Senior Designer Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Senior Designer
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Designer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 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
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 289 314 408
Rank change year-on-year +25 +94 +7
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Designer 12 30 63
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.12% 0.20% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.21% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 18 42
10th Percentile £351 £459 £403
25th Percentile £408 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £561
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -1.92% +1.95%
75th Percentile £588 £672 £634
90th Percentile £619 £739 £656
UK median daily rate £515 £535 £575
% change year-on-year -3.65% -7.04% +4.55%

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 9,280 14,264 24,476
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.76% 93.50% 95.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,354 9,548 17,287
10th Percentile £338 £325 £356
25th Percentile £413 £425 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £774 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 576 563
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.34 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.13 £23.32 £25.98
Median hourly rate £35.13 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £28.88 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% -19.07% +94.45%

Senior Designer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Senior Designer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Senior 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 Senior Designer.

Senior Designer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Designer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Senior Designer over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Senior Designer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Senior 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 Senior Designer.

Senior Designer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior Designer in the job title.

1 6 (50.00%) Figma
1 6 (50.00%) Agile
2 5 (41.67%) User Research
3 4 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 4 (33.33%) Prototyping
3 4 (33.33%) Adobe
4 3 (25.00%) UX Design
4 3 (25.00%) Mobile App
4 3 (25.00%) User Experience
4 3 (25.00%) Fintech
4 3 (25.00%) Service Design
4 3 (25.00%) Product Strategy
4 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (25.00%) Interaction Design
5 2 (16.67%) Miro
5 2 (16.67%) Accessibility
5 2 (16.67%) Insurtech
5 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
5 2 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
5 2 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
5 2 (16.67%) Slack
5 2 (16.67%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
5 2 (16.67%) Design Thinking
5 2 (16.67%) Typography
6 1 (8.33%) Visualisation
6 1 (8.33%) SEO
6 1 (8.33%) Finance
6 1 (8.33%) e-Learning
6 1 (8.33%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (8.33%) Adobe Premiere

Senior 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:

Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Adobe After Effects
1 1 (8.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (8.33%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (8.33%) Adobe Premiere
1 1 (8.33%) Adobe XD
1 1 (8.33%) CINEMA 4D
1 1 (8.33%) Final Cut Pro
1 1 (8.33%) Photoshop
1 1 (8.33%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) Figma
2 2 (16.67%) Miro
2 2 (16.67%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Mixpanel
General
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (8.33%) Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (8.33%) Animation
2 1 (8.33%) e-Learning
2 1 (8.33%) Freedom of Information
2 1 (8.33%) Graphic Design
2 1 (8.33%) Motion Graphics
2 1 (8.33%) Social Media
2 1 (8.33%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Android
1 1 (8.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Agile
2 5 (41.67%) User Research
3 4 (33.33%) Prototyping
3 4 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 3 (25.00%) Fintech
4 3 (25.00%) Interaction Design
4 3 (25.00%) Product Strategy
4 3 (25.00%) Service Design
4 3 (25.00%) User Experience
4 3 (25.00%) UX Design
5 2 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
5 2 (16.67%) Design Thinking
5 2 (16.67%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
5 2 (16.67%) Insurtech
5 2 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
5 2 (16.67%) Typography
6 1 (8.33%) Data Science
6 1 (8.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 1 (8.33%) Storytelling
6 1 (8.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Adobe
2 1 (8.33%) Optimizely
2 1 (8.33%) YouTube