User Interface Developer
UK

The median User Interface Developer salary in the UK is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 April 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 657 581 797
Rank change year-on-year -76 +216 -37
Permanent jobs requiring a UI Developer 45 60 72
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.054% 0.15% 0.078%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.058% 0.16% 0.082%
Number of salaries quoted 43 52 60
10th Percentile £35,000 £47,500 £39,750
25th Percentile £66,250 £68,438 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +9.38% -5.88%
75th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £145,000 £138,750 £150,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -26.32% - -13.64%

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 77,261 36,752 87,362
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.44% 89.59% 94.53%
Number of salaries quoted 49,774 23,301 65,437
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -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 11 April 2026.

Salary histogram for UI Developer in the UK

UI Developer
Top 9 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 11 April 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 -88 44 £85,000 -2.86% 6
London -28 31 £87,500 - 5
Work from Home -9 13 £109,000 +10.38%
UK excluding London -69 13 £35,000 -26.32% 4
North of England -57 10 £35,000 -26.32%
Yorkshire - 7 £35,000 -
North West -29 3 £70,000 +33.33%
Midlands -45 3 £70,000 +30.23% 1
East Midlands - 3 £70,000 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 11 April 2026, 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 19 (42.22%) JavaScript
2 18 (40.00%) React
3 15 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 15 (33.33%) User Experience
4 12 (26.67%) Azure
4 12 (26.67%) Front End Development
5 11 (24.44%) Agile
5 11 (24.44%) Software Engineering
6 9 (20.00%) Visualisation
7 8 (17.78%) Data Visualisation
7 8 (17.78%) UX Design
8 7 (15.56%) AI
8 7 (15.56%) DevOps
8 7 (15.56%) Figma
8 7 (15.56%) Low Latency
8 7 (15.56%) Mentoring
8 7 (15.56%) Performance Optimisation
8 7 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (13.33%) API Design
9 6 (13.33%) Apple iOS
9 6 (13.33%) C#
9 6 (13.33%) Decision-Making
9 6 (13.33%) E-Procurement
9 6 (13.33%) Risk Management
9 6 (13.33%) Swift
9 6 (13.33%) SwiftUI
9 6 (13.33%) WebSockets
10 5 (11.11%) AWS
10 5 (11.11%) CI/CD
10 5 (11.11%) Electronic Trading

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 2 (4.44%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Adobe XD
Cloud Services
1 12 (26.67%) Azure
2 7 (15.56%) Figma
3 5 (11.11%) AWS
4 4 (8.89%) GCP
4 4 (8.89%) SaaS
5 3 (6.67%) iPaaS
6 1 (2.22%) Adobe Creative Cloud
6 1 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.89%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.22%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.22%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Cypress.io
1 1 (2.22%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.22%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 16 (35.56%) Front Office
2 9 (20.00%) Finance
3 6 (13.33%) Legal
3 6 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 4 (8.89%) Banking
4 4 (8.89%) Investment Banking
5 3 (6.67%) Law
5 3 (6.67%) Social Skills
6 2 (4.44%) Marketing
7 1 (2.22%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (40.00%) React
2 6 (13.33%) SwiftUI
2 6 (13.33%) WebSockets
3 5 (11.11%) RESTful
4 4 (8.89%) .NET
4 4 (8.89%) CSS
4 4 (8.89%) HTML
4 4 (8.89%) Node.js
4 4 (8.89%) Redux
5 3 (6.67%) .NET Core
5 3 (6.67%) Next.js
5 3 (6.67%) WCF
5 3 (6.67%) WinForms
5 3 (6.67%) WPF
6 2 (4.44%) AngularJS
6 2 (4.44%) Blazor
6 2 (4.44%) CSS3
6 2 (4.44%) HTML5
6 2 (4.44%) RxJS
7 1 (2.22%) Semantic HTML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (22.22%) Fixed Income
2 6 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 6 (13.33%) Derivative
3 5 (11.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (8.89%) Equities
5 3 (6.67%) Mobile App
6 2 (4.44%) Credit Risk
6 2 (4.44%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (2.22%) Animation
7 1 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (2.22%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.33%) Apple iOS
2 3 (6.67%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (33.33%) User Experience
2 12 (26.67%) Front End Development
3 11 (24.44%) Agile
3 11 (24.44%) Software Engineering
4 9 (20.00%) Visualisation
5 8 (17.78%) Data Visualisation
5 8 (17.78%) UX Design
6 7 (15.56%) AI
6 7 (15.56%) DevOps
6 7 (15.56%) Low Latency
6 7 (15.56%) Mentoring
6 7 (15.56%) Performance Optimisation
6 7 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (13.33%) API Design
7 6 (13.33%) Decision-Making
7 6 (13.33%) E-Procurement
7 6 (13.33%) Risk Management
8 5 (11.11%) CI/CD
8 5 (11.11%) Electronic Trading
9 4 (8.89%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (42.22%) JavaScript
2 15 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 6 (13.33%) C#
3 6 (13.33%) Swift
4 5 (11.11%) Python
5 4 (8.89%) Java
6 3 (6.67%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (2.22%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (2.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.22%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (6.67%) Apple
1 3 (6.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.44%) Adobe