Senior UI Developer Job Trends

Senior User Interface Developer
UK

The median Senior User Interface Developer salary in the UK is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 July 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 746 662 864
Rank change year-on-year -84 +202 -95
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior UI Developer 15 9 9
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.015% 0.018% 0.009%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.016% 0.020% 0.010%
Number of salaries quoted 13 5 9
10th Percentile £62,000 £79,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £97,500 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £105,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +10.53% +16.92%
75th Percentile - £117,750 £120,000
90th Percentile £100,000 - £160,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 - £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -18.75%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 94,139 44,347 91,129
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.26% 89.90% 94.76%
Number of salaries quoted 64,646 26,264 64,457
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year - +2.80% -10.83%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £70,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.66%

Senior UI Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior UI Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Senior UI Developer job vacancy trend in the UK

Senior UI Developer
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Senior UI Developer job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Senior UI Developer job vacancies in the UK

Senior UI Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior UI Developer over the 6 months to 20 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior UI Developer in the UK

Senior UI Developer
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior UI Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 20 July 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -55 15 £85,000 -19.05% 2
London -25 9 £85,000 -19.05%
North West - 6 £70,000 - 2
UK excluding London - 6 £70,000 - 2
North of England - 6 £70,000 - 2
Work from Home - 3 £70,000 -

Senior UI Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 20 July 2026, Senior UI Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Senior UI Developer in the job title.

1 6 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 5 (33.33%) AI
2 5 (33.33%) Front End Development
2 5 (33.33%) React
2 5 (33.33%) User Experience
2 5 (33.33%) UX Design
3 4 (26.67%) Agile
3 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
3 4 (26.67%) Figma
3 4 (26.67%) Mentoring
3 4 (26.67%) TypeScript
4 3 (20.00%) Algorithmic Trading
4 3 (20.00%) Android
4 3 (20.00%) Android Development
4 3 (20.00%) AngularJS
4 3 (20.00%) Apple iOS
4 3 (20.00%) Coaching
4 3 (20.00%) Electronic Trading
4 3 (20.00%) iOS Development
4 3 (20.00%) Kotlin
4 3 (20.00%) Market Making
4 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (20.00%) Swift
4 3 (20.00%) SwiftUI
4 3 (20.00%) Web Development
5 2 (13.33%) Accessibility
5 2 (13.33%) Azure
5 2 (13.33%) CSS
5 2 (13.33%) DevOps
5 2 (13.33%) HTML

Senior UI Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (6.67%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) Figma
2 2 (13.33%) Azure
2 2 (13.33%) SaaS
3 1 (6.67%) AWS
3 1 (6.67%) npm
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Maven
1 1 (6.67%) Storybook
General
1 4 (26.67%) Legal
2 3 (20.00%) Front Office
3 2 (13.33%) Legal Technology
4 1 (6.67%) Advertising
4 1 (6.67%) Publishing
4 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) React
2 3 (20.00%) AngularJS
2 3 (20.00%) SwiftUI
3 2 (13.33%) CSS
3 2 (13.33%) HTML
4 1 (6.67%) amCharts
4 1 (6.67%) CSS3
4 1 (6.67%) D3.js
4 1 (6.67%) GraphQL
4 1 (6.67%) Highcharts JS
4 1 (6.67%) HTML5
4 1 (6.67%) MDX
4 1 (6.67%) Next.js
4 1 (6.67%) Node.js
4 1 (6.67%) RESTful
4 1 (6.67%) Semantic HTML
4 1 (6.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Cloud Native
2 3 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (6.67%) Animation
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Android
1 3 (20.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) AI
1 5 (33.33%) Front End Development
1 5 (33.33%) User Experience
1 5 (33.33%) UX Design
2 4 (26.67%) Agile
2 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (26.67%) Mentoring
3 3 (20.00%) Algorithmic Trading
3 3 (20.00%) Android Development
3 3 (20.00%) Coaching
3 3 (20.00%) Electronic Trading
3 3 (20.00%) iOS Development
3 3 (20.00%) Market Making
3 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (20.00%) Web Development
4 2 (13.33%) DevOps
5 1 (6.67%) BDD
5 1 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (6.67%) Test Automation
5 1 (6.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (26.67%) TypeScript
3 3 (20.00%) Kotlin
3 3 (20.00%) Swift
4 2 (13.33%) Java
5 1 (6.67%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (6.67%) WCAG
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) Adobe