Designer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Designer
UK > Work from Home

The median Designer daily rate in Work from Home is £475 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 146 108 87
Rank change year-on-year -38 -21 -19
Contract jobs requiring a Designer 222 539 1,282
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.50% 2.19% 2.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.61% 2.30% 3.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 396 910
10th Percentile £313 £384 £375
25th Percentile £400 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £510
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +1.96% +13.33%
75th Percentile £550 £610 £588
90th Percentile £638 £704 £673
UK median daily rate £475 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% -0.48% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 10 9
10th Percentile £37.75 £35.41 £30.40
25th Percentile - £38.13 £42.75
Median hourly rate £45.00 £53.50 £57.25
Median % change year-on-year -15.89% -6.55% +227.14%
75th Percentile £53.00 £64.69 £65.00
90th Percentile £56.40 £68.75 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £57.35 £47.50 £43.50
% change year-on-year +20.74% +9.20% +102.33%

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 13,806 23,471 42,177
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.52% 95.27% 95.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,297 16,589 30,510
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £448 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £544 £525
% change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 538 592
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.44 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.61 £25.71 £19.33
Median hourly rate £44.00 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.19% +50.00% +45.83%
75th Percentile £64.14 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £79.43 £68.70
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Designer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Designer trend for jobs with a WFH option

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 Designer.

Designer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Designer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Designer over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Designer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Designer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Designer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Designer
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Designer over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Designer hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

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

1 89 (40.09%) User Experience
2 66 (29.73%) UX Design
3 63 (28.38%) Social Skills
4 50 (22.52%) Figma
5 43 (19.37%) User Research
6 42 (18.92%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 41 (18.47%) Service Design
8 40 (18.02%) Public Sector
9 39 (17.57%) Security Cleared
9 39 (17.57%) Agile
10 37 (16.67%) Adobe
10 37 (16.67%) Accessibility
10 37 (16.67%) Interaction Design
11 31 (13.96%) Wireframes
12 30 (13.51%) Prototyping
12 30 (13.51%) SC Cleared
13 28 (12.61%) Finance
14 27 (12.16%) Marketing
15 25 (11.26%) Usability Testing
16 19 (8.56%) Microsoft
16 19 (8.56%) HTML
17 18 (8.11%) Photoshop
17 18 (8.11%) Content Strategy
18 17 (7.66%) Problem-Solving
18 17 (7.66%) CSS
19 16 (7.21%) Stakeholder Management
19 16 (7.21%) Adobe Illustrator
19 16 (7.21%) Analytical Skills
20 15 (6.76%) Degree
20 15 (6.76%) UX Research

