Content Designer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Content Designer
UK > Work from Home

The median Content Designer daily rate in Work from Home is £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 309 390 488
Rank change year-on-year +81 +98 -123
Contract jobs requiring a Content Designer 30 61 136
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.20% 0.26% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.27% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 52 116
10th Percentile £321 £363 £350
25th Percentile £400 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% +8.33% +12.15%
75th Percentile £448 £502 £500
90th Percentile £473 £581 £586
UK median daily rate £425 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% +12.50%

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 13,716 22,731 42,165
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.48% 95.23% 95.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,231 16,123 30,649
10th Percentile £325 £358 £359
25th Percentile £425 £444 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £634
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 567 528 566
10th Percentile £14.26 £16.98 £13.75
25th Percentile £22.54 £25.00 £19.58
Median hourly rate £43.00 £51.57 £38.83
Median % change year-on-year -16.61% +32.81% +67.29%
75th Percentile £63.38 £66.33 £58.66
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.80 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Content Designer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Content Designer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Content Designer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Content 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 Content Designer.

Content Designer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Content Designer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Content Designer over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Content Designer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Content Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 9 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Content Designer in the job title.

1 16 (53.33%) Content Strategy
1 16 (53.33%) Accessibility
2 12 (40.00%) User Experience
3 10 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 10 (33.33%) Publishing
3 10 (33.33%) CMS
3 10 (33.33%) Content Management
4 8 (26.67%) User Research
5 7 (23.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 7 (23.33%) UX Design
6 6 (20.00%) Agile
6 6 (20.00%) Social Skills
7 5 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (13.33%) SEO
8 4 (13.33%) WCAG
8 4 (13.33%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (10.00%) DBS Check
9 3 (10.00%) Prototyping
9 3 (10.00%) Strategic Thinking
9 3 (10.00%) Management Information System
9 3 (10.00%) Information Architecture
9 3 (10.00%) User Stories
10 2 (6.67%) SC Cleared
10 2 (6.67%) Security Cleared
10 2 (6.67%) Finance
10 2 (6.67%) Adobe
10 2 (6.67%) Community of Practice
10 2 (6.67%) Figma
10 2 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (6.67%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management

Content 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 (33.33%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (3.33%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (3.33%) Adobe XD
1 1 (3.33%) Photoshop
1 1 (3.33%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 2 (6.67%) Figma
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (3.33%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.33%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) JIRA
General
1 10 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 10 (33.33%) Publishing
2 6 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.67%) Finance
3 2 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Banking
4 1 (3.33%) Legal
4 1 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.33%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.33%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.33%) NHS
2 1 (3.33%) Social Media
2 1 (3.33%) Taxonomies
2 1 (3.33%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (53.33%) Content Strategy
2 12 (40.00%) User Experience
3 10 (33.33%) Content Management
4 8 (26.67%) User Research
5 7 (23.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 7 (23.33%) UX Design
6 6 (20.00%) Agile
7 5 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (13.33%) SEO
9 3 (10.00%) Information Architecture
9 3 (10.00%) Prototyping
9 3 (10.00%) Strategic Thinking
9 3 (10.00%) User Stories
10 2 (6.67%) Community of Practice
10 2 (6.67%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
11 1 (3.33%) Co-Creation
11 1 (3.33%) Customer-Centricity
11 1 (3.33%) Design Thinking
11 1 (3.33%) Stakeholder Identification
11 1 (3.33%) Technical Debt
Qualifications
1 4 (13.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (10.00%) DBS Check
3 2 (6.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (53.33%) Accessibility
2 4 (13.33%) WCAG
3 2 (6.67%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (3.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (6.67%) Adobe