Web Designer Contracts

Web Designer
UK

The median Web Designer daily rate in the UK is £363, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 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
16 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 542 560 640
Rank change year-on-year +18 +80 +181
Contract jobs requiring a Web Designer 9 9 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.027% 0.023% 0.038%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.030% 0.025% 0.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 9
10th Percentile - £190 £263
25th Percentile £355 £213 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% -5.88% -
75th Percentile £519 £575 £488
90th Percentile - - £544
UK excluding London median daily rate £360 - £425
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £20.30 - -
25th Percentile £20.38 - -
Median hourly rate £21.00 - -
75th Percentile £27.99 - -
90th Percentile £31.88 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.75 - -

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 30,252 36,027 49,108
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.30% 92.91% 94.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,090 23,211 33,915
10th Percentile £281 £300 £305
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -1.11%
75th Percentile £621 £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 1,545 2,018 1,468
10th Percentile £13.60 £14.23 £14.47
25th Percentile £17.25 £20.12 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% +2.38% +63.55%
75th Percentile £53.86 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year -44.11% +21.62% +72.98%

Web Designer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Web Designer in the UK

Web Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Web Designer in the UK

Web Designer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Web Designer over the 6 months to 16 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Web Designer in the UK

Web Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Web Designer in the UK

Web Designer
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Web Designer within the UK over the 6 months to 16 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Work from Home +21 8 £436 +105.29% 15
England +10 8 £438 +9.38% 31
London +15 5 £513 +28.13% 16
UK excluding London +3 3 £360 - 15
East Midlands - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - - 1
South West - 1 - - 3
East of England - 1 £360 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 16 August 2025, Web 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 Web Designer in the job title.

1 5 (55.56%) User Experience
2 4 (44.44%) Atomic Design
2 4 (44.44%) Marketing
3 3 (33.33%) UX Design
3 3 (33.33%) Figma
3 3 (33.33%) Accessibility
4 2 (22.22%) Journey Map
4 2 (22.22%) Virgin Media
4 2 (22.22%) Onboarding
4 2 (22.22%) Typography
4 2 (22.22%) Prototyping
4 2 (22.22%) Framer.js
4 2 (22.22%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
4 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (22.22%) Publishing
4 2 (22.22%) Games
4 2 (22.22%) Web Design
5 1 (11.11%) Banking
5 1 (11.11%) Retail
5 1 (11.11%) Investment Banking
5 1 (11.11%) Local Government
5 1 (11.11%) Google
5 1 (11.11%) Retail Banking
5 1 (11.11%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (11.11%) CRM
5 1 (11.11%) EDI
5 1 (11.11%) B2C
5 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
5 1 (11.11%) Adobe
5 1 (11.11%) SEO

Web 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 (11.11%) Adobe XD
1 1 (11.11%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Figma
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Google Analytics
General
1 4 (44.44%) Marketing
2 2 (22.22%) Games
2 2 (22.22%) Publishing
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Corporate Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Investment Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Local Government
3 1 (11.11%) Retail
3 1 (11.11%) Retail Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Framer.js
2 1 (11.11%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Android
1 1 (11.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) User Experience
2 4 (44.44%) Atomic Design
3 3 (33.33%) UX Design
4 2 (22.22%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
4 2 (22.22%) Journey Map
4 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (22.22%) Prototyping
4 2 (22.22%) Typography
4 2 (22.22%) Web Design
5 1 (11.11%) Analytics
5 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (11.11%) CRM
5 1 (11.11%) Customer Insight
5 1 (11.11%) Due Diligence
5 1 (11.11%) Fintech
5 1 (11.11%) Inclusive Design
5 1 (11.11%) Infographics
5 1 (11.11%) User Research
5 1 (11.11%) Wireframes
5 1 (11.11%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (11.11%) WCAG
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Virgin Media
2 1 (11.11%) Adobe
2 1 (11.11%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft