UX Design Job Trends in London

User Experience Design (UXD)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring UX Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 190 269 185
Rank change year-on-year +79 -84 -65
Permanent jobs citing UX Design 211 174 301
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.56% 1.08% 1.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.75% 1.15% 1.80%
Number of salaries quoted 142 93 270
10th Percentile £42,464 £34,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £48,366 £49,936 £59,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -16.13% +10.71%
75th Percentile £96,875 £82,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £93,250 £100,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +13.64% -15.38% +2.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,059 15,165 16,676
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 89.35% 94.02% 93.68%
Number of salaries quoted 7,755 8,640 13,425
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £119,200 £120,000 £116,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

UX Design job vacancy trend in London

UX Design
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing UX Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing UX Design

UX Design
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing UX Design in London over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Salary histogram for UX Design in London

UX Design
Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 19 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
Central London +45 38 £70,000 +16.67% 10
East London -9 7 £48,238 -39.70% 2
West London - 3 £32,500 - 3
UX Design
England

UX Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 11 (5.21%) Confluence
2 8 (3.79%) Headless CMS
3 6 (2.84%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.84%) WordPress
4 3 (1.42%) Appian
4 3 (1.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.95%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.47%) CMS
6 1 (0.47%) Moodle
6 1 (0.47%) nginx
Applications
1 31 (14.69%) Adobe XD
2 25 (11.85%) Sketch
3 8 (3.79%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 4 (1.90%) Chatbot
5 3 (1.42%) Adobe Illustrator
5 3 (1.42%) InDesign
5 3 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (1.42%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (1.42%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.95%) InVision
Business Applications
1 11 (5.21%) Shopify
2 3 (1.42%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.47%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 81 (38.39%) Figma
2 57 (27.01%) Azure
3 43 (20.38%) AWS
4 20 (9.48%) SaaS
5 19 (9.00%) GCP
6 18 (8.53%) Google Analytics
6 18 (8.53%) Serverless
7 16 (7.58%) GitHub
8 13 (6.16%) Amazon S3
8 13 (6.16%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (6.16%) Microsoft 365
9 12 (5.69%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (5.21%) Power Platform
11 10 (4.74%) Azure Logic Apps
12 8 (3.79%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (3.79%) Amazon SQS
12 8 (3.79%) Vercel
13 6 (2.84%) Adobe Analytics
13 6 (2.84%) Miro
13 6 (2.84%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.47%) Broadband
1 1 (0.47%) HTTP
1 1 (0.47%) Value-Added Service
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (9.00%) NoSQL
2 13 (6.16%) SQL Server
3 6 (2.84%) MongoDB
4 4 (1.90%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.42%) DynamoDB
5 3 (1.42%) Power BI
6 2 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.47%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.47%) Big Data
7 1 (0.47%) MySQL
7 1 (0.47%) PostHog
7 1 (0.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 31 (14.69%) Git
2 25 (11.85%) JIRA
3 20 (9.48%) Cypress.io
4 11 (5.21%) Axure RP
5 10 (4.74%) Balsamiq
5 10 (4.74%) webpack
6 8 (3.79%) Jenkins
6 8 (3.79%) Vite
7 6 (2.84%) gulp
8 5 (2.37%) Bitbucket
8 5 (2.37%) Visual Studio
8 5 (2.37%) Visual Studio Code
9 3 (1.42%) CircleCI
9 3 (1.42%) Xcode
10 2 (0.95%) Android Studio
10 2 (0.95%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.95%) Crashlytics
10 2 (0.95%) GitLab
10 2 (0.95%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (0.95%) TeamCity
General
1 68 (32.23%) Social Skills
2 33 (15.64%) Finance
3 27 (12.80%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (11.85%) Telecoms
5 24 (11.37%) Law
6 20 (9.48%) Marketing
7 17 (8.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (6.16%) Public Sector
9 11 (5.21%) Banking
10 9 (4.27%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (4.27%) Legal
10 9 (4.27%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (3.79%) Retail
12 5 (2.37%) Digital Health
13 4 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (1.42%) Financial Institution
14 3 (1.42%) Multimedia
15 2 (0.95%) Investment Banking
16 1 (0.47%) Automotive
16 1 (0.47%) Billing
Job Titles
1 77 (36.49%) Senior
2 75 (35.55%) Designer
3 58 (27.49%) Developer
4 50 (23.70%) UX Designer
5 30 (14.22%) Senior Developer
6 28 (13.27%) Full-Stack Developer
7 23 (10.90%) UI Designer
8 21 (9.95%) Lead
9 20 (9.48%) UI/UX Designer
10 17 (8.06%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 15 (7.11%) Product Designer
12 14 (6.64%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 14 (6.64%) Senior Designer
13 13 (6.16%) Senior Manager
14 9 (4.27%) Android Engineer
14 9 (4.27%) IT Manager
15 8 (3.79%) Senior Android Engineer
15 8 (3.79%) Service Designer
15 8 (3.79%) User Experience Manager
16 7 (3.32%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (29.86%) CSS
2 60 (28.44%) HTML
2 60 (28.44%) React
3 41 (19.43%) RESTful
4 26 (12.32%) .NET
5 23 (10.90%) Node.js
6 20 (9.48%) Jest
7 19 (9.00%) GraphQL
7 19 (9.00%) WebSockets
8 17 (8.06%) Vue
9 16 (7.58%) AngularJS
9 16 (7.58%) Next.js
9 16 (7.58%) REST
10 14 (6.64%) Tailwind CSS
11 13 (6.16%) .NET Framework
11 13 (6.16%) Vitest
12 12 (5.69%) CSS3
12 12 (5.69%) gRPC
12 12 (5.69%) HTML5
13 10 (4.74%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 34 (16.11%) Product Ownership
2 23 (10.90%) Mobile App
3 17 (8.06%) Cloud Native
4 16 (7.58%) AI Agents
5 13 (6.16%) Onboarding
6 9 (4.27%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (4.27%) Virtual Team
7 7 (3.32%) Low-Code
8 5 (2.37%) Graphic Design
8 5 (2.37%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.90%) Animation
9 4 (1.90%) Social Media
10 3 (1.42%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.42%) Motion Graphics
10 3 (1.42%) VUI
11 2 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.95%) Digital Media
11 2 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
12 1 (0.47%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 26 (12.32%) Android
2 11 (5.21%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.95%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (100.00%) User Experience
2 119 (56.40%) Agile
3 54 (25.59%) DevOps
4 53 (25.12%) Analytics
5 50 (23.70%) User Research
6 48 (22.75%) AI
6 48 (22.75%) Full-Stack Development
7 45 (21.33%) Wireframes
8 42 (19.91%) Problem-Solving
9 41 (19.43%) Prototyping
10 39 (18.48%) CI/CD
10 39 (18.48%) Front End Development
11 38 (18.01%) Mentoring
12 36 (17.06%) Usability Testing
13 34 (16.11%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 32 (15.17%) Continuous Improvement
15 30 (14.22%) Roadmaps
15 30 (14.22%) Stakeholder Management
16 29 (13.74%) Inclusive Design
17 28 (13.27%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 76 (36.02%) JavaScript
2 42 (19.91%) TypeScript
3 21 (9.95%) SQL
4 19 (9.00%) C#
5 14 (6.64%) Java
6 13 (6.16%) Python
7 11 (5.21%) Go
8 10 (4.74%) Kotlin
9 9 (4.27%) Bicep
9 9 (4.27%) C++
10 4 (1.90%) Swift
11 3 (1.42%) Ruby
12 1 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.47%) PHP
12 1 (0.47%) Rust
Qualifications
1 55 (26.07%) Degree
2 25 (11.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 24 (11.37%) Security Cleared
4 19 (9.00%) SC Cleared
5 10 (4.74%) Master's Degree
6 5 (2.37%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.37%) AWS Certified Developer
6 5 (2.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (2.37%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.47%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (38.86%) Accessibility
2 26 (12.32%) WCAG
3 21 (9.95%) QA
4 8 (3.79%) GDPR
5 5 (2.37%) PERC
6 3 (1.42%) ISO 9001
6 3 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.42%) Section 508
7 2 (0.95%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (10.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (5.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.47%) Grafana
2 1 (0.47%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.47%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 48 (22.75%) Adobe
2 26 (12.32%) Microsoft
3 15 (7.11%) Google
4 8 (3.79%) Apple
5 6 (2.84%) Qualtrics
6 4 (1.90%) Oracle
6 4 (1.90%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.42%) Cisco
7 3 (1.42%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.95%) Databricks
8 2 (0.95%) Hotjar
8 2 (0.95%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.47%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.47%) dotdigital
9 1 (0.47%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.47%) Marketo
9 1 (0.47%) OneTrust
9 1 (0.47%) Pega