UI Designer Contract Job Trends in London

User Interface Designer
England > London

The median User Interface Designer daily rate in London is £458, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 355 339 374
Rank change year-on-year -16 +35 +1
Contract jobs requiring a UI Designer 25 30 31
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.17% 0.20% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.21% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 28 24
10th Percentile £308 £350 £361
25th Percentile £341 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -16.82% +15.79% -12.04%
75th Percentile £519 £688 £521
90th Percentile £590 £825 £618
England median daily rate £425 £528 £463
% change year-on-year -19.51% +14.16% -11.90%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 London with a recognized job title 13,283 14,093 17,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.33% 93.53% 93.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,798 9,130 12,805
10th Percentile £343 £335 £330
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% -2.22% -3.02%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £684
90th Percentile £760 £799 £788
England median daily rate £510 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 153 211
10th Percentile £17.50 £18.47 £17.75
25th Percentile £22.25 £23.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £29.65 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.30% - -
75th Percentile £56.98 £53.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £80.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £26.78 £36.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -25.61% -20.00% +38.46%

UI Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'UI Designer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

UI Designer job vacancy trend in London

UI Designer
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for UI Designer job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for UI Designer job vacancies in London

UI Designer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UI Designer in London over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for UI Designer in London

UI Designer
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for UI Designer job vacancies in London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for UI Designer job vacancies in London

UI Designer
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
Central London +1 1 £445 -17.44% 4
UI Designer
England

UI Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 19 December 2025, UI Designer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring UI Designer in the job title.

1 20 (80.00%) User Experience
2 18 (72.00%) UX Design
3 15 (60.00%) Figma
4 9 (36.00%) Accessibility
4 9 (36.00%) Agile
5 8 (32.00%) Salesforce
6 6 (24.00%) Interaction Design
6 6 (24.00%) Prototyping
6 6 (24.00%) Usability Testing
7 5 (20.00%) User Research
7 5 (20.00%) Wireframes
8 4 (16.00%) Typography
8 4 (16.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 3 (12.00%) AI
9 3 (12.00%) Collaborative Working
9 3 (12.00%) CSS
9 3 (12.00%) Design Thinking
9 3 (12.00%) HTML
9 3 (12.00%) Lightning Web Components
9 3 (12.00%) Mobile First
9 3 (12.00%) Qualitative Research
9 3 (12.00%) Quantitative Research
9 3 (12.00%) Sketch
9 3 (12.00%) UX Research
10 2 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 2 (8.00%) CRM
10 2 (8.00%) Digital Banking
10 2 (8.00%) Google
10 2 (8.00%) Inclusive Design
10 2 (8.00%) Microinteractions

UI Designer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Sketch
2 1 (4.00%) Adobe XD
2 1 (4.00%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 15 (60.00%) Figma
2 1 (4.00%) Miro
2 1 (4.00%) SaaS
General
1 6 (24.00%) Banking
1 6 (24.00%) Finance
2 5 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Arabic Language
4 1 (4.00%) Back Office
4 1 (4.00%) Front Office
4 1 (4.00%) Marketing
4 1 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Publishing
4 1 (4.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.00%) CSS
1 3 (12.00%) HTML
1 3 (12.00%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (12.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.00%) Graphic Design
3 1 (4.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (80.00%) User Experience
2 18 (72.00%) UX Design
3 9 (36.00%) Agile
4 6 (24.00%) Interaction Design
4 6 (24.00%) Prototyping
4 6 (24.00%) Usability Testing
5 5 (20.00%) User Research
5 5 (20.00%) Wireframes
6 4 (16.00%) Typography
6 4 (16.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 3 (12.00%) AI
7 3 (12.00%) Collaborative Working
7 3 (12.00%) Design Thinking
7 3 (12.00%) Mobile First
7 3 (12.00%) Qualitative Research
7 3 (12.00%) Quantitative Research
7 3 (12.00%) UX Research
8 2 (8.00%) CRM
8 2 (8.00%) Inclusive Design
8 2 (8.00%) Microinteractions
Qualifications
1 1 (4.00%) Degree
1 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (36.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 8 (32.00%) Salesforce
2 2 (8.00%) Google
3 1 (4.00%) Adobe
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft