UI Developer Contracts

User Interface Developer
UK

The median User Interface Developer daily rate in the UK is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 July 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 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 491 496 532
Rank change year-on-year +5 +36 +98
Contract jobs requiring a UI Developer 45 95 150
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.22% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.24% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 73 126
10th Percentile £353 £406 £475
25th Percentile £405 £491 £532
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £725
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -13.79% +11.54%
75th Percentile £788 £800 £888
90th Percentile £814 £850 £1,063
UK excluding London median daily rate £402 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -19.60% - +4.17%
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% -58.34%
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 28,350 40,134 52,706
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.02% 92.98% 94.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,122 25,769 36,623
10th Percentile £288 £282 £313
25th Percentile £401 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.42%
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% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,269 2,866 1,533
10th Percentile £13.77 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.33 £16.50 £19.00
Median hourly rate £26.50 £37.50 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.33% -12.79% +69.37%
75th Percentile £56.25 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £74.00 £76.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -37.13% - +100.00%

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 1 July 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 10 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 1 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 +12 39 £550 -12.00% 56
London +3 28 £750 +7.14% 40
Work from Home +23 18 £530 -29.33% 22
UK excluding London +32 12 £402 -19.60% 19
North of England +17 7 £418 -24.09% 3
North West - 7 £418 - 2
South East +54 4 £475 -9.52% 6
Midlands +13 2 £385 -30.09% 6
East Midlands +4 2 £385 -30.09% 1
Scotland -1 1 £318 -26.90% 2

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

For the 6 months to 1 July 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 33 (73.33%) React
2 30 (66.67%) CSS
3 27 (60.00%) JavaScript
4 23 (51.11%) Git
5 19 (42.22%) TypeScript
5 19 (42.22%) Finance
6 18 (40.00%) Agile
7 17 (37.78%) Banking
7 17 (37.78%) HTML
7 17 (37.78%) User Experience
8 14 (31.11%) npm
9 13 (28.89%) Front End Development
9 13 (28.89%) UX Design
9 13 (28.89%) Java
10 11 (24.44%) Full-Stack Development
10 11 (24.44%) webpack
10 11 (24.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 11 (24.44%) Derivative
11 10 (22.22%) Web Development
11 10 (22.22%) Investment Banking
11 10 (22.22%) Yarn
12 9 (20.00%) Redux
12 9 (20.00%) Customer Requirements
12 9 (20.00%) Event-Driven
12 9 (20.00%) Event-Driven Programming
12 9 (20.00%) Social Skills
12 9 (20.00%) Accessibility
12 9 (20.00%) Atlassian
12 9 (20.00%) Electronic Trading
12 9 (20.00%) AngularJS

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 4 (8.89%) Confluence
2 3 (6.67%) Apache
2 3 (6.67%) nginx
2 3 (6.67%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (2.22%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 14 (31.11%) npm
2 10 (22.22%) Yarn
3 5 (11.11%) Figma
4 2 (4.44%) AWS
4 2 (4.44%) OpenShift
4 2 (4.44%) SaaS
5 1 (2.22%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.44%) HTTP
1 2 (4.44%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.22%) MongoDB
1 1 (2.22%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 23 (51.11%) Git
2 11 (24.44%) webpack
3 6 (13.33%) Jenkins
4 5 (11.11%) JIRA
5 4 (8.89%) Grunt
5 4 (8.89%) gulp
5 4 (8.89%) Maven
6 3 (6.67%) Gerrit
6 3 (6.67%) SonarQube
6 3 (6.67%) Subversion
7 2 (4.44%) Browser DevTools
7 2 (4.44%) Cucumber
7 2 (4.44%) Cypress.io
7 2 (4.44%) Eclipse
7 2 (4.44%) IntelliJ
7 2 (4.44%) TeamCity
7 2 (4.44%) UI Automator
8 1 (2.22%) Babel
8 1 (2.22%) GitLab
8 1 (2.22%) Vite
General
1 19 (42.22%) Finance
2 17 (37.78%) Banking
3 10 (22.22%) Investment Banking
4 9 (20.00%) Social Skills
5 5 (11.11%) Front Office
5 5 (11.11%) Law
6 1 (2.22%) Advertising
6 1 (2.22%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.22%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (73.33%) React
2 30 (66.67%) CSS
3 17 (37.78%) HTML
4 9 (20.00%) AngularJS
4 9 (20.00%) Redux
5 8 (17.78%) CSS3
5 8 (17.78%) HTML5
5 8 (17.78%) RESTful
6 7 (15.56%) Sass
7 6 (13.33%) jQuery
7 6 (13.33%) JSON
8 5 (11.11%) Ajax
8 5 (11.11%) Jest
8 5 (11.11%) Node.js
9 4 (8.89%) Bootstrap
9 4 (8.89%) RxJS
9 4 (8.89%) Vue
10 3 (6.67%) LESS
10 3 (6.67%) React Native
10 3 (6.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 11 (24.44%) Derivative
1 11 (24.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 7 (15.56%) Mobile App
3 3 (6.67%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.22%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.22%) Android
1 1 (2.22%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (40.00%) Agile
2 17 (37.78%) User Experience
3 13 (28.89%) Front End Development
3 13 (28.89%) UX Design
4 11 (24.44%) Full-Stack Development
5 10 (22.22%) Web Development
6 9 (20.00%) Customer Requirements
6 9 (20.00%) Electronic Trading
6 9 (20.00%) Event-Driven
6 9 (20.00%) Event-Driven Programming
7 8 (17.78%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (17.78%) Wireframes
8 7 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (15.56%) Responsive Web Design
9 6 (13.33%) CI/CD
9 6 (13.33%) Performance Optimisation
9 6 (13.33%) TDD
9 6 (13.33%) Usability Testing
10 5 (11.11%) Change Management
10 5 (11.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 27 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 19 (42.22%) TypeScript
3 13 (28.89%) Java
4 4 (8.89%) C#
5 2 (4.44%) Scala
6 1 (2.22%) Apex Code
6 1 (2.22%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (4.44%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (2.22%) Degree
2 1 (2.22%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (20.00%) Accessibility
2 3 (6.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (4.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.44%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (20.00%) Atlassian
2 3 (6.67%) Perforce
2 3 (6.67%) Salesforce
3 2 (4.44%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.22%) Adobe
4 1 (2.22%) Oracle
4 1 (2.22%) Pega
4 1 (2.22%) SAP