Senior UI Designer Contracts

Senior User Interface Designer
UK

The median Senior User Interface Designer daily rate in the UK is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 June 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
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 539 565 696
Rank change year-on-year +26 +131 +112
Contract jobs requiring a Senior UI Designer 4 17 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.013% 0.039% 0.022%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.014% 0.042% 0.023%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 9
10th Percentile - £413 £567
25th Percentile £375 £431 £598
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £488 £750
Median % change year-on-year -17.95% -35.00% +36.36%
75th Percentile £425 £547 -
90th Percentile - £600 -
UK excluding London median daily rate - £450 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 27,642 40,746 52,377
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.14% 92.92% 94.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,729 26,106 36,473
10th Percentile £288 £281 £313
25th Percentile £402 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,199 2,996 1,499
10th Percentile £13.84 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.39 £19.06
Median hourly rate £27.35 £37.50 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.07% -14.77% +76.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.50 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.00 £76.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -1.23% +102.50%

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 4 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 22 June 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
England +56 4 £400 -23.81% 114
London +36 3 £400 -23.81% 38
UK excluding London +42 1 - - 86
South West - 1 - - 11

Senior UI Designer Skill Set
Top 26 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 22 June 2025, 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 4 (100.00%) UX Design
1 4 (100.00%) User Experience
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Front End Development
2 3 (75.00%) Interaction Design
3 2 (50.00%) Wireframes
3 2 (50.00%) Finance
3 2 (50.00%) WCAG
3 2 (50.00%) Figma
3 2 (50.00%) Storytelling
3 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (50.00%) Accessibility
3 2 (50.00%) User Research
4 1 (25.00%) Journey Map
4 1 (25.00%) Storyboarding
4 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (25.00%) Customer Journey Map
4 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (25.00%) Banking
4 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (25.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 1 (25.00%) Design Sprint

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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Figma
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) User Experience
1 4 (100.00%) UX Design
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Front End Development
2 3 (75.00%) Interaction Design
3 2 (50.00%) Storytelling
3 2 (50.00%) User Research
3 2 (50.00%) Wireframes
4 1 (25.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Customer Journey Map
4 1 (25.00%) Design Sprint
4 1 (25.00%) Journey Map
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Storyboarding
4 1 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
4 1 (25.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (50.00%) WCAG