UI Designer Contracts in England

User Interface Designer
UK > England

The median User Interface Designer daily rate in England is £480, 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 451 481 505
Rank change year-on-year +30 +24 +15
Contract jobs requiring a UI Designer 34 61 148
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.14% 0.16% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.18% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 35 116
10th Percentile £308 £325 £300
25th Percentile £360 £386 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £563 £563 £641
90th Percentile £825 £600 £838
UK median daily rate £412 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -8.56% -10.00% -

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 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

UI Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for UI Designer in England

UI Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing UI Designer in England.

Daily rate trend for UI Designer in England

UI Designer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UI Designer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for UI Designer in England

UI Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing UI Designer in England.

Hourly rate trend for UI Designer in England

UI Designer
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 UI Designer within the England 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 +24 23 £500 -2.44% 31
South West +47 4 £375 -11.76% 6
North of England +16 3 £313 +0.16% 6
Midlands +22 2 £318 -24.04% 1
East Midlands +10 2 £318 -24.04% 1
Yorkshire +6 2 £308 -1.60% 2
South East +39 1 £550 +15.79% 12
North West +16 1 £313 - 4
East of England - 1 £480 -
UI Designer
UK

UI Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, UI Designer 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 UI Designer in the job title.

1 32 (94.12%) User Experience
2 30 (88.24%) UX Design
3 27 (79.41%) Figma
4 16 (47.06%) Social Skills
5 13 (38.24%) User Research
5 13 (38.24%) Wireframes
6 11 (32.35%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 11 (32.35%) Finance
7 10 (29.41%) Prototyping
8 9 (26.47%) Accessibility
8 9 (26.47%) Adobe
8 9 (26.47%) Agile
8 9 (26.47%) Banking
9 7 (20.59%) Sketch
10 6 (17.65%) Adobe XD
10 6 (17.65%) Usability Testing
11 5 (14.71%) HTML
11 5 (14.71%) JavaScript
11 5 (14.71%) CSS
11 5 (14.71%) Interaction Design
11 5 (14.71%) Typography
11 5 (14.71%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
12 4 (11.76%) Low-Fidelity Prototypes
12 4 (11.76%) Front End Development
12 4 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
12 4 (11.76%) Responsive Web Design
13 3 (8.82%) Analytics
13 3 (8.82%) Mobile App
13 3 (8.82%) Product Management
13 3 (8.82%) E-Commerce

UI Designer 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.94%) CMS
1 1 (2.94%) Drupal
1 1 (2.94%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (20.59%) Sketch
2 6 (17.65%) Adobe XD
3 2 (5.88%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (5.88%) Autodesk Smoke
3 2 (5.88%) InVision
4 1 (2.94%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (2.94%) Blender
4 1 (2.94%) CINEMA 4D
4 1 (2.94%) Final Cut Pro
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 27 (79.41%) Figma
2 2 (5.88%) SaaS
3 1 (2.94%) Adobe Creative Cloud
3 1 (2.94%) AWS
3 1 (2.94%) BigCommerce
3 1 (2.94%) Miro
3 1 (2.94%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.94%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Axure RP
General
1 16 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 11 (32.35%) Finance
3 9 (26.47%) Banking
4 2 (5.88%) Games
4 2 (5.88%) Manufacturing
4 2 (5.88%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.94%) Local Government
5 1 (2.94%) Marketing
5 1 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (14.71%) CSS
1 5 (14.71%) HTML
2 1 (2.94%) Framer.js
2 1 (2.94%) React
2 1 (2.94%) React Native
2 1 (2.94%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 1 (2.94%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.82%) Mobile App
2 2 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.94%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.94%) Animation
3 1 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.94%) Tandem
3 1 (2.94%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.94%) Android
1 1 (2.94%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (94.12%) User Experience
2 30 (88.24%) UX Design
3 13 (38.24%) User Research
3 13 (38.24%) Wireframes
4 11 (32.35%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 10 (29.41%) Prototyping
6 9 (26.47%) Agile
7 6 (17.65%) Usability Testing
8 5 (14.71%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
8 5 (14.71%) Interaction Design
8 5 (14.71%) Typography
9 4 (11.76%) Front End Development
9 4 (11.76%) Low-Fidelity Prototypes
9 4 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (11.76%) Responsive Web Design
10 3 (8.82%) Analytics
10 3 (8.82%) Customer Experience
10 3 (8.82%) E-Commerce
10 3 (8.82%) Product Management
11 2 (5.88%) UX Research
Programming Languages
1 5 (14.71%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (5.88%) Degree
2 1 (2.94%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.94%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (26.47%) Accessibility
2 3 (8.82%) WCAG
3 2 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.94%) Docker
Vendors
1 9 (26.47%) Adobe
2 1 (2.94%) Salesforce
2 1 (2.94%) SAP
2 1 (2.94%) Sitecore