Senior User Experience Designer
UK
The median Senior User Experience Designer salary in the UK is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 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 31 May 2025 |
Same period 2024 | Same period 2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 612 | 824 | 863 |
| Rank change year-on-year | +212 | +39 | +13 |
| Permanent jobs requiring a Senior UX Designer | 90 | 83 | 105 |
| As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK | 0.16% | 0.080% | 0.11% |
| As % of the Job Titles category | 0.18% | 0.084% | 0.12% |
| Number of salaries quoted | 7 | 17 | 91 |
| 10th Percentile | £52,500 | £52,500 | £53,750 |
| 25th Percentile | £61,250 | £53,750 | £58,125 |
| Median annual salary (50th Percentile) | £75,000 | £60,000 | £70,000 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +25.00% | -14.29% | +5.66% |
| 75th Percentile | £87,250 | £67,500 | £77,500 |
| 90th Percentile | £98,500 | £89,500 | £83,750 |
| UK excluding London median annual salary | £75,000 | £55,000 | £70,000 |
| % change year-on-year | +36.36% | -21.43% | +38.34% |
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 | 50,444 | 98,297 | 87,491 |
| % of permanent jobs with a recognized job title | 90.33% | 94.81% | 91.34% |
| Number of salaries quoted | 26,384 | 69,991 | 55,965 |
| 10th Percentile | £28,750 | £28,500 | £32,500 |
| 25th Percentile | £40,748 | £38,500 | £45,000 |
| Median annual salary (50th Percentile) | £55,000 | £52,500 | £60,000 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +4.76% | -12.50% | - |
| 75th Percentile | £73,750 | £70,000 | £80,000 |
| 90th Percentile | £95,000 | £90,000 | £100,000 |
| UK excluding London median annual salary | £51,000 | £50,000 | £53,500 |
| % change year-on-year | +2.00% | -6.54% | +6.49% |
Senior UX Designer
Job Vacancy Trend
Job postings that featured Senior UX Designer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.
Senior UX Designer
Salary Trend
3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior UX Designer.
Senior UX Designer
Salary Histogram
Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior UX Designer over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.
Senior UX Designer
Top 8 Job Locations
The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior UX Designer within the UK over the 6 months to 31 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 |
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| UK excluding London | +201 | 84 | £75,000 | +36.36% | 9 |
| Work from Home | +195 | 83 | £55,000 | -8.33% | 11 |
| Scotland | +170 | 80 | £80,000 | - | |
| England | +135 | 10 | £72,500 | +20.83% | 32 |
| London | +97 | 6 | £87,500 | +45.83% | 23 |
| North of England | +29 | 3 | £55,000 | - | 3 |
| North West | -3 | 3 | £55,000 | - | 2 |
| East of England | +50 | 1 | £75,000 | +36.36% |
Senior UX Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities
For the 6 months to 31 May 2025, Senior UX 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 UX Designer in the job title.
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Senior UX 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: