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 20 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 533 546 624
Rank change year-on-year +13 +78 +184
Contract jobs citing Typography 21 43 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.064% 0.10% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.071% 0.12% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 21 21
10th Percentile £304 £213 £263
25th Percentile £315 £294 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £373 £325 £400
Median % change year-on-year +14.62% -18.75% -24.28%
75th Percentile £519 £475 £488
90th Percentile £549 £544 £525
UK excluding London median daily rate £322 £294 £360
% change year-on-year +9.62% -18.40% -40.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 3
10th Percentile £46.83 £14.60 £25.72
25th Percentile £47.69 £17.00 £39.05
Median hourly rate £49.75 £21.00 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +136.90% -66.13% +53.09%
75th Percentile £51.19 £29.25 £62.88
90th Percentile £51.68 £34.20 £63.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £14.00 £39.92
% change year-on-year - -64.93% -1.43%

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 29,679 35,651 49,433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.34% 85.41% 89.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,626 22,859 33,990
10th Percentile £300 £306 £325
25th Percentile £405 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £548
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.11% -0.45%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,574 2,252 1,634
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.31 £16.81 £18.49
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% -10.31% +61.35%
75th Percentile £50.94 £62.13 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.63 £72.50 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.57 £38.12 £40.59
% change year-on-year -38.18% -6.09% +88.79%

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 20 July 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 20 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 +30 21 £373 +14.62% 59
London +33 17 £375 -6.25% 47
Work from Home +12 6 £413 +27.00% 37
UK excluding London +30 4 £322 +9.62% 18
East Midlands 0 2 £318 +1.60%
Midlands -6 2 £318 +1.60% 1
South East +31 1 - - 7
North West +5 1 £313 - 2
North of England -4 1 £313 +6.55% 4
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:

Applications
1 5 (23.81%) Photoshop
2 4 (19.05%) Adobe Illustrator
3 3 (14.29%) Adobe After Effects
3 3 (14.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (9.52%) Adobe Premiere
4 2 (9.52%) Adobe XD
4 2 (9.52%) Autodesk Smoke
4 2 (9.52%) CINEMA 4D
4 2 (9.52%) Final Cut Pro
4 2 (9.52%) InVision
5 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (4.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (4.76%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (61.90%) Figma
General
1 5 (23.81%) Marketing
2 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Finance
3 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
3 2 (9.52%) Retail
4 1 (4.76%) Arabic Language
4 1 (4.76%) Banking
4 1 (4.76%) French Language
4 1 (4.76%) Games
4 1 (4.76%) German Language
4 1 (4.76%) Italian Language
4 1 (4.76%) Japanese Language
4 1 (4.76%) Korean Language
4 1 (4.76%) Legal
4 1 (4.76%) Music Industry
4 1 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (76.19%) Designer
2 8 (38.10%) UI Designer
3 6 (28.57%) Senior
4 4 (19.05%) Product Designer
4 4 (19.05%) Senior Designer
4 4 (19.05%) UX Designer
5 3 (14.29%) UI/UX Designer
6 2 (9.52%) Interface Designer
6 2 (9.52%) Motion Designer
6 2 (9.52%) Senior Motion Designer
6 2 (9.52%) User Researcher
6 2 (9.52%) Visual Designer
6 2 (9.52%) Web Designer
7 1 (4.76%) Developer
7 1 (4.76%) Games Designer
7 1 (4.76%) Graphic Designer
7 1 (4.76%) HTML Developer
7 1 (4.76%) JavaScript Developer
7 1 (4.76%) Junior
7 1 (4.76%) Senior Graphic Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) CSS
1 3 (14.29%) HTML
2 1 (4.76%) AngularJS
2 1 (4.76%) Bootstrap
2 1 (4.76%) CSS3
2 1 (4.76%) HTML5
2 1 (4.76%) jQuery
2 1 (4.76%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (4.76%) React
2 1 (4.76%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Graphic Design
2 3 (14.29%) Animation
2 3 (14.29%) Mobile App
2 3 (14.29%) Motion Graphics
3 2 (9.52%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (9.52%) Social Media
3 2 (9.52%) Video Editing
4 1 (4.76%) Digital Media
4 1 (4.76%) New Media
4 1 (4.76%) Photography
4 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.76%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) Prototyping
2 8 (38.10%) User Experience
3 7 (33.33%) UX Design
3 7 (33.33%) Wireframes
4 4 (19.05%) Content Strategy
4 4 (19.05%) Interaction Design
4 4 (19.05%) Usability Testing
4 4 (19.05%) User Research
4 4 (19.05%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 3 (14.29%) Information Architecture
5 3 (14.29%) Project Management
5 3 (14.29%) Storytelling
5 3 (14.29%) Web Development
6 2 (9.52%) Agile
6 2 (9.52%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (9.52%) Contextual Inquiry
6 2 (9.52%) CRM
6 2 (9.52%) Data Analysis
6 2 (9.52%) Responsive Web Design
6 2 (9.52%) Web Accessibility
Programming Languages
1 3 (14.29%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (33.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.76%) WCAG
Vendors
1 8 (38.10%) Adobe
2 2 (9.52%) Virgin Media
2 2 (9.52%) YouTube
3 1 (4.76%) Google
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.76%) Salesforce