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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 246 183 241
Rank change year-on-year -63 +58 -56
Permanent jobs citing UX Design 206 296 415
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.96% 1.80% 1.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.16% 1.93% 1.53%
Number of salaries quoted 124 132 326
10th Percentile £39,000 £41,250 £29,875
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% -15.38%
75th Percentile £72,500 £79,063 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,250 £89,750 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.70%

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 17,786 15,322 27,147
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.77% 93.26% 88.64%
Number of salaries quoted 12,956 9,066 20,494
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,913 £34,000
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 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £56,888 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.47% +3.43% -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 18 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 (3.40%) Confluence
2 6 (2.91%) CMS
2 6 (2.91%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.97%) WordPress
4 1 (0.49%) Moodle
Applications
1 10 (4.85%) 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 PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.97%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 1 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 73 (35.44%) Figma
2 38 (18.45%) Azure
3 33 (16.02%) AWS
4 28 (13.59%) SaaS
5 17 (8.25%) Adobe Analytics
6 16 (7.77%) GitHub
7 13 (6.31%) GCP
8 12 (5.83%) Power Platform
9 11 (5.34%) Serverless
10 10 (4.85%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (3.88%) GitHub Copilot
11 8 (3.88%) Google Analytics
12 6 (2.91%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (2.91%) PaaS
12 6 (2.91%) Power Automate
12 6 (2.91%) PowerApps
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 31 (15.05%) 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 3 (1.46%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.46%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.46%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.97%) GIS
7 1 (0.49%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.49%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (10.68%) Git
2 7 (3.40%) Claude Code
2 7 (3.40%) JIRA
3 6 (2.91%) Cypress.io
4 5 (2.43%) Axure RP
4 5 (2.43%) Balsamiq
5 3 (1.46%) Vite
5 3 (1.46%) webpack
6 2 (0.97%) NUnit
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
7 1 (0.49%) Visual Studio
General
1 47 (22.82%) Social Skills
2 25 (12.14%) Law
3 23 (11.17%) Games
4 22 (10.68%) Marketing
5 21 (10.19%) Finance
6 20 (9.71%) Public Sector
7 18 (8.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (8.74%) Presentation Skills
8 13 (6.31%) Analytical Skills
8 13 (6.31%) Retail
9 7 (3.40%) Back Office
9 7 (3.40%) Banking
9 7 (3.40%) Financial Institution
9 7 (3.40%) Polish Language
10 6 (2.91%) Legal
10 6 (2.91%) Multimedia
11 5 (2.43%) Advertising
11 5 (2.43%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.94%) Local Government
12 4 (1.94%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 78 (37.86%) Designer
2 53 (25.73%) UX Designer
3 47 (22.82%) Lead
4 38 (18.45%) Developer
5 37 (17.96%) Senior
6 21 (10.19%) UI Designer
6 21 (10.19%) UI/UX Designer
7 16 (7.77%) Lead Designer
7 16 (7.77%) Senior Designer
7 16 (7.77%) Software Engineer
8 14 (6.80%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 14 (6.80%) Lead UX Designer
9 10 (4.85%) Architect
9 10 (4.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 10 (4.85%) Product Designer
10 9 (4.37%) Full-Stack Developer
11 8 (3.88%) Content Designer
11 8 (3.88%) Lead Developer
11 8 (3.88%) Lead Software Engineer
11 8 (3.88%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (21.84%) React
2 27 (13.11%) HTML
3 26 (12.62%) CSS
4 13 (6.31%) .NET
4 13 (6.31%) AngularJS
4 13 (6.31%) Web Services
5 11 (5.34%) RESTful
6 9 (4.37%) HTML5
6 9 (4.37%) NestJS
6 9 (4.37%) Spring
7 8 (3.88%) REST
8 7 (3.40%) Jest
8 7 (3.40%) Node.js
8 7 (3.40%) Spring Boot
8 7 (3.40%) Vue
9 6 (2.91%) Django
10 5 (2.43%) CSS3
10 5 (2.43%) jQuery
10 5 (2.43%) Twisted
10 5 (2.43%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 43 (20.87%) Product Ownership
2 20 (9.71%) Cloud Native
3 18 (8.74%) Social Media
4 15 (7.28%) Mobile App
5 12 (5.83%) Onboarding
6 10 (4.85%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (3.88%) e-Learning
8 6 (2.91%) AI Agents
9 5 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (2.43%) Video Conferencing
10 4 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.94%) Low-Code
11 2 (0.97%) Animation
11 2 (0.97%) Blog
11 2 (0.97%) Educational Technology
11 2 (0.97%) Graphic Design
11 2 (0.97%) Life Science
11 2 (0.97%) PropTech
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 92 (44.66%) Agile
3 66 (32.04%) User Research
4 54 (26.21%) Mentoring
5 52 (25.24%) AI
6 51 (24.76%) Problem-Solving
7 50 (24.27%) Full-Stack Development
8 44 (21.36%) Customer Experience
8 44 (21.36%) Prototyping
9 41 (19.90%) Analytics
10 40 (19.42%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 40 (19.42%) Wireframes
11 39 (18.93%) Continuous Improvement
11 39 (18.93%) Software Engineering
12 36 (17.48%) Scrum
13 28 (13.59%) Collaborative Culture
13 28 (13.59%) Roadmaps
14 26 (12.62%) Workshop Facilitation
15 24 (11.65%) Inclusive Design
15 24 (11.65%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 49 (23.79%) JavaScript
2 45 (21.84%) TypeScript
3 16 (7.77%) Python
4 14 (6.80%) C#
4 14 (6.80%) Java
5 5 (2.43%) PowerShell
5 5 (2.43%) SQL
6 2 (0.97%) C
6 2 (0.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (0.97%) PHP
Qualifications
1 27 (13.11%) Security Cleared
2 24 (11.65%) Degree
3 18 (8.74%) SC Cleared
4 9 (4.37%) DV Cleared
5 8 (3.88%) DBS Check
6 5 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.46%) ICAEW
7 3 (1.46%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.49%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (29.13%) Accessibility
2 27 (13.11%) WCAG
3 23 (11.17%) QA
4 9 (4.37%) GDPR
5 5 (2.43%) 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 18 (8.74%) Docker
2 5 (2.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (2.43%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.97%) Packer
2 2 (0.97%) Progress Chef
2 2 (0.97%) Terraform
3 1 (0.49%) Grafana
3 1 (0.49%) Kibana
3 1 (0.49%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 50 (24.27%) Adobe
2 17 (8.25%) Microsoft
3 8 (3.88%) Google
4 3 (1.46%) dotdigital
4 3 (1.46%) OpenAI
4 3 (1.46%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.46%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 2 (0.97%) Databricks
5 2 (0.97%) SAP
6 1 (0.49%) Hotjar
6 1 (0.49%) OneLogin