Sketch Contracts in the UK excluding London

Sketch
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Sketch skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Sketch over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 372 402 431
Rank change year-on-year +30 +29 -60
Contract jobs citing Sketch 22 47 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.20% 0.26%
As % of the Applications category 1.10% 2.21% 2.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 31 56
10th Percentile £371 £368 £328
25th Percentile - £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £420 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -6.67% +5.88%
75th Percentile £437 £463 £489
90th Percentile £477 £488 £562
UK median daily rate £456 £488 £520
% change year-on-year -6.46% -6.20% +15.56%

All Software Application Skills
UK excluding London

Sketch is in the Software Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for software application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 1,991 2,126 2,986
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.81% 9.24% 9.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 844 1,316 1,966
10th Percentile £156 £168 £145
25th Percentile £203 £234 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £400 £375
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +6.67% +8.70%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £488
90th Percentile £621 £600 £560
UK median daily rate £400 £425 £433
% change year-on-year -5.88% -1.79% +8.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 531 194 319
10th Percentile £11.07 £13.91 £10.68
25th Percentile £13.59 £17.00 £13.25
Median hourly rate £16.06 £27.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.60% +41.03% +8.33%
75th Percentile £37.96 £49.00 £33.75
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £17.00 £32.30 £21.50
% change year-on-year -47.37% +50.23% +16.72%

Sketch
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Sketch as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Sketch in the UK excluding London

Sketch
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Sketch in the UK excluding London

Sketch
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sketch in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Sketch in the UK excluding London

Sketch
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Sketch in the UK excluding London

Sketch
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 Sketch within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 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 +30 11 £400 -4.76% 2
Midlands +25 3 £418 -12.00% 7
North of England +12 3 - - 9
South East +10 3 £375 -11.76% 2
Yorkshire +7 3 - - 2
East Midlands - 2 £418 - 3
Northern Ireland - 2 £563 -
West Midlands +22 1 £400 -15.79% 4
Sketch
UK

Sketch
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 1 (4.55%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Adobe XD
2 3 (13.64%) InVision
3 2 (9.09%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (9.09%) Photoshop
4 1 (4.55%) Adobe Creative Suite
Cloud Services
1 22 (100.00%) Figma
2 10 (45.45%) Azure
3 4 (18.18%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (45.45%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) JIRA
2 2 (9.09%) Axure RP
General
1 8 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 4 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Banking
3 2 (9.09%) Finance
3 2 (9.09%) Games
3 2 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 18 (81.82%) Designer
2 17 (77.27%) UX Designer
3 4 (18.18%) UI Designer
3 4 (18.18%) UI/UX Designer
4 2 (9.09%) Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Games Designer
4 2 (9.09%) JavaScript Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Lead
4 2 (9.09%) React Developer
4 2 (9.09%) UX Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (54.55%) React
2 4 (18.18%) HTML
3 2 (9.09%) CSS
3 2 (9.09%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 10 (45.45%) Product Ownership
2 4 (18.18%) Mobile App
3 2 (9.09%) Biopharmaceutical
3 2 (9.09%) Data Structures
4 1 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 11 (50.00%) Android
1 11 (50.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (90.91%) User Experience
2 19 (86.36%) UX Design
3 13 (59.09%) Prototyping
3 13 (59.09%) Visualisation
4 12 (54.55%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 11 (50.00%) User Stories
6 7 (31.82%) Wireframes
7 6 (27.27%) Agile
8 4 (18.18%) Web Development
9 3 (13.64%) Analytics
9 3 (13.64%) Collaborative Working
9 3 (13.64%) Service Design
9 3 (13.64%) UX Research
10 2 (9.09%) Co-Creation
10 2 (9.09%) Data Engineering
10 2 (9.09%) Data Interpretation
10 2 (9.09%) Data Pipeline
10 2 (9.09%) Data Validation
10 2 (9.09%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
10 2 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 12 (54.55%) Python
2 4 (18.18%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) Degree
2 2 (9.09%) Master's Degree
3 1 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (22.73%) Accessibility
2 3 (13.64%) WCAG
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) Adobe