UI Designer Contracts in England

User Interface Designer
UK > England

The median User Interface Designer daily rate in England is £423, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 June 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
23 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 444 481 496
Rank change year-on-year +37 +15 +24
Contract jobs requiring a UI Designer 39 72 139
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.19% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.21% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 40 95
10th Percentile £302 £305 £300
25th Percentile £355 £387 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £506 £500
Median % change year-on-year -16.44% +1.25% -2.44%
75th Percentile £500 £588 £625
90th Percentile £519 £653 £750
UK median daily rate £400 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -15.79% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £61.25
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
75th Percentile - - £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £62.25
% change year-on-year - - +91.54%

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 23,039 34,818 44,441
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.20% 92.86% 94.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,129 22,691 31,534
10th Percentile £294 £290 £313
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £633 £638 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,044 2,688 1,331
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £16.58 £20.00
Median hourly rate £28.88 £39.53 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.94% -10.17% +80.66%
75th Percentile £58.70 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.39 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.36 £37.50 £44.00
% change year-on-year -27.03% -14.77% +76.00%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 +35 28 £495 -7.91% 131
South West +46 4 £375 -11.76% 19
North of England +15 3 £313 +6.55% 47
East Midlands +4 2 £318 -24.04% 7
Midlands +4 2 £318 -24.04% 23
Yorkshire +2 2 £308 +4.68% 19
South East +39 1 £550 -2.65% 31
North West +3 1 £313 - 25
East of England - 1 £480 - 15
UI Designer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 June 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 33 (84.62%) User Experience
2 30 (76.92%) UX Design
3 27 (69.23%) Figma
4 14 (35.90%) Prototyping
5 13 (33.33%) Wireframes
6 12 (30.77%) User Research
7 8 (20.51%) Banking
8 7 (17.95%) Finance
8 7 (17.95%) Accessibility
8 7 (17.95%) Social Skills
8 7 (17.95%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 7 (17.95%) Typography
9 6 (15.38%) Interaction Design
9 6 (15.38%) Adobe
9 6 (15.38%) Agile
10 5 (12.82%) Usability Testing
10 5 (12.82%) HTML
10 5 (12.82%) CSS
10 5 (12.82%) Responsive Web Design
10 5 (12.82%) UX Research
10 5 (12.82%) Sketch
10 5 (12.82%) Problem-Solving
11 4 (10.26%) Adobe XD
11 4 (10.26%) Low-Fidelity Prototypes
11 4 (10.26%) Product Ownership
11 4 (10.26%) Mobile App
11 4 (10.26%) Front End Development
11 4 (10.26%) JavaScript
11 4 (10.26%) WCAG
12 3 (7.69%) Retail

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 (2.56%) CMS
1 1 (2.56%) Drupal
Applications
1 5 (12.82%) Sketch
2 4 (10.26%) Adobe XD
3 2 (5.13%) Autodesk Smoke
3 2 (5.13%) InVision
3 2 (5.13%) UserZoom
4 1 (2.56%) Adobe Creative Suite
Cloud Services
1 27 (69.23%) Figma
2 1 (2.56%) Adobe Creative Cloud
2 1 (2.56%) Miro
2 1 (2.56%) Power Platform
2 1 (2.56%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Axure RP
General
1 8 (20.51%) Banking
2 7 (17.95%) Finance
2 7 (17.95%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.69%) Corporate Banking
3 3 (7.69%) Investment Banking
3 3 (7.69%) Marketing
3 3 (7.69%) Retail
3 3 (7.69%) Retail Banking
4 2 (5.13%) Manufacturing
4 2 (5.13%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.56%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.56%) Health Technology
5 1 (2.56%) Local Government
5 1 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.82%) CSS
1 5 (12.82%) HTML
2 1 (2.56%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.26%) Mobile App
1 4 (10.26%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.13%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.56%) Animation
3 1 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.56%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.56%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.56%) Android
1 1 (2.56%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (84.62%) User Experience
2 30 (76.92%) UX Design
3 14 (35.90%) Prototyping
4 13 (33.33%) Wireframes
5 12 (30.77%) User Research
6 7 (17.95%) Typography
6 7 (17.95%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 6 (15.38%) Agile
7 6 (15.38%) Interaction Design
8 5 (12.82%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (12.82%) Responsive Web Design
8 5 (12.82%) Usability Testing
8 5 (12.82%) UX Research
9 4 (10.26%) Front End Development
9 4 (10.26%) Low-Fidelity Prototypes
10 3 (7.69%) Analytics
10 3 (7.69%) Creative Problem-Solving
10 3 (7.69%) Customer Experience
10 3 (7.69%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
10 3 (7.69%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.26%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (2.56%) SC Cleared
1 1 (2.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.95%) Accessibility
2 4 (10.26%) WCAG
3 2 (5.13%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (15.38%) Adobe
2 3 (7.69%) Virgin Media
3 1 (2.56%) Salesforce