UI Designer Contracts

User Interface Designer
UK

The median User Interface Designer daily rate in the UK is £412, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 481 517 555
Rank change year-on-year +36 +38 -21
Contract jobs requiring a UI Designer 39 65 163
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.15% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.16% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 38 122
10th Percentile £314 £325 £301
25th Percentile £361 £391 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £412 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.56% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £513 £558 £634
90th Percentile £825 £600 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £381 £425 £425
% change year-on-year -10.29% - +3.03%

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 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

UI Designer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for UI Designer in the UK

UI Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for UI Designer in the UK

UI Designer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UI Designer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for UI Designer in the UK

UI Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for UI Designer in the UK

UI Designer
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UI Designer within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +30 34 £480 +6.67% 56
London +24 23 £500 -2.44% 33
Work from Home +33 14 £388 -18.42% 30
UK excluding London +53 13 £381 -10.29% 25
South West +47 4 £375 -11.76% 6
North of England +16 3 £313 +0.16% 6
Scotland +12 3 £388 -13.89%
Midlands +22 2 £318 -24.04% 1
East Midlands +10 2 £318 -24.04% 1
Yorkshire +6 2 £308 -1.60% 2
South East +39 1 £550 +15.79% 12
North West +16 1 £313 - 4
East of England - 1 £480 -

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 UI Designer in the job title.

1 36 (92.31%) User Experience
2 34 (87.18%) UX Design
3 32 (82.05%) Figma
4 17 (43.59%) Social Skills
5 14 (35.90%) User Research
5 14 (35.90%) Wireframes
6 12 (30.77%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 12 (30.77%) Agile
7 11 (28.21%) Finance
7 11 (28.21%) Prototyping
8 10 (25.64%) Accessibility
8 10 (25.64%) Adobe
9 9 (23.08%) Banking
10 8 (20.51%) Sketch
11 7 (17.95%) Adobe XD
11 7 (17.95%) Usability Testing
12 6 (15.38%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
13 5 (12.82%) Typography
13 5 (12.82%) Front End Development
13 5 (12.82%) B2B
13 5 (12.82%) Interaction Design
13 5 (12.82%) HTML
13 5 (12.82%) JavaScript
13 5 (12.82%) CSS
13 5 (12.82%) SaaS
14 4 (10.26%) Responsive Web Design
14 4 (10.26%) Problem-Solving
14 4 (10.26%) Greenfield Project
14 4 (10.26%) Low-Fidelity Prototypes
15 3 (7.69%) Mobile App

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.56%) CMS
1 1 (2.56%) Drupal
1 1 (2.56%) nginx
Applications
1 8 (20.51%) Sketch
2 7 (17.95%) Adobe XD
3 2 (5.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (5.13%) Autodesk Smoke
3 2 (5.13%) InVision
4 1 (2.56%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (2.56%) Blender
4 1 (2.56%) CINEMA 4D
4 1 (2.56%) Final Cut Pro
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 32 (82.05%) Figma
2 5 (12.82%) SaaS
3 1 (2.56%) Adobe Creative Cloud
3 1 (2.56%) AWS
3 1 (2.56%) BigCommerce
3 1 (2.56%) Miro
3 1 (2.56%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (7.69%) JIRA
2 2 (5.13%) Axure RP
General
1 17 (43.59%) Social Skills
2 11 (28.21%) Finance
3 9 (23.08%) Banking
4 2 (5.13%) Games
4 2 (5.13%) Manufacturing
4 2 (5.13%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.56%) Local Government
5 1 (2.56%) Marketing
5 1 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.82%) CSS
1 5 (12.82%) HTML
2 1 (2.56%) Framer.js
2 1 (2.56%) React
2 1 (2.56%) React Native
2 1 (2.56%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 1 (2.56%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.26%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (7.69%) Mobile App
3 2 (5.13%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.56%) Animation
4 1 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.56%) Tandem
4 1 (2.56%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.56%) Android
1 1 (2.56%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (92.31%) User Experience
2 34 (87.18%) UX Design
3 14 (35.90%) User Research
3 14 (35.90%) Wireframes
4 12 (30.77%) Agile
4 12 (30.77%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 11 (28.21%) Prototyping
6 7 (17.95%) Usability Testing
7 6 (15.38%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
8 5 (12.82%) B2B
8 5 (12.82%) Front End Development
8 5 (12.82%) Interaction Design
8 5 (12.82%) Typography
9 4 (10.26%) Low-Fidelity Prototypes
9 4 (10.26%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (10.26%) Responsive Web Design
10 3 (7.69%) Analytics
10 3 (7.69%) Customer Experience
10 3 (7.69%) E-Commerce
10 3 (7.69%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (12.82%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (5.13%) Degree
2 1 (2.56%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (25.64%) Accessibility
2 3 (7.69%) WCAG
3 2 (5.13%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.56%) Docker
Vendors
1 10 (25.64%) Adobe
2 1 (2.56%) Salesforce
2 1 (2.56%) SAP
2 1 (2.56%) Sitecore