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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 216 221 187
Rank change year-on-year +5 -34 -37
Permanent jobs citing UX Design 181 201 495
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.07% 1.48% 1.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.26% 1.55% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 115 138 409
10th Percentile £43,750 £40,000 £31,650
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £78,500 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £87,875 £86,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -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 14,370 12,931 27,637
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 85.06% 95.25% 92.08%
Number of salaries quoted 9,432 8,809 22,885
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.41%

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 17 March 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 3 (1.66%) CMS
1 3 (1.66%) Confluence
1 3 (1.66%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.55%) WordPress
Applications
1 23 (12.71%) Adobe XD
2 7 (3.87%) Sketch
3 3 (1.66%) Chatbot
3 3 (1.66%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.55%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (0.55%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.55%) InVision
4 1 (0.55%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (1.10%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (1.10%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 85 (46.96%) Figma
2 40 (22.10%) AWS
3 33 (18.23%) SaaS
4 30 (16.57%) Azure
5 19 (10.50%) GitHub
6 18 (9.94%) GCP
7 17 (9.39%) Google Analytics
8 13 (7.18%) GitHub Copilot
9 12 (6.63%) Adobe Analytics
10 10 (5.52%) Microsoft 365
11 9 (4.97%) Miro
12 3 (1.66%) Power Platform
12 3 (1.66%) PowerApps
12 3 (1.66%) Serverless
13 2 (1.10%) GitHub Actions
13 2 (1.10%) Heroku
14 1 (0.55%) Azure DevOps
14 1 (0.55%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 33 (18.23%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.76%) NoSQL
2 3 (1.66%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (1.66%) Power BI
3 2 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.10%) Metadata
3 2 (1.10%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.10%) MySQL
4 1 (0.55%) Redis
4 1 (0.55%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (9.39%) Balsamiq
2 15 (8.29%) Axure RP
3 14 (7.73%) Git
4 8 (4.42%) Visual Studio
5 4 (2.21%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.66%) JIRA
6 3 (1.66%) Vite
6 3 (1.66%) webpack
7 2 (1.10%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.10%) Jenkins
7 2 (1.10%) Vagrant
8 1 (0.55%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.55%) Maven
8 1 (0.55%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 34 (18.78%) Social Skills
2 29 (16.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 23 (12.71%) Law
4 22 (12.15%) Presentation Skills
5 20 (11.05%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (11.05%) Public Sector
6 16 (8.84%) Finance
6 16 (8.84%) Telecoms
7 15 (8.29%) Games
8 8 (4.42%) Legal
8 8 (4.42%) Retail
9 7 (3.87%) Digital Health
9 7 (3.87%) Marketing
10 5 (2.76%) Back Office
10 5 (2.76%) Banking
10 5 (2.76%) Financial Institution
10 5 (2.76%) Polish Language
11 4 (2.21%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.66%) Military
13 1 (0.55%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 54 (29.83%) Designer
2 49 (27.07%) Lead
3 43 (23.76%) Senior
4 38 (20.99%) UX Designer
5 32 (17.68%) Developer
6 17 (9.39%) Software Engineer
7 15 (8.29%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 14 (7.73%) Product Designer
9 12 (6.63%) Lead Designer
10 11 (6.08%) Full-Stack Developer
11 10 (5.52%) User Experience Manager
12 9 (4.97%) Applications Engineer
12 9 (4.97%) Lead Developer
13 8 (4.42%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 8 (4.42%) Lead Software Engineer
13 8 (4.42%) Lead UX Designer
14 7 (3.87%) Blazor Developer
14 7 (3.87%) React Developer
14 7 (3.87%) Senior Android Engineer
14 7 (3.87%) Senior Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (20.99%) React
2 32 (17.68%) CSS
3 31 (17.13%) HTML
4 22 (12.15%) WebSockets
5 17 (9.39%) .NET
6 16 (8.84%) AngularJS
7 15 (8.29%) RESTful
8 14 (7.73%) REST
9 13 (7.18%) Vue
10 12 (6.63%) gRPC
11 11 (6.08%) Web Services
12 10 (5.52%) HTML5
13 9 (4.97%) Kafka
13 9 (4.97%) Node.js
14 8 (4.42%) Blazor
14 8 (4.42%) Material Design
14 8 (4.42%) WebAssembly
15 6 (3.31%) GraphQL
16 5 (2.76%) CSS3
16 5 (2.76%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 47 (25.97%) Product Ownership
2 34 (18.78%) Mobile App
3 12 (6.63%) AI Agents
3 12 (6.63%) Cloud Native
4 11 (6.08%) Social Media
5 9 (4.97%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (4.42%) Onboarding
7 7 (3.87%) e-Learning
8 5 (2.76%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (2.21%) Video Conferencing
10 3 (1.66%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (1.10%) Educational Technology
11 2 (1.10%) NHS
11 2 (1.10%) PropTech
12 1 (0.55%) Animation
12 1 (0.55%) Graphic Design
12 1 (0.55%) Reinsurance
12 1 (0.55%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 17 (9.39%) Android
2 4 (2.21%) Linux
3 1 (0.55%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (100.00%) User Experience
2 79 (43.65%) Agile
3 62 (34.25%) User Research
4 57 (31.49%) Wireframes
5 54 (29.83%) Full-Stack Development
6 52 (28.73%) Customer Experience
7 51 (28.18%) AI
8 47 (25.97%) Problem-Solving
9 45 (24.86%) Mentoring
9 45 (24.86%) Software Engineering
10 44 (24.31%) Prototyping
11 42 (23.20%) Analytics
12 41 (22.65%) Inclusive Design
13 35 (19.34%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 29 (16.02%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
15 26 (14.36%) CI/CD
15 26 (14.36%) DevOps
15 26 (14.36%) Front End Development
15 26 (14.36%) Workshop Facilitation
16 25 (13.81%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 49 (27.07%) JavaScript
2 31 (17.13%) TypeScript
3 25 (13.81%) Python
4 19 (10.50%) Java
5 16 (8.84%) C#
6 13 (7.18%) Go
7 9 (4.97%) C++
7 9 (4.97%) SQL
8 8 (4.42%) Kotlin
9 3 (1.66%) Bash
9 3 (1.66%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.66%) VBA
9 3 (1.66%) VBScript
10 2 (1.10%) PHP
10 2 (1.10%) Ruby
11 1 (0.55%) Swift
Qualifications
1 54 (29.83%) Degree
2 29 (16.02%) Security Cleared
3 26 (14.36%) SC Cleared
4 16 (8.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (4.97%) DBS Check
6 7 (3.87%) Master's Degree
7 4 (2.21%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.66%) CITP
8 3 (1.66%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.55%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (32.04%) Accessibility
2 35 (19.34%) WCAG
3 20 (11.05%) QA
4 4 (2.21%) GDPR
4 4 (2.21%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.66%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 25 (13.81%) Docker
2 4 (2.21%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (7.73%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.10%) Packer
2 2 (1.10%) Progress Chef
2 2 (1.10%) Terraform
3 1 (0.55%) Grafana
3 1 (0.55%) Kibana
3 1 (0.55%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 58 (32.04%) Adobe
2 17 (9.39%) Google
3 15 (8.29%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.55%) dotdigital
4 1 (0.55%) Salesforce