The first table below looks at the demand for the UI Designer role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited UI Designer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
User Interface Designer
Rank 698 770 787
Rank change year-on-year
+72 +17
Permanent jobs requiring a UI Designer 164 129 94
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.152% 0.107% 0.076%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.161% 0.113% 0.080%
Number of salaries quoted 138 122 77
Average salary £40,000 £35,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% -12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,200 £27,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £50,000 £49,500
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £31,250 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+12.00% -21.87%
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
102035 114410 117207
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.41% 94.80% 94.20%
Number of salaries quoted 84835 98106 99148
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%

UI Designer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT 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
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing UI Designer within the UK.

UI Designer Salary Trend

UI Designer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing UI Designer over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 within the UK.

UI Designer Salary Histogram

UI Designer
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing UI Designer within the UK over the 3 months to 24 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England +51 152 £41,250 +17.85%
London +88 98 £42,500 +8.28%
City of London +28 34 £41,250 -1.78%
South East +9 16 £37,500 +25.00%
East of England +7 13 £36,000 +30.90%
South West +1 10 £24,000 -26.15%
Dorset - 6 £24,000 -
North West -3 5 £25,000 -24.24%
Kent -13 5 £51,250 -
West Midlands -15 5 £37,500 +36.36%
Buckinghamshire - 5 £35,000 -
Poole - 5 £24,000 -
Milton Keynes - 5 £35,000 -
Manchester -24 4 £25,000 -25.37%
Cardiff - 4 £25,500 -
Hertfordshire - 4 £52,500 -
Warwickshire - 4 £35,000 -
South Wales - 4 £25,500 -
Wales - 4 £25,500 -
Berkshire +4 3 £37,500 -6.25%
Scotland +3 3 - -
Yorkshire -2 3 £40,000 +33.33%
Bedfordshire -16 3 £35,000 +27.27%
Stowmarket - 3 £37,500 -
Bristol - 3 £35,000 -
Hertford - 3 £55,000 -
Suffolk - 3 £37,500 -
Newbury +10 2 £37,500 -6.25%
Surrey +8 2 - -
Edinburgh +7 2 - -

UI Designer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT 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 IT job ads sampled with UI Designer in their job title.

1 179 (61.30%) CSS
2 161 (55.14%) HTML
3 158 (54.11%) Photoshop
4 127 (43.49%) JavaScript
5 123 (42.12%) Adobe Illustrator
6 71 (24.32%) HTML5
7 69 (23.63%) Mobile App
7 69 (23.63%) Adobe
8 66 (22.60%) Apple iOS
9 63 (21.58%) Android
10 58 (19.86%) jQuery
11 46 (15.75%) Graphic Design
12 44 (15.07%) CSS3
13 42 (14.38%) Finance
14 40 (13.70%) Agile Software Development
15 39 (13.36%) Windows
16 37 (12.67%) Games
17 36 (12.33%) Web Design
18 33 (11.30%) XHTML
19 32 (10.96%) iPad
20 30 (10.27%) E-Commerce
20 30 (10.27%) Fireworks
21 29 (9.932%) Marketing
21 29 (9.932%) iPhone
22 28 (9.589%) Axure RP
23 27 (9.247%) OmniGraffle
24 25 (8.562%) Ajax
24 25 (8.562%) Flash
25 21 (7.192%) .NET
25 21 (7.192%) Scrum

