The first table below looks at the demand for the UI Designer role in IT contracts advertised for the 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 17 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
User Interface Designer
Rank 362 357 420
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +63
Contract jobs requiring a UI Designer 23 49 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.107% 0.183% 0.054%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.115% 0.198% 0.059%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 18 8
Average daily rate £350 £295 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.54% -12.51%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £229 £224
10% offered a daily rate of more than £430 £479 £506
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £275 £300
% change year-on-year
+9.09% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £36.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
19929 24797 28916
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 92.30% 92.59% 92.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 13475 15993 18573
Average daily rate £450 £440 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.27% -7.36%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 450 606 683
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £41.25 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
UI Designer
England

UI Designer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 London region.

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 London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

London UI Designer Daily Rate Histogram

UI Designer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing UI Designer across the London region.

London UI Designer Hourly Rate Trend

UI Designer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UI Designer within the London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
City of London +21 15 £338 +12.31%
Hounslow - 1 £425 -
UI Designer
England

UI Designer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 27 (56.25%) CSS
2 25 (52.08%) HTML
3 24 (50.00%) Photoshop
4 14 (29.17%) JavaScript
5 13 (27.08%) Adobe Illustrator
6 10 (20.83%) Adobe
6 10 (20.83%) Axure RP
7 9 (18.75%) jQuery
7 9 (18.75%) Games
7 9 (18.75%) Agile Software Development
8 7 (14.58%) Banking
8 7 (14.58%) Web Design
8 7 (14.58%) E-Commerce
8 7 (14.58%) Intranet
8 7 (14.58%) Flash
8 7 (14.58%) CSS3
9 6 (12.50%) Mobile App
9 6 (12.50%) Android
9 6 (12.50%) Information Architecture
9 6 (12.50%) HTML5
9 6 (12.50%) Finance
10 5 (10.42%) Spring
10 5 (10.42%) Ajax
10 5 (10.42%) Spring MVC
10 5 (10.42%) MVC
10 5 (10.42%) MS Visio
10 5 (10.42%) Java
10 5 (10.42%) Apple iOS
10 5 (10.42%) Digital Media
10 5 (10.42%) KnockoutJS

UI Designer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 27 (56.25%) CSS
2 25 (52.08%) HTML
3 9 (18.75%) jQuery
4 7 (14.58%) CSS3
4 7 (14.58%) Flash
5 6 (12.50%) HTML5
6 5 (10.42%) KnockoutJS
6 5 (10.42%) Spring
6 5 (10.42%) Ajax
6 5 (10.42%) Spring MVC
7 2 (4.167%) XHTML
7 2 (4.167%) XML
8 1 (2.083%) DOM
8 1 (2.083%) XSL
8 1 (2.083%) Oracle ADF
8 1 (2.083%) .NET
8 1 (2.083%) WPF
8 1 (2.083%) JSON
8 1 (2.083%) DHTML
Application Platforms
1 5 (10.42%) Liferay
Applications
1 24 (50.00%) Photoshop
2 13 (27.08%) Adobe Illustrator
3 5 (10.42%) MS Visio
4 4 (8.333%) Fireworks
4 4 (8.333%) OmniGraffle
5 2 (4.167%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (2.083%) Acrobat
Communications & Networking
1 7 (14.58%) Intranet
2 3 (6.250%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 10 (20.83%) Axure RP
2 3 (6.250%) Balsamiq Mockups
3 1 (2.083%) Visual Studio
3 1 (2.083%) Dreamweaver
3 1 (2.083%) Expression Blend
3 1 (2.083%) Expression Studio
General
1 9 (18.75%) Games
2 7 (14.58%) Banking
3 6 (12.50%) Finance
4 3 (6.250%) Investment Banking
5 2 (4.167%) Retail
6 1 (2.083%) Publishing
6 1 (2.083%) Retail Banking
6 1 (2.083%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (2.083%) Marketing
6 1 (2.083%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.50%) Mobile App
2 5 (10.42%) Digital Media
3 2 (4.167%) Graphic Design
3 2 (4.167%) Social Network
4 1 (2.083%) Online Games
4 1 (2.083%) iPhone
4 1 (2.083%) Social Gaming
4 1 (2.083%) W3C
4 1 (2.083%) Streaming Video
4 1 (2.083%) Interactive TV
4 1 (2.083%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 6 (12.50%) Android
2 5 (10.42%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.083%) Windows
3 1 (2.083%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (18.75%) Agile Software Development
2 7 (14.58%) Web Design
2 7 (14.58%) E-Commerce
3 6 (12.50%) Information Architecture
4 5 (10.42%) MVC
5 3 (6.250%) Web Development
6 2 (4.167%) User Experience Design
6 2 (4.167%) Product Management
7 1 (2.083%) WFM
7 1 (2.083%) Usability Testing
7 1 (2.083%) BDD
7 1 (2.083%) Scrum
7 1 (2.083%) B2B
7 1 (2.083%) OO
7 1 (2.083%) TDD
7 1 (2.083%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (29.17%) JavaScript
2 5 (10.42%) Java
3 2 (4.167%) C
3 2 (4.167%) C#
4 1 (2.083%) PHP
4 1 (2.083%) SQL
4 1 (2.083%) XAML
4 1 (2.083%) Lua
Qualifications
1 1 (2.083%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.167%) ISO 9001
2 1 (2.083%) QA
Vendors
1 10 (20.83%) Adobe
2 2 (4.167%) Oracle
2 2 (4.167%) Microsoft
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