Designer Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Designer
UK > Work from Home

The median Designer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 152 142 111
Rank change year-on-year -10 -31 -28
Contract jobs requiring a Designer 162 229 558
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.64% 1.49% 2.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.74% 1.60% 2.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 147 415
10th Percentile £304 £313 £384
25th Percentile £356 £408 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +2.94%
75th Percentile £522 £575 £612
90th Percentile £588 £641 £713
UK median daily rate £459 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -3.38% -9.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 8
10th Percentile £34.50 £37.75 £31.23
25th Percentile £41.25 - £37.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 £45.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +5.88% -10.53%
75th Percentile £63.75 £53.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.50 £56.40 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £30.40 £57.35 £46.25
% change year-on-year -46.99% +24.00% +6.32%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Designer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Designer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Designer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Designer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Designer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Designer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Designer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Designer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Designer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Designer.

Designer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Designer
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Designer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Designer hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Designer in the job title.

1 53 (32.72%) User Experience
2 47 (29.01%) UX Design
3 45 (27.78%) Agile
3 45 (27.78%) Figma
4 44 (27.16%) User Research
5 42 (25.93%) Social Skills
6 39 (24.07%) Service Design
7 36 (22.22%) Prototyping
8 31 (19.14%) Public Sector
9 30 (18.52%) Interaction Design
10 29 (17.90%) SC Cleared
10 29 (17.90%) Security Cleared
11 25 (15.43%) Accessibility
11 25 (15.43%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 21 (12.96%) Wireframes
13 18 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
14 16 (9.88%) Finance
15 15 (9.26%) Stakeholder Management
16 13 (8.02%) Telecoms
16 13 (8.02%) Degree
16 13 (8.02%) Adobe
16 13 (8.02%) Workshop Facilitation
17 12 (7.41%) Usability Testing
18 11 (6.79%) WCAG
18 11 (6.79%) Journey Map
18 11 (6.79%) Design Thinking
19 10 (6.17%) Sketch
19 10 (6.17%) Marketing
19 10 (6.17%) Banking
20 9 (5.56%) HTML

