Design Persona Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Design Personas
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Design Persona skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Design Persona over the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank - 348 456
Rank change year-on-year - +108 +124
Contract jobs citing Design Persona 0 2 12
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option - 0.013% 0.048%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - 0.015% 0.053%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - £400
25th Percentile - - £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £555
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.00%
75th Percentile - - £579
90th Percentile - - £620
UK median daily rate - £350 £555
% change year-on-year - -36.94% +5.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,006 13,243 22,460
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.34% 88.02% 89.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,171 8,878 15,870
10th Percentile £338 £325 £363
25th Percentile £415 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £774 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.19% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 571 519
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.00 £18.63
25th Percentile £18.66 £25.50 £29.31
Median hourly rate £38.02 £43.00 £53.35
Median % change year-on-year -11.58% -19.40% +52.43%
75th Percentile £65.75 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £28.60 £36.50 £36.40
% change year-on-year -21.64% +0.29% +41.73%

Design Persona
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Design Persona as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Design Persona trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Design Persona
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Design Persona.

Design Persona daily rate for jobs with a WFH option