Designer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Designer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Designer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 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
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 160 161 128
Rank change year-on-year +1 -33 -30
Contract jobs requiring a Designer 283 335 639
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.33% 1.48% 2.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.44% 1.57% 2.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 230 445
10th Percentile £277 £306 £342
25th Percentile £384 £400 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £558 £586
90th Percentile £626 £685 £675
UK median daily rate £495 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -5.71% - +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 8 6
10th Percentile £45.00 £40.53 £27.11
25th Percentile £53.40 £55.94 £30.66
Median hourly rate £57.35 £63.75 £42.25
Median % change year-on-year -10.04% +50.89% +102.76%
75th Percentile £61.30 £67.75 £56.03
90th Percentile - £83.94 £62.31
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
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 19,709 21,379 29,050
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.42% 94.21% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,751 14,853 20,421
10th Percentile £213 £225 £208
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £593 £600 £575
90th Percentile £680 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,515 1,090 1,383
10th Percentile £12.63 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.92 £18.08 £15.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%
75th Percentile £62.83 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.68 £62.45
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Designer in the UK excluding London

Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Designer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Designer in the UK excluding London

Designer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Designer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Designer in the UK excluding London

Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Designer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Designer in the UK excluding London

Designer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Designer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Designer in the UK excluding London

Designer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Designer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
South East +61 111 £538 +7.50% 34
North of England -25 73 £425 -14.57% 74
Scotland +38 60 £450 -5.76% 15
Yorkshire -5 37 £429 -7.85% 19
Midlands +3 21 £400 -15.79% 33
North East +12 18 £538 -8.51% 6
North West -21 18 £375 -22.08% 49
South West -24 12 £425 -9.09% 17
East Midlands +12 11 £400 -9.86% 20
West Midlands -2 10 £450 -5.26% 13
East of England -6 4 £650 +122.22% 9
Northern Ireland - 2 £563 - 4
Designer
UK

Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 12 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 UK excluding London region featuring Designer in the job title.

1 86 (30.39%) User Experience
2 67 (23.67%) UX Design
3 53 (18.73%) Degree
4 52 (18.37%) Agile
5 49 (17.31%) Social Skills
6 45 (15.90%) User Research
6 45 (15.90%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 44 (15.55%) Accessibility
8 43 (15.19%) Prototyping
8 43 (15.19%) Electronics
8 43 (15.19%) Adobe
9 41 (14.49%) Figma
10 38 (13.43%) FPGA
11 36 (12.72%) Public Sector
12 34 (12.01%) Security Cleared
13 33 (11.66%) CPLD
13 33 (11.66%) VHDL
13 33 (11.66%) Ethernet
13 33 (11.66%) EMC
13 33 (11.66%) Schematic Capture
14 32 (11.31%) Interaction Design
15 31 (10.95%) Service Design
15 31 (10.95%) Wireframes
15 31 (10.95%) Product Ownership
16 28 (9.89%) Marketing
17 27 (9.54%) HTML
17 27 (9.54%) Photoshop
17 27 (9.54%) Problem-Solving
18 24 (8.48%) Microsoft
18 24 (8.48%) Adobe Illustrator

