User Experience Design (UXD)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring UX Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 347 266 287
Rank change year-on-year -81 +21 -66
Permanent jobs citing UX Design 520 559 982
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 1.14% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 1.26% 1.18%
Number of salaries quoted 344 290 680
10th Percentile £36,250 £39,925 £31,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -14.69%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £91,375 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year - +7.84% -7.27%

All Process & 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 72,817 44,332 83,106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.70% 90.20% 82.17%
Number of salaries quoted 50,259 24,803 58,175
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing UX Design relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

UX Design job vacancy trend in the UK

UX Design
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing UX Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing UX Design

UX Design
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing UX Design over the 6 months to 15 July 2026.

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 15 July 2026. 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 -48 451 £60,000 - 307
UK excluding London -65 309 £55,000 - 275
Work from Home -66 206 £55,000 -2.22% 247
London -45 179 £65,000 -7.14% 99
North of England +18 111 £55,000 -4.35% 67
North West +20 70 £65,000 +8.33% 33
South East -25 68 £62,500 +25.00% 64
East of England -10 32 £45,000 -21.74% 33
Midlands -25 32 £46,250 -18.14% 40
North East - 26 £47,000 - 12
Wales - 25 £50,000 - 11
West Midlands -25 24 £47,500 -19.15% 21
South West -70 21 £60,000 +12.68% 25
Scotland -60 17 £70,000 -45.18% 30
Yorkshire -34 15 £65,000 +52.94% 22
East Midlands -22 8 £45,000 +28.57% 18
Northern Ireland - 3 £61,250 - 10

UX Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 21 (4.04%) CMS
2 12 (2.31%) SharePoint
3 11 (2.12%) Confluence
4 7 (1.35%) WordPress
5 1 (0.19%) Moodle
5 1 (0.19%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 20 (3.85%) Adobe XD
2 17 (3.27%) Sketch
3 15 (2.88%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 9 (1.73%) Photoshop
5 8 (1.54%) Adobe Illustrator
6 6 (1.15%) InDesign
7 5 (0.96%) InVision
8 2 (0.38%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.38%) Trello
9 1 (0.19%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.19%) Blender
9 1 (0.19%) CINEMA 4D
Business Applications
1 2 (0.38%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 1 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 134 (25.77%) Figma
2 71 (13.65%) Azure
3 56 (10.77%) SaaS
4 42 (8.08%) AWS
5 34 (6.54%) GitHub
6 32 (6.15%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (3.85%) Power Platform
8 19 (3.65%) Adobe Analytics
9 17 (3.27%) GCP
10 14 (2.69%) Microsoft 365
11 13 (2.50%) Firebase
12 12 (2.31%) GitHub Actions
13 11 (2.12%) GitHub Copilot
13 11 (2.12%) PaaS
13 11 (2.12%) Serverless
14 10 (1.92%) Power Automate
15 9 (1.73%) Google Analytics
16 7 (1.35%) PowerApps
17 6 (1.15%) Google Play
17 6 (1.15%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 31 (5.96%) Broadband
2 3 (0.58%) SMS
3 2 (0.38%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (2.31%) SQL Server
2 11 (2.12%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (1.92%) Metadata
3 10 (1.92%) Power BI
4 9 (1.73%) MongoDB
5 6 (1.15%) MySQL
5 6 (1.15%) Relational Database
6 4 (0.77%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.38%) Big Data
7 2 (0.38%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.38%) GIS
8 1 (0.19%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.19%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.19%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.19%) Power Query
8 1 (0.19%) Redis
8 1 (0.19%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 29 (5.58%) Git
2 20 (3.85%) JIRA
3 16 (3.08%) Jenkins
4 14 (2.69%) fastlane
5 9 (1.73%) Axure RP
5 9 (1.73%) Cypress.io
6 8 (1.54%) Balsamiq
6 8 (1.54%) Claude Code
6 8 (1.54%) Vite
6 8 (1.54%) webpack
6 8 (1.54%) Xcode
7 6 (1.15%) Android Studio
7 6 (1.15%) Crashlytics
7 6 (1.15%) Gradle
8 3 (0.58%) gulp
9 2 (0.38%) NUnit
9 2 (0.38%) Vagrant
9 2 (0.38%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.19%) Maven
General
1 97 (18.65%) Social Skills
2 60 (11.54%) Public Sector
3 59 (11.35%) Finance
3 59 (11.35%) Marketing
4 45 (8.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 39 (7.50%) Retail
6 32 (6.15%) Law
7 29 (5.58%) Presentation Skills
8 24 (4.62%) Analytical Skills
9 23 (4.42%) Games
10 16 (3.08%) Legal
11 13 (2.50%) Banking
12 12 (2.31%) Organisational Skills
13 10 (1.92%) Financial Institution
14 9 (1.73%) Advertising
14 9 (1.73%) Publishing
15 8 (1.54%) Back Office
15 8 (1.54%) Polish Language
16 7 (1.35%) Automotive
17 6 (1.15%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 273 (52.50%) Designer
2 226 (43.46%) UX Designer
3 121 (23.27%) Senior
4 89 (17.12%) Developer
5 82 (15.77%) UI Designer
6 79 (15.19%) Senior Designer
6 79 (15.19%) UI/UX Designer
7 65 (12.50%) Senior UX Designer
8 61 (11.73%) Lead
9 39 (7.50%) Product Designer
10 31 (5.96%) Senior UI Designer
11 28 (5.38%) Senior UI/UX Designer
12 27 (5.19%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 21 (4.04%) Senior Developer
14 19 (3.65%) Software Engineer
15 18 (3.46%) Full-Stack Developer
16 17 (3.27%) Lead Designer
17 15 (2.88%) Lead UX Designer
17 15 (2.88%) Senior Product Designer
18 14 (2.69%) Digital Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (15.58%) React
2 77 (14.81%) HTML
3 75 (14.42%) CSS
4 35 (6.73%) RESTful
5 30 (5.77%) .NET
6 18 (3.46%) AngularJS
6 18 (3.46%) Vue
7 17 (3.27%) HTML5
8 15 (2.88%) REST
9 14 (2.69%) ASP.NET
9 14 (2.69%) Web Services
10 13 (2.50%) CSS3
11 12 (2.31%) .NET Core
11 12 (2.31%) .NET Framework
12 10 (1.92%) NestJS
12 10 (1.92%) Next.js
12 10 (1.92%) Node.js
12 10 (1.92%) Spring
13 9 (1.73%) Blazor
14 8 (1.54%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 70 (13.46%) Product Ownership
2 51 (9.81%) Mobile App
3 27 (5.19%) Cloud Native
4 25 (4.81%) Social Media
5 17 (3.27%) Onboarding
6 10 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (1.73%) e-Learning
8 8 (1.54%) AI Agents
9 7 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.15%) Taxonomies
11 5 (0.96%) Blog
11 5 (0.96%) Low-Code
11 5 (0.96%) Video Conferencing
12 4 (0.77%) Animation
13 3 (0.58%) Graphic Design
13 3 (0.58%) Management Information System
13 3 (0.58%) Public Cloud
13 3 (0.58%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.92%) Apple iOS
2 8 (1.54%) Android
3 5 (0.96%) Linux
4 1 (0.19%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 520 (100.00%) User Experience
2 177 (34.04%) Agile
3 102 (19.62%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 98 (18.85%) User Research
5 83 (15.96%) AI
5 83 (15.96%) Analytics
6 80 (15.38%) Mentoring
6 80 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
7 77 (14.81%) Wireframes
8 73 (14.04%) Prototyping
9 66 (12.69%) Full-Stack Development
10 65 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
11 61 (11.73%) Scrum
12 60 (11.54%) DevOps
13 56 (10.77%) Customer Experience
13 56 (10.77%) Front End Development
13 56 (10.77%) Roadmaps
14 49 (9.42%) Software Engineering
15 46 (8.85%) CI/CD
16 45 (8.65%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 88 (16.92%) JavaScript
2 59 (11.35%) TypeScript
3 30 (5.77%) C#
4 25 (4.81%) Java
5 22 (4.23%) Python
6 11 (2.12%) SQL
7 8 (1.54%) Swift
8 7 (1.35%) PHP
9 6 (1.15%) Kotlin
10 5 (0.96%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.58%) C
11 3 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.38%) Scala
13 1 (0.19%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 46 (8.85%) Security Cleared
2 31 (5.96%) Degree
3 27 (5.19%) SC Cleared
4 18 (3.46%) DV Cleared
5 10 (1.92%) DBS Check
6 4 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.58%) ICAEW
7 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (0.38%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.19%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.19%) PMP
9 1 (0.19%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (24.62%) Accessibility
2 54 (10.38%) WCAG
3 27 (5.19%) QA
4 10 (1.92%) GDPR
5 8 (1.54%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.58%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.58%) PERC
7 2 (0.38%) GxP
7 2 (0.38%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.38%) PMO
7 2 (0.38%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 20 (3.85%) Docker
2 5 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.19%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (1.15%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.58%) Terraform
3 2 (0.38%) Packer
3 2 (0.38%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.19%) Grafana
4 1 (0.19%) Kibana
4 1 (0.19%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 76 (14.62%) Adobe
2 33 (6.35%) Microsoft
3 14 (2.69%) Google
4 13 (2.50%) Dynatrace
5 10 (1.92%) Salesforce
6 7 (1.35%) Apple
7 5 (0.96%) Pinterest
7 5 (0.96%) TikTok
8 4 (0.77%) OpenAI
9 3 (0.58%) Databricks
9 3 (0.58%) dotdigital
9 3 (0.58%) OneLogin
9 3 (0.58%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 2 (0.38%) GoCardless
10 2 (0.38%) Guidewire
10 2 (0.38%) Hotjar
10 2 (0.38%) PayPal
10 2 (0.38%) Pega
10 2 (0.38%) Qualtrics
10 2 (0.38%) Zuora