UI Engineer Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

User Interface Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median User Interface Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 September 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
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 366 - 426
Rank change year-on-year - - +89
Contract jobs requiring a UI Engineer 4 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.026% - 0.023%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.029% - 0.024%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 5
10th Percentile £266 - £420
25th Percentile £360 - £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -21.74%
75th Percentile £484 - £488
90th Percentile £569 - -
UK median daily rate £525 £700 £600
% change year-on-year -25.00% +16.67% -14.29%

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 13,778 16,349 20,418
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.85% 92.24% 94.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,464 9,485 13,633
10th Percentile £213 £220 £225
25th Percentile £361 £375 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +0.50%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £653 £680 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,251 1,438 1,196
10th Percentile £13.46 £14.37 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £17.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £42.08
Median % change year-on-year -44.11% +6.95% +91.26%
75th Percentile £51.95 £66.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.16 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.86
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.96% +68.69%

UI Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for UI Engineer in the UK excluding London

UI Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for UI Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for UI Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

UI Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UI Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for UI Engineer in the UK excluding London

UI Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for UI Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for UI Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

UI Engineer
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 Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 September 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
South West - 3 £425 -
South East - 1 £208 - 4
UI Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 September 2025, UI Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (75.00%) CSS
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) AngularJS
2 3 (75.00%) User Experience
2 3 (75.00%) React
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) Accessibility
3 2 (50.00%) Storybook
3 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (50.00%) Vite
3 2 (50.00%) Inclusive Design
3 2 (50.00%) Zustand
3 2 (50.00%) webpack
3 2 (50.00%) Data Privacy
3 2 (50.00%) Sauce Labs
3 2 (50.00%) Figma
3 2 (50.00%) Front End Development
3 2 (50.00%) Secure Coding
3 2 (50.00%) Vue
3 2 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (50.00%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
3 2 (50.00%) Wireframes
3 2 (50.00%) Redux
3 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (50.00%) REST
3 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) HTML
3 2 (50.00%) Kanban

UI Engineer 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Figma
1 2 (50.00%) Sauce Labs
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) BrowserStack
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (25.00%) Pulumi
2 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
1 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
1 2 (50.00%) Storybook
1 2 (50.00%) Vite
1 2 (50.00%) webpack
2 1 (25.00%) Android Studio
2 1 (25.00%) Appium
2 1 (25.00%) Browser DevTools
2 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (25.00%) Eclipse
2 1 (25.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) Selenium
2 1 (25.00%) Xcode
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) AngularJS
1 3 (75.00%) CSS
1 3 (75.00%) React
2 2 (50.00%) HTML
2 2 (50.00%) Redux
2 2 (50.00%) REST
2 2 (50.00%) RESTful
2 2 (50.00%) Vue
2 2 (50.00%) Zustand
3 1 (25.00%) Ajax
3 1 (25.00%) GraphQL
3 1 (25.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Android
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Unix
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (75.00%) User Experience
2 2 (50.00%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
2 2 (50.00%) Data Privacy
2 2 (50.00%) Front End Development
2 2 (50.00%) Inclusive Design
2 2 (50.00%) Kanban
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) Secure Coding
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) UX Design
2 2 (50.00%) Wireframes
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Mobile Application Development
3 1 (25.00%) OO
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Perl
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (50.00%) WCAG
2 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk