UX Design Job Trends in Southampton

User Experience Design (UXD)
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Southampton requiring UX Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 63 55
Rank change year-on-year +25 -8 +5
Permanent jobs citing UX Design 6 3 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Southampton 1.12% 0.55% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.44% 0.65% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile £58,125 - -
25th Percentile £59,063 £52,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £55,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.91% +57.14% -36.36%
75th Percentile £69,063 £57,500 £37,500
90th Percentile £70,375 - -
Hampshire median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Southampton

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 Southampton.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 417 462 415
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Southampton 77.80% 84.00% 90.02%
Number of salaries quoted 294 332 350
10th Percentile £30,375 £32,750 £28,175
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +15.79% -13.64%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £75,000
Hampshire median annual salary £50,000 £56,921 £52,000
% change year-on-year -12.16% +9.46% -5.45%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

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

UX Design job vacancy trend in Southampton

UX Design
Salary Trend in Southampton

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing UX Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing UX Design

UX Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Southampton 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 5 (83.33%) Azure
1 5 (83.33%) GitHub
2 4 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Storybook
General
1 5 (83.33%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
2 5 (83.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 2 (33.33%) Mobile Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) Next.js
1 6 (100.00%) React
2 5 (83.33%) .NET
2 5 (83.33%) Jest
3 2 (33.33%) Ionic Framework
4 1 (16.67%) React Native
4 1 (16.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Android
1 5 (83.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
1 6 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 6 (100.00%) Mobile Development
1 6 (100.00%) User Experience
1 6 (100.00%) Wealth Management
1 6 (100.00%) Wireframes
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (83.33%) DevOps
2 5 (83.33%) Front End Development
3 2 (33.33%) API Integration
3 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Android Development
4 1 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (16.67%) Cross-Platform Development
4 1 (16.67%) Design Patterns
4 1 (16.67%) Digital Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) iOS Development
4 1 (16.67%) Software Architecture
4 1 (16.67%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) Accessibility