Hybrid/Remote UI Developer Contract Job Trends

User Interface Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median User Interface Developer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £458, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 September 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
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 289 299 344
Rank change year-on-year +10 +45 +183
Contract jobs requiring a UI Developer 18 36 73
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.19% 0.28% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.30% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 30 62
10th Percentile £351 £546 -
25th Percentile £390 £563 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -26.72% +4.17% -11.11%
75th Percentile £530 £819 £822
90th Percentile £751 £850 £1,000
UK median daily rate £475 £625 £675
% change year-on-year -24.00% -7.41% -

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 9,102 11,812 19,436
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.81% 93.46% 94.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,992 7,603 13,744
10th Percentile £325 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 294 297 445
10th Percentile £13.25 £19.47 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £31.25 £25.71
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.02 £68.75
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.86
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.96% +68.69%

UI Developer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

UI Developer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote UI Developer job vacancies.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote UI Developer job vacancies

UI Developer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing UI Developer over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

UI Developer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

UI Developer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for remote UI Developer job vacancies.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for remote UI Developer job vacancies

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

For the 6 months to 15 September 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 jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring UI Developer in the job title.

1 11 (61.11%) CSS
1 11 (61.11%) React
2 9 (50.00%) HTML
2 9 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 8 (44.44%) User Experience
4 7 (38.89%) Front End Development
4 7 (38.89%) Wireframes
4 7 (38.89%) Git
4 7 (38.89%) UX Design
4 7 (38.89%) RESTful
5 6 (33.33%) TypeScript
5 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
6 5 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (27.78%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (27.78%) Redux
6 5 (27.78%) Usability Testing
6 5 (27.78%) Agile
6 5 (27.78%) Finance
7 4 (22.22%) Jest
7 4 (22.22%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 4 (22.22%) Responsive Web Design
7 4 (22.22%) Sass
7 4 (22.22%) Node.js
7 4 (22.22%) Mobile App
7 4 (22.22%) User Research
7 4 (22.22%) CI/CD
8 3 (16.67%) UX Research
8 3 (16.67%) AngularJS
8 3 (16.67%) Jenkins
8 3 (16.67%) AWS

UI Developer 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%) Apache
1 1 (5.56%) Confluence
1 1 (5.56%) nginx
1 1 (5.56%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (5.56%) Chatbot
1 1 (5.56%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 3 (16.67%) AWS
2 2 (11.11%) Figma
2 2 (11.11%) npm
2 2 (11.11%) OpenShift
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon Bedrock
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (5.56%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) Kerberos
Development Applications
1 7 (38.89%) Git
2 3 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 3 (16.67%) Maven
3 2 (11.11%) Cucumber
3 2 (11.11%) Eclipse
3 2 (11.11%) IntelliJ
3 2 (11.11%) JIRA
4 1 (5.56%) Cypress.io
4 1 (5.56%) Gerrit
4 1 (5.56%) GitLab
4 1 (5.56%) Grunt
4 1 (5.56%) gulp
4 1 (5.56%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (5.56%) SonarQube
4 1 (5.56%) Subversion
4 1 (5.56%) Vite
General
1 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (27.78%) Finance
3 3 (16.67%) Banking
3 3 (16.67%) Law
4 2 (11.11%) Front Office
4 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.56%) Financial Institution
5 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (61.11%) CSS
1 11 (61.11%) React
2 9 (50.00%) HTML
3 7 (38.89%) RESTful
4 5 (27.78%) Redux
5 4 (22.22%) Jest
5 4 (22.22%) Node.js
5 4 (22.22%) Sass
6 3 (16.67%) AngularJS
7 2 (11.11%) AWT
7 2 (11.11%) CSS3
7 2 (11.11%) HTML5
7 2 (11.11%) JavaFX
7 2 (11.11%) JPA
7 2 (11.11%) jQuery
7 2 (11.11%) LESS
7 2 (11.11%) Spring
7 2 (11.11%) Spring Boot
7 2 (11.11%) Web Services
7 2 (11.11%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Mobile App
2 3 (16.67%) Client/Server
3 2 (11.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
4 1 (5.56%) Low-Code
4 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) User Experience
2 7 (38.89%) Front End Development
2 7 (38.89%) UX Design
2 7 (38.89%) Wireframes
3 5 (27.78%) Agile
3 5 (27.78%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (27.78%) Usability Testing
4 4 (22.22%) CI/CD
4 4 (22.22%) Responsive Web Design
4 4 (22.22%) User Research
4 4 (22.22%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 3 (16.67%) Change Management
5 3 (16.67%) Prototyping
5 3 (16.67%) UX Research
6 2 (11.11%) Case Management
6 2 (11.11%) Performance Optimisation
6 2 (11.11%) Software Architecture
6 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (11.11%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 6 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 2 (11.11%) Java
4 1 (5.56%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Pega
2 1 (5.56%) Adobe
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) OpenAI
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle
2 1 (5.56%) Perforce
2 1 (5.56%) Salesforce
2 1 (5.56%) SAP