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 14 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 804 911 1056
Rank change year-on-year +107 +145 -207
Permanent jobs requiring a UI Engineer 92 64 181
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.093% 0.064% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.098% 0.070% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 29 63 116
10th Percentile £71,000 £57,500 £56,250
25th Percentile £87,500 £77,500 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £107,500 £108,750
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -1.15% +81.25%
75th Percentile £136,250 £151,250 £132,500
90th Percentile £150,000 £172,500 £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 93,739 91,836 153,630
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.65% 91.52% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 67,104 57,926 84,939
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,604
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
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 14 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 14 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 +49 63 £32,500 -38.10%
Scotland - 60 - -
England +48 29 £100,000 -6.98% 2
London +92 26 £100,000 -6.98% 2
Work from Home +44 20 £95,000 -11.63% 1
East of England - 2 £32,500 -
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 14 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 88 (95.65%) Software Engineering
2 83 (90.22%) Finance
3 76 (82.61%) React
4 74 (80.43%) Agile
5 66 (71.74%) JavaScript
6 61 (66.30%) Law
7 60 (65.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 58 (63.04%) TypeScript
9 56 (60.87%) Marketing
10 54 (58.70%) SDLC
10 54 (58.70%) Operational Stability
10 54 (58.70%) CI/CD
11 51 (55.43%) Continuous Delivery
12 48 (52.17%) HTML
12 48 (52.17%) CSS
12 48 (52.17%) User Experience
13 35 (38.04%) Python
14 34 (36.96%) AWS
14 34 (36.96%) Information Architecture
14 34 (36.96%) Architectural Design
14 34 (36.96%) Community of Practice
15 32 (34.78%) UX Design
16 31 (33.70%) Node.js
17 26 (28.26%) Public Cloud
17 26 (28.26%) AngularJS
17 26 (28.26%) Social Skills
18 23 (25.00%) DevOps
18 23 (25.00%) Visualisation
18 23 (25.00%) Investment Management
18 23 (25.00%) Java

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 14 (15.22%) Apache
1 14 (15.22%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 34 (36.96%) AWS
2 14 (15.22%) GCP
3 6 (6.52%) Azure
4 3 (3.26%) GitHub
5 2 (2.17%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (21.74%) Looker
1 20 (21.74%) NoSQL
1 20 (21.74%) Relational Database
2 14 (15.22%) Apache Ignite
3 7 (7.61%) SQL Server
4 6 (6.52%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 6 (6.52%) Git
1 6 (6.52%) Jasmine
1 6 (6.52%) Karma Test Runner
1 6 (6.52%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 83 (90.22%) Finance
2 61 (66.30%) Law
3 60 (65.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 56 (60.87%) Marketing
5 26 (28.26%) Social Skills
6 20 (21.74%) Front Office
7 17 (18.48%) Influencing Skills
7 17 (18.48%) Presentation Skills
8 12 (13.04%) Banking
9 9 (9.78%) Private Banking
10 3 (3.26%) Games
11 2 (2.17%) Investment Banking
12 1 (1.09%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (82.61%) React
2 48 (52.17%) CSS
2 48 (52.17%) HTML
3 31 (33.70%) Node.js
4 26 (28.26%) AngularJS
5 14 (15.22%) DOM
5 14 (15.22%) gRPC
5 14 (15.22%) Protocol Buffers
5 14 (15.22%) Redux
5 14 (15.22%) Spring
5 14 (15.22%) Spring Boot
5 14 (15.22%) Vue
5 14 (15.22%) Web Services
6 6 (6.52%) .NET
6 6 (6.52%) ASP.NET
6 6 (6.52%) ASP.NET MVC
6 6 (6.52%) ASP.NET MVC 3
6 6 (6.52%) jQuery
6 6 (6.52%) OAuth
6 6 (6.52%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 26 (28.26%) Public Cloud
2 21 (22.83%) Product Ownership
3 20 (21.74%) Cloud Native
3 20 (21.74%) Fixed Income
4 5 (5.43%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (3.26%) Algorithms
5 3 (3.26%) Cyberattack
5 3 (3.26%) Mobile App
5 3 (3.26%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.35%) Apple iOS
2 3 (3.26%) Android
2 3 (3.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (95.65%) Software Engineering
2 74 (80.43%) Agile
3 54 (58.70%) CI/CD
3 54 (58.70%) Operational Stability
3 54 (58.70%) SDLC
4 51 (55.43%) Continuous Delivery
5 48 (52.17%) User Experience
6 34 (36.96%) Architectural Design
6 34 (36.96%) Community of Practice
6 34 (36.96%) Information Architecture
7 32 (34.78%) UX Design
8 23 (25.00%) Asset Management
8 23 (25.00%) DevOps
8 23 (25.00%) Investment Management
8 23 (25.00%) Visualisation
9 21 (22.83%) Artificial Intelligence
10 20 (21.74%) Data Modelling
10 20 (21.74%) Front End Development
10 20 (21.74%) TDD
11 17 (18.48%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 66 (71.74%) JavaScript
2 58 (63.04%) TypeScript
3 35 (38.04%) Python
4 23 (25.00%) Java
5 20 (21.74%) SQL
6 6 (6.52%) C#
6 6 (6.52%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.09%) Swift
Qualifications
1 3 (3.26%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (21.74%) Accessibility
1 20 (21.74%) PMO
2 6 (6.52%) WAI
3 2 (2.17%) GDPR
Vendors
1 20 (21.74%) Atlassian
2 3 (3.26%) CrowdStrike