UI Engineer Contracts in the City of London

User Interface Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median User Interface Engineer daily rate in the City of London is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 - 177
Rank change year-on-year - - +13
Contract jobs requiring a UI Engineer 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.11% - 0.027%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% - 0.029%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
Central London median daily rate £525 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 1,632 2,086 3,469
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.94% 94.95% 95.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,021 1,483 2,364
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -6.25% +6.19%
75th Percentile £681 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £798 £820
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £585
% change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% +4.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 22
10th Percentile £22.00 £15.62 £15.50
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £31.00 £23.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.78% -34.29% -6.04%
75th Percentile £48.75 £27.25 £58.75
90th Percentile £92.75 £40.00 £87.97
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.78 £35.00
% change year-on-year +12.76% -26.34% -6.04%

UI Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for UI Engineer in the City of London

UI Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing UI Engineer in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for UI Engineer in the City of London

UI Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UI Engineer within the City of London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
London Bridge - 1 - -
UI Engineer
Central London

UI Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, UI Engineer 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 across the City of London region featuring UI Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Vite
2 1 (50.00%) Inclusive Design
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) Hitachi
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) WCAG
2 1 (50.00%) Kanban
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Data Privacy
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) React
2 1 (50.00%) webpack
2 1 (50.00%) Secure Coding
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
2 1 (50.00%) Redux
2 1 (50.00%) Figma

UI Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Figma
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Storybook
1 1 (50.00%) Vite
1 1 (50.00%) webpack
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) Redux
1 1 (50.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Testing
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
2 1 (50.00%) Data Privacy
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Inclusive Design
2 1 (50.00%) Kanban
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Secure Coding
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (50.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Hitachi