Designer Contracts in England

Designer
UK > England

The median Designer daily rate in England is £493 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 174 134 118
Rank change year-on-year -40 -16 -25
Contract jobs requiring a Designer 497 952 1,694
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.35% 1.99% 2.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.45% 2.11% 2.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 273 697 1,185
10th Percentile £313 £359 £363
25th Percentile £390 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.19% - +13.51%
75th Percentile £573 £625 £600
90th Percentile £625 £709 £679
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -9.52% - +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 16 27
10th Percentile £26.00 £25.35 £26.25
25th Percentile £45.00 £37.19 £28.25
Median hourly rate £57.35 £44.50 £43.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.88% +2.30% +102.33%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.06 £60.97
90th Percentile - £70.50 £65.90
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
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,255 45,148 67,437
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.56% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,555 32,138 48,275
10th Percentile £285 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,585 1,311 1,778
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.54
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.47%
75th Percentile £62.00 £65.38 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +14.34%

Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Designer in England

Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Designer in England

Designer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Designer in England

Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Designer in England

Designer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Designer in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Designer in England

Designer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Designer within the England region 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
London -61 257 £498 -9.55% 146
South East +60 109 £527 +5.30% 34
North of England -18 74 £425 -11.69% 68
Yorkshire -3 37 £429 -9.79% 17
Midlands +10 20 £400 -15.79% 20
North West -21 20 £375 -21.05% 43
North East +13 17 £538 -6.52% 8
South West -14 13 £425 -10.53% 16
East Midlands +13 10 £400 -17.95% 9
West Midlands -5 10 £450 -5.26% 12
East of England -4 4 £650 +109.68% 17
Designer
UK

Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 2 June 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 job ads across the England region featuring Designer in the job title.

1 196 (39.44%) User Experience
2 162 (32.60%) UX Design
3 111 (22.33%) Social Skills
4 100 (20.12%) Figma
5 86 (17.30%) Adobe
6 85 (17.10%) Agile
7 82 (16.50%) User Research
8 81 (16.30%) Service Design
9 75 (15.09%) Degree
10 67 (13.48%) Security Cleared
10 67 (13.48%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 66 (13.28%) Interaction Design
12 64 (12.88%) Prototyping
13 56 (11.27%) Accessibility
13 56 (11.27%) Marketing
13 56 (11.27%) Public Sector
14 54 (10.87%) Wireframes
14 54 (10.87%) Finance
15 52 (10.46%) Photoshop
16 48 (9.66%) HTML
17 46 (9.26%) Adobe Illustrator
17 46 (9.26%) SC Cleared
18 45 (9.05%) Problem-Solving
19 43 (8.65%) Electronics
20 41 (8.25%) Stakeholder Management
21 38 (7.65%) FPGA
21 38 (7.65%) CSS
21 38 (7.65%) Adobe Creative Suite
22 34 (6.84%) Usability Testing
23 33 (6.64%) VHDL

Designer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 11 (2.21%) CMS
2 7 (1.41%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.60%) Confluence
4 2 (0.40%) WordPress
5 1 (0.20%) Appian
5 1 (0.20%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.20%) Jadu
Applications
1 52 (10.46%) Photoshop
2 46 (9.26%) Adobe Illustrator
3 38 (7.65%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 29 (5.84%) Sketch
5 22 (4.43%) Adobe After Effects
6 19 (3.82%) Adobe XD
7 17 (3.42%) InDesign
8 16 (3.22%) InVision
8 16 (3.22%) Microsoft Office
9 14 (2.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 11 (2.21%) Adobe Premiere
11 8 (1.61%) Adobe Captivate
11 8 (1.61%) CINEMA 4D
12 6 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
13 3 (0.60%) Chatbot
14 1 (0.20%) Autodesk Inventor
14 1 (0.20%) OmniGraffle
14 1 (0.20%) UserZoom
14 1 (0.20%) UXPin
14 1 (0.20%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 5 (1.01%) SmartPlant
2 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 100 (20.12%) Figma
2 16 (3.22%) Azure
3 14 (2.82%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (2.62%) Miro
5 9 (1.81%) Adobe Creative Cloud
6 5 (1.01%) AWS
6 5 (1.01%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 5 (1.01%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (1.01%) Azure Key Vault
6 5 (1.01%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (1.01%) Power Platform
7 4 (0.80%) Azure Cognitive Search
8 3 (0.60%) Apigee
8 3 (0.60%) SaaS
9 2 (0.40%) Azure Functions
9 2 (0.40%) Google Analytics
9 2 (0.40%) Serverless
10 1 (0.20%) AWS CodePipeline
10 1 (0.20%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (0.20%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 33 (6.64%) Ethernet
2 7 (1.41%) Wireless
3 5 (1.01%) 5G
3 5 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.60%) SSL
5 2 (0.40%) 4G
5 2 (0.40%) Cisco Firepower
5 2 (0.40%) Firewall
5 2 (0.40%) Intranet
5 2 (0.40%) Network Security
5 2 (0.40%) Software-Defined Radio
5 2 (0.40%) VPN
6 1 (0.20%) BGP
6 1 (0.20%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.20%) IOS XR
6 1 (0.20%) LTE
6 1 (0.20%) MPLS
6 1 (0.20%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.20%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.20%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.21%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.01%) Power BI
3 3 (0.60%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (0.60%) Big Data
3 3 (0.60%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.20%) Looker
4 1 (0.20%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 13 (2.62%) Axure RP
2 7 (1.41%) Dreamweaver
2 7 (1.41%) Git
2 7 (1.41%) JIRA
3 3 (0.60%) Bitbucket
3 3 (0.60%) gulp
3 3 (0.60%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.60%) Maven
4 1 (0.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (0.20%) Balsamiq
4 1 (0.20%) Postman
General
1 111 (22.33%) Social Skills
2 56 (11.27%) Marketing
2 56 (11.27%) Public Sector
3 54 (10.87%) Finance
4 43 (8.65%) Electronics
5 18 (3.62%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (3.02%) Games
7 13 (2.62%) Banking
7 13 (2.62%) Multimedia
8 11 (2.21%) Advertising
8 11 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
8 11 (2.21%) Retail
8 11 (2.21%) Telecoms
9 9 (1.81%) Health Technology
9 9 (1.81%) Legal
9 9 (1.81%) Publishing
10 8 (1.61%) Front Office
10 8 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (9.66%) HTML
2 38 (7.65%) CSS
3 12 (2.41%) React
4 10 (2.01%) Node.js
5 9 (1.81%) AngularJS
6 6 (1.21%) Unity (Game Engine)
7 5 (1.01%) CSS3
7 5 (1.01%) RESTful
8 4 (0.80%) OAuth
9 3 (0.60%) .NET
9 3 (0.60%) HTML5
9 3 (0.60%) OpenID
9 3 (0.60%) SAML
9 3 (0.60%) Unreal Engine
10 2 (0.40%) Framer.js
10 2 (0.40%) JSON
10 2 (0.40%) LESS
10 2 (0.40%) REST
10 2 (0.40%) Sass
10 2 (0.40%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 38 (7.65%) FPGA
2 33 (6.64%) CPLD
2 33 (6.64%) Mobile App
2 33 (6.64%) VHDL
3 20 (4.02%) Product Ownership
4 19 (3.82%) Self-Motivation
5 16 (3.22%) Animation
5 16 (3.22%) Graphic Design
6 11 (2.21%) Digital Media
6 11 (2.21%) Onboarding
6 11 (2.21%) Social Media
7 9 (1.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 7 (1.41%) Motion Graphics
9 6 (1.21%) e-Learning
9 6 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.21%) Photography
9 6 (1.21%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.01%) Podcast
11 4 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (0.80%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.41%) Android
2 6 (1.21%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.01%) Windows
4 4 (0.80%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.60%) Linux
6 2 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.20%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.20%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (39.44%) User Experience
2 162 (32.60%) UX Design
3 85 (17.10%) Agile
4 82 (16.50%) User Research
5 81 (16.30%) Service Design
6 67 (13.48%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 66 (13.28%) Interaction Design
8 64 (12.88%) Prototyping
9 54 (10.87%) Wireframes
10 45 (9.05%) Problem-Solving
11 41 (8.25%) Stakeholder Management
12 34 (6.84%) Usability Testing
13 33 (6.64%) Schematic Capture
13 33 (6.64%) Typography
14 28 (5.63%) Strategic Thinking
14 28 (5.63%) Workshop Facilitation
15 26 (5.23%) Collaborative Working
16 25 (5.03%) Design Thinking
17 21 (4.23%) Coaching
18 20 (4.02%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 30 (6.04%) JavaScript
2 10 (2.01%) Python
3 9 (1.81%) Java
4 3 (0.60%) SQL
5 2 (0.40%) PHP
6 1 (0.20%) C
6 1 (0.20%) C++
6 1 (0.20%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 75 (15.09%) Degree
2 67 (13.48%) Security Cleared
3 46 (9.26%) SC Cleared
4 15 (3.02%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (1.61%) JNCIS
6 7 (1.41%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.21%) DBS Check
8 4 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (0.80%) MCITP
8 4 (0.80%) MCTS
8 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.60%) CCNP
9 3 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (0.60%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.40%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (11.27%) Accessibility
2 8 (1.61%) WCAG
3 6 (1.21%) SLA
4 5 (1.01%) QA
5 2 (0.40%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.20%) GDPR
6 1 (0.20%) GRC
System Software
1 6 (1.21%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (0.80%) Ansible
2 1 (0.20%) Terraform
Vendors
1 86 (17.30%) Adobe
2 33 (6.64%) EMC
3 31 (6.24%) Microsoft
4 9 (1.81%) Juniper
5 8 (1.61%) SAP
6 7 (1.41%) Google
7 6 (1.21%) Cisco
7 6 (1.21%) dotdigital
7 6 (1.21%) Virgin Media
8 5 (1.01%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.01%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.01%) Xilinx
9 3 (0.60%) Palo Alto
9 3 (0.60%) Workday
10 2 (0.40%) Apple
10 2 (0.40%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.40%) F5
10 2 (0.40%) MicroStrategy
10 2 (0.40%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.40%) VMware