Designer Contracts in London

Designer
England > London

The median Designer daily rate in London is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 165 101 104
Rank change year-on-year -64 +3 -10
Contract jobs requiring a Designer 267 646 1,060
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.53% 2.50% 2.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.64% 2.63% 2.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 482 736
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £400 £450 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +2.80% +12.63%
75th Percentile £550 £638 £607
90th Percentile £605 £733 £688
England median daily rate £495 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -5.71% - +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 19
10th Percentile - £27.87 £26.25
25th Percentile £15.50 £35.36 £28.25
Median hourly rate £17.00 £39.00 £43.50
Median % change year-on-year -56.41% -10.34% +19.18%
75th Percentile £29.63 £49.44 £62.60
90th Percentile £36.30 £54.05 £66.50
England median hourly rate £57.35 £44.50 £43.50
% change year-on-year +28.88% +2.30% +102.33%

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 16,328 24,595 36,745
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.43% 95.20% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,803 17,870 26,915
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £445 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 318 283 439
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.07 £22.69 £23.12
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - +10.62%
75th Percentile £46.05 £62.25 £49.80
90th Percentile £65.32 £80.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.92 £44.77 £23.00
% change year-on-year -17.54% +94.63% +4.55%

Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Designer in London

Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Designer in London

Designer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Designer in London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Designer in London

Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Designer in London

Designer
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Designer in London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Designer in London

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 Designer within the London region over the 6 months to 17 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 +15 28 £500 -4.76% 9
South London -3 5 £519 -13.54% 5
West London -22 4 £60 -89.09% 7
East London - 1 £540 - 4
Designer
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 May 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 job ads across the London region featuring Designer in the job title.

1 137 (51.31%) User Experience
2 120 (44.94%) UX Design
3 83 (31.09%) Figma
4 79 (29.59%) Social Skills
5 63 (23.60%) Service Design
6 60 (22.47%) User Research
7 57 (21.35%) Agile
8 50 (18.73%) Finance
9 49 (18.35%) Adobe
10 46 (17.23%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 40 (14.98%) Prototyping
11 40 (14.98%) Public Sector
12 38 (14.23%) Wireframes
13 36 (13.48%) Accessibility
14 34 (12.73%) Problem-Solving
15 32 (11.99%) Interaction Design
16 30 (11.24%) Sketch
16 30 (11.24%) Usability Testing
16 30 (11.24%) Security Cleared
17 28 (10.49%) Workshop Facilitation
18 27 (10.11%) Marketing
19 26 (9.74%) Degree
20 25 (9.36%) Stakeholder Management
20 25 (9.36%) Photoshop
20 25 (9.36%) Mobile App
20 25 (9.36%) SC Cleared
21 24 (8.99%) Design Thinking
22 23 (8.61%) Adobe Illustrator
23 22 (8.24%) Typography
24 21 (7.87%) Collaborative Working

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 8 (3.00%) CMS
2 3 (1.12%) Confluence
2 3 (1.12%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.75%) Headless CMS
3 2 (0.75%) WordPress
Applications
1 30 (11.24%) Sketch
2 25 (9.36%) Photoshop
3 23 (8.61%) Adobe Illustrator
4 17 (6.37%) Adobe XD
5 16 (5.99%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 12 (4.49%) InDesign
7 11 (4.12%) InVision
8 9 (3.37%) Adobe After Effects
9 5 (1.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 4 (1.50%) Adobe Captivate
10 4 (1.50%) Adobe Premiere
11 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
11 3 (1.12%) Zeplin
12 2 (0.75%) CINEMA 4D
13 1 (0.37%) Chatbot
13 1 (0.37%) Final Cut Pro
13 1 (0.37%) Marvel
13 1 (0.37%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 83 (31.09%) Figma
2 13 (4.87%) Miro
3 7 (2.62%) Azure
4 5 (1.87%) Adobe Creative Cloud
5 4 (1.50%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (1.50%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (1.50%) Power Platform
6 2 (0.75%) Google Analytics
6 2 (0.75%) SaaS
7 1 (0.37%) Adobe Analytics
7 1 (0.37%) Azure Functions
7 1 (0.37%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (0.37%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (0.37%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (0.37%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.37%) Google Docs
7 1 (0.37%) Google Sheets
7 1 (0.37%) OneDrive
7 1 (0.37%) Serverless
7 1 (0.37%) Unqork
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.37%) BGP
1 1 (0.37%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (0.37%) IOS XR
1 1 (0.37%) MPLS
1 1 (0.37%) SD-WAN
1 1 (0.37%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.50%) Power BI
2 3 (1.12%) BusinessObjects
3 2 (0.75%) Looker
Development Applications
1 10 (3.75%) Axure RP
2 7 (2.62%) JIRA
3 2 (0.75%) Git
4 1 (0.37%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.37%) Maven
General
1 79 (29.59%) Social Skills
2 50 (18.73%) Finance
3 40 (14.98%) Public Sector
4 27 (10.11%) Marketing
5 13 (4.87%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (4.87%) Banking
5 13 (4.87%) Games
6 8 (3.00%) Multimedia
6 8 (3.00%) Retail
7 7 (2.62%) Front Office
7 7 (2.62%) Legal
7 7 (2.62%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (2.62%) Publishing
8 5 (1.87%) Advertising
8 5 (1.87%) Health Technology
9 4 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.50%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.75%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (7.12%) HTML
2 15 (5.62%) CSS
3 8 (3.00%) React
4 6 (2.25%) Unity (Game Engine)
5 3 (1.12%) Unreal Engine
6 2 (0.75%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.75%) CSS3
7 1 (0.37%) HTML5 Canvas
7 1 (0.37%) JSON
7 1 (0.37%) NETCONF
7 1 (0.37%) OAuth
7 1 (0.37%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.37%) React Native
7 1 (0.37%) RESTful
7 1 (0.37%) SwiftUI
7 1 (0.37%) WebGL
7 1 (0.37%) XML
7 1 (0.37%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 25 (9.36%) Mobile App
2 16 (5.99%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (5.24%) Graphic Design
4 8 (3.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 7 (2.62%) Animation
5 7 (2.62%) Digital Media
5 7 (2.62%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.62%) Social Media
6 6 (2.25%) e-Learning
6 6 (2.25%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.87%) Podcast
8 4 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.50%) Derivative
8 4 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.50%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.12%) CMDB
9 3 (1.12%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.12%) Mobile Games
9 3 (1.12%) Photography
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.87%) Android
2 4 (1.50%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.37%) Mac OS X
3 1 (0.37%) Windows
3 1 (0.37%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (51.31%) User Experience
2 120 (44.94%) UX Design
3 63 (23.60%) Service Design
4 60 (22.47%) User Research
5 57 (21.35%) Agile
6 46 (17.23%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 40 (14.98%) Prototyping
8 38 (14.23%) Wireframes
9 34 (12.73%) Problem-Solving
10 32 (11.99%) Interaction Design
11 30 (11.24%) Usability Testing
12 28 (10.49%) Workshop Facilitation
13 25 (9.36%) Stakeholder Management
14 24 (8.99%) Design Thinking
15 22 (8.24%) Typography
16 21 (7.87%) Collaborative Working
17 15 (5.62%) E-Commerce
17 15 (5.62%) Visualisation
18 14 (5.24%) ITIL
18 14 (5.24%) UX Research
Programming Languages
1 11 (4.12%) JavaScript
2 4 (1.50%) Java
2 4 (1.50%) Python
3 1 (0.37%) SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (11.24%) Security Cleared
2 26 (9.74%) Degree
3 25 (9.36%) SC Cleared
4 11 (4.12%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (2.25%) DBS Check
6 4 (1.50%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.75%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.37%) CCNP
8 1 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.37%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (13.48%) Accessibility
2 6 (2.25%) WCAG
3 3 (1.12%) SLA
4 2 (0.75%) QA
5 1 (0.37%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.37%) GDPR
5 1 (0.37%) GRC
Systems Management
1 1 (0.37%) Ansible
Vendors
1 49 (18.35%) Adobe
2 7 (2.62%) Microsoft
3 5 (1.87%) Google
4 4 (1.50%) Virgin Media
5 2 (0.75%) Apple
5 2 (0.75%) Atlassian
5 2 (0.75%) MicroStrategy
5 2 (0.75%) Salesforce
5 2 (0.75%) SAP
6 1 (0.37%) Cisco
6 1 (0.37%) Databricks
6 1 (0.37%) JDA
6 1 (0.37%) Nokia
6 1 (0.37%) Sitecore