Figma Job Trends

Figma
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Figma skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 413 464 483
Rank change year-on-year +51 +19 -10
Permanent jobs citing Figma 250 259 236
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.48% 0.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.21% 1.33% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 169 126 182
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,063 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,750 £55,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -9.55% +15.79% -13.64%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK

Figma falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 20,588 19,411 22,339
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.15% 36.22% 40.28%
Number of salaries quoted 11,279 11,427 18,304
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,331 £46,713 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,625 £80,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

Figma
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Figma relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Figma job vacancy trend in the UK

Figma
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Figma.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Figma

Figma
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Figma over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Figma in the UK

Figma
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Figma within the UK over the 6 months to 15 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
England +56 227 £52,500 -8.70% 242
London +92 131 £55,000 -18.52% 40
Work from Home +80 117 £50,000 -24.53% 115
UK excluding London -9 98 £49,750 -9.55% 235
South East +27 38 £50,000 -25.93% 73
North of England -13 25 £47,500 -5.00% 47
North West +10 16 £55,000 +10.00% 19
Midlands +21 15 £50,000 +8.11% 29
West Midlands +23 14 £50,000 +39.86% 10
East of England +21 7 £31,500 -42.73% 36
Yorkshire -22 7 £36,500 -27.00% 21
Northern Ireland -12 5 £70,000 - 5
South West -2 4 £38,500 -15.85% 32
Wales +5 3 £57,250 +17.44% 14
North East +9 2 £55,000 +29.41% 7
East Midlands -14 2 £31,500 -52.45% 19
Scotland -5 1 - - 7

