UX Design Jobs in Scotland

User Experience Design (UXD)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for UX Design skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited UX Design over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 146 152 125
Rank change year-on-year +6 -27 +16
Permanent jobs citing UX Design 154 69 124
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 2.29% 1.46% 2.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.47% 1.55% 2.39%
Number of salaries quoted 53 27 74
10th Percentile £31,500 £36,850 £38,168
25th Percentile £32,500 £44,375 £43,300
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £57,500 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +19.79% +8.34%
75th Percentile £60,000 £82,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £126,730 £70,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.35% +4.58% +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

UX Design is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,235 4,465 5,197
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.87% 94.26% 91.05%
Number of salaries quoted 2,418 2,242 2,777
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,125 £42,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,905 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.33% +10.30% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing UX Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for UX Design in Scotland

UX Design
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing UX Design in Scotland.

Salary trend for UX Design in Scotland

UX Design
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing UX Design in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for UX Design in Scotland

UX Design
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing UX Design within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 27 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
Glasgow -46 102 £47,000 +1.83% 8
Edinburgh +34 24 £55,000 -31.25% 5
Aberdeen -2 10 £35,000 -
Dundee - 9 £47,500 -
Midlothian - 5 - -
South Lanarkshire - 2 £34,500 - 1
Aberdeenshire - 2 £37,500 -
UX Design
UK

UX Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (3.25%) WordPress
3 4 (2.60%) JBoss
3 4 (2.60%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.65%) CMS
Applications
1 28 (18.18%) Sketch
2 10 (6.49%) InVision
3 5 (3.25%) Adobe Illustrator
3 5 (3.25%) Photoshop
4 3 (1.95%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (1.30%) Adobe After Effects
Cloud Services
1 42 (27.27%) Figma
2 15 (9.74%) AWS
3 12 (7.79%) Miro
4 11 (7.14%) SaaS
4 11 (7.14%) SurveyMonkey
5 8 (5.19%) Heroku
6 7 (4.55%) Serverless
7 1 (0.65%) Adobe Creative Cloud
7 1 (0.65%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 11 (7.14%) MySQL
3 7 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (4.55%) Redis
Development Applications
1 23 (14.94%) JIRA
2 7 (4.55%) Git
2 7 (4.55%) Moq
3 4 (2.60%) IntelliJ
General
1 95 (61.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 80 (51.95%) Finance
3 76 (49.35%) Law
4 75 (48.70%) Marketing
5 56 (36.36%) Social Skills
6 19 (12.34%) Presentation Skills
7 17 (11.04%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (5.19%) Banking
8 8 (5.19%) Private Banking
9 7 (4.55%) Public Sector
9 7 (4.55%) Tech for Good
10 3 (1.95%) Polish Language
11 2 (1.30%) Analytical Skills
12 1 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.65%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 56 (36.36%) Lead
2 46 (29.87%) Designer
3 45 (29.22%) UX Designer
4 43 (27.92%) Software Engineer
5 38 (24.68%) Developer
6 32 (20.78%) Lead Software Engineer
6 32 (20.78%) Senior
7 31 (20.13%) UI Engineer
8 27 (17.53%) Senior Designer
8 27 (17.53%) Senior UX Designer
9 17 (11.04%) UI Designer
9 17 (11.04%) UI/UX Designer
9 17 (11.04%) UX Engineer
10 14 (9.09%) User Experience Researcher
11 12 (7.79%) Software Developer
12 11 (7.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 8 (5.19%) JavaScript Developer
13 8 (5.19%) Lead Developer
13 8 (5.19%) Senior UI Designer
13 8 (5.19%) Senior UI/UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (42.21%) React
2 53 (34.42%) HTML
3 43 (27.92%) CSS
4 34 (22.08%) AngularJS
5 25 (16.23%) Node.js
6 20 (12.99%) Vue
7 18 (11.69%) Spring
7 18 (11.69%) Web Services
8 14 (9.09%) DOM
8 14 (9.09%) Spring Boot
9 8 (5.19%) .NET
9 8 (5.19%) RESTful
10 7 (4.55%) ASP.NET MVC
10 7 (4.55%) ASP.NET MVC 3
10 7 (4.55%) CSS3
10 7 (4.55%) Entity Framework
10 7 (4.55%) FIX Protocol
10 7 (4.55%) HTML5
10 7 (4.55%) jQuery
10 7 (4.55%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 22 (14.29%) Market Risk
2 18 (11.69%) Cloud Native
3 15 (9.74%) Greenfield Project
4 14 (9.09%) Management Information System
4 14 (9.09%) Product Ownership
5 12 (7.79%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (4.55%) Algorithms
6 7 (4.55%) Mobile App
7 5 (3.25%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.95%) Graphic Design
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.60%) Android
1 4 (2.60%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (100.00%) User Experience
2 87 (56.49%) Agile
3 50 (32.47%) Software Engineering
4 48 (31.17%) UX Research
5 47 (30.52%) Visualisation
6 42 (27.27%) Mentoring
7 41 (26.62%) Collaborative Working
8 38 (24.68%) Operational Stability
8 38 (24.68%) SDLC
9 32 (20.78%) Coaching
9 32 (20.78%) User Research
10 31 (20.13%) CI/CD
10 31 (20.13%) Community of Practice
10 31 (20.13%) Continuous Delivery
11 29 (18.83%) Information Architecture
12 27 (17.53%) Problem-Solving
13 25 (16.23%) Actionable Insight
14 23 (14.94%) Data Visualisation
15 22 (14.29%) Interaction Design
16 21 (13.64%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 63 (40.91%) JavaScript
2 40 (25.97%) TypeScript
3 38 (24.68%) Java
4 18 (11.69%) Python
5 13 (8.44%) PHP
6 9 (5.84%) C#
7 8 (5.19%) T-SQL
8 6 (3.90%) C
9 4 (2.60%) Kotlin
9 4 (2.60%) Swift
10 1 (0.65%) SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (24.68%) Degree
2 15 (9.74%) Master's Degree
3 14 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 14 (9.09%) Security Cleared
4 11 (7.14%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (26.62%) Accessibility
2 13 (8.44%) WCAG
3 4 (2.60%) QA
System Software
1 7 (4.55%) Docker
Vendors
1 12 (7.79%) ServiceNow
2 8 (5.19%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.95%) Adobe