Content Designer Contracts

Content Designer
UK

The median Content Designer daily rate in the UK is £425, 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 509 547 644
Rank change year-on-year +38 +97 -129
Contract jobs requiring a Content Designer 75 151 205
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.27% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.29% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 118 172
10th Percentile £325 £322 £350
25th Percentile £381 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% +11.80%
75th Percentile £450 £500 £502
90th Percentile £525 £578 £586
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -11.11% - +23.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £25.30
25th Percentile - £36.25 £27.63
Median hourly rate - £37.50 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year - +10.29% +63.17%
75th Percentile - £38.75 £39.13
90th Percentile - - £40.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £27.50
% change year-on-year - - +31.97%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

Content Designer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Content Designer in the UK

Content Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Content Designer in the UK

Content Designer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Content Designer over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Content Designer in the UK

Content Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Content Designer in the UK

Content Designer
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Content Designer 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 +10 48 £425 -10.53% 6
UK excluding London +5 34 £400 -11.11% 3
Work from Home +85 30 £425 -12.82% 2
London +34 26 £418 -14.36% 3
North of England +4 19 £413 -8.33%
Scotland +50 13 £400 +6.67%
North East - 8 - -
Yorkshire +11 6 £425 -15.00%
North West -3 5 £350 -13.85%
West Midlands +10 1 - -
Midlands +9 1 - -
South West 0 1 - - 3

Content Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Content 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 featuring Content Designer in the job title.

1 29 (38.67%) Content Strategy
2 26 (34.67%) Accessibility
3 24 (32.00%) Public Sector
4 23 (30.67%) User Experience
5 22 (29.33%) Agile
6 19 (25.33%) User Research
7 18 (24.00%) CMS
7 18 (24.00%) Content Management
8 16 (21.33%) Publishing
9 15 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
10 14 (18.67%) UX Design
11 13 (17.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 12 (16.00%) Security Cleared
12 12 (16.00%) User Stories
13 10 (13.33%) Social Skills
14 9 (12.00%) Influencing Skills
14 9 (12.00%) BPSS Clearance
15 7 (9.33%) Information Architecture
15 7 (9.33%) Prototyping
15 7 (9.33%) Strategic Thinking
15 7 (9.33%) Figma
16 6 (8.00%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
16 6 (8.00%) WCAG
16 6 (8.00%) SEO
17 5 (6.67%) Legal
17 5 (6.67%) SC Cleared
17 5 (6.67%) Coaching
17 5 (6.67%) Service Design
17 5 (6.67%) Community of Practice
18 4 (5.33%) Systems Thinking

Content Designer Skill Set
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 18 (24.00%) CMS
2 2 (2.67%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.33%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 2 (2.67%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (2.67%) Photoshop
2 1 (1.33%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (1.33%) Adobe Premiere
2 1 (1.33%) Adobe XD
2 1 (1.33%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.33%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 7 (9.33%) Figma
2 2 (2.67%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (2.67%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.33%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.33%) Metadata
2 1 (1.33%) Looker
Development Applications
1 2 (2.67%) JIRA
General
1 24 (32.00%) Public Sector
2 16 (21.33%) Publishing
3 10 (13.33%) Social Skills
4 9 (12.00%) Influencing Skills
5 5 (6.67%) Legal
6 4 (5.33%) Finance
7 3 (4.00%) Marketing
8 2 (2.67%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (2.67%) Banking
9 1 (1.33%) Advertising
9 1 (1.33%) Local Government
9 1 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.33%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.00%) Management Information System
1 3 (4.00%) Mobile App
1 3 (4.00%) Taxonomies
2 2 (2.67%) Blog
2 2 (2.67%) Photography
2 2 (2.67%) Product Ownership
2 2 (2.67%) Social Media
2 2 (2.67%) Virtual Team
3 1 (1.33%) Animation
3 1 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.33%) Handset
3 1 (1.33%) NHS
3 1 (1.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (38.67%) Content Strategy
2 23 (30.67%) User Experience
3 22 (29.33%) Agile
4 19 (25.33%) User Research
5 18 (24.00%) Content Management
6 15 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 14 (18.67%) UX Design
8 13 (17.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 12 (16.00%) User Stories
10 7 (9.33%) Information Architecture
10 7 (9.33%) Prototyping
10 7 (9.33%) Strategic Thinking
11 6 (8.00%) SEO
11 6 (8.00%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
12 5 (6.67%) Coaching
12 5 (6.67%) Community of Practice
12 5 (6.67%) Service Design
13 4 (5.33%) Systems Thinking
13 4 (5.33%) Technical Debt
13 4 (5.33%) Web Application Development
Qualifications
1 12 (16.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (12.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (6.67%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.00%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (34.67%) Accessibility
2 6 (8.00%) WCAG
3 3 (4.00%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.33%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.33%) GDPR
Vendors
1 4 (5.33%) Adobe
2 1 (1.33%) Google
2 1 (1.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (1.33%) Virgin Media