Hybrid/Remote UX Design Job Trends

User Experience Design (UXD)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring UX Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 270 187 288
Rank change year-on-year -83 +101 -54
Permanent jobs citing UX Design 211 281 221
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.85% 1.70% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 1.81% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 143 115 119
10th Percentile £36,350 £41,250 £41,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,125 £47,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.56% +0.42% -7.69%
75th Percentile £72,500 £79,375 £68,125
90th Percentile £78,250 £87,500 £77,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £56,250
% change year-on-year -4.00% +11.11% -10.71%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 20,108 15,510 19,787
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 80.96% 93.68% 88.06%
Number of salaries quoted 14,355 8,405 11,799
10th Percentile £34,000 £29,750 £35,188
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,015 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.17% -3.33%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing UX Design and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

UX Design job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

UX Design
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing UX Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing UX Design

UX Design
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing UX Design over the 6 months to 29 September 2026.

UX Design salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

UX Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 11 (5.21%) WordPress
2 9 (4.27%) CMS
3 8 (3.79%) Confluence
3 8 (3.79%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.42%) Moodle
Applications
1 12 (5.69%) Adobe XD
2 11 (5.21%) Photoshop
3 10 (4.74%) Adobe Illustrator
4 9 (4.27%) InDesign
5 4 (1.90%) Chatbot
6 3 (1.42%) Adobe After Effects
6 3 (1.42%) Adobe Premiere
7 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
7 2 (0.95%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.95%) Sketch
8 1 (0.47%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 1 (0.47%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 2 (0.95%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 1 (0.47%) Adobe Campaign
2 1 (0.47%) Magento
2 1 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 49 (23.22%) Figma
2 46 (21.80%) Azure
3 41 (19.43%) AWS
4 21 (9.95%) SaaS
5 15 (7.11%) Power Platform
6 14 (6.64%) Google Analytics
6 14 (6.64%) Serverless
7 13 (6.16%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (6.16%) GitHub
8 9 (4.27%) GCP
8 9 (4.27%) GitHub Copilot
9 8 (3.79%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (3.79%) Power Automate
9 8 (3.79%) PowerApps
10 7 (3.32%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 6 (2.84%) PaaS
12 5 (2.37%) Adobe Analytics
13 4 (1.90%) Anthropic Claude
13 4 (1.90%) ChatGPT
13 4 (1.90%) n8n
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.90%) Broadband
1 4 (1.90%) SMS
2 1 (0.47%) 5G
2 1 (0.47%) DNS
2 1 (0.47%) Intranet
2 1 (0.47%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.27%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (3.79%) MongoDB
2 8 (3.79%) MySQL
3 7 (3.32%) Metadata
3 7 (3.32%) NoSQL
3 7 (3.32%) Power BI
4 6 (2.84%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.95%) GIS
5 2 (0.95%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.47%) Data Hub
6 1 (0.47%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.47%) Redis
6 1 (0.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (8.06%) Git
2 9 (4.27%) Claude Code
2 9 (4.27%) JIRA
3 8 (3.79%) Balsamiq
4 6 (2.84%) Axure RP
5 5 (2.37%) Cypress.io
6 4 (1.90%) Selenium
6 4 (1.90%) Vagrant
7 3 (1.42%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.95%) NUnit
9 1 (0.47%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (0.47%) ESLint
9 1 (0.47%) GitLab
9 1 (0.47%) Jenkins
9 1 (0.47%) Storybook
9 1 (0.47%) Vite
General
1 55 (26.07%) Social Skills
2 37 (17.54%) Public Sector
3 33 (15.64%) Marketing
4 30 (14.22%) Finance
5 25 (11.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 21 (9.95%) Law
7 15 (7.11%) Analytical Skills
8 12 (5.69%) Retail
9 9 (4.27%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (3.79%) Multimedia
10 8 (3.79%) Publishing
11 7 (3.32%) Games
11 7 (3.32%) Legal
11 7 (3.32%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (2.37%) Advertising
13 4 (1.90%) Banking
13 4 (1.90%) Local Government
