User Interface Engineer
UK

The median User Interface Engineer salary in the UK is £100,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

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

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 817 934 1055
Rank change year-on-year +117 +121 -229
Permanent jobs requiring a UI Engineer 90 61 181
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.091% 0.060% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.097% 0.066% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 27 60 119
10th Percentile £70,750 £57,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £87,500 £77,500 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £107,500 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% +75.00%
75th Percentile £136,250 £151,250 £132,500
90th Percentile £150,000 £162,500 £143,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £32,500 £52,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -38.10% -16.00% +38.89%

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 93,191 92,882 151,282
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.46% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 66,790 58,425 84,716
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,517
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +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 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for UI Engineer in the UK

UI Engineer
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 Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 7 May 2024. 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
UK excluding London +52 63 £32,500 -38.10% 3
Scotland - 60 - -
England +58 27 £100,000 -6.98% 5
London +88 24 £100,000 -6.98% 2
Work from Home +48 18 £95,000 +11.76% 3
East of England - 2 £32,500 - 1
Yorkshire - 1 £72,500 -
North of England - 1 £72,500 -

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, 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 86 (95.56%) Software Engineering
2 81 (90.00%) Finance
3 74 (82.22%) React
4 72 (80.00%) Agile
5 64 (71.11%) JavaScript
6 61 (67.78%) Law
7 60 (66.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 56 (62.22%) Marketing
8 56 (62.22%) TypeScript
9 54 (60.00%) SDLC
9 54 (60.00%) Operational Stability
9 54 (60.00%) CI/CD
10 51 (56.67%) Continuous Delivery
11 48 (53.33%) HTML
11 48 (53.33%) CSS
12 46 (51.11%) User Experience
13 34 (37.78%) Information Architecture
13 34 (37.78%) Architectural Design
13 34 (37.78%) Community of Practice
14 33 (36.67%) Python
15 32 (35.56%) UX Design
15 32 (35.56%) AWS
16 29 (32.22%) Node.js
17 26 (28.89%) Public Cloud
17 26 (28.89%) AngularJS
17 26 (28.89%) Social Skills
18 23 (25.56%) DevOps
18 23 (25.56%) Visualisation
18 23 (25.56%) Java
19 21 (23.33%) Artificial Intelligence

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 12 (13.33%) Apache
1 12 (13.33%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 32 (35.56%) AWS
2 12 (13.33%) GCP
3 6 (6.67%) Azure
4 3 (3.33%) GitHub
5 2 (2.22%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (22.22%) Looker
1 20 (22.22%) NoSQL
1 20 (22.22%) Relational Database
2 12 (13.33%) Apache Ignite
3 7 (7.78%) SQL Server
4 6 (6.67%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 6 (6.67%) Git
1 6 (6.67%) Jasmine
1 6 (6.67%) Karma Test Runner
1 6 (6.67%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 81 (90.00%) Finance
2 61 (67.78%) Law
3 60 (66.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 56 (62.22%) Marketing
5 26 (28.89%) Social Skills
6 18 (20.00%) Front Office
7 17 (18.89%) Influencing Skills
7 17 (18.89%) Presentation Skills
8 12 (13.33%) Banking
9 9 (10.00%) Private Banking
10 3 (3.33%) Games
11 2 (2.22%) Investment Banking
12 1 (1.11%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (82.22%) React
2 48 (53.33%) CSS
2 48 (53.33%) HTML
3 29 (32.22%) Node.js
4 26 (28.89%) AngularJS
5 14 (15.56%) DOM
5 14 (15.56%) Spring
5 14 (15.56%) Spring Boot
5 14 (15.56%) Vue
5 14 (15.56%) Web Services
6 12 (13.33%) gRPC
6 12 (13.33%) Protocol Buffers
6 12 (13.33%) Redux
7 6 (6.67%) ASP.NET
7 6 (6.67%) ASP.NET MVC 3
7 6 (6.67%) ASP.NET Web API
7 6 (6.67%) LESS
7 6 (6.67%) OAuth2
7 6 (6.67%) Sass
7 6 (6.67%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 26 (28.89%) Public Cloud
2 21 (23.33%) Product Ownership
3 20 (22.22%) Cloud Native
4 18 (20.00%) Fixed Income
5 5 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (3.33%) Algorithms
6 3 (3.33%) Cyberattack
6 3 (3.33%) Mobile App
6 3 (3.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.44%) Apple iOS
2 3 (3.33%) Android
2 3 (3.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (95.56%) Software Engineering
2 72 (80.00%) Agile
3 54 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 54 (60.00%) Operational Stability
3 54 (60.00%) SDLC
4 51 (56.67%) Continuous Delivery
5 46 (51.11%) User Experience
6 34 (37.78%) Architectural Design
6 34 (37.78%) Community of Practice
6 34 (37.78%) Information Architecture
7 32 (35.56%) UX Design
8 23 (25.56%) DevOps
8 23 (25.56%) Visualisation
9 21 (23.33%) Artificial Intelligence
9 21 (23.33%) Asset Management
9 21 (23.33%) Investment Management
10 20 (22.22%) Data Modelling
10 20 (22.22%) TDD
11 18 (20.00%) Front End Development
12 17 (18.89%) Case Management
Programming Languages
1 64 (71.11%) JavaScript
2 56 (62.22%) TypeScript
3 33 (36.67%) Python
4 23 (25.56%) Java
5 20 (22.22%) SQL
6 6 (6.67%) C#
6 6 (6.67%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.11%) Swift
Qualifications
1 3 (3.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (22.22%) Accessibility
1 20 (22.22%) PMO
2 6 (6.67%) WAI
3 2 (2.22%) GDPR
Vendors
1 20 (22.22%) Atlassian
2 3 (3.33%) CrowdStrike