Designer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Designer
UK > Work from Home

The median Designer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £465, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 155 110 94
Rank change year-on-year -45 -16 -22
Contract jobs requiring a Designer 213 521 1,239
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.44% 2.18% 2.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.54% 2.29% 2.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 387 895
10th Percentile £308 £363 £380
25th Percentile £400 £441 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £510 £520
Median % change year-on-year -8.82% -1.92% +15.56%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £597
90th Percentile £638 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £495 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -5.71% - +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 10 8
10th Percentile £34.13 £35.41 £39.30
25th Percentile - £38.13 £50.63
Median hourly rate £45.00 £53.50 £61.13
Median % change year-on-year -15.89% -12.47% +249.29%
75th Percentile £47.00 £64.69 £66.88
90th Percentile £53.00 £68.75 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £57.35 £47.50 £43.50
% change year-on-year +20.74% +9.20% +102.33%

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 13,801 22,740 41,944
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.25% 95.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,306 16,147 30,496
10th Percentile £325 £360 £358
25th Percentile £425 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 528 563
10th Percentile £14.27 £16.98 £14.05
25th Percentile £22.59 £25.00 £19.96
Median hourly rate £43.50 £50.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.00% +25.00% +70.21%
75th Percentile £63.56 £66.05 £59.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.15 £69.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Designer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Designer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Designer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Designer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Designer over the 6 months to 18 June 2024.

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 a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Designer over the 6 months to 18 June 2024.

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 18 June 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Designer in the job title.

1 88 (41.31%) User Experience
2 68 (31.92%) Social Skills
3 63 (29.58%) UX Design
4 47 (22.07%) Figma
5 43 (20.19%) User Research
5 43 (20.19%) Agile
6 42 (19.72%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 38 (17.84%) Accessibility
7 38 (17.84%) Adobe
8 37 (17.37%) Service Design
9 36 (16.90%) Public Sector
10 35 (16.43%) Security Cleared
11 34 (15.96%) Interaction Design
11 34 (15.96%) Wireframes
12 29 (13.62%) Prototyping
13 28 (13.15%) SC Cleared
14 27 (12.68%) Finance
15 25 (11.74%) Marketing
15 25 (11.74%) Usability Testing
16 22 (10.33%) Microsoft
17 19 (8.92%) HTML
17 19 (8.92%) Problem-Solving
18 18 (8.45%) Content Strategy
18 18 (8.45%) Photoshop
18 18 (8.45%) Stakeholder Management
18 18 (8.45%) Analytical Skills
19 17 (7.98%) CSS
20 16 (7.51%) UX Research
20 16 (7.51%) Sketch
20 16 (7.51%) Adobe Illustrator

