Junior Designer Jobs

Junior Designer
UK

The median Junior Designer salary in the UK is £28,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 705 855 962
Rank change year-on-year +150 +107 +226
Permanent jobs requiring a Junior Designer 12 39 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.022% 0.039% 0.019%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.024% 0.042% 0.021%
Number of salaries quoted 2 32 18
10th Percentile £24,275 £20,600 £23,250
25th Percentile £25,438 £22,500 £24,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £28,250 £23,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.83% -29.23% +4.84%
75th Percentile £31,438 £28,750 £40,000
90th Percentile £32,825 £30,825 £45,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £24,000 £24,500 £25,000
% change year-on-year -2.04% -2.00% -9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 49,922 93,907 92,301
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.55% 94.63% 91.49%
Number of salaries quoted 27,447 67,290 58,243
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £80,627
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%

Junior Designer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Junior Designer in the UK

Junior Designer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend 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 12 May 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 +123 11 £28,250 +22.83% 9
London +104 7 £32,500 +41.30% 7
Work from Home +131 5 - - 5
UK excluding London +145 4 £24,000 -2.04% 4
Midlands +71 3 - - 1
West Midlands +63 3 - - 1
East of England +45 1 £24,000 -15.79%

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

For the 6 months to 12 May 2025, Junior 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 Junior Designer in the job title.

1 9 (75.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 6 (50.00%) Accessibility
2 6 (50.00%) User Experience
3 5 (41.67%) Analytics
3 5 (41.67%) Behavioural Analytics
3 5 (41.67%) Thought Leadership
3 5 (41.67%) Content Strategy
3 5 (41.67%) Decision-Making
3 5 (41.67%) Figma
3 5 (41.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (41.67%) UX Design
3 5 (41.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (41.67%) Content Management
3 5 (41.67%) Adobe
3 5 (41.67%) SEO
3 5 (41.67%) Law
3 5 (41.67%) Legal
3 5 (41.67%) Publishing
3 5 (41.67%) CMS
4 4 (33.33%) Video Editing
4 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 4 (33.33%) Design Thinking
4 4 (33.33%) User Research
4 4 (33.33%) Wireframes
5 3 (25.00%) Front End Development
5 3 (25.00%) Mobile App
5 3 (25.00%) Adobe XD
5 3 (25.00%) Sketch
5 3 (25.00%) Usability Testing
5 3 (25.00%) Animation

Junior 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 5 (41.67%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Adobe XD
1 3 (25.00%) Sketch
2 2 (16.67%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (16.67%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (16.67%) InDesign
2 2 (16.67%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) Figma
2 1 (8.33%) Google Ads
General
1 5 (41.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 5 (41.67%) Law
1 5 (41.67%) Legal
1 5 (41.67%) Publishing
2 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 3 (25.00%) Automotive
3 3 (25.00%) Finance
4 2 (16.67%) Marketing
5 1 (8.33%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) CSS
1 3 (25.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Video Editing
2 3 (25.00%) Animation
2 3 (25.00%) Mobile App
3 2 (16.67%) Graphic Design
3 2 (16.67%) Social Media
4 1 (8.33%) Digital Media
4 1 (8.33%) Motion Graphics
4 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 6 (50.00%) User Experience
3 5 (41.67%) Analytics
3 5 (41.67%) Behavioural Analytics
3 5 (41.67%) Content Management
3 5 (41.67%) Content Strategy
3 5 (41.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (41.67%) Decision-Making
3 5 (41.67%) SEO
3 5 (41.67%) Thought Leadership
3 5 (41.67%) UX Design
4 4 (33.33%) Design Thinking
4 4 (33.33%) User Research
4 4 (33.33%) Wireframes
5 3 (25.00%) Front End Development
5 3 (25.00%) Usability Testing
6 1 (8.33%) Agile
6 1 (8.33%) Customer Insight
6 1 (8.33%) E-Commerce
6 1 (8.33%) Typography
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (50.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Adobe
2 1 (8.33%) Google
2 1 (8.33%) TikTok