Server-Driven UI Contracts

Server-Driven UI (SDUI)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Server-Driven UI skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Server-Driven UI over the 6 months leading up to 22 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 545 575 679
Rank change year-on-year +30 +104 -
Contract jobs citing Server-Driven UI 1 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.003% 0.002% 0.009%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.003% 0.003% 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - £575
25th Percentile - - £688
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £800 £750
Median % change year-on-year - +6.67% -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Server-Driven UI falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 29,526 35,285 49,545
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.34% 85.41% 89.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,520 22,637 34,052
10th Percentile £300 £306 £323
25th Percentile £404 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £548
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.11% -0.45%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,575 2,186 1,631
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.06 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.33 £16.85 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% -10.31% +60.38%
75th Percentile £50.75 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £73.63 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.00 £40.00 £40.80
% change year-on-year -40.00% -1.95% +89.74%

Server-Driven UI
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Server-Driven UI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Server-Driven UI in the UK

Server-Driven UI
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Server-Driven UI.

Daily rate trend for Server-Driven UI in the UK

Server-Driven UI
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Server-Driven UI within the UK over the 6 months to 22 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
England +38 1 - - 5
UK excluding London - 1 - - 2
South East - 1 - - 2

Server-Driven UI
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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) gRPC
1 1 (100.00%) Next.js
1 1 (100.00%) NgRx
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) Redux
1 1 (100.00%) WebAssembly
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Domain-Driven Design
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) GitOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Progressive Web App
1 1 (100.00%) Resource Management
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) SOLID
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes