Content Designer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Content Designer
UK > Work from Home

The median Content Designer daily rate in Work from Home is £425 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 315 400 481
Rank change year-on-year +85 +81 -129
Contract jobs requiring a Content Designer 31 65 136
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.21% 0.27% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.28% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 56 116
10th Percentile £327 £363 £346
25th Percentile £388 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% +8.33% +12.50%
75th Percentile £448 £510 £500
90th Percentile £468 £591 £586
UK median daily rate £425 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% +12.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,673 23,018 42,241
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.52% 95.28% 95.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,245 16,317 30,649
10th Percentile £325 £360 £356
25th Percentile £425 £444 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.69% +2.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 565 528 572
10th Percentile £14.26 £16.98 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.75 £25.53 £19.50
Median hourly rate £44.74 £52.50 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.78% +47.89% +52.25%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.94 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £76.80 £68.70
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.15
% change year-on-year -16.67% +86.37% +9.75%

Content Designer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Content Designer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Content Designer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Content Designer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Content Designer.

Content Designer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Content Designer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Content Designer over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Content Designer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Content Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Content Designer in the job title.

1 17 (54.84%) Content Strategy
2 16 (51.61%) Accessibility
3 12 (38.71%) User Experience
4 11 (35.48%) Public Sector
5 10 (32.26%) Publishing
5 10 (32.26%) CMS
5 10 (32.26%) Content Management
6 9 (29.03%) User Research
7 7 (22.58%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 7 (22.58%) Agile
7 7 (22.58%) UX Design
8 6 (19.35%) Social Skills
9 5 (16.13%) Stakeholder Management
10 4 (12.90%) SEO
10 4 (12.90%) WCAG
10 4 (12.90%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (9.68%) DBS Check
11 3 (9.68%) Prototyping
11 3 (9.68%) Strategic Thinking
11 3 (9.68%) Management Information System
11 3 (9.68%) SC Cleared
11 3 (9.68%) Security Cleared
11 3 (9.68%) Information Architecture
11 3 (9.68%) User Stories
12 2 (6.45%) Finance
12 2 (6.45%) Adobe
12 2 (6.45%) Community of Practice
12 2 (6.45%) Figma
12 2 (6.45%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (6.45%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management

Content Designer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (32.26%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (3.23%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (3.23%) Adobe XD
1 1 (3.23%) Photoshop
1 1 (3.23%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 2 (6.45%) Figma
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (3.23%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.23%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.23%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (3.23%) JIRA
General
1 11 (35.48%) Public Sector
2 10 (32.26%) Publishing
3 6 (19.35%) Social Skills
4 2 (6.45%) Finance
4 2 (6.45%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Banking
5 1 (3.23%) Legal
5 1 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.23%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.68%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.23%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.23%) NHS
2 1 (3.23%) Social Media
2 1 (3.23%) Taxonomies
2 1 (3.23%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (54.84%) Content Strategy
2 12 (38.71%) User Experience
3 10 (32.26%) Content Management
4 9 (29.03%) User Research
5 7 (22.58%) Agile
5 7 (22.58%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 7 (22.58%) UX Design
6 5 (16.13%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (12.90%) SEO
8 3 (9.68%) Information Architecture
8 3 (9.68%) Prototyping
8 3 (9.68%) Strategic Thinking
8 3 (9.68%) User Stories
9 2 (6.45%) Community of Practice
9 2 (6.45%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
10 1 (3.23%) Actionable Insight
10 1 (3.23%) Customer-Centricity
10 1 (3.23%) Design Thinking
10 1 (3.23%) Quantitative Research
10 1 (3.23%) Technical Debt
Qualifications
1 4 (12.90%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (9.68%) DBS Check
2 3 (9.68%) SC Cleared
2 3 (9.68%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (51.61%) Accessibility
2 4 (12.90%) WCAG
3 2 (6.45%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (3.23%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (6.45%) Adobe