UX Design Job Trends in Surrey

User Experience Design (UXD)
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring UX Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 96 82
Rank change year-on-year 0 -14 +32
Permanent jobs citing UX Design 5 10 12
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 0.30% 0.83% 1.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.90% 1.26%
Number of salaries quoted 3 6 10
10th Percentile - £50,500 £46,250
25th Percentile - £61,375 £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,000 £67,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -62.96% -18.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £36,875 £68,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £44,000 - -
South East median annual salary £52,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% - -5.88%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,339 1,105 954
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 80.91% 91.70% 89.66%
Number of salaries quoted 763 488 642
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,625 £73,750
South East median annual salary £50,000 £58,000 £52,550
% change year-on-year -13.79% +10.37% -4.45%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

UX Design job vacancy trend in Surrey

UX Design
Salary Trend in Surrey

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing UX Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing UX Design

UX Design
Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing UX Design in Surrey over the 6 months to 9 January 2026.

Salary histogram for UX Design in Surrey

UX Design
Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing UX Design within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 9 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
Guildford - 2 £25,000 - 2
Weybridge - 1 £47,500 - 1
UX Design
South East

UX Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (40.00%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (40.00%) InDesign
1 2 (40.00%) Photoshop
2 1 (20.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Broadband
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Marketing
1 2 (40.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Financial Institution
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Designer
1 2 (40.00%) Digital Designer
1 2 (40.00%) Graphic Designer
1 2 (40.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Product Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Team Leader
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Animation
1 2 (40.00%) Mobile App
1 2 (40.00%) Social Media
1 2 (40.00%) Video Editing
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) User Experience
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Wireframes
3 2 (40.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 2 (40.00%) Content Strategy
3 2 (40.00%) Content Writing
3 2 (40.00%) Customer Experience
3 2 (40.00%) Design Thinking
3 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (40.00%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
3 2 (40.00%) Inclusive Design
3 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (40.00%) People Management
3 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Systems Thinking
3 2 (40.00%) Typography
3 2 (40.00%) User Research
4 1 (20.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Adobe