User Interface Engineer
UK

The median User Interface Engineer salary in the UK is £140,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 December 2023.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 729 990 947
Rank change year-on-year +261 -43 -237
Permanent jobs requiring a UI Engineer 12 86 152
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.023% 0.069% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.024% 0.073% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 6 69 128
10th Percentile £57,500 £67,500 £66,750
25th Percentile £93,125 £95,000 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £140,000 £125,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% +19.05% +75.00%
75th Percentile £172,500 £143,750 £122,500
90th Percentile £183,750 £162,500 £143,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £87,500 £51,250
% change year-on-year -31.43% +70.73% +13.89%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 50,797 118,142 122,028
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.42% 95.32% 95.15%
Number of salaries quoted 37,144 73,821 84,079
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,750 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.26%

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 4 December 2023.

Salary histogram for UI Engineer in the UK

UI Engineer
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 Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 4 December 2023. 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 +261 8 £140,000 +12.00% 4
UK excluding London +242 6 £60,000 -31.43% 1
London +199 6 £162,500 +30.00% 3
Scotland - 4 - -
Work from Home +217 3 £85,000 -24.44% 2
East of England +124 2 £60,000 -36.84% 1

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

For the 6 months to 4 December 2023, 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 11 (91.67%) React
2 10 (83.33%) JavaScript
3 9 (75.00%) TypeScript
4 8 (66.67%) CSS
4 8 (66.67%) Marketing
5 7 (58.33%) Node.js
5 7 (58.33%) HTML
5 7 (58.33%) Social Skills
6 6 (50.00%) Finance
6 6 (50.00%) Agile
6 6 (50.00%) Software Engineering
7 5 (41.67%) Law
7 5 (41.67%) Python
7 5 (41.67%) Creative Thinking
7 5 (41.67%) Collaborative Working
8 4 (33.33%) SDLC
8 4 (33.33%) User Experience
8 4 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
8 4 (33.33%) Kubernetes
8 4 (33.33%) UX Design
8 4 (33.33%) AWS
8 4 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
8 4 (33.33%) Operational Stability
9 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (25.00%) Visualisation
9 3 (25.00%) WebSockets
9 3 (25.00%) Hedge funds
9 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
9 3 (25.00%) TDD

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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (8.33%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Looker
1 2 (16.67%) NoSQL
1 2 (16.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) webpack
General
1 8 (66.67%) Marketing
2 7 (58.33%) Social Skills
3 6 (50.00%) Finance
4 5 (41.67%) Law
5 4 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (91.67%) React
2 8 (66.67%) CSS
3 7 (58.33%) HTML
3 7 (58.33%) Node.js
4 3 (25.00%) GraphQL
4 3 (25.00%) gRPC
4 3 (25.00%) WebSockets
5 1 (8.33%) D3.js
5 1 (8.33%) HTML5
5 1 (8.33%) Nuxt
5 1 (8.33%) Sass
5 1 (8.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Hedge funds
2 2 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 2 (16.67%) Public Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) Blockchain
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Agile
1 6 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 5 (41.67%) Collaborative Working
2 5 (41.67%) Creative Thinking
3 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 4 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
3 4 (33.33%) Operational Stability
3 4 (33.33%) SDLC
3 4 (33.33%) User Experience
3 4 (33.33%) UX Design
4 3 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 3 (25.00%) Cross-Platform Development
4 3 (25.00%) Machine Learning
4 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (25.00%) Systematic Trading
4 3 (25.00%) TDD
4 3 (25.00%) Visualisation
5 2 (16.67%) Architectural Design
5 2 (16.67%) Community of Practice
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) JavaScript
2 9 (75.00%) TypeScript
3 5 (41.67%) Python
4 2 (16.67%) Java
4 2 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Atlassian