Junior Designer Job Trends in the West Midlands

Junior Designer
England > West Midlands

The median Junior Designer salary in the West Midlands is £28,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 August 2025.

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

6 months to
29 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 173 - 206
Rank change year-on-year - - +107
Permanent jobs requiring a Junior Designer 4 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.12% - 0.023%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% - 0.025%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £27,750 - £21,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £28,500 - £22,000
75th Percentile £29,250 - £22,500
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £32,500 £23,000 £30,175
% change year-on-year +41.30% -23.78% +9.73%

All DemandTrendPermanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 3,118 6,045 3,943
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.78% 94.94% 90.89%
Number of salaries quoted 2,076 3,812 2,966
10th Percentile £27,750 £28,119 £27,750
25th Percentile £32,617 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,250 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £79,600 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Junior Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Junior Designer in the West Midlands

Junior Designer
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for Junior Designer job vacancies in the West Midlands.

Salary distribution trend for Junior Designer job vacancies in the West Midlands

Junior Designer
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Junior Designer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 August 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
Birmingham - 3 - -
Worcestershire - 1 £28,500 - 2
Junior Designer
England

Junior Designer Skill Set
Top 26 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 29 August 2025, Junior 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 across the West Midlands region featuring Junior Designer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Adobe
2 3 (75.00%) HTML
2 3 (75.00%) Animation
2 3 (75.00%) Video Editing
2 3 (75.00%) Usability Testing
2 3 (75.00%) UX Design
2 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 3 (75.00%) Automotive
2 3 (75.00%) Mobile App
2 3 (75.00%) User Experience
2 3 (75.00%) Front End Development
2 3 (75.00%) Wireframes
2 3 (75.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 3 (75.00%) Design Thinking
2 3 (75.00%) Adobe XD
2 3 (75.00%) Sketch
2 3 (75.00%) Figma
2 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (75.00%) User Research
2 3 (75.00%) CSS
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (25.00%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (25.00%) InDesign
3 1 (25.00%) Marketing
3 1 (25.00%) Photoshop

Junior Designer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (75.00%) Adobe XD
1 3 (75.00%) Sketch
2 1 (25.00%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (25.00%) InDesign
2 1 (25.00%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Figma
General
1 3 (75.00%) Automotive
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) CSS
1 3 (75.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Animation
1 3 (75.00%) Mobile App
1 3 (75.00%) Video Editing
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Design Thinking
1 3 (75.00%) Front End Development
1 3 (75.00%) Usability Testing
1 3 (75.00%) User Experience
1 3 (75.00%) User Research
1 3 (75.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
1 3 (75.00%) UX Design
1 3 (75.00%) Wireframes
2 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Adobe