Designer Contracts in West Yorkshire

Designer
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median Designer daily rate in West Yorkshire is £436 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 41 52 53
Rank change year-on-year +11 +1 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Designer 34 57 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 3.40% 3.50% 3.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.66% 3.59% 3.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 46 48
10th Percentile £305 £413 £380
25th Percentile £375 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £436 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.80% -9.09% +29.41%
75th Percentile £469 £538 £575
90th Percentile £545 £575 £625
Yorkshire median daily rate £429 £500 £535
% change year-on-year -14.30% -6.54% +25.88%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Yorkshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire. 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 West Yorkshire with a recognized job title 929 1,588 1,876
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.81% 97.48% 97.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 559 1,102 1,351
10th Percentile £275 £325 £250
25th Percentile £400 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £525 £495
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +6.06% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £558
90th Percentile £668 £700 £644
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 17 54
10th Percentile £11.75 £12.70 £10.33
25th Percentile £12.25 £15.75 £12.00
Median hourly rate £15.17 £32.50 £17.18
Median % change year-on-year -53.32% +89.23% -21.00%
75th Percentile £22.75 £63.75 £21.38
90th Percentile £53.75 £70.00 £26.50
Yorkshire median hourly rate £14.50 £22.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -34.09% +25.71% -7.89%

Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Designer in West Yorkshire

Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Designer in West Yorkshire

Designer
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Designer in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Designer in West Yorkshire

Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Designer in West Yorkshire

Designer
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Designer within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
Leeds +9 32 £443 -11.40% 11
Halifax +4 1 - -
Bradford - 1 £350 - 2
Designer
Yorkshire

Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, 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 across the West Yorkshire region featuring Designer in the job title.

1 14 (41.18%) Photoshop
1 14 (41.18%) Adobe
1 14 (41.18%) Adobe Illustrator
1 14 (41.18%) User Experience
2 12 (35.29%) HTML
3 11 (32.35%) Interaction Design
4 10 (29.41%) CSS
5 9 (26.47%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 9 (26.47%) Mobile App
6 8 (23.53%) Prototyping
6 8 (23.53%) Agile
6 8 (23.53%) UX Design
7 7 (20.59%) Dreamweaver
7 7 (20.59%) User Research
7 7 (20.59%) Mobile Application Development
7 7 (20.59%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 6 (17.65%) Mentoring
8 6 (17.65%) dotdigital
8 6 (17.65%) Wireframes
8 6 (17.65%) Adobe After Effects
8 6 (17.65%) Marketing
8 6 (17.65%) Animation
8 6 (17.65%) Email Marketing
8 6 (17.65%) Time Management
9 5 (14.71%) Axure RP
9 5 (14.71%) InVision
9 5 (14.71%) Public Sector
9 5 (14.71%) Coaching
9 5 (14.71%) Service Design
10 4 (11.76%) Typography

Designer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 (5.88%) CMS
Applications
1 14 (41.18%) Adobe Illustrator
1 14 (41.18%) Photoshop
2 7 (20.59%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 6 (17.65%) Adobe After Effects
4 5 (14.71%) InVision
5 2 (5.88%) Adobe Captivate
6 1 (2.94%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 3 (8.82%) Apigee
1 3 (8.82%) AWS
1 3 (8.82%) Figma
2 2 (5.88%) Adobe Creative Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.82%) SSL
2 1 (2.94%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.82%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 7 (20.59%) Dreamweaver
2 5 (14.71%) Axure RP
3 3 (8.82%) gulp
3 3 (8.82%) Jenkins
3 3 (8.82%) Maven
General
1 6 (17.65%) Marketing
2 5 (14.71%) Public Sector
3 4 (11.76%) Social Skills
4 2 (5.88%) Finance
4 2 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (5.88%) Multimedia
5 1 (2.94%) Health Technology
5 1 (2.94%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (35.29%) HTML
2 10 (29.41%) CSS
3 3 (8.82%) .NET
3 3 (8.82%) Node.js
3 3 (8.82%) OAuth
3 3 (8.82%) OpenID
3 3 (8.82%) RESTful
3 3 (8.82%) SAML
4 1 (2.94%) Material Design
4 1 (2.94%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 9 (26.47%) Mobile App
2 6 (17.65%) Animation
3 4 (11.76%) Product Ownership
4 2 (5.88%) Digital Media
4 2 (5.88%) NHS
4 2 (5.88%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.94%) IoT
5 1 (2.94%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.76%) Android
1 4 (11.76%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (41.18%) User Experience
2 11 (32.35%) Interaction Design
3 9 (26.47%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 8 (23.53%) Agile
4 8 (23.53%) Prototyping
4 8 (23.53%) UX Design
5 7 (20.59%) Mobile Application Development
5 7 (20.59%) User Research
6 6 (17.65%) Email Marketing
6 6 (17.65%) Mentoring
6 6 (17.65%) Time Management
6 6 (17.65%) Wireframes
7 5 (14.71%) Coaching
7 5 (14.71%) Service Design
8 4 (11.76%) Responsive Web Design
8 4 (11.76%) Typography
8 4 (11.76%) Usability Testing
8 4 (11.76%) Web Design
9 3 (8.82%) Configuration Management
9 3 (8.82%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.82%) Java
1 3 (8.82%) JavaScript
1 3 (8.82%) Python
2 1 (2.94%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (8.82%) Degree
2 2 (5.88%) SC Cleared
2 2 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.76%) Accessibility
2 3 (8.82%) QA
3 1 (2.94%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.94%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 3 (8.82%) Ansible
Vendors
1 14 (41.18%) Adobe
2 6 (17.65%) dotdigital
3 3 (8.82%) Google
4 2 (5.88%) Virgin Media
5 1 (2.94%) Brio
5 1 (2.94%) Cognizant
5 1 (2.94%) Microsoft