UX Design Job Trends in Dorset

User Experience Design (UXD)
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Dorset requiring UX Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 - 79
Rank change year-on-year - - -9
Permanent jobs citing UX Design 2 0 22
As % of all permanent jobs in Dorset 0.29% - 1.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% - 2.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 7
10th Percentile - - £47,500
25th Percentile £36,250 - £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 - £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -31.25%
75th Percentile £38,750 - £81,875
90th Percentile - - £83,750
South West median annual salary £65,000 £51,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +26.21% -6.36% +10.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 535 196 1,014
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Dorset 77.09% 87.50% 86.01%
Number of salaries quoted 303 121 568
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.42% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £61,250 £58,750 £61,938
90th Percentile £80,000 £63,750 £67,500
South West median annual salary £54,000 £52,600 £50,950
% change year-on-year +2.66% +3.24% -2.95%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

UX Design job vacancy trend in Dorset

UX Design
Salary Trend in Dorset

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing UX Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing UX Design

UX Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset 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 1 (50.00%) Adobe XD
1 1 (50.00%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Automotive
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Financial Institution
1 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (50.00%) Investment Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Law
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Blazor
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) CSS3
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) HTML5
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) NumPy
1 1 (50.00%) Pandas
1 1 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (50.00%) Redux
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (50.00%) Semantic HTML
1 1 (50.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (50.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) A/B Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) Business Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Responsive Web Design
2 1 (50.00%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) R
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Adobe
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft