UX Design Job Trends in the South West

User Experience Design (UXD)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring UX Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 155 184
Rank change year-on-year -3 +29 -30
Permanent jobs citing UX Design 20 38 37
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.40% 0.88% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 1.05% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 15 18 33
10th Percentile £48,000 £45,175 £39,748
25th Percentile £49,375 £45,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,625 £75,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £62,500 £91,934
England median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +13.64% -12.00% -3.85%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,637 3,629 4,033
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 72.33% 84.43% 91.37%
Number of salaries quoted 2,471 1,859 3,058
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,000 £30,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £40,000 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £53,351
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +3.09% +5.03%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

UX Design job vacancy trend in the South West

UX Design
Salary Trend in the South West

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

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

UX Design
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing UX Design in the South West over the 6 months to 2 January 2026.

Salary histogram for UX Design in the South West

UX Design
Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 2 January 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
Bristol 0 7 £52,500 -4.55% 8
Wiltshire +10 4 £65,000 +15.56% 5
Devon +5 4 £55,000 - 9
Gloucestershire +19 3 £75,000 +61.29% 2
Dorset -1 1 - -
Cornwall - 1 - - 14
UX Design
England

UX Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 2 (10.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (40.00%) AWS
2 7 (35.00%) Azure
3 3 (15.00%) Figma
4 2 (10.00%) Pulumi
4 2 (10.00%) SaaS
5 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.00%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) MySQL
1 2 (10.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Balsamiq
1 3 (15.00%) Git
2 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (10.00%) JIRA
2 2 (10.00%) TeamCity
3 1 (5.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 8 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Military
3 2 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Finance
4 1 (5.00%) Financial Institution
4 1 (5.00%) Investment Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Law
4 1 (5.00%) Marketing
4 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) Senior
2 8 (40.00%) Designer
3 7 (35.00%) UX Designer
4 6 (30.00%) Developer
5 4 (20.00%) Senior Designer
6 3 (15.00%) Consultant
6 3 (15.00%) DevSecOps Consultant
6 3 (15.00%) Senior Consultant
6 3 (15.00%) Senior User Experience Researcher
6 3 (15.00%) Senior UX Designer
6 3 (15.00%) User Experience Researcher
7 2 (10.00%) C# Developer
7 2 (10.00%) C# Software Developer
7 2 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (10.00%) Software Developer
8 1 (5.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 1 (5.00%) Mobile Developer
8 1 (5.00%) Senior Developer
8 1 (5.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 1 (5.00%) UI Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) React
2 3 (15.00%) .NET
3 2 (10.00%) .NET Core
3 2 (10.00%) .NET Framework
3 2 (10.00%) Avalonia
3 2 (10.00%) CSS
3 2 (10.00%) Entity Framework
3 2 (10.00%) HTML
3 2 (10.00%) REST
3 2 (10.00%) Symfony
3 2 (10.00%) WPF
4 1 (5.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (5.00%) Flutter
4 1 (5.00%) Framer.js
4 1 (5.00%) LESS
4 1 (5.00%) NumPy
4 1 (5.00%) Pandas
4 1 (5.00%) PyTorch
4 1 (5.00%) Sass
4 1 (5.00%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.00%) AI Agents
2 1 (5.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (5.00%) Animation
2 1 (5.00%) Blog
2 1 (5.00%) Podcast
2 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.00%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Android
1 2 (10.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) User Experience
2 9 (45.00%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (40.00%) Agile
4 6 (30.00%) Wireframes
5 5 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (25.00%) DevOps
5 5 (25.00%) UX Research
6 4 (20.00%) API Development
6 4 (20.00%) Software Engineering
7 3 (15.00%) Creative Thinking
7 3 (15.00%) Data Architecture
7 3 (15.00%) Design Thinking
7 3 (15.00%) DevSecOps
7 3 (15.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 3 (15.00%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
7 3 (15.00%) Integration Testing
7 3 (15.00%) Knowledge Transfer
7 3 (15.00%) Software Testing
7 3 (15.00%) Systems Engineering
7 3 (15.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) JavaScript
1 6 (30.00%) SQL
2 5 (25.00%) C#
2 5 (25.00%) Python
3 3 (15.00%) Bash
3 3 (15.00%) Go
3 3 (15.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (15.00%) VBScript
4 2 (10.00%) PHP
4 2 (10.00%) XAML
5 1 (5.00%) Kotlin
5 1 (5.00%) R
5 1 (5.00%) Swift
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) Degree
2 3 (15.00%) CITP
2 3 (15.00%) CREST Certified
2 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (25.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (5.00%) Adobe