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 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 169 154 188
Rank change year-on-year -15 +34 -29
Permanent jobs citing UX Design 17 38 31
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.34% 0.86% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 1.03% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 13 20 29
10th Percentile £47,750 £45,225 £39,748
25th Percentile £48,750 £45,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £67,000 £61,563 £75,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £62,500 £91,934
England median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +13.64% -15.38% -

All Process and 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 3,640 3,702 3,902
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 73.20% 83.40% 94.02%
Number of salaries quoted 2,465 1,953 2,983
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £40,000 £40,685
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,439 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.15% +1.76% +5.31%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £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 20 December 2025.

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 20 December 2025. 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 +1 8 £52,500 -4.55% 4
Devon +5 4 £55,000 - 2
Gloucestershire +20 3 £75,000 +61.29%
Wiltshire +11 1 £55,000 -2.22% 5
Dorset +3 1 - - 1
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 3 (17.65%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (47.06%) AWS
2 7 (41.18%) Azure
3 2 (11.76%) Figma
3 2 (11.76%) Pulumi
3 2 (11.76%) SaaS
4 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) Firebase
4 1 (5.88%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) MySQL
1 2 (11.76%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Balsamiq
1 3 (17.65%) Git
1 3 (17.65%) JIRA
2 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
2 2 (11.76%) TeamCity
3 1 (5.88%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 10 (58.82%) Social Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Military
3 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.88%) Banking
4 1 (5.88%) Finance
4 1 (5.88%) Financial Institution
4 1 (5.88%) Investment Banking
4 1 (5.88%) Law
4 1 (5.88%) Marketing
4 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Developer
2 5 (29.41%) Senior
3 4 (23.53%) Designer
4 3 (17.65%) Consultant
4 3 (17.65%) DevSecOps Consultant
4 3 (17.65%) Senior Consultant
4 3 (17.65%) UX Designer
5 2 (11.76%) C# Developer
5 2 (11.76%) C# Software Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Product Owner
5 2 (11.76%) Software Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Analytics Manager
6 1 (5.88%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 1 (5.88%) React Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (5.88%) UI Designer
6 1 (5.88%) UI Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) UI/UX Designer
6 1 (5.88%) UX Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) React
2 3 (17.65%) .NET
3 2 (11.76%) .NET Core
3 2 (11.76%) .NET Framework
3 2 (11.76%) Avalonia
3 2 (11.76%) CSS
3 2 (11.76%) Entity Framework
3 2 (11.76%) HTML
3 2 (11.76%) REST
3 2 (11.76%) Symfony
3 2 (11.76%) WPF
4 1 (5.88%) Flutter
4 1 (5.88%) Framer.js
4 1 (5.88%) PyTorch
4 1 (5.88%) React Native
4 1 (5.88%) Sass
4 1 (5.88%) scikit-learn
4 1 (5.88%) Tailwind CSS
4 1 (5.88%) TensorFlow
4 1 (5.88%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Mobile App
1 3 (17.65%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.88%) AI Agents
2 1 (5.88%) Algorithms
2 1 (5.88%) Animation
2 1 (5.88%) Blog
2 1 (5.88%) Podcast
2 1 (5.88%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Android
2 2 (11.76%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) User Experience
2 10 (58.82%) Agile
3 8 (47.06%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (35.29%) Wireframes
5 5 (29.41%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (29.41%) DevOps
6 4 (23.53%) API Development
7 3 (17.65%) Data Architecture
7 3 (17.65%) DevSecOps
7 3 (17.65%) Integration Testing
7 3 (17.65%) Knowledge Transfer
7 3 (17.65%) Software Engineering
7 3 (17.65%) Software Testing
7 3 (17.65%) Systems Engineering
7 3 (17.65%) Test Automation
8 2 (11.76%) CI/CD
8 2 (11.76%) Clean Code
8 2 (11.76%) Full-Stack Development
8 2 (11.76%) UX Research
8 2 (11.76%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) JavaScript
1 6 (35.29%) SQL
2 5 (29.41%) C#
2 5 (29.41%) Python
3 3 (17.65%) Bash
3 3 (17.65%) Go
3 3 (17.65%) PowerShell
3 3 (17.65%) VBScript
4 2 (11.76%) PHP
4 2 (11.76%) XAML
5 1 (5.88%) Kotlin
5 1 (5.88%) R
5 1 (5.88%) Swift
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) Degree
2 4 (23.53%) SC Cleared
2 4 (23.53%) Security Cleared
3 3 (17.65%) CITP
3 3 (17.65%) CREST Certified
4 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (29.41%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.88%) QA
2 1 (5.88%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (5.88%) Salesforce