UI Designer Contracts in England

User Interface Designer
UK > England

The median User Interface Designer daily rate in England is £506 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 474 501 515
Rank change year-on-year +27 +14 -150
Contract jobs requiring a UI Designer 57 145 277
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.30% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.32% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 107 214
10th Percentile £347 £300 £363
25th Percentile £400 £406 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.25% - +3.90%
75th Percentile £584 £631 £583
90th Percentile £639 £838 £672
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £34.17
25th Percentile - £61.25 £38.56
Median hourly rate - £62.50 £46.73
Median % change year-on-year - +33.74% +24.62%
75th Percentile - £63.75 £54.52
90th Percentile - - £58.68
UK median hourly rate - £62.25 £46.73
% change year-on-year - +33.20% +24.62%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 33,767 45,838 67,777
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.60% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,422 32,556 48,342
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.14%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +8.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,441 1,340 1,860
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.18 £44.77 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.94% +94.63% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.05 £64.78
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

UI Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for UI Designer in England

UI Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing UI Designer in England.

Daily rate trend for UI Designer in England

UI Designer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UI Designer in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for UI Designer in England

UI Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing UI Designer in England.

Hourly rate trend for UI Designer in England

UI Designer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UI Designer within the England region over the 6 months to 20 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +31 36 £544 +6.10% 16
South East +12 7 £400 -23.81% 2
North of England +24 5 £294 -22.19% 6
Yorkshire +15 3 £294 -18.97% 1
South West +7 3 £425 +6.25%
East Midlands +18 2 £418 +52.00% 3
Midlands +16 2 £418 +52.00% 5
North West +16 2 - - 5
UI Designer
UK

UI Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 20 May 2024, UI Designer contract 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 contract job ads across the England region featuring UI Designer in the job title.

1 53 (92.98%) User Experience
2 49 (85.96%) UX Design
3 27 (47.37%) Figma
4 16 (28.07%) Adobe
5 14 (24.56%) HTML
5 14 (24.56%) Social Skills
6 13 (22.81%) Wireframes
6 13 (22.81%) Sketch
7 12 (21.05%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 11 (19.30%) Finance
9 10 (17.54%) Photoshop
9 10 (17.54%) CSS
10 9 (15.79%) Agile
10 9 (15.79%) Marketing
10 9 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (15.79%) Typography
11 8 (14.04%) React
11 8 (14.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 8 (14.04%) Adobe Illustrator
11 8 (14.04%) Health Technology
11 8 (14.04%) Product Ownership
11 8 (14.04%) User Research
12 7 (12.28%) Games
12 7 (12.28%) JavaScript
12 7 (12.28%) InVision
13 6 (10.53%) Prototyping
13 6 (10.53%) Web Design
13 6 (10.53%) Front Office
13 6 (10.53%) Adobe XD
14 5 (8.77%) Project Delivery

UI Designer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 1 (1.75%) Confluence
Applications
1 13 (22.81%) Sketch
2 10 (17.54%) Photoshop
3 8 (14.04%) Adobe Illustrator
4 7 (12.28%) InVision
5 6 (10.53%) Adobe XD
6 5 (8.77%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 3 (5.26%) InDesign
8 1 (1.75%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (1.75%) Final Cut Pro
8 1 (1.75%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 27 (47.37%) Figma
2 2 (3.51%) Power Platform
3 1 (1.75%) Adobe Analytics
3 1 (1.75%) BigCommerce
3 1 (1.75%) Miro
3 1 (1.75%) Pendo
3 1 (1.75%) Unqork
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.26%) Big Data
2 2 (3.51%) BusinessObjects
2 2 (3.51%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (8.77%) Axure RP
2 1 (1.75%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.75%) Git
2 1 (1.75%) JIRA
General
1 14 (24.56%) Social Skills
2 11 (19.30%) Finance
3 9 (15.79%) Marketing
4 8 (14.04%) Health Technology
5 7 (12.28%) Games
6 6 (10.53%) Front Office
7 5 (8.77%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (8.77%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (7.02%) Advertising
9 3 (5.26%) Banking
9 3 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (5.26%) Retail
10 2 (3.51%) Telecoms
11 1 (1.75%) Investment Banking
11 1 (1.75%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (24.56%) HTML
2 10 (17.54%) CSS
3 8 (14.04%) React
4 2 (3.51%) CSS3
5 1 (1.75%) Framer.js
5 1 (1.75%) HTML5 Canvas
5 1 (1.75%) SwiftUI
5 1 (1.75%) Unity (Game Engine)
5 1 (1.75%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 8 (14.04%) Product Ownership
2 5 (8.77%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (7.02%) Animation
3 4 (7.02%) Derivative
3 4 (7.02%) Mobile App
4 3 (5.26%) Digital Media
4 3 (5.26%) Fixed Income
4 3 (5.26%) Graphic Design
4 3 (5.26%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.51%) Augmented Reality
5 2 (3.51%) Virtual Reality
5 2 (3.51%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.75%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.75%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.75%) Mobile Banking
6 1 (1.75%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.75%) Android
1 1 (1.75%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (92.98%) User Experience
2 49 (85.96%) UX Design
3 13 (22.81%) Wireframes
4 12 (21.05%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 9 (15.79%) Agile
5 9 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (15.79%) Typography
6 8 (14.04%) User Research
7 6 (10.53%) Prototyping
7 6 (10.53%) Web Design
8 5 (8.77%) Interaction Design
8 5 (8.77%) Project Delivery
8 5 (8.77%) UX Research
9 4 (7.02%) B2B
9 4 (7.02%) Collaborative Working
9 4 (7.02%) Design Patterns
9 4 (7.02%) E-Commerce
9 4 (7.02%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
9 4 (7.02%) Service Design
9 4 (7.02%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 7 (12.28%) JavaScript
2 3 (5.26%) Java
2 3 (5.26%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (7.02%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.77%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.75%) GRC
2 1 (1.75%) WCAG
Vendors
1 16 (28.07%) Adobe
2 3 (5.26%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.26%) Salesforce
3 2 (3.51%) MicroStrategy
4 1 (1.75%) SAP
4 1 (1.75%) Sitecore