UI Designer Contracts in the UK excluding London

User Interface Designer
UK > UK excluding London

The median User Interface Designer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024.

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

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 345 384 433
Rank change year-on-year +39 +49 +5
Contract jobs requiring a UI Designer 24 29 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.14% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.15% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 20 59
10th Percentile £253 £216 £273
25th Percentile £306 £344 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £420 £445
Median % change year-on-year +1.19% -5.62% +0.91%
75th Percentile £538 £478 £525
90th Percentile £566 £499 £575
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £61.25 £41.25
Median hourly rate - £62.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year - +47.06% +14.86%
75th Percentile - £63.75 £43.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £62.25 £42.50
% change year-on-year - +46.47% +8.28%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 15,430 19,609 28,575
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.10% 93.93% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,847 13,032 20,128
10th Percentile £220 £213 £215
25th Percentile £375 £381 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,078 1,268 1,341
10th Percentile £14.73 £14.25 £12.48
25th Percentile £19.41 £18.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £44.50 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.73% +89.36% +31.43%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.50 £70.30
UK median hourly rate £38.00 £45.00 £27.73
% change year-on-year -15.56% +62.28% +38.65%

UI Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for UI Designer in the UK excluding London

UI Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing UI Designer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for UI Designer in the UK excluding London

UI Designer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UI Designer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for UI Designer in the UK excluding London

UI Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing UI Designer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for UI Designer in the UK excluding London

UI Designer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
South East +44 12 £475 +35.71% 1
Midlands +6 7 £525 +12.00%
Scotland +28 4 £406 +98.17% 1
East Midlands +7 4 £334 -24.89%
West Midlands +2 3 £525 +12.00%
North West +26 1 £275 - 2
North of England +26 1 £275 -31.25% 4
UI Designer
UK

UI Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 31 October 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 UK excluding London region featuring UI Designer in the job title.

1 19 (79.17%) User Experience
2 18 (75.00%) UX Design
3 15 (62.50%) Wireframes
4 11 (45.83%) Sketch
4 11 (45.83%) Figma
5 10 (41.67%) InVision
6 9 (37.50%) HTML
6 9 (37.50%) CSS
6 9 (37.50%) Adobe
7 8 (33.33%) Accessibility
8 7 (29.17%) User Research
8 7 (29.17%) Journey Map
8 7 (29.17%) Adobe XD
8 7 (29.17%) A/B Testing
8 7 (29.17%) Prototyping
8 7 (29.17%) Responsive Web Design
9 6 (25.00%) Agile
9 6 (25.00%) JavaScript
9 6 (25.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 5 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (20.83%) Interaction Design
10 5 (20.83%) Axure RP
11 4 (16.67%) CSS3
11 4 (16.67%) HTML5
11 4 (16.67%) Balsamiq
11 4 (16.67%) OmniGraffle
11 4 (16.67%) User Stories
11 4 (16.67%) Mobile App
11 4 (16.67%) UXPin
11 4 (16.67%) Framer.js

UI Designer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (4.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (45.83%) Sketch
2 10 (41.67%) InVision
3 7 (29.17%) Adobe XD
4 4 (16.67%) OmniGraffle
4 4 (16.67%) UXPin
5 1 (4.17%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (4.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (4.17%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (4.17%) InDesign
5 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (4.17%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 11 (45.83%) Figma
2 3 (12.50%) SaaS
3 1 (4.17%) OneDrive
Development Applications
1 5 (20.83%) Axure RP
2 4 (16.67%) Balsamiq
3 2 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (4.17%) Finance
2 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (4.17%) Marketing
2 1 (4.17%) Retail
2 1 (4.17%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (37.50%) CSS
1 9 (37.50%) HTML
2 4 (16.67%) CSS3
2 4 (16.67%) Framer.js
2 4 (16.67%) HTML5
3 3 (12.50%) QML
3 3 (12.50%) Qt
4 1 (4.17%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Graphic Design
1 4 (16.67%) Mobile App
2 3 (12.50%) Product Ownership
3 2 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (4.17%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Android
1 1 (4.17%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (79.17%) User Experience
2 18 (75.00%) UX Design
3 15 (62.50%) Wireframes
4 7 (29.17%) A/B Testing
4 7 (29.17%) Journey Map
4 7 (29.17%) Prototyping
4 7 (29.17%) Responsive Web Design
4 7 (29.17%) User Research
5 6 (25.00%) Agile
5 6 (25.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 5 (20.83%) Interaction Design
6 5 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (16.67%) Design Thinking
7 4 (16.67%) Heuristic Analysis
7 4 (16.67%) Mobile First
7 4 (16.67%) Product Vision
7 4 (16.67%) Rapid Prototyping
7 4 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (16.67%) User Stories
8 3 (12.50%) Typography
Programming Languages
1 6 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (16.67%) C++
3 1 (4.17%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (33.33%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 9 (37.50%) Adobe