Instructional Design Contracts

Instructional Design
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Instructional Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Instructional Design over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 569 681 820
Rank change year-on-year +112 +139 -125
Contract jobs citing Instructional Design 15 16 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.034% 0.029% 0.032%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.040% 0.032% 0.035%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 10 22
10th Percentile £223 £405 -
25th Percentile £313 £429 £130
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £450 £150
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +200.00% -26.83%
75th Percentile £600 £497 £375
90th Percentile £810 £539 £436
UK excluding London median daily rate £388 £450 £140
% change year-on-year -13.89% +221.43% -53.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile - £16.89 -
25th Percentile £49.00 £17.31 £24.25
Median hourly rate £51.00 £18.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year +183.33% -29.41% +78.95%
75th Percentile £53.00 £26.38 £26.75
90th Percentile - £31.40 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Instructional Design falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

Instructional Design
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Instructional Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Instructional Design in the UK

Instructional Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Instructional Design.

Daily rate trend for Instructional Design in the UK

Instructional Design
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Instructional Design over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Instructional Design in the UK

Instructional Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Instructional Design.

Hourly rate trend for Instructional Design in the UK

Instructional Design
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Instructional Design within the UK 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
England +83 12 £360 -20.00% 23
Work from Home +117 7 £463 +6.32% 8
London +78 6 £360 -26.15% 9
UK excluding London +31 6 £388 -13.89% 15
North of England - 3 £600 - 2
Yorkshire - 3 £600 - 1
West Midlands +18 1 - - 3
Midlands +17 1 - - 4
South East +15 1 £175 -61.11% 4
Scotland - 1 - -

Instructional Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (6.67%) Moodle
1 1 (6.67%) Tomcat
1 1 (6.67%) WebLogic
1 1 (6.67%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (60.00%) Adobe Captivate
2 6 (40.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 6 (40.00%) Adobe Illustrator
2 6 (40.00%) Photoshop
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) Adobe Creative Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) RDBMS
1 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
1 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
General
1 7 (46.67%) Multimedia
1 7 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 6 (40.00%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Finance
4 2 (13.33%) Military
4 2 (13.33%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (66.67%) Designer
2 4 (26.67%) Trainer
3 3 (20.00%) Technical Trainer
4 2 (13.33%) Digital Designer
4 2 (13.33%) Instructional Designer
5 1 (6.67%) Administrator
5 1 (6.67%) Digital Learning Designer
5 1 (6.67%) Technical Designer
5 1 (6.67%) Training Manager
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Digital Media
2 4 (26.67%) e-Learning
2 4 (26.67%) Learning Management System
3 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.67%) Life Science
3 1 (6.67%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) AIX
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Solaris
1 1 (6.67%) Unix
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) User Experience
2 6 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (26.67%) Storyboarding
4 3 (20.00%) Analytics
5 2 (13.33%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (13.33%) Project Management
6 1 (6.67%) Anti-Money Laundering
6 1 (6.67%) Commercialisation
6 1 (6.67%) Computer Science
6 1 (6.67%) Content Management
6 1 (6.67%) Copywriting
6 1 (6.67%) Customer Experience
6 1 (6.67%) Data Analysis
6 1 (6.67%) Decision-Making
6 1 (6.67%) Gamification
6 1 (6.67%) KYC
6 1 (6.67%) Organisational Learning
6 1 (6.67%) Performance Metrics
6 1 (6.67%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 9 (60.00%) Adobe
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) Blackboard
3 1 (6.67%) IBM
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle
3 1 (6.67%) Red Hat