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 9 (4.05%) CMS
2 1 (0.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 18 (8.11%) Photoshop
2 16 (7.21%) Adobe Illustrator
3 14 (6.31%) Sketch
4 13 (5.86%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 12 (5.41%) Adobe After Effects
6 9 (4.05%) Microsoft Office
6 9 (4.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 8 (3.60%) Adobe XD
8 6 (2.70%) CINEMA 4D
8 6 (2.70%) InDesign
9 5 (2.25%) Microsoft Excel
10 4 (1.80%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.45%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.45%) Autodesk Inventor
11 1 (0.45%) InVision
11 1 (0.45%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 5 (2.25%) SmartPlant
2 1 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 50 (22.52%) Figma
2 12 (5.41%) Azure
3 9 (4.05%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (4.05%) Miro
4 6 (2.70%) SaaS
5 4 (1.80%) Adobe Creative Cloud
5 4 (1.80%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (0.90%) Apigee
6 2 (0.90%) AWS
6 2 (0.90%) OCI
6 2 (0.90%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (0.45%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (0.45%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (0.45%) Canva
7 1 (0.45%) Google Docs
7 1 (0.45%) Google Sheets
7 1 (0.45%) IaaS
7 1 (0.45%) OneDrive
7 1 (0.45%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.90%) Firewall
1 2 (0.90%) SSL
2 1 (0.45%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (0.45%) Intranet
2 1 (0.45%) LTE
2 1 (0.45%) VoLTE
2 1 (0.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.35%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.90%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (0.90%) MongoDB
2 2 (0.90%) Power BI
3 1 (0.45%) Metadata
3 1 (0.45%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 6 (2.70%) Dreamweaver
2 3 (1.35%) Axure RP
3 2 (0.90%) gulp
3 2 (0.90%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.90%) JIRA
3 2 (0.90%) Maven
3 2 (0.90%) Oracle APEX
General
1 63 (28.38%) Social Skills
2 40 (18.02%) Public Sector
3 28 (12.61%) Finance
4 27 (12.16%) Marketing
5 16 (7.21%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (5.41%) Presentation Skills
7 11 (4.95%) Publishing
8 8 (3.60%) Telecoms
9 6 (2.70%) Retail
10 5 (2.25%) Banking
11 3 (1.35%) Front Office
12 2 (0.90%) Games
12 2 (0.90%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.90%) Legal
12 2 (0.90%) Military
13 1 (0.45%) Advertising
13 1 (0.45%) Danish Language
13 1 (0.45%) Multimedia
13 1 (0.45%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (8.56%) HTML
2 17 (7.66%) CSS
3 6 (2.70%) React
4 3 (1.35%) AngularJS
4 3 (1.35%) Node.js
5 2 (0.90%) .NET
5 2 (0.90%) Ajax
5 2 (0.90%) CSS3
5 2 (0.90%) HTML5
5 2 (0.90%) LESS
5 2 (0.90%) OAuth
5 2 (0.90%) OpenID
5 2 (0.90%) RESTful
5 2 (0.90%) SAML
5 2 (0.90%) SAPUI5
5 2 (0.90%) Sass
6 1 (0.45%) Middleware
6 1 (0.45%) SwiftUI
6 1 (0.45%) Unity (Game Engine)
6 1 (0.45%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.31%) Mobile App
2 12 (5.41%) Product Ownership
3 9 (4.05%) Animation
4 7 (3.15%) Social Media
5 5 (2.25%) Motion Graphics
6 4 (1.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (1.80%) Graphic Design
6 4 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (1.80%) Photography
6 4 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.80%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.35%) Derivative
7 3 (1.35%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.35%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.90%) NHS
8 2 (0.90%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.90%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.90%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.70%) Android
2 5 (2.25%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.80%) Windows
4 3 (1.35%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.45%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (40.09%) User Experience
2 66 (29.73%) UX Design
3 43 (19.37%) User Research
4 42 (18.92%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 41 (18.47%) Service Design
6 39 (17.57%) Agile
7 37 (16.67%) Interaction Design
8 31 (13.96%) Wireframes
9 30 (13.51%) Prototyping
10 25 (11.26%) Usability Testing
11 18 (8.11%) Content Strategy
12 17 (7.66%) Problem-Solving
13 16 (7.21%) Stakeholder Management
14 15 (6.76%) UX Research
15 13 (5.86%) Strategic Thinking
15 13 (5.86%) Typography
16 12 (5.41%) Analytics
16 12 (5.41%) Continuous Improvement
16 12 (5.41%) Visualisation
17 11 (4.95%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 8 (3.60%) JavaScript
2 7 (3.15%) Python
3 6 (2.70%) Java
4 3 (1.35%) SQL
5 2 (0.90%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (17.57%) Security Cleared
2 30 (13.51%) SC Cleared
3 15 (6.76%) Degree
4 4 (1.80%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.35%) DBS Check
5 3 (1.35%) MCITP
5 3 (1.35%) MCTS
5 3 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.90%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.45%) CCNA
7 1 (0.45%) CCNP
7 1 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.45%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.45%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (16.67%) Accessibility
2 5 (2.25%) WCAG
3 3 (1.35%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (1.35%) QA
3 3 (1.35%) SLA
4 2 (0.90%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (1.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (0.90%) Ansible
Vendors
1 37 (16.67%) Adobe
2 19 (8.56%) Microsoft
3 6 (2.70%) dotdigital
4 4 (1.80%) Oracle
4 4 (1.80%) SAP
5 3 (1.35%) Google
6 2 (0.90%) Palo Alto
6 2 (0.90%) Pegasus
7 1 (0.45%) Cisco
7 1 (0.45%) Cognizant
7 1 (0.45%) Databricks
7 1 (0.45%) F5
7 1 (0.45%) Facebook
7 1 (0.45%) Instagram
7 1 (0.45%) Juniper
7 1 (0.45%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.45%) Twitter