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 24 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 200 199 225
Rank change year-on-year -1 +26 -62
Permanent jobs citing UX Design 218 265 466
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.15% 1.82% 1.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.39% 1.91% 1.57%
Number of salaries quoted 137 122 383
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £29,800
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% -15.38%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%

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 15,672 13,856 29,634
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.83% 94.94% 90.61%
Number of salaries quoted 11,183 8,128 23,369
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,695 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.17% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,250 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £59,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.69% +7.27% -9.84%

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 24 May 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 5 (2.29%) Confluence
2 3 (1.38%) CMS
2 3 (1.38%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.46%) Moodle
3 1 (0.46%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (5.96%) Adobe XD
2 6 (2.75%) Sketch
3 3 (1.38%) Adobe Illustrator
3 3 (1.38%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.92%) Adobe After Effects
4 2 (0.92%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.92%) InVision
5 1 (0.46%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.46%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 2 (0.92%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 1 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 85 (38.99%) Figma
2 42 (19.27%) SaaS
3 36 (16.51%) AWS
4 33 (15.14%) Azure
5 19 (8.72%) GitHub
6 18 (8.26%) Adobe Analytics
7 17 (7.80%) GCP
8 12 (5.50%) GitHub Copilot
8 12 (5.50%) Google Analytics
9 9 (4.13%) Serverless
10 7 (3.21%) Power Platform
11 6 (2.75%) PaaS
12 5 (2.29%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (1.83%) ChatGPT
13 4 (1.83%) n8n
13 4 (1.83%) Zapier
14 3 (1.38%) Microsoft 365
14 3 (1.38%) Power Automate
14 3 (1.38%) PowerApps
15 2 (0.92%) Heroku
Communications & Networking
1 38 (17.43%) Broadband
2 3 (1.38%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.75%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (2.29%) Metadata
3 4 (1.83%) MongoDB
3 4 (1.83%) Power BI
4 3 (1.38%) MySQL
5 2 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.92%) GIS
6 1 (0.46%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.46%) Redis
6 1 (0.46%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.46%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (8.26%) Git
2 10 (4.59%) Axure RP
3 9 (4.13%) Balsamiq
4 8 (3.67%) Visual Studio
5 5 (2.29%) Cypress.io
5 5 (2.29%) JIRA
6 3 (1.38%) Claude Code
6 3 (1.38%) Vite
6 3 (1.38%) webpack
7 2 (0.92%) Vagrant
7 2 (0.92%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.46%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.46%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.46%) Maven
General
1 41 (18.81%) Social Skills
2 26 (11.93%) Law
3 24 (11.01%) Finance
4 23 (10.55%) Presentation Skills
5 21 (9.63%) Games
6 19 (8.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (8.72%) Public Sector
7 18 (8.26%) Analytical Skills
8 15 (6.88%) Marketing
9 12 (5.50%) Retail
10 9 (4.13%) Legal
10 9 (4.13%) Telecoms
11 7 (3.21%) Back Office
11 7 (3.21%) Banking
11 7 (3.21%) Financial Institution
11 7 (3.21%) Polish Language
12 5 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (1.38%) Social Science
14 2 (0.92%) Multimedia
14 2 (0.92%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 78 (35.78%) Designer
2 55 (25.23%) Lead
3 54 (24.77%) UX Designer
4 39 (17.89%) Senior
5 37 (16.97%) Developer
6 24 (11.01%) Software Engineer
7 20 (9.17%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 17 (7.80%) Lead Designer
9 14 (6.42%) Lead Software Engineer
9 14 (6.42%) Lead UX Designer
10 13 (5.96%) Product Designer
11 12 (5.50%) Senior Designer
12 11 (5.05%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 11 (5.05%) UI Designer
12 11 (5.05%) UI/UX Designer
13 10 (4.59%) User Experience Manager
14 8 (3.67%) Architect
14 8 (3.67%) Solutions Architect
15 7 (3.21%) Lead Developer
15 7 (3.21%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (19.72%) React
2 29 (13.30%) HTML
3 27 (12.39%) CSS
4 18 (8.26%) Web Services
5 16 (7.34%) .NET
5 16 (7.34%) AngularJS
6 14 (6.42%) WebSockets
7 12 (5.50%) RESTful
8 10 (4.59%) Material Design
9 9 (4.13%) REST
9 9 (4.13%) Vue
10 8 (3.67%) Blazor
10 8 (3.67%) HTML5
10 8 (3.67%) Spring
10 8 (3.67%) WebAssembly
11 7 (3.21%) Spring Boot
12 6 (2.75%) gRPC
12 6 (2.75%) jQuery
13 5 (2.29%) Django
13 5 (2.29%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 55 (25.23%) Product Ownership
2 29 (13.30%) Mobile App
3 20 (9.17%) Cloud Native
4 18 (8.26%) Social Media
5 13 (5.96%) e-Learning
6 10 (4.59%) AI Agents
6 10 (4.59%) Onboarding
7 9 (4.13%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (2.29%) Video Conferencing
9 4 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.83%) Low-Code
10 3 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.92%) Animation
11 2 (0.92%) Blog
11 2 (0.92%) Life Science
11 2 (0.92%) NHS
11 2 (0.92%) PropTech
11 2 (0.92%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.13%) Android
2 5 (2.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (100.00%) User Experience
2 92 (42.20%) Agile
3 65 (29.82%) User Research
4 62 (28.44%) Full-Stack Development
5 61 (27.98%) AI
6 55 (25.23%) Mentoring
7 53 (24.31%) Problem-Solving
8 52 (23.85%) Software Engineering
8 52 (23.85%) Wireframes
9 49 (22.48%) Prototyping
10 48 (22.02%) Customer Experience
11 43 (19.72%) Analytics
12 39 (17.89%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
13 36 (16.51%) Inclusive Design
14 34 (15.60%) Collaborative Culture
15 33 (15.14%) Roadmaps
16 32 (14.68%) Continuous Improvement
17 31 (14.22%) Scrum
18 29 (13.30%) Front End Development
19 28 (12.84%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 52 (23.85%) JavaScript
2 43 (19.72%) TypeScript
3 23 (10.55%) Java
3 23 (10.55%) Python
4 17 (7.80%) C#
5 6 (2.75%) C++
6 5 (2.29%) Kotlin
7 4 (1.83%) Go
7 4 (1.83%) SQL
8 3 (1.38%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.46%) PHP
Qualifications
1 34 (15.60%) Degree
2 29 (13.30%) Security Cleared
3 20 (9.17%) SC Cleared
4 13 (5.96%) DBS Check
5 11 (5.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (4.13%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.38%) ICAEW
7 3 (1.38%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.46%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (29.36%) Accessibility
2 33 (15.14%) WCAG
3 26 (11.93%) QA
4 9 (4.13%) GDPR
5 5 (2.29%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.83%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.38%) PERC
8 2 (0.92%) GxP
8 2 (0.92%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.92%) PMO
9 1 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 18 (8.26%) Docker
2 5 (2.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (4.13%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.92%) Packer
2 2 (0.92%) Progress Chef
2 2 (0.92%) Terraform
3 1 (0.46%) Grafana
3 1 (0.46%) Kibana
3 1 (0.46%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 56 (25.69%) Adobe
2 15 (6.88%) Microsoft
3 12 (5.50%) Google
4 3 (1.38%) dotdigital
4 3 (1.38%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.38%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 2 (0.92%) Databricks
5 2 (0.92%) SAP