UI Designer Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the UI Designer role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. 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 22 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 currently tracked.

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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
User Interface Designer
Rank 502 512 543
Rank change year-on-year
+10 +31
Contract jobs requiring a UI Designer 32 74 43
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.068% 0.125% 0.071%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.074% 0.135% 0.077%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 26 21
Average daily rate £300 £295 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.69% -1.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £228 £225 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £413 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £275 £280
% change year-on-year
+9.09% -1.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £35.75 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 43445 54854 55821
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.19% 92.53% 92.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 24929 30221 30365
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2155 2623 2895
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £41.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

UI Designer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

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 within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

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 within the UK.

UI Designer Hourly Rate Trend

UI Designer
Top 15 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 UK over the 3 months to 22 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
England +13 31 £300 +1.69%
London +3 21 £350 +18.54%
City of London +17 13 £325 +8.15%
South East +13 5 £305 -6.15%
North West +7 4 £300 -
Berkshire +16 3 £260 -
Manchester +12 3 £300 -
Hampshire -2 2 £350 +12.00%
South West +28 1 - -
Reading +10 1 - -
Wales - 1 - -
North Wales - 1 - -
Gloucestershire - 1 - -
Hounslow - 1 £425 -
Basingstoke - 1 £350 -

UI Designer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 48 (61.54%) CSS
2 43 (55.13%) HTML
3 32 (41.03%) Photoshop
4 28 (35.90%) JavaScript
5 20 (25.64%) jQuery
6 19 (24.36%) HTML5
7 17 (21.79%) Adobe Illustrator
8 16 (20.51%) CSS3
9 14 (17.95%) Axure RP
9 14 (17.95%) Adobe
10 13 (16.67%) .NET
11 12 (15.38%) Agile Software Development
11 12 (15.38%) Ajax
12 10 (12.82%) Web Design
12 10 (12.82%) Finance
13 9 (11.54%) ASP.NET
13 9 (11.54%) Games
13 9 (11.54%) C#
13 9 (11.54%) E-Commerce
13 9 (11.54%) Information Architecture
14 8 (10.26%) Mobile App
14 8 (10.26%) Flash
14 8 (10.26%) Java
14 8 (10.26%) MVC
15 7 (8.974%) Intranet
15 7 (8.974%) Banking
16 6 (7.692%) Fireworks
16 6 (7.692%) MS Visio
16 6 (7.692%) Digital Media
17 5 (6.410%) .NET Framework

UI Designer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 48 (61.54%) CSS
2 43 (55.13%) HTML
3 20 (25.64%) jQuery
4 19 (24.36%) HTML5
5 16 (20.51%) CSS3
6 13 (16.67%) .NET
7 12 (15.38%) Ajax
8 9 (11.54%) ASP.NET
9 8 (10.26%) Flash
10 5 (6.410%) .NET Framework
10 5 (6.410%) Spring
10 5 (6.410%) Spring MVC
10 5 (6.410%) KnockoutJS
10 5 (6.410%) XML
11 4 (5.128%) JSON
12 3 (3.846%) WCF
12 3 (3.846%) REST
12 3 (3.846%) ASP.NET MVC
12 3 (3.846%) SOAP
12 3 (3.846%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 5 (6.410%) Liferay
2 3 (3.846%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.282%) WordPress
3 1 (1.282%) CMS
Applications
1 32 (41.03%) Photoshop
2 17 (21.79%) Adobe Illustrator
3 6 (7.692%) Fireworks
3 6 (7.692%) MS Visio
4 5 (6.410%) OmniGraffle
5 2 (2.564%) InDesign
5 2 (2.564%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (1.282%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 1 (1.282%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.974%) Intranet
2 3 (3.846%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.846%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 14 (17.95%) Axure RP
2 5 (6.410%) Visual Studio
3 4 (5.128%) Subversion
4 3 (3.846%) Balsamiq Mockups
5 1 (1.282%) Expression Studio
5 1 (1.282%) Expression Blend
5 1 (1.282%) Dreamweaver
General
1 10 (12.82%) Finance
2 9 (11.54%) Games
3 7 (8.974%) Banking
4 4 (5.128%) Retail
4 4 (5.128%) Marketing
5 3 (3.846%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.564%) Publishing
6 2 (2.564%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.282%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.282%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.282%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.282%) Electronics
7 1 (1.282%) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.26%) Mobile App
2 6 (7.692%) Digital Media
3 5 (6.410%) Human Factors
4 3 (3.846%) Graphic Design
5 2 (2.564%) iPad
5 2 (2.564%) Social Network
6 1 (1.282%) Interactive TV
6 1 (1.282%) Smartphone
6 1 (1.282%) Social Gaming
6 1 (1.282%) SaaS
6 1 (1.282%) iPhone
6 1 (1.282%) Online Games
6 1 (1.282%) Streaming Video
6 1 (1.282%) DTV
6 1 (1.282%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.410%) Android
2 4 (5.128%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.564%) Windows
4 1 (1.282%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (15.38%) Agile Software Development
2 10 (12.82%) Web Design
3 9 (11.54%) E-Commerce
3 9 (11.54%) Information Architecture
4 8 (10.26%) MVC
5 4 (5.128%) Scrum
6 3 (3.846%) Web Development
7 2 (2.564%) Product Management
7 2 (2.564%) User Experience Design
7 2 (2.564%) Requirements Analysis
7 2 (2.564%) Business Analysis
7 2 (2.564%) Usability Testing
8 1 (1.282%) Email Marketing
8 1 (1.282%) Digital Marketing
8 1 (1.282%) Enterprise Architecture
8 1 (1.282%) WFM
8 1 (1.282%) BDD
8 1 (1.282%) TDD
8 1 (1.282%) Content Management
8 1 (1.282%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (35.90%) JavaScript
2 9 (11.54%) C#
3 8 (10.26%) Java
4 5 (6.410%) SQL
5 3 (3.846%) Ruby
5 3 (3.846%) F#
5 3 (3.846%) C
5 3 (3.846%) PHP
6 1 (1.282%) Lua
6 1 (1.282%) XAML
Qualifications
1 5 (6.410%) Degree
2 1 (1.282%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.282%) DV Cleared
2 1 (1.282%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.564%) ISO 9001
2 1 (1.282%) QA
Vendors
1 14 (17.95%) Adobe
2 2 (2.564%) Oracle
2 2 (2.564%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.282%) Orchard
3 1 (1.282%) SAP
3 1 (1.282%) Apple
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