Senior UX Designer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior User Experience Designer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior User Experience Designer salary in the UK excluding London is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 689 722 766
Rank change year-on-year +33 +44 -126
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior UX Designer 67 37 76
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.095% 0.060% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.067% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 5 34 41
10th Percentile £46,200 £47,750 -
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £70,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +47.37% -13.64%
75th Percentile £62,500 £76,875 £57,500
90th Percentile £74,500 £80,000 £63,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% +8.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 66,682 54,970 67,847
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.26% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 47,230 31,194 42,991
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,777 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.04% - +9.09%

Senior UX Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior UX Designer in the UK excluding London

Senior UX Designer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Senior UX Designer in the UK excluding London

Senior UX Designer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior UX Designer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior UX Designer in the UK excluding London

Senior UX 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 UX Designer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2024. 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 -39 27 - - 2
North of England +45 15 - - 1
North West +10 11 - -
Midlands - 6 £61,000 - 1
South East +9 5 £55,000 -26.67% 2
South West -18 5 £60,000 +14.29% 1
Yorkshire +91 4 - - 1
East Midlands - 4 - -
Wales - 4 - -
Northern Ireland - 4 - -
West Midlands - 2 £61,000 - 1
East of England 0 1 £55,000 -21.43% 1
Senior UX Designer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2024, Senior UX 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 UX Designer in the job title.

1 67 (100.00%) UX Design
1 67 (100.00%) User Experience
2 57 (85.07%) Accessibility
3 56 (83.58%) Figma
3 56 (83.58%) HTML
4 49 (73.13%) Prototyping
4 49 (73.13%) Sketch
5 46 (68.66%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 46 (68.66%) Problem-Solving
6 45 (67.16%) Coaching
6 45 (67.16%) Design Patterns
7 44 (65.67%) Security Cleared
8 43 (64.18%) WCAG
8 43 (64.18%) Actionable Insight
9 41 (61.19%) SC Cleared
10 40 (59.70%) Heroku
10 40 (59.70%) Stakeholder Management
10 40 (59.70%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
10 40 (59.70%) Low-Fidelity Prototypes
10 40 (59.70%) Digital Customer Experience
10 40 (59.70%) Customer Experience
10 40 (59.70%) Workshop Facilitation
10 40 (59.70%) Sprint Review
10 40 (59.70%) Miro
11 20 (29.85%) Wireframes
12 19 (28.36%) UX Research
12 19 (28.36%) Journey Map
13 18 (26.87%) Agile
13 18 (26.87%) Usability Testing
14 17 (25.37%) Finance

Senior UX 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 49 (73.13%) Sketch
2 8 (11.94%) InVision
3 7 (10.45%) Adobe Illustrator
3 7 (10.45%) Photoshop
4 1 (1.49%) Adobe XD
Cloud Services
1 56 (83.58%) Figma
2 40 (59.70%) Heroku
2 40 (59.70%) Miro
3 11 (16.42%) SurveyMonkey
Development Applications
1 11 (16.42%) JIRA
2 1 (1.49%) Axure RP
General
1 17 (25.37%) Finance
1 17 (25.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 17 (25.37%) Law
2 15 (22.39%) Marketing
3 7 (10.45%) Social Skills
4 3 (4.48%) Polish Language
5 1 (1.49%) Games
5 1 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (83.58%) HTML
2 15 (22.39%) CSS
3 14 (20.90%) React
4 3 (4.48%) AngularJS
4 3 (4.48%) LESS
4 3 (4.48%) Sass
4 3 (4.48%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 11 (16.42%) Market Risk
2 5 (7.46%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.48%) Cyberattack
3 3 (4.48%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (4.48%) Graphic Design
3 3 (4.48%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.49%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (100.00%) User Experience
1 67 (100.00%) UX Design
2 49 (73.13%) Prototyping
3 46 (68.66%) Problem-Solving
3 46 (68.66%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 45 (67.16%) Coaching
4 45 (67.16%) Design Patterns
5 43 (64.18%) Actionable Insight
6 40 (59.70%) Customer Experience
6 40 (59.70%) Digital Customer Experience
6 40 (59.70%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
6 40 (59.70%) Low-Fidelity Prototypes
6 40 (59.70%) Sprint Review
6 40 (59.70%) Stakeholder Management
6 40 (59.70%) Workshop Facilitation
7 20 (29.85%) Wireframes
8 19 (28.36%) Journey Map
8 19 (28.36%) UX Research
9 18 (26.87%) Agile
9 18 (26.87%) Usability Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (23.88%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 44 (65.67%) Security Cleared
2 41 (61.19%) SC Cleared
3 15 (22.39%) Degree
4 3 (4.48%) DV Cleared
4 3 (4.48%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (85.07%) Accessibility
2 43 (64.18%) WCAG
Vendors
1 1 (1.49%) Adobe
1 1 (1.49%) Hotjar