UI Designer Contracts

User Interface Designer
UK

The median User Interface Designer daily rate in the UK is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 512 522 532
Rank change year-on-year +10 +10 -138
Contract jobs requiring a UI Designer 64 162 340
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.28% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.30% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 117 264
10th Percentile £336 £300 £363
25th Percentile £400 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £572 £625 £575
90th Percentile £623 £838 £659
UK excluding London median daily rate £418 £425 £413
% change year-on-year -1.65% +3.03% +8.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £34.17
25th Percentile - - £38.56
Median hourly rate - - £46.73
75th Percentile - - £54.52
90th Percentile - - £58.68
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £32.50
% change year-on-year - - -15.03%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

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

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 39,484 53,902 83,447
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.62% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,682 37,660 58,636
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,662 1,503 2,044
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.38 £15.76
Median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.44 £76.20 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

UI Designer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for UI Designer in the UK

UI Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for UI Designer in the UK

UI Designer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UI Designer over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for UI Designer in the UK

UI Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for UI Designer in the UK

UI Designer
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 16 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
England +26 59 £475 -5.00% 36
London +30 38 £519 +2.47% 19
Work from Home +66 22 £494 +3.95% 22
UK excluding London +40 21 £418 -1.65% 17
South East +5 7 £400 -23.81% 4
North of England +21 5 £294 -22.19% 5
Scotland +35 4 £450 +5.88%
Yorkshire +10 3 £294 -18.97% 1
South West +8 3 £425 +6.25% 2
Midlands +25 2 £418 +52.00% 5
North West +20 2 - - 4
East Midlands +14 2 £418 +52.00% 2

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

For the 6 months to 16 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 featuring UI Designer in the job title.

1 58 (90.63%) User Experience
2 54 (84.38%) UX Design
3 32 (50.00%) Figma
4 17 (26.56%) Social Skills
5 16 (25.00%) Wireframes
5 16 (25.00%) Adobe
6 14 (21.88%) HTML
7 13 (20.31%) Sketch
8 12 (18.75%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 11 (17.19%) Finance
9 11 (17.19%) Agile
10 10 (15.63%) Marketing
10 10 (15.63%) Photoshop
10 10 (15.63%) CSS
10 10 (15.63%) Typography
11 9 (14.06%) Problem-Solving
12 8 (12.50%) React
12 8 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 8 (12.50%) Adobe Illustrator
12 8 (12.50%) Web Design
12 8 (12.50%) Product Ownership
12 8 (12.50%) Health Technology
12 8 (12.50%) User Research
13 7 (10.94%) JavaScript
13 7 (10.94%) Games
13 7 (10.94%) InVision
14 6 (9.38%) Interaction Design
14 6 (9.38%) Prototyping
14 6 (9.38%) Mobile App
14 6 (9.38%) Front Office

UI Designer 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 1 (1.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 13 (20.31%) Sketch
2 10 (15.63%) Photoshop
3 8 (12.50%) Adobe Illustrator
4 7 (10.94%) InVision
5 6 (9.38%) Adobe XD
6 5 (7.81%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 3 (4.69%) InDesign
8 1 (1.56%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (1.56%) Final Cut Pro
8 1 (1.56%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 32 (50.00%) Figma
2 2 (3.13%) Power Platform
3 1 (1.56%) Adobe Analytics
3 1 (1.56%) BigCommerce
3 1 (1.56%) Miro
3 1 (1.56%) Pendo
3 1 (1.56%) Unqork
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.69%) Big Data
2 2 (3.13%) BusinessObjects
2 2 (3.13%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (7.81%) Axure RP
2 1 (1.56%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.56%) Git
2 1 (1.56%) JIRA
General
1 17 (26.56%) Social Skills
2 11 (17.19%) Finance
3 10 (15.63%) Marketing
4 8 (12.50%) Health Technology
5 7 (10.94%) Games
6 6 (9.38%) Front Office
7 5 (7.81%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (7.81%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (6.25%) Advertising
9 3 (4.69%) Banking
9 3 (4.69%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (4.69%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (4.69%) Retail
10 2 (3.13%) Telecoms
11 1 (1.56%) Danish Language
11 1 (1.56%) Investment Banking
11 1 (1.56%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (21.88%) HTML
2 10 (15.63%) CSS
3 8 (12.50%) React
4 2 (3.13%) CSS3
5 1 (1.56%) Framer.js
5 1 (1.56%) HTML5 Canvas
5 1 (1.56%) SwiftUI
5 1 (1.56%) Unity (Game Engine)
5 1 (1.56%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 8 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 6 (9.38%) Mobile App
3 5 (7.81%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (6.25%) Animation
4 4 (6.25%) Derivative
4 4 (6.25%) Graphic Design
5 3 (4.69%) Digital Media
5 3 (4.69%) Fixed Income
5 3 (4.69%) Onboarding
6 2 (3.13%) Augmented Reality
6 2 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (3.13%) Virtual Reality
6 2 (3.13%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.56%) Blog
7 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.56%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.56%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.56%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.56%) Android
1 1 (1.56%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (90.63%) User Experience
2 54 (84.38%) UX Design
3 16 (25.00%) Wireframes
4 12 (18.75%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 11 (17.19%) Agile
6 10 (15.63%) Typography
7 9 (14.06%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (12.50%) User Research
8 8 (12.50%) Web Design
9 6 (9.38%) B2B
9 6 (9.38%) Interaction Design
9 6 (9.38%) Prototyping
10 5 (7.81%) E-Commerce
10 5 (7.81%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
10 5 (7.81%) Project Delivery
10 5 (7.81%) Service Design
10 5 (7.81%) UX Research
11 4 (6.25%) Design Patterns
11 4 (6.25%) Digital Marketing
11 4 (6.25%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 7 (10.94%) JavaScript
2 3 (4.69%) Java
2 3 (4.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (6.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.38%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.56%) GRC
2 1 (1.56%) WCAG
Vendors
1 16 (25.00%) Adobe
2 3 (4.69%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.69%) Salesforce
3 2 (3.13%) MicroStrategy
4 1 (1.56%) SAP
4 1 (1.56%) Sitecore