UX Design Job Trends in the City of London

User Experience Design (UXD)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of 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 101 131 133
Rank change year-on-year +30 +2 +3
Permanent jobs citing UX Design 28 37 44
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 1.47% 1.32% 1.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.64% 1.39% 1.53%
Number of salaries quoted 20 22 41
10th Percentile - £41,250 £57,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £55,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -33.33% +32.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £101,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,625 £106,250
Central London median annual salary £70,000 £55,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +27.27% -33.33% +26.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,709 2,658 2,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 89.95% 94.83% 95.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1,306 1,753 2,597
10th Percentile £40,532 £46,250 £40,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £116,250 £118,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £74,750 £73,500
% change year-on-year +0.33% +1.70% -2.00%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

UX Design job vacancy trend in the City of London

UX Design
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing UX Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing UX Design

UX Design
Salary Histogram in the City of London

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

Salary histogram for UX Design in the City of London

UX Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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:

Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Adobe XD
Cloud Services
1 6 (21.43%) Azure
2 5 (17.86%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (14.29%) Figma
3 4 (14.29%) SaaS
4 3 (10.71%) Azure Logic Apps
4 3 (10.71%) Copilot Studio
4 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Copilot
4 3 (10.71%) Power Platform
5 2 (7.14%) Miro
6 1 (3.57%) Adobe Creative Cloud
6 1 (3.57%) npm
6 1 (3.57%) Yarn
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (17.86%) Git
2 1 (3.57%) Vite
2 1 (3.57%) webpack
General
1 10 (35.71%) Law
2 8 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 7 (25.00%) Legal
4 6 (21.43%) Finance
5 4 (14.29%) Marketing
6 2 (7.14%) Digital Health
6 2 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (3.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (50.00%) Designer
2 8 (28.57%) UX Designer
3 7 (25.00%) Service Designer
4 6 (21.43%) Developer
4 6 (21.43%) Senior
5 5 (17.86%) Consultant
6 4 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (14.29%) Product Designer
6 4 (14.29%) Software Developer
7 3 (10.71%) Innovation Manager
7 3 (10.71%) IT Manager
7 3 (10.71%) Lead
7 3 (10.71%) Product Manager
7 3 (10.71%) UI Designer
7 3 (10.71%) UI/UX Designer
7 3 (10.71%) User Experience Manager
8 2 (7.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 2 (7.14%) Mobile UX Designer
8 2 (7.14%) UI Developer
8 2 (7.14%) UI/UX Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (28.57%) CSS
1 8 (28.57%) HTML
2 6 (21.43%) React
3 5 (17.86%) .NET
3 5 (17.86%) .NET Core
3 5 (17.86%) .NET Framework
3 5 (17.86%) CSS3
3 5 (17.86%) Entity Framework
3 5 (17.86%) HTML5
3 5 (17.86%) RESTful
4 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (3.57%) AngularJS
5 1 (3.57%) Blazor
5 1 (3.57%) Dapper ORM
5 1 (3.57%) Jest
5 1 (3.57%) Material-UI
5 1 (3.57%) OAuth
5 1 (3.57%) OAuth2
5 1 (3.57%) Playwright
5 1 (3.57%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (28.57%) Product Ownership
2 3 (10.71%) Low-Code
3 2 (7.14%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.57%) Reinsurance
4 1 (3.57%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (100.00%) User Experience
2 24 (85.71%) Agile
3 12 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (32.14%) Service Design
5 8 (28.57%) Coaching
5 8 (28.57%) Scrum
5 8 (28.57%) User Research
5 8 (28.57%) User Stories
6 7 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (21.43%) Creative Thinking
7 6 (21.43%) DevOps
7 6 (21.43%) Mentoring
7 6 (21.43%) Product Requirements
7 6 (21.43%) Roadmaps
7 6 (21.43%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 5 (17.86%) Critical Thinking
8 5 (17.86%) Design Sprint
8 5 (17.86%) Front End Development
8 5 (17.86%) Inclusive Design
Programming Languages
1 7 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 6 (21.43%) TypeScript
3 3 (10.71%) Bicep
4 2 (7.14%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (17.86%) SC Cleared
1 5 (17.86%) Security Cleared
2 4 (14.29%) Degree
3 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (39.29%) Accessibility
2 5 (17.86%) WCAG
3 1 (3.57%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (10.71%) Adobe
1 3 (10.71%) Microsoft