Freelance Graphic Designer Skills
The most common skills for freelance Graphic Designers are Adobe Creative Cloud, Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe InDesign, based on how often they appear in 370 rate submissions.
To see the individual submissions behind these numbers, browse the Graphic Designer hourly rates list, where you can filter by any skill below.
Skill frequency does not measure hiring demand or prove a skill increases rates. Skills with fewer than 5 records are omitted. Methodology
Most common skills — share of submissions
All tracked skills
| Skill | Share of submissions | Submissions | Rates |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adobe Creative Cloud | 44.3% | 164 | View → |
| Adobe Illustrator | 39.7% | 147 | View → |
| Adobe InDesign | 32.2% | 119 | View → |
| Adobe Photoshop | 19.5% | 72 | View → |
| Figma | 14.1% | 52 | View → |
| Photoshop | 12.7% | 47 | View → |
| Adobe After Effects | 8.9% | 33 | View → |
| canva | 5.7% | 21 | View → |
| Adobe Lightroom | 4.1% | 15 | View → |
| Adobe Premiere Pro | 4.1% | 15 | View → |
| PowerPoint | 3.2% | 12 | View → |
| Graphic Design | 3.2% | 12 | View → |
| Canva | 3% | 11 | View → |
| Wordpress | 2.7% | 10 | View → |
| Adobe XD | 2.4% | 9 | View → |
| Webflow | 2.4% | 9 | View → |
| 3D Modeling | 2.2% | 8 | View → |
| branding | 2.2% | 8 | View → |
| Affinity Designer | 1.9% | 7 | View → |
| Microsoft 365 | 1.9% | 7 | View → |