UI Engineer Contracts

User Interface Engineer
UK

The median User Interface Engineer daily rate in the UK is £725 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 June 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 562 642 799
Rank change year-on-year +80 +157 -152
Contract jobs requiring a UI Engineer 40 53 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.092% 0.095% 0.065%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.099% 0.10% 0.068%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 42 45
10th Percentile £563 £463 £425
25th Percentile £675 £475 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £525 £650
Median % change year-on-year +38.10% -19.23% +23.81%
75th Percentile £919 £650 £700
90th Percentile £1,000 £713 -
UK excluding London median daily rate - £450 £650
% change year-on-year - -30.77% +67.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
Median hourly rate £80.00 £38.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +110.53% - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 - -

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 40,232 52,519 83,570
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 94.52% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,887 36,654 58,907
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.60%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,899 1,488 1,954
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.60
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.39 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.88 £65.75 £49.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.33 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +7.17%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for UI Engineer in the UK

UI Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UI Engineer over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for UI Engineer in the UK

UI Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for UI Engineer in the UK

UI Engineer
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UI Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 9 June 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 +85 40 £725 +31.82% 4
London +82 38 £725 +20.83% 2
Work from Home +94 28 £750 +25.00% 1
UK excluding London +34 2 - - 2
East of England - 2 - -

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

For the 6 months to 9 June 2024, UI Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 32 (80.00%) React
2 31 (77.50%) User Experience
3 29 (72.50%) Software Engineering
4 26 (65.00%) JavaScript
4 26 (65.00%) Finance
4 26 (65.00%) Fixed Income
4 26 (65.00%) TypeScript
5 22 (55.00%) Redux
6 19 (47.50%) CSS
7 16 (40.00%) Front End Development
8 15 (37.50%) Full Stack Development
8 15 (37.50%) Marketing
8 15 (37.50%) Agile
9 14 (35.00%) Node.js
10 13 (32.50%) Asset Management
11 12 (30.00%) Material-UI
12 11 (27.50%) Customer Experience
12 11 (27.50%) git-flow
12 11 (27.50%) SDLC
12 11 (27.50%) Post-Production
12 11 (27.50%) OpenFin
12 11 (27.50%) Jest
12 11 (27.50%) Tailwind CSS
12 11 (27.50%) Java
12 11 (27.50%) Front Office
12 11 (27.50%) Electronic Trading
12 11 (27.50%) WebSockets
12 11 (27.50%) Git
12 11 (27.50%) Sass
12 11 (27.50%) LESS

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 10 (25.00%) Apache
1 10 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Adobe XD
1 2 (5.00%) InVision
1 2 (5.00%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 10 (25.00%) AWS
1 10 (25.00%) GCP
2 4 (10.00%) Azure
3 3 (7.50%) Power Platform
4 2 (5.00%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (25.00%) Apache Ignite
2 3 (7.50%) BusinessObjects
2 3 (7.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (27.50%) Git
1 11 (27.50%) git-flow
2 1 (2.50%) Cypress.io
2 1 (2.50%) fastlane
General
1 26 (65.00%) Finance
2 15 (37.50%) Marketing
3 11 (27.50%) Front Office
4 6 (15.00%) Social Skills
5 5 (12.50%) Financial Institution
6 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.00%) Banking
7 1 (2.50%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.50%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (80.00%) React
2 22 (55.00%) Redux
3 19 (47.50%) CSS
4 14 (35.00%) Node.js
5 12 (30.00%) Material-UI
6 11 (27.50%) Jest
6 11 (27.50%) LESS
6 11 (27.50%) OpenFin
6 11 (27.50%) Sass
6 11 (27.50%) Tailwind CSS
6 11 (27.50%) WebSockets
7 10 (25.00%) gRPC
7 10 (25.00%) Protocol Buffers
8 8 (20.00%) HTML
9 5 (12.50%) AngularJS
9 5 (12.50%) HTML5
10 3 (7.50%) CSS3
11 1 (2.50%) NestJS
11 1 (2.50%) Next.js
11 1 (2.50%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 26 (65.00%) Fixed Income
2 11 (27.50%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (5.00%) Algorithms
4 2 (5.00%) Data Structures
4 2 (5.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (5.00%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.50%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (77.50%) User Experience
2 29 (72.50%) Software Engineering
3 16 (40.00%) Front End Development
4 15 (37.50%) Agile
4 15 (37.50%) Full Stack Development
5 13 (32.50%) Asset Management
6 11 (27.50%) Customer Experience
6 11 (27.50%) Electronic Trading
6 11 (27.50%) Post-Production
6 11 (27.50%) SDLC
7 10 (25.00%) Fintech
7 10 (25.00%) Investment Management
7 10 (25.00%) Performance Attribution
8 8 (20.00%) UX Design
9 5 (12.50%) Prototyping
10 3 (7.50%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
10 3 (7.50%) Information Architecture
10 3 (7.50%) Low-Fidelity Prototypes
10 3 (7.50%) Visualisation
10 3 (7.50%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 26 (65.00%) JavaScript
1 26 (65.00%) TypeScript
2 11 (27.50%) Java
3 10 (25.00%) Python
4 1 (2.50%) Ruby
4 1 (2.50%) Swift
Qualifications
1 2 (5.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (7.50%) MicroStrategy