UX Designer Jobs in Leeds

User Experience Designer
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median User Experience Designer salary in Leeds is £52,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 120 167
Rank change year-on-year +42 +47 +9
Permanent jobs requiring a UX Designer 3 10 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 0.38% 0.44% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.46% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 9
10th Percentile £48,250 - £40,408
25th Percentile £49,375 - £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 - £45,000
75th Percentile £54,375 - £57,500
90th Percentile £54,750 - -
West Yorkshire median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £46,250
% change year-on-year -8.70% +24.32% +2.78%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Leeds

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Leeds. 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 Leeds with a recognized job title 743 2,197 2,783
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.81% 96.02% 95.18%
Number of salaries quoted 500 1,593 1,678
10th Percentile £28,450 £31,250 £32,675
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,250 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.24% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £78,162 £69,914 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,250 £83,995 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +9.62%

UX Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for UX Designer in Leeds

UX Designer
Salary Trend in Leeds

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

Salary trend for UX Designer in Leeds

UX Designer Skill Set
Top 24 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds

For the 6 months to 20 May 2025, 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 across the Leeds region featuring UX Designer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Adobe
1 3 (100.00%) UX Design
1 3 (100.00%) User Experience
1 3 (100.00%) Wireframes
1 3 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
1 3 (100.00%) Adobe XD
1 3 (100.00%) Sketch
1 3 (100.00%) Figma
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
2 2 (66.67%) Usability Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Front End Development
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Prototyping
3 1 (33.33%) SaaS
3 1 (33.33%) Responsive Web Design
3 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) HTML
3 1 (33.33%) CSS
3 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
3 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (33.33%) User Research
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Experience

UX Designer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 3 (100.00%) Adobe XD
1 3 (100.00%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Figma
2 1 (33.33%) SaaS
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) CSS
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) User Experience
1 3 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
1 3 (100.00%) UX Design
1 3 (100.00%) Wireframes
2 2 (66.67%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
2 2 (66.67%) Usability Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Experience
3 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
3 1 (33.33%) Front End Development
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Prototyping
3 1 (33.33%) Responsive Web Design
3 1 (33.33%) User Research
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Adobe