Senior Designer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Senior Designer
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Designer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 294 363 442
Rank change year-on-year +69 +79 +4
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Designer 28 36 146
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.23% 0.19% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.20% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 23 123
10th Percentile £288 £263 £450
25th Percentile £381 £456 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.31% +2.36% +5.26%
75th Percentile £653 £680 £650
90th Percentile £690 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £553 £550
% change year-on-year -0.59% +0.59% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £30.75 - -
25th Percentile £31.21 - -
Median hourly rate £32.21 £70.07 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -54.04% +7.80% -
75th Percentile £32.98 - -
90th Percentile £33.32 - -
UK median hourly rate £32.21 £63.79 £65.00
% change year-on-year -49.51% -1.87% +56.63%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 11,313 17,773 36,914
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.20% 94.50% 95.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,133 12,477 26,633
10th Percentile £325 £325 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £631 £645 £650
90th Percentile £738 £743 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 389 527
10th Percentile £19.39 £16.93 £15.15
25th Percentile £25.52 £24.97 £25.00
Median hourly rate £41.53 £50.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.94% - +101.61%
75th Percentile £66.00 £70.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £38.00 £45.00 £27.73
% change year-on-year -15.56% +62.28% +38.65%

Senior Designer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Senior Designer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Senior 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 Senior Designer.

Senior Designer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Designer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Senior Designer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Senior 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 Senior Designer.

Senior Designer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 31 October 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Senior Designer in the job title.

1 10 (35.71%) Agile
2 9 (32.14%) User Research
3 8 (28.57%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 8 (28.57%) User Experience
4 7 (25.00%) UX Design
4 7 (25.00%) Service Design
4 7 (25.00%) Prototyping
5 6 (21.43%) Accessibility
6 5 (17.86%) Wireframes
6 5 (17.86%) Interaction Design
6 5 (17.86%) Adobe
7 4 (14.29%) Service Delivery
7 4 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (14.29%) Co-Creation
7 4 (14.29%) Workshop Facilitation
7 4 (14.29%) Public Sector
7 4 (14.29%) Social Skills
8 3 (10.71%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (10.71%) Storyboarding
8 3 (10.71%) Design Patterns
8 3 (10.71%) Content Strategy
8 3 (10.71%) Sketch
8 3 (10.71%) Figma
8 3 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (10.71%) Typography
8 3 (10.71%) Data Analysis
8 3 (10.71%) Software Engineering
8 3 (10.71%) Telecoms
8 3 (10.71%) Finance
8 3 (10.71%) Analytical Skills

Senior 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 1 (3.57%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Sketch
2 2 (7.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (7.14%) MS Visio
3 1 (3.57%) Adobe Premiere
3 1 (3.57%) InVision
Cloud Services
1 3 (10.71%) Figma
2 1 (3.57%) AWS
2 1 (3.57%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.57%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Axure RP
1 1 (3.57%) Git
1 1 (3.57%) Postman
General
1 4 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 4 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (10.71%) Finance
2 3 (10.71%) Presentation Skills
2 3 (10.71%) Telecoms
3 2 (7.14%) Automotive
3 2 (7.14%) Banking
3 2 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Publishing
3 2 (7.14%) Retail
4 1 (3.57%) Danish Language
4 1 (3.57%) Games
4 1 (3.57%) Investment Banking
4 1 (3.57%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.57%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.57%) CSS
1 1 (3.57%) HTML
1 1 (3.57%) REST
1 1 (3.57%) RESTful
1 1 (3.57%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.14%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.57%) Animation
2 1 (3.57%) Educational Technology
2 1 (3.57%) Graphic Design
2 1 (3.57%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (35.71%) Agile
2 9 (32.14%) User Research
3 8 (28.57%) User Experience
3 8 (28.57%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 7 (25.00%) Prototyping
4 7 (25.00%) Service Design
4 7 (25.00%) UX Design
5 5 (17.86%) Interaction Design
5 5 (17.86%) Wireframes
6 4 (14.29%) Co-Creation
6 4 (14.29%) Service Delivery
6 4 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (14.29%) Workshop Facilitation
7 3 (10.71%) Content Strategy
7 3 (10.71%) Data Analysis
7 3 (10.71%) Information Architecture
7 3 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (10.71%) Software Engineering
7 3 (10.71%) Storyboarding
7 3 (10.71%) Typography
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) SC Cleared
1 3 (10.71%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.14%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (21.43%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.57%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (3.57%) WCAG
Vendors
1 5 (17.86%) Adobe
2 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.14%) ServiceNow