Designer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (3.89%) CMS
2 3 (1.06%) Confluence
2 3 (1.06%) OpenStack
2 3 (1.06%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.35%) Appian
3 1 (0.35%) Jadu
Applications
1 27 (9.54%) Photoshop
2 24 (8.48%) Adobe Illustrator
3 23 (8.13%) Sketch
4 22 (7.77%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 13 (4.59%) InVision
6 12 (4.24%) Adobe After Effects
6 12 (4.24%) Microsoft Office
7 8 (2.83%) Adobe XD
8 7 (2.47%) InDesign
8 7 (2.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 5 (1.77%) Adobe Premiere
9 5 (1.77%) CINEMA 4D
9 5 (1.77%) Microsoft Excel
10 4 (1.41%) Adobe Captivate
11 2 (0.71%) OmniGraffle
11 2 (0.71%) UXPin
12 1 (0.35%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.35%) Autodesk Inventor
12 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
12 1 (0.35%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 5 (1.77%) SmartPlant
Cloud Services
1 41 (14.49%) Figma
2 18 (6.36%) Azure
3 9 (3.18%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (2.47%) Adobe Creative Cloud
5 6 (2.12%) SaaS
6 5 (1.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 5 (1.77%) Azure Key Vault
7 4 (1.41%) Azure Cognitive Search
7 4 (1.41%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (1.06%) Apigee
8 3 (1.06%) AWS
9 2 (0.71%) Canva
10 1 (0.35%) AWS CodePipeline
10 1 (0.35%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.35%) Azure Functions
10 1 (0.35%) GCP
10 1 (0.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 33 (11.66%) Ethernet
2 7 (2.47%) 5G
2 7 (2.47%) Wireless
3 6 (2.12%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (1.06%) 2G
4 3 (1.06%) 3G
4 3 (1.06%) 4G
4 3 (1.06%) MVNO
4 3 (1.06%) SSL
4 3 (1.06%) Wireshark
5 2 (0.71%) Broadband
5 2 (0.71%) Cisco Firepower
5 2 (0.71%) Internet
5 2 (0.71%) Intranet
5 2 (0.71%) Network Security
5 2 (0.71%) Software-Defined Radio
5 2 (0.71%) VPN
6 1 (0.35%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.89%) MongoDB
2 6 (2.12%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.77%) Metadata
4 3 (1.06%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (0.71%) Big Data
6 1 (0.35%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.35%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 9 (3.18%) Axure RP
2 7 (2.47%) Dreamweaver
3 3 (1.06%) Git
3 3 (1.06%) gulp
3 3 (1.06%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.06%) JIRA
3 3 (1.06%) Maven
4 2 (0.71%) Balsamiq
4 2 (0.71%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.35%) Bitbucket
General
1 49 (17.31%) Social Skills
2 43 (15.19%) Electronics
3 36 (12.72%) Public Sector
4 28 (9.89%) Marketing
5 17 (6.01%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (4.59%) Finance
6 13 (4.59%) Influencing Skills
7 11 (3.89%) Telecoms
8 10 (3.53%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (3.18%) Publishing
10 6 (2.12%) Banking
11 5 (1.77%) Advertising
12 4 (1.41%) Multimedia
13 3 (1.06%) Health Technology
13 3 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (1.06%) Legal
13 3 (1.06%) Retail
14 2 (0.71%) Games
15 1 (0.35%) Manufacturing
15 1 (0.35%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (9.54%) HTML
2 22 (7.77%) CSS
3 12 (4.24%) React
4 10 (3.53%) Node.js
5 6 (2.12%) AngularJS
6 4 (1.41%) CSS3
6 4 (1.41%) HTML5
7 3 (1.06%) .NET
7 3 (1.06%) JSON
7 3 (1.06%) OAuth
7 3 (1.06%) OpenID
7 3 (1.06%) RESTful
7 3 (1.06%) SAML
8 2 (0.71%) Ajax
8 2 (0.71%) Framer.js
8 2 (0.71%) Java EE
8 2 (0.71%) LESS
8 2 (0.71%) Middleware
8 2 (0.71%) Sass
8 2 (0.71%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 38 (13.43%) FPGA
2 33 (11.66%) CPLD
2 33 (11.66%) VHDL
3 31 (10.95%) Product Ownership
4 15 (5.30%) Mobile App
5 9 (3.18%) Animation
6 8 (2.83%) Motion Graphics
7 7 (2.47%) Graphic Design
7 7 (2.47%) Social Media
8 4 (1.41%) Digital Media
9 3 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.06%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.71%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.71%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.71%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.71%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.71%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.71%) Taxonomies
10 2 (0.71%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.30%) Android
1 15 (5.30%) Apple iOS
2 4 (1.41%) Windows
2 4 (1.41%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.06%) Linux
4 2 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (30.39%) User Experience
2 67 (23.67%) UX Design
3 52 (18.37%) Agile
4 45 (15.90%) User Research
4 45 (15.90%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 43 (15.19%) Prototyping
6 33 (11.66%) Schematic Capture
7 32 (11.31%) Interaction Design
8 31 (10.95%) Service Design
8 31 (10.95%) Wireframes
9 27 (9.54%) Problem-Solving
10 24 (8.48%) User Stories
11 22 (7.77%) Coaching
12 18 (6.36%) Stakeholder Management
13 16 (5.65%) Continuous Improvement
14 14 (4.95%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
14 14 (4.95%) Visualisation
15 13 (4.59%) Typography
16 12 (4.24%) Strategic Thinking
16 12 (4.24%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 18 (6.36%) JavaScript
2 15 (5.30%) Python
3 9 (3.18%) Java
4 6 (2.12%) SQL
5 2 (0.71%) PHP
5 2 (0.71%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.35%) C
6 1 (0.35%) C++
6 1 (0.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 53 (18.73%) Degree
2 34 (12.01%) Security Cleared
3 22 (7.77%) SC Cleared
4 8 (2.83%) JNCIS
5 5 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.41%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.41%) MCITP
6 4 (1.41%) MCTS
6 4 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.71%) CCNA
7 2 (0.71%) CCNP
7 2 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.71%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (15.55%) Accessibility
2 8 (2.83%) WCAG
3 7 (2.47%) Disclosure Scotland
4 5 (1.77%) QA
5 3 (1.06%) SLA
6 1 (0.35%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (2.12%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (1.06%) Ansible
Vendors
1 43 (15.19%) Adobe
2 33 (11.66%) EMC
3 24 (8.48%) Microsoft
4 9 (3.18%) Juniper
5 7 (2.47%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.12%) dotdigital
7 5 (1.77%) Cisco
7 5 (1.77%) VMware
7 5 (1.77%) Xilinx
8 4 (1.41%) Google
8 4 (1.41%) SAP
9 3 (1.06%) Empirix
9 3 (1.06%) Ericsson
9 3 (1.06%) NetScout
9 3 (1.06%) Oracle
9 3 (1.06%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.06%) Workday
10 2 (0.71%) F5
10 2 (0.71%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.71%) Virgin Media