UI Developer Contracts in the UK excluding London

User Interface Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median User Interface Developer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £402, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 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
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 344 377 419
Rank change year-on-year +33 +42 +53
Contract jobs requiring a UI Developer 12 22 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.080% 0.11% 0.057%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.088% 0.12% 0.060%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 15 9
10th Percentile £350 £356 £423
25th Percentile £358 £406 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £435 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% -13.00% +4.71%
75th Percentile £448 £550 £600
90th Percentile £475 £565 £625
UK median daily rate £550 £625 £675
% change year-on-year -12.00% -7.41% +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £77.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £72.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year - +173.58% -58.34%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 13,585 18,593 21,694
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.57% 92.24% 94.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,357 11,302 14,819
10th Percentile £216 £215 £235
25th Percentile £363 £375 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -0.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,150 2,153 1,195
10th Percentile £13.50 £12.88 £13.91
25th Percentile £16.50 £16.37 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.94 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year -38.57% +3.51% +88.33%
75th Percentile £56.33 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.53 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -37.13% -6.98% +67.45%

UI Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for UI Developer in the UK excluding London

UI Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for UI Developer in the UK excluding London

UI Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UI Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for UI Developer in the UK excluding London

UI Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for UI Developer in the UK excluding London

UI Developer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 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
North West +12 7 £418 +15.17% 2
North of England +5 7 £418 -8.49% 3
South East +34 4 £475 -9.52% 1
East Midlands +1 2 £385 -30.09%
Midlands -4 2 £385 -30.09% 2
Scotland -5 1 £318 -26.05% 1
UI Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 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 UK excluding London region featuring UI Developer in the job title.

1 10 (83.33%) HTML
1 10 (83.33%) CSS
2 9 (75.00%) JavaScript
3 8 (66.67%) React
4 7 (58.33%) Git
4 7 (58.33%) Front End Development
5 6 (50.00%) Accessibility
5 6 (50.00%) User Experience
6 5 (41.67%) HTML5
6 5 (41.67%) CSS3
6 5 (41.67%) Ajax
6 5 (41.67%) JSON
6 5 (41.67%) jQuery
7 4 (33.33%) JIRA
7 4 (33.33%) UX Design
7 4 (33.33%) Sass
7 4 (33.33%) AngularJS
7 4 (33.33%) Confluence
7 4 (33.33%) gulp
7 4 (33.33%) Grunt
7 4 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
7 4 (33.33%) Figma
7 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
8 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (25.00%) npm
8 3 (25.00%) React Native
8 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
8 3 (25.00%) Mobile App
8 3 (25.00%) SonarQube
8 3 (25.00%) lodash

UI Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 4 (33.33%) Confluence
2 3 (25.00%) Apache
2 3 (25.00%) nginx
2 3 (25.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) Figma
2 3 (25.00%) npm
3 2 (16.67%) SaaS
4 1 (8.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 7 (58.33%) Git
2 4 (33.33%) Grunt
2 4 (33.33%) gulp
2 4 (33.33%) JIRA
3 3 (25.00%) Gerrit
3 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (25.00%) SonarQube
3 3 (25.00%) Subversion
4 2 (16.67%) Browser DevTools
4 2 (16.67%) Cypress.io
4 2 (16.67%) UI Automator
5 1 (8.33%) Vite
5 1 (8.33%) webpack
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (83.33%) CSS
1 10 (83.33%) HTML
2 8 (66.67%) React
3 5 (41.67%) Ajax
3 5 (41.67%) CSS3
3 5 (41.67%) HTML5
3 5 (41.67%) jQuery
3 5 (41.67%) JSON
4 4 (33.33%) AngularJS
4 4 (33.33%) Sass
5 3 (25.00%) LESS
5 3 (25.00%) lodash
5 3 (25.00%) Node.js
5 3 (25.00%) React Native
5 3 (25.00%) REST
6 2 (16.67%) Redux
6 2 (16.67%) Semantic HTML
6 2 (16.67%) Vue
6 2 (16.67%) XHR
6 2 (16.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Front End Development
2 6 (50.00%) User Experience
3 4 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 4 (33.33%) UX Design
4 3 (25.00%) Agile
4 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 3 (25.00%) Unit Testing
5 2 (16.67%) Code Quality
5 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (16.67%) Cross-Browser Testing
5 2 (16.67%) Performance Engineering
5 2 (16.67%) TDD
6 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
6 1 (8.33%) Clean Code
6 1 (8.33%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
6 1 (8.33%) Design Patterns
6 1 (8.33%) Design Thinking
6 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Development
6 1 (8.33%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (50.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (16.67%) WCAG
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Perforce
2 2 (16.67%) Salesforce
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft