UX Design Jobs

User Experience Design (UXD)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring UX Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited UX Design over the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 318 252 102
Rank change year-on-year -66 -150 +41
Permanent jobs citing UX Design 655 845 4,867
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.84% 1.40% 3.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 1.48% 3.50%
Number of salaries quoted 323 661 1,586
10th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £46,250 £47,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £63,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.70% +5.00% +9.09%
75th Percentile £68,750 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £89,926
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

UX Design falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 65,317 57,192 139,110
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.49% 94.47% 96.16%
Number of salaries quoted 32,274 40,876 77,262
10th Percentile £33,000 £32,500 £33,950
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,760 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.34% +2.40% +5.00%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing UX Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for UX Design in the UK

UX Design
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing UX Design.

Salary trend for UX Design in the UK

UX Design
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing UX Design over the 6 months to 11 October 2024.

Salary histogram for UX Design in the UK

UX Design
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing UX Design within the UK over the 6 months to 11 October 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 -92 552 £55,000 -12.70% 273
UK excluding London -19 469 £55,000 +4.76% 170
Work from Home -60 216 £60,000 -7.69% 407
London -109 159 £65,000 -7.14% 131
North of England -12 112 £56,517 +18.98% 49
Midlands +5 105 £37,500 -30.23% 24
South East -81 84 £61,250 +11.36% 30
North West -20 82 £63,750 +59.38% 27
West Midlands -15 62 £60,000 +9.09% 17
South West +8 59 £46,500 -7.00% 18
Scotland +14 48 £60,000 +9.09% 20
East Midlands -7 42 £35,000 -30.00% 7
Wales +43 31 £27,500 -50.00% 5
Yorkshire +6 22 £50,000 -13.04% 14
East of England -49 18 £63,750 +10.87% 22
Northern Ireland +18 12 £55,000 - 5
North East -31 8 £45,000 +4.05% 8

UX Design
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:

Application Platforms
1 42 (6.41%) CMS
2 32 (4.89%) WordPress
3 28 (4.27%) Confluence
4 10 (1.53%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.22%) Apache
5 8 (1.22%) Headless CMS
6 5 (0.76%) Drupal
7 4 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.46%) Moodle
8 3 (0.46%) Umbraco
9 2 (0.31%) Kentico
10 1 (0.15%) Ethereum
10 1 (0.15%) IIS
10 1 (0.15%) Strapi
Applications
1 50 (7.63%) Sketch
2 36 (5.50%) Adobe XD
3 19 (2.90%) Photoshop
4 18 (2.75%) Adobe Illustrator
5 16 (2.44%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 13 (1.98%) InVision
7 7 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
8 5 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
9 3 (0.46%) Zeplin
10 2 (0.31%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.31%) InDesign
10 2 (0.31%) UserZoom
11 1 (0.15%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.15%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.15%) Blender
11 1 (0.15%) CINEMA 4D
11 1 (0.15%) Marvel
Business Applications
1 28 (4.27%) NEC Housing
2 19 (2.90%) Shopify
3 15 (2.29%) Magento
4 4 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.31%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.15%) TRIRIGA
Cloud Services
1 142 (21.68%) Figma
2 128 (19.54%) AWS
3 51 (7.79%) GitHub
4 48 (7.33%) Azure
5 38 (5.80%) GCP
6 24 (3.66%) Miro
6 24 (3.66%) Serverless
7 23 (3.51%) SaaS
8 21 (3.21%) Power Platform
9 20 (3.05%) Slack
10 18 (2.75%) BrowserStack
10 18 (2.75%) Firebase
10 18 (2.75%) Google Analytics
11 17 (2.60%) Sentry
11 17 (2.60%) Zapier
12 14 (2.14%) Microsoft 365
13 12 (1.83%) GitHub Actions
13 12 (1.83%) PowerApps
14 7 (1.07%) Power Automate
15 6 (0.92%) SurveyMonkey
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.60%) MQTT
2 5 (0.76%) HTTP
3 4 (0.61%) DNS
3 4 (0.61%) Firewall
3 4 (0.61%) IPv6
3 4 (0.61%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.15%) Intranet
4 1 (0.15%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (8.85%) MySQL
2 38 (5.80%) MongoDB
3 32 (4.89%) SQL Server
4 21 (3.21%) Power BI
5 19 (2.90%) Redis
6 16 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
6 16 (2.44%) Relational Database
7 11 (1.68%) NoSQL
8 6 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (0.76%) Tableau
10 4 (0.61%) Geospatial Data
10 4 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (0.46%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.46%) GIS
11 3 (0.46%) RDBMS
12 2 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.31%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.31%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 98 (14.96%) Git
2 97 (14.81%) JIRA
3 22 (3.36%) Jenkins
3 22 (3.36%) Visual Studio
4 17 (2.60%) Visual Studio Code
5 15 (2.29%) Axure RP
6 11 (1.68%) Bitbucket
7 10 (1.53%) Cypress.io
7 10 (1.53%) MSTest
8 8 (1.22%) Maven
9 7 (1.07%) Cucumber
9 7 (1.07%) webpack
10 6 (0.92%) TeamCity
10 6 (0.92%) Vagrant
10 6 (0.92%) Vite
11 5 (0.76%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.61%) Balsamiq
12 4 (0.61%) Postman
12 4 (0.61%) Selenium
12 4 (0.61%) Xcode
General
1 218 (33.28%) Social Skills
2 104 (15.88%) Finance
3 65 (9.92%) Marketing
4 59 (9.01%) Analytical Skills
5 50 (7.63%) Presentation Skills
6 43 (6.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 40 (6.11%) Public Sector
8 37 (5.65%) Law
9 30 (4.58%) Social Housing
10 28 (4.27%) Local Government
10 28 (4.27%) Police
11 25 (3.82%) Banking
12 21 (3.21%) Agriculture
12 21 (3.21%) Avionics
13 17 (2.60%) Games
13 17 (2.60%) Retail
14 13 (1.98%) Front Office
14 13 (1.98%) Investment Banking
15 12 (1.83%) Legal
15 12 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 242 (36.95%) Developer
2 161 (24.58%) Designer
3 147 (22.44%) Senior
4 124 (18.93%) UX Designer
5 70 (10.69%) Lead
6 66 (10.08%) UI Designer
7 55 (8.40%) UI/UX Designer
8 54 (8.24%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 50 (7.63%) Senior Developer
10 46 (7.02%) Software Engineer
11 44 (6.72%) Senior Designer
12 39 (5.95%) Product Manager
13 35 (5.34%) Senior UX Designer
14 30 (4.58%) Web Developer
15 27 (4.12%) Senior UI Designer
16 26 (3.97%) Full-Stack Developer
17 24 (3.66%) React Developer
18 23 (3.51%) Senior UI/UX Designer
19 21 (3.21%) .NET Developer
20 18 (2.75%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 216 (32.98%) CSS
2 207 (31.60%) HTML
3 143 (21.83%) React
4 54 (8.24%) Node.js
5 53 (8.09%) .NET
5 53 (8.09%) RESTful
6 44 (6.72%) HTML5
7 43 (6.56%) Tailwind CSS
8 42 (6.41%) Laravel
9 39 (5.95%) GraphQL
10 37 (5.65%) AngularJS
10 37 (5.65%) JSON
11 33 (5.04%) REST
12 23 (3.51%) Vue
13 22 (3.36%) JWT
14 21 (3.21%) Web Services
15 20 (3.05%) Express.js
15 20 (3.05%) Next.js
16 18 (2.75%) ASP.NET
17 16 (2.44%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 67 (10.23%) Mobile App
2 66 (10.08%) Product Ownership
3 31 (4.73%) Greenfield Project
3 31 (4.73%) Self-Motivation
4 19 (2.90%) IoT
5 14 (2.14%) Social Media
6 12 (1.83%) Blockchain
6 12 (1.83%) Graphic Design
7 10 (1.53%) Algorithms
7 10 (1.53%) Virtual Team
8 7 (1.07%) W3C
9 6 (0.92%) Cloud Native
9 6 (0.92%) e-Learning
9 6 (0.92%) FMCG
9 6 (0.92%) Legacy Code
9 6 (0.92%) Onboarding
9 6 (0.92%) Web3
10 5 (0.76%) Animation
10 5 (0.76%) NFT
10 5 (0.76%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 35 (5.34%) Linux
2 29 (4.43%) Android
3 12 (1.83%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.61%) Windows
5 2 (0.31%) Windows Vista
6 1 (0.15%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 654 (99.85%) User Experience
2 257 (39.24%) Agile
3 182 (27.79%) Problem-Solving
4 126 (19.24%) Front End Development
5 115 (17.56%) Wireframes
6 100 (15.27%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 99 (15.11%) Web Development
8 94 (14.35%) E-Commerce
9 90 (13.74%) Software Engineering
10 82 (12.52%) User Research
11 79 (12.06%) Full-Stack Development
11 79 (12.06%) Roadmaps
12 75 (11.45%) Prototyping
13 69 (10.53%) Computer Science
14 64 (9.77%) DevOps
15 62 (9.47%) Decision-Making
16 61 (9.31%) Analytics
17 57 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
18 55 (8.40%) Usability Testing
19 50 (7.63%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 242 (36.95%) JavaScript
2 81 (12.37%) TypeScript
3 69 (10.53%) Java
4 63 (9.62%) C#
5 60 (9.16%) SQL
6 59 (9.01%) PHP
7 51 (7.79%) Python
8 23 (3.51%) C
9 13 (1.98%) C++
10 12 (1.83%) T-SQL
11 8 (1.22%) Swift
12 6 (0.92%) Ruby
13 5 (0.76%) VBA
14 4 (0.61%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 1 (0.15%) Go
16 1 (0.15%) MATLAB
16 1 (0.15%) PowerShell
16 1 (0.15%) R
16 1 (0.15%) Scala
Qualifications
1 159 (24.27%) Degree
2 53 (8.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 33 (5.04%) DBS Check
4 29 (4.43%) Master's Degree
5 21 (3.21%) Security Cleared
6 13 (1.98%) SC Cleared
7 10 (1.53%) Numerate Degree
8 6 (0.92%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.61%) ACCA
10 4 (0.61%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 2 (0.31%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.31%) PMP
12 1 (0.15%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (13.59%) Accessibility
2 36 (5.50%) QA
3 5 (0.76%) Data Quality
4 4 (0.61%) GDPR
4 4 (0.61%) SLA
5 2 (0.31%) GLP
5 2 (0.31%) WCAG
System Software
1 43 (6.56%) Docker
2 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (3.82%) Kubernetes
2 21 (3.21%) Terraform
3 8 (1.22%) Progress Chef
4 6 (0.92%) Packer
5 5 (0.76%) Grafana
5 5 (0.76%) Kibana
5 5 (0.76%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.31%) Ansible
Vendors
1 72 (10.99%) Adobe
2 57 (8.70%) Microsoft
3 53 (8.09%) Google
4 28 (4.27%) NEC
5 17 (2.60%) WooCommerce
6 11 (1.68%) Atlassian
7 7 (1.07%) Hotjar
8 6 (0.92%) Qualtrics
9 5 (0.76%) SAP
10 4 (0.61%) Apple
10 4 (0.61%) Cadence
10 4 (0.61%) F5
11 3 (0.46%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.46%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.31%) Charles River
12 2 (0.31%) Databricks
12 2 (0.31%) HubSpot
12 2 (0.31%) Netlify
12 2 (0.31%) Oracle
12 2 (0.31%) Remedy