Senior Designer Contracts

Senior Designer
UK

The median Senior Designer daily rate in the UK is £520 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 501 565 512
Rank change year-on-year +64 -53 +8
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Designer 78 119 360
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.21% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.22% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 84 281
10th Percentile £393 £427 £450
25th Percentile £450 £497 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £599 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.19% +8.91% +4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £676 £614
90th Percentile £656 £732 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £523 £550
% change year-on-year -13.88% -5.00% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £33.92
25th Percentile - - £39.10
Median hourly rate - £60.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year - +23.08% +48.39%
75th Percentile - - £57.38
90th Percentile - - £61.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £32.50
% change year-on-year - - -9.65%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,001 53,325 83,708
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,880 37,256 59,003
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +9.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,851 1,473 1,957
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +14.34%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.41
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.45 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Senior Designer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Designer in the UK

Senior Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Designer in the UK

Senior Designer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Designer over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Designer in the UK

Senior Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Designer in the UK

Senior Designer
Top 10 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 2 June 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
England +54 61 £523 -12.63% 67
London +61 45 £550 -8.33% 38
UK excluding London +56 28 £450 -13.88% 33
Work from Home +83 25 £550 -4.06% 33
Scotland +47 12 £425 -29.17% 6
North of England +33 12 £500 -8.88% 14
Yorkshire +24 7 £500 -3.85% 4
North West +18 5 - - 8
South West +10 2 £510 -20.00% 4
South East +7 2 £500 +27.06% 7

Senior Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 2 June 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 featuring Senior Designer in the job title.

1 43 (55.13%) User Experience
2 37 (47.44%) UX Design
3 24 (30.77%) Social Skills
4 22 (28.21%) Agile
5 18 (23.08%) Figma
6 15 (19.23%) Public Sector
7 14 (17.95%) Service Design
7 14 (17.95%) Prototyping
7 14 (17.95%) Adobe
8 13 (16.67%) Finance
8 13 (16.67%) User Research
9 12 (15.38%) Accessibility
10 11 (14.10%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 11 (14.10%) Stakeholder Management
10 11 (14.10%) Photoshop
10 11 (14.10%) Adobe Illustrator
11 10 (12.82%) Degree
11 10 (12.82%) Mobile App
12 9 (11.54%) Interaction Design
12 9 (11.54%) UX Research
12 9 (11.54%) Content Strategy
12 9 (11.54%) Marketing
13 8 (10.26%) InDesign
13 8 (10.26%) E-Commerce
13 8 (10.26%) Mentoring
13 8 (10.26%) Coaching
14 7 (8.97%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (8.97%) Typography
14 7 (8.97%) User Stories
14 7 (8.97%) CMS

Senior Designer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (8.97%) CMS
2 2 (2.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (14.10%) Adobe Illustrator
1 11 (14.10%) Photoshop
2 8 (10.26%) InDesign
3 6 (7.69%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 5 (6.41%) InVision
5 4 (5.13%) Adobe After Effects
5 4 (5.13%) Sketch
6 3 (3.85%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (1.28%) Adobe XD
7 1 (1.28%) CINEMA 4D
7 1 (1.28%) Final Cut Pro
7 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (1.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.28%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 18 (23.08%) Figma
2 5 (6.41%) Azure
2 5 (6.41%) Miro
3 4 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.28%) Adobe Creative Cloud
4 1 (1.28%) AWS
4 1 (1.28%) BigCommerce
4 1 (1.28%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.28%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.13%) Metadata
2 2 (2.56%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 2 (2.56%) JIRA
2 1 (1.28%) Axure RP
2 1 (1.28%) Dreamweaver
2 1 (1.28%) Git
2 1 (1.28%) Postman
General
1 24 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 15 (19.23%) Public Sector
3 13 (16.67%) Finance
4 9 (11.54%) Marketing
5 7 (8.97%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (7.69%) Health Technology
7 5 (6.41%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (6.41%) Publishing
8 4 (5.13%) Advertising
8 4 (5.13%) Front Office
8 4 (5.13%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (5.13%) Retail
9 3 (3.85%) Games
9 3 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (2.56%) Banking
10 2 (2.56%) Legal
11 1 (1.28%) Danish Language
11 1 (1.28%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.13%) React
2 3 (3.85%) CSS
2 3 (3.85%) HTML
2 3 (3.85%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 3 (3.85%) Unreal Engine
3 2 (2.56%) Spring
4 1 (1.28%) COM+
4 1 (1.28%) REST
4 1 (1.28%) RESTful
4 1 (1.28%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.82%) Mobile App
2 6 (7.69%) Graphic Design
3 4 (5.13%) Animation
3 4 (5.13%) Digital Media
3 4 (5.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (5.13%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.85%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.56%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.28%) Motion Graphics
6 1 (1.28%) NHS
6 1 (1.28%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.28%) Photography
6 1 (1.28%) Social Media
6 1 (1.28%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.56%) Android
1 2 (2.56%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.28%) Windows
2 1 (1.28%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (55.13%) User Experience
2 37 (47.44%) UX Design
3 22 (28.21%) Agile
4 14 (17.95%) Prototyping
4 14 (17.95%) Service Design
5 13 (16.67%) User Research
6 11 (14.10%) Stakeholder Management
6 11 (14.10%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 9 (11.54%) Content Strategy
7 9 (11.54%) Interaction Design
7 9 (11.54%) UX Research
8 8 (10.26%) Coaching
8 8 (10.26%) E-Commerce
8 8 (10.26%) Mentoring
9 7 (8.97%) Content Management
9 7 (8.97%) Typography
9 7 (8.97%) User Stories
10 6 (7.69%) Design Patterns
10 6 (7.69%) Usability Testing
11 5 (6.41%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 2 (2.56%) Java
2 1 (1.28%) JavaScript
2 1 (1.28%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (12.82%) Degree
2 1 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (1.28%) DV Cleared
2 1 (1.28%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (15.38%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.85%) WCAG
3 2 (2.56%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.28%) QA
4 1 (1.28%) SLA
Vendors
1 14 (17.95%) Adobe
2 2 (2.56%) Apple
2 2 (2.56%) Atlassian
3 1 (1.28%) Brio
3 1 (1.28%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.28%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.28%) SAP
3 1 (1.28%) Sitecore
3 1 (1.28%) Virgin Media