Interaction Designer
UK

The median Interaction Designer salary in the UK is £57,965 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 832 965 1112
Rank change year-on-year +133 +147 -263
Permanent jobs requiring an Interaction Designer 62 24 84
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.063% 0.023% 0.055%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.067% 0.025% 0.057%
Number of salaries quoted 60 16 39
10th Percentile £40,889 - -
25th Percentile £40,988 £42,500 £38,037
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,965 £55,000 £40,595
Median % change year-on-year +5.39% +35.49% -37.55%
75th Percentile £60,741 £67,500 £55,825
90th Percentile £70,000 £69,375 £68,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,965 £46,157 £38,774
% change year-on-year +25.58% +19.04% -40.35%

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%

Interaction Designer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Interaction Designer in the UK

Interaction Designer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Interaction Designer in the UK

Interaction Designer
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Interaction Designer in the UK

Interaction Designer
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Interaction 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 +156 59 £57,965 -1.79% 5
UK excluding London +60 56 £57,965 +25.58% 4
North of England - 48 £57,965 - 2
Work from Home +133 44 £57,965 +5.39% 4
North West - 21 £57,965 - 1
Yorkshire - 15 £41,774 - 1
North East - 12 £57,965 - 1
London +123 6 £52,828 -5.37% 3
Midlands - 4 £41,774 - 1
West Midlands - 4 £41,774 - 1
Scotland -61 1 £58,800 +27.39% 2
South West - 1 £45,000 -
Wales - 1 £58,800 - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 £58,800 - 1

Interaction Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

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

1 62 (100.00%) Interaction Design
2 50 (80.65%) Accessibility
2 50 (80.65%) Prototyping
3 49 (79.03%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 43 (69.35%) Mentoring
5 40 (64.52%) Public Sector
6 38 (61.29%) Analytics
7 36 (58.06%) Coaching
7 36 (58.06%) WCAG
8 35 (56.45%) Agile
9 31 (50.00%) Design Patterns
10 27 (43.55%) Service Design
11 12 (19.35%) User Research
12 9 (14.52%) User Experience
12 9 (14.52%) SC Cleared
12 9 (14.52%) Security Cleared
13 7 (11.29%) Retail
13 7 (11.29%) HTML
13 7 (11.29%) JavaScript
13 7 (11.29%) CSS
13 7 (11.29%) Front End Development
13 7 (11.29%) Heroku
13 7 (11.29%) Data Visualisation
13 7 (11.29%) Usability Testing
13 7 (11.29%) Visualisation
13 7 (11.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 7 (11.29%) dbt
13 7 (11.29%) Line Management
13 7 (11.29%) Strategic Thinking
14 6 (9.68%) Figma

Interaction 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:

Applications
1 5 (8.06%) Sketch
2 1 (1.61%) Adobe XD
Cloud Services
1 7 (11.29%) dbt
1 7 (11.29%) Heroku
2 6 (9.68%) Figma
General
1 40 (64.52%) Public Sector
2 7 (11.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 7 (11.29%) Retail
3 5 (8.06%) Social Skills
4 2 (3.23%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.29%) CSS
1 7 (11.29%) HTML
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (100.00%) Interaction Design
2 50 (80.65%) Prototyping
3 49 (79.03%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 43 (69.35%) Mentoring
5 38 (61.29%) Analytics
6 36 (58.06%) Coaching
7 35 (56.45%) Agile
8 31 (50.00%) Design Patterns
9 27 (43.55%) Service Design
10 12 (19.35%) User Research
11 9 (14.52%) User Experience
12 7 (11.29%) Data Visualisation
12 7 (11.29%) Front End Development
12 7 (11.29%) Line Management
12 7 (11.29%) Strategic Thinking
12 7 (11.29%) Usability Testing
12 7 (11.29%) Visualisation
13 6 (9.68%) Wireframes
14 5 (8.06%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
14 5 (8.06%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 7 (11.29%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 9 (14.52%) SC Cleared
1 9 (14.52%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (80.65%) Accessibility
2 36 (58.06%) WCAG
Vendors
1 1 (1.61%) Adobe