UX Design Job Trends in South Wales

User Experience Design (UXD)
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring UX Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 55 73
Rank change year-on-year -8 +18 -6
Permanent jobs citing UX Design 2 13 7
As % of all permanent jobs in South Wales 0.25% 2.27% 0.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 2.61% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 1 11 7
10th Percentile - - £25,400
25th Percentile - £23,750 £26,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £27,500 £30,000
Median % change year-on-year +63.64% -8.33% -50.00%
75th Percentile - £31,250 £33,750
90th Percentile - - £41,250
Wales median annual salary £45,000 £27,500 £32,500
% change year-on-year +63.64% -15.38% -27.78%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 586 498 748
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 74.27% 86.91% 86.47%
Number of salaries quoted 391 235 599
10th Percentile £24,000 £31,250 £29,900
25th Percentile £30,125 £36,250 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £78,790 £79,840 £72,600
Wales median annual salary £47,500 £49,500 £46,096
% change year-on-year -4.04% +7.39% +2.34%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

UX Design job vacancy trend in South Wales

UX Design
Salary Trend in South Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing UX Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing UX Design

UX Design
Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 3 February 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
Cardiff -4 1 £45,000 +63.64% 6
Glamorgan - 1 - - 4
UX Design
Wales

UX Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Broadband
General
1 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Designer
2 1 (50.00%) Lead
2 1 (50.00%) Lead Designer
2 1 (50.00%) Lead Product Designer
2 1 (50.00%) Product Designer
2 1 (50.00%) UX Designer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (50.00%) Design Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
2 1 (50.00%) Inclusive Design
2 1 (50.00%) People Management
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Systems Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) User Research
2 1 (50.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 1 (50.00%) Wireframes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Adobe