Content Designer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Content Designer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Content Designer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £400 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 365 382 433
Rank change year-on-year +17 +51 -55
Contract jobs requiring a Content Designer 34 56 80
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.25% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.26% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 43 71
10th Percentile £294 £308 £333
25th Percentile £338 £381 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £460 £450
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +2.22% +32.35%
75th Percentile £450 £500 £489
90th Percentile £488 £544 £550
UK median daily rate £425 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £23.75
Median hourly rate - - £27.50
75th Percentile - - £31.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £37.50 £34.00
% change year-on-year - +10.29% +65.85%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,202 21,479 29,126
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.41% 94.24% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,609 14,946 20,475
10th Percentile £213 £225 £205
25th Percentile £363 £390 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,406 1,077 1,407
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.03 £14.91
Median hourly rate £40.00 £43.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +115.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £45.02
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.50 £61.06
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.15
% change year-on-year -16.67% +86.37% +9.75%

Content Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Content Designer in the UK excluding London

Content Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Content Designer in the UK excluding London

Content Designer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Content Designer in the UK excluding London

Content Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Content Designer in the UK excluding London

Content Designer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding 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
North of England +14 19 £413 -8.33% 1
Scotland +40 13 £400 -5.10%
North East - 8 - - 1
Yorkshire +14 6 £425 -15.00%
North West +1 5 £350 -15.15%
Midlands +13 1 - -
West Midlands +7 1 - -
South West +6 1 - - 2
Content Designer
UK

Content Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region featuring Content Designer in the job title.

1 19 (55.88%) Public Sector
2 14 (41.18%) Agile
3 12 (35.29%) User Research
4 10 (29.41%) Content Strategy
4 10 (29.41%) Content Management
4 10 (29.41%) CMS
5 9 (26.47%) Publishing
5 9 (26.47%) User Stories
5 9 (26.47%) Accessibility
6 7 (20.59%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (14.71%) User Experience
8 5 (14.71%) Prototyping
9 4 (11.76%) Coaching
9 4 (11.76%) Metadata
9 4 (11.76%) Technical Debt
9 4 (11.76%) Community of Practice
9 4 (11.76%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 4 (11.76%) Security Cleared
10 3 (8.82%) Figma
10 3 (8.82%) Interaction Design
10 3 (8.82%) Disclosure Scotland
10 3 (8.82%) Problem-Solving
11 2 (5.88%) Strategic Thinking
11 2 (5.88%) Data Science
11 2 (5.88%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
11 2 (5.88%) Service Design
11 2 (5.88%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
11 2 (5.88%) Analytics
11 2 (5.88%) Product Ownership

Content Designer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 10 (29.41%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (2.94%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (2.94%) Chatbot
1 1 (2.94%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 3 (8.82%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.94%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.76%) Metadata
General
1 19 (55.88%) Public Sector
2 9 (26.47%) Publishing
3 7 (20.59%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.88%) Finance
4 2 (5.88%) Legal
4 2 (5.88%) Marketing
5 1 (2.94%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.94%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.88%) Product Ownership
1 2 (5.88%) Taxonomies
2 1 (2.94%) Handset
2 1 (2.94%) NHS
2 1 (2.94%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (41.18%) Agile
2 12 (35.29%) User Research
3 10 (29.41%) Content Management
3 10 (29.41%) Content Strategy
4 9 (26.47%) User Stories
5 6 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (14.71%) Prototyping
6 5 (14.71%) User Experience
7 4 (11.76%) Coaching
7 4 (11.76%) Community of Practice
7 4 (11.76%) Technical Debt
7 4 (11.76%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 3 (8.82%) Interaction Design
8 3 (8.82%) Problem-Solving
9 2 (5.88%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
9 2 (5.88%) Service Design
9 2 (5.88%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
9 2 (5.88%) Strategic Thinking
9 2 (5.88%) Systems Thinking
9 2 (5.88%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 4 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (26.47%) Accessibility
2 3 (8.82%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (5.88%) WCAG
4 1 (2.94%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (2.94%) Adobe
1 1 (2.94%) ServiceNow