UX Design Jobs in Scotland

User Experience Design (UXD)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for UX Design skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited UX Design over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 144 164 123
Rank change year-on-year +20 -41 +14
Permanent jobs citing UX Design 152 63 125
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 2.27% 1.36% 2.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.45% 1.45% 2.37%
Number of salaries quoted 53 22 74
10th Percentile £31,500 £38,750 £38,168
25th Percentile £32,500 £44,063 £42,785
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £53,750 £49,650
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% +8.26% +10.33%
75th Percentile £60,000 £82,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £119,168 £70,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £63,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.39% +5.83% +13.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

UX Design is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,203 4,358 5,265
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.46% 94.29% 90.98%
Number of salaries quoted 2,419 2,188 2,782
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,250 £41,938 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +6.48% +10.20%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,449 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,190 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.12% +1.98% +9.09%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing UX Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for UX Design in Scotland

UX Design
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing UX Design in Scotland.

Salary trend for UX Design in Scotland

UX Design
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing UX Design in Scotland over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for UX Design in Scotland

UX Design
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing UX Design within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. 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
Glasgow -49 102 £49,000 +6.16% 13
Edinburgh +34 23 £55,000 -31.25% 7
Aberdeen -2 9 £35,000 -
Dundee - 9 £47,500 -
Midlothian - 5 - -
South Lanarkshire - 2 £34,500 - 1
Aberdeenshire - 2 £37,500 -
UX Design
UK

UX Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (4.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (3.29%) WordPress
3 2 (1.32%) JBoss
3 2 (1.32%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.66%) CMS
Applications
1 28 (18.42%) Sketch
2 10 (6.58%) InVision
3 5 (3.29%) Adobe Illustrator
3 5 (3.29%) Photoshop
4 3 (1.97%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (1.32%) Adobe After Effects
Cloud Services
1 42 (27.63%) Figma
2 15 (9.87%) AWS
3 12 (7.89%) Miro
4 11 (7.24%) SaaS
4 11 (7.24%) SurveyMonkey
5 8 (5.26%) Heroku
6 7 (4.61%) Serverless
7 2 (1.32%) Azure
8 1 (0.66%) Adobe Creative Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (9.21%) SQL Server
2 11 (7.24%) MySQL
3 7 (4.61%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (4.61%) Redis
Development Applications
1 23 (15.13%) JIRA
2 7 (4.61%) Git
2 7 (4.61%) Moq
3 2 (1.32%) IntelliJ
General
1 94 (61.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 80 (52.63%) Finance
3 76 (50.00%) Law
4 75 (49.34%) Marketing
5 55 (36.18%) Social Skills
6 19 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
7 17 (11.18%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (5.26%) Banking
8 8 (5.26%) Private Banking
9 7 (4.61%) Tech for Good
10 5 (3.29%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.97%) Polish Language
12 2 (1.32%) Analytical Skills
13 1 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.66%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 57 (37.50%) Lead
2 46 (30.26%) Designer
3 45 (29.61%) UX Designer
4 42 (27.63%) Software Engineer
5 37 (24.34%) Developer
6 33 (21.71%) Lead Software Engineer
7 31 (20.39%) UI Engineer
8 30 (19.74%) Senior
9 27 (17.76%) Senior Designer
9 27 (17.76%) Senior UX Designer
10 17 (11.18%) UI Designer
10 17 (11.18%) UI/UX Designer
10 17 (11.18%) UX Engineer
11 14 (9.21%) User Experience Researcher
12 12 (7.89%) Software Developer
13 11 (7.24%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 8 (5.26%) Lead Developer
14 8 (5.26%) Senior UI Designer
14 8 (5.26%) Senior UI/UX Designer
15 7 (4.61%) C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (42.11%) React
2 53 (34.87%) HTML
3 43 (28.29%) CSS
4 32 (21.05%) AngularJS
5 25 (16.45%) Node.js
6 20 (13.16%) Vue
7 16 (10.53%) Spring
7 16 (10.53%) Web Services
8 14 (9.21%) DOM
8 14 (9.21%) Spring Boot
9 9 (5.92%) .NET
10 7 (4.61%) ASP.NET
10 7 (4.61%) ASP.NET MVC
10 7 (4.61%) ASP.NET MVC 3
10 7 (4.61%) CSS3
10 7 (4.61%) Entity Framework
10 7 (4.61%) FIX Protocol
10 7 (4.61%) HTML5
10 7 (4.61%) jQuery
10 7 (4.61%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 22 (14.47%) Market Risk
2 18 (11.84%) Cloud Native
3 14 (9.21%) Greenfield Project
3 14 (9.21%) Management Information System
3 14 (9.21%) Product Ownership
4 12 (7.89%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (4.61%) Algorithms
5 7 (4.61%) Mobile App
6 5 (3.29%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.97%) Graphic Design
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.63%) Android
1 4 (2.63%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (100.00%) User Experience
2 86 (56.58%) Agile
3 49 (32.24%) Software Engineering
4 48 (31.58%) UX Research
5 47 (30.92%) Visualisation
6 40 (26.32%) Mentoring
7 39 (25.66%) Collaborative Working
8 38 (25.00%) Operational Stability
8 38 (25.00%) SDLC
9 32 (21.05%) Coaching
9 32 (21.05%) User Research
10 31 (20.39%) CI/CD
10 31 (20.39%) Community of Practice
10 31 (20.39%) Continuous Delivery
11 29 (19.08%) Information Architecture
12 25 (16.45%) Problem-Solving
13 23 (15.13%) Actionable Insight
13 23 (15.13%) Data Visualisation
14 22 (14.47%) Interaction Design
15 21 (13.82%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 62 (40.79%) JavaScript
2 40 (26.32%) TypeScript
3 36 (23.68%) Java
4 18 (11.84%) Python
5 13 (8.55%) PHP
6 10 (6.58%) C#
7 8 (5.26%) T-SQL
8 6 (3.95%) C
9 4 (2.63%) Kotlin
9 4 (2.63%) Swift
10 1 (0.66%) SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (25.00%) Degree
2 15 (9.87%) Master's Degree
3 12 (7.89%) SC Cleared
3 12 (7.89%) Security Cleared
4 11 (7.24%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (26.97%) Accessibility
2 13 (8.55%) WCAG
3 4 (2.63%) QA
System Software
1 7 (4.61%) Docker
Vendors
1 12 (7.89%) ServiceNow
2 9 (5.92%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.97%) Adobe