Content Designer Contracts in London

Content Designer
England > London

The median Content Designer daily rate in London is £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 360 401 531
Rank change year-on-year +41 +130 -104
Contract jobs requiring a Content Designer 30 76 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.17% 0.30% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.31% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 64 53
10th Percentile £330 £351 £338
25th Percentile £400 £430 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £438 £500 £520
90th Percentile £525 £559 £588
England median daily rate £425 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £36.25 £39.25
Median hourly rate - £37.50 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year - -7.41% -
75th Percentile - £38.75 £41.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - £37.50 £34.00
% change year-on-year - +10.29% +65.85%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,359 24,202 36,895
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.56% 95.18% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,819 17,639 27,124
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £678 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 276 418
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.74 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.22 £22.60 £22.91
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +8.63%
75th Percentile £46.77 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £66.75 £82.38 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.63 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.39% +88.21% +11.21%

Content Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Content Designer in London

Content Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Content Designer in London

Content Designer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Content Designer in London

Content Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Content Designer in London

Content Designer
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
Central London +37 5 £463 +8.82% 1
West London +10 1 - -
Content Designer
England

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 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 London region featuring Content Designer in the job title.

1 14 (46.67%) User Experience
2 9 (30.00%) Content Strategy
2 9 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (26.67%) UX Design
3 8 (26.67%) Content Management
3 8 (26.67%) Accessibility
4 7 (23.33%) CMS
4 7 (23.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (20.00%) Security Cleared
6 5 (16.67%) SC Cleared
6 5 (16.67%) Agile
7 4 (13.33%) Publishing
7 4 (13.33%) SEO
7 4 (13.33%) Information Architecture
7 4 (13.33%) Service Design
7 4 (13.33%) Web Application Development
7 4 (13.33%) Strategic Thinking
7 4 (13.33%) Public Sector
7 4 (13.33%) Social Skills
8 3 (10.00%) UX Research
8 3 (10.00%) Customer Experience
8 3 (10.00%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
8 3 (10.00%) Figma
8 3 (10.00%) Design Thinking
8 3 (10.00%) Content Writing
8 3 (10.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 3 (10.00%) DBS Check
8 3 (10.00%) Legal
8 3 (10.00%) Management Information System
9 2 (6.67%) Banking

Content Designer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 7 (23.33%) CMS
2 2 (6.67%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.33%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (3.33%) Adobe Premiere
1 1 (3.33%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 3 (10.00%) Figma
2 2 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (6.67%) Miro
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.33%) Looker
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 4 (13.33%) Public Sector
1 4 (13.33%) Publishing
1 4 (13.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.00%) Legal
3 2 (6.67%) Banking
3 2 (6.67%) Finance
3 2 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Advertising
4 1 (3.33%) Local Government
4 1 (3.33%) Marketing
4 1 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (6.67%) Blog
2 2 (6.67%) Mobile App
2 2 (6.67%) Photography
2 2 (6.67%) Virtual Team
3 1 (3.33%) Animation
3 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.33%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (46.67%) User Experience
2 9 (30.00%) Content Strategy
2 9 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (26.67%) Content Management
3 8 (26.67%) UX Design
4 5 (16.67%) Agile
5 4 (13.33%) Information Architecture
5 4 (13.33%) SEO
5 4 (13.33%) Service Design
5 4 (13.33%) Strategic Thinking
5 4 (13.33%) Web Application Development
6 3 (10.00%) Content Writing
6 3 (10.00%) Customer Experience
6 3 (10.00%) Design Thinking
6 3 (10.00%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
6 3 (10.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 3 (10.00%) UX Research
7 2 (6.67%) Decision-Making
7 2 (6.67%) Systems Thinking
7 2 (6.67%) User Research
Qualifications
1 7 (23.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 6 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 5 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 3 (10.00%) DBS Check
5 1 (3.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (26.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.33%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (6.67%) Adobe
2 1 (3.33%) Google
2 1 (3.33%) Virgin Media