UX Designer Job Trends in Swansea

User Experience Designer
West Wales > Swansea

The median User Experience Designer salary in Swansea is £30,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 June 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a UX Designer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Swansea 0.34% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 - -
West Wales median annual salary £30,000 - -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Swansea

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Swansea. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Swansea with a recognized job title 270 38 189
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.10% 82.61% 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 175 27 170
10th Percentile £35,000 £21,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,163 £30,344 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,709 £37,733 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +37.04% -16.15% +10.42%
75th Percentile £73,750 £53,762 £53,988
90th Percentile £80,000 £59,857 £65,000
West Wales median annual salary £45,000 £37,733 £42,500
% change year-on-year +19.26% -11.22% +4.28%

UX Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in Swansea

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'UX Designer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Swansea.

UX Designer job vacancy trend in Swansea

UX Designer
Salary Trend in Swansea

Salary distribution trend for UX Designer job vacancies in Swansea.

Salary distribution trend for UX Designer job vacancies in Swansea

UX Designer Skill Set
Top 29 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swansea

For the 6 months to 9 June 2026, UX Designer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Swansea region featuring UX Designer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe XD
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) Figma
1 1 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (100.00%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusive Design
1 1 (100.00%) Information Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Interaction Design
1 1 (100.00%) Journey Map
1 1 (100.00%) Miro
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Service Design
1 1 (100.00%) Sketch
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Usability Testing
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) User Research
1 1 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
1 1 (100.00%) UX Design
1 1 (100.00%) Wireframes
1 1 (100.00%) Workshop Facilitation

UX Designer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swansea 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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe XD
1 1 (100.00%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Figma
1 1 (100.00%) Miro
General
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (100.00%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
1 1 (100.00%) Information Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Interaction Design
1 1 (100.00%) Journey Map
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Service Design
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Usability Testing
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) User Research
1 1 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
1 1 (100.00%) UX Design
1 1 (100.00%) Wireframes
1 1 (100.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe