UX Design Job Trends in Central London

User Experience Design (UXD)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Central London requiring UX Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 150 139
Rank change year-on-year +42 -11 -13
Permanent jobs citing UX Design 34 39 46
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 1.57% 1.18% 1.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.73% 1.24% 1.50%
Number of salaries quoted 25 23 43
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £55,500
25th Percentile £48,238 £52,500 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £55,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -33.33% +26.92%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £101,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £84,750 £106,250
London median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +15.38% -16.13% +10.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,970 3,141 3,073
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 90.74% 95.01% 95.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,522 2,008 2,787
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £74,750 £73,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.33% +1.70% -2.00%
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,375 £117,500 £115,000
London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - - +3.45%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

UX Design job vacancy trend in Central London

UX Design
Salary Trend in Central London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing UX Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing UX Design

UX Design
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing UX Design in Central London over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Salary histogram for UX Design in Central London

UX Design
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing UX Design within the Central London region over the 6 months to 13 December 2025. 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
City of London +30 28 £70,000 +27.27% 7
West End of London +6 1 £48,238 -
UX Design
London

UX Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 1 (2.94%) Appian
Applications
1 3 (8.82%) Adobe XD
Cloud Services
1 10 (29.41%) Azure
2 6 (17.65%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (14.71%) Figma
4 4 (11.76%) Power Platform
4 4 (11.76%) SaaS
5 3 (8.82%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (8.82%) Copilot Studio
5 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Copilot
5 3 (8.82%) Miro
6 1 (2.94%) Adobe Creative Cloud
6 1 (2.94%) npm
6 1 (2.94%) Yarn
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.65%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (17.65%) Git
2 2 (5.88%) Vite
2 2 (5.88%) webpack
3 1 (2.94%) Cypress.io
General
1 10 (29.41%) Law
2 9 (26.47%) Social Skills
3 7 (20.59%) Finance
3 7 (20.59%) Legal
4 4 (11.76%) Marketing
5 3 (8.82%) Banking
5 3 (8.82%) Digital Health
5 3 (8.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.94%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (41.18%) Designer
2 10 (29.41%) Developer
3 8 (23.53%) Senior
3 8 (23.53%) UX Designer
4 7 (20.59%) Service Designer
5 5 (14.71%) Consultant
6 4 (11.76%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (11.76%) Lead
6 4 (11.76%) Product Designer
6 4 (11.76%) Software Developer
7 3 (8.82%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 3 (8.82%) Innovation Manager
7 3 (8.82%) IT Manager
7 3 (8.82%) Product Manager
7 3 (8.82%) Python Developer
7 3 (8.82%) UI Designer
7 3 (8.82%) UI/UX Designer
7 3 (8.82%) User Experience Manager
8 2 (5.88%) Senior Developer
8 2 (5.88%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (26.47%) CSS
1 9 (26.47%) HTML
2 7 (20.59%) React
3 6 (17.65%) CSS3
3 6 (17.65%) HTML5
4 5 (14.71%) .NET
4 5 (14.71%) .NET Core
4 5 (14.71%) .NET Framework
4 5 (14.71%) Entity Framework
4 5 (14.71%) RESTful
5 3 (8.82%) Django
5 3 (8.82%) Flask
5 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Graph
5 3 (8.82%) PySpark
6 2 (5.88%) Jest
7 1 (2.94%) AngularJS
7 1 (2.94%) Blazor
7 1 (2.94%) Material-UI
7 1 (2.94%) Playwright
7 1 (2.94%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (23.53%) Product Ownership
2 4 (11.76%) Low-Code
3 2 (5.88%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.94%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.94%) Reinsurance
4 1 (2.94%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (100.00%) User Experience
2 26 (76.47%) Agile
3 13 (38.24%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (29.41%) Service Design
5 9 (26.47%) Coaching
5 9 (26.47%) Stakeholder Management
6 8 (23.53%) Scrum
6 8 (23.53%) User Research
6 8 (23.53%) User Stories
7 7 (20.59%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (20.59%) DevOps
7 7 (20.59%) Roadmaps
8 6 (17.65%) Business Strategy
8 6 (17.65%) Creative Thinking
8 6 (17.65%) Front End Development
8 6 (17.65%) Mentoring
8 6 (17.65%) Product Requirements
8 6 (17.65%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 5 (14.71%) Full-Stack Development
9 5 (14.71%) UX Research
Programming Languages
1 9 (26.47%) JavaScript
2 7 (20.59%) TypeScript
3 3 (8.82%) Bicep
3 3 (8.82%) Python
4 2 (5.88%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (14.71%) Degree
1 5 (14.71%) SC Cleared
1 5 (14.71%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (38.24%) Accessibility
2 5 (14.71%) WCAG
3 1 (2.94%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (11.76%) Adobe
2 3 (8.82%) Databricks
2 3 (8.82%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.94%) Salesforce