UI Developer Contracts

User Interface Developer
UK

The median User Interface Developer daily rate in the UK is £750 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 498 577 592
Rank change year-on-year +79 +15 -137
Contract jobs requiring a UI Developer 88 139 270
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.23% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.24% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 118 197
10th Percentile £461 £475 £475
25th Percentile £550 £550 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £750 £650
Median % change year-on-year - +15.38% +23.81%
75th Percentile £850 £900 £750
90th Percentile £875 £1,094 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 7
10th Percentile £40.00 - £63.87
25th Percentile £46.25 £25.75 £66.53
Median hourly rate £72.50 £26.50 £67.80
Median % change year-on-year +173.58% -60.91% +24.40%
75th Percentile £79.38 £27.25 £68.78
90th Percentile £80.00 - £74.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £77.50 - £67.80
% change year-on-year - - +24.40%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 40,501 57,364 85,821
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.55% 95.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,442 40,011 60,276
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £748 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,615 1,620 2,120
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.33 £15.47
Median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +95.65% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.77 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -14.12% +117.95% +2.63%

UI Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for UI Developer in the UK

UI Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for UI Developer in the UK

UI Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UI Developer over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for UI Developer in the UK

UI Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for UI Developer in the UK

UI Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing UI Developer over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for UI Developer in the UK

UI Developer
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UI Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 19 April 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
England +62 80 £750 -1.64% 17
London +52 67 £800 +3.23% 8
Work from Home +85 30 £750 +25.00% 4
UK excluding London +79 16 £525 +16.67% 8
Scotland +42 3 £435 -3.33%
Midlands +37 3 £481 +48.08% 4
South West +24 3 £600 - 3
East of England +18 3 - - 1
South East - 3 £513 -
West Midlands - 2 £413 - 3
East Midlands +14 1 £550 +69.23% 1
Wales - 1 £500 -

UI Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, UI Developer 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 featuring UI Developer in the job title.

1 74 (84.09%) React
2 51 (57.95%) TypeScript
3 50 (56.82%) JavaScript
4 48 (54.55%) Agile
5 39 (44.32%) Front End Development
6 36 (40.91%) Front Office
6 36 (40.91%) CSS
7 34 (38.64%) User Experience
8 32 (36.36%) Social Skills
9 28 (31.82%) Finance
9 28 (31.82%) AngularJS
10 27 (30.68%) Analytical Skills
10 27 (30.68%) Electronic Trading
11 24 (27.27%) Software Engineering
12 23 (26.14%) JIRA
12 23 (26.14%) Fixed Income
12 23 (26.14%) REST
12 23 (26.14%) RxJS
13 22 (25.00%) webpack
13 22 (25.00%) Design Patterns
14 21 (23.86%) npm
14 21 (23.86%) HTML
15 20 (22.73%) WebSockets
15 20 (22.73%) Continuous Improvement
16 19 (21.59%) Economics
17 18 (20.45%) Java
18 17 (19.32%) SQL
19 16 (18.18%) Redux
19 16 (18.18%) TDD
19 16 (18.18%) Banking

UI Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (5.68%) Apache
1 5 (5.68%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.41%) Confluence
3 2 (2.27%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 21 (23.86%) npm
2 15 (17.05%) AWS
3 7 (7.95%) Azure
3 7 (7.95%) GitHub
4 6 (6.82%) Yarn
5 5 (5.68%) Azure Key Vault
5 5 (5.68%) GCP
5 5 (5.68%) Serverless
6 3 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (3.41%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (2.27%) Azure Functions
7 2 (2.27%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (2.27%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (2.27%) Figma
7 2 (2.27%) PaaS
7 2 (2.27%) SaaS
8 1 (1.14%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
8 1 (1.14%) Firebase
8 1 (1.14%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.14%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.95%) NoSQL
1 7 (7.95%) Relational Database
2 5 (5.68%) Apache Ignite
3 4 (4.55%) Oracle Database
4 3 (3.41%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.27%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.14%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 23 (26.14%) JIRA
2 22 (25.00%) webpack
3 13 (14.77%) Git
4 9 (10.23%) TeamCity
5 5 (5.68%) Cypress.io
6 4 (4.55%) Babel
7 3 (3.41%) Bitbucket
7 3 (3.41%) GitLab
7 3 (3.41%) Jenkins
7 3 (3.41%) SonarQube
7 3 (3.41%) Visual Studio
8 2 (2.27%) Ant
8 2 (2.27%) Jasmine
8 2 (2.27%) Selenium
9 1 (1.14%) git-flow
9 1 (1.14%) Karma Test Runner
9 1 (1.14%) Mocha
9 1 (1.14%) PostCSS
9 1 (1.14%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (1.14%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 36 (40.91%) Front Office
2 32 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 28 (31.82%) Finance
4 27 (30.68%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (18.18%) Banking
6 6 (6.82%) Investment Banking
7 3 (3.41%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.27%) Games
8 2 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.14%) Advertising
9 1 (1.14%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.14%) Automotive
9 1 (1.14%) Law
9 1 (1.14%) Marketing
9 1 (1.14%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.14%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (84.09%) React
2 36 (40.91%) CSS
3 28 (31.82%) AngularJS
4 23 (26.14%) REST
4 23 (26.14%) RxJS
5 21 (23.86%) HTML
6 20 (22.73%) WebSockets
7 16 (18.18%) Redux
8 11 (12.50%) HTML5
9 10 (11.36%) Node.js
10 8 (9.09%) WPF
11 6 (6.82%) gRPC
11 6 (6.82%) Reactive Extensions
11 6 (6.82%) Spring
11 6 (6.82%) Spring Boot
12 5 (5.68%) .NET
12 5 (5.68%) Material-UI
12 5 (5.68%) Protocol Buffers
12 5 (5.68%) Vue
13 4 (4.55%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 23 (26.14%) Fixed Income
2 7 (7.95%) Derivative
2 7 (7.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 6 (6.82%) Wiki
4 5 (5.68%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.41%) Hedge funds
6 2 (2.27%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.27%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (2.27%) Solar Panel
7 1 (1.14%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.14%) Animation
7 1 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.14%) Equity Derivative
7 1 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.14%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.14%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.27%) Linux
2 1 (1.14%) Unix
2 1 (1.14%) VxWorks
2 1 (1.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (54.55%) Agile
2 39 (44.32%) Front End Development
3 34 (38.64%) User Experience
4 27 (30.68%) Electronic Trading
5 24 (27.27%) Software Engineering
6 22 (25.00%) Design Patterns
7 20 (22.73%) Continuous Improvement
8 19 (21.59%) Economics
9 16 (18.18%) TDD
10 15 (17.05%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (17.05%) UX Design
11 14 (15.91%) DevOps
11 14 (15.91%) Web Application Development
11 14 (15.91%) Web Development
12 13 (14.77%) Continuous Integration
13 12 (13.64%) CI/CD
13 12 (13.64%) Full Stack Development
14 11 (12.50%) Microservices
14 11 (12.50%) SDLC
15 8 (9.09%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 51 (57.95%) TypeScript
2 50 (56.82%) JavaScript
3 18 (20.45%) Java
4 17 (19.32%) SQL
5 14 (15.91%) C#
6 10 (11.36%) Python
7 2 (2.27%) C++
7 2 (2.27%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.14%) Assembly Language
8 1 (1.14%) C
8 1 (1.14%) MATLAB
8 1 (1.14%) PHP
8 1 (1.14%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 9 (10.23%) Security Cleared
2 5 (5.68%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (5.68%) Degree
2 5 (5.68%) DV Cleared
3 4 (4.55%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.14%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.14%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.23%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.41%) WCAG
3 1 (1.14%) IEC 61508
3 1 (1.14%) MiFID
3 1 (1.14%) MISRA
3 1 (1.14%) MISRA C
System Software
1 1 (1.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (5.68%) Atlassian
2 4 (4.55%) Oracle
3 3 (3.41%) Black Duck
4 2 (2.27%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.14%) Adobe
5 1 (1.14%) Finsemble