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 10 (4.69%) CMS
2 1 (0.47%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 18 (8.45%) Photoshop
2 16 (7.51%) Adobe Illustrator
2 16 (7.51%) Sketch
3 13 (6.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 11 (5.16%) Adobe After Effects
5 10 (4.69%) Adobe XD
5 10 (4.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 9 (4.23%) Microsoft Office
7 6 (2.82%) Microsoft Excel
8 5 (2.35%) CINEMA 4D
8 5 (2.35%) InDesign
9 3 (1.41%) Adobe Premiere
9 3 (1.41%) InVision
10 1 (0.47%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.47%) Autodesk Inventor
10 1 (0.47%) MS Visio
10 1 (0.47%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 5 (2.35%) SmartPlant
2 1 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 47 (22.07%) Figma
2 13 (6.10%) Azure
3 10 (4.69%) Miro
4 9 (4.23%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (1.88%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (1.88%) SaaS
6 3 (1.41%) Adobe Creative Cloud
6 3 (1.41%) AWS
7 2 (0.94%) Apigee
7 2 (0.94%) OCI
7 2 (0.94%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.47%) Azure Cognitive Search
8 1 (0.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (0.47%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (0.47%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (0.47%) Canva
8 1 (0.47%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.94%) 4G
1 2 (0.94%) 5G
1 2 (0.94%) Firewall
1 2 (0.94%) SSL
2 1 (0.47%) 2G
2 1 (0.47%) 3G
2 1 (0.47%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (0.47%) Intranet
2 1 (0.47%) MVNO
2 1 (0.47%) VPN
2 1 (0.47%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.41%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.94%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (0.94%) Metadata
2 2 (0.94%) MongoDB
2 2 (0.94%) Power BI
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 6 (2.82%) Dreamweaver
2 3 (1.41%) Axure RP
3 2 (0.94%) gulp
3 2 (0.94%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.94%) JIRA
3 2 (0.94%) Maven
3 2 (0.94%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.47%) Git
4 1 (0.47%) Postman
General
1 68 (31.92%) Social Skills
2 36 (16.90%) Public Sector
3 27 (12.68%) Finance
4 25 (11.74%) Marketing
5 18 (8.45%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (6.10%) Publishing
7 12 (5.63%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (3.76%) Telecoms
9 6 (2.82%) Banking
9 6 (2.82%) Retail
10 3 (1.41%) Front Office
11 2 (0.94%) Games
11 2 (0.94%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.94%) Legal
11 2 (0.94%) Military
12 1 (0.47%) Advertising
12 1 (0.47%) Danish Language
12 1 (0.47%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (8.92%) HTML
2 17 (7.98%) CSS
3 6 (2.82%) React
4 4 (1.88%) AngularJS
5 3 (1.41%) Node.js
5 3 (1.41%) RESTful
6 2 (0.94%) .NET
6 2 (0.94%) Ajax
6 2 (0.94%) CSS3
6 2 (0.94%) HTML5
6 2 (0.94%) LESS
6 2 (0.94%) OAuth
6 2 (0.94%) OpenID
6 2 (0.94%) SAML
6 2 (0.94%) Sass
7 1 (0.47%) Middleware
7 1 (0.47%) REST
7 1 (0.47%) Swagger
7 1 (0.47%) SwiftUI
7 1 (0.47%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 12 (5.63%) Product Ownership
2 11 (5.16%) Mobile App
3 9 (4.23%) Animation
4 6 (2.82%) Social Media
5 4 (1.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (1.88%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (1.88%) Motion Graphics
5 4 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.41%) Derivative
6 3 (1.41%) Fixed Income
6 3 (1.41%) Graphic Design
6 3 (1.41%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.41%) Photography
6 3 (1.41%) Virtual Team
7 2 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.94%) NHS
7 2 (0.94%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.94%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.94%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.35%) Android
2 4 (1.88%) Apple iOS
2 4 (1.88%) Windows
3 3 (1.41%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.47%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (41.31%) User Experience
2 63 (29.58%) UX Design
3 43 (20.19%) Agile
3 43 (20.19%) User Research
4 42 (19.72%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 37 (17.37%) Service Design
6 34 (15.96%) Interaction Design
6 34 (15.96%) Wireframes
7 29 (13.62%) Prototyping
8 25 (11.74%) Usability Testing
9 19 (8.92%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (8.45%) Content Strategy
10 18 (8.45%) Stakeholder Management
11 16 (7.51%) UX Research
12 13 (6.10%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (6.10%) Strategic Thinking
12 13 (6.10%) Workshop Facilitation
13 12 (5.63%) Typography
13 12 (5.63%) Visualisation
14 11 (5.16%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 8 (3.76%) JavaScript
2 7 (3.29%) Python
3 6 (2.82%) Java
4 3 (1.41%) SQL
5 2 (0.94%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 35 (16.43%) Security Cleared
2 28 (13.15%) SC Cleared
3 15 (7.04%) Degree
4 6 (2.82%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.41%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.41%) MCITP
6 3 (1.41%) MCTS
6 3 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.94%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.47%) CCNA
8 1 (0.47%) CCNP
8 1 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.47%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.47%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (17.84%) Accessibility
2 6 (2.82%) WCAG
3 3 (1.41%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (1.41%) QA
3 3 (1.41%) SLA
4 2 (0.94%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (1.41%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (0.94%) Ansible
Vendors
1 38 (17.84%) Adobe
2 22 (10.33%) Microsoft
3 6 (2.82%) dotdigital
4 4 (1.88%) Oracle
5 2 (0.94%) Google
5 2 (0.94%) Palo Alto
5 2 (0.94%) Pegasus
5 2 (0.94%) SAP
5 2 (0.94%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.47%) Cognizant
6 1 (0.47%) Databricks
6 1 (0.47%) Empirix
6 1 (0.47%) Ericsson
6 1 (0.47%) F5
6 1 (0.47%) Facebook
6 1 (0.47%) Instagram
6 1 (0.47%) Juniper
6 1 (0.47%) NetScout
6 1 (0.47%) Twitter
6 1 (0.47%) VMware