UI Designer Jobs

User Interface Designer
UK

The median User Interface Designer salary in the UK is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 November 2024.

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

6 months to
7 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 710 644 606
Rank change year-on-year -66 -38 +76
Permanent jobs requiring a UI Designer 71 102 643
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.094% 0.18% 0.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.099% 0.19% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 39 99 333
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £60,000 £76,875 £68,750
90th Percentile £70,500 £85,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +22.22%

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 71,631 54,376 129,047
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.69% 95.66% 95.49%
Number of salaries quoted 37,187 39,619 77,191
10th Percentile £31,500 £31,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,943 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.10% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.81% - +5.00%

UI Designer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for UI Designer in the UK

UI Designer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for UI Designer in the UK

UI Designer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing UI Designer over the 6 months to 7 November 2024.

Salary histogram for UI Designer in the UK

UI Designer
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing UI Designer within the UK over the 6 months to 7 November 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 -97 54 £55,000 -8.33% 23
UK excluding London -48 48 £55,000 +10.00% 14
Work from Home -4 22 £57,500 -17.86% 17
London -24 21 £61,086 -12.73% 12
North of England -23 14 £50,000 +8.11% 5
North West -26 11 £45,000 -16.67% 1
South East -39 11 £55,000 +4.27% 1
Northern Ireland +28 6 £60,000 -
Wales +31 5 £57,500 +27.68%
Scotland -3 5 £60,000 -11.11% 4
Yorkshire +15 3 £50,000 +8.11% 3
Midlands -46 3 £55,000 +10.00%
East of England -52 3 - - 2
West Midlands -27 2 £50,000 +25.00%
South West -5 1 £60,000 +26.32% 2
East Midlands -35 1 £60,000 +20.00%

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

For the 6 months to 7 November 2024, 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 UI Designer in the job title.

1 67 (94.37%) User Experience
2 65 (91.55%) UX Design
3 38 (53.52%) Figma
4 31 (43.66%) Wireframes
5 24 (33.80%) Prototyping
6 22 (30.99%) Social Skills
7 19 (26.76%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 17 (23.94%) Sketch
8 17 (23.94%) Adobe
9 16 (22.54%) Mobile App
10 15 (21.13%) User Research
11 14 (19.72%) HTML
12 13 (18.31%) CSS
13 12 (16.90%) Usability Testing
14 11 (15.49%) Marketing
15 10 (14.08%) Finance
15 10 (14.08%) Adobe Creative Suite
15 10 (14.08%) UX Research
16 9 (12.68%) Adobe XD
16 9 (12.68%) Interaction Design
16 9 (12.68%) Agile
17 8 (11.27%) Product Management
17 8 (11.27%) Storyboarding
17 8 (11.27%) Product Ownership
18 7 (9.86%) Accessibility
18 7 (9.86%) Typography
18 7 (9.86%) Mentoring
18 7 (9.86%) Artificial Intelligence
19 6 (8.45%) Scrum
19 6 (8.45%) JavaScript

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 17 (23.94%) Sketch
2 10 (14.08%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 9 (12.68%) Adobe XD
4 5 (7.04%) Adobe Illustrator
4 5 (7.04%) Photoshop
5 3 (4.23%) InVision
6 1 (1.41%) Zeplin
Cloud Services
1 38 (53.52%) Figma
2 6 (8.45%) SaaS
3 4 (5.63%) Miro
4 3 (4.23%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.41%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.63%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Axure RP
1 1 (1.41%) Balsamiq
1 1 (1.41%) JIRA
General
1 22 (30.99%) Social Skills
2 11 (15.49%) Marketing
3 10 (14.08%) Finance
4 6 (8.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (5.63%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (5.63%) Retail
6 3 (4.23%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.41%) Agriculture
7 1 (1.41%) Banking
7 1 (1.41%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (19.72%) HTML
2 13 (18.31%) CSS
3 1 (1.41%) Framer.js
3 1 (1.41%) Tailwind CSS
3 1 (1.41%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 16 (22.54%) Mobile App
2 8 (11.27%) Product Ownership
3 4 (5.63%) Social Media
4 3 (4.23%) Blockchain
4 3 (4.23%) Graphic Design
5 2 (2.82%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.82%) Housing Association
6 1 (1.41%) Animation
6 1 (1.41%) Digital Media
6 1 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (94.37%) User Experience
2 65 (91.55%) UX Design
3 31 (43.66%) Wireframes
4 24 (33.80%) Prototyping
5 19 (26.76%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 15 (21.13%) User Research
7 12 (16.90%) Usability Testing
8 10 (14.08%) UX Research
9 9 (12.68%) Agile
9 9 (12.68%) Interaction Design
10 8 (11.27%) Product Management
10 8 (11.27%) Storyboarding
11 7 (9.86%) Artificial Intelligence
11 7 (9.86%) Mentoring
11 7 (9.86%) Typography
12 6 (8.45%) Analytics
12 6 (8.45%) Continuous Improvement
12 6 (8.45%) Cybersecurity
12 6 (8.45%) Design Thinking
12 6 (8.45%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 6 (8.45%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (1.41%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.86%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.82%) QA
Vendors
1 17 (23.94%) Adobe
2 2 (2.82%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (1.41%) Hotjar
3 1 (1.41%) Salesforce