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 13 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 429 507 476
Rank change year-on-year +78 -31 -82
Permanent jobs citing Figma 247 251 246
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.37% 0.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.40% 1.15% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 144 107 227
10th Percentile £30,200 £31,250 £41,050
25th Percentile £39,188 £40,625 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,157 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.81% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £71,563 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £82,000 £93,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £48,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year -23.08% -2.50% -9.09%

All Cloud 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 17,700 21,919 22,473
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.62% 32.43% 42.91%
Number of salaries quoted 11,286 13,153 18,802
10th Percentile £28,697 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £79,938 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £99,375 £101,455 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% -1.82%

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 13 November 2025.

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 13 November 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
England +89 222 £50,157 -8.81% 308
London +93 142 £52,500 -11.39% 180
Work from Home +83 104 £50,000 -9.09% 166
UK excluding London +22 84 £37,500 -23.08% 156
South East +33 24 £37,500 -36.17% 67
North of England +16 23 £40,750 -18.50% 47
North West +33 14 £50,000 +11.11% 32
East of England +15 13 £31,500 -38.54% 2
Midlands +53 10 £38,750 +6.16% 11
West Midlands +34 8 £38,750 +6.16% 7
Yorkshire +2 8 £36,500 -27.00% 11
South West +33 7 £37,500 +2.74% 19
East Midlands +24 3 £37,500 - 4
Wales +10 3 £57,250 +17.44% 2
Scotland -13 3 - - 7
Northern Ireland -3 1 - - 1
North East - 1 £55,000 - 4

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 (8.50%) CMS
2 19 (7.69%) Confluence
3 14 (5.67%) WordPress
4 12 (4.86%) Headless CMS
5 5 (2.02%) Drupal
5 5 (2.02%) Umbraco
6 2 (0.81%) EPiServer
7 1 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.40%) IIS
7 1 (0.40%) SharePoint
Applications
1 69 (27.94%) Adobe XD
2 47 (19.03%) Sketch
3 39 (15.79%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 23 (9.31%) Photoshop
5 21 (8.50%) Adobe Illustrator
6 14 (5.67%) InDesign
7 8 (3.24%) InVision
8 6 (2.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 5 (2.02%) Adobe After Effects
10 3 (1.21%) Adobe Premiere
10 3 (1.21%) Elementor
11 2 (0.81%) Chatbot
11 2 (0.81%) UserZoom
12 1 (0.40%) Adobe Captivate
12 1 (0.40%) Maya
12 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
12 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
12 1 (0.40%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (5.67%) Shopify
2 3 (1.21%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 27 (10.93%) Miro
2 23 (9.31%) SaaS
3 19 (7.69%) AWS
3 19 (7.69%) Google Analytics
4 18 (7.29%) Adobe Analytics
5 15 (6.07%) Amazon S3
5 15 (6.07%) GitHub
6 13 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
6 13 (5.26%) Serverless
6 13 (5.26%) Vercel
7 10 (4.05%) Canva
8 9 (3.64%) Amazon SQS
8 9 (3.64%) Azure
9 8 (3.24%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (3.24%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (3.24%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (2.02%) CloudFront
10 5 (2.02%) Google Ads
11 4 (1.62%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.02%) Broadband
2 1 (0.40%) DNS
2 1 (0.40%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.40%) SMS
2 1 (0.40%) Value-Added Service
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.45%) NoSQL
2 4 (1.62%) Looker
3 3 (1.21%) MySQL
3 3 (1.21%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.81%) Metadata
4 2 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.40%) Big Data
5 1 (0.40%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.40%) Power BI
5 1 (0.40%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 29 (11.74%) JIRA
2 24 (9.72%) Axure RP
2 24 (9.72%) Git
3 20 (8.10%) Balsamiq
4 16 (6.48%) Cypress.io
5 6 (2.43%) Bitbucket
5 6 (2.43%) Vite
6 5 (2.02%) Storybook
6 5 (2.02%) webpack
7 4 (1.62%) CircleCI
7 4 (1.62%) gulp
7 4 (1.62%) Jenkins
8 3 (1.21%) Crashlytics
8 3 (1.21%) Grunt
9 2 (0.81%) Mocha
10 1 (0.40%) Android Studio
10 1 (0.40%) Babel
10 1 (0.40%) fastlane
10 1 (0.40%) rollup.js
10 1 (0.40%) Xcode
General
1 95 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 44 (17.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 43 (17.41%) Marketing
4 35 (14.17%) Law
5 34 (13.77%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (11.34%) Finance
7 27 (10.93%) Public Sector
8 19 (7.69%) Banking
9 18 (7.29%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (4.05%) Advertising
10 10 (4.05%) Digital Health
10 10 (4.05%) Legal
11 9 (3.64%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (3.64%) Telecoms
12 8 (3.24%) Retail
13 6 (2.43%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (1.62%) Games
15 3 (1.21%) Health Technology
16 2 (0.81%) Investment Banking
16 2 (0.81%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 120 (48.58%) Designer
2 59 (23.89%) Senior
3 44 (17.81%) UX Designer
4 40 (16.19%) Developer
5 29 (11.74%) UI Designer
6 25 (10.12%) Senior Designer
6 25 (10.12%) UI/UX Designer
7 19 (7.69%) Lead
8 17 (6.88%) Product Designer
8 17 (6.88%) Strategy Manager
9 15 (6.07%) Senior Manager
10 14 (5.67%) Senior Developer
11 13 (5.26%) Graphic Designer
11 13 (5.26%) Software Engineer
12 12 (4.86%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 11 (4.45%) Digital Designer
13 11 (4.45%) Full-Stack Developer
13 11 (4.45%) Junior
13 11 (4.45%) Service Designer
14 9 (3.64%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (31.17%) HTML
2 76 (30.77%) CSS
3 48 (19.43%) React
4 25 (10.12%) Node.js
5 21 (8.50%) Next.js
6 19 (7.69%) GraphQL
7 16 (6.48%) HTML5
7 16 (6.48%) Jest
8 14 (5.67%) RESTful
9 12 (4.86%) Tailwind CSS
10 11 (4.45%) CSS3
10 11 (4.45%) Sass
11 9 (3.64%) Express.js
11 9 (3.64%) Vitest
12 8 (3.24%) Playwright
12 8 (3.24%) Vue
13 6 (2.43%) .NET
13 6 (2.43%) AngularJS
13 6 (2.43%) Framer.js
13 6 (2.43%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 33 (13.36%) Product Ownership
2 26 (10.53%) Mobile App
2 26 (10.53%) Social Media
3 18 (7.29%) Graphic Design
4 13 (5.26%) Animation
4 13 (5.26%) Onboarding
5 8 (3.24%) Motion Graphics
5 8 (3.24%) Video Editing
6 7 (2.83%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (2.83%) Virtual Team
7 6 (2.43%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.62%) Client/Server
8 4 (1.62%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.21%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.21%) Low-Code
9 3 (1.21%) W3C
10 2 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.81%) Digital Media
10 2 (0.81%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.81%) Midjourney
Operating Systems
1 21 (8.50%) Apple iOS
2 18 (7.29%) Android
3 2 (0.81%) Linux
4 1 (0.40%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (77.33%) User Experience
2 138 (55.87%) UX Design
3 122 (49.39%) Agile
4 93 (37.65%) Prototyping
5 91 (36.84%) Wireframes
6 80 (32.39%) User Research
7 64 (25.91%) Analytics
8 59 (23.89%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 57 (23.08%) Usability Testing
10 51 (20.65%) Continuous Improvement
11 49 (19.84%) Problem-Solving
12 39 (15.79%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
13 38 (15.38%) Customer Experience
14 36 (14.57%) Design Thinking
15 35 (14.17%) Journey Map
15 35 (14.17%) Mentoring
16 34 (13.77%) Storytelling
17 33 (13.36%) Front End Development
17 33 (13.36%) Responsive Web Design
18 31 (12.55%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 71 (28.74%) JavaScript
2 38 (15.38%) TypeScript
3 13 (5.26%) SQL
4 7 (2.83%) Java
4 7 (2.83%) PHP
5 6 (2.43%) Swift
6 5 (2.02%) Objective-C
6 5 (2.02%) Python
6 5 (2.02%) Ruby
7 3 (1.21%) C#
7 3 (1.21%) Kotlin
8 2 (0.81%) R
9 1 (0.40%) Rust
9 1 (0.40%) XAML
Qualifications
1 67 (27.13%) Degree
2 29 (11.74%) Security Cleared
3 28 (11.34%) SC Cleared
4 14 (5.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.43%) Master's Degree
6 5 (2.02%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.02%) AWS Certified Developer
6 5 (2.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.81%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.40%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (55.47%) Accessibility
2 44 (17.81%) WCAG
3 17 (6.88%) QA
4 10 (4.05%) GDPR
5 3 (1.21%) Section 508
System Software
1 10 (4.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (2.02%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.62%) Terraform
3 1 (0.40%) Grafana
Vendors
1 130 (52.63%) Adobe
2 22 (8.91%) Microsoft
3 21 (8.50%) Google
4 17 (6.88%) Qualtrics
5 8 (3.24%) Apple
6 5 (2.02%) HubSpot
6 5 (2.02%) YouTube
7 4 (1.62%) Bloomberg
7 4 (1.62%) Hotjar
7 4 (1.62%) TikTok
8 3 (1.21%) Marketo
9 2 (0.81%) Netlify
9 2 (0.81%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.81%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 1 (0.40%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.40%) Concur
10 1 (0.40%) Guidewire
10 1 (0.40%) Pega
10 1 (0.40%) Sitecore
10 1 (0.40%) WooCommerce