UI Engineer Jobs

User Interface Engineer
UK

The median User Interface Engineer salary in the UK is £87,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 658 808 929
Rank change year-on-year +150 +121 +90
Permanent jobs requiring a UI Engineer 34 88 60
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.065% 0.089% 0.058%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.072% 0.094% 0.063%
Number of salaries quoted 25 25 59
10th Percentile £62,250 £70,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £71,250 £87,500 £75,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £100,000 £107,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -6.98% -4.44%
75th Percentile £115,000 £136,250 £151,250
90th Percentile £138,750 £150,000 £162,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £32,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +69.23% -38.10% -16.00%

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 46,902 93,183 95,132
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.12% 94.62% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 27,275 66,883 59,840
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% +5.00%

UI Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for UI Engineer in the UK

UI Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing UI Engineer.

Salary trend for UI Engineer in the UK

UI Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing UI Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for UI Engineer in the UK

UI Engineer
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing UI Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +183 34 £87,500 -12.50% 13
Work from Home +208 29 £87,500 -7.89% 17
London +113 25 £110,000 +10.00% 3
UK excluding London +155 9 £55,000 +69.23% 12
South East - 9 £55,000 - 6

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, UI Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 31 (91.18%) React
2 30 (88.24%) TypeScript
3 29 (85.29%) JavaScript
3 29 (85.29%) Agile
4 28 (82.35%) User Experience
5 27 (79.41%) Software Engineering
6 26 (76.47%) Python
7 25 (73.53%) Node.js
8 24 (70.59%) Finance
9 21 (61.76%) Front Office
9 21 (61.76%) Fintech
9 21 (61.76%) Redux
10 20 (58.82%) GCP
10 20 (58.82%) AWS
11 19 (55.88%) Investment Management
11 19 (55.88%) Fixed Income
11 19 (55.88%) Asset Management
12 15 (44.12%) PostgreSQL
12 15 (44.12%) Visualisation
13 8 (23.53%) Accessibility
13 8 (23.53%) Git
14 7 (20.59%) Artificial Intelligence
14 7 (20.59%) Law
14 7 (20.59%) CSS
14 7 (20.59%) webpack
14 7 (20.59%) DevOps
14 7 (20.59%) Next.js
14 7 (20.59%) CI/CD
15 6 (17.65%) Kubernetes
15 6 (17.65%) Front End Development

UI Engineer 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (11.76%) Apache
1 4 (11.76%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 20 (58.82%) AWS
1 20 (58.82%) GCP
2 2 (5.88%) npm
2 2 (5.88%) Yarn
3 1 (2.94%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (44.12%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (11.76%) Apache Ignite
3 2 (5.88%) MongoDB
3 2 (5.88%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.94%) Couchbase
4 1 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 8 (23.53%) Git
2 7 (20.59%) webpack
3 5 (14.71%) Cypress.io
3 5 (14.71%) Vite
4 4 (11.76%) Jenkins
5 2 (5.88%) Ant
5 2 (5.88%) Babel
5 2 (5.88%) JIRA
5 2 (5.88%) Maven
5 2 (5.88%) TeamCity
General
1 24 (70.59%) Finance
2 21 (61.76%) Front Office
3 7 (20.59%) Law
4 5 (14.71%) Games
5 4 (11.76%) Banking
6 2 (5.88%) Agriculture
6 2 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.88%) Investment Banking
6 2 (5.88%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (91.18%) React
2 25 (73.53%) Node.js
3 21 (61.76%) Redux
4 7 (20.59%) CSS
4 7 (20.59%) Next.js
5 5 (14.71%) Enzyme
5 5 (14.71%) HTML
5 5 (14.71%) Jest
5 5 (14.71%) OpenAPI
5 5 (14.71%) Parceljs
5 5 (14.71%) Svelte
5 5 (14.71%) Vue
5 5 (14.71%) WebAssembly
6 4 (11.76%) gRPC
6 4 (11.76%) Protocol Buffers
7 3 (8.82%) .NET
7 3 (8.82%) CSS3
7 3 (8.82%) HTML5
8 2 (5.88%) Hibernate
8 2 (5.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 19 (55.88%) Fixed Income
2 5 (14.71%) Algorithms
3 2 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (5.88%) Hedge funds
3 2 (5.88%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (85.29%) Agile
2 28 (82.35%) User Experience
3 27 (79.41%) Software Engineering
4 21 (61.76%) Fintech
5 19 (55.88%) Asset Management
5 19 (55.88%) Investment Management
6 15 (44.12%) Visualisation
7 7 (20.59%) Artificial Intelligence
7 7 (20.59%) CI/CD
7 7 (20.59%) DevOps
8 6 (17.65%) Front End Development
9 5 (14.71%) Cloud Security
9 5 (14.71%) Containerisation
9 5 (14.71%) Jamstack
9 5 (14.71%) Machine Learning
9 5 (14.71%) Micro Frontends
9 5 (14.71%) Open Source
9 5 (14.71%) Pair Programming
9 5 (14.71%) Platform Engineering
9 5 (14.71%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 30 (88.24%) TypeScript
2 29 (85.29%) JavaScript
3 26 (76.47%) Python
4 5 (14.71%) Go
5 4 (11.76%) SQL
6 3 (8.82%) C#
7 2 (5.88%) Bash
7 2 (5.88%) Java
7 2 (5.88%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (8.82%) Degree
2 2 (5.88%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (23.53%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (2.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (17.65%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (5.88%) Oracle