UI Engineer Contracts

User Interface Engineer
UK

The median User Interface Engineer daily rate in the UK is £710 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 549 648 774
Rank change year-on-year +99 +126 -163
Contract jobs requiring a UI Engineer 34 48 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.080% 0.083% 0.076%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.086% 0.087% 0.080%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 36 54
10th Percentile £668 £463 £425
25th Percentile £679 £475 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £710 £525 £650
Median % change year-on-year +35.24% -19.23% +23.81%
75th Percentile £800 £650 £700
90th Percentile £965 £713 -
UK excluding London median daily rate - £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +22.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
Median hourly rate £80.00 £38.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +110.53% - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 39,665 55,057 84,118
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.65% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,784 38,442 59,095
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,665 1,534 2,069
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +6.13%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.26 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +3.98%

UI Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for UI Engineer in the UK

UI Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for UI Engineer in the UK

UI Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UI Engineer over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for UI Engineer in the UK

UI Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for UI Engineer in the UK

UI Engineer
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UI Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 13 May 2024. 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 +93 34 £710 +29.09% 1
London +85 32 £710 +18.33% 1
Work from Home +99 21 £750 +36.36%
UK excluding London +61 2 - -
East of England +9 2 - -

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

For the 6 months to 13 May 2024, UI Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 27 (79.41%) React
2 25 (73.53%) User Experience
3 23 (67.65%) Software Engineering
4 22 (64.71%) Finance
5 21 (61.76%) JavaScript
5 21 (61.76%) TypeScript
6 19 (55.88%) Fixed Income
7 18 (52.94%) CSS
8 14 (41.18%) Marketing
8 14 (41.18%) Redux
9 13 (38.24%) Full Stack Development
10 12 (35.29%) Front End Development
10 12 (35.29%) Node.js
11 11 (32.35%) Agile
12 10 (29.41%) HTML
13 9 (26.47%) Asset Management
14 8 (23.53%) Electronic Trading
14 8 (23.53%) Git
14 8 (23.53%) UX Design
14 8 (23.53%) Java
14 8 (23.53%) git-flow
14 8 (23.53%) SDLC
14 8 (23.53%) Enterprise Software
14 8 (23.53%) Sass
14 8 (23.53%) LESS
14 8 (23.53%) WebSockets
14 8 (23.53%) Customer Experience
14 8 (23.53%) Material-UI
14 8 (23.53%) Tailwind CSS
14 8 (23.53%) Post-Production

UI Engineer 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 6 (17.65%) Apache
1 6 (17.65%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Adobe XD
1 2 (5.88%) InVision
1 2 (5.88%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 6 (17.65%) AWS
1 6 (17.65%) Azure
1 6 (17.65%) GCP
2 3 (8.82%) Power Platform
3 2 (5.88%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.65%) Apache Ignite
2 3 (8.82%) BusinessObjects
2 3 (8.82%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (23.53%) Git
1 8 (23.53%) git-flow
General
1 22 (64.71%) Finance
2 14 (41.18%) Marketing
3 7 (20.59%) Social Skills
4 6 (17.65%) Front Office
5 5 (14.71%) Financial Institution
6 2 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.88%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (79.41%) React
2 18 (52.94%) CSS
3 14 (41.18%) Redux
4 12 (35.29%) Node.js
5 10 (29.41%) HTML
6 8 (23.53%) Jest
6 8 (23.53%) LESS
6 8 (23.53%) Material-UI
6 8 (23.53%) OpenFin
6 8 (23.53%) Sass
6 8 (23.53%) Tailwind CSS
6 8 (23.53%) WebSockets
7 7 (20.59%) HTML5
8 6 (17.65%) gRPC
8 6 (17.65%) Protocol Buffers
9 5 (14.71%) AngularJS
10 3 (8.82%) CSS3
11 1 (2.94%) NestJS
11 1 (2.94%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 19 (55.88%) Fixed Income
2 8 (23.53%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (20.59%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (5.88%) Algorithms
4 2 (5.88%) Data Structures
4 2 (5.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (5.88%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (73.53%) User Experience
2 23 (67.65%) Software Engineering
3 13 (38.24%) Full Stack Development
4 12 (35.29%) Front End Development
5 11 (32.35%) Agile
6 9 (26.47%) Asset Management
7 8 (23.53%) Customer Experience
7 8 (23.53%) Electronic Trading
7 8 (23.53%) Post-Production
7 8 (23.53%) SDLC
7 8 (23.53%) UX Design
8 7 (20.59%) Prototyping
9 6 (17.65%) Fintech
9 6 (17.65%) Investment Management
9 6 (17.65%) Performance Attribution
10 3 (8.82%) Data Visualisation
10 3 (8.82%) Information Architecture
10 3 (8.82%) User Journey Map
10 3 (8.82%) Visualisation
10 3 (8.82%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 21 (61.76%) JavaScript
1 21 (61.76%) TypeScript
2 8 (23.53%) Java
3 6 (17.65%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (5.88%) DV Cleared
1 2 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (8.82%) MicroStrategy