Hybrid/Remote Server-Driven UI Contract Job Trends

Server-Driven UI (SDUI)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Server-Driven UI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 315 316 -
Rank change year-on-year +1 - -
Contract jobs citing Server-Driven UI 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.020% 0.009% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.021% 0.010% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
UK median daily rate £650 £800 £738
% change year-on-year -18.75% +8.47% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £65.50 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Server-Driven UI falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,307 10,398 15,211
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 90.96% 89.03% 88.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,155 6,534 10,383
10th Percentile £330 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 328 212 370
10th Percentile £15.27 £17.58 £19.91
25th Percentile £20.47 £22.00 £27.06
Median hourly rate £42.50 £37.00 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.86% -30.84% -2.73%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.63 £71.44
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £87.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.85
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.88% +25.29%

Server-Driven UI
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Server-Driven UI and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Server-Driven UI job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Server-Driven UI
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Server-Driven UI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Server-Driven UI

Server-Driven UI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Gradle
1 1 (50.00%) IntelliJ
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Java Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Server Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) UI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (50.00%) gRPC
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) JSON Schema
1 1 (50.00%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (50.00%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (50.00%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) A/B Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) API Development
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (50.00%) Dependency Injection
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes