Senior UI Designer Contracts

Senior User Interface Designer
UK

The median Senior User Interface Designer daily rate in the UK is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 556 670 787
Rank change year-on-year +114 +117 -99
Contract jobs requiring a Senior UI Designer 15 17 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.035% 0.030% 0.065%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.038% 0.032% 0.068%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 15 44
10th Percentile £408 £363 £424
25th Percentile £419 £472 £517
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £598 £571
Median % change year-on-year -24.75% +4.68% +3.86%
75th Percentile £509 £750 £604
90th Percentile £526 - £657
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 39,507 53,867 83,506
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.60% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,718 37,620 58,687
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,672 1,498 2,036
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.29 £19.13 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Senior UI Designer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior UI Designer in the UK

Senior UI Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior UI Designer.

Daily rate trend for Senior UI Designer in the UK

Senior UI Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior UI Designer.

Hourly rate trend for Senior UI Designer in the UK

Senior UI Designer
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior UI Designer within the UK over the 6 months to 18 May 2024. 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
England +105 13 £450 -24.75% 9
London +94 11 £450 -24.75% 5
UK excluding London +61 3 £450 - 4
Work from Home +109 2 £450 -20.00% 5
North of England - 2 - - 2
North West - 2 - - 1
Scotland - 1 £450 -

Senior UI Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, Senior UI Designer 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 featuring Senior UI Designer in the job title.

1 10 (66.67%) User Experience
1 10 (66.67%) UX Design
2 6 (40.00%) Adobe
3 5 (33.33%) Health Technology
4 4 (26.67%) Pharmaceutical
4 4 (26.67%) Photoshop
4 4 (26.67%) Adobe Illustrator
4 4 (26.67%) Web Design
4 4 (26.67%) Degree
4 4 (26.67%) Graphic Design
4 4 (26.67%) Animation
4 4 (26.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 4 (26.67%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (26.67%) Typography
5 3 (20.00%) React
5 3 (20.00%) Digital Media
5 3 (20.00%) UX Research
5 3 (20.00%) Figma
5 3 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (20.00%) Digital Marketing
5 3 (20.00%) Time Management
5 3 (20.00%) Advertising
5 3 (20.00%) Marketing
5 3 (20.00%) InDesign
5 3 (20.00%) Front Office
5 3 (20.00%) B2C
5 3 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (20.00%) Design Patterns
6 2 (13.33%) Roadmaps
6 2 (13.33%) B2B

Senior UI Designer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (26.67%) Photoshop
2 3 (20.00%) InDesign
3 2 (13.33%) Sketch
4 1 (6.67%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (6.67%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (6.67%) Adobe XD
4 1 (6.67%) Final Cut Pro
4 1 (6.67%) InVision
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) Figma
2 1 (6.67%) BigCommerce
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Big Data
General
1 5 (33.33%) Health Technology
2 4 (26.67%) Pharmaceutical
3 3 (20.00%) Advertising
3 3 (20.00%) Front Office
3 3 (20.00%) Marketing
3 3 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Danish Language
5 1 (6.67%) Finance
5 1 (6.67%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Animation
1 4 (26.67%) Graphic Design
1 4 (26.67%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (20.00%) Digital Media
2 3 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (13.33%) Virtual Team
4 1 (6.67%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Android
1 1 (6.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) User Experience
1 10 (66.67%) UX Design
2 4 (26.67%) Typography
2 4 (26.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 4 (26.67%) Web Design
3 3 (20.00%) B2C
3 3 (20.00%) Design Patterns
3 3 (20.00%) Digital Marketing
3 3 (20.00%) Time Management
3 3 (20.00%) UX Research
4 2 (13.33%) B2B
4 2 (13.33%) Product Roadmap
4 2 (13.33%) Product Strategy
4 2 (13.33%) Psychology
4 2 (13.33%) Roadmaps
4 2 (13.33%) Service Design
5 1 (6.67%) Customer Acquisition
5 1 (6.67%) Customer-Centricity
5 1 (6.67%) Strategic Thinking
5 1 (6.67%) Wireframes
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Adobe
2 1 (6.67%) Salesforce
2 1 (6.67%) SAP
2 1 (6.67%) Sitecore