Senior User Experience Designer
UK

The median Senior User Experience Designer salary in the UK is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 817 846 865
Rank change year-on-year +29 +19 -49
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior UX Designer 86 137 353
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.087% 0.13% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.092% 0.14% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 16 112 137
10th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £54,688 £58,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £89,625 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £70,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -21.43% +47.37% -13.64%

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 93,219 95,232 149,773
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.54% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 66,883 59,878 85,286
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,777 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.04% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Senior UX Designer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior UX Designer in the UK

Senior UX Designer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior UX Designer.

Salary trend for Senior UX Designer in the UK

Senior UX Designer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior UX Designer over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior UX Designer in the UK

Senior UX Designer
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior UX Designer within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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 +33 67 £55,000 -21.43% 8
England +8 48 £60,000 -14.29% 18
Scotland -39 27 - - 2
North of England +45 15 - - 1
London +45 15 £62,500 -10.71% 12
Work from Home +31 12 £60,000 -20.00% 8
North West +10 11 - -
Midlands - 6 £61,000 - 1
South East +9 5 £55,000 -26.67% 2
South West -18 5 £60,000 +14.29% 1
Yorkshire +91 4 - - 1
East Midlands - 4 - -
Northern Ireland - 4 - -
Wales - 4 - -
West Midlands - 2 £61,000 - 1
East of England 0 1 £55,000 -21.43% 1

Senior UX Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2024, Senior 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 featuring Senior UX Designer in the job title.

1 86 (100.00%) UX Design
1 86 (100.00%) User Experience
2 69 (80.23%) Figma
3 65 (75.58%) HTML
4 64 (74.42%) Accessibility
5 57 (66.28%) Sketch
6 56 (65.12%) Prototyping
7 55 (63.95%) Problem-Solving
8 53 (61.63%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 51 (59.30%) Workshop Facilitation
9 51 (59.30%) Design Patterns
9 51 (59.30%) Coaching
10 50 (58.14%) Security Cleared
11 49 (56.98%) WCAG
11 49 (56.98%) Actionable Insight
12 47 (54.65%) Customer Experience
12 47 (54.65%) SC Cleared
13 46 (53.49%) Heroku
13 46 (53.49%) Stakeholder Management
13 46 (53.49%) Digital Customer Experience
13 46 (53.49%) Miro
13 46 (53.49%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
13 46 (53.49%) Low-Fidelity Prototypes
13 46 (53.49%) Sprint Review
14 27 (31.40%) Wireframes
15 22 (25.58%) Agile
16 20 (23.26%) Usability Testing
16 20 (23.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 20 (23.26%) Journey Map
17 19 (22.09%) UX Research

Senior UX Designer 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:

Applications
1 57 (66.28%) Sketch
2 9 (10.47%) InVision
3 7 (8.14%) Adobe Illustrator
3 7 (8.14%) Photoshop
4 3 (3.49%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (1.16%) Adobe XD
5 1 (1.16%) Zeplin
Cloud Services
1 69 (80.23%) Figma
2 46 (53.49%) Heroku
2 46 (53.49%) Miro
3 11 (12.79%) SurveyMonkey
4 1 (1.16%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 1 (1.16%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Development Applications
1 11 (12.79%) JIRA
2 1 (1.16%) Axure RP
General
1 20 (23.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 17 (19.77%) Finance
2 17 (19.77%) Law
3 15 (17.44%) Marketing
4 13 (15.12%) Social Skills
5 3 (3.49%) Polish Language
6 1 (1.16%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.16%) Games
6 1 (1.16%) Legal
6 1 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (75.58%) HTML
2 18 (20.93%) CSS
3 14 (16.28%) React
4 3 (3.49%) AngularJS
4 3 (3.49%) LESS
4 3 (3.49%) Sass
4 3 (3.49%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 1 (1.16%) CarPlay
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.79%) Market Risk
2 6 (6.98%) Graphic Design
3 5 (5.81%) Onboarding
4 4 (4.65%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (4.65%) Mobile App
5 3 (3.49%) Cyberattack
5 3 (3.49%) Motion Graphics
6 1 (1.16%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.16%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.16%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (100.00%) User Experience
1 86 (100.00%) UX Design
2 56 (65.12%) Prototyping
3 55 (63.95%) Problem-Solving
4 53 (61.63%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 51 (59.30%) Coaching
5 51 (59.30%) Design Patterns
5 51 (59.30%) Workshop Facilitation
6 49 (56.98%) Actionable Insight
7 47 (54.65%) Customer Experience
8 46 (53.49%) Digital Customer Experience
8 46 (53.49%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
8 46 (53.49%) Low-Fidelity Prototypes
8 46 (53.49%) Sprint Review
8 46 (53.49%) Stakeholder Management
9 27 (31.40%) Wireframes
10 22 (25.58%) Agile
11 20 (23.26%) Journey Map
11 20 (23.26%) Usability Testing
12 19 (22.09%) UX Research
Programming Languages
1 16 (18.60%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 50 (58.14%) Security Cleared
2 47 (54.65%) SC Cleared
3 17 (19.77%) Degree
4 3 (3.49%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.49%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (74.42%) Accessibility
2 49 (56.98%) WCAG
Vendors
1 6 (6.98%) Adobe
2 1 (1.16%) Apple
2 1 (1.16%) Hotjar
2 1 (1.16%) Salesforce