UX Design Job Trends in the South East

User Experience Design (UXD)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring UX Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 237 218 260
Rank change year-on-year -19 +42 -77
Permanent jobs citing UX Design 62 54 141
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.43% 0.69% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.76% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 26 45 114
10th Percentile £38,375 £33,850 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,750 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £74,688 £66,250 £68,438
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.70%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10,428 7,088 14,750
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.87% 90.33% 82.12%
Number of salaries quoted 7,190 3,389 10,273
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £27,750
25th Percentile £39,280 £35,000 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -12.00%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

UX Design job vacancy trend in the South East

UX Design
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing UX Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing UX Design

UX Design
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing UX Design in the South East over the 6 months to 8 June 2026.

Salary histogram for UX Design in the South East

UX Design
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing UX Design within the South East region over the 6 months to 8 June 2026. 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
Thames Valley +45 37 £60,000 -4.00% 6
Berkshire +34 24 £60,000 +9.09% 2
Surrey -17 14 £95,000 +40.74% 5
Buckinghamshire -2 12 £38,500 -33.04% 4
West Sussex -11 5 £73,750 - 4
Hampshire -40 4 £58,750 +6.82% 5
Kent -40 2 - - 1
Oxfordshire -11 1 £51,500 -20.77%
UX Design
England

UX Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (4.84%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.61%) CMS
2 1 (1.61%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.61%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 21 (33.87%) Figma
2 14 (22.58%) Azure
3 10 (16.13%) Adobe Analytics
4 9 (14.52%) GitHub
5 7 (11.29%) AWS
5 7 (11.29%) SaaS
6 5 (8.06%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (8.06%) GCP
7 4 (6.45%) Power Platform
8 3 (4.84%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (4.84%) Power Automate
8 3 (4.84%) PowerApps
9 2 (3.23%) GitHub Copilot
10 1 (1.61%) Canva
Communications & Networking
1 13 (20.97%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.45%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.84%) Metadata
3 2 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.61%) Power BI
4 1 (1.61%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (12.90%) Git
2 2 (3.23%) Cypress.io
2 2 (3.23%) JIRA
2 2 (3.23%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (1.61%) Browser DevTools
3 1 (1.61%) LabVIEW
General
1 11 (17.74%) Social Skills
2 10 (16.13%) Games
3 9 (14.52%) Marketing
3 9 (14.52%) Retail
4 7 (11.29%) Finance
5 3 (4.84%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (4.84%) Social Science
6 2 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.61%) Aeronautics
7 1 (1.61%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.61%) Digital Health
7 1 (1.61%) Electronics
7 1 (1.61%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (51.61%) Designer
2 31 (50.00%) UX Designer
3 17 (27.42%) UI Designer
3 17 (27.42%) UI/UX Designer
4 14 (22.58%) Lead
4 14 (22.58%) Senior
5 12 (19.35%) Senior Designer
6 11 (17.74%) Senior UI Designer
6 11 (17.74%) Senior UI/UX Designer
6 11 (17.74%) Senior UX Designer
7 10 (16.13%) Developer
8 9 (14.52%) Digital Designer
8 9 (14.52%) Digital UX Designer
9 8 (12.90%) Lead Designer
9 8 (12.90%) Lead UX Designer
10 7 (11.29%) Mobile Designer
10 7 (11.29%) Mobile UI Designer
10 7 (11.29%) Mobile UI/UX Designer
10 7 (11.29%) Mobile UX Designer
10 7 (11.29%) Product Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (16.13%) React
2 7 (11.29%) .NET
2 7 (11.29%) ASP.NET
3 5 (8.06%) Django
3 5 (8.06%) REST
3 5 (8.06%) Twisted
3 5 (8.06%) Web Services
3 5 (8.06%) WebSockets
4 4 (6.45%) .NET Core
4 4 (6.45%) .NET Framework
4 4 (6.45%) Blazor
4 4 (6.45%) Entity Framework
4 4 (6.45%) HTML
4 4 (6.45%) Vue
5 3 (4.84%) ASP.NET Core
5 3 (4.84%) SPFx
6 2 (3.23%) Jest
6 2 (3.23%) Laravel
6 2 (3.23%) NgRx
6 2 (3.23%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 16 (25.81%) Mobile App
2 13 (20.97%) Product Ownership
3 10 (16.13%) Social Media
4 5 (8.06%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (8.06%) Video Conferencing
5 2 (3.23%) AI Agents
5 2 (3.23%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.61%) 3D Graphics
6 1 (1.61%) Arduino
6 1 (1.61%) Graphic Design
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.06%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (100.00%) User Experience
2 25 (40.32%) Agile
3 21 (33.87%) User Research
4 20 (32.26%) Roadmaps
5 18 (29.03%) AI
6 15 (24.19%) Customer Experience
7 13 (20.97%) Analytics
8 12 (19.35%) Full-Stack Development
8 12 (19.35%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 11 (17.74%) DevOps
9 11 (17.74%) Product Roadmap
9 11 (17.74%) Prototyping
10 10 (16.13%) Digital Customer Experience
10 10 (16.13%) Storytelling
11 8 (12.90%) Collaborative Working
11 8 (12.90%) Customer Insight
11 8 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (12.90%) Software Engineering
11 8 (12.90%) Workshop Facilitation
12 7 (11.29%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 10 (16.13%) TypeScript
2 9 (14.52%) C#
2 9 (14.52%) JavaScript
3 6 (9.68%) Python
4 3 (4.84%) PowerShell
5 2 (3.23%) PHP
6 1 (1.61%) C
Qualifications
1 6 (9.68%) Degree
2 3 (4.84%) ICAEW
3 1 (1.61%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (30.65%) Accessibility
2 5 (8.06%) QA
3 4 (6.45%) WCAG
4 1 (1.61%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (8.06%) Docker
1 5 (8.06%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 14 (22.58%) Adobe
2 8 (12.90%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.23%) Salesforce