UI Developer Contracts

User Interface Developer
UK

The median User Interface Developer daily rate in the UK is £663, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 April 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
30 Apr 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 461 515 576
Rank change year-on-year +54 +61 +18
Contract jobs requiring a UI Developer 58 85 137
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.19% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.21% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 65 115
10th Percentile £400 £447 £475
25th Percentile £525 £550 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £750 £750
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% - +15.38%
75th Percentile £788 £850 £925
90th Percentile £850 £875 £1,094
UK excluding London median daily rate £388 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -26.10% +16.67% -8.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 2
10th Percentile - £40.00 -
25th Percentile - £46.25 £25.75
Median hourly rate - £72.50 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year - +173.58% -60.91%
75th Percentile - £79.38 £27.25
90th Percentile - £80.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £77.50 -

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 27,050 40,453 56,471
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.79% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,687 26,352 39,474
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £409 £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 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.55% -1.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,031 2,658 1,569
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -20.00% +91.86%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.75 £38.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -25.32% -9.41% +117.95%

UI Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for UI Developer in the UK

UI Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for UI Developer in the UK

UI Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UI Developer over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for UI Developer in the UK

UI Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for UI Developer in the UK

UI Developer
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UI Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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 +42 56 £675 -10.00% 22
London +23 52 £695 -13.13% 13
Work from Home +47 28 £625 -16.67% 9
UK excluding London +43 5 £388 -26.10% 9
South East +42 2 £409 -20.20%
South West +43 1 £613 +2.08% 1
Midlands +22 1 £367 -33.27% 5
East Midlands +9 1 £367 -33.27%
Scotland +7 1 £318 -26.90%

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

For the 6 months to 30 April 2025, UI Developer 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 Developer in the job title.

1 38 (65.52%) JavaScript
1 38 (65.52%) React
2 35 (60.34%) Finance
3 34 (58.62%) Agile
4 33 (56.90%) TypeScript
5 28 (48.28%) CSS
6 24 (41.38%) Banking
7 22 (37.93%) User Experience
8 20 (34.48%) Git
9 19 (32.76%) Redux
10 17 (29.31%) Fintech
11 16 (27.59%) Full-Stack Development
11 16 (27.59%) Front Office
11 16 (27.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 16 (27.59%) HTML
11 16 (27.59%) Java
11 16 (27.59%) Investment Banking
12 15 (25.86%) Web Development
12 15 (25.86%) Derivative
12 15 (25.86%) Node.js
12 15 (25.86%) AngularJS
13 14 (24.14%) npm
13 14 (24.14%) AWS
14 13 (22.41%) Visualisation
14 13 (22.41%) webpack
14 13 (22.41%) Asset Management
14 13 (22.41%) Yarn
15 12 (20.69%) Customer Requirements
15 12 (20.69%) Event-Driven
15 12 (20.69%) Event-Driven Programming

UI Developer 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 3 (5.17%) nginx
2 1 (1.72%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (5.17%) Adobe XD
1 3 (5.17%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 14 (24.14%) AWS
1 14 (24.14%) npm
2 13 (22.41%) Yarn
3 10 (17.24%) GCP
4 5 (8.62%) Figma
5 3 (5.17%) SaaS
6 2 (3.45%) PaaS
7 1 (1.72%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.72%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (1.72%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (18.97%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.72%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.72%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.72%) Redis
Development Applications
1 20 (34.48%) Git
2 13 (22.41%) webpack
3 4 (6.90%) TeamCity
4 3 (5.17%) Jenkins
5 2 (3.45%) Bitbucket Server
5 2 (3.45%) JIRA
5 2 (3.45%) Maven
6 1 (1.72%) Ant
6 1 (1.72%) Babel
6 1 (1.72%) GitLab
6 1 (1.72%) Grunt
6 1 (1.72%) gulp
6 1 (1.72%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.72%) Vite
General
1 35 (60.34%) Finance
2 24 (41.38%) Banking
3 16 (27.59%) Front Office
3 16 (27.59%) Investment Banking
4 8 (13.79%) Social Skills
5 5 (8.62%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.72%) Advertising
6 1 (1.72%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.72%) German Language
6 1 (1.72%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (65.52%) React
2 28 (48.28%) CSS
3 19 (32.76%) Redux
4 16 (27.59%) HTML
5 15 (25.86%) AngularJS
5 15 (25.86%) Node.js
6 9 (15.52%) HTML5
7 7 (12.07%) RxJS
8 6 (10.34%) RESTful
9 5 (8.62%) .NET
9 5 (8.62%) CSS3
9 5 (8.62%) Sass
10 3 (5.17%) Bootstrap
10 3 (5.17%) Jest
10 3 (5.17%) Vitest
10 3 (5.17%) WebSockets
11 2 (3.45%) jQuery
11 2 (3.45%) Vue
11 2 (3.45%) WPF
12 1 (1.72%) Ext JS
Miscellaneous
1 16 (27.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 15 (25.86%) Derivative
3 10 (17.24%) Fixed Income
4 3 (5.17%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (5.17%) N-Tier
5 2 (3.45%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.72%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.72%) Equity Derivative
6 1 (1.72%) Exotic Derivative
6 1 (1.72%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.72%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (58.62%) Agile
2 22 (37.93%) User Experience
3 17 (29.31%) Fintech
4 16 (27.59%) Full-Stack Development
5 15 (25.86%) Web Development
6 13 (22.41%) Asset Management
6 13 (22.41%) Visualisation
7 12 (20.69%) Customer Requirements
7 12 (20.69%) Electronic Trading
7 12 (20.69%) Event-Driven
7 12 (20.69%) Event-Driven Programming
8 10 (17.24%) CI/CD
8 10 (17.24%) Investment Management
8 10 (17.24%) Software Engineering
9 9 (15.52%) Front End Development
9 9 (15.52%) TDD
9 9 (15.52%) UX Design
10 7 (12.07%) Design Patterns
10 7 (12.07%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (10.34%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 38 (65.52%) JavaScript
2 33 (56.90%) TypeScript
3 16 (27.59%) Java
4 10 (17.24%) Python
5 7 (12.07%) C#
6 5 (8.62%) Scala
7 1 (1.72%) C++
7 1 (1.72%) Objective-C
7 1 (1.72%) SQL
7 1 (1.72%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1 (1.72%) SC Cleared
1 1 (1.72%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.07%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.72%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (6.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.72%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (20.69%) Atlassian
2 4 (6.90%) UiPath
3 3 (5.17%) Adobe
4 2 (3.45%) Splunk
5 1 (1.72%) Pega
5 1 (1.72%) Perforce
24 UI Developer jobs Nationwide