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

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 205 261 209
Rank change year-on-year +56 -52 -64
Permanent jobs citing UX Design 175 200 340
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.15% 1.22% 1.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.32% 1.30% 1.59%
Number of salaries quoted 127 114 278
10th Percentile £42,250 £39,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £48,238 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,250
Median % change year-on-year - -0.41% -7.31%
75th Percentile £79,250 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £80,000 £91,934
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -4.00%

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 13,279 15,397 21,384
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 87.01% 94.02% 93.31%
Number of salaries quoted 8,444 9,059 17,420
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £35,750
25th Percentile £41,925 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,965
% change year-on-year -8.33% +3.51% -7.26%

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 19 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 9 (5.14%) Confluence
2 5 (2.86%) WordPress
3 4 (2.29%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.71%) CMS
Applications
1 23 (13.14%) Adobe XD
2 7 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (4.00%) Sketch
3 6 (3.43%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 4 (2.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (1.71%) Adobe Illustrator
5 3 (1.71%) Chatbot
5 3 (1.71%) InDesign
5 3 (1.71%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (1.71%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.57%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.57%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.57%) InVision
Business Applications
1 3 (1.71%) Payment Gateway
1 3 (1.71%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 60 (34.29%) Figma
2 41 (23.43%) AWS
3 37 (21.14%) Azure
4 34 (19.43%) SaaS
5 19 (10.86%) GCP
6 17 (9.71%) GitHub
7 15 (8.57%) Google Analytics
8 14 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
9 12 (6.86%) GitHub Copilot
10 10 (5.71%) Miro
11 6 (3.43%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (2.86%) Power Platform
13 4 (2.29%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (2.29%) PowerApps
14 2 (1.14%) Pulumi
15 1 (0.57%) AWS Lambda
15 1 (0.57%) Azure Key Vault
15 1 (0.57%) Entra ID
15 1 (0.57%) Firebase
15 1 (0.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.71%) Broadband
2 1 (0.57%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.14%) NoSQL
2 5 (2.86%) Power BI
3 3 (1.71%) MySQL
4 2 (1.14%) Metadata
4 2 (1.14%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.57%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.57%) Redis
5 1 (0.57%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.57%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (8.57%) Balsamiq
2 13 (7.43%) Axure RP
3 9 (5.14%) Git
3 9 (5.14%) JIRA
4 7 (4.00%) Visual Studio
5 6 (3.43%) Jenkins
6 5 (2.86%) Cypress.io
7 4 (2.29%) Storybook
8 3 (1.71%) CircleCI
9 2 (1.14%) TeamCity
9 2 (1.14%) Vite
9 2 (1.14%) webpack
10 1 (0.57%) GitLab
10 1 (0.57%) JUnit
10 1 (0.57%) Mockito
10 1 (0.57%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 46 (26.29%) Social Skills
2 29 (16.57%) Marketing
3 22 (12.57%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (12.57%) Finance
4 21 (12.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 18 (10.29%) Public Sector
5 18 (10.29%) Telecoms
6 16 (9.14%) Law
6 16 (9.14%) Legal
7 9 (5.14%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (4.57%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (4.00%) Digital Health
9 7 (4.00%) Retail
10 3 (1.71%) Military
10 3 (1.71%) Multimedia
11 2 (1.14%) Games
11 2 (1.14%) Publishing
12 1 (0.57%) Back Office
12 1 (0.57%) Banking
12 1 (0.57%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 44 (25.14%) Developer
2 40 (22.86%) Designer
3 38 (21.71%) Senior
4 27 (15.43%) Lead
5 26 (14.86%) UX Designer
6 16 (9.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 15 (8.57%) Full-Stack Developer
7 15 (8.57%) Product Manager
8 12 (6.86%) Product Designer
8 12 (6.86%) User Experience Manager
9 10 (5.71%) Software Engineer
10 9 (5.14%) Analyst
10 9 (5.14%) Senior Developer
11 8 (4.57%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 7 (4.00%) Android Engineer
12 7 (4.00%) Architect
12 7 (4.00%) Blazor Developer
12 7 (4.00%) Lead Software Engineer
12 7 (4.00%) React Developer
12 7 (4.00%) Senior Android Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (23.43%) React
2 28 (16.00%) CSS
3 26 (14.86%) HTML
4 20 (11.43%) .NET
5 19 (10.86%) WebSockets
6 14 (8.00%) REST
6 14 (8.00%) RESTful
7 12 (6.86%) gRPC
8 11 (6.29%) Vue
9 10 (5.71%) AngularJS
9 10 (5.71%) Node.js
10 9 (5.14%) Kafka
11 8 (4.57%) ASP.NET
11 8 (4.57%) Blazor
11 8 (4.57%) HTML5
11 8 (4.57%) Ionic Framework
12 7 (4.00%) ASP.NET Core
12 7 (4.00%) CSS3
12 7 (4.00%) Material Design
12 7 (4.00%) WebAssembly
Miscellaneous
1 37 (21.14%) Product Ownership
2 24 (13.71%) Mobile App
3 14 (8.00%) AI Agents
4 11 (6.29%) Cloud Native
5 10 (5.71%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (5.71%) Onboarding
6 7 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (3.43%) e-Learning
7 6 (3.43%) Graphic Design
8 4 (2.29%) Social Media
9 3 (1.71%) Animation
9 3 (1.71%) Motion Graphics
10 2 (1.14%) Educational Technology
11 1 (0.57%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.57%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 1 (0.57%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.57%) VUI
Operating Systems
1 19 (10.86%) Android
2 3 (1.71%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (100.00%) User Experience
2 80 (45.71%) Agile
3 48 (27.43%) Wireframes
4 45 (25.71%) User Research
5 43 (24.57%) AI
6 37 (21.14%) Customer Experience
7 36 (20.57%) Full-Stack Development
8 35 (20.00%) DevOps
8 35 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
9 34 (19.43%) Prototyping
10 32 (18.29%) Continuous Improvement
11 30 (17.14%) CI/CD
11 30 (17.14%) Software Engineering
12 28 (16.00%) Analytics
12 28 (16.00%) Mentoring
12 28 (16.00%) Stakeholder Management
12 28 (16.00%) Usability Testing
13 27 (15.43%) Front End Development
14 24 (13.71%) Inclusive Design
15 23 (13.14%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 45 (25.71%) JavaScript
2 32 (18.29%) TypeScript
3 21 (12.00%) C#
4 20 (11.43%) Python
5 18 (10.29%) Java
6 13 (7.43%) Go
6 13 (7.43%) SQL
7 9 (5.14%) C++
8 8 (4.57%) Kotlin
9 4 (2.29%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.29%) VBA
10 3 (1.71%) Bash
10 3 (1.71%) Ruby
10 3 (1.71%) VBScript
11 2 (1.14%) PHP
11 2 (1.14%) XAML
12 1 (0.57%) Bicep
12 1 (0.57%) Swift
Qualifications
1 61 (34.86%) Degree
2 23 (13.14%) SC Cleared
2 23 (13.14%) Security Cleared
3 17 (9.71%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (4.57%) DBS Check
4 8 (4.57%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.71%) CITP
5 3 (1.71%) CREST Certified
6 1 (0.57%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (28.57%) Accessibility
2 28 (16.00%) WCAG
3 19 (10.86%) QA
4 3 (1.71%) ISO 9001
4 3 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.57%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.57%) GDPR
5 1 (0.57%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 21 (12.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (8.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.29%) Terraform
3 1 (0.57%) Grafana
3 1 (0.57%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 40 (22.86%) Adobe
2 18 (10.29%) Microsoft
3 15 (8.57%) Google
4 3 (1.71%) Cisco
5 1 (0.57%) dotdigital
5 1 (0.57%) Salesforce