Senior User Experience Designer
UK
The median Senior User Experience Designer salary in the UK is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 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 19 May 2025 |
Same period 2024 | Same period 2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 615 | 808 | 862 |
| Rank change year-on-year | +193 | +54 | +24 |
| Permanent jobs requiring a Senior UX Designer | 97 | 82 | 115 |
| As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK | 0.17% | 0.082% | 0.12% |
| As % of the Job Titles category | 0.19% | 0.087% | 0.13% |
| Number of salaries quoted | 13 | 16 | 100 |
| 10th Percentile | £42,300 | £52,500 | £53,750 |
| 25th Percentile | £42,500 | £53,438 | £58,750 |
| Median annual salary (50th Percentile) | £55,000 | £60,000 | £70,000 |
| Median % change year-on-year | -8.33% | -14.29% | +3.70% |
| 75th Percentile | £77,500 | £67,500 | £77,500 |
| 90th Percentile | £87,400 | £91,250 | £82,750 |
| UK excluding London median annual salary | £55,000 | £55,000 | £70,000 |
| % change year-on-year | - | -21.43% | +42.71% |
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 | 50,683 | 94,601 | 90,752 |
| % of permanent jobs with a recognized job title | 90.72% | 94.69% | 91.52% |
| Number of salaries quoted | 27,196 | 67,610 | 57,343 |
| 10th Percentile | £29,500 | £28,500 | £32,500 |
| 25th Percentile | £41,250 | £38,500 | £45,000 |
| Median annual salary (50th Percentile) | £55,320 | £52,500 | £60,000 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +5.37% | -12.50% | - |
| 75th Percentile | £73,750 | £71,000 | £80,000 |
| 90th Percentile | £95,000 | £90,000 | £100,000 |
| UK excluding London median annual salary | £51,564 | £50,000 | £53,000 |
| % change year-on-year | +3.13% | -5.66% | +6.00% |
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 19 May 2025.
Senior UX Designer
Top 9 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 19 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK excluding London | +213 | 90 | £55,000 | - | 37 |
| Work from Home | +198 | 84 | £55,000 | -8.33% | 17 |
| Scotland | +166 | 80 | £80,000 | - | 10 |
| England | +119 | 17 | £55,000 | -8.33% | 51 |
| London | +104 | 7 | £87,500 | +45.83% | 29 |
| North of England | +38 | 5 | £55,000 | - | 13 |
| North West | -8 | 5 | £55,000 | - | 10 |
| East of England | +42 | 4 | £55,000 | - | 2 |
| South West | +101 | 1 | £55,000 | -8.33% | 1 |
Senior UX Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities
For the 6 months to 19 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: