UI Developer Contracts in London

User Interface Developer
England > London

The median User Interface Developer daily rate in London is £710, 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 300 329 373
Rank change year-on-year +29 +44 +38
Contract jobs requiring a UI Developer 53 62 121
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.42% 0.35% 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.37% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 50 106
10th Percentile £420 £535 £475
25th Percentile £588 £673 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £710 £800 £769
Median % change year-on-year -11.25% +4.07% +13.89%
75th Percentile £788 £850 £925
90th Percentile £850 £908 £1,094
England median daily rate £678 £750 £750
% change year-on-year -9.67% - +15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £25.75
Median hourly rate - - £26.50
75th Percentile - - £27.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - £77.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year - +192.45% -60.91%

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 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

UI Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for UI Developer in London

UI Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for UI Developer in London

UI Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for UI Developer in London

UI Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for UI Developer in London

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 London region featuring UI Developer in the job title.

1 37 (69.81%) React
2 36 (67.92%) JavaScript
3 35 (66.04%) Finance
4 33 (62.26%) TypeScript
5 32 (60.38%) Agile
6 25 (47.17%) CSS
7 23 (43.40%) Banking
8 19 (35.85%) Git
8 19 (35.85%) Redux
9 18 (33.96%) User Experience
10 17 (32.08%) Fintech
10 17 (32.08%) Front Office
10 17 (32.08%) Java
11 16 (30.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 16 (30.19%) Investment Banking
11 16 (30.19%) Derivative
11 16 (30.19%) Full-Stack Development
12 15 (28.30%) Web Development
13 14 (26.42%) Node.js
13 14 (26.42%) AWS
14 13 (24.53%) Asset Management
14 13 (24.53%) HTML
14 13 (24.53%) Visualisation
14 13 (24.53%) AngularJS
14 13 (24.53%) npm
14 13 (24.53%) Yarn
14 13 (24.53%) webpack
15 12 (22.64%) Customer Requirements
15 12 (22.64%) Electronic Trading
15 12 (22.64%) Atlassian

UI Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 3 (5.66%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (5.66%) Adobe XD
1 3 (5.66%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 14 (26.42%) AWS
2 13 (24.53%) npm
2 13 (24.53%) Yarn
3 10 (18.87%) GCP
4 3 (5.66%) Figma
4 3 (5.66%) SaaS
5 2 (3.77%) PaaS
6 1 (1.89%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (1.89%) AWS Fargate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (20.75%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.89%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.89%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.89%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (35.85%) Git
2 13 (24.53%) webpack
3 4 (7.55%) TeamCity
4 3 (5.66%) Jenkins
5 2 (3.77%) Bitbucket Server
5 2 (3.77%) Maven
6 1 (1.89%) Ant
6 1 (1.89%) Babel
6 1 (1.89%) GitLab
6 1 (1.89%) JIRA
General
1 35 (66.04%) Finance
2 23 (43.40%) Banking
3 17 (32.08%) Front Office
4 16 (30.19%) Investment Banking
5 7 (13.21%) Social Skills
6 5 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.89%) Advertising
7 1 (1.89%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.89%) German Language
7 1 (1.89%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (69.81%) React
2 25 (47.17%) CSS
3 19 (35.85%) Redux
4 14 (26.42%) Node.js
5 13 (24.53%) AngularJS
5 13 (24.53%) HTML
6 8 (15.09%) HTML5
6 8 (15.09%) RxJS
7 5 (9.43%) .NET
7 5 (9.43%) RESTful
8 4 (7.55%) CSS3
9 3 (5.66%) Bootstrap
9 3 (5.66%) Jest
9 3 (5.66%) Sass
9 3 (5.66%) Vitest
9 3 (5.66%) WebSockets
10 2 (3.77%) Vue
10 2 (3.77%) WPF
11 1 (1.89%) .NET Framework
11 1 (1.89%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 16 (30.19%) Derivative
1 16 (30.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 10 (18.87%) Fixed Income
3 3 (5.66%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (5.66%) N-Tier
4 2 (3.77%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.89%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.89%) Equity Derivative
5 1 (1.89%) Exotic Derivative
5 1 (1.89%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.89%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (60.38%) Agile
2 18 (33.96%) User Experience
3 17 (32.08%) Fintech
4 16 (30.19%) Full-Stack Development
5 15 (28.30%) Web Development
6 13 (24.53%) Asset Management
6 13 (24.53%) Visualisation
7 12 (22.64%) Customer Requirements
7 12 (22.64%) Electronic Trading
7 12 (22.64%) Event-Driven
7 12 (22.64%) Event-Driven Programming
8 10 (18.87%) CI/CD
8 10 (18.87%) Investment Management
8 10 (18.87%) Software Engineering
9 8 (15.09%) TDD
10 7 (13.21%) Front End Development
11 6 (11.32%) Design Patterns
11 6 (11.32%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (11.32%) UX Design
12 5 (9.43%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 36 (67.92%) JavaScript
2 33 (62.26%) TypeScript
3 17 (32.08%) Java
4 10 (18.87%) Python
5 8 (15.09%) C#
6 5 (9.43%) Scala
7 1 (1.89%) C++
7 1 (1.89%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.43%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (7.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.89%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (22.64%) Atlassian
2 4 (7.55%) UiPath
3 3 (5.66%) Adobe
4 2 (3.77%) Splunk