Lead Designer Jobs in England

Lead Designer
UK > England

The median Lead Designer salary in England is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 793 877 918
Rank change year-on-year +84 +41 -161
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Designer 29 64 214
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.034% 0.069% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.036% 0.075% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 24 49 78
10th Percentile £55,400 £45,800 £53,178
25th Percentile £60,200 £66,250 £62,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +15.38%
75th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £94,375
90th Percentile £99,250 £104,000 £111,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,626 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.97% +0.89% +5.66%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 80,251 85,470 125,579
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.57% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 60,137 54,051 75,614
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,626 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,899 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.15% +1.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,991 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,686 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.19% - +9.09%

Lead Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Designer in England

Lead Designer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead Designer in England.

Salary trend for Lead Designer in England

Lead Designer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Designer in England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Designer in England

Lead Designer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Designer within the England region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
London +123 17 £82,500 +9.63% 10
North of England +39 6 £61,900 -15.78% 2
North West +6 4 £65,000 -21.21% 2
West Midlands +28 3 £65,000 -8.77%
Midlands +3 3 £65,000 -8.77%
Yorkshire +91 1 - -
South East +25 1 £77,500 +55.00% 1
North East - 1 £58,800 -
Lead Designer
UK

Lead Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Lead Designer 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 across the England region featuring Lead Designer in the job title.

1 15 (51.72%) User Research
2 14 (48.28%) Design Patterns
2 14 (48.28%) Strategic Thinking
3 13 (44.83%) User Experience
3 13 (44.83%) Retail
4 12 (41.38%) Service Design
5 11 (37.93%) Mentoring
5 11 (37.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (37.93%) Security Cleared
6 10 (34.48%) SC Cleared
6 10 (34.48%) UX Design
6 10 (34.48%) Agile
6 10 (34.48%) Accessibility
6 10 (34.48%) dbt
7 9 (31.03%) Social Skills
8 8 (27.59%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (27.59%) Prototyping
8 8 (27.59%) Stakeholder Management
9 7 (24.14%) Finance
9 7 (24.14%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 7 (24.14%) Customer Experience
10 6 (20.69%) Cost Reduction
10 6 (20.69%) Figma
10 6 (20.69%) Public Sector
10 6 (20.69%) Customer-Centricity
11 5 (17.24%) Analytics
11 5 (17.24%) Front End Development
11 5 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
11 5 (17.24%) Interaction Design
11 5 (17.24%) Roadmaps

Lead Designer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 2 (6.90%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Sketch
2 3 (10.34%) InVision
3 2 (6.90%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (3.45%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Oracle General Ledger
1 4 (13.79%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 10 (34.48%) dbt
2 6 (20.69%) Figma
3 4 (13.79%) AWS
3 4 (13.79%) Azure
3 4 (13.79%) OCI
4 1 (3.45%) SaaS
4 1 (3.45%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 1 (3.45%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.79%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) JIRA
General
1 13 (44.83%) Retail
2 11 (37.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 9 (31.03%) Social Skills
4 7 (24.14%) Finance
5 6 (20.69%) Public Sector
6 5 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (13.79%) Back Office
7 4 (13.79%) General Ledger
8 1 (3.45%) Games
8 1 (3.45%) Law
8 1 (3.45%) Legal
8 1 (3.45%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.45%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Reinsurance
2 2 (6.90%) Graphic Design
2 2 (6.90%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.45%) Cyberattack
3 1 (3.45%) Online Games
3 1 (3.45%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (51.72%) User Research
2 14 (48.28%) Design Patterns
2 14 (48.28%) Strategic Thinking
3 13 (44.83%) User Experience
4 12 (41.38%) Service Design
5 11 (37.93%) Mentoring
6 10 (34.48%) Agile
6 10 (34.48%) UX Design
7 8 (27.59%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (27.59%) Prototyping
7 8 (27.59%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (24.14%) Customer Experience
8 7 (24.14%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 6 (20.69%) Cost Reduction
9 6 (20.69%) Customer-Centricity
10 5 (17.24%) Analytics
10 5 (17.24%) Front End Development
10 5 (17.24%) Interaction Design
10 5 (17.24%) Roadmaps
11 4 (13.79%) Critical Thinking
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.45%) JavaScript
1 1 (3.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (37.93%) Security Cleared
2 10 (34.48%) SC Cleared
3 4 (13.79%) Oracle Certification
4 3 (10.34%) Degree
5 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.45%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (34.48%) Accessibility
2 4 (13.79%) GAAP
2 4 (13.79%) IFRS
3 2 (6.90%) WCAG
4 1 (3.45%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 4 (13.79%) Oracle
1 4 (13.79%) PeopleSoft
1 4 (13.79%) SAP
2 3 (10.34%) Adobe
3 1 (3.45%) Salesforce