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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 254 182 236
Rank change year-on-year -72 +54 -60
Permanent jobs citing UX Design 206 293 365
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.95% 1.78% 1.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% 1.91% 1.46%
Number of salaries quoted 132 132 275
10th Percentile £39,000 £41,250 £29,850
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,938 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -15.38%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,813 £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% -15.06%

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 17,978 15,345 25,010
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.84% 93.19% 88.41%
Number of salaries quoted 13,054 9,077 18,589
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £34,750
25th Percentile £44,972 £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 £102,410 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

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 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 (4.37%) Confluence
2 8 (3.88%) CMS
3 7 (3.40%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.46%) WordPress
5 1 (0.49%) Moodle
Applications
1 11 (5.34%) Adobe XD
2 8 (3.88%) Photoshop
3 7 (3.40%) Adobe Illustrator
4 5 (2.43%) InDesign
5 4 (1.94%) Sketch
6 2 (0.97%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.49%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.49%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.49%) InVision
7 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
7 1 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.49%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.97%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 1 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 66 (32.04%) Figma
2 43 (20.87%) Azure
3 36 (17.48%) AWS
4 27 (13.11%) SaaS
5 17 (8.25%) Adobe Analytics
6 15 (7.28%) GitHub
7 13 (6.31%) GCP
7 13 (6.31%) Power Platform
8 12 (5.83%) Serverless
9 11 (5.34%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (4.37%) Google Analytics
11 7 (3.40%) GitHub Copilot
11 7 (3.40%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (3.40%) Power Automate
11 7 (3.40%) PowerApps
12 6 (2.91%) PaaS
13 5 (2.43%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 4 (1.94%) ChatGPT
14 4 (1.94%) n8n
14 4 (1.94%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 24 (11.65%) Broadband
2 3 (1.46%) SMS
3 1 (0.49%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.88%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (3.40%) Metadata
2 7 (3.40%) MongoDB
3 6 (2.91%) Power BI
4 5 (2.43%) MySQL
5 4 (1.94%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.46%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.46%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.97%) GIS
8 1 (0.49%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.49%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (11.65%) Git
2 9 (4.37%) JIRA
3 7 (3.40%) Balsamiq
3 7 (3.40%) Claude Code
3 7 (3.40%) Cypress.io
4 6 (2.91%) Axure RP
5 3 (1.46%) Vite
5 3 (1.46%) webpack
6 2 (0.97%) NUnit
6 2 (0.97%) Selenium
6 2 (0.97%) Vagrant
6 2 (0.97%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.49%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.49%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.49%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.49%) Maven
General
1 50 (24.27%) Social Skills
2 25 (12.14%) Law
3 23 (11.17%) Games
3 23 (11.17%) Public Sector
4 22 (10.68%) Marketing
5 21 (10.19%) Finance
6 19 (9.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (6.80%) Analytical Skills
8 12 (5.83%) Presentation Skills
8 12 (5.83%) Retail
9 7 (3.40%) Legal
10 6 (2.91%) Multimedia
11 5 (2.43%) Advertising
11 5 (2.43%) Back Office
11 5 (2.43%) Banking
11 5 (2.43%) Financial Institution
11 5 (2.43%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (2.43%) Polish Language
11 5 (2.43%) Publishing
12 4 (1.94%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 76 (36.89%) Designer
2 55 (26.70%) UX Designer
3 42 (20.39%) Developer
3 42 (20.39%) Lead
4 35 (16.99%) Senior
5 23 (11.17%) UI Designer
5 23 (11.17%) UI/UX Designer
6 15 (7.28%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 15 (7.28%) Lead Designer
6 15 (7.28%) Senior Designer
6 15 (7.28%) Software Engineer
7 14 (6.80%) Lead UX Designer
8 11 (5.34%) Architect
8 11 (5.34%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 10 (4.85%) Full-Stack Developer
10 8 (3.88%) Content Designer
10 8 (3.88%) Lead Developer
10 8 (3.88%) Senior UX Designer
10 8 (3.88%) Solutions Architect
11 7 (3.40%) User Experience Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (22.33%) React
2 30 (14.56%) CSS
2 30 (14.56%) HTML
3 16 (7.77%) .NET
4 13 (6.31%) AngularJS
5 12 (5.83%) REST
5 12 (5.83%) Web Services
6 11 (5.34%) RESTful
7 10 (4.85%) HTML5
8 9 (4.37%) NestJS
8 9 (4.37%) Node.js
8 9 (4.37%) Spring
9 8 (3.88%) Jest
9 8 (3.88%) Vue
10 7 (3.40%) Spring Boot
11 6 (2.91%) CSS3
11 6 (2.91%) Django
11 6 (2.91%) Framer.js
11 6 (2.91%) WebSockets
12 5 (2.43%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 44 (21.36%) Product Ownership
2 20 (9.71%) Cloud Native
3 18 (8.74%) Social Media
4 10 (4.85%) Onboarding
4 10 (4.85%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (3.88%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (3.88%) Mobile App
6 7 (3.40%) e-Learning
7 6 (2.91%) AI Agents
8 5 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (2.43%) Video Conferencing
9 4 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.94%) Low-Code
10 3 (1.46%) Graphic Design
11 2 (0.97%) Animation
11 2 (0.97%) Blog
11 2 (0.97%) IoT
11 2 (0.97%) Life Science
11 2 (0.97%) NHS
11 2 (0.97%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.43%) Linux
2 1 (0.49%) Android
2 1 (0.49%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (100.00%) User Experience
2 98 (47.57%) Agile
3 63 (30.58%) User Research
4 55 (26.70%) AI
5 50 (24.27%) Mentoring
6 46 (22.33%) Problem-Solving
7 45 (21.84%) Full-Stack Development
8 44 (21.36%) Analytics
8 44 (21.36%) Prototyping
9 43 (20.87%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 40 (19.42%) Continuous Improvement
11 38 (18.45%) Customer Experience
12 37 (17.96%) Wireframes
13 36 (17.48%) Scrum
14 32 (15.53%) Software Engineering
15 28 (13.59%) Roadmaps
15 28 (13.59%) Workshop Facilitation
16 27 (13.11%) DevOps
17 24 (11.65%) CI/CD
17 24 (11.65%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 50 (24.27%) JavaScript
2 45 (21.84%) TypeScript
3 16 (7.77%) C#
4 15 (7.28%) Python
5 13 (6.31%) Java
6 6 (2.91%) SQL
7 5 (2.43%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.46%) C
8 3 (1.46%) PHP
9 2 (0.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 29 (14.08%) Security Cleared
2 24 (11.65%) Degree
3 20 (9.71%) SC Cleared
4 9 (4.37%) DV Cleared
5 7 (3.40%) DBS Check
6 5 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.94%) ICAEW
8 3 (1.46%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.49%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (30.58%) Accessibility
2 30 (14.56%) WCAG
3 23 (11.17%) QA
4 9 (4.37%) GDPR
5 6 (2.91%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.46%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.46%) PERC
6 3 (1.46%) Software Quality Assurance
7 2 (0.97%) GxP
7 2 (0.97%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.97%) PMO
8 1 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 20 (9.71%) Docker
2 5 (2.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (3.40%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.94%) Terraform
3 2 (0.97%) Packer
3 2 (0.97%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.49%) Grafana
4 1 (0.49%) Kibana
4 1 (0.49%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 44 (21.36%) Adobe
2 19 (9.22%) Microsoft
3 9 (4.37%) Google
4 4 (1.94%) OpenAI
4 4 (1.94%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.46%) dotdigital
5 3 (1.46%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 2 (0.97%) Databricks
6 2 (0.97%) SAP
7 1 (0.49%) Hotjar
7 1 (0.49%) OneLogin