14 3 (1.42%) Financial Institution
14 3 (1.42%) Polish Language
14 3 (1.42%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 69 (32.70%) Designer
2 58 (27.49%) Developer
3 48 (22.75%) UX Designer
4 47 (22.27%) Senior
5 30 (14.22%) UI Designer
6 28 (13.27%) UI/UX Designer
7 27 (12.80%) Lead
8 18 (8.53%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 16 (7.58%) Senior Developer
10 15 (7.11%) Full-Stack Developer
10 15 (7.11%) Senior Designer
11 14 (6.64%) Architect
12 12 (5.69%) Software Engineer
13 10 (4.74%) Solutions Architect
14 8 (3.79%) Content Designer
14 8 (3.79%) Senior Front-End Developer
14 8 (3.79%) Senior UX Designer
14 8 (3.79%) User Researcher
15 7 (3.32%) Lead Software Engineer
15 7 (3.32%) Senior UI Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (19.43%) React
2 38 (18.01%) CSS
2 38 (18.01%) HTML
3 23 (10.90%) Node.js
4 18 (8.53%) .NET
5 12 (5.69%) Spring
6 11 (5.21%) NestJS
6 11 (5.21%) REST
6 11 (5.21%) RESTful
6 11 (5.21%) Spring Boot
7 9 (4.27%) Framer.js
7 9 (4.27%) Terraform
7 9 (4.27%) Vue
8 8 (3.79%) Web Services
9 7 (3.32%) AngularJS
9 7 (3.32%) Sass
10 5 (2.37%) .NET Core
10 5 (2.37%) ASP.NET Core
10 5 (2.37%) Jest
10 5 (2.37%) Material Design
Miscellaneous
1 51 (24.17%) Product Ownership
2 19 (9.00%) Cloud Native
3 13 (6.16%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (4.74%) Mobile App
5 9 (4.27%) e-Learning
6 8 (3.79%) Graphic Design
6 8 (3.79%) Onboarding
7 7 (3.32%) AI Agents
8 6 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (2.37%) Social Media
10 4 (1.90%) Blog
10 4 (1.90%) IoT
10 4 (1.90%) Low-Code
10 4 (1.90%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.42%) Animation
11 3 (1.42%) Digital Media
11 3 (1.42%) Learning Management System
12 2 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (0.95%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.37%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.47%) Android
2 1 (0.47%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (100.00%) User Experience
2 104 (49.29%) Agile
3 56 (26.54%) Mentoring
4 53 (25.12%) Continuous Improvement
5 50 (23.70%) User Research
6 49 (23.22%) AI
7 46 (21.80%) Problem-Solving
8 42 (19.91%) Scrum
9 38 (18.01%) Analytics
9 38 (18.01%) Full-Stack Development
9 38 (18.01%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 35 (16.59%) DevOps
11 34 (16.11%) CI/CD
12 33 (15.64%) Prototyping
13 31 (14.69%) Coaching
13 31 (14.69%) Decision-Making
13 31 (14.69%) Wireframes
14 29 (13.74%) Software Engineering
15 27 (12.80%) Front End Development
15 27 (12.80%) Usability Testing
Programming Languages
1 50 (23.70%) JavaScript
2 49 (23.22%) TypeScript
3 19 (9.00%) C#
4 14 (6.64%) Java
5 11 (5.21%) SQL
6 9 (4.27%) PHP
6 9 (4.27%) Python
7 5 (2.37%) PowerShell
8 4 (1.90%) C
8 4 (1.90%) Swift
9 2 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.47%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 27 (12.80%) Security Cleared
2 23 (10.90%) Degree
3 19 (9.00%) SC Cleared
4 10 (4.74%) DBS Check
5 6 (2.84%) ICAEW
6 5 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.90%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.42%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.47%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.47%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.47%) PMP
9 1 (0.47%) SAP Certification
9 1 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (29.86%) Accessibility
2 36 (17.06%) WCAG
3 28 (13.27%) QA
4 6 (2.84%) GDPR
5 4 (1.90%) PERC
6 3 (1.42%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.42%) Software Quality Assurance
7 2 (0.95%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.47%) GxP
8 1 (0.47%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.47%) PMO
System Software
1 21 (9.95%) Docker
2 1 (0.47%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (5.21%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.90%) Packer
2 4 (1.90%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.47%) Grafana
3 1 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 32 (15.17%) Adobe
2 24 (11.37%) Microsoft
3 14 (6.64%) Google
4 6 (2.84%) Salesforce
5 5 (2.37%) OpenAI
6 4 (1.90%) dotdigital
6 4 (1.90%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 2 (0.95%) Databricks
7 2 (0.95%) SAP
8 1 (0.47%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (0.47%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.47%) ForgeRock
8 1 (0.47%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.47%) Hotjar
8 1 (0.47%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.47%) OneLogin
8 1 (0.47%) Oracle
8 1 (0.47%) RedGate
8 1 (0.47%) TIBCO