Senior User Interface Designer
UK

The median Senior User Interface Designer salary in the UK is £62,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 832 902 1031
Rank change year-on-year +70 +129 -158
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior UI Designer 62 83 173
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.063% 0.079% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.067% 0.086% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 11 66 79
10th Percentile £53,750 £53,125 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,625 £56,250 £51,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -7.14% +3.70%
75th Percentile £67,500 £82,500 £79,375
90th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £89,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +68.42% -26.92%

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 92,682 96,623 147,884
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.57% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,673 60,571 85,427
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% - +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%

Senior UI Designer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior UI Designer in the UK

Senior UI Designer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior UI Designer in the UK

Senior UI Designer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior UI Designer over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior UI Designer in the UK

Senior UI Designer
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior UI Designer within the UK over the 6 months to 24 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 +87 44 £62,500 -3.85% 4
UK excluding London +45 44 £70,000 -12.50% 3
London +116 15 £61,250 -5.77% 1
North of England +62 14 - - 1
North West +17 10 - - 1
Scotland - 8 - -
Work from Home +69 7 £70,000 -3.45% 4
Midlands 0 6 £70,000 -
South East +21 4 - - 1
South West -11 4 - - 1
Wales - 4 - -
Northern Ireland - 4 - -
Yorkshire - 4 - -
East Midlands - 4 - -
West Midlands +23 2 £70,000 -

Senior UI Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, Senior UI 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 Senior UI Designer in the job title.

1 59 (95.16%) User Experience
2 58 (93.55%) UX Design
2 58 (93.55%) Figma
3 53 (85.48%) Sketch
4 52 (83.87%) Problem-Solving
5 51 (82.26%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 51 (82.26%) HTML
6 50 (80.65%) Prototyping
6 50 (80.65%) Accessibility
7 48 (77.42%) Actionable Insight
7 48 (77.42%) Security Cleared
8 47 (75.81%) Workshop Facilitation
8 47 (75.81%) Customer Experience
9 46 (74.19%) Miro
9 46 (74.19%) Sprint Review
9 46 (74.19%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
9 46 (74.19%) Low-Fidelity Prototypes
9 46 (74.19%) Design Patterns
9 46 (74.19%) Digital Customer Experience
9 46 (74.19%) SC Cleared
9 46 (74.19%) Heroku
9 46 (74.19%) Coaching
9 46 (74.19%) WCAG
9 46 (74.19%) Stakeholder Management
10 8 (12.90%) Adobe
11 7 (11.29%) Social Skills
12 6 (9.68%) Agile
12 6 (9.68%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 5 (8.06%) Wireframes
13 5 (8.06%) Inclusion and Diversity

Senior UI 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 53 (85.48%) Sketch
2 6 (9.68%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (3.23%) Adobe After Effects
3 2 (3.23%) Final Cut Pro
3 2 (3.23%) InVision
4 1 (1.61%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (1.61%) Adobe XD
4 1 (1.61%) Photoshop
4 1 (1.61%) Zeplin
Cloud Services
1 58 (93.55%) Figma
2 46 (74.19%) Heroku
2 46 (74.19%) Miro
3 1 (1.61%) SaaS
3 1 (1.61%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 1 (1.61%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Development Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Axure RP
General
1 7 (11.29%) Social Skills
2 5 (8.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (4.84%) Games
4 2 (3.23%) Finance
4 2 (3.23%) Law
4 2 (3.23%) Retail
5 1 (1.61%) Automotive
5 1 (1.61%) Legal
5 1 (1.61%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (82.26%) HTML
2 4 (6.45%) CSS
3 1 (1.61%) CarPlay
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.84%) Graphic Design
1 3 (4.84%) Motion Graphics
2 2 (3.23%) Animation
2 2 (3.23%) Augmented Reality
2 2 (3.23%) Cyberattack
2 2 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.61%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.61%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.61%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (95.16%) User Experience
2 58 (93.55%) UX Design
3 52 (83.87%) Problem-Solving
4 51 (82.26%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 50 (80.65%) Prototyping
6 48 (77.42%) Actionable Insight
7 47 (75.81%) Customer Experience
7 47 (75.81%) Workshop Facilitation
8 46 (74.19%) Coaching
8 46 (74.19%) Design Patterns
8 46 (74.19%) Digital Customer Experience
8 46 (74.19%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
8 46 (74.19%) Low-Fidelity Prototypes
8 46 (74.19%) Sprint Review
8 46 (74.19%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (9.68%) Agile
10 5 (8.06%) Wireframes
11 4 (6.45%) Data Visualisation
11 4 (6.45%) User Research
11 4 (6.45%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (3.23%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 48 (77.42%) Security Cleared
2 46 (74.19%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.45%) Degree
4 2 (3.23%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (80.65%) Accessibility
2 46 (74.19%) WCAG
Vendors
1 8 (12.90%) Adobe
2 1 (1.61%) Apple
2 1 (1.61%) Salesforce