UX Design Job Trends in the UK excluding London

User Experience Design (UXD)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring UX Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 342 254 272
Rank change year-on-year -88 +18 -109
Permanent jobs citing UX Design 163 425 326
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.41% 0.99% 1.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 1.17% 1.20%
Number of salaries quoted 83 220 276
10th Percentile £38,000 £32,375 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.27% -4.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £65,000 £64,063 £70,000
90th Percentile £73,250 £70,000 £84,375
UK median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

UX 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 32,488 36,200 27,265
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.80% 84.59% 93.81%
Number of salaries quoted 18,839 17,533 20,384
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,625 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -1.87%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £81,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -0.83%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

UX Design job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

UX Design
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

UX Design
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing UX Design in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 December 2025.

Salary histogram for UX Design in the UK excluding London

UX 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 UX Design within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
South East +33 63 £52,500 -8.70% 187
North of England -31 38 £51,250 -2.38% 160
North West -1 21 £63,750 +15.91% 95
Midlands -32 21 £55,000 +57.14% 114
West Midlands +16 19 £56,250 -2.17% 65
South West +7 18 £60,000 +9.09% 76
North East +10 10 £50,000 +17.65% 15
East of England +12 8 £60,000 +9.09% 96
Northern Ireland -6 8 - - 12
Yorkshire -26 7 £65,000 +44.44% 50
Scotland -40 6 - - 29
East Midlands -34 2 £40,000 +14.29% 42
Wales -31 1 - - 16
UX Design
UK

UX 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 18 (11.04%) Confluence
2 6 (3.68%) WordPress
3 5 (3.07%) CMS
4 4 (2.45%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.23%) CICS
6 1 (0.61%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.61%) Appian
Applications
1 12 (7.36%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 7 (4.29%) Adobe Illustrator
2 7 (4.29%) Photoshop
3 6 (3.68%) Adobe XD
4 5 (3.07%) InDesign
4 5 (3.07%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (1.84%) Adobe After Effects
5 3 (1.84%) Adobe Premiere
5 3 (1.84%) MS Visio
6 2 (1.23%) Adobe Captivate
6 2 (1.23%) Elementor
6 2 (1.23%) InVision
6 2 (1.23%) Sketch
7 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.61%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.61%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.61%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 46 (28.22%) Azure
2 35 (21.47%) AWS
2 35 (21.47%) Figma
3 16 (9.82%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (9.20%) GCP
4 15 (9.20%) SaaS
5 14 (8.59%) Adobe Analytics
6 8 (4.91%) GitHub
7 6 (3.68%) Google Analytics
8 5 (3.07%) Power Platform
9 4 (2.45%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (2.45%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (2.45%) PowerApps
9 4 (2.45%) Serverless
10 3 (1.84%) Azure Key Vault
10 3 (1.84%) Entra ID
10 3 (1.84%) Miro
11 2 (1.23%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 2 (1.23%) Pulumi
12 1 (0.61%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.23%) Broadband
2 1 (0.61%) AMQP
2 1 (0.61%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.61%) Internet
2 1 (0.61%) SMS
2 1 (0.61%) SSH
2 1 (0.61%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.07%) NoSQL
1 5 (3.07%) Power BI
1 5 (3.07%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.84%) DynamoDB
2 3 (1.84%) MySQL
3 2 (1.23%) DB2
3 2 (1.23%) Metadata
3 2 (1.23%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.61%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.61%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.61%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 23 (14.11%) Git
2 22 (13.50%) JIRA
3 10 (6.13%) Storybook
4 5 (3.07%) Balsamiq
5 3 (1.84%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.23%) Axure RP
6 2 (1.23%) JUnit
6 2 (1.23%) Selenium
6 2 (1.23%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.61%) GitLab
7 1 (0.61%) Maven
7 1 (0.61%) Postman
7 1 (0.61%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.61%) Visual Studio
General
1 56 (34.36%) Social Skills
2 50 (30.67%) Marketing
3 34 (20.86%) Finance
4 30 (18.40%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (13.50%) Law
6 16 (9.82%) Legal
7 13 (7.98%) Banking
8 11 (6.75%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (4.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (4.29%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (3.68%) Public Sector
10 6 (3.68%) Retail
11 5 (3.07%) Electronics
11 5 (3.07%) Games
12 4 (2.45%) Military
13 3 (1.84%) Financial Institution
14 2 (1.23%) Multimedia
14 2 (1.23%) Publishing
15 1 (0.61%) Investment Banking
15 1 (0.61%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 60 (36.81%) Developer
2 38 (23.31%) Senior
3 28 (17.18%) Full-Stack Developer
4 25 (15.34%) Designer
5 23 (14.11%) Senior Developer
6 16 (9.82%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 14 (8.59%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 14 (8.59%) Full-Stack Web Developer
7 14 (8.59%) Senior Web Developer
7 14 (8.59%) Web Developer
8 13 (7.98%) Analyst
9 12 (7.36%) Product Manager
9 12 (7.36%) UX Designer
10 11 (6.75%) Strategy Manager
11 8 (4.91%) Consultant
12 7 (4.29%) Architect
12 7 (4.29%) Digital Product Manager
12 7 (4.29%) Mobile Developer
12 7 (4.29%) Software Developer
12 7 (4.29%) User Experience Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (25.77%) React
2 40 (24.54%) HTML
3 38 (23.31%) CSS
4 29 (17.79%) .NET
5 19 (11.66%) Node.js
6 14 (8.59%) RESTful
7 12 (7.36%) Next.js
8 8 (4.91%) .NET Core
8 8 (4.91%) AngularJS
8 8 (4.91%) ASP.NET
9 7 (4.29%) Ionic Framework
10 6 (3.68%) .NET Framework
10 6 (3.68%) Apache Cordova
10 6 (3.68%) Entity Framework
10 6 (3.68%) Jest
11 5 (3.07%) Bootstrap
11 5 (3.07%) REST
11 5 (3.07%) Vue
12 4 (2.45%) Blazor
12 4 (2.45%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 23 (14.11%) Product Ownership
2 16 (9.82%) Mobile App
3 8 (4.91%) Analytical Mindset
4 7 (4.29%) Social Media
5 6 (3.68%) e-Learning
6 4 (2.45%) Algorithms
6 4 (2.45%) Animation
6 4 (2.45%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.84%) Graphic Design
8 2 (1.23%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.23%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.23%) Educational Technology
8 2 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.23%) Learning Management System
8 2 (1.23%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.23%) Robotics
8 2 (1.23%) Video Editing
8 2 (1.23%) VSAM
9 1 (0.61%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.61%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 14 (8.59%) Android
2 13 (7.98%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.23%) zOS
4 1 (0.61%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (100.00%) User Experience
2 96 (58.90%) Agile
3 62 (38.04%) Problem-Solving
4 55 (33.74%) DevOps
5 48 (29.45%) Wireframes
6 45 (27.61%) Continuous Improvement
7 35 (21.47%) Analytics
7 35 (21.47%) CI/CD
8 34 (20.86%) Stakeholder Management
9 32 (19.63%) Customer Experience
10 31 (19.02%) Full-Stack Development
11 28 (17.18%) Design Thinking
12 27 (16.56%) Prototyping
13 24 (14.72%) Clean Code
13 24 (14.72%) Front End Development
13 24 (14.72%) Roadmaps
14 23 (14.11%) Journey Map
14 23 (14.11%) Test Automation
14 23 (14.11%) Web Development
15 21 (12.88%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 44 (26.99%) JavaScript
2 24 (14.72%) C#
3 20 (12.27%) TypeScript
4 19 (11.66%) SQL
5 14 (8.59%) Python
6 10 (6.13%) Java
7 7 (4.29%) XAML
8 6 (3.68%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.45%) VBA
10 3 (1.84%) Bash
10 3 (1.84%) Bicep
10 3 (1.84%) Go
10 3 (1.84%) VBScript
11 2 (1.23%) COBOL
11 2 (1.23%) JCL
11 2 (1.23%) PHP
12 1 (0.61%) C++
12 1 (0.61%) R
12 1 (0.61%) VB
12 1 (0.61%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 19 (11.66%) Degree
2 18 (11.04%) Security Cleared
3 15 (9.20%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.07%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.84%) CITP
5 3 (1.84%) CREST Certified
5 3 (1.84%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.61%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.61%) HNC
6 1 (0.61%) HND
6 1 (0.61%) PhD
6 1 (0.61%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (22.70%) Accessibility
2 23 (14.11%) QA
3 6 (3.68%) WCAG
4 3 (1.84%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.61%) GDPR
5 1 (0.61%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 21 (12.88%) Docker
2 2 (1.23%) RACF
Systems Management
1 19 (11.66%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.52%) Terraform
3 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
4 1 (0.61%) Grafana
4 1 (0.61%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 30 (18.40%) Adobe
2 11 (6.75%) Qualtrics
3 9 (5.52%) Microsoft
4 7 (4.29%) Google
5 2 (1.23%) Hotjar
6 1 (0.61%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.61%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (0.61%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.61%) Huawei
6 1 (0.61%) NCR
6 1 (0.61%) New Relic
6 1 (0.61%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.61%) Splunk