Designer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (3.09%) CMS
2 2 (1.23%) Drupal
2 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.23%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.62%) CICS
3 1 (0.62%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (6.17%) Sketch
2 5 (3.09%) Adobe XD
2 5 (3.09%) Photoshop
3 4 (2.47%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 4 (2.47%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (2.47%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.85%) Adobe After Effects
4 3 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (1.23%) Adobe Premiere
5 2 (1.23%) AutoCAD
5 2 (1.23%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.62%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.62%) Final Cut Pro
6 1 (0.62%) Fusion 360
6 1 (0.62%) InDesign
6 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.62%) Revit
6 1 (0.62%) SOLIDWORKS
6 1 (0.62%) UXPin
Cloud Services
1 45 (27.78%) Figma
2 9 (5.56%) Azure
3 6 (3.70%) Miro
3 6 (3.70%) SaaS
4 3 (1.85%) Slack
5 2 (1.23%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.62%) Adobe Creative Cloud
6 1 (0.62%) AWS
6 1 (0.62%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (0.62%) Azure Functions
6 1 (0.62%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (0.62%) GCP
6 1 (0.62%) Google Analytics
6 1 (0.62%) IaaS
6 1 (0.62%) Nutanix
6 1 (0.62%) PaaS
6 1 (0.62%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.62%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.32%) 5G
1 7 (4.32%) Radio Access Network
2 4 (2.47%) LTE
3 3 (1.85%) 2G
3 3 (1.85%) 3G
3 3 (1.85%) 4G
3 3 (1.85%) Ethernet
3 3 (1.85%) MPLS
3 3 (1.85%) Network Security
3 3 (1.85%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.23%) DHCP
4 2 (1.23%) DNS
5 1 (0.62%) Broadband
5 1 (0.62%) Firewall
5 1 (0.62%) Intranet
5 1 (0.62%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.62%) Software-Defined Radio
5 1 (0.62%) Structured Cabling
5 1 (0.62%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.85%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.62%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.62%) Easytrieve
3 1 (0.62%) Mixpanel
3 1 (0.62%) Power BI
3 1 (0.62%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 8 (4.94%) Axure RP
2 4 (2.47%) JIRA
3 1 (0.62%) Balsamiq
General
1 42 (25.93%) Social Skills
2 31 (19.14%) Public Sector
3 16 (9.88%) Finance
4 13 (8.02%) Telecoms
5 10 (6.17%) Banking
5 10 (6.17%) Marketing
6 9 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (4.94%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (3.09%) Billing
8 5 (3.09%) Local Government
8 5 (3.09%) Retail
9 4 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.85%) Publishing
10 3 (1.85%) Welsh Language
11 2 (1.23%) Advertising
11 2 (1.23%) Legal
11 2 (1.23%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.23%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.56%) CSS
1 9 (5.56%) HTML
2 6 (3.70%) Web Services
3 5 (3.09%) REST
4 4 (2.47%) JSON
5 2 (1.23%) LDAP
5 2 (1.23%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.62%) Ajax
6 1 (0.62%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.62%) Bootstrap
6 1 (0.62%) Node.js
6 1 (0.62%) React
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.56%) Product Ownership
2 7 (4.32%) Mobile App
3 5 (3.09%) Animation
4 4 (2.47%) Frameworx
4 4 (2.47%) TM Forum
5 3 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.85%) Motion Graphics
5 3 (1.85%) NHS
5 3 (1.85%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.85%) Social Media
6 2 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.62%) 3D Graphics
7 1 (0.62%) Fibre Optics
7 1 (0.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.62%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.62%) Graphic Design
7 1 (0.62%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.62%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.62%) Video Editing
7 1 (0.62%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.47%) Android
1 4 (2.47%) Apple iOS
1 4 (2.47%) Linux
2 3 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (1.85%) Windows
2 3 (1.85%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.62%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (32.72%) User Experience
2 47 (29.01%) UX Design
3 45 (27.78%) Agile
4 44 (27.16%) User Research
5 39 (24.07%) Service Design
6 36 (22.22%) Prototyping
7 30 (18.52%) Interaction Design
8 25 (15.43%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 21 (12.96%) Wireframes
10 18 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (9.26%) Stakeholder Management
12 13 (8.02%) Workshop Facilitation
13 12 (7.41%) Usability Testing
14 11 (6.79%) Design Thinking
14 11 (6.79%) Journey Map
15 9 (5.56%) Collaborative Working
15 9 (5.56%) Customer Experience
15 9 (5.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 8 (4.94%) CRM
16 8 (4.94%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 8 (4.94%) JavaScript
2 2 (1.23%) Python
2 2 (1.23%) SQL
3 1 (0.62%) COBOL
3 1 (0.62%) Java
3 1 (0.62%) JCL
3 1 (0.62%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 29 (17.90%) SC Cleared
1 29 (17.90%) Security Cleared
2 13 (8.02%) Degree
3 3 (1.85%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.62%) CISM
5 1 (0.62%) CISSP
5 1 (0.62%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (15.43%) Accessibility
2 11 (6.79%) WCAG
3 5 (3.09%) NIST
4 3 (1.85%) QA
5 2 (1.23%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.62%) GDPR
6 1 (0.62%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (3.09%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.62%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (8.02%) Adobe
2 9 (5.56%) ServiceNow
3 6 (3.70%) Salesforce
4 5 (3.09%) Oracle
4 5 (3.09%) VMware
5 4 (2.47%) Microsoft
6 3 (1.85%) Red Hat
6 3 (1.85%) Virgin Media
7 1 (0.62%) BT
7 1 (0.62%) Centrify
7 1 (0.62%) Cisco
7 1 (0.62%) Databricks
7 1 (0.62%) EMC
7 1 (0.62%) Fujitsu
7 1 (0.62%) Google
7 1 (0.62%) Nokia
7 1 (0.62%) SAP
7 1 (0.62%) Tenable
7 1 (0.62%) Thycotic
7 1 (0.62%) YouTube