UI/UX Developer Contracts

User Interface/User Experience Developer
UK

The median User Interface/User Experience Developer daily rate in the UK is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 579 711 839
Rank change year-on-year +132 +128 -241
Contract jobs requiring a UI/UX Developer 15 5 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.035% 0.008% 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.037% 0.009% 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 12
10th Percentile £438 £595 £454
25th Percentile £475 £625 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £700 £538
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +30.23% +2.38%
75th Percentile £588 £775 £713
90th Percentile £648 £805 -
UK excluding London median daily rate - £600 £445
% change year-on-year - +34.83% +39.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £25.75 £73.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £26.50 £77.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.94% -65.58% -
75th Percentile - £27.25 £80.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 40,181 56,479 84,762
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.61% 95.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,164 39,476 59,482
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 £750 £750 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £491 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.87% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,646 1,570 2,098
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.29 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.49 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.03
Median % change year-on-year -20.10% +95.42% +0.12%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.75 £63.16
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.75 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.18% +117.95% +2.55%

UI/UX Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for UI/UX Developer in the UK

UI/UX Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for UI/UX Developer in the UK

UI/UX Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UI/UX Developer over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for UI/UX Developer in the UK

UI/UX Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for UI/UX Developer in the UK

UI/UX Developer
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UI/UX Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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 +125 13 £525 -25.00% 2
London +117 13 £525 -34.38% 1
Work from Home +131 7 £425 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, UI/UX 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/UX Developer in the job title.

1 15 (100.00%) User Experience
1 15 (100.00%) React
2 12 (80.00%) Front End Development
3 11 (73.33%) UX Design
3 11 (73.33%) HTML
4 9 (60.00%) JavaScript
4 9 (60.00%) CSS
5 7 (46.67%) HTML5
6 6 (40.00%) Finance
7 5 (33.33%) GitHub
8 4 (26.67%) AngularJS
8 4 (26.67%) Git
8 4 (26.67%) Java
8 4 (26.67%) Fixed Income
8 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
8 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
9 3 (20.00%) Accessibility
9 3 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
9 3 (20.00%) Next.js
9 3 (20.00%) Interaction Design
9 3 (20.00%) SonarQube
9 3 (20.00%) TypeScript
9 3 (20.00%) SDLC
9 3 (20.00%) Serverless
9 3 (20.00%) Black Duck
9 3 (20.00%) Cloud Native

UI/UX 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 2 (13.33%) Confluence
2 1 (6.67%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) GitHub
2 3 (20.00%) Azure
2 3 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 3 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 3 (20.00%) Serverless
3 2 (13.33%) AWS
4 1 (6.67%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Git
2 3 (20.00%) SonarQube
3 2 (13.33%) Bitbucket
3 2 (13.33%) GitLab
3 2 (13.33%) JIRA
4 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
4 1 (6.67%) Postman
4 1 (6.67%) Selenium
4 1 (6.67%) webpack
General
1 6 (40.00%) Finance
2 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Front Office
3 3 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Advertising
4 1 (6.67%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (100.00%) React
2 11 (73.33%) HTML
3 9 (60.00%) CSS
4 7 (46.67%) HTML5
5 4 (26.67%) AngularJS
6 3 (20.00%) Next.js
6 3 (20.00%) SignalR
6 3 (20.00%) WebSockets
6 3 (20.00%) YAML
7 2 (13.33%) CSS3
7 2 (13.33%) Semantic HTML
8 1 (6.67%) D3.js
8 1 (6.67%) Guice
8 1 (6.67%) jQuery
8 1 (6.67%) Redux
8 1 (6.67%) RESTful
8 1 (6.67%) Spring
8 1 (6.67%) Spring Boot
8 1 (6.67%) Vue
8 1 (6.67%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Fixed Income
2 3 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (20.00%) Derivative
2 3 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (20.00%) Hedge funds
3 2 (13.33%) Mobile App
3 2 (13.33%) Renewable Energy
3 2 (13.33%) Solar Panel
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) User Experience
2 12 (80.00%) Front End Development
3 11 (73.33%) UX Design
4 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
4 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (20.00%) Agile
5 3 (20.00%) Interaction Design
5 3 (20.00%) Kanban
5 3 (20.00%) OOP
5 3 (20.00%) Scrum
5 3 (20.00%) SDLC
5 3 (20.00%) Web Development
6 2 (13.33%) Code Quality
6 2 (13.33%) Continuous Deployment
7 1 (6.67%) Design Thinking
7 1 (6.67%) End-to-End Testing
7 1 (6.67%) Micro Frontends
7 1 (6.67%) User Research
7 1 (6.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 1 (6.67%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 9 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (26.67%) Java
3 3 (20.00%) Python
3 3 (20.00%) SQL
3 3 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
1 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (13.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Black Duck
2 2 (13.33%) Atlassian