UX Designer Job Trends in the UK excluding London

User Experience Designer
UK > UK excluding London

The median User Experience Designer salary in the UK excluding London is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 475 509 501
Rank change year-on-year +34 -8 -4
Permanent jobs requiring a UX Designer 31 63 66
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.073% 0.18% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.081% 0.19% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 23 29 53
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £46,110
Median % change year-on-year - +8.44% -16.16%
75th Percentile £64,375 £60,000 £50,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £58,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -16.67%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 38,179 33,328 33,027
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.48% 92.91% 95.32%
Number of salaries quoted 23,318 16,178 25,075
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £36,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%

UX Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'UX Designer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

UX Designer job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

UX Designer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for UX Designer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for UX Designer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

UX Designer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing UX Designer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for UX Designer in the UK excluding London

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 UX Designer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 January 2026. 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
Midlands +36 11 £50,000 - 4
South West +14 11 £65,000 +18.18% 7
West Midlands +29 6 £50,000 - 4
East Midlands - 5 £40,000 -
North of England +5 4 £65,000 +36.84% 8
South East +17 2 £45,000 -25.00% 9
North East +3 2 £55,000 +29.41%
Scotland -4 2 £50,000 +33.33% 1
North West +13 1 £75,000 +36.36% 6
Yorkshire -14 1 - - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 - -
UX Designer
UK

UX Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 13 January 2026, UX Designer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring UX Designer in the job title.

1 31 (100.00%) User Experience
1 31 (100.00%) UX Design
2 11 (35.48%) Creative Thinking
3 10 (32.26%) Figma
3 10 (32.26%) Wireframes
4 9 (29.03%) Accessibility
5 7 (22.58%) Prototyping
5 7 (22.58%) UX Research
6 6 (19.35%) Agile
6 6 (19.35%) WCAG
7 5 (16.13%) AI
7 5 (16.13%) Front End Development
7 5 (16.13%) Interaction Design
7 5 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (16.13%) Responsive Web Design
7 5 (16.13%) SaaS
8 4 (12.90%) .NET
8 4 (12.90%) Adobe
8 4 (12.90%) Blazor
8 4 (12.90%) C#
8 4 (12.90%) CRM
8 4 (12.90%) Data Integration
8 4 (12.90%) GitHub
8 4 (12.90%) GitHub Copilot
8 4 (12.90%) Material Design
8 4 (12.90%) User Stories
8 4 (12.90%) Visual Studio
8 4 (12.90%) WebAssembly
9 3 (9.68%) Usability Testing
9 3 (9.68%) User-Centered Design (UCD)

UX Designer Skill Set
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 (3.23%) Confluence
1 1 (3.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (6.45%) Adobe XD
1 2 (6.45%) InVision
1 2 (6.45%) Sketch
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (3.23%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 10 (32.26%) Figma
2 5 (16.13%) SaaS
3 4 (12.90%) GitHub
3 4 (12.90%) GitHub Copilot
4 1 (3.23%) Canva
4 1 (3.23%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.23%) Broadband
Development Applications
1 4 (12.90%) Visual Studio
2 1 (3.23%) Axure RP
2 1 (3.23%) Balsamiq
2 1 (3.23%) JIRA
General
1 4 (12.90%) Finance
2 3 (9.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (9.68%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.23%) Banking
4 1 (3.23%) Games
4 1 (3.23%) Law
4 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.23%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.90%) .NET
1 4 (12.90%) Blazor
1 4 (12.90%) Material Design
1 4 (12.90%) WebAssembly
2 1 (3.23%) CSS
2 1 (3.23%) HTML
2 1 (3.23%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.13%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.45%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.23%) 3D Graphics
3 1 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.23%) Graphic Design
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (100.00%) User Experience
1 31 (100.00%) UX Design
2 11 (35.48%) Creative Thinking
3 10 (32.26%) Wireframes
4 7 (22.58%) Prototyping
4 7 (22.58%) UX Research
5 6 (19.35%) Agile
6 5 (16.13%) AI
6 5 (16.13%) Front End Development
6 5 (16.13%) Interaction Design
6 5 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (16.13%) Responsive Web Design
7 4 (12.90%) CRM
7 4 (12.90%) Data Integration
7 4 (12.90%) User Stories
8 3 (9.68%) Usability Testing
8 3 (9.68%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 2 (6.45%) SDLC
9 2 (6.45%) User Research
9 2 (6.45%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 4 (12.90%) C#
2 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (3.23%) Degree
1 1 (3.23%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.23%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (29.03%) Accessibility
2 6 (19.35%) WCAG
Vendors
1 4 (12.90%) Adobe
2 2 (6.45%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.23%) Google