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 £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 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
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 487 612 688
Rank change year-on-year +125 +76 -54
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Designer 98 151 62
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.25% 0.21% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.22% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 19 90 52
10th Percentile £42,250 £41,925 £42,759
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,813 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,965 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.11% +5.39% -13.73%
75th Percentile £67,500 £60,741 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 - £77,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,965 £67,500
% change year-on-year -5.11% -14.13% -3.57%

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 35,427 67,196 53,197
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 94.83% 89.21%
Number of salaries quoted 18,481 47,540 30,291
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,574 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,750 £81,250
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -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 15 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 15 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 +159 79 - - 4
North of England +3 9 £55,000 -5.11% 38
East of England +46 6 £65,000 -16.13% 5
North West -21 6 £51,250 -11.58% 20
South East +81 2 £57,500 +35.29% 35
Yorkshire +45 2 £52,500 -9.43% 13
South West +106 1 £55,000 +4.76% 2
Midlands +45 1 £65,000 +12.14% 5
West Midlands +39 1 £65,000 +12.14% 2
North East +29 1 £65,000 +12.14% 5
Senior Designer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 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 88 (89.80%) UX Design
1 88 (89.80%) User Experience
2 87 (88.78%) User Research
3 85 (86.73%) Wireframes
4 84 (85.71%) Prototyping
5 82 (83.67%) Finance
6 81 (82.65%) Agile
7 80 (81.63%) Project Management
7 80 (81.63%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 80 (81.63%) Accessibility
8 79 (80.61%) Design Thinking
8 79 (80.61%) UX Research
8 79 (80.61%) Journey Map
8 79 (80.61%) Banking
8 79 (80.61%) Stakeholder Management
8 79 (80.61%) Usability Testing
9 10 (10.20%) Figma
10 8 (8.16%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (8.16%) Adobe
11 7 (7.14%) Adobe XD
11 7 (7.14%) Social Skills
12 5 (5.10%) Sketch
12 5 (5.10%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
12 5 (5.10%) HTML
12 5 (5.10%) JavaScript
12 5 (5.10%) CSS
13 3 (3.06%) Degree
13 3 (3.06%) Computer Science
13 3 (3.06%) Analytical Skills
13 3 (3.06%) Mentoring

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 7 (7.14%) Adobe XD
2 5 (5.10%) Sketch
3 1 (1.02%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (1.02%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (1.02%) AutoCAD
3 1 (1.02%) InDesign
3 1 (1.02%) Photoshop
3 1 (1.02%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 10 (10.20%) Figma
2 2 (2.04%) Azure
2 2 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (2.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (2.04%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.04%) ADSL2
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (2.04%) Metadata
1 2 (2.04%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (2.04%) ER Studio
General
1 82 (83.67%) Finance
2 79 (80.61%) Banking
3 7 (7.14%) Social Skills
4 3 (3.06%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.04%) Games
5 2 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (2.04%) Marketing
6 1 (1.02%) Brand Awareness
6 1 (1.02%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.10%) CSS
1 5 (5.10%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.06%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (2.04%) FPGA
2 2 (2.04%) Product Ownership
2 2 (2.04%) PropTech
2 2 (2.04%) Verilog
2 2 (2.04%) VHDL
3 1 (1.02%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (1.02%) Graphic Design
3 1 (1.02%) Home Automation
3 1 (1.02%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.02%) Photography
3 1 (1.02%) Smart Home
3 1 (1.02%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (89.80%) User Experience
1 88 (89.80%) UX Design
2 87 (88.78%) User Research
3 85 (86.73%) Wireframes
4 84 (85.71%) Prototyping
5 81 (82.65%) Agile
6 80 (81.63%) Project Management
6 80 (81.63%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 79 (80.61%) Design Thinking
7 79 (80.61%) Journey Map
7 79 (80.61%) Stakeholder Management
7 79 (80.61%) Usability Testing
7 79 (80.61%) UX Research
8 8 (8.16%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (5.10%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
10 3 (3.06%) Computer Science
10 3 (3.06%) Mentoring
11 2 (2.04%) Data Architecture
11 2 (2.04%) DevOps
11 2 (2.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 5 (5.10%) JavaScript
2 2 (2.04%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (3.06%) Degree
2 1 (1.02%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (81.63%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.02%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (1.02%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 8 (8.16%) Adobe
2 2 (2.04%) Databricks
3 1 (1.02%) Facebook
3 1 (1.02%) Instagram