UI Developer Contract Job Trends in Central London

User Interface Developer
London > Central London

The median User Interface Developer daily rate in Central London is £894, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 April 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 127 124
Rank change year-on-year -12 -3 +38
Contract jobs requiring a UI Developer 4 1 5
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.17% 0.050% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.054% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile £822 - £423
25th Percentile £836 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £894 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year +88.16% -7.32% -38.81%
75th Percentile £933 £488 £634
90th Percentile £936 - £764
London median daily rate £800 £675 £801
% change year-on-year +18.52% -15.68% +3.29%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Central 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 Central London with a recognized job title 2,236 1,841 2,389
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 92.75% 95.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,518 1,196 1,694
10th Percentile £350 £361 £338
25th Percentile £450 £458 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £573 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.93% +4.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £763 £788
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 16 33
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £18.93
25th Percentile £20.18 £24.66 £21.25
Median hourly rate £26.11 £30.04 £26.56
Median % change year-on-year -13.07% +13.08% -24.11%
75th Percentile £47.50 £38.44 £33.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £81.88 £49.95
London median hourly rate £35.71 £35.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year +2.03% +25.85% -22.75%

UI Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'UI Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

UI Developer job vacancy trend in Central London

UI Developer
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for UI Developer job vacancies in Central London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for UI Developer job vacancies in Central London

UI Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for UI Developer job vacancies in Central London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for UI Developer job vacancies in Central London

UI Developer
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 9 April 2026. 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
City of London -11 4 £894 +88.16%
UI Developer
London

UI Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London

For the 6 months to 9 April 2026, UI Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Central London region featuring UI Developer in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) React
1 3 (75.00%) TypeScript
2 2 (50.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) Low Latency
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Backtesting
3 1 (25.00%) C++
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (25.00%) CSS
3 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
3 1 (25.00%) Electronic Trading
3 1 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Figma
3 1 (25.00%) Front End Development
3 1 (25.00%) Git
3 1 (25.00%) GitLab
3 1 (25.00%) Grafana
3 1 (25.00%) HTML
3 1 (25.00%) Kanban
3 1 (25.00%) Mathematics
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (25.00%) Node.js

UI Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Foundry
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) Vite
General
1 3 (75.00%) Banking
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Financial Institution
3 1 (25.00%) Front Office
3 1 (25.00%) Legal
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) CSS
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) Node.js
2 1 (25.00%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (25.00%) Playwright
2 1 (25.00%) Redux
2 1 (25.00%) Sass
2 1 (25.00%) Vitest
2 1 (25.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (25.00%) Derivative
2 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (25.00%) Fixed Income
2 1 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (50.00%) Low Latency
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Backtesting
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Electronic Trading
2 1 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (25.00%) Kanban
2 1 (25.00%) Mathematics
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (25.00%) User Experience
2 1 (25.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) TypeScript
2 2 (50.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) C++
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle