UI Developer Contracts

User Interface Developer
UK

The median User Interface Developer daily rate in the UK is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 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
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 459 503 572
Rank change year-on-year +44 +69 +25
Contract jobs requiring a UI Developer 58 87 134
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.20% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.22% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 67 113
10th Percentile £400 £424 £475
25th Percentile £525 £533 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £750 £750
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% - +15.38%
75th Percentile £788 £838 £925
90th Percentile £850 £875 £1,094
UK excluding London median daily rate £442 £538 £450
% change year-on-year -17.77% +19.44% -7.79%
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 26,982 39,941 54,901
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.48% 92.76% 94.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,601 26,001 38,348
10th Percentile £300 £280 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,049 2,673 1,536
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.25 £19.06
Median hourly rate £28.60 £36.65 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.96% -18.56% +88.21%
75th Percentile £62.50 £61.30 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.90 £76.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £40.00 £42.43
% change year-on-year -31.25% -5.73% +115.78%

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 9 May 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 11 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 9 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 +43 56 £650 -13.33% 31
London +49 50 £695 -7.33% 26
Work from Home +34 25 £625 -16.67% 13
UK excluding London +47 7 £442 -17.77% 15
South East +41 4 £475 -7.32% 10
North of England +18 2 £475 -13.64% 2
North West - 2 £475 - 2
South West +35 1 £613 +2.08%
Scotland +14 1 £318 -26.90%
Midlands +8 1 £367 -33.27% 1
East Midlands +8 1 £367 -33.27%

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 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 40 (68.97%) React
2 35 (60.34%) JavaScript
3 33 (56.90%) Finance
4 32 (55.17%) Agile
5 30 (51.72%) TypeScript
6 28 (48.28%) CSS
7 23 (39.66%) Banking
8 22 (37.93%) User Experience
9 19 (32.76%) Git
10 17 (29.31%) Java
10 17 (29.31%) Redux
11 16 (27.59%) Full-Stack Development
11 16 (27.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 16 (27.59%) Front Office
12 15 (25.86%) Investment Banking
12 15 (25.86%) Web Development
12 15 (25.86%) Derivative
12 15 (25.86%) HTML
12 15 (25.86%) Fintech
13 14 (24.14%) npm
13 14 (24.14%) AngularJS
14 13 (22.41%) Yarn
14 13 (22.41%) webpack
15 12 (20.69%) Front End Development
15 12 (20.69%) Customer Requirements
15 12 (20.69%) Event-Driven
15 12 (20.69%) Event-Driven Programming
15 12 (20.69%) Node.js
15 12 (20.69%) AWS
15 12 (20.69%) Electronic Trading

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%) npm
2 13 (22.41%) Yarn
3 12 (20.69%) AWS
4 8 (13.79%) GCP
5 7 (12.07%) Figma
6 5 (8.62%) SaaS
7 1 (1.72%) Azure
7 1 (1.72%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.72%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.45%) HTTP
2 1 (1.72%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.79%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.72%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.72%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 19 (32.76%) Git
2 13 (22.41%) webpack
3 3 (5.17%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.17%) Maven
3 3 (5.17%) TeamCity
4 2 (3.45%) Browser DevTools
4 2 (3.45%) JIRA
4 2 (3.45%) UI Automator
5 1 (1.72%) Ant
5 1 (1.72%) Babel
5 1 (1.72%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (1.72%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.72%) Eclipse
5 1 (1.72%) GitLab
5 1 (1.72%) Grunt
5 1 (1.72%) gulp
5 1 (1.72%) IntelliJ
5 1 (1.72%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.72%) Vite
General
1 33 (56.90%) Finance
2 23 (39.66%) Banking
3 16 (27.59%) Front Office
4 15 (25.86%) Investment Banking
5 11 (18.97%) Social Skills
6 5 (8.62%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (3.45%) Law
8 1 (1.72%) Advertising
8 1 (1.72%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (68.97%) React
2 28 (48.28%) CSS
3 17 (29.31%) Redux
4 15 (25.86%) HTML
5 14 (24.14%) AngularJS
6 12 (20.69%) Node.js
7 7 (12.07%) HTML5
7 7 (12.07%) RxJS
8 6 (10.34%) RESTful
9 5 (8.62%) Sass
10 4 (6.90%) .NET
10 4 (6.90%) CSS3
10 4 (6.90%) Vue
11 3 (5.17%) Ajax
11 3 (5.17%) Bootstrap
11 3 (5.17%) Jest
11 3 (5.17%) JSON
11 3 (5.17%) Vitest
11 3 (5.17%) WebSockets
12 2 (3.45%) Semantic HTML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (27.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 15 (25.86%) Derivative
3 8 (13.79%) Fixed Income
4 3 (5.17%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (3.45%) Algorithms
5 2 (3.45%) Client/Server
5 2 (3.45%) N-Tier
6 1 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.72%) Equity Derivative
6 1 (1.72%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.72%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (55.17%) Agile
2 22 (37.93%) User Experience
3 16 (27.59%) Full-Stack Development
4 15 (25.86%) Fintech
4 15 (25.86%) Web Development
5 12 (20.69%) Customer Requirements
5 12 (20.69%) Electronic Trading
5 12 (20.69%) Event-Driven
5 12 (20.69%) Event-Driven Programming
5 12 (20.69%) Front End Development
6 11 (18.97%) Asset Management
6 11 (18.97%) Visualisation
7 10 (17.24%) UX Design
8 9 (15.52%) CI/CD
9 8 (13.79%) Investment Management
9 8 (13.79%) Software Engineering
9 8 (13.79%) TDD
10 7 (12.07%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (12.07%) Wireframes
11 5 (8.62%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 35 (60.34%) JavaScript
2 30 (51.72%) TypeScript
3 17 (29.31%) Java
4 8 (13.79%) Python
5 7 (12.07%) C#
6 4 (6.90%) 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 9 (15.52%) Accessibility
2 3 (5.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (6.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.72%) Ansible
Vendors
1 12 (20.69%) Atlassian
2 4 (6.90%) UiPath
3 3 (5.17%) Adobe
4 2 (3.45%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.72%) Pega
5 1 (1.72%) Perforce
5 1 (1.72%) Splunk