UI Developer Job Trends

User Interface Developer
UK

The median User Interface Developer salary in the UK is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 January 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 637 581 713
Rank change year-on-year -56 +132 +91
Permanent jobs requiring a UI Developer 16 112 43
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.026% 0.21% 0.067%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.028% 0.23% 0.071%
Number of salaries quoted 15 96 31
10th Percentile £35,000 £53,125 £43,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £71,250 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £87,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +59.09% -37.14%
75th Percentile £109,750 £115,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £134,500 £138,750 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -26.32% -5.00% -9.09%

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 56,506 49,067 60,891
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.75% 92.30% 95.18%
Number of salaries quoted 35,084 25,365 47,305
10th Percentile £28,750 £33,500 £29,800
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -4.94%

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 23 January 2026.

Salary histogram for UI Developer in the UK

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 UI Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 23 January 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 -35 15 £81,250 -7.14% 58
London -41 10 £100,000 +5.26% 9
UK excluding London +24 4 £35,000 -26.32% 53
North of England +10 4 £35,000 -26.32% 17
Work from Home -12 4 £87,000 -8.42% 12
Yorkshire - 4 £35,000 - 11

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

For the 6 months to 23 January 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 6 (37.50%) DevOps
1 6 (37.50%) React
2 5 (31.25%) TypeScript
3 4 (25.00%) Azure
3 4 (25.00%) C#
3 4 (25.00%) CSS
3 4 (25.00%) Front End Development
3 4 (25.00%) HTML
3 4 (25.00%) Java
3 4 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 4 (25.00%) User Experience
4 3 (18.75%) Agile
4 3 (18.75%) AI
4 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
4 3 (18.75%) Electronic Trading
4 3 (18.75%) E-Procurement
4 3 (18.75%) Figma
4 3 (18.75%) SaaS
4 3 (18.75%) UX Design
5 2 (12.50%) Accessibility
5 2 (12.50%) Adobe
5 2 (12.50%) Algorithmic Trading
5 2 (12.50%) AWS
5 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (12.50%) Blazor
5 2 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (12.50%) Low Latency
5 2 (12.50%) Market Making
5 2 (12.50%) Next.js
5 2 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation

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 (6.25%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Adobe XD
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) Figma
2 3 (18.75%) SaaS
3 2 (12.50%) AWS
3 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (6.25%) Adobe Creative Cloud
4 1 (6.25%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
1 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
1 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Cypress.io
1 1 (6.25%) Git
1 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
1 1 (6.25%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 5 (31.25%) Front Office
2 3 (18.75%) Finance
2 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
3 2 (12.50%) Banking
3 2 (12.50%) Investment Banking
3 2 (12.50%) Legal
3 2 (12.50%) Marketing
4 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (37.50%) React
2 4 (25.00%) CSS
2 4 (25.00%) HTML
3 2 (12.50%) Blazor
3 2 (12.50%) Next.js
3 2 (12.50%) REST
4 1 (6.25%) .NET
4 1 (6.25%) AngularJS
4 1 (6.25%) CSS3
4 1 (6.25%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (6.25%) HTML5
4 1 (6.25%) Jest
4 1 (6.25%) Material-UI
4 1 (6.25%) OpenFin
4 1 (6.25%) Redux
4 1 (6.25%) RESTful
4 1 (6.25%) Vue
4 1 (6.25%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 2 (12.50%) Credit Risk
2 2 (12.50%) Derivative
3 1 (6.25%) Fixed Income
3 1 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) DevOps
2 4 (25.00%) Front End Development
2 4 (25.00%) User Experience
3 3 (18.75%) Agile
3 3 (18.75%) AI
3 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
3 3 (18.75%) Electronic Trading
3 3 (18.75%) E-Procurement
3 3 (18.75%) UX Design
4 2 (12.50%) Algorithmic Trading
4 2 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (12.50%) Low Latency
4 2 (12.50%) Market Making
4 2 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (12.50%) Software Engineering
4 2 (12.50%) User Stories
5 1 (6.25%) API Design
5 1 (6.25%) Decision-Making
5 1 (6.25%) Prototyping
5 1 (6.25%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) TypeScript
2 4 (25.00%) C#
2 4 (25.00%) Java
2 4 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (6.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) Accessibility
2 1 (6.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Adobe