The first table below looks at the demand for the UI Designer role in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited UI Designer in their job title over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the City of London region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
User Interface Designer
Rank 189 211 235
Rank change year-on-year
+22 +24
Contract jobs requiring a UI Designer 14 6 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.218% 0.076% 0.010%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.236% 0.083% 0.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 5 1
Average daily rate £325 £301 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.15% -29.29%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £275 £288
% change year-on-year
+9.09% -4.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
5943 7197 8889
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 92.48% 91.54% 91.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 4362 5164 6490
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £275 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 183 186
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +2.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £41.50 £41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
UI Designer
London

UI Designer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing UI Designer across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

City of London UI Designer Jobs Demand Trend

UI Designer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing UI Designer across the City of London region.

City of London UI Designer Daily Rate Trend

UI Designer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing UI Designer across the City of London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

City of London UI Designer Daily Rate Histogram

UI Designer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited UI Designer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with UI Designer in their job title.

1 14 (73.68%) HTML
1 14 (73.68%) CSS
2 12 (63.16%) Photoshop
3 6 (31.58%) jQuery
4 5 (26.32%) Spring MVC
4 5 (26.32%) Banking
4 5 (26.32%) Spring
4 5 (26.32%) Java
4 5 (26.32%) JavaScript
4 5 (26.32%) MVC
4 5 (26.32%) HTML5
4 5 (26.32%) Liferay
4 5 (26.32%) CSS3
4 5 (26.32%) KnockoutJS
5 4 (21.05%) Axure RP
5 4 (21.05%) Intranet
5 4 (21.05%) Adobe Illustrator
6 3 (15.79%) Finance
6 3 (15.79%) Investment Banking
6 3 (15.79%) Ajax
6 3 (15.79%) Android
6 3 (15.79%) Apple iOS
7 2 (10.53%) Mobile App
7 2 (10.53%) Games
7 2 (10.53%) E-Commerce
7 2 (10.53%) ISO 9001
7 2 (10.53%) HTTP
7 2 (10.53%) Adobe
7 2 (10.53%) C
8 1 (5.263%) Windows

UI Designer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited UI Designer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with UI Designer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 14 (73.68%) HTML
1 14 (73.68%) CSS
2 6 (31.58%) jQuery
3 5 (26.32%) Spring MVC
3 5 (26.32%) Spring
3 5 (26.32%) HTML5
3 5 (26.32%) CSS3
3 5 (26.32%) KnockoutJS
4 3 (15.79%) Ajax
5 1 (5.263%) Oracle ADF
5 1 (5.263%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 5 (26.32%) Liferay
Applications
1 12 (63.16%) Photoshop
2 4 (21.05%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (5.263%) Fireworks
Communications & Networking
1 4 (21.05%) Intranet
2 2 (10.53%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) Axure RP
General
1 5 (26.32%) Banking
2 3 (15.79%) Finance
2 3 (15.79%) Investment Banking
3 2 (10.53%) Games
4 1 (5.263%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.263%) Interactive TV
2 1 (5.263%) Graphic Design
2 1 (5.263%) Social Network
2 1 (5.263%) Social Gaming
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.79%) Android
1 3 (15.79%) Apple iOS
2 1 (5.263%) Windows
2 1 (5.263%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (26.32%) MVC
2 2 (10.53%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 5 (26.32%) Java
1 5 (26.32%) JavaScript
2 2 (10.53%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (5.263%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) ISO 9001
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Adobe
2 1 (5.263%) Oracle
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