Lead Designer Contracts in the South East

Lead Designer
England > South East

The median Lead Designer daily rate in the South East is £600 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 192 212 256
Rank change year-on-year +20 +44 -47
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Designer 12 3 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.21% 0.053% 0.065%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.056% 0.068%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 2
10th Percentile - - £565
25th Percentile £575 £525 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +15.30%
75th Percentile £625 £575 £688
90th Percentile £631 - £695
England median daily rate £575 £700 £533
% change year-on-year -17.86% +31.46% -1.16%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 the South East with a recognized job title 5,190 5,335 7,331
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.15% 94.56% 95.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,078 3,702 5,020
10th Percentile £234 £220 £205
25th Percentile £400 £388 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £604 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 519 232 311
10th Percentile £12.87 £16.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £18.34 £22.16 £16.06
Median hourly rate £48.00 £50.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +150.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £61.50
England median hourly rate £37.63 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.39% +88.21% +11.21%

Lead Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Designer in the South East

Lead Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Lead Designer in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Lead Designer in the South East

Lead Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Lead Designer in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Lead Designer in the South East

Lead Designer
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Designer within the South East 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
Berkshire - 12 £600 -
Thames Valley - 12 £600 -
Lead Designer
England

Lead Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 31 May 2024, Lead 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 South East region featuring Lead Designer in the job title.

1 9 (75.00%) Coaching
2 6 (50.00%) Node.js
2 6 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 6 (50.00%) Azure
2 6 (50.00%) AngularJS
3 5 (41.67%) Marketing
3 5 (41.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (41.67%) Strategic Thinking
3 5 (41.67%) Storytelling
3 5 (41.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 5 (41.67%) Azure Key Vault
4 4 (33.33%) Azure Cognitive Search
4 4 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (33.33%) Visual Effects
4 4 (33.33%) API Development
4 4 (33.33%) API Design
4 4 (33.33%) CINEMA 4D
4 4 (33.33%) Adobe After Effects
4 4 (33.33%) Adobe Premiere
4 4 (33.33%) DevOps
4 4 (33.33%) Motion Graphics
5 3 (25.00%) Agile
5 3 (25.00%) Animation
5 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
5 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
6 2 (16.67%) Accessibility
6 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (16.67%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365

Lead Designer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 5 (41.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (33.33%) Adobe After Effects
2 4 (33.33%) Adobe Premiere
2 4 (33.33%) CINEMA 4D
3 2 (16.67%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) Azure
2 5 (41.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 5 (41.67%) Azure Key Vault
3 4 (33.33%) Azure Cognitive Search
3 4 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Functions
5 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Git
General
1 5 (41.67%) Marketing
2 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 6 (50.00%) Node.js
2 2 (16.67%) CSS
2 2 (16.67%) HTML
3 1 (8.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Motion Graphics
2 3 (25.00%) Animation
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Coaching
2 6 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (41.67%) Storytelling
3 5 (41.67%) Strategic Thinking
4 4 (33.33%) API Design
4 4 (33.33%) API Development
4 4 (33.33%) DevOps
4 4 (33.33%) Visual Effects
5 3 (25.00%) Agile
6 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 2 (16.67%) Data-Driven Testing
6 2 (16.67%) Integration Testing
6 2 (16.67%) Security Testing
6 2 (16.67%) Software Testing
6 2 (16.67%) System Testing
6 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
6 2 (16.67%) Unit Testing
7 1 (8.33%) Full Stack Development
7 1 (8.33%) Product Backlog
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (16.67%) PHP
3 1 (8.33%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Adobe
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft