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

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 192 247 217
Rank change year-on-year +55 -30 -77
Permanent jobs citing UX Design 180 209 291
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.19% 1.24% 1.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 1.33% 1.49%
Number of salaries quoted 127 113 243
10th Percentile £42,250 £39,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £48,238 £48,000 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £72,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £132,500 £82,000 £93,387
UK median annual salary £61,250 £55,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year +11.36% -9.09% -3.20%

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 13,296 15,681 19,557
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 88.18% 93.11% 94.16%
Number of salaries quoted 8,416 9,333 15,765
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,720 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £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 3 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 (5.56%) Confluence
2 5 (2.78%) WordPress
3 4 (2.22%) Headless CMS
3 4 (2.22%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.67%) CMS
Applications
1 25 (13.89%) Adobe XD
2 9 (5.00%) Sketch
3 7 (3.89%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (3.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 4 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (1.67%) Adobe Illustrator
6 3 (1.67%) Chatbot
6 3 (1.67%) InDesign
6 3 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
6 3 (1.67%) Photoshop
7 2 (1.11%) InVision
8 1 (0.56%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.56%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (3.89%) Shopify
2 3 (1.67%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 64 (35.56%) Figma
2 43 (23.89%) AWS
3 39 (21.67%) Azure
4 30 (16.67%) SaaS
5 20 (11.11%) GCP
6 19 (10.56%) Google Analytics
7 16 (8.89%) GitHub
8 14 (7.78%) Microsoft 365
9 11 (6.11%) GitHub Copilot
10 10 (5.56%) Miro
11 6 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (3.33%) Serverless
12 5 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (2.78%) Power Platform
13 4 (2.22%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (2.22%) Amazon S3
13 4 (2.22%) Amazon SQS
13 4 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (2.22%) PowerApps
13 4 (2.22%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.56%) Broadband
2 1 (0.56%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.22%) NoSQL
2 5 (2.78%) Power BI
3 3 (1.67%) MySQL
4 2 (1.11%) Metadata
4 2 (1.11%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.56%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.56%) Redis
5 1 (0.56%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.56%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (8.33%) Balsamiq
2 13 (7.22%) Axure RP
3 10 (5.56%) Git
3 10 (5.56%) JIRA
4 9 (5.00%) Cypress.io
5 6 (3.33%) Jenkins
5 6 (3.33%) Visual Studio
6 4 (2.22%) Storybook
7 3 (1.67%) CircleCI
8 2 (1.11%) TeamCity
8 2 (1.11%) Vite
8 2 (1.11%) webpack
9 1 (0.56%) GitLab
9 1 (0.56%) JUnit
9 1 (0.56%) Mockito
9 1 (0.56%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 51 (28.33%) Social Skills
2 33 (18.33%) Marketing
3 25 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (11.11%) Finance
4 20 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 20 (11.11%) Telecoms
5 18 (10.00%) Public Sector
6 16 (8.89%) Law
7 15 (8.33%) Legal
8 11 (6.11%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (4.44%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (3.89%) Digital Health
11 6 (3.33%) Retail
12 3 (1.67%) Military
12 3 (1.67%) Multimedia
13 2 (1.11%) Games
13 2 (1.11%) Publishing
14 1 (0.56%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.56%) Local Government
14 1 (0.56%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 49 (27.22%) Developer
2 43 (23.89%) Senior
3 41 (22.78%) Designer
4 27 (15.00%) UX Designer
5 24 (13.33%) Lead
6 20 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
7 16 (8.89%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 15 (8.33%) Product Manager
9 14 (7.78%) Senior Developer
10 13 (7.22%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 12 (6.67%) Product Designer
11 12 (6.67%) User Experience Manager
12 10 (5.56%) Analyst
13 8 (4.44%) Architect
14 7 (3.89%) Android Engineer
14 7 (3.89%) Blazor Developer
14 7 (3.89%) Senior Android Engineer
14 7 (3.89%) Software Engineer
14 7 (3.89%) User Experience Architect
14 7 (3.89%) UX Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (23.89%) React
2 33 (18.33%) CSS
3 31 (17.22%) HTML
4 20 (11.11%) .NET
5 19 (10.56%) RESTful
5 19 (10.56%) WebSockets
6 14 (7.78%) Node.js
6 14 (7.78%) REST
7 12 (6.67%) gRPC
8 11 (6.11%) Vue
9 10 (5.56%) AngularJS
9 10 (5.56%) GraphQL
10 9 (5.00%) ASP.NET
10 9 (5.00%) Jest
10 9 (5.00%) Kafka
10 9 (5.00%) Next.js
11 8 (4.44%) ASP.NET Core
11 8 (4.44%) HTML5
12 7 (3.89%) CSS3
12 7 (3.89%) Ionic Framework
Miscellaneous
1 32 (17.78%) Product Ownership
2 25 (13.89%) Mobile App
3 16 (8.89%) AI Agents
4 12 (6.67%) Cloud Native
5 11 (6.11%) Onboarding
6 10 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (3.89%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (3.33%) Graphic Design
9 4 (2.22%) Social Media
10 3 (1.67%) Animation
10 3 (1.67%) e-Learning
10 3 (1.67%) Motion Graphics
11 2 (1.11%) Educational Technology
11 2 (1.11%) Robotics
11 2 (1.11%) VUI
12 1 (0.56%) Greenfield Project
12 1 (0.56%) Reinsurance
12 1 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
12 1 (0.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 1 (0.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (11.11%) Android
2 4 (2.22%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (100.00%) User Experience
2 85 (47.22%) Agile
3 50 (27.78%) Wireframes
4 49 (27.22%) User Research
5 43 (23.89%) AI
6 38 (21.11%) Customer Experience
6 38 (21.11%) Problem-Solving
7 37 (20.56%) DevOps
7 37 (20.56%) Full-Stack Development
8 35 (19.44%) Analytics
8 35 (19.44%) Prototyping
9 30 (16.67%) CI/CD
10 29 (16.11%) Continuous Improvement
10 29 (16.11%) Stakeholder Management
10 29 (16.11%) Usability Testing
11 27 (15.00%) Mentoring
11 27 (15.00%) Software Engineering
12 26 (14.44%) Front End Development
12 26 (14.44%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
13 25 (13.89%) Inclusive Design
Programming Languages
1 48 (26.67%) JavaScript
2 33 (18.33%) TypeScript
3 21 (11.67%) C#
4 19 (10.56%) Python
4 19 (10.56%) SQL
5 15 (8.33%) Java
6 14 (7.78%) Go
7 9 (5.00%) C++
8 8 (4.44%) Kotlin
9 4 (2.22%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.22%) VBA
10 3 (1.67%) Bash
10 3 (1.67%) Ruby
10 3 (1.67%) VBScript
11 2 (1.11%) PHP
11 2 (1.11%) XAML
12 1 (0.56%) Bicep
12 1 (0.56%) Swift
Qualifications
1 63 (35.00%) Degree
2 23 (12.78%) SC Cleared
2 23 (12.78%) Security Cleared
3 18 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (5.00%) Master's Degree
5 5 (2.78%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.67%) CITP
6 3 (1.67%) CREST Certified
7 1 (0.56%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (30.56%) Accessibility
2 28 (15.56%) WCAG
3 19 (10.56%) QA
4 3 (1.67%) ISO 9001
4 3 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.56%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.56%) GDPR
5 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 22 (12.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.22%) Terraform
3 1 (0.56%) Grafana
3 1 (0.56%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 41 (22.78%) Adobe
2 19 (10.56%) Microsoft
3 15 (8.33%) Google
4 4 (2.22%) Apple
5 3 (1.67%) Cisco
6 1 (0.56%) dotdigital
6 1 (0.56%) Salesforce