Designer
UK

The median Designer salary in the UK is £47,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 319 354 220
Rank change year-on-year +35 -134 +44
Permanent jobs requiring a Designer 894 1,018 2,848
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.91% 0.97% 1.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.96% 1.06% 1.93%
Number of salaries quoted 637 722 1,329
10th Percentile £26,250 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £33,930 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £60,741 £72,509 £70,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £82,500 £80,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £51,850
% change year-on-year -10.00% -3.57% +3.70%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 92,894 96,310 147,847
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.58% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,756 60,420 85,018
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,923 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.80% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Designer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Designer in the UK

Designer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Designer.

Salary trend for Designer in the UK

Designer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Designer over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Designer in the UK

Designer
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Designer within the UK over the 6 months to 25 April 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
England +37 766 £46,110 -21.88% 278
UK excluding London +125 630 £45,000 -10.00% 162
Work from Home +18 349 £52,500 -12.50% 127
London -62 223 £57,500 -8.00% 132
North of England +98 207 £45,000 -10.00% 54
South East +72 124 £40,000 -20.00% 32
North West +45 120 £45,000 -1.80% 28
Midlands +63 100 £44,500 -25.83% 30
Scotland -21 65 £49,000 +4.64% 18
Yorkshire +101 59 £45,000 -29.41% 22
West Midlands +41 57 £50,000 -20.00% 19
South West -6 55 £46,000 -12.38% 15
East of England +29 53 £40,000 -18.37% 18
East Midlands +19 43 £37,500 -37.50% 12
North East +23 28 £57,965 -3.39% 7
Wales +10 14 £32,500 -25.56% 7
Northern Ireland +32 12 £61,900 - 1

Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, 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 featuring Designer in the job title.

1 376 (42.06%) User Experience
2 318 (35.57%) UX Design
3 261 (29.19%) Adobe
4 238 (26.62%) Figma
5 225 (25.17%) Prototyping
6 204 (22.82%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 195 (21.81%) Accessibility
8 191 (21.36%) Agile
9 189 (21.14%) Marketing
9 189 (21.14%) Social Skills
10 165 (18.46%) User Research
11 162 (18.12%) HTML
12 144 (16.11%) Security Cleared
13 143 (16.00%) Wireframes
14 140 (15.66%) Sketch
15 136 (15.21%) Photoshop
16 133 (14.88%) Problem-Solving
17 130 (14.54%) Adobe Creative Suite
18 129 (14.43%) Coaching
19 128 (14.32%) Adobe Illustrator
20 126 (14.09%) SC Cleared
21 116 (12.98%) Customer Experience
22 114 (12.75%) Degree
22 114 (12.75%) Graphic Design
23 113 (12.64%) Mentoring
24 110 (12.30%) Interaction Design
25 109 (12.19%) Design Patterns
26 106 (11.86%) Service Design
27 101 (11.30%) WCAG
28 100 (11.19%) Workshop Facilitation

Designer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 31 (3.47%) WordPress
2 12 (1.34%) CMS
3 10 (1.12%) Confluence
4 6 (0.67%) Umbraco
5 4 (0.45%) IBM Domino
6 3 (0.34%) Totara
7 2 (0.22%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 140 (15.66%) Sketch
2 136 (15.21%) Photoshop
3 130 (14.54%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 128 (14.32%) Adobe Illustrator
5 77 (8.61%) InDesign
6 55 (6.15%) Adobe After Effects
7 54 (6.04%) Adobe XD
8 33 (3.69%) Adobe Premiere
8 33 (3.69%) InVision
8 33 (3.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 30 (3.36%) Microsoft Office
10 23 (2.57%) Adobe Captivate
11 15 (1.68%) CINEMA 4D
11 15 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
12 9 (1.01%) Simulink
12 9 (1.01%) SketchUp
13 7 (0.78%) 3ds Max
14 6 (0.67%) AutoCAD
14 6 (0.67%) Revit
14 6 (0.67%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.45%) Magento
1 4 (0.45%) Shopify
2 3 (0.34%) Oracle General Ledger
2 3 (0.34%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.11%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 238 (26.62%) Figma
2 57 (6.38%) Miro
3 53 (5.93%) Heroku
4 34 (3.80%) Adobe Creative Cloud
5 31 (3.47%) SaaS
6 18 (2.01%) OCI
7 17 (1.90%) dbt
8 11 (1.23%) SurveyMonkey
9 9 (1.01%) Google Analytics
10 7 (0.78%) Azure
10 7 (0.78%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 7 (0.78%) WhatsApp
11 6 (0.67%) Canva
12 5 (0.56%) AWS
12 5 (0.56%) MailChimp
12 5 (0.56%) Stripe
13 2 (0.22%) Asana
13 2 (0.22%) Microsoft 365
13 2 (0.22%) Power Platform
14 1 (0.11%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.01%) Structured Cabling
2 9 (1.01%) VPN
3 8 (0.89%) Cisco Firepower
4 5 (0.56%) SSL
5 3 (0.34%) Broadband
5 3 (0.34%) DHCP
5 3 (0.34%) DNS
5 3 (0.34%) NaaS
5 3 (0.34%) Wireless
6 2 (0.22%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.22%) Internet
6 2 (0.22%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (0.22%) VSAN
7 1 (0.11%) BGP
7 1 (0.11%) DMVPN
7 1 (0.11%) EIGRP
7 1 (0.11%) HTTP
7 1 (0.11%) Intranet
7 1 (0.11%) OSPF
7 1 (0.11%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.34%) Relational Database
1 3 (0.34%) SAP BW
2 2 (0.22%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (0.22%) Power BI
3 1 (0.11%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (0.11%) GIS
Development Applications
1 24 (2.68%) JIRA
2 8 (0.89%) Axure RP
3 5 (0.56%) Git
3 5 (0.56%) Subversion
4 2 (0.22%) WiX
5 1 (0.11%) Balsamiq
5 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 189 (21.14%) Marketing
1 189 (21.14%) Social Skills
2 87 (9.73%) Finance
3 78 (8.72%) Public Sector
4 76 (8.50%) Retail
5 72 (8.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 43 (4.81%) Advertising
7 37 (4.14%) Organisational Skills
8 32 (3.58%) Games
9 26 (2.91%) Analytical Skills
9 26 (2.91%) Law
10 21 (2.35%) Multimedia
10 21 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
11 11 (1.23%) Publishing
12 10 (1.12%) Manufacturing
13 9 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (1.01%) Legal
14 8 (0.89%) Automotive
14 8 (0.89%) Telecoms
15 7 (0.78%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 162 (18.12%) HTML
2 81 (9.06%) CSS
3 23 (2.57%) React
4 12 (1.34%) HTML5
5 6 (0.67%) Sass
6 5 (0.56%) SOAP
6 5 (0.56%) Unreal Engine
7 4 (0.45%) AngularJS
7 4 (0.45%) Next.js
7 4 (0.45%) Unity (Game Engine)
8 3 (0.34%) EDI
8 3 (0.34%) jQuery
8 3 (0.34%) Kafka
8 3 (0.34%) LDAP
8 3 (0.34%) LESS
8 3 (0.34%) ODBC
8 3 (0.34%) REST
8 3 (0.34%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 2 (0.22%) SVG
9 2 (0.22%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 114 (12.75%) Graphic Design
2 79 (8.84%) Social Media
3 58 (6.49%) Animation
4 57 (6.38%) Product Ownership
5 33 (3.69%) Motion Graphics
6 31 (3.47%) Mobile App
7 23 (2.57%) e-Learning
8 21 (2.35%) Video Editing
9 20 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
10 19 (2.13%) Data Centre
11 18 (2.01%) Photography
12 17 (1.90%) Blockchain
13 13 (1.45%) Digital Media
14 11 (1.23%) Market Risk
15 10 (1.12%) SCORM
16 9 (1.01%) Blog
16 9 (1.01%) FPGA
16 9 (1.01%) VHDL
17 7 (0.78%) Cyberattack
17 7 (0.78%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (0.89%) Windows
2 7 (0.78%) Android
3 6 (0.67%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.22%) Linux
4 2 (0.22%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 376 (42.06%) User Experience
2 318 (35.57%) UX Design
3 225 (25.17%) Prototyping
4 204 (22.82%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 191 (21.36%) Agile
6 165 (18.46%) User Research
7 143 (16.00%) Wireframes
8 133 (14.88%) Problem-Solving
9 129 (14.43%) Coaching
10 116 (12.98%) Customer Experience
11 113 (12.64%) Mentoring
12 110 (12.30%) Interaction Design
13 109 (12.19%) Design Patterns
14 106 (11.86%) Service Design
15 100 (11.19%) Workshop Facilitation
16 89 (9.96%) Actionable Insight
17 83 (9.28%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
18 74 (8.28%) Analytics
19 71 (7.94%) Journey Map
19 71 (7.94%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 53 (5.93%) JavaScript
2 7 (0.78%) R
3 6 (0.67%) PHP
4 5 (0.56%) TypeScript
5 4 (0.45%) C
5 4 (0.45%) SystemVerilog
6 3 (0.34%) SQL
7 2 (0.22%) C#
7 2 (0.22%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.11%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 144 (16.11%) Security Cleared
2 126 (14.09%) SC Cleared
3 114 (12.75%) Degree
4 17 (1.90%) JNCIS
5 9 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (1.01%) CIPD
5 9 (1.01%) DV Cleared
6 8 (0.89%) CCNA
6 8 (0.89%) CCNP
6 8 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (0.67%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.34%) HND
8 3 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (0.34%) Oracle Certification
8 3 (0.34%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.34%) PMP
9 2 (0.22%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.22%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.11%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 195 (21.81%) Accessibility
2 101 (11.30%) WCAG
3 12 (1.34%) GDPR
4 3 (0.34%) GAAP
4 3 (0.34%) GRC
4 3 (0.34%) IFRS
4 3 (0.34%) NIST
5 1 (0.11%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.11%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 5 (0.56%) Firmware
2 2 (0.22%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (0.11%) FortiGate
1 1 (0.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 261 (29.19%) Adobe
2 28 (3.13%) Microsoft
3 20 (2.24%) Juniper
4 18 (2.01%) Oracle
5 10 (1.12%) Google
6 9 (1.01%) Cisco
6 9 (1.01%) Salesforce
7 7 (0.78%) Instagram
8 6 (0.67%) F5
8 6 (0.67%) Facebook
9 5 (0.56%) Vectorworks
10 4 (0.45%) dotdigital
10 4 (0.45%) Hotjar
10 4 (0.45%) Intel
10 4 (0.45%) Microsemi
10 4 (0.45%) SAP
10 4 (0.45%) ServiceNow
10 4 (0.45%) Twitter
10 4 (0.45%) Xilinx
11 3 (0.34%) TikTok