percentile £51.19 £31.88 -
90th Percentile £51.68 £35.25 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £14.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Typography falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Typography
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Typography as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Typography in the UK

Typography
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Typography in the UK

Typography
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Typography over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Typography in the UK

Typography
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Typography in the UK

Typography
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Typography 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 +42 23 £373 +14.62% 40
London +30 19 £375 +7.14% 26
UK excluding London +57 4 £322 +17.09% 18
Work from Home +29 4 £349 +7.38% 21
Midlands +24 3 £318 - 1
East Midlands - 2 £318 -
North West +17 1 £313 - 1
North of England +15 1 £313 +6.55% 1
West Midlands +14 1 - - 1
South West - 1 £575 - 2

Typography
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 (4.35%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Adobe After Effects
1 4 (17.39%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 4 (17.39%) Photoshop
2 3 (13.04%) Adobe Illustrator
2 3 (13.04%) CINEMA 4D
2 3 (13.04%) Final Cut Pro
3 2 (8.70%) Adobe Premiere
3 2 (8.70%) Adobe XD
3 2 (8.70%) Autodesk Smoke
3 2 (8.70%) InVision
3 2 (8.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (4.35%) Blender
4 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 13 (56.52%) Figma
2 1 (4.35%) BigCommerce
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) Intranet
General
1 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 5 (21.74%) Retail
3 3 (13.04%) Public Sector
4 2 (8.70%) Games
4 2 (8.70%) Marketing
5 1 (4.35%) Arabic Language
5 1 (4.35%) Finance
5 1 (4.35%) French Language
5 1 (4.35%) German Language
5 1 (4.35%) Italian Language
5 1 (4.35%) Japanese Language
5 1 (4.35%) Korean Language
5 1 (4.35%) Legal
Job Titles
1 19 (82.61%) Designer
2 7 (30.43%) Senior
2 7 (30.43%) UX Designer
3 5 (21.74%) Product Designer
3 5 (21.74%) Senior Designer
3 5 (21.74%) UI Designer
4 2 (8.70%) Interface Designer
4 2 (8.70%) Motion Designer
4 2 (8.70%) Senior Motion Designer
4 2 (8.70%) UI/UX Designer
4 2 (8.70%) User Researcher
5 1 (4.35%) Angular Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Creative Artworker
5 1 (4.35%) Graphic Designer
5 1 (4.35%) HTML CSS Developer
5 1 (4.35%) HTML Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Junior UI/UX Designer
5 1 (4.35%) Junior UX Designer
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Graphic Designer
5 1 (4.35%) Video Editor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) CSS
1 3 (13.04%) HTML
2 1 (4.35%) AngularJS
2 1 (4.35%) Bootstrap
2 1 (4.35%) CSS3
2 1 (4.35%) Framer.js
2 1 (4.35%) HTML5
2 1 (4.35%) jQuery
2 1 (4.35%) React
2 1 (4.35%) VML
2 1 (4.35%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Animation
1 5 (21.74%) Graphic Design
1 5 (21.74%) Mobile App
2 3 (13.04%) Motion Graphics
2 3 (13.04%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (8.70%) Social Media
3 2 (8.70%) Video Editing
4 1 (4.35%) Digital Media
4 1 (4.35%) New Media
4 1 (4.35%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (56.52%) User Experience
2 12 (52.17%) Prototyping
3 11 (47.83%) UX Design
4 8 (34.78%) Interaction Design
4 8 (34.78%) Wireframes
5 4 (17.39%) Content Strategy
5 4 (17.39%) Iconography
5 4 (17.39%) Information Architecture
5 4 (17.39%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 3 (13.04%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
6 3 (13.04%) Mobile First
6 3 (13.04%) Project Management
6 3 (13.04%) Responsive Web Design
6 3 (13.04%) Storytelling
6 3 (13.04%) Usability Testing
6 3 (13.04%) User Research
6 3 (13.04%) Web Development
7 2 (8.70%) A/B Testing
7 2 (8.70%) Customer Experience
7 2 (8.70%) Product Thinking
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.04%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (4.35%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (30.43%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 8 (34.78%) Adobe
2 2 (8.70%) YouTube
3 1 (4.35%) Facebook
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.35%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.35%) SAP
3 1 (4.35%) Sitecore