Digital Designer Contracts

Digital Designer
UK

The median Digital Designer daily rate in the UK is £285 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 May 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 524 617 793
Rank change year-on-year +93 +176 -173
Contract jobs requiring a Digital Designer 47 70 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.12% 0.058%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.13% 0.061%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 60 28
10th Percentile - £411 £306
25th Percentile £200 £481 £347
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £285 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -48.18% +15.79% +5.56%
75th Percentile £350 £600 £556
90th Percentile - £650 £629
UK excluding London median daily rate £243 £550 £490
% change year-on-year -55.91% +12.24% +8.89%
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

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 39,507 53,867 83,506
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.60% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,718 37,620 58,687
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,672 1,498 2,036
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.29 £19.13 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

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 18 May 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 18 May 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 +86 46 £285 -48.18% 23
UK excluding London +88 39 £243 -55.91% 18
South East +67 35 £200 - 4
London +49 8 £350 -36.36% 5
Work from Home +72 5 £275 -50.00% 17
North of England +33 2 £350 -12.50% 10
Yorkshire +16 2 £350 -12.50% 2
East of England +4 1 £285 +72.73%
Scotland - 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 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 (74.47%) Degree
2 33 (70.21%) FPGA
2 33 (70.21%) CPLD
2 33 (70.21%) Ethernet
2 33 (70.21%) EMC
2 33 (70.21%) Electronics
2 33 (70.21%) VHDL
2 33 (70.21%) Schematic Capture
3 10 (21.28%) Adobe
4 9 (19.15%) Adobe Illustrator
5 8 (17.02%) Photoshop
5 8 (17.02%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 5 (10.64%) InDesign
6 5 (10.64%) User Experience
7 4 (8.51%) Figma
7 4 (8.51%) Social Skills
7 4 (8.51%) Marketing
7 4 (8.51%) Social Media
8 3 (6.38%) Typography
8 3 (6.38%) Adobe After Effects
8 3 (6.38%) Creative Thinking
9 2 (4.26%) Prototyping
9 2 (4.26%) Multichannel Marketing
9 2 (4.26%) Regulatory Compliance
9 2 (4.26%) Instructional Design
9 2 (4.26%) Public Sector
9 2 (4.26%) Accessibility
9 2 (4.26%) Agile
9 2 (4.26%) Multimedia
9 2 (4.26%) JIRA

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 (4.26%) Confluence
2 1 (2.13%) CMS
Applications
1 9 (19.15%) Adobe Illustrator
2 8 (17.02%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 8 (17.02%) Photoshop
3 5 (10.64%) InDesign
4 3 (6.38%) Adobe After Effects
5 2 (4.26%) Adobe Captivate
5 2 (4.26%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (2.13%) Adobe XD
6 1 (2.13%) InVision
6 1 (2.13%) Marvel
6 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (2.13%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 4 (8.51%) Figma
2 1 (2.13%) Adobe Creative Cloud
2 1 (2.13%) Azure
2 1 (2.13%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 33 (70.21%) Ethernet
2 1 (2.13%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.13%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (4.26%) JIRA
2 1 (2.13%) Dreamweaver
2 1 (2.13%) Maven
General
1 33 (70.21%) Electronics
2 4 (8.51%) Marketing
2 4 (8.51%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.26%) Legal
3 2 (4.26%) Multimedia
3 2 (4.26%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (2.13%) Local Government
4 1 (2.13%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.13%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (70.21%) CPLD
1 33 (70.21%) FPGA
1 33 (70.21%) VHDL
2 4 (8.51%) Social Media
3 1 (2.13%) Animation
3 1 (2.13%) Blog
3 1 (2.13%) Digital Media
3 1 (2.13%) Life Science
3 1 (2.13%) Motion Graphics
3 1 (2.13%) NHS
3 1 (2.13%) Photography
3 1 (2.13%) Podcast
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (70.21%) Schematic Capture
2 5 (10.64%) User Experience
3 3 (6.38%) Creative Thinking
3 3 (6.38%) Typography
4 2 (4.26%) Agile
4 2 (4.26%) Instructional Design
4 2 (4.26%) Multichannel Marketing
4 2 (4.26%) Prototyping
4 2 (4.26%) Regulatory Compliance
4 2 (4.26%) SEO
4 2 (4.26%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (4.26%) Usability Testing
4 2 (4.26%) UX Design
5 1 (2.13%) Content Management
5 1 (2.13%) Copywriting
5 1 (2.13%) Data Visualisation
5 1 (2.13%) Information Architecture
5 1 (2.13%) Rapid Prototyping
5 1 (2.13%) Scrum
5 1 (2.13%) Visualisation
Qualifications
1 35 (74.47%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.26%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.13%) GDPR
Vendors
1 33 (70.21%) EMC
2 10 (21.28%) Adobe
3 2 (4.26%) Atlassian
3 2 (4.26%) Microsoft