UI Developer Contracts

User Interface Developer
UK

The median User Interface Developer daily rate in the UK is £725 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 491 550 605
Rank change year-on-year +59 +55 -165
Contract jobs requiring a UI Developer 85 134 249
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.24% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.25% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 113 188
10th Percentile £422 £475 £475
25th Percentile £525 £550 £561
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £750 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +15.38% +23.81%
75th Percentile £825 £925 £750
90th Percentile £875 £1,094 £791
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £450 £494
% change year-on-year +16.67% -8.91% +14.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 2
10th Percentile £40.00 - £62.98
25th Percentile £46.25 £25.75 £64.73
Median hourly rate £72.50 £26.50 £70.31
Median % change year-on-year +173.58% -62.31% +29.00%
75th Percentile £79.38 £27.25 £76.73
90th Percentile £80.00 - £78.99
UK excluding London median hourly rate £77.50 - £63.62
% change year-on-year - - +27.23%

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 Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for UI Developer in the UK

UI Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for UI Developer in the UK

UI Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for UI Developer in the UK

UI Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for UI Developer in the UK

UI Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing UI Developer over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for UI Developer in the UK

UI Developer
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UI Developer 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 +61 77 £750 - 17
London +48 64 £750 - 10
Work from Home +81 34 £750 +25.00% 4
UK excluding London +62 16 £525 +16.67% 7
Scotland +36 3 £435 -3.33%
Midlands +28 3 £550 +69.23% 1
East of England +12 3 - -
South East - 3 £513 - 2
East Midlands +14 2 £550 +69.23%
South West +8 2 £525 -12.50% 1
West Midlands +26 1 - - 1
Yorkshire - 1 £550 - 1
Wales - 1 £500 -
North of England - 1 £550 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 2024, UI Developer 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 Developer in the job title.

1 65 (76.47%) React
2 44 (51.76%) TypeScript
2 44 (51.76%) JavaScript
3 42 (49.41%) Agile
4 34 (40.00%) CSS
5 33 (38.82%) User Experience
6 32 (37.65%) Front End Development
7 29 (34.12%) Finance
8 26 (30.59%) Front Office
9 23 (27.06%) Social Skills
10 22 (25.88%) AngularJS
11 21 (24.71%) REST
12 20 (23.53%) Fixed Income
12 20 (23.53%) HTML
12 20 (23.53%) Software Engineering
13 17 (20.00%) Electronic Trading
13 17 (20.00%) Java
13 17 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
13 17 (20.00%) RxJS
14 16 (18.82%) webpack
14 16 (18.82%) AWS
15 15 (17.65%) Redux
15 15 (17.65%) Python
15 15 (17.65%) UX Design
15 15 (17.65%) Web Development
15 15 (17.65%) Design Patterns
15 15 (17.65%) npm
16 14 (16.47%) Full Stack Development
16 14 (16.47%) Banking
16 14 (16.47%) JIRA

UI Developer 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 7 (8.24%) Apache
1 7 (8.24%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.53%) Confluence
3 2 (2.35%) nginx
4 1 (1.18%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.18%) Simulink
1 1 (1.18%) UserZoom
Cloud Services
1 16 (18.82%) AWS
2 15 (17.65%) npm
3 7 (8.24%) Azure
3 7 (8.24%) GCP
4 6 (7.06%) GitHub
4 6 (7.06%) Yarn
5 5 (5.88%) Azure Key Vault
5 5 (5.88%) Serverless
6 3 (3.53%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (3.53%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (3.53%) Figma
7 2 (2.35%) Azure Functions
7 2 (2.35%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (2.35%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (2.35%) PaaS
7 2 (2.35%) SaaS
8 1 (1.18%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
8 1 (1.18%) Firebase
8 1 (1.18%) Google Analytics
8 1 (1.18%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.24%) Apache Ignite
1 7 (8.24%) NoSQL
2 4 (4.71%) Oracle Database
2 4 (4.71%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.35%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (2.35%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.35%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.35%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.18%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 16 (18.82%) webpack
2 14 (16.47%) JIRA
3 13 (15.29%) Git
4 6 (7.06%) TeamCity
5 5 (5.88%) Cypress.io
6 4 (4.71%) Babel
6 4 (4.71%) Jasmine
6 4 (4.71%) Visual Studio
7 3 (3.53%) Bitbucket
7 3 (3.53%) GitLab
7 3 (3.53%) Jenkins
7 3 (3.53%) Karma Test Runner
7 3 (3.53%) SonarQube
8 2 (2.35%) Ant
8 2 (2.35%) Postman
8 2 (2.35%) Selenium
9 1 (1.18%) MagicDraw
9 1 (1.18%) rollup.js
9 1 (1.18%) Storybook
9 1 (1.18%) Vite
General
1 29 (34.12%) Finance
2 26 (30.59%) Front Office
3 23 (27.06%) Social Skills
4 17 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (16.47%) Banking
6 4 (4.71%) Investment Banking
7 3 (3.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (3.53%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.35%) Games
9 1 (1.18%) Advertising
9 1 (1.18%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.18%) Automotive
9 1 (1.18%) Law
9 1 (1.18%) Marketing
9 1 (1.18%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.18%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (76.47%) React
2 34 (40.00%) CSS
3 22 (25.88%) AngularJS
4 21 (24.71%) REST
5 20 (23.53%) HTML
6 17 (20.00%) RxJS
7 15 (17.65%) Redux
8 13 (15.29%) WebSockets
9 11 (12.94%) HTML5
9 11 (12.94%) Node.js
10 7 (8.24%) gRPC
10 7 (8.24%) Protocol Buffers
11 6 (7.06%) .NET
11 6 (7.06%) Spring
11 6 (7.06%) Spring Boot
12 5 (5.88%) Kafka
12 5 (5.88%) Material-UI
12 5 (5.88%) Vue
12 5 (5.88%) Web Services
12 5 (5.88%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 20 (23.53%) Fixed Income
2 8 (9.41%) Derivative
3 7 (8.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (5.88%) Cloud Native
5 4 (4.71%) Hedge funds
5 4 (4.71%) Wiki
6 2 (2.35%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.35%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (2.35%) Solar Panel
7 1 (1.18%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.18%) Animation
7 1 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.18%) Equity Derivative
7 1 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.18%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.18%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.53%) Linux
2 1 (1.18%) Unix
2 1 (1.18%) VxWorks
2 1 (1.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (49.41%) Agile
2 33 (38.82%) User Experience
3 32 (37.65%) Front End Development
4 20 (23.53%) Software Engineering
5 17 (20.00%) Electronic Trading
6 15 (17.65%) Design Patterns
6 15 (17.65%) UX Design
6 15 (17.65%) Web Development
7 14 (16.47%) Full Stack Development
8 13 (15.29%) CI/CD
8 13 (15.29%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (14.12%) Microservices
9 12 (14.12%) TDD
10 11 (12.94%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (11.76%) Continuous Integration
11 10 (11.76%) DevOps
11 10 (11.76%) Economics
12 9 (10.59%) Web Application Development
13 8 (9.41%) Asset Management
13 8 (9.41%) OO
Programming Languages
1 44 (51.76%) JavaScript
1 44 (51.76%) TypeScript
2 17 (20.00%) Java
3 15 (17.65%) Python
4 14 (16.47%) C#
4 14 (16.47%) SQL
5 5 (5.88%) C++
6 3 (3.53%) C
7 2 (2.35%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.18%) Assembly Language
8 1 (1.18%) MATLAB
8 1 (1.18%) PHP
8 1 (1.18%) Ruby
8 1 (1.18%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (8.24%) Security Cleared
2 4 (4.71%) Degree
2 4 (4.71%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.53%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (12.94%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.53%) WCAG
3 1 (1.18%) IEC 61508
3 1 (1.18%) MiFID
3 1 (1.18%) MISRA
3 1 (1.18%) MISRA C
System Software
1 1 (1.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.18%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (5.88%) Atlassian
2 4 (4.71%) Oracle
3 3 (3.53%) Black Duck
4 2 (2.35%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.18%) Adobe
5 1 (1.18%) Google
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