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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 145 162 138
Rank change year-on-year +17 -24 -6
Permanent jobs citing UX Design 150 57 131
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 2.20% 1.28% 2.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.41% 1.35% 2.38%
Number of salaries quoted 52 21 77
10th Percentile £31,375 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -5.98% +30.00%
75th Percentile £60,625 £82,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £119,168 £70,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £59,340
% change year-on-year -12.00% +5.33% +7.89%

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 6,212 4,221 5,512
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 91.15% 94.45% 91.15%
Number of salaries quoted 2,458 2,081 2,845
10th Percentile £28,425 £32,000 £31,133
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +14.58%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,800
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +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 29 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 29 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 -39 100 £49,000 +6.16% 4
Edinburgh +30 22 £55,000 -31.25% 5
Dundee - 9 £47,500 -
Aberdeen - 7 £35,000 -
Midlothian - 5 - -
South Lanarkshire - 2 £34,500 -
Aberdeenshire - 2 £37,500 -
East Lothian - 2 - -
Stirling - 1 £50,000 - 2
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 (4.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (3.33%) WordPress
3 1 (0.67%) CMS
Applications
1 28 (18.67%) Sketch
2 10 (6.67%) InVision
3 5 (3.33%) Adobe Illustrator
3 5 (3.33%) Photoshop
4 3 (2.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (1.33%) Adobe After Effects
Cloud Services
1 44 (29.33%) Figma
2 15 (10.00%) AWS
3 12 (8.00%) Miro
4 11 (7.33%) SaaS
4 11 (7.33%) SurveyMonkey
5 8 (5.33%) Heroku
6 7 (4.67%) Serverless
7 2 (1.33%) Azure
7 2 (1.33%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.67%) Adobe Creative Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (9.33%) SQL Server
2 12 (8.00%) MySQL
3 7 (4.67%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (4.67%) Redis
4 2 (1.33%) Power BI
4 2 (1.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 23 (15.33%) JIRA
2 8 (5.33%) Git
3 7 (4.67%) Moq
General
1 93 (62.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 81 (54.00%) Finance
3 76 (50.67%) Marketing
4 75 (50.00%) Law
5 54 (36.00%) Social Skills
6 18 (12.00%) Presentation Skills
7 16 (10.67%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (5.33%) Banking
8 8 (5.33%) Private Banking
9 7 (4.67%) Tech for Good
10 3 (2.00%) Polish Language
10 3 (2.00%) Public Sector
11 2 (1.33%) Analytical Skills
11 2 (1.33%) Legal
11 2 (1.33%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 56 (37.33%) Lead
2 48 (32.00%) Designer
3 45 (30.00%) UX Designer
4 39 (26.00%) Software Engineer
5 36 (24.00%) Developer
6 32 (21.33%) Lead Software Engineer
7 30 (20.00%) UI Engineer
8 28 (18.67%) Senior
9 27 (18.00%) Senior Designer
9 27 (18.00%) Senior UX Designer
10 17 (11.33%) UI Designer
10 17 (11.33%) UI/UX Designer
11 16 (10.67%) UX Engineer
12 14 (9.33%) User Experience Researcher
13 12 (8.00%) Software Developer
14 11 (7.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 8 (5.33%) Lead Developer
15 8 (5.33%) Senior UI Designer
15 8 (5.33%) Senior UI/UX Designer
16 7 (4.67%) C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (41.33%) React
2 53 (35.33%) HTML
3 43 (28.67%) CSS
4 31 (20.67%) AngularJS
5 26 (17.33%) Node.js
6 20 (13.33%) Vue
7 14 (9.33%) DOM
7 14 (9.33%) Spring
7 14 (9.33%) Spring Boot
7 14 (9.33%) Web Services
8 9 (6.00%) .NET
9 8 (5.33%) jQuery
10 7 (4.67%) .NET Framework
10 7 (4.67%) Ajax
10 7 (4.67%) ASP.NET MVC
10 7 (4.67%) Entity Framework
10 7 (4.67%) FIX Protocol
10 7 (4.67%) HTML5
10 7 (4.67%) LINQ
10 7 (4.67%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
Miscellaneous
1 22 (14.67%) Market Risk
2 18 (12.00%) Cloud Native
3 14 (9.33%) Management Information System
3 14 (9.33%) Product Ownership
4 12 (8.00%) Greenfield Project
4 12 (8.00%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (4.67%) Algorithms
5 7 (4.67%) Mobile App
6 5 (3.33%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.00%) Graphic Design
9 2 (1.33%) Life Science
10 1 (0.67%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.67%) Android
1 4 (2.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (100.00%) User Experience
2 85 (56.67%) Agile
3 48 (32.00%) UX Research
3 48 (32.00%) Visualisation
4 46 (30.67%) Software Engineering
5 38 (25.33%) Mentoring
6 37 (24.67%) Operational Stability
6 37 (24.67%) SDLC
7 36 (24.00%) Collaborative Working
8 34 (22.67%) User Research
9 32 (21.33%) Coaching
10 30 (20.00%) CI/CD
10 30 (20.00%) Community of Practice
10 30 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
11 29 (19.33%) Information Architecture
12 25 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
13 23 (15.33%) Problem-Solving
13 23 (15.33%) Wireframes
14 22 (14.67%) Interaction Design
15 21 (14.00%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 61 (40.67%) JavaScript
2 39 (26.00%) TypeScript
3 33 (22.00%) Java
4 17 (11.33%) Python
5 14 (9.33%) PHP
6 10 (6.67%) C#
7 8 (5.33%) T-SQL
8 6 (4.00%) C
9 4 (2.67%) Kotlin
9 4 (2.67%) Swift
10 1 (0.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (25.33%) Degree
2 15 (10.00%) Master's Degree
3 11 (7.33%) PhD
4 10 (6.67%) SC Cleared
4 10 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (27.33%) Accessibility
2 13 (8.67%) WCAG
3 6 (4.00%) QA
4 2 (1.33%) GLP
System Software
1 7 (4.67%) Docker
Vendors
1 12 (8.00%) ServiceNow
2 11 (7.33%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.00%) Adobe
4 2 (1.33%) Charles River