Figma
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 21 (8.40%) Confluence
2 18 (7.20%) CMS
3 11 (4.40%) WordPress
4 5 (2.00%) Umbraco
5 3 (1.20%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.80%) Drupal
6 2 (0.80%) EPiServer
7 1 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.40%) IIS
Applications
1 71 (28.40%) Adobe XD
2 36 (14.40%) Sketch
3 31 (12.40%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 17 (6.80%) Photoshop
5 16 (6.40%) Adobe Illustrator
6 14 (5.60%) InDesign
6 14 (5.60%) InVision
7 6 (2.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 4 (1.60%) Chatbot
9 3 (1.20%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.40%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
10 1 (0.40%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.60%) Shopify
2 3 (1.20%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 32 (12.80%) Miro
2 26 (10.40%) SaaS
3 20 (8.00%) Adobe Analytics
3 20 (8.00%) GitHub
4 15 (6.00%) Azure
5 14 (5.60%) AWS
5 14 (5.60%) Google Analytics
6 11 (4.40%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (3.60%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (3.20%) Canva
9 6 (2.40%) GitHub Copilot
10 5 (2.00%) Amazon S3
10 5 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (2.00%) CloudFront
10 5 (2.00%) GCP
10 5 (2.00%) Heroku
10 5 (2.00%) Power Platform
10 5 (2.00%) Serverless
11 4 (1.60%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (1.20%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.80%) Broadband
2 1 (0.40%) Bluetooth
2 1 (0.40%) DNS
2 1 (0.40%) RFID
2 1 (0.40%) SMS
2 1 (0.40%) Value-Added Service
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.60%) NoSQL
1 4 (1.60%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (1.20%) Looker
2 3 (1.20%) MongoDB
3 2 (0.80%) Metadata
3 2 (0.80%) MySQL
3 2 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.80%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.40%) Big Data
4 1 (0.40%) GIS
4 1 (0.40%) Power BI
4 1 (0.40%) Redis
Development Applications
1 32 (12.80%) JIRA
2 31 (12.40%) Axure RP
3 29 (11.60%) Balsamiq
4 18 (7.20%) Git
5 16 (6.40%) Storybook
6 8 (3.20%) Cypress.io
7 6 (2.40%) Jenkins
7 6 (2.40%) Visual Studio
7 6 (2.40%) Vite
8 5 (2.00%) Bitbucket
9 4 (1.60%) Babel
9 4 (1.60%) rollup.js
9 4 (1.60%) webpack
10 3 (1.20%) CircleCI
10 3 (1.20%) gulp
11 2 (0.80%) Crashlytics
11 2 (0.80%) Grunt
11 2 (0.80%) Octopus Deploy
12 1 (0.40%) Android Studio
12 1 (0.40%) Xcode
General
1 73 (29.20%) Social Skills
2 42 (16.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 35 (14.00%) Analytical Skills
3 35 (14.00%) Public Sector
4 31 (12.40%) Law
4 31 (12.40%) Marketing
5 20 (8.00%) Banking
6 19 (7.60%) Finance
7 17 (6.80%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (4.80%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (3.60%) Digital Health
10 8 (3.20%) Legal
10 8 (3.20%) Telecoms
11 7 (2.80%) Advertising
12 5 (2.00%) Games
12 5 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (2.00%) Retail
13 2 (0.80%) Health Technology
14 1 (0.40%) Multimedia
14 1 (0.40%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 124 (49.60%) Designer
2 52 (20.80%) Senior
3 47 (18.80%) UX Designer
4 29 (11.60%) Developer
5 23 (9.20%) UI Designer
6 21 (8.40%) Senior Designer
7 20 (8.00%) UI/UX Designer
8 19 (7.60%) Lead
8 19 (7.60%) Product Designer
9 17 (6.80%) Senior Manager
9 17 (6.80%) Strategy Manager
10 15 (6.00%) Service Designer
11 14 (5.60%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
12 12 (4.80%) Graphic Designer
13 9 (3.60%) Digital Designer
13 9 (3.60%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 9 (3.60%) Interaction Designer
13 9 (3.60%) Senior Strategy Manager
13 9 (3.60%) Software Engineer
14 7 (2.80%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (28.40%) CSS
2 69 (27.60%) HTML
3 42 (16.80%) React
4 25 (10.00%) Node.js
5 22 (8.80%) Next.js
6 13 (5.20%) .NET
7 11 (4.40%) Jest
8 10 (4.00%) RESTful
9 9 (3.60%) HTML5
10 8 (3.20%) Blazor
10 8 (3.20%) GraphQL
10 8 (3.20%) Material Design
11 7 (2.80%) CSS3
12 6 (2.40%) React Native
12 6 (2.40%) Sass
12 6 (2.40%) WebAssembly
13 5 (2.00%) Express.js
13 5 (2.00%) Semantic HTML
13 5 (2.00%) Spring Boot
13 5 (2.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 44 (17.60%) Product Ownership
2 30 (12.00%) Mobile App
3 19 (7.60%) Social Media
4 13 (5.20%) Graphic Design
5 11 (4.40%) Onboarding
6 8 (3.20%) Animation
6 8 (3.20%) Virtual Team
7 7 (2.80%) Motion Graphics
8 6 (2.40%) Cloud Native
8 6 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (2.00%) AI Agents
9 5 (2.00%) Video Editing
10 4 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.60%) Video\Live Streaming
11 3 (1.20%) W3C
12 2 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 2 (0.80%) Low-Code
12 2 (0.80%) Public Cloud
12 2 (0.80%) VUI
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.60%) Android
2 12 (4.80%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (75.60%) User Experience
2 136 (54.40%) UX Design
3 120 (48.00%) Agile
4 105 (42.00%) Wireframes
5 102 (40.80%) Prototyping
6 79 (31.60%) User Research
7 68 (27.20%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 64 (25.60%) Analytics
9 62 (24.80%) Usability Testing
10 48 (19.20%) Mentoring
11 47 (18.80%) Problem-Solving
12 45 (18.00%) Continuous Improvement
13 42 (16.80%) Customer Experience
14 41 (16.40%) Inclusive Design
15 40 (16.00%) Journey Map
16 37 (14.80%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
17 36 (14.40%) Front End Development
18 35 (14.00%) Responsive Web Design
19 34 (13.60%) Design Thinking
19 34 (13.60%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 62 (24.80%) JavaScript
2 30 (12.00%) TypeScript
3 12 (4.80%) C#
4 7 (2.80%) Python
5 6 (2.40%) Java
6 4 (1.60%) Kotlin
6 4 (1.60%) Ruby
6 4 (1.60%) SQL
7 2 (0.80%) PHP
7 2 (0.80%) Swift
8 1 (0.40%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 64 (25.60%) Degree
2 45 (18.00%) Security Cleared
3 44 (17.60%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.00%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.00%) AWS Certified Developer
5 5 (2.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (0.80%) MCP
7 1 (0.40%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (56.80%) Accessibility
2 59 (23.60%) WCAG
3 10 (4.00%) QA
4 8 (3.20%) GDPR
5 1 (0.40%) Section 508
System Software
1 13 (5.20%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (2.00%) Terraform
2 4 (1.60%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.40%) Argo
3 1 (0.40%) Grafana
Vendors
1 126 (50.40%) Adobe
2 25 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 24 (9.60%) Google
4 17 (6.80%) Qualtrics
5 8 (3.20%) Atlassian
6 4 (1.60%) YouTube
7 3 (1.20%) Guidewire
7 3 (1.20%) HubSpot
7 3 (1.20%) Pega
7 3 (1.20%) Sitecore
7 3 (1.20%) TikTok
8 2 (0.80%) Hotjar
9 1 (0.40%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.40%) Concur
9 1 (0.40%) Marketo
9 1 (0.40%) OneTrust