UI Designer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT 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 IT job ads sampled with UI Designer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 179 (61.30%) CSS
2 161 (55.14%) HTML
3 71 (24.32%) HTML5
4 58 (19.86%) jQuery
5 44 (15.07%) CSS3
6 33 (11.30%) XHTML
7 25 (8.562%) Ajax
7 25 (8.562%) Flash
8 21 (7.192%) .NET
9 20 (6.849%) Haml
10 19 (6.507%) LESS
10 19 (6.507%) SCSS
11 15 (5.137%) ASP.NET
12 10 (3.425%) WPF
13 9 (3.082%) Silverlight
14 7 (2.397%) JSON
14 7 (2.397%) DHTML
15 5 (1.712%) Semantic HTML
15 5 (1.712%) .NET Framework
15 5 (1.712%) DOM
Application Platforms
1 4 (1.370%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.027%) Magento
3 2 (0.685%) CMS
3 2 (0.685%) Drupal
3 2 (0.685%) WordPress
4 1 (0.342%) IIS
4 1 (0.342%) Lotus Notes
Applications
1 158 (54.11%) Photoshop
2 123 (42.12%) Adobe Illustrator
3 30 (10.27%) Fireworks
4 27 (9.247%) OmniGraffle
5 16 (5.479%) MS Visio
6 14 (4.795%) Adobe After Effects
7 11 (3.767%) InDesign
8 9 (3.082%) MS Excel
9 3 (1.027%) GIMP
10 1 (0.342%) Blender
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.397%) HTTP
2 3 (1.027%) Internet
3 1 (0.342%) DAB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.192%) Big Data
2 19 (6.507%) Data Mining
3 5 (1.712%) MySQL
3 5 (1.712%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.370%) GIS
5 1 (0.342%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 28 (9.589%) Axure RP
2 9 (3.082%) Dreamweaver
3 5 (1.712%) Git (software)
4 3 (1.027%) Team Foundation Server
4 3 (1.027%) Mercurial
4 3 (1.027%) Bitbucket
4 3 (1.027%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.685%) Expression Blend
5 2 (0.685%) Balsamiq Mockups
6 1 (0.342%) Xcode
General
1 42 (14.38%) Finance
2 37 (12.67%) Games
3 29 (9.932%) Marketing
4 12 (4.110%) Banking
5 11 (3.767%) Telecoms
6 10 (3.425%) Publishing
7 7 (2.397%) Retail
8 6 (2.055%) Electronics
8 6 (2.055%) Advertising
9 5 (1.712%) Multimedia
10 3 (1.027%) Legal
11 2 (0.685%) Front Office
11 2 (0.685%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.342%) Automotive
12 1 (0.342%) Swedish Language
12 1 (0.342%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.342%) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous
1 69 (23.63%) Mobile App
2 46 (15.75%) Graphic Design
3 32 (10.96%) iPad
4 29 (9.932%) iPhone
5 20 (6.849%) Social Media
6 14 (4.795%) Blackberry
7 9 (3.082%) W3C
7 9 (3.082%) Cloud Computing
8 8 (2.740%) Mobile Banking
9 7 (2.397%) Fixed Income
9 7 (2.397%) Computer Science
10 6 (2.055%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 6 (2.055%) Social Gaming
11 5 (1.712%) Blog
12 4 (1.370%) NHS
12 4 (1.370%) Smartphone
12 4 (1.370%) SaaS
13 3 (1.027%) Digital Media
13 3 (1.027%) 3D Graphics
13 3 (1.027%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 66 (22.60%) Apple iOS
2 63 (21.58%) Android
3 39 (13.36%) Windows
4 14 (4.795%) Windows Mobile
5 5 (1.712%) Windows 7
5 5 (1.712%) Windows Phone
6 3 (1.027%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (1.027%) Windows 8
6 3 (1.027%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (13.70%) Agile Software Development
2 36 (12.33%) Web Design
3 30 (10.27%) E-Commerce
4 21 (7.192%) Scrum
5 20 (6.849%) Web Usability
5 20 (6.849%) Web Development
6 19 (6.507%) Web Mining
7 12 (4.110%) Information Architecture
7 12 (4.110%) Analytics
7 12 (4.110%) B2B
8 8 (2.740%) SEO
9 7 (2.397%) MVC
10 6 (2.055%) Enterprise Architecture
10 6 (2.055%) Usability Testing
11 5 (1.712%) Online Marketing
12 4 (1.370%) Validation
12 4 (1.370%) 3D Modelling
12 4 (1.370%) User Experience Design
12 4 (1.370%) Market Research
12 4 (1.370%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 127 (43.49%) JavaScript
2 10 (3.425%) PHP
3 7 (2.397%) C#
3 7 (2.397%) Java
4 6 (2.055%) XAML
5 4 (1.370%) ActionScript
6 3 (1.027%) Ruby
7 2 (0.685%) Delphi
7 2 (0.685%) RPG
7 2 (0.685%) SQL
8 1 (0.342%) ActionScript 3.0
8 1 (0.342%) ActionScript 2.0
8 1 (0.342%) CoffeeScript
8 1 (0.342%) C
Qualifications
1 21 (7.192%) Degree
2 1 (0.342%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.027%) QA
Vendors
1 69 (23.63%) Adobe
2 10 (3.425%) Microsoft
3 9 (3.082%) Apple
4 8 (2.740%) Google
5 4 (1.370%) Oracle
6 3 (1.027%) Twitter
7 2 (0.685%) Zend
7 2 (0.685%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.342%) Facebook
8 1 (0.342%) Serena
8 1 (0.342%) IBM
8 1 (0.342%) Lotus
8 1 (0.342%) SAP
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Salary: £26000 - £45000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 10 May 2013
Stratford-Upon-Avon, Warwickshire
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Salary: £38000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
London
