UX Designer Jobs in the South East

User Experience Designer
England > South East

The median User Experience Designer salary in the South East is £47,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 370 383 375
Rank change year-on-year +13 -8 -68
Permanent jobs requiring a UX Designer 21 29 108
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.13% 0.19% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.21% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 16 22 76
10th Percentile £29,000 - £45,000
25th Percentile £39,125 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £51,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% -6.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £50,625 £77,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £57,500 £80,000 £60,000
England median annual salary £49,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -17.50% +9.09% +4.76%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 15,598 13,777 18,958
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.89% 90.63% 96.39%
Number of salaries quoted 11,310 8,629 12,627
10th Percentile £27,475 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £39,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.84% +0.95% +9.09%

UX Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings that featured UX Designer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for UX Designer in the South East

UX Designer
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing UX Designer in the South East.

Salary trend for UX Designer in the South East

UX Designer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing UX Designer in the South East over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for UX Designer in the South East

UX Designer
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing UX Designer within the South East region over the 6 months to 24 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
Thames Valley +20 9 £30,000 -42.86% 2
Hampshire -8 7 £50,000 - 1
Berkshire - 5 - -
East Sussex +27 4 £50,000 -
Oxfordshire +15 4 £30,000 -42.86% 2
West Sussex +32 1 £45,000 -10.00%
UX Designer
England

UX Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, UX 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 South East region featuring UX Designer in the job title.

1 21 (100.00%) UX Design
1 21 (100.00%) User Experience
2 13 (61.90%) Prototyping
3 11 (52.38%) Figma
4 10 (47.62%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (42.86%) Sketch
6 8 (38.10%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 8 (38.10%) Customer Experience
7 7 (33.33%) HTML
7 7 (33.33%) Wireframes
8 6 (28.57%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
8 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
9 5 (23.81%) Accessibility
9 5 (23.81%) Workshop Facilitation
9 5 (23.81%) Actionable Insight
9 5 (23.81%) Low-Fidelity Prototypes
9 5 (23.81%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 5 (23.81%) Adobe
9 5 (23.81%) Photoshop
9 5 (23.81%) Adobe Illustrator
9 5 (23.81%) WCAG
9 5 (23.81%) SC Cleared
9 5 (23.81%) Security Cleared
10 4 (19.05%) Visualisation
10 4 (19.05%) Marketing
10 4 (19.05%) InDesign
10 4 (19.05%) Web Design
10 4 (19.05%) Publishing
10 4 (19.05%) Stakeholder Management
10 4 (19.05%) Heroku

UX Designer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (4.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (42.86%) Sketch
2 5 (23.81%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 5 (23.81%) Adobe Illustrator
2 5 (23.81%) Photoshop
3 4 (19.05%) Adobe XD
3 4 (19.05%) InDesign
4 2 (9.52%) Notion
5 1 (4.76%) InVision
5 1 (4.76%) OmniGraffle
Cloud Services
1 11 (52.38%) Figma
2 4 (19.05%) Heroku
2 4 (19.05%) Miro
2 4 (19.05%) WhatsApp
3 3 (14.29%) SaaS
4 2 (9.52%) Asana
5 1 (4.76%) Azure
5 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.76%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) Geospatial Data
1 1 (4.76%) GIS
1 1 (4.76%) Power BI
General
1 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Marketing
2 4 (19.05%) Publishing
3 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (33.33%) HTML
2 2 (9.52%) CSS
3 1 (4.76%) AngularJS
3 1 (4.76%) React
3 1 (4.76%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.76%) Low-Code
2 1 (4.76%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (100.00%) User Experience
1 21 (100.00%) UX Design
2 13 (61.90%) Prototyping
3 10 (47.62%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (38.10%) Customer Experience
4 8 (38.10%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 7 (33.33%) Wireframes
6 6 (28.57%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
7 5 (23.81%) Actionable Insight
7 5 (23.81%) Low-Fidelity Prototypes
7 5 (23.81%) Workshop Facilitation
8 4 (19.05%) Coaching
8 4 (19.05%) Data Visualisation
8 4 (19.05%) Design Patterns
8 4 (19.05%) Infographics
8 4 (19.05%) Sprint Review
8 4 (19.05%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (19.05%) User Research
8 4 (19.05%) Visualisation
8 4 (19.05%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
1 1 (4.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) SC Cleared
1 5 (23.81%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (23.81%) Accessibility
1 5 (23.81%) WCAG
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) Adobe
2 1 (4.76%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (4.76%) Peregrine