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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 195 248 215
Rank change year-on-year +53 -33 -72
Permanent jobs citing UX Design 181 211 285
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.20% 1.24% 1.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 1.33% 1.48%
Number of salaries quoted 126 114 238
10th Percentile £41,875 £39,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £48,238 £48,188 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £60,000 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year +10.42% -5.88% -1.92%
75th Percentile £85,000 £72,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £132,500 £84,250 £93,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +13.64% -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 13,369 15,861 19,213
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 88.41% 93.11% 94.09%
Number of salaries quoted 8,464 9,489 15,447
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £78,957 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 1 January 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 10 (5.52%) Confluence
2 6 (3.31%) Headless CMS
3 5 (2.76%) WordPress
4 4 (2.21%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.66%) CMS
Applications
1 24 (13.26%) Adobe XD
2 9 (4.97%) Sketch
3 7 (3.87%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (3.31%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 4 (2.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (1.66%) Adobe Illustrator
6 3 (1.66%) Chatbot
6 3 (1.66%) InDesign
6 3 (1.66%) Microsoft Office
6 3 (1.66%) Photoshop
7 2 (1.10%) InVision
8 1 (0.55%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.55%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.55%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (4.97%) Shopify
2 3 (1.66%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 64 (35.36%) Figma
2 45 (24.86%) AWS
3 39 (21.55%) Azure
4 29 (16.02%) SaaS
5 20 (11.05%) GCP
5 20 (11.05%) Google Analytics
6 15 (8.29%) GitHub
7 14 (7.73%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (5.52%) GitHub Copilot
8 10 (5.52%) Miro
9 8 (4.42%) Serverless
10 7 (3.87%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (3.31%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (3.31%) Amazon S3
11 6 (3.31%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (3.31%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (3.31%) Vercel
12 5 (2.76%) Power Platform
13 4 (2.21%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (2.21%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.52%) Broadband
2 1 (0.55%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.29%) NoSQL
2 5 (2.76%) Power BI
3 3 (1.66%) MySQL
4 2 (1.10%) Metadata
4 2 (1.10%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.55%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.55%) Redis
5 1 (0.55%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.55%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (7.73%) Balsamiq
2 12 (6.63%) Axure RP
3 11 (6.08%) Cypress.io
4 10 (5.52%) Git
4 10 (5.52%) JIRA
5 6 (3.31%) Jenkins
6 5 (2.76%) Storybook
6 5 (2.76%) Visual Studio
7 3 (1.66%) CircleCI
8 2 (1.10%) TeamCity
8 2 (1.10%) Vite
8 2 (1.10%) webpack
9 1 (0.55%) GitLab
9 1 (0.55%) JUnit
9 1 (0.55%) Mockito
9 1 (0.55%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 53 (29.28%) Social Skills
2 33 (18.23%) Marketing
3 24 (13.26%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (11.05%) Finance
4 20 (11.05%) Telecoms
5 19 (10.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 17 (9.39%) Public Sector
7 15 (8.29%) Law
7 15 (8.29%) Legal
8 11 (6.08%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (4.42%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (3.87%) Digital Health
11 6 (3.31%) Retail
12 3 (1.66%) Military
12 3 (1.66%) Multimedia
13 2 (1.10%) Games
13 2 (1.10%) Publishing
14 1 (0.55%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.55%) Health Technology
14 1 (0.55%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 52 (28.73%) Developer
2 45 (24.86%) Senior
3 39 (21.55%) Designer
4 25 (13.81%) UX Designer
5 24 (13.26%) Lead
6 22 (12.15%) Full-Stack Developer
7 17 (9.39%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 16 (8.84%) Senior Developer
9 15 (8.29%) Product Manager
9 15 (8.29%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 12 (6.63%) Product Designer
10 12 (6.63%) User Experience Manager
11 10 (5.52%) Analyst
12 8 (4.42%) Architect
13 7 (3.87%) Android Engineer
13 7 (3.87%) Blazor Developer
13 7 (3.87%) Senior Android Engineer
13 7 (3.87%) Software Engineer
13 7 (3.87%) User Experience Architect
13 7 (3.87%) UX Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (25.41%) React
2 34 (18.78%) CSS
3 32 (17.68%) HTML
4 21 (11.60%) RESTful
5 19 (10.50%) .NET
5 19 (10.50%) WebSockets
6 16 (8.84%) Node.js
7 14 (7.73%) REST
8 12 (6.63%) GraphQL
8 12 (6.63%) gRPC
8 12 (6.63%) Next.js
9 11 (6.08%) Jest
9 11 (6.08%) Vue
10 10 (5.52%) AngularJS
11 9 (4.97%) ASP.NET
11 9 (4.97%) Kafka
12 8 (4.42%) ASP.NET Core
12 8 (4.42%) HTML5
12 8 (4.42%) Ionic Framework
12 8 (4.42%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 30 (16.57%) Product Ownership
2 25 (13.81%) Mobile App
3 16 (8.84%) AI Agents
4 12 (6.63%) Cloud Native
5 11 (6.08%) Onboarding
6 10 (5.52%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (3.87%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (3.31%) Graphic Design
9 4 (2.21%) Social Media
10 3 (1.66%) Animation
10 3 (1.66%) e-Learning
10 3 (1.66%) Motion Graphics
11 2 (1.10%) Educational Technology
11 2 (1.10%) Robotics
11 2 (1.10%) VUI
12 1 (0.55%) Greenfield Project
12 1 (0.55%) Reinsurance
12 1 (0.55%) Self-Motivation
12 1 (0.55%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 1 (0.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (11.05%) Android
2 4 (2.21%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (100.00%) User Experience
2 87 (48.07%) Agile
3 49 (27.07%) Wireframes
4 48 (26.52%) User Research
5 42 (23.20%) AI
6 40 (22.10%) Problem-Solving
7 39 (21.55%) Full-Stack Development
8 38 (20.99%) Customer Experience
9 37 (20.44%) DevOps
10 36 (19.89%) Analytics
11 34 (18.78%) Prototyping
12 30 (16.57%) CI/CD
12 30 (16.57%) Continuous Improvement
13 29 (16.02%) Stakeholder Management
14 28 (15.47%) Software Engineering
14 28 (15.47%) Usability Testing
15 26 (14.36%) Mentoring
16 25 (13.81%) Front End Development
16 25 (13.81%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
17 24 (13.26%) Design Thinking
Programming Languages
1 49 (27.07%) JavaScript
2 36 (19.89%) TypeScript
3 21 (11.60%) SQL
4 20 (11.05%) C#
5 19 (10.50%) Python
6 15 (8.29%) Java
7 14 (7.73%) Go
8 9 (4.97%) C++
9 8 (4.42%) Kotlin
10 4 (2.21%) PowerShell
10 4 (2.21%) VBA
11 3 (1.66%) Bash
11 3 (1.66%) Ruby
11 3 (1.66%) VBScript
12 2 (1.10%) PHP
12 2 (1.10%) XAML
13 1 (0.55%) Bicep
13 1 (0.55%) Swift
Qualifications
1 62 (34.25%) Degree
2 22 (12.15%) SC Cleared
2 22 (12.15%) Security Cleared
3 18 (9.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (4.97%) Master's Degree
5 5 (2.76%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.66%) CITP
6 3 (1.66%) CREST Certified
7 1 (0.55%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (30.39%) Accessibility
2 26 (14.36%) WCAG
3 19 (10.50%) QA
4 3 (1.66%) ISO 9001
4 3 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.55%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.55%) GDPR
5 1 (0.55%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 22 (12.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (8.29%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.21%) Terraform
3 1 (0.55%) Grafana
3 1 (0.55%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 40 (22.10%) Adobe
2 18 (9.94%) Microsoft
3 14 (7.73%) Google
4 6 (3.31%) Apple
5 3 (1.66%) Cisco
6 1 (0.55%) dotdigital
6 1 (0.55%) Salesforce