Server-Driven UI Contract Job Trends

Server-Driven UI (SDUI)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Server-Driven UI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 598 541 600
Rank change year-on-year -57 +59 +194
Contract jobs citing Server-Driven UI 5 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.014% 0.009% 0.005%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.015% 0.010% 0.005%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - - £728
25th Percentile - - £731
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £800 £738
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +8.47% -
75th Percentile - - £744
90th Percentile - - £748
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £59.65 - -
25th Percentile £61.38 - -
Median hourly rate £65.50 - -
75th Percentile £68.38 - -
90th Percentile £69.35 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.50 - -

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 32,471 30,121 39,108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.45% 87.99% 88.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,452 18,385 26,091
10th Percentile £300 £306 £308
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £745 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,090 1,000 1,510
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.61 £14.49
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.30 £19.02
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.85
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -25.88% +25.29%
75th Percentile £48.75 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £74.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.04 £32.39 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.87% -27.21% +39.06%

Server-Driven UI
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Server-Driven UI relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Server-Driven UI job vacancy trend in the UK

Server-Driven UI
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Server-Driven UI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Server-Driven UI

Server-Driven UI
Top 6 Contract Job 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 16 December 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 -35 4 - - 2
UK excluding London - 4 - - 2
North of England - 3 - - 2
North West - 3 - - 2
Work from Home +1 2 £650 - 2
South East - 1 - -

Server-Driven UI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) GitLab
2 2 (40.00%) fastlane
2 2 (40.00%) Gradle
2 2 (40.00%) IntelliJ
2 2 (40.00%) XCTest
3 1 (20.00%) Android Studio
3 1 (20.00%) Xcode
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) iOS Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Android Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Backend Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) iOS Android Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Server Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) UI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) GraphQL
1 3 (60.00%) REST
1 3 (60.00%) SwiftUI
2 2 (40.00%) gRPC
2 2 (40.00%) JSON
2 2 (40.00%) JSON Schema
2 2 (40.00%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (40.00%) Spring
2 2 (40.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (40.00%) UIKit
3 1 (20.00%) Android Jetpack
3 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (20.00%) Jetpack Compose
3 1 (20.00%) Next.js
3 1 (20.00%) NgRx
3 1 (20.00%) OkHttp
3 1 (20.00%) React
3 1 (20.00%) Redux
3 1 (20.00%) Retrofit
3 1 (20.00%) WebAssembly
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (20.00%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (20.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) TDD
1 4 (80.00%) User Experience
2 3 (60.00%) A/B Testing
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 2 (40.00%) API Development
3 2 (40.00%) Dependency Injection
3 2 (40.00%) Integration Testing
3 2 (40.00%) MVVM
3 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Unit Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Data Integration
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Domain-Driven Design
4 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) iOS Development
4 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) Kotlin
1 2 (40.00%) Objective-C
1 2 (40.00%) Swift
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (40.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (40.00%) Grafana