Digital Designer Contracts

Digital Designer
UK

The median Digital Designer daily rate in the UK is £285, 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 536 625 797
Rank change year-on-year +89 +172 -171
Contract jobs requiring a Digital Designer 48 72 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.13% 0.059%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.14% 0.061%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 64 29
10th Percentile - £404 £307
25th Percentile £200 £481 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £285 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -48.18% +15.79% +5.56%
75th Percentile £350 £600 £572
90th Percentile - £650 £648
UK excluding London median daily rate £243 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -55.91% - +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £53.40 - £23.75
Median hourly rate £57.35 - £27.50
75th Percentile £61.30 - £31.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.35 - £27.50
% change year-on-year - - -26.67%

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%

Digital Designer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Digital Designer in the UK

Digital Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Digital Designer in the UK

Digital Designer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Digital Designer in the UK

Digital Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Digital Designer in the UK

Digital Designer
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Digital 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 +63 47 £285 -48.18% 29
UK excluding London +58 39 £243 -55.91% 25
South East +49 35 £200 - 5
London +32 9 £350 -36.36% 4
Work from Home +77 5 £275 -50.00% 21
North of England +18 2 £350 -12.50% 8
Yorkshire +15 2 £350 -12.50% 1
East of England +4 1 £285 +20.00%
Scotland - 1 - -

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

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

1 35 (72.92%) Degree
2 33 (68.75%) FPGA
2 33 (68.75%) CPLD
2 33 (68.75%) Ethernet
2 33 (68.75%) EMC
2 33 (68.75%) Electronics
2 33 (68.75%) VHDL
2 33 (68.75%) Schematic Capture
3 9 (18.75%) Adobe
4 8 (16.67%) Adobe Illustrator
5 7 (14.58%) Photoshop
5 7 (14.58%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 6 (12.50%) User Experience
6 6 (12.50%) Figma
7 5 (10.42%) Creative Thinking
8 4 (8.33%) Social Media
8 4 (8.33%) UX Design
8 4 (8.33%) InDesign
8 4 (8.33%) Marketing
9 3 (6.25%) Adobe After Effects
9 3 (6.25%) Rapid Prototyping
9 3 (6.25%) Prototyping
9 3 (6.25%) Typography
9 3 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (6.25%) Social Skills
9 3 (6.25%) User Research
10 2 (4.17%) Accessibility
10 2 (4.17%) Public Sector
10 2 (4.17%) Multichannel Marketing
10 2 (4.17%) Instructional Design

Digital 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 2 (4.17%) Confluence
2 1 (2.08%) CMS
Applications
1 8 (16.67%) Adobe Illustrator
2 7 (14.58%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 7 (14.58%) Photoshop
3 4 (8.33%) InDesign
4 3 (6.25%) Adobe After Effects
5 2 (4.17%) Adobe Captivate
5 2 (4.17%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (2.08%) Adobe XD
6 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (12.50%) Figma
2 1 (2.08%) Adobe Creative Cloud
2 1 (2.08%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 33 (68.75%) Ethernet
2 1 (2.08%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.08%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (4.17%) JIRA
2 1 (2.08%) Dreamweaver
General
1 33 (68.75%) Electronics
2 4 (8.33%) Marketing
3 3 (6.25%) Social Skills
4 2 (4.17%) Legal
4 2 (4.17%) Multimedia
4 2 (4.17%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.08%) Local Government
5 1 (2.08%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.08%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (68.75%) CPLD
1 33 (68.75%) FPGA
1 33 (68.75%) VHDL
2 4 (8.33%) Social Media
3 1 (2.08%) Animation
3 1 (2.08%) Blog
3 1 (2.08%) Digital Media
3 1 (2.08%) Life Science
3 1 (2.08%) Motion Graphics
3 1 (2.08%) NHS
3 1 (2.08%) Photography
3 1 (2.08%) Podcast
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (68.75%) Schematic Capture
2 6 (12.50%) User Experience
3 5 (10.42%) Creative Thinking
4 4 (8.33%) UX Design
5 3 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (6.25%) Prototyping
5 3 (6.25%) Rapid Prototyping
5 3 (6.25%) Typography
5 3 (6.25%) User Research
6 2 (4.17%) Instructional Design
6 2 (4.17%) Multichannel Marketing
6 2 (4.17%) Regulatory Compliance
6 2 (4.17%) SEO
6 2 (4.17%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (4.17%) Usability Testing
7 1 (2.08%) Agile
7 1 (2.08%) Content Management
7 1 (2.08%) Copywriting
7 1 (2.08%) Data Protection
7 1 (2.08%) Visualisation
Qualifications
1 35 (72.92%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.17%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.08%) GDPR
Vendors
1 33 (68.75%) EMC
2 9 (18.75%) Adobe
3 2 (4.17%) Atlassian
3 2 (4.17%) Microsoft