Senior UX Designer Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Senior User Experience Designer
North East > Tyne and Wear

The median Senior User Experience Designer salary in Tyne and Wear is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 October 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior UX Designer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.035% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.038% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 - -
75th Percentile £67,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North East median annual salary £65,000 - -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Tyne and Wear

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Tyne and Wear. 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 Tyne and Wear with a recognized job title 2,644 648 989
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.46% 93.24% 97.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,986 417 556
10th Percentile £35,000 £25,087 £24,980
25th Percentile £42,500 £28,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% - -14.29%
75th Percentile £75,000 £60,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £72,500 £84,357
North East median annual salary £55,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +22.22% - -10.00%

Senior UX Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

Senior UX Designer job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

Senior UX Designer
Salary Trend in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution trend for Senior UX Designer job vacancies in Tyne and Wear.

Salary distribution trend for Senior UX Designer job vacancies in Tyne and Wear

Senior UX Designer
Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior UX Designer within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 10 October 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
Newcastle upon Tyne - 1 £65,000 - 1
Senior UX Designer
North East

Senior UX Designer Skill Set
Top 26 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear

For the 6 months to 10 October 2026, Senior 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 Tyne and Wear region featuring Senior UX Designer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Contextual Inquiry
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Docs as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Figma
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
1 1 (100.00%) Human-in-the-Loop
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusive Design
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Question Answering
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
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%) UX Research
1 1 (100.00%) WCAG
1 1 (100.00%) Wireframes

Senior UX Designer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 1 (100.00%) Figma
General
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Contextual Inquiry
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
1 1 (100.00%) Human-in-the-Loop
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusive Design
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Question Answering
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Usability Testing
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
1 1 (100.00%) UX Design
1 1 (100.00%) UX Research
1 1 (100.00%) Wireframes
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) WCAG