UI Designer Contracts in London

User Interface Designer
England > London

The median User Interface Designer daily rate in London is £513 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 358 390 413
Rank change year-on-year +32 +23 -142
Contract jobs requiring a UI Designer 35 115 197
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.20% 0.43% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.45% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 94 144
10th Percentile £397 £363 £413
25th Percentile £419 £445 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £506 £529
Median % change year-on-year +1.23% -4.21% +0.67%
75th Percentile £594 £707 £600
90th Percentile £640 £838 £696
England median daily rate £463 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -7.50% -2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £60.48
Median hourly rate - - £60.97
75th Percentile - - £61.45
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - - £60.97
% change year-on-year - - +56.32%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,617 25,468 37,159
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.23% 95.25% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,021 18,449 27,170
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £443 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £676 £700 £681
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 338 290 447
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.40
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.53 £22.21
Median hourly rate £27.66 £35.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.55% +0.71% +10.62%
75th Percentile £43.75 £61.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £78.20 £67.75
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.32 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.64% +96.98% +2.27%

UI Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured UI Designer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for UI Designer in London

UI Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing UI Designer in London.

Daily rate trend for UI Designer in London

UI Designer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UI Designer in London over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for UI Designer in London

UI Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing UI Designer in London.

Hourly rate trend for UI Designer in London

UI Designer
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UI Designer within the London region over the 6 months to 6 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
Central London +37 6 £581 +10.71% 1
South London - 1 - -
UI Designer
England

UI Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, UI 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 across the London region featuring UI Designer in the job title.

1 33 (94.29%) UX Design
1 33 (94.29%) User Experience
2 14 (40.00%) Figma
3 12 (34.29%) Adobe
4 10 (28.57%) Finance
5 9 (25.71%) Agile
5 9 (25.71%) Sketch
6 8 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (22.86%) Social Skills
6 8 (22.86%) Wireframes
6 8 (22.86%) HTML
7 6 (17.14%) Typography
7 6 (17.14%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 6 (17.14%) Photoshop
7 6 (17.14%) CSS
8 5 (14.29%) E-Commerce
8 5 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (14.29%) Games
8 5 (14.29%) Marketing
8 5 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (14.29%) User Research
8 5 (14.29%) React
8 5 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (14.29%) Health Technology
9 4 (11.43%) Accessibility
9 4 (11.43%) Adobe XD
9 4 (11.43%) InVision
9 4 (11.43%) Degree
9 4 (11.43%) Animation
9 4 (11.43%) Digital Marketing

UI Designer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Applications
1 9 (25.71%) Sketch
2 6 (17.14%) Photoshop
3 4 (11.43%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (11.43%) Adobe XD
3 4 (11.43%) InVision
4 3 (8.57%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 3 (8.57%) InDesign
5 1 (2.86%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (2.86%) Final Cut Pro
5 1 (2.86%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 14 (40.00%) Figma
2 2 (5.71%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.86%) Adobe Analytics
3 1 (2.86%) BigCommerce
3 1 (2.86%) Miro
3 1 (2.86%) Pendo
3 1 (2.86%) Unqork
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.71%) BusinessObjects
1 2 (5.71%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Axure RP
General
1 10 (28.57%) Finance
2 8 (22.86%) Social Skills
3 5 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (14.29%) Games
3 5 (14.29%) Health Technology
3 5 (14.29%) Marketing
4 4 (11.43%) Front Office
4 4 (11.43%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (8.57%) Advertising
5 3 (8.57%) Banking
5 3 (8.57%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (5.71%) Retail
7 1 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.86%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.86%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (22.86%) HTML
2 6 (17.14%) CSS
3 5 (14.29%) React
4 2 (5.71%) CSS3
5 1 (2.86%) SwiftUI
5 1 (2.86%) Unity (Game Engine)
5 1 (2.86%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 5 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (11.43%) Animation
3 3 (8.57%) Derivative
3 3 (8.57%) Digital Media
3 3 (8.57%) Fixed Income
3 3 (8.57%) Graphic Design
4 2 (5.71%) Augmented Reality
4 2 (5.71%) Mobile App
4 2 (5.71%) Product Ownership
4 2 (5.71%) Virtual Reality
5 1 (2.86%) Blog
5 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.86%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.86%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.86%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.86%) Android
1 1 (2.86%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (94.29%) User Experience
1 33 (94.29%) UX Design
2 9 (25.71%) Agile
3 8 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (22.86%) Wireframes
4 6 (17.14%) Typography
4 6 (17.14%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 5 (14.29%) E-Commerce
5 5 (14.29%) User Research
6 4 (11.43%) Digital Marketing
6 4 (11.43%) Web Design
7 3 (8.57%) B2B
7 3 (8.57%) B2C
7 3 (8.57%) Kanban
7 3 (8.57%) OOP
7 3 (8.57%) Scrum
7 3 (8.57%) Service Design
7 3 (8.57%) Time Management
8 2 (5.71%) Customer-Centricity
8 2 (5.71%) Interaction Design
Programming Languages
1 4 (11.43%) JavaScript
2 3 (8.57%) Java
2 3 (8.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (11.43%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.43%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.86%) GRC
Vendors
1 12 (34.29%) Adobe
2 2 (5.71%) MicroStrategy
3 1 (2.86%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.86%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.86%) SAP
3 1 (2.86%) Sitecore