UI/UX Designer Jobs

User Interface/User Experience Designer
UK

The median User Interface/User Experience Designer salary in the UK is £60,000 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 726 695 690
Rank change year-on-year -31 -5 +93
Permanent jobs requiring a UI/UX Designer 55 51 492
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.073% 0.090% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.077% 0.094% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 28 48 244
10th Percentile £45,000 £38,875 £36,250
25th Percentile £49,327 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,750 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.63% -6.52% +4.55%
75th Percentile - £71,250 £69,063
90th Percentile £68,250 £86,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £53,750
% change year-on-year +20.00% -6.98% +19.44%

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/UX Designer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for UI/UX Designer in the UK

UI/UX Designer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for UI/UX Designer in the UK

UI/UX Designer
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for UI/UX Designer in the UK

UI/UX 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/UX 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 -60 40 £55,000 +4.76% 12
UK excluding London -48 34 £60,000 +20.00% 10
Work from Home +32 20 £60,000 +9.09% 12
London +10 19 £52,172 -19.74% 6
North of England -24 8 £50,000 +11.11% 3
Northern Ireland +28 6 £60,000 -
South East -37 6 £56,250 -10.71%
Scotland -3 5 £60,000 -11.11% 4
North West -31 5 £61,250 +63.33%
Wales +29 3 £65,000 +44.33%
Yorkshire +19 3 £50,000 +5.26% 2
East of England -52 3 - - 2
Midlands -46 2 £55,000 +10.00%
South West -4 1 £60,000 -12.73% 1
West Midlands -27 1 £50,000 -
East Midlands -35 1 £60,000 +20.00%

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

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

1 55 (100.00%) UX Design
1 55 (100.00%) User Experience
2 32 (58.18%) Figma
3 29 (52.73%) Wireframes
4 22 (40.00%) Prototyping
5 20 (36.36%) Social Skills
6 18 (32.73%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 17 (30.91%) Sketch
8 14 (25.45%) User Research
9 13 (23.64%) Mobile App
9 13 (23.64%) Adobe
10 12 (21.82%) Usability Testing
11 10 (18.18%) Marketing
11 10 (18.18%) HTML
12 9 (16.36%) CSS
13 8 (14.55%) Product Management
13 8 (14.55%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 8 (14.55%) Adobe XD
14 7 (12.73%) Interaction Design
14 7 (12.73%) Storyboarding
14 7 (12.73%) Mentoring
14 7 (12.73%) Artificial Intelligence
15 6 (10.91%) Finance
15 6 (10.91%) Cybersecurity
15 6 (10.91%) Typography
15 6 (10.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 6 (10.91%) UX Research
15 6 (10.91%) Accessibility
15 6 (10.91%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
16 5 (9.09%) Design Thinking

UI/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:

Applications
1 17 (30.91%) Sketch
2 8 (14.55%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 8 (14.55%) Adobe XD
3 5 (9.09%) Adobe Illustrator
3 5 (9.09%) Photoshop
4 3 (5.45%) InVision
5 1 (1.82%) Zeplin
Cloud Services
1 32 (58.18%) Figma
2 4 (7.27%) Miro
2 4 (7.27%) SaaS
3 3 (5.45%) Cloud Computing
Development Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Axure RP
1 1 (1.82%) JIRA
General
1 20 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 10 (18.18%) Marketing
3 6 (10.91%) Finance
3 6 (10.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (7.27%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (7.27%) Retail
5 3 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.82%) Agriculture
6 1 (1.82%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (18.18%) HTML
2 9 (16.36%) CSS
3 1 (1.82%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 13 (23.64%) Mobile App
2 5 (9.09%) Product Ownership
3 4 (7.27%) Social Media
4 3 (5.45%) Blockchain
5 2 (3.64%) Housing Association
6 1 (1.82%) Animation
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (100.00%) User Experience
1 55 (100.00%) UX Design
2 29 (52.73%) Wireframes
3 22 (40.00%) Prototyping
4 18 (32.73%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 14 (25.45%) User Research
6 12 (21.82%) Usability Testing
7 8 (14.55%) Product Management
8 7 (12.73%) Artificial Intelligence
8 7 (12.73%) Interaction Design
8 7 (12.73%) Mentoring
8 7 (12.73%) Storyboarding
9 6 (10.91%) Cybersecurity
9 6 (10.91%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
9 6 (10.91%) Typography
9 6 (10.91%) UX Research
10 5 (9.09%) Agile
10 5 (9.09%) Analytics
10 5 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (9.09%) Information Architecture
Programming Languages
1 5 (9.09%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (1.82%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.91%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.64%) QA
Vendors
1 13 (23.64%) Adobe
2 2 (3.64%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (1.82%) Hotjar
3 1 (1.82%) Salesforce