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Computer Futures
Posted: 24 May 2013
London
This talented Mobile UI Designer will be responsible for redefining the Product and Design experience through stunning user interfaces and ingenious solutions across portfolio of mobile and web...
JM
Salary: £40000 - £60000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
London
My client, a London based digital agency; specialising in interactive user interfaces and data visualisation for household name brands, are looking for a talented and dedicated junior or...
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Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 24 May 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
You’ll be creating front-ends for web applications, iOS and Android... - A good degree in a relevant subject. - Interest in Usability and UX (web application wireframing skills...
ECM Selection Ltd
Salary: £Excellent salary + benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
London
Keywords: Graphics, User Interface, User experience, Wire framing, prototyping, Design, User journey, photo shop, IOS, Android... Requirements: Solid UX UI/Graphics Design experience for Android or IOS APPS.....
Computer Futures
Salary: £45000 - £60000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
London
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Computer Futures
Salary: £45000 - £60000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
London
KEY SKILLS - UX / UI / USER EXPERIENCE / USER JOURNEY / USER INTERFACE / BALSAMIQ / AXURE / OMNIGRAFFLE / DESIGNER / PHOTOSHOP / ILLUSTRATOR / INDESIGN UX/UI Designer Central London £35,000 to £45,000 Here...
Computer Futures
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
London
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Computer Futures
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 23 May 2013
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
This role would give the successful candidate the opportunity to be exposed to some exciting and unique challenges as our client aims to offer its customers with state...
Change Recruitment Group
Salary: Excellent salary & benefits package
Posted: 21 May 2013
Hertford, Hertfordshire
Web Application / UI Designer URGENTLY required for an emerging, innovative software house based in Hertford, Hertfordshire. Specialising in retail solutions for their various clients both in the UK...
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: Up to 55k + benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Manchester, North West
Our client encourages creativity at every turn and will give you the opportunity to grow while making a personal impact to their continued growth.The priority of this...
IS Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £20,000 - £25,000 per year
Posted: 9 May 2013
London
UI DESIGNER - MOBILE APPS - WEB APPS - CREATIVE - MARKET LEADER... This British technology and services company deliver mobile banking, payments and commerce solutions to hundreds of financial institutions and...
Burns Sheehan
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + 10% bonus + benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
City, London
Mobile UX/UI App Designer - UX, UI, Photoshop, Mobile, iOS, Android, Illustrator, ipad, iphone, winmob, User Experience, User Interface, IA, Information Architect - London - Up to £40k My client...
Explore Recruitment Solutions
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 23 May 2013
London
DESIGN / UX / USER JOURNEY / USER EXPERIENCE / USABILITY / WIREFRAME / PROTOTYPE / BALSAMIQ / OMNIGRAFFLE / AXURE / UI / USER INTERFACE UX/UI Designer - Must Have Web App Design Experience Industry Leading SAAS Provider...
Computer Futures
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
City, London
Senior/Lead Mobile UX/UI App Designer - UX, UI, Photoshop, Mobile, iOS, Android, Illustrator, ipad, iphone, winmob, User Experience, User Interface, IA, Information Architect - London - Up to £50k...
Explore Recruitment Solutions
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
City of London
Are you a senior UI/UX designer with a good working experience in designing mobile apps?... Have you got 3+ years of direct commercial experience in mobile UX &...
ITHR
Salary: £50000 - £55000 per annum + bonus
Posted: 24 May 2013
City, London
Good knowledge and experience hand coding different technologies: OO JavaScript, html5, CSS3, json, xml, xsl ?... Key Skills: UI, User Interface, Developer, Web Applications, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Agile,Scrum,...
Just IT Recruitment
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 24 May 2013