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 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 151 109 93
Rank change year-on-year -42 -16 -22
Contract jobs requiring a Designer 219 537 1,247
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.50% 2.22% 2.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.60% 2.33% 2.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 399 898
10th Percentile £309 £372 £380
25th Percentile £400 £441 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £510 £518
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% -1.45% +15.00%
75th Percentile £550 £608 £594
90th Percentile £629 £701 £675
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -9.52% - +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 13,696 23,095 42,294
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.27% 95.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,252 16,383 30,711
10th Percentile £325 £360 £359
25th Percentile £425 £444 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 531 565
10th Percentile £14.26 £16.98 £13.60
25th Percentile £22.84 £25.00 £19.50
Median hourly rate £44.87 £52.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.53% +32.91% +70.19%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.13 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £77.50 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +14.34%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Designer in the job title.

1 91 (41.55%) User Experience
2 67 (30.59%) UX Design
3 66 (30.14%) Social Skills
4 49 (22.37%) Figma
5 43 (19.63%) Agile
6 42 (19.18%) User Research
7 41 (18.72%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 39 (17.81%) Public Sector
9 38 (17.35%) Security Cleared
10 37 (16.89%) Adobe
10 37 (16.89%) Accessibility
11 36 (16.44%) Service Design
12 35 (15.98%) Interaction Design
13 34 (15.53%) Wireframes
14 30 (13.70%) Prototyping
14 30 (13.70%) SC Cleared
15 29 (13.24%) Finance
16 26 (11.87%) Marketing
17 23 (10.50%) Usability Testing
18 20 (9.13%) Microsoft
18 20 (9.13%) HTML
19 19 (8.68%) Content Strategy
20 18 (8.22%) Photoshop
20 18 (8.22%) CSS
20 18 (8.22%) Stakeholder Management
21 17 (7.76%) Analytical Skills
21 17 (7.76%) Problem-Solving
22 16 (7.31%) UX Research
22 16 (7.31%) Adobe Illustrator
22 16 (7.31%) Degree

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 10 (4.57%) CMS
2 1 (0.46%) SharePoint
Applications
1 18 (8.22%) Photoshop
2 16 (7.31%) Adobe Illustrator
3 15 (6.85%) Sketch
4 13 (5.94%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 12 (5.48%) Adobe After Effects
6 10 (4.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 9 (4.11%) Adobe XD
7 9 (4.11%) Microsoft Office
8 6 (2.74%) CINEMA 4D
8 6 (2.74%) Microsoft Excel
9 5 (2.28%) InDesign
10 4 (1.83%) Adobe Premiere
11 2 (0.91%) InVision
12 1 (0.46%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.46%) Autodesk Inventor
12 1 (0.46%) MS Visio
12 1 (0.46%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 5 (2.28%) SmartPlant
2 1 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 49 (22.37%) Figma
2 13 (5.94%) Azure
3 9 (4.11%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (4.11%) Miro
4 6 (2.74%) SaaS
5 4 (1.83%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (1.37%) Adobe Creative Cloud
6 3 (1.37%) AWS
7 2 (0.91%) Apigee
7 2 (0.91%) OCI
7 2 (0.91%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.46%) Azure Cognitive Search
8 1 (0.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (0.46%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (0.46%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (0.46%) Canva
8 1 (0.46%) IaaS
8 1 (0.46%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.46%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.91%) Firewall
1 2 (0.91%) SSL
2 1 (0.46%) 4G
2 1 (0.46%) 5G
2 1 (0.46%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (0.46%) Intranet
2 1 (0.46%) LTE
2 1 (0.46%) VoLTE
2 1 (0.46%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.37%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.91%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (0.91%) Metadata
2 2 (0.91%) MongoDB
2 2 (0.91%) Power BI
3 1 (0.46%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 6 (2.74%) Dreamweaver
2 3 (1.37%) Axure RP
3 2 (0.91%) gulp
3 2 (0.91%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.91%) JIRA
3 2 (0.91%) Maven
3 2 (0.91%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.46%) Git
4 1 (0.46%) Postman
General
1 66 (30.14%) Social Skills
2 39 (17.81%) Public Sector
3 29 (13.24%) Finance
4 26 (11.87%) Marketing
5 17 (7.76%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (5.94%) Publishing
7 11 (5.02%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (4.11%) Telecoms
9 6 (2.74%) Banking
9 6 (2.74%) Retail
10 3 (1.37%) Front Office
11 2 (0.91%) Games
11 2 (0.91%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.91%) Legal
11 2 (0.91%) Military
12 1 (0.46%) Advertising
12 1 (0.46%) Multimedia
12 1 (0.46%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (9.13%) HTML
2 18 (8.22%) CSS
3 6 (2.74%) React
4 4 (1.83%) AngularJS
5 3 (1.37%) Node.js
5 3 (1.37%) RESTful
6 2 (0.91%) .NET
6 2 (0.91%) Ajax
6 2 (0.91%) CSS3
6 2 (0.91%) HTML5
6 2 (0.91%) LESS
6 2 (0.91%) OAuth
6 2 (0.91%) OpenID
6 2 (0.91%) SAML
6 2 (0.91%) SAPUI5
6 2 (0.91%) Sass
7 1 (0.46%) Middleware
7 1 (0.46%) REST
7 1 (0.46%) Swagger
7 1 (0.46%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.94%) Mobile App
2 12 (5.48%) Product Ownership
3 9 (4.11%) Animation
4 6 (2.74%) Social Media
5 5 (2.28%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (2.28%) Motion Graphics
6 4 (1.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (1.83%) Photography
6 4 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.83%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.37%) Derivative
7 3 (1.37%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.37%) Graphic Design
7 3 (1.37%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.91%) NHS
8 2 (0.91%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.91%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.91%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.28%) Android
2 4 (1.83%) Apple iOS
2 4 (1.83%) Windows
3 3 (1.37%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.46%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (41.55%) User Experience
2 67 (30.59%) UX Design
3 43 (19.63%) Agile
4 42 (19.18%) User Research
5 41 (18.72%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 36 (16.44%) Service Design
7 35 (15.98%) Interaction Design
8 34 (15.53%) Wireframes
9 30 (13.70%) Prototyping
10 23 (10.50%) Usability Testing
11 19 (8.68%) Content Strategy
12 18 (8.22%) Stakeholder Management
13 17 (7.76%) Problem-Solving
14 16 (7.31%) UX Research
15 14 (6.39%) Strategic Thinking
16 13 (5.94%) Typography
16 13 (5.94%) Visualisation
17 12 (5.48%) Coaching
17 12 (5.48%) Continuous Improvement
18 11 (5.02%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 8 (3.65%) JavaScript
2 7 (3.20%) Python
3 6 (2.74%) Java
4 3 (1.37%) SQL
5 2 (0.91%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (17.35%) Security Cleared
2 30 (13.70%) SC Cleared
3 16 (7.31%) Degree
4 4 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (1.83%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (1.37%) DBS Check
5 3 (1.37%) MCITP
5 3 (1.37%) MCTS
5 3 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.91%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.46%) CCNA
7 1 (0.46%) CCNP
7 1 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.46%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.46%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (16.89%) Accessibility
2 6 (2.74%) WCAG
3 3 (1.37%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (1.37%) QA
3 3 (1.37%) SLA
4 2 (0.91%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (1.37%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (0.91%) Ansible
Vendors
1 37 (16.89%) Adobe
2 20 (9.13%) Microsoft
3 6 (2.74%) dotdigital
4 4 (1.83%) Oracle
4 4 (1.83%) SAP
5 2 (0.91%) Google
5 2 (0.91%) Palo Alto
5 2 (0.91%) Pegasus
6 1 (0.46%) Cisco
6 1 (0.46%) Cognizant
6 1 (0.46%) Databricks
6 1 (0.46%) F5
6 1 (0.46%) Facebook
6 1 (0.46%) Instagram
6 1 (0.46%) Juniper
6 1 (0.46%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.46%) Twitter