UX Designer Jobs in the Thames Valley

User Experience Designer
South East > Thames Valley

The median User Experience Designer salary in the Thames Valley is £42,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 183 240 254
Rank change year-on-year +57 +14 -8
Permanent jobs requiring a UX Designer 1 9 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.029% 0.13% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.034% 0.14% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 5
10th Percentile - - £39,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £29,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £30,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +41.67% -42.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £43,750 £31,000 £56,250
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £51,250 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -4.55%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the Thames Valley. 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 the Thames Valley with a recognized job title 2,928 6,356 5,290
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 85.07% 94.64% 89.66%
Number of salaries quoted 1,270 4,419 3,114
10th Percentile £28,975 £29,000 £29,400
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £38,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £64,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £77,882 £87,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

UX Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings that featured UX Designer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for UX Designer in the Thames Valley

UX Designer
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing UX Designer in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for UX Designer in the Thames Valley

UX Designer
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing UX Designer within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 18 May 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
Oxfordshire +40 1 £42,500 +41.67% 2
UX Designer
South East

UX Designer Skill Set
Top 18 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 18 May 2025, UX Designer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Thames Valley region featuring UX Designer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe
1 1 (100.00%) Usability Testing
1 1 (100.00%) UX Design
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (100.00%) Wireframes
1 1 (100.00%) InVision
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe XD
1 1 (100.00%) Sketch
1 1 (100.00%) Figma
1 1 (100.00%) Browser DevTools
1 1 (100.00%) User Research
1 1 (100.00%) Journey Map

UX Designer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe XD
1 1 (100.00%) InVision
1 1 (100.00%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Figma
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Browser DevTools
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (100.00%) Journey Map
1 1 (100.00%) Usability Testing
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) User Research
1 1 (100.00%) UX Design
1 1 (100.00%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe