Interaction Design Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Interaction Design (IxD)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Interaction Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 467 531 497
Rank change year-on-year +64 -34 +132
Permanent jobs citing Interaction Design 30 48 37
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.072% 0.12% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.089% 0.14% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 20 35 30
10th Percentile £41,075 £42,200 -
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,600 £39,748
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,250 £58,465 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.47% +23.08% -13.40%
75th Percentile £56,723 £60,991 £50,000
90th Percentile £65,640 - £70,250
UK median annual salary £63,076 £58,465 £50,702
% change year-on-year +7.89% +15.31% -22.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Interaction 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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 33,620 33,684 26,372
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 80.81% 87.57% 93.66%
Number of salaries quoted 19,188 15,784 19,726
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,617 £41,250 £38,591
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,720 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.42% +4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -2.60%

Interaction Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Interaction Design relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Interaction Design job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Interaction Design
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Interaction Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Interaction Design

Interaction Design
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Interaction Design in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Interaction Design in the UK excluding London

Interaction Design
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 Interaction Design within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 December 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
North of England +19 15 £45,000 -23.03% 43
Yorkshire -9 8 £45,000 -23.03% 16
South East +43 7 - - 35
West Midlands +37 5 £50,000 -0.97% 15
Midlands +18 5 £50,000 +17.61% 25
North West +23 4 £48,750 -18.75% 20
North East +1 3 £54,038 -8.77% 7
South West +20 1 - - 13
Scotland +6 1 £47,500 -20.83% 9
Wales -2 1 £49,500 +16.44% 2
Interaction Design
UK

Interaction Design
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 1 (3.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Adobe XD
2 1 (3.33%) Adobe After Effects
2 1 (3.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (3.33%) Adobe Premiere
2 1 (3.33%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 7 (23.33%) Figma
2 4 (13.33%) SaaS
3 2 (6.67%) GitHub
3 2 (6.67%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.33%) GIS
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 9 (30.00%) Marketing
2 8 (26.67%) Legal
3 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (46.67%) Designer
2 10 (33.33%) Interaction Designer
3 7 (23.33%) Architect
3 7 (23.33%) User Experience Architect
3 7 (23.33%) User Researcher
4 6 (20.00%) Senior
5 5 (16.67%) Senior User Researcher
6 2 (6.67%) Blazor Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 2 (6.67%) UX Developer
7 1 (3.33%) Product Designer
7 1 (3.33%) Senior Designer
7 1 (3.33%) Senior Interaction Designer
7 1 (3.33%) Service Designer
7 1 (3.33%) User Experience Researcher
7 1 (3.33%) UX Designer
7 1 (3.33%) Web Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.67%) .NET
1 2 (6.67%) Blazor
1 2 (6.67%) Material Design
1 2 (6.67%) WebAssembly
2 1 (3.33%) CSS
2 1 (3.33%) HTML
2 1 (3.33%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.33%) Graphic Design
2 1 (3.33%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.33%) Social Media
2 1 (3.33%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (70.00%) User Experience
2 20 (66.67%) User Research
3 12 (40.00%) Usability Testing
3 12 (40.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 11 (36.67%) Service Design
4 11 (36.67%) UX Design
5 10 (33.33%) Agile
6 9 (30.00%) Business Analysis
6 9 (30.00%) Customer Experience
6 9 (30.00%) Design Thinking
7 8 (26.67%) Actionable Insight
7 8 (26.67%) Journey Map
7 8 (26.67%) Prototyping
7 8 (26.67%) Workshop Facilitation
8 7 (23.33%) Business Case
8 7 (23.33%) Business Process Analysis
8 7 (23.33%) Digital Innovation
8 7 (23.33%) Persona Development
8 7 (23.33%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (20.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.67%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (13.33%) Degree
2 3 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (30.00%) Accessibility
2 5 (16.67%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (6.67%) QA
3 2 (6.67%) WCAG
Vendors
1 3 (10.00%) Adobe