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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 265 185 238
Rank change year-on-year -80 +53 -58
Permanent jobs citing UX Design 202 294 380
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.94% 1.78% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.13% 1.91% 1.47%
Number of salaries quoted 127 131 293
10th Percentile £39,000 £41,250 £30,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £44,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -15.38%
75th Percentile £72,500 £78,125 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,250 £87,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -14.73%

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 17,875 15,362 25,786
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.74% 93.25% 88.48%
Number of salaries quoted 13,022 9,082 19,277
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £34,089
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +1.82% -8.84%

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 21 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 7 (3.47%) Confluence
2 6 (2.97%) CMS
2 6 (2.97%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.99%) WordPress
4 1 (0.50%) Moodle
Applications
1 11 (5.45%) Adobe XD
2 8 (3.96%) Photoshop
3 7 (3.47%) Adobe Illustrator
4 5 (2.48%) InDesign
5 4 (1.98%) Sketch
6 2 (0.99%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.50%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.50%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.50%) InVision
7 1 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.99%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 1 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 67 (33.17%) Figma
2 40 (19.80%) Azure
3 34 (16.83%) AWS
4 30 (14.85%) SaaS
5 17 (8.42%) Adobe Analytics
6 16 (7.92%) GitHub
7 13 (6.44%) GCP
8 12 (5.94%) Power Platform
9 11 (5.45%) Serverless
10 10 (4.95%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (4.46%) Google Analytics
12 8 (3.96%) GitHub Copilot
13 6 (2.97%) Microsoft 365
13 6 (2.97%) PaaS
13 6 (2.97%) Power Automate
13 6 (2.97%) PowerApps
14 5 (2.48%) Adobe Creative Cloud
15 4 (1.98%) ChatGPT
15 4 (1.98%) n8n
15 4 (1.98%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 24 (11.88%) Broadband
2 3 (1.49%) SMS
3 1 (0.50%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.96%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (3.47%) Metadata
2 7 (3.47%) MongoDB
3 6 (2.97%) Power BI
4 5 (2.48%) MySQL
5 3 (1.49%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.49%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.49%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.99%) GIS
7 1 (0.50%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (11.88%) Git
2 7 (3.47%) Claude Code
2 7 (3.47%) JIRA
3 6 (2.97%) Axure RP
3 6 (2.97%) Balsamiq
3 6 (2.97%) Cypress.io
4 3 (1.49%) Vite
4 3 (1.49%) webpack
5 2 (0.99%) NUnit
5 2 (0.99%) Selenium
5 2 (0.99%) Vagrant
5 2 (0.99%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.50%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.50%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (0.50%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.50%) Maven
6 1 (0.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 46 (22.77%) Social Skills
2 26 (12.87%) Law
3 23 (11.39%) Games
4 22 (10.89%) Marketing
5 21 (10.40%) Finance
5 21 (10.40%) Public Sector
6 19 (9.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (6.93%) Analytical Skills
8 13 (6.44%) Retail
9 11 (5.45%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (3.47%) Back Office
10 7 (3.47%) Banking
10 7 (3.47%) Financial Institution
10 7 (3.47%) Polish Language
11 6 (2.97%) Legal
11 6 (2.97%) Multimedia
12 5 (2.48%) Advertising
12 5 (2.48%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.98%) Local Government
13 4 (1.98%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 78 (38.61%) Designer
2 55 (27.23%) UX Designer
3 41 (20.30%) Lead
4 39 (19.31%) Developer
5 34 (16.83%) Senior
6 22 (10.89%) UI Designer
6 22 (10.89%) UI/UX Designer
7 15 (7.43%) Lead Designer
7 15 (7.43%) Senior Designer
7 15 (7.43%) Software Engineer
8 14 (6.93%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 14 (6.93%) Lead UX Designer
9 11 (5.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 10 (4.95%) Architect
10 10 (4.95%) Full-Stack Developer
11 8 (3.96%) Content Designer
11 8 (3.96%) Lead Developer
11 8 (3.96%) Product Designer
11 8 (3.96%) Senior UX Designer
11 8 (3.96%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (21.78%) React
2 28 (13.86%) HTML
3 27 (13.37%) CSS
4 15 (7.43%) .NET
5 13 (6.44%) AngularJS
6 12 (5.94%) Web Services
7 11 (5.45%) RESTful
8 10 (4.95%) REST
9 9 (4.46%) HTML5
9 9 (4.46%) NestJS
9 9 (4.46%) Spring
10 7 (3.47%) Jest
10 7 (3.47%) Node.js
10 7 (3.47%) Spring Boot
10 7 (3.47%) Vue
11 6 (2.97%) Django
12 5 (2.48%) ASP.NET
12 5 (2.48%) CSS3
12 5 (2.48%) jQuery
12 5 (2.48%) Twisted
Miscellaneous
1 45 (22.28%) Product Ownership
2 20 (9.90%) Cloud Native
3 18 (8.91%) Social Media
4 12 (5.94%) Onboarding
5 10 (4.95%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (3.96%) Mobile App
7 7 (3.47%) e-Learning
8 6 (2.97%) AI Agents
8 6 (2.97%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (2.48%) Video Conferencing
10 4 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.98%) Low-Code
11 2 (0.99%) Animation
11 2 (0.99%) Blog
11 2 (0.99%) Graphic Design
11 2 (0.99%) IoT
11 2 (0.99%) Life Science
11 2 (0.99%) NHS
11 2 (0.99%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.48%) Linux
2 1 (0.50%) Android
2 1 (0.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (100.00%) User Experience
2 94 (46.53%) Agile
3 60 (29.70%) User Research
4 54 (26.73%) AI
5 48 (23.76%) Mentoring
6 45 (22.28%) Prototyping
7 44 (21.78%) Full-Stack Development
8 43 (21.29%) Problem-Solving
9 42 (20.79%) Analytics
10 41 (20.30%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 38 (18.81%) Continuous Improvement
12 37 (18.32%) Customer Experience
13 35 (17.33%) Scrum
14 34 (16.83%) Wireframes
15 31 (15.35%) Software Engineering
16 28 (13.86%) Roadmaps
17 27 (13.37%) Workshop Facilitation
18 25 (12.38%) DevOps
19 24 (11.88%) Workflow
20 21 (10.40%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 49 (24.26%) JavaScript
2 44 (21.78%) TypeScript
3 16 (7.92%) C#
4 15 (7.43%) Python
5 13 (6.44%) Java
6 5 (2.48%) PowerShell
6 5 (2.48%) SQL
7 2 (0.99%) C
7 2 (0.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (0.99%) PHP
Qualifications
1 28 (13.86%) Security Cleared
2 25 (12.38%) Degree
3 19 (9.41%) SC Cleared
4 9 (4.46%) DV Cleared
5 7 (3.47%) DBS Check
6 5 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.49%) ICAEW
7 3 (1.49%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.50%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (30.20%) Accessibility
2 28 (13.86%) WCAG
3 22 (10.89%) QA
4 9 (4.46%) GDPR
5 5 (2.48%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.49%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.49%) PERC
6 3 (1.49%) Software Quality Assurance
7 2 (0.99%) GxP
7 2 (0.99%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.99%) PMO
8 1 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 20 (9.90%) Docker
2 5 (2.48%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (3.47%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.98%) Terraform
3 2 (0.99%) Packer
3 2 (0.99%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.50%) Grafana
4 1 (0.50%) Kibana
4 1 (0.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 44 (21.78%) Adobe
2 18 (8.91%) Microsoft
3 9 (4.46%) Google
4 3 (1.49%) dotdigital
4 3 (1.49%) OpenAI
4 3 (1.49%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.49%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 2 (0.99%) Databricks
5 2 (0.99%) SAP
6 1 (0.50%) Hotjar
6 1 (0.50%) OneLogin