Digital Designer Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Digital Designer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Digital Designer salary in the UK excluding London is £32,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 February 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 502 529 601
Rank change year-on-year +27 +72 +157
Permanent jobs requiring a Digital Designer 33 6 63
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.066% 0.020% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.072% 0.021% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 13 4 52
10th Percentile £25,000 £35,805 -
25th Percentile £28,000 £38,888 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £53,784 £38,750
Median % change year-on-year -39.57% +38.80% +19.23%
75th Percentile £35,000 £68,114 £51,813
90th Percentile - - £54,850
UK median annual salary £35,000 £55,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -36.36% +37.50% -13.51%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 45,678 28,036 48,565
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.47% 91.22% 94.89%
Number of salaries quoted 28,736 14,184 37,399
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,721 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%

Digital Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Digital Designer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Digital Designer job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Digital Designer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for Digital Designer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for Digital Designer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Digital Designer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Digital Designer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Digital Designer in the UK excluding London

Digital Designer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Digital Designer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 February 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
South East - 20 £32,500 - 4
East of England - 8 - - 2
South West -7 3 - - 2
Wales -1 1 - -
North of England - 1 £35,000 -
North East - 1 £35,000 -
Digital Designer
UK

Digital Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 28 February 2026, Digital 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 UK excluding London region featuring Digital Designer in the job title.

1 21 (63.64%) Adobe
2 17 (51.52%) Accessibility
2 17 (51.52%) Adobe Analytics
2 17 (51.52%) Agile
2 17 (51.52%) AI
2 17 (51.52%) Analytics
2 17 (51.52%) Broadband
2 17 (51.52%) Customer Experience
2 17 (51.52%) Digital Customer Experience
2 17 (51.52%) Product Roadmap
2 17 (51.52%) Roadmaps
2 17 (51.52%) Storytelling
2 17 (51.52%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 15 (45.45%) Figma
4 14 (42.42%) User Research
4 14 (42.42%) Workshop Facilitation
5 10 (30.30%) Customer Insight
5 10 (30.30%) User Experience
6 8 (24.24%) Prototyping
7 6 (18.18%) DesignOps
7 6 (18.18%) Empathy Maps
7 6 (18.18%) Journey Map
7 6 (18.18%) Service Design
7 6 (18.18%) Stakeholder Map
7 6 (18.18%) Systems Thinking
8 5 (15.15%) Typography
8 5 (15.15%) UX Design
9 4 (12.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 4 (12.12%) Adobe Illustrator
9 4 (12.12%) InDesign

Digital Designer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (9.09%) CMS
1 3 (9.09%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (12.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 4 (12.12%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (12.12%) InDesign
1 4 (12.12%) Photoshop
2 2 (6.06%) Adobe XD
Cloud Services
1 17 (51.52%) Adobe Analytics
2 15 (45.45%) Figma
3 1 (3.03%) Contentsquare
Communications & Networking
1 17 (51.52%) Broadband
General
1 17 (51.52%) Games
2 7 (21.21%) Marketing
3 3 (9.09%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Legal
4 1 (3.03%) Multimedia
4 1 (3.03%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 18 (54.55%) Social Media
2 2 (6.06%) Animation
2 2 (6.06%) Video Editing
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (51.52%) Agile
1 17 (51.52%) AI
1 17 (51.52%) Analytics
1 17 (51.52%) Customer Experience
1 17 (51.52%) Digital Customer Experience
1 17 (51.52%) Product Roadmap
1 17 (51.52%) Roadmaps
1 17 (51.52%) Storytelling
1 17 (51.52%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 14 (42.42%) User Research
2 14 (42.42%) Workshop Facilitation
3 10 (30.30%) Customer Insight
3 10 (30.30%) User Experience
4 8 (24.24%) Prototyping
5 6 (18.18%) DesignOps
5 6 (18.18%) Empathy Maps
5 6 (18.18%) Journey Map
5 6 (18.18%) Service Design
5 6 (18.18%) Stakeholder Map
5 6 (18.18%) Systems Thinking
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (51.52%) Accessibility
2 3 (9.09%) WCAG
Vendors
1 21 (63.64%) Adobe