GUI Developer Contracts in England

GUI Developer
UK > England

The median GUI Developer daily rate in England is £770, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 July 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
27 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 511 533 623
Rank change year-on-year +22 +90 +174
Contract jobs requiring a GUI Developer 5 10 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.018% 0.029% 0.002%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.020% 0.031% 0.002%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 1
10th Percentile £576 £800 -
25th Percentile £672 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £770 £850 £750
Median % change year-on-year -9.41% +13.33% +11.11%
75th Percentile £813 - -
90th Percentile £819 - -
UK median daily rate £770 £850 £750
% change year-on-year -9.41% +13.33% +27.66%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 25,339 31,938 43,601
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.75% 92.96% 94.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,468 21,084 30,793
10th Percentile £288 £300 £308
25th Percentile £402 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -0.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,282 2,007 1,363
10th Percentile £13.75 £13.86 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.79 £19.22 £19.06
Median hourly rate £26.30 £43.00 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -38.84% -1.71% +70.37%
75th Percentile £55.43 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £42.03 £43.00
% change year-on-year -40.16% -2.26% +67.45%

GUI Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for GUI Developer in England

GUI Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for GUI Developer in England

GUI Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GUI Developer in England over the 6 months to 27 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GUI Developer in England

GUI Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for GUI Developer in England

GUI Developer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GUI Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 27 July 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 +8 5 £770 -9.41% 1
GUI Developer
UK

GUI Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 27 July 2025, GUI 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 across the England region featuring GUI Developer in the job title.

1 3 (60.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 3 (60.00%) Java
1 3 (60.00%) Front Office
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
1 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (40.00%) QA
2 2 (40.00%) WPF
2 2 (40.00%) SQLite
2 2 (40.00%) Unit Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Mathematics
2 2 (40.00%) Physics
2 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Git
2 2 (40.00%) Qt
2 2 (40.00%) PyQt
2 2 (40.00%) REST
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) Low Latency
2 2 (40.00%) Workflow
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) OOP
2 2 (40.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) C#
2 2 (40.00%) Software Delivery
2 2 (40.00%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (40.00%) Sprint Planning
2 2 (40.00%) Clean Code
2 2 (40.00%) Financial Institution

GUI Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
1 3 (60.00%) Front Office
2 2 (40.00%) Financial Institution
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) PyQt
1 2 (40.00%) Qt
1 2 (40.00%) REST
1 2 (40.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Clean Code
2 2 (40.00%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) Design Patterns
2 2 (40.00%) Low Latency
2 2 (40.00%) Mathematics
2 2 (40.00%) OOP
2 2 (40.00%) Physics
2 2 (40.00%) Software Delivery
2 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Sprint Planning
2 2 (40.00%) Unit Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Workflow
3 1 (20.00%) Automated Trading
3 1 (20.00%) Electronic Trading
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) C#
2 2 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA