Junior Designer Job Trends

Junior Designer
UK

The median Junior Designer salary in the UK is £37,183 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 January 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 638 703 702
Rank change year-on-year +65 -1 +319
Permanent jobs requiring a Junior Designer 13 8 11
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.022% 0.014% 0.021%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.024% 0.016% 0.023%
Number of salaries quoted 13 0 7
10th Percentile £28,000 - £25,700
25th Percentile £33,585 - £27,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,183 - £32,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.14%
75th Percentile £37,410 - £50,000
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £28,000 - £50,000
% change year-on-year - - +8.11%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 53,514 51,440 48,883
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.46% 93.14% 95.23%
Number of salaries quoted 32,905 27,168 37,760
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,200 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £44,956 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%

Junior Designer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Junior Designer job vacancy trend in the UK

Junior Designer
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Junior Designer job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Junior Designer job vacancies in the UK

Junior Designer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Junior Designer over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Junior Designer in the UK

Junior Designer
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Junior Designer within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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 +80 12 £37,183 - 8
UK excluding London +63 3 £28,000 - 5
South East - 2 £28,000 - 2
Work from Home +71 1 £34,143 - 4
London +26 1 £42,500 - 4
Midlands - 1 £28,500 -
West Midlands - 1 £28,500 -

Junior Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 January 2026, Junior 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 featuring Junior Designer in the job title.

1 10 (76.92%) Analytics
2 9 (69.23%) User Research
3 8 (61.54%) AI
3 8 (61.54%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (15.38%) A/B Testing
4 2 (15.38%) Adobe
4 2 (15.38%) CSS
4 2 (15.38%) Digital Marketing
4 2 (15.38%) Figma
4 2 (15.38%) HTML
4 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
4 2 (15.38%) User Experience
4 2 (15.38%) UX Design
5 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
5 1 (7.69%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (7.69%) Adobe XD
5 1 (7.69%) CMS
5 1 (7.69%) Collaborative Culture
5 1 (7.69%) Design Thinking
5 1 (7.69%) Front End Development
5 1 (7.69%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
5 1 (7.69%) InDesign
5 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
5 1 (7.69%) Miro
5 1 (7.69%) Photoshop
5 1 (7.69%) Prototyping
5 1 (7.69%) Responsive Web Design
5 1 (7.69%) Service Design
5 1 (7.69%) Sketch
5 1 (7.69%) User-Centered Design (UCD)

Junior Designer Skill Set
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 1 (7.69%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (7.69%) Adobe XD
1 1 (7.69%) InDesign
1 1 (7.69%) Photoshop
1 1 (7.69%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) Figma
2 1 (7.69%) Miro
General
1 8 (61.54%) Legal
1 8 (61.54%) Public Sector
1 8 (61.54%) Publishing
2 3 (23.08%) Marketing
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) CSS
1 2 (15.38%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) Analytics
2 9 (69.23%) User Research
3 8 (61.54%) AI
3 8 (61.54%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (15.38%) A/B Testing
4 2 (15.38%) Digital Marketing
4 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
4 2 (15.38%) User Experience
4 2 (15.38%) UX Design
5 1 (7.69%) Collaborative Culture
5 1 (7.69%) Design Thinking
5 1 (7.69%) Front End Development
5 1 (7.69%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
5 1 (7.69%) Prototyping
5 1 (7.69%) Responsive Web Design
5 1 (7.69%) Service Design
5 1 (7.69%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 1 (7.69%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Adobe