Content Designer Contracts in England

Content Designer
UK > England

The median Content Designer daily rate in England is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 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
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 482 536 654
Rank change year-on-year +54 +118 -52
Contract jobs requiring a Content Designer 32 53 110
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.10% 0.13% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.14% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 34 81
10th Percentile £362 £413 £400
25th Percentile £413 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £550 £527 £545
90th Percentile £564 £568 £623
UK median daily rate £475 £450 £495
% change year-on-year +5.56% -9.09% +16.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £31.50 - -
Median hourly rate £33.00 - £18.45
75th Percentile £34.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £33.00 - £18.45
% change year-on-year - - -55.54%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 28,953 37,638 64,520
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.94% 93.75% 95.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,687 26,172 45,824
10th Percentile £300 £300 £313
25th Percentile £413 £418 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +7.32%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,111 1,422 1,621
10th Percentile £15.10 £15.25 £13.25
25th Percentile £21.15 £19.25 £16.69
Median hourly rate £41.50 £45.94 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.66% +53.13% +50.00%
75th Percentile £66.61 £65.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £38.00 £45.00 £27.73
% change year-on-year -15.56% +62.28% +38.65%

Content Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Content Designer in England

Content Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Content Designer in England.

Daily rate trend for Content Designer in England

Content Designer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Content Designer in England over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Content Designer in England

Content Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Content Designer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Content Designer in England

Content Designer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Content Designer within the England region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
London +29 14 £475 -1.30% 4
North of England +27 9 £475 -6.40% 1
Yorkshire +19 7 £475 -7.77% 1
South West - 5 £575 - 3
North East -5 2 - -
Content Designer
UK

Content Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 31 October 2024, Content 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 England region featuring Content Designer in the job title.

1 16 (50.00%) Agile
2 15 (46.88%) User Experience
3 11 (34.38%) UX Design
3 11 (34.38%) User Research
4 10 (31.25%) Content Strategy
5 9 (28.13%) Figma
5 9 (28.13%) Public Sector
5 9 (28.13%) Legal
6 8 (25.00%) Security Cleared
7 7 (21.88%) SC Cleared
8 6 (18.75%) Finance
8 6 (18.75%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 6 (18.75%) Accessibility
9 5 (15.63%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (15.63%) CMS
10 4 (12.50%) Content Management
10 4 (12.50%) Stakeholder Identification
11 3 (9.38%) Strategic Thinking
11 3 (9.38%) Collaborative Working
11 3 (9.38%) Social Skills
11 3 (9.38%) Content Writing
11 3 (9.38%) Copywriting
11 3 (9.38%) SEO
12 2 (6.25%) Usability Testing
12 2 (6.25%) Marketing
12 2 (6.25%) Taxonomies
12 2 (6.25%) Publishing
12 2 (6.25%) Multimedia
12 2 (6.25%) Law
12 2 (6.25%) Adobe

Content Designer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (15.63%) CMS
2 1 (3.13%) Confluence
2 1 (3.13%) EPiServer
2 1 (3.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Sketch
2 1 (3.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (3.13%) Adobe Premiere
2 1 (3.13%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 9 (28.13%) Figma
2 1 (3.13%) Canva
2 1 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
General
1 9 (28.13%) Legal
1 9 (28.13%) Public Sector
2 6 (18.75%) Finance
3 3 (9.38%) Social Skills
4 2 (6.25%) Law
4 2 (6.25%) Marketing
4 2 (6.25%) Multimedia
4 2 (6.25%) Publishing
5 1 (3.13%) Local Government
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.25%) Taxonomies
2 1 (3.13%) Blog
2 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.13%) Marketing Technology
2 1 (3.13%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.13%) Photography
2 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.13%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (50.00%) Agile
2 15 (46.88%) User Experience
3 11 (34.38%) User Research
3 11 (34.38%) UX Design
4 10 (31.25%) Content Strategy
5 6 (18.75%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 5 (15.63%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (12.50%) Content Management
7 4 (12.50%) Stakeholder Identification
8 3 (9.38%) Collaborative Working
8 3 (9.38%) Content Writing
8 3 (9.38%) Copywriting
8 3 (9.38%) SEO
8 3 (9.38%) Strategic Thinking
9 2 (6.25%) Content Development
9 2 (6.25%) Decision-Making
9 2 (6.25%) Infographics
9 2 (6.25%) Service Design
9 2 (6.25%) Software Delivery
9 2 (6.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
Qualifications
1 8 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (21.88%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.13%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.75%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.13%) WCAG
Vendors
1 2 (6.25%) Adobe
2 1 (3.13%) Brio
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.13%) Optimizely