UI Developer Job Trends

User Interface Developer
UK

The median User Interface Developer salary in the UK is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 October 2025.

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

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 641 649 630
Rank change year-on-year +8 -19 +280
Permanent jobs requiring a UI Developer 15 106 111
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.030% 0.15% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.034% 0.16% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 6 89 75
10th Percentile £40,870 £71,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £42,527 £71,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £87,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% +2.94% +9.68%
75th Percentile £72,188 £108,750 £120,000
90th Percentile £93,125 £138,750 £150,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,384 £36,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +16.12% -27.00% -9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 44,157 67,663 53,621
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.76% 95.35% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 25,771 38,844 41,467
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £35,500 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% -4.76% -

UI Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

UI Developer job vacancy trend in the UK

UI Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for UI Developer job vacancies in the UK

UI Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing UI Developer over the 6 months to 15 October 2025.

Salary histogram for UI Developer in the UK

UI Developer
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing UI Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 15 October 2025. 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 +23 15 £57,500 -34.29% 9
London -7 11 £88,750 -6.58%
UK excluding London +84 3 £42,384 +16.12% 12
North of England +18 2 £42,384 - 6
Work from Home -22 2 £50,000 -47.37% 8
North West - 2 £42,384 - 6
West Midlands +38 1 £65,000 +78.08%
Midlands +33 1 £65,000 +78.08%

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

For the 6 months to 15 October 2025, 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 UI Developer in the job title.

1 12 (80.00%) TypeScript
2 11 (73.33%) React
3 9 (60.00%) Finance
3 9 (60.00%) CI/CD
4 7 (46.67%) DevOps
4 7 (46.67%) Git
5 6 (40.00%) CSS
5 6 (40.00%) JavaScript
5 6 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (40.00%) Code Quality
6 5 (33.33%) Jest
6 5 (33.33%) Python
6 5 (33.33%) Agile
7 4 (26.67%) Banking
7 4 (26.67%) Law
7 4 (26.67%) Equities
7 4 (26.67%) AI
7 4 (26.67%) Software Engineering
7 4 (26.67%) Performance Testing
7 4 (26.67%) Derivative
7 4 (26.67%) Azure
7 4 (26.67%) Information Architecture
7 4 (26.67%) Continuous Delivery
7 4 (26.67%) SDLC
7 4 (26.67%) Machine Learning
7 4 (26.67%) Sass
7 4 (26.67%) AngularJS
7 4 (26.67%) OpenFin
7 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (26.67%) Vite

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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) Azure
2 3 (20.00%) AWS
3 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (6.67%) Figma
4 1 (6.67%) GitHub
4 1 (6.67%) npm
4 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
4 1 (6.67%) SaaS
4 1 (6.67%) Yarn
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Data Mining
1 1 (6.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (46.67%) Git
2 4 (26.67%) Vite
3 2 (13.33%) JIRA
3 2 (13.33%) webpack
4 1 (6.67%) rollup.js
General
1 9 (60.00%) Finance
2 6 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (26.67%) Banking
3 4 (26.67%) Law
4 1 (6.67%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (73.33%) React
2 6 (40.00%) CSS
3 5 (33.33%) Jest
4 4 (26.67%) AngularJS
4 4 (26.67%) OpenFin
4 4 (26.67%) Sass
5 3 (20.00%) HTML
6 2 (13.33%) D3.js
6 2 (13.33%) Redux
6 2 (13.33%) REST
7 1 (6.67%) Electron
7 1 (6.67%) Enzyme
7 1 (6.67%) Material-UI
7 1 (6.67%) Next.js
7 1 (6.67%) Node.js
7 1 (6.67%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Derivative
1 4 (26.67%) Equities
2 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (6.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (6.67%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (46.67%) DevOps
3 6 (40.00%) Code Quality
4 5 (33.33%) Agile
5 4 (26.67%) AI
5 4 (26.67%) Architectural Design
5 4 (26.67%) Community of Practice
5 4 (26.67%) Continuous Delivery
5 4 (26.67%) Information Architecture
5 4 (26.67%) Machine Learning
5 4 (26.67%) Operational Stability
5 4 (26.67%) Performance Testing
5 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (26.67%) SDLC
5 4 (26.67%) Software Engineering
6 3 (20.00%) Micro Frontends
6 3 (20.00%) User Experience
6 3 (20.00%) UX Design
7 2 (13.33%) Human-Centred Design
7 2 (13.33%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 12 (80.00%) TypeScript
2 6 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 5 (33.33%) Python
4 3 (20.00%) C#
5 1 (6.67%) Java
5 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
5 1 (6.67%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) WCAG
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) Adobe
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (6.67%) UiPath