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 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 258 181 243
Rank change year-on-year -77 +62 -58
Permanent jobs citing UX Design 208 295 341
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.95% 1.79% 1.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% 1.92% 1.43%
Number of salaries quoted 132 134 254
10th Percentile £39,000 £41,250 £30,375
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -15.38%
75th Percentile £72,500 £79,688 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,250 £90,000 £81,471
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -13.71%

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 18,117 15,366 23,899
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.93% 93.09% 88.14%
Number of salaries quoted 13,146 9,081 17,628
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year - +3.51% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,410 £96,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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 27 July 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 9 (4.33%) Confluence
2 8 (3.85%) CMS
3 7 (3.37%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.44%) WordPress
5 1 (0.48%) Moodle
Applications
1 11 (5.29%) Adobe XD
2 8 (3.85%) Photoshop
3 7 (3.37%) Adobe Illustrator
4 6 (2.88%) InDesign
5 4 (1.92%) Sketch
6 2 (0.96%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.48%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.48%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.48%) InVision
7 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
7 1 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.48%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.96%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 1 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 67 (32.21%) Figma
2 45 (21.63%) Azure
3 37 (17.79%) AWS
4 27 (12.98%) SaaS
5 17 (8.17%) Adobe Analytics
6 15 (7.21%) GitHub
7 14 (6.73%) GCP
8 13 (6.25%) Power Platform
9 12 (5.77%) Serverless
10 11 (5.29%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (4.33%) Google Analytics
12 7 (3.37%) GitHub Copilot
12 7 (3.37%) Microsoft 365
12 7 (3.37%) Power Automate
12 7 (3.37%) PowerApps
13 6 (2.88%) PaaS
14 5 (2.40%) Adobe Creative Cloud
15 4 (1.92%) ChatGPT
15 4 (1.92%) n8n
15 4 (1.92%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 24 (11.54%) Broadband
2 3 (1.44%) SMS
3 1 (0.48%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (3.37%) Metadata
2 7 (3.37%) MongoDB
3 6 (2.88%) Power BI
4 5 (2.40%) MySQL
5 4 (1.92%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.44%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.44%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.96%) GIS
8 1 (0.48%) Data Hub
8 1 (0.48%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.48%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.48%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (12.50%) Git
2 9 (4.33%) JIRA
3 7 (3.37%) Balsamiq
3 7 (3.37%) Claude Code
3 7 (3.37%) Cypress.io
4 6 (2.88%) Axure RP
5 3 (1.44%) Selenium
5 3 (1.44%) Vite
5 3 (1.44%) webpack
6 2 (0.96%) NUnit
6 2 (0.96%) Vagrant
6 2 (0.96%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.48%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.48%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.48%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.48%) Maven
General
1 50 (24.04%) Social Skills
2 24 (11.54%) Law
2 24 (11.54%) Marketing
2 24 (11.54%) Public Sector
3 23 (11.06%) Finance
3 23 (11.06%) Games
4 19 (9.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (6.73%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (5.77%) Presentation Skills
6 12 (5.77%) Retail
7 8 (3.85%) Legal
8 6 (2.88%) Multimedia
9 5 (2.40%) Advertising
9 5 (2.40%) Back Office
9 5 (2.40%) Banking
9 5 (2.40%) Financial Institution
9 5 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (2.40%) Polish Language
9 5 (2.40%) Publishing
10 4 (1.92%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 75 (36.06%) Designer
2 53 (25.48%) UX Designer
3 44 (21.15%) Developer
4 42 (20.19%) Lead
5 35 (16.83%) Senior
6 23 (11.06%) UI Designer
6 23 (11.06%) UI/UX Designer
7 16 (7.69%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 15 (7.21%) Lead Designer
8 15 (7.21%) Senior Designer
8 15 (7.21%) Software Engineer
9 14 (6.73%) Lead UX Designer
10 12 (5.77%) Architect
11 11 (5.29%) Full-Stack Developer
11 11 (5.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 9 (4.33%) Solutions Architect
13 8 (3.85%) Content Designer
13 8 (3.85%) Lead Developer
14 7 (3.37%) Digital UX Designer
14 7 (3.37%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (22.60%) React
2 30 (14.42%) CSS
2 30 (14.42%) HTML
3 17 (8.17%) .NET
4 14 (6.73%) REST
5 13 (6.25%) AngularJS
5 13 (6.25%) Web Services
6 11 (5.29%) RESTful
7 10 (4.81%) HTML5
8 9 (4.33%) NestJS
8 9 (4.33%) Node.js
8 9 (4.33%) Spring
9 8 (3.85%) Jest
9 8 (3.85%) Vue
10 7 (3.37%) Spring Boot
11 6 (2.88%) CSS3
11 6 (2.88%) Django
11 6 (2.88%) Framer.js
11 6 (2.88%) WebSockets
12 5 (2.40%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 45 (21.63%) Product Ownership
2 20 (9.62%) Cloud Native
3 18 (8.65%) Social Media
4 11 (5.29%) Onboarding
4 11 (5.29%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (4.81%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (3.85%) Mobile App
7 7 (3.37%) e-Learning
8 6 (2.88%) AI Agents
9 5 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (2.40%) Video Conferencing
10 4 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.92%) Low-Code
11 3 (1.44%) Blog
11 3 (1.44%) Graphic Design
11 3 (1.44%) IoT
12 2 (0.96%) Animation
12 2 (0.96%) Life Science
12 2 (0.96%) NHS
12 2 (0.96%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.40%) Linux
2 1 (0.48%) Android
2 1 (0.48%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (100.00%) User Experience
2 99 (47.60%) Agile
3 62 (29.81%) User Research
4 56 (26.92%) AI
5 52 (25.00%) Mentoring
6 47 (22.60%) Full-Stack Development
6 47 (22.60%) Problem-Solving
7 44 (21.15%) Analytics
7 44 (21.15%) Prototyping
8 43 (20.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 40 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
10 38 (18.27%) Customer Experience
11 36 (17.31%) Scrum
11 36 (17.31%) Wireframes
12 32 (15.38%) Software Engineering
13 29 (13.94%) DevOps
13 29 (13.94%) Roadmaps
14 28 (13.46%) Workshop Facilitation
15 26 (12.50%) CI/CD
16 24 (11.54%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 51 (24.52%) JavaScript
2 46 (22.12%) TypeScript
3 17 (8.17%) C#
4 15 (7.21%) Python
5 13 (6.25%) Java
6 6 (2.88%) SQL
7 5 (2.40%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.44%) C
8 3 (1.44%) PHP
9 2 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 29 (13.94%) Security Cleared
2 24 (11.54%) Degree
3 21 (10.10%) SC Cleared
4 9 (4.33%) DV Cleared
5 7 (3.37%) DBS Check
6 5 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.92%) ICAEW
8 3 (1.44%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.48%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (29.81%) Accessibility
2 29 (13.94%) WCAG
3 23 (11.06%) QA
4 9 (4.33%) GDPR
5 6 (2.88%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.44%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.44%) PERC
6 3 (1.44%) Software Quality Assurance
7 2 (0.96%) GxP
7 2 (0.96%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.96%) PMO
8 1 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 21 (10.10%) Docker
2 5 (2.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (4.33%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.40%) Terraform
3 2 (0.96%) Packer
3 2 (0.96%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.48%) Grafana
4 1 (0.48%) Kibana
4 1 (0.48%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 45 (21.63%) Adobe
2 19 (9.13%) Microsoft
3 9 (4.33%) Google
4 4 (1.92%) OpenAI
4 4 (1.92%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.44%) dotdigital
5 3 (1.44%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 2 (0.96%) Databricks
6 2 (0.96%) SAP
7 1 (0.48%) Guidewire
7 1 (0.48%) Hotjar
7 1 (0.48%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.48%) OneLogin
7 1 (0.48%) TIBCO