Senior Designer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Senior Designer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Designer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 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
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 364 426 398
Rank change year-on-year +62 -28 -14
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Designer 28 20 107
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.088% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.093% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 16 89
10th Percentile £400 £379 £415
25th Percentile - £473 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £547 £550
Median % change year-on-year -17.73% -0.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £523 £600 £588
90th Percentile £550 £663 £655
UK median daily rate £510 £598 £550
% change year-on-year -14.72% +8.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £30.47
Median hourly rate - - £32.50
75th Percentile - - £34.52
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £60.00 £48.75
% change year-on-year - +23.08% +48.39%

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 19,126 21,496 29,151
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.40% 94.27% 95.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,597 14,946 20,454
10th Percentile £213 £225 £205
25th Percentile £363 £394 £365
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 2,384 1,087 1,426
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.02 £14.62
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 £45.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.93
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +87.50% +6.90%

Senior Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Designer in the UK excluding London

Senior Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Designer in the UK excluding London

Senior Designer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Designer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Designer in the UK excluding London

Senior Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Designer in the UK excluding London

Senior 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 Senior Designer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 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
Scotland +39 12 £425 -29.17% 10
North of England +34 12 £500 -8.88% 18
Yorkshire +17 7 £500 -3.85% 5
North West +25 5 - - 12
South West +8 2 £510 -20.00% 3
South East +3 2 £500 +27.06% 8
Senior Designer
UK

Senior Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 29 May 2024, Senior 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 Senior Designer in the job title.

1 15 (53.57%) Public Sector
1 15 (53.57%) Agile
2 12 (42.86%) Service Design
3 11 (39.29%) User Experience
4 10 (35.71%) Accessibility
5 9 (32.14%) Prototyping
6 8 (28.57%) Coaching
7 7 (25.00%) Interaction Design
7 7 (25.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 7 (25.00%) Content Strategy
7 7 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (25.00%) User Stories
7 7 (25.00%) UX Design
7 7 (25.00%) Content Management
7 7 (25.00%) CMS
8 6 (21.43%) User Research
9 5 (17.86%) Social Skills
9 5 (17.86%) Technical Debt
10 4 (14.29%) Community of Practice
10 4 (14.29%) Metadata
10 4 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
10 4 (14.29%) Wireframes
10 4 (14.29%) Mentoring
10 4 (14.29%) Publishing
10 4 (14.29%) Degree
11 3 (10.71%) Software Engineering
11 3 (10.71%) Strategic Thinking
11 3 (10.71%) Product Strategy
11 3 (10.71%) Health Technology
11 3 (10.71%) Journey Map

Senior 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 7 (25.00%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (7.14%) InVision
2 1 (3.57%) Adobe After Effects
2 1 (3.57%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (3.57%) Adobe Premiere
2 1 (3.57%) CINEMA 4D
2 1 (3.57%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 2 (7.14%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.29%) Metadata
2 2 (7.14%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Dreamweaver
General
1 15 (53.57%) Public Sector
2 7 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
3 5 (17.86%) Social Skills
4 4 (14.29%) Publishing
5 3 (10.71%) Health Technology
6 2 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (3.57%) Banking
7 1 (3.57%) Finance
7 1 (3.57%) Marketing
7 1 (3.57%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.14%) Spring
2 1 (3.57%) COM+
2 1 (3.57%) CSS
2 1 (3.57%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Product Ownership
2 2 (7.14%) Mobile App
2 2 (7.14%) Virtual Team
3 1 (3.57%) Graphic Design
3 1 (3.57%) Motion Graphics
3 1 (3.57%) NHS
3 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.57%) Photography
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) Android
1 1 (3.57%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (53.57%) Agile
2 12 (42.86%) Service Design
3 11 (39.29%) User Experience
4 9 (32.14%) Prototyping
5 8 (28.57%) Coaching
6 7 (25.00%) Content Management
6 7 (25.00%) Content Strategy
6 7 (25.00%) Interaction Design
6 7 (25.00%) User Stories
6 7 (25.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 7 (25.00%) UX Design
7 6 (21.43%) User Research
8 5 (17.86%) Technical Debt
9 4 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
9 4 (14.29%) Community of Practice
9 4 (14.29%) Mentoring
9 4 (14.29%) Wireframes
10 3 (10.71%) Product Strategy
10 3 (10.71%) Software Engineering
10 3 (10.71%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.14%) Java
2 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
2 1 (3.57%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (35.71%) Accessibility
2 2 (7.14%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (7.14%) WCAG
3 1 (3.57%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (7.14%) Adobe
2 1 (3.57%) Brio
2 1 (3.57%) Virgin Media