Senior Designer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior Designer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Designer salary in the UK excluding London is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 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
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 481 617 697
Rank change year-on-year +136 +80 -60
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Designer 96 154 58
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.24% 0.21% 0.100%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.22% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 16 93 49
10th Percentile £45,625 £42,350 £42,707
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,965 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.14% +5.39% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £60,741 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,250 - £75,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £57,965 £65,000
% change year-on-year +12.14% -10.82% -7.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 35,540 70,800 51,694
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.25% 94.95% 89.10%
Number of salaries quoted 17,956 49,914 29,611
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,000 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -6.54% +6.63%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Senior Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Senior Designer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Designer in the UK excluding London

Senior Designer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Designer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Senior Designer in the UK excluding London

Senior Designer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Designer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Designer in the UK excluding London

Senior 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 Senior Designer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 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
Scotland +166 81 £80,000 - 15
North of England -3 8 £60,000 +3.51% 105
North West -13 5 £55,000 -5.11% 47
South East +73 3 £60,000 +33.33% 129
East of England +48 3 £75,000 -3.23% 63
Yorkshire +40 2 £52,500 -9.43% 41
Midlands +64 1 £65,000 +12.14% 78
West Midlands +40 1 £65,000 +12.14% 40
North East +34 1 £65,000 +12.14% 17
Senior Designer
UK

Senior Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 30 May 2025, Senior 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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior Designer in the job title.

1 85 (88.54%) User Experience
1 85 (88.54%) UX Design
2 84 (87.50%) Agile
3 83 (86.46%) Prototyping
3 83 (86.46%) User Research
4 81 (84.38%) Accessibility
4 81 (84.38%) Project Management
4 81 (84.38%) Finance
5 80 (83.33%) UX Research
5 80 (83.33%) Wireframes
5 80 (83.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 80 (83.33%) Design Thinking
6 79 (82.29%) Journey Map
6 79 (82.29%) Banking
6 79 (82.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 79 (82.29%) Usability Testing
7 6 (6.25%) Figma
8 4 (4.17%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (4.17%) Adobe
9 3 (3.13%) Adobe XD
9 3 (3.13%) Social Skills
9 3 (3.13%) Product Ownership
10 2 (2.08%) Onboarding
10 2 (2.08%) Collaborative Culture
10 2 (2.08%) Power Platform
10 2 (2.08%) PropTech
10 2 (2.08%) Metadata
10 2 (2.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (2.08%) ER Studio

Senior Designer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (3.13%) Adobe XD
2 2 (2.08%) AutoCAD
2 2 (2.08%) Revit
3 1 (1.04%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (1.04%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (1.04%) InDesign
3 1 (1.04%) Photoshop
3 1 (1.04%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 6 (6.25%) Figma
2 2 (2.08%) Azure
2 2 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (2.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (2.08%) Power Platform
3 1 (1.04%) AWS
3 1 (1.04%) ChatGPT
3 1 (1.04%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.08%) ADSL2
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (2.08%) Metadata
1 2 (2.08%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (2.08%) ER Studio
General
1 81 (84.38%) Finance
2 79 (82.29%) Banking
3 3 (3.13%) Social Skills
4 2 (2.08%) Games
4 2 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (2.08%) Marketing
5 1 (1.04%) Brand Awareness
5 1 (1.04%) Health Technology
5 1 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.04%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.04%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.13%) Product Ownership
2 2 (2.08%) FPGA
2 2 (2.08%) Graphic Design
2 2 (2.08%) Onboarding
2 2 (2.08%) PropTech
2 2 (2.08%) Social Media
2 2 (2.08%) Verilog
2 2 (2.08%) VHDL
3 1 (1.04%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (1.04%) Home Automation
3 1 (1.04%) Photography
3 1 (1.04%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.04%) Smart Home
3 1 (1.04%) Video Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (88.54%) User Experience
1 85 (88.54%) UX Design
2 84 (87.50%) Agile
3 83 (86.46%) Prototyping
3 83 (86.46%) User Research
4 81 (84.38%) Project Management
5 80 (83.33%) Design Thinking
5 80 (83.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 80 (83.33%) UX Research
5 80 (83.33%) Wireframes
6 79 (82.29%) Journey Map
6 79 (82.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 79 (82.29%) Usability Testing
7 4 (4.17%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (2.08%) Customer-Centricity
8 2 (2.08%) Data Engineering
8 2 (2.08%) Data Lineage
8 2 (2.08%) FPGA Design
8 2 (2.08%) Interaction Design
8 2 (2.08%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (2.08%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (1.04%) Degree
1 1 (1.04%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (84.38%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.08%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (1.04%) Progress Chef
1 1 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (4.17%) Adobe
2 2 (2.08%) Databricks
3 1 (1.04%) Facebook
3 1 (1.04%) ForgeRock
3 1 (1.04%) Instagram
3 1 (1.04%) Oracle