UI Developer Job Trends

User Interface Developer
UK

The median User Interface Developer salary in the UK is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 September 2025.

The table below provides salary 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 656 694 638
Rank change year-on-year +38 -56 +275
Permanent jobs requiring a UI Developer 14 92 134
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.028% 0.12% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.032% 0.12% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 5 76 97
10th Percentile - £41,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £40,870 £71,250 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £86,250 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.64% +1.47% -10.53%
75th Percentile £73,750 £108,750 £120,000
90th Percentile £97,000 £115,000 £151,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,384 £36,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +16.12% -27.00% -6.98%

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 44,026 73,874 58,090
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.61% 95.25% 93.95%
Number of salaries quoted 25,758 44,964 44,983
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -

UI Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured UI Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for UI Developer 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 September 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 September 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 +44 14 £65,000 -23.53% 14
London +28 11 £88,750 -6.58% 12
UK excluding London +77 3 £42,384 +16.12% 9
North of England +19 2 £42,384 -3.67%
North West +8 2 £42,384 -3.67%
West Midlands +48 1 £65,000 +78.08% 1
Midlands +45 1 £65,000 +78.08% 1
Work from Home +14 1 - - 9

UI Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 15 September 2025, UI Developer 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 permanent job ads featuring UI Developer in the job title.

1 11 (78.57%) TypeScript
2 10 (71.43%) React
3 9 (64.29%) Finance
4 8 (57.14%) CI/CD
5 6 (42.86%) Code Quality
5 6 (42.86%) JavaScript
5 6 (42.86%) DevOps
5 6 (42.86%) Git
6 5 (35.71%) Python
6 5 (35.71%) CSS
6 5 (35.71%) Agile
6 5 (35.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (35.71%) Jest
7 4 (28.57%) Vite
7 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (28.57%) OpenFin
7 4 (28.57%) Community of Practice
7 4 (28.57%) Operational Stability
7 4 (28.57%) Architectural Design
7 4 (28.57%) Banking
7 4 (28.57%) Law
7 4 (28.57%) Equities
7 4 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence
7 4 (28.57%) Software Engineering
7 4 (28.57%) Derivative
7 4 (28.57%) Performance Testing
7 4 (28.57%) Information Architecture
7 4 (28.57%) Machine Learning
7 4 (28.57%) Sass
7 4 (28.57%) AngularJS

UI Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) AWS
1 3 (21.43%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (7.14%) Figma
2 1 (7.14%) npm
2 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
2 1 (7.14%) Yarn
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Data Mining
1 1 (7.14%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Git
2 4 (28.57%) Vite
3 2 (14.29%) JIRA
3 2 (14.29%) webpack
4 1 (7.14%) rollup.js
General
1 9 (64.29%) Finance
2 5 (35.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (28.57%) Banking
3 4 (28.57%) Law
4 1 (7.14%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (71.43%) React
2 5 (35.71%) CSS
2 5 (35.71%) Jest
3 4 (28.57%) AngularJS
3 4 (28.57%) OpenFin
3 4 (28.57%) Sass
4 2 (14.29%) D3.js
4 2 (14.29%) HTML
5 1 (7.14%) Electron
5 1 (7.14%) Enzyme
5 1 (7.14%) Next.js
5 1 (7.14%) Node.js
5 1 (7.14%) OpenID
5 1 (7.14%) Redux
5 1 (7.14%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Derivative
1 4 (28.57%) Equities
2 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (7.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (7.14%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 6 (42.86%) Code Quality
2 6 (42.86%) DevOps
3 5 (35.71%) Agile
4 4 (28.57%) Architectural Design
4 4 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence
4 4 (28.57%) Community of Practice
4 4 (28.57%) Continuous Delivery
4 4 (28.57%) Information Architecture
4 4 (28.57%) Machine Learning
4 4 (28.57%) Operational Stability
4 4 (28.57%) Performance Testing
4 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (28.57%) SDLC
4 4 (28.57%) Software Engineering
5 3 (21.43%) User Experience
5 3 (21.43%) UX Design
6 2 (14.29%) Clean Code
6 2 (14.29%) Human-Centred Design
6 2 (14.29%) Micro Frontends
Programming Languages
1 11 (78.57%) TypeScript
2 6 (42.86%) JavaScript
3 5 (35.71%) Python
4 3 (21.43%) C#
5 1 (7.14%) Java
5 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
5 1 (7.14%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) WCAG
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Adobe
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
1 1 (7.14%) UiPath