Technical Designer Contracts

Technical Designer
UK

The median Technical Designer daily rate in the UK is £825 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 569 664 837
Rank change year-on-year +95 +173 -127
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Designer 2 23 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.005% 0.040% 0.008%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.005% 0.043% 0.008%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 2
10th Percentile - - £485
25th Percentile £813 £463 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £825 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +73.68% -20.83% +33.33%
75th Percentile £838 £498 £694
90th Percentile - £619 £735
UK excluding London median daily rate - £593 £600
% change year-on-year - -1.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £31.25
Median hourly rate - - £32.50
75th Percentile - - £33.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 39,507 53,867 83,506
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.60% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,718 37,620 58,687
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,672 1,498 2,036
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.29 £19.13 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Technical Designer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Designer in the UK

Technical Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Designer in the UK

Technical Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Designer in the UK

Technical Designer
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Designer within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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
England +88 2 £825 +73.68% 14
London +79 1 £825 +73.68% 3
UK excluding London +58 1 - - 10
North of England +33 1 - - 4
North East - 1 - - 2

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, Technical 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 Technical Designer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Network Design
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) OAuth
2 1 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (50.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) OAuth2
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) API Development
2 1 (50.00%) 5G
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Log Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) API Management

Technical 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure API Management
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) 5G
1 1 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) API Development
2 1 (50.00%) API Management
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (50.00%) Log Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Network Design
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree