Designer Contracts in London

Designer
England > London

The median Designer daily rate in London is £498 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 166 105 102
Rank change year-on-year -61 -3 -11
Contract jobs requiring a Designer 257 630 1,039
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.47% 2.46% 2.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.57% 2.59% 2.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 467 728
10th Percentile £325 £373 £368
25th Percentile £400 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -9.55% +1.85% +13.68%
75th Percentile £552 £638 £619
90th Percentile £625 £730 £688
England median daily rate £493 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -6.19% - +13.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 9 19
10th Percentile - £17.72 £26.25
25th Percentile £15.50 £32.69 £28.25
Median hourly rate £17.00 £39.00 £43.50
Median % change year-on-year -56.41% -10.34% +17.57%
75th Percentile £29.63 £48.75 £62.60
90th Percentile £36.30 £53.20 £66.50
England median hourly rate £57.35 £44.50 £43.50
% change year-on-year +28.88% +2.30% +102.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in 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 London with a recognized job title 16,399 24,342 36,962
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.57% 95.15% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,837 17,773 27,187
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 278 414
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.83 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.22 £22.53 £23.24
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £47.18 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £67.40 £82.33 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.47%

Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Designer in London

Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Designer in London

Designer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Designer in London

Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Designer in London

Designer
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

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

Hourly rate histogram for Designer in London

Designer
Contract Job Locations in 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 London 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
Central London -2 28 £455 -12.08% 7
South London +1 6 £450 -25.00% 1
West London -20 5 £60 -89.09% 4
East London - 1 £540 - 5
Designer
England

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

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 London region featuring Designer in the job title.

1 133 (51.75%) User Experience
2 116 (45.14%) UX Design
3 75 (29.18%) Figma
4 74 (28.79%) Social Skills
5 58 (22.57%) Service Design
6 56 (21.79%) Agile
7 54 (21.01%) User Research
8 47 (18.29%) Finance
9 44 (17.12%) Adobe
10 38 (14.79%) Prototyping
11 37 (14.40%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 36 (14.01%) Public Sector
12 36 (14.01%) Wireframes
13 32 (12.45%) Problem-Solving
14 31 (12.06%) Security Cleared
15 30 (11.67%) Interaction Design
16 29 (11.28%) Accessibility
17 27 (10.51%) SC Cleared
17 27 (10.51%) Stakeholder Management
17 27 (10.51%) Degree
18 25 (9.73%) Marketing
18 25 (9.73%) Photoshop
19 24 (9.34%) Usability Testing
20 23 (8.95%) Workshop Facilitation
21 22 (8.56%) Sketch
21 22 (8.56%) Mobile App
21 22 (8.56%) Typography
21 22 (8.56%) Adobe Illustrator
22 21 (8.17%) HTML
23 20 (7.78%) Collaborative Working

Designer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 7 (2.72%) CMS
2 4 (1.56%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.17%) Confluence
4 2 (0.78%) WordPress
5 1 (0.39%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 25 (9.73%) Photoshop
2 22 (8.56%) Adobe Illustrator
2 22 (8.56%) Sketch
3 15 (5.84%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 13 (5.06%) Adobe XD
5 10 (3.89%) InDesign
6 9 (3.50%) Adobe After Effects
7 7 (2.72%) InVision
8 6 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 5 (1.95%) Adobe Premiere
10 4 (1.56%) Adobe Captivate
11 3 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
12 2 (0.78%) Chatbot
12 2 (0.78%) CINEMA 4D
13 1 (0.39%) Final Cut Pro
13 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
13 1 (0.39%) MS Visio
13 1 (0.39%) UserZoom
13 1 (0.39%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 75 (29.18%) Figma
2 13 (5.06%) Miro
3 7 (2.72%) Azure
4 5 (1.95%) Power Platform
5 4 (1.56%) Adobe Creative Cloud
5 4 (1.56%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (1.56%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (1.17%) SaaS
7 2 (0.78%) Google Analytics
8 1 (0.39%) Adobe Analytics
8 1 (0.39%) AWS
8 1 (0.39%) Azure Functions
8 1 (0.39%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.39%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (0.39%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (0.39%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.39%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.39%) Pendo
8 1 (0.39%) Serverless
8 1 (0.39%) Unqork
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.39%) 4G
1 1 (0.39%) 5G
1 1 (0.39%) BGP
1 1 (0.39%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (0.39%) IOS XR
1 1 (0.39%) MPLS
1 1 (0.39%) SD-WAN
1 1 (0.39%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.95%) Power BI
2 3 (1.17%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (0.39%) Looker
Development Applications
1 7 (2.72%) JIRA
2 5 (1.95%) Axure RP
3 4 (1.56%) Git
4 2 (0.78%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.39%) Postman
General
1 74 (28.79%) Social Skills
2 47 (18.29%) Finance
3 36 (14.01%) Public Sector
4 25 (9.73%) Marketing
5 13 (5.06%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (5.06%) Games
6 12 (4.67%) Banking
7 8 (3.11%) Front Office
7 8 (3.11%) Multimedia
8 7 (2.72%) Legal
8 7 (2.72%) Publishing
8 7 (2.72%) Retail
9 6 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.95%) Advertising
10 5 (1.95%) Health Technology
10 5 (1.95%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.56%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.78%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.39%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (8.17%) HTML
2 16 (6.23%) CSS
3 10 (3.89%) React
4 6 (2.33%) Unity (Game Engine)
5 3 (1.17%) AngularJS
5 3 (1.17%) Unreal Engine
6 2 (0.78%) CSS3
6 2 (0.78%) RESTful
7 1 (0.39%) HTML5 Canvas
7 1 (0.39%) JSON
7 1 (0.39%) NETCONF
7 1 (0.39%) OAuth
7 1 (0.39%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.39%) React Native
7 1 (0.39%) REST
7 1 (0.39%) Swagger
7 1 (0.39%) SwiftUI
7 1 (0.39%) WebGL
7 1 (0.39%) XML
7 1 (0.39%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.56%) Mobile App
2 16 (6.23%) Self-Motivation
3 12 (4.67%) Graphic Design
4 9 (3.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 7 (2.72%) Animation
5 7 (2.72%) Digital Media
5 7 (2.72%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.33%) e-Learning
6 6 (2.33%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.33%) Social Media
7 5 (1.95%) Podcast
8 4 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.56%) Derivative
8 4 (1.56%) Photography
8 4 (1.56%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.17%) CMDB
9 3 (1.17%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.17%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.17%) Mobile Games
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.56%) Android
2 3 (1.17%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.39%) Mac OS X
3 1 (0.39%) Windows
3 1 (0.39%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (51.75%) User Experience
2 116 (45.14%) UX Design
3 58 (22.57%) Service Design
4 56 (21.79%) Agile
5 54 (21.01%) User Research
6 38 (14.79%) Prototyping
7 37 (14.40%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 36 (14.01%) Wireframes
9 32 (12.45%) Problem-Solving
10 30 (11.67%) Interaction Design
11 27 (10.51%) Stakeholder Management
12 24 (9.34%) Usability Testing
13 23 (8.95%) Workshop Facilitation
14 22 (8.56%) Typography
15 20 (7.78%) Collaborative Working
16 19 (7.39%) Design Thinking
17 15 (5.84%) UX Research
18 14 (5.45%) B2B
18 14 (5.45%) ITIL
18 14 (5.45%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 12 (4.67%) JavaScript
2 4 (1.56%) Java
2 4 (1.56%) Python
3 1 (0.39%) SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (12.06%) Security Cleared
2 27 (10.51%) Degree
2 27 (10.51%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.28%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (2.33%) DBS Check
5 4 (1.56%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (1.17%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.39%) CCNP
7 1 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.39%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (11.28%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.56%) WCAG
3 3 (1.17%) SLA
4 1 (0.39%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.39%) GDPR
4 1 (0.39%) GRC
Systems Management
1 1 (0.39%) Ansible
Vendors
1 44 (17.12%) Adobe
2 8 (3.11%) Microsoft
3 4 (1.56%) Virgin Media
4 3 (1.17%) Google
5 2 (0.78%) Apple
5 2 (0.78%) Atlassian
5 2 (0.78%) MicroStrategy
5 2 (0.78%) Salesforce
5 2 (0.78%) SAP
6 1 (0.39%) Cisco
6 1 (0.39%) Databricks
6 1 (0.39%) JDA
6 1 (0.39%) Nokia
6 1 (0.39%) Sitecore