UI Developer Contracts in England

User Interface Developer
UK > England

The median User Interface Developer daily rate in England is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 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
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 455 465 490
Rank change year-on-year +10 +25 +84
Contract jobs requiring a UI Developer 39 88 145
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.15% 0.24% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.25% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 68 124
10th Percentile £360 £389 £475
25th Percentile £409 £498 £536
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £725
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -13.79% +11.54%
75th Percentile £788 £800 £888
90th Percentile £823 £858 £1,063
UK median daily rate £550 £625 £725
% change year-on-year -12.00% -13.79% +11.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
10th Percentile - £67.25 -
25th Percentile - £70.63 £25.75
Median hourly rate - £77.50 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year - +192.45% -58.34%
75th Percentile - £80.00 £27.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £72.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year - +173.58% -58.34%

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 23,802 34,689 44,733
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.12% 92.93% 94.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,558 22,690 31,723
10th Percentile £293 £300 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,110 2,587 1,360
10th Percentile £13.99 £12.87 £14.41
25th Percentile £17.90 £16.80 £19.50
Median hourly rate £28.34 £40.00 £43.93
Median % change year-on-year -29.15% -8.95% +75.72%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.52 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £37.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year -29.33% -12.79% +68.63%

UI Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for UI Developer in England

UI Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for UI Developer in England

UI Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UI Developer in England over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for UI Developer in England

UI Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for UI Developer in England

UI 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 UI Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 2 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 -6 28 £750 +9.09% 35
North of England +15 7 £418 -24.09% 4
North West - 7 £418 - 3
South East +54 4 £475 -9.52% 4
Midlands +5 2 £385 -30.09% 6
East Midlands +3 2 £385 -30.09% 1
UI Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 July 2025, UI 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 UI Developer in the job title.

1 31 (79.49%) React
2 28 (71.79%) CSS
3 25 (64.10%) JavaScript
4 23 (58.97%) Git
5 19 (48.72%) TypeScript
6 17 (43.59%) Agile
6 17 (43.59%) Banking
7 16 (41.03%) Finance
8 15 (38.46%) HTML
9 14 (35.90%) npm
10 13 (33.33%) Java
11 12 (30.77%) User Experience
12 11 (28.21%) Full-Stack Development
12 11 (28.21%) webpack
12 11 (28.21%) Derivative
12 11 (28.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 10 (25.64%) Web Development
13 10 (25.64%) Investment Banking
13 10 (25.64%) Front End Development
13 10 (25.64%) Yarn
14 9 (23.08%) Redux
14 9 (23.08%) Customer Requirements
14 9 (23.08%) Event-Driven
14 9 (23.08%) Event-Driven Programming
14 9 (23.08%) Atlassian
14 9 (23.08%) Electronic Trading
15 8 (20.51%) UX Design
15 8 (20.51%) RESTful
15 8 (20.51%) HTML5
15 8 (20.51%) CSS3

UI 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (10.26%) Confluence
2 3 (7.69%) Apache
2 3 (7.69%) nginx
2 3 (7.69%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 14 (35.90%) npm
2 10 (25.64%) Yarn
3 4 (10.26%) Figma
4 2 (5.13%) AWS
4 2 (5.13%) OpenShift
4 2 (5.13%) SaaS
5 1 (2.56%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.13%) HTTP
1 2 (5.13%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.56%) MongoDB
1 1 (2.56%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 23 (58.97%) Git
2 11 (28.21%) webpack
3 6 (15.38%) Jenkins
4 5 (12.82%) JIRA
5 4 (10.26%) Grunt
5 4 (10.26%) gulp
5 4 (10.26%) Maven
6 3 (7.69%) Gerrit
6 3 (7.69%) SonarQube
6 3 (7.69%) Subversion
7 2 (5.13%) Browser DevTools
7 2 (5.13%) Cucumber
7 2 (5.13%) Cypress.io
7 2 (5.13%) Eclipse
7 2 (5.13%) IntelliJ
7 2 (5.13%) TeamCity
7 2 (5.13%) UI Automator
8 1 (2.56%) Babel
8 1 (2.56%) GitLab
8 1 (2.56%) Vite
General
1 17 (43.59%) Banking
2 16 (41.03%) Finance
3 10 (25.64%) Investment Banking
4 8 (20.51%) Social Skills
5 5 (12.82%) Front Office
6 2 (5.13%) Law
7 1 (2.56%) Advertising
7 1 (2.56%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (79.49%) React
2 28 (71.79%) CSS
3 15 (38.46%) HTML
4 9 (23.08%) Redux
5 8 (20.51%) AngularJS
5 8 (20.51%) CSS3
5 8 (20.51%) HTML5
5 8 (20.51%) RESTful
6 6 (15.38%) jQuery
6 6 (15.38%) JSON
6 6 (15.38%) Sass
7 5 (12.82%) Ajax
7 5 (12.82%) Jest
7 5 (12.82%) Node.js
8 4 (10.26%) Bootstrap
8 4 (10.26%) RxJS
8 4 (10.26%) Vue
9 3 (7.69%) LESS
9 3 (7.69%) lodash
9 3 (7.69%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 11 (28.21%) Derivative
1 11 (28.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (10.26%) Mobile App
3 3 (7.69%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.56%) Android
1 1 (2.56%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (43.59%) Agile
2 12 (30.77%) User Experience
3 11 (28.21%) Full-Stack Development
4 10 (25.64%) Front End Development
4 10 (25.64%) Web Development
5 9 (23.08%) Customer Requirements
5 9 (23.08%) Electronic Trading
5 9 (23.08%) Event-Driven
5 9 (23.08%) Event-Driven Programming
6 8 (20.51%) UX Design
7 6 (15.38%) CI/CD
7 6 (15.38%) Performance Optimisation
7 6 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (15.38%) TDD
8 5 (12.82%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (12.82%) Test Automation
9 3 (7.69%) Continuous Integration
9 3 (7.69%) Responsive Web Design
9 3 (7.69%) Unit Testing
9 3 (7.69%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 25 (64.10%) JavaScript
2 19 (48.72%) TypeScript
3 13 (33.33%) Java
4 4 (10.26%) C#
5 2 (5.13%) Scala
6 1 (2.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (2.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (20.51%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (5.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.13%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (23.08%) Atlassian
2 3 (7.69%) Perforce
3 2 (5.13%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.56%) Microsoft