UX Design Job Trends in Bristol

User Experience Design (UXD)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring UX Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 90 111
Rank change year-on-year +1 +21 +5
Permanent jobs citing UX Design 8 16 21
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 0.41% 1.08% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 1.25% 1.41%
Number of salaries quoted 5 7 19
10th Percentile - £45,250 £38,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £48,875 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £88,467
90th Percentile £65,200 £69,500 £91,934
South West median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bristol

UX Design falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Bristol.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,298 1,282 1,494
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 66.46% 86.86% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 968 702 1,235
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +0.80% +8.23%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £81,975 £87,500 £88,750
South West median annual salary £50,000 £54,439 £53,500
% change year-on-year -8.15% +1.76% +5.31%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing UX Design relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

UX Design job vacancy trend in Bristol

UX Design
Salary Trend in Bristol

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing UX Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing UX Design

UX Design
Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing UX Design in Bristol over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Salary histogram for UX Design in Bristol

UX Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (37.50%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Pulumi
3 1 (12.50%) Figma
3 1 (12.50%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) JIRA
2 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (25.00%) TeamCity
3 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (12.50%) Military
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Designer
1 3 (37.50%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) C# Developer
2 2 (25.00%) C# Software Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Product Owner
2 2 (25.00%) Software Developer
2 2 (25.00%) UX Designer
3 1 (12.50%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (12.50%) Product Designer
3 1 (12.50%) React Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Designer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Product Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) .NET
1 2 (25.00%) .NET Core
1 2 (25.00%) .NET Framework
1 2 (25.00%) Avalonia
1 2 (25.00%) Entity Framework
1 2 (25.00%) REST
1 2 (25.00%) WPF
2 1 (12.50%) CSS
2 1 (12.50%) Framer.js
2 1 (12.50%) HTML
2 1 (12.50%) React
2 1 (12.50%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (12.50%) Animation
2 1 (12.50%) Blog
2 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
2 1 (12.50%) Podcast
2 1 (12.50%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Android
2 1 (12.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) User Experience
2 4 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) API Development
3 2 (25.00%) Backlog Management
3 2 (25.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 2 (25.00%) Clean Code
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (25.00%) OWASP
3 2 (25.00%) Secure Coding
3 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (25.00%) Wireframes
4 1 (12.50%) Analytics
4 1 (12.50%) Collaborative Culture
4 1 (12.50%) Customer Engagement
4 1 (12.50%) Customer Experience
4 1 (12.50%) Decarbonisation
4 1 (12.50%) Product Vision
4 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (12.50%) User Stories
4 1 (12.50%) UX Research
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) C#
2 2 (25.00%) XAML
3 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Salesforce