UI Designer Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

User Interface Designer
UK > Work from Home

The median User Interface Designer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £389, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 August 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
10 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 297 306 383
Rank change year-on-year +9 +77 +26
Contract jobs requiring a UI Designer 18 27 53
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.18% 0.21% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.22% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 17 34
10th Percentile £302 £325 £183
25th Percentile £313 £355 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £389 £425 £463
Median % change year-on-year -8.53% -8.11% -11.90%
75th Percentile £495 £575 £519
90th Percentile £519 £688 £618
UK median daily rate £470 £532 £475
% change year-on-year -11.61% +11.95% -8.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £61.33
25th Percentile - - £61.44
Median hourly rate - - £62.25
75th Percentile - - £63.31
90th Percentile - - £63.58
UK median hourly rate - - £62.25
% change year-on-year - - +91.54%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,542 12,164 20,844
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.50% 94.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,346 8,167 14,730
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -0.94% -1.85%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -0.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 294 379 497
10th Percentile £12.73 £17.08 £16.98
25th Percentile £16.53 £28.63 £24.50
Median hourly rate £34.48 £45.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.38% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.61 £66.75
90th Percentile £70.16 £75.00 £78.85
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +65.50%

UI Designer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured UI Designer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

UI Designer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

UI Designer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing UI Designer.

UI Designer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

UI Designer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing UI Designer over the 6 months to 10 August 2025.

UI Designer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

UI Designer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing UI Designer.

UI Designer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

UI Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 10 August 2025, UI Designer 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring UI Designer in the job title.

1 14 (77.78%) Figma
2 13 (72.22%) UX Design
2 13 (72.22%) User Experience
3 6 (33.33%) Prototyping
3 6 (33.33%) Adobe
4 5 (27.78%) Agile
4 5 (27.78%) Typography
4 5 (27.78%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 5 (27.78%) Accessibility
4 5 (27.78%) User Research
5 4 (22.22%) Sketch
5 4 (22.22%) Wireframes
5 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
5 4 (22.22%) Usability Testing
6 3 (16.67%) HTML
6 3 (16.67%) CSS
6 3 (16.67%) WCAG
6 3 (16.67%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 3 (16.67%) Analytics
6 3 (16.67%) Adobe XD
6 3 (16.67%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
6 3 (16.67%) Low-Fidelity Prototypes
7 2 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
7 2 (11.11%) Workshop Facilitation
7 2 (11.11%) Atomic Design
7 2 (11.11%) Mobile App
7 2 (11.11%) Axure RP
7 2 (11.11%) Service Design
7 2 (11.11%) Front End Development
7 2 (11.11%) Virgin Media

UI Designer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (5.56%) CMS
1 1 (5.56%) Drupal
Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Sketch
2 3 (16.67%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 3 (16.67%) Adobe XD
3 1 (5.56%) Adobe Premiere
3 1 (5.56%) InVision
3 1 (5.56%) Moqups
Cloud Services
1 14 (77.78%) Figma
2 1 (5.56%) Google Analytics
2 1 (5.56%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Axure RP
2 1 (5.56%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) JIRA
2 1 (5.56%) Visual Studio
2 1 (5.56%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Banking
2 2 (11.11%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Manufacturing
2 2 (11.11%) Marketing
3 1 (5.56%) Automotive
3 1 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Local Government
3 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) CSS
1 3 (16.67%) HTML
2 1 (5.56%) .NET
2 1 (5.56%) Blazor
2 1 (5.56%) CSS3
2 1 (5.56%) HTML5
2 1 (5.56%) jQuery
2 1 (5.56%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.56%) Animation
2 1 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Android
1 1 (5.56%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (72.22%) User Experience
1 13 (72.22%) UX Design
2 6 (33.33%) Prototyping
3 5 (27.78%) Agile
3 5 (27.78%) Typography
3 5 (27.78%) User Research
3 5 (27.78%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 4 (22.22%) Usability Testing
4 4 (22.22%) Wireframes
5 3 (16.67%) Analytics
5 3 (16.67%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
5 3 (16.67%) Low-Fidelity Prototypes
6 2 (11.11%) Atomic Design
6 2 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (11.11%) Front End Development
6 2 (11.11%) Service Design
6 2 (11.11%) Workshop Facilitation
7 1 (5.56%) Acceptance Criteria
7 1 (5.56%) Content Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (27.78%) Accessibility
2 3 (16.67%) WCAG
3 2 (11.11%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Adobe
2 2 (11.11%) Virgin Media
3 1 (5.56%) Google
3 1 (5.56%) Hotjar
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle
3 1 (5.56%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.56%) SAP
3 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow