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 2 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 256 186 251
Rank change year-on-year -70 +65 -54
Permanent jobs citing UX Design 211 296 307
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.95% 1.78% 1.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.14% 1.92% 1.38%
Number of salaries quoted 139 134 224
10th Percentile £39,000 £41,250 £29,825
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% -15.38%
75th Percentile £71,375 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,250 £87,500 £77,500
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 18,492 15,420 22,187
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.05% 92.98% 87.70%
Number of salaries quoted 13,404 9,120 16,093
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £41,000 £43,329
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% -6.40%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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 2 August 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 (4.74%) CMS
2 9 (4.27%) Confluence
3 8 (3.79%) SharePoint
4 5 (2.37%) WordPress
5 1 (0.47%) Moodle
Applications
1 15 (7.11%) Adobe XD
2 8 (3.79%) Photoshop
3 7 (3.32%) Adobe Illustrator
4 6 (2.84%) InDesign
5 5 (2.37%) Sketch
6 2 (0.95%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.47%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.47%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.47%) InVision
7 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
7 1 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.47%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.47%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 2 (0.95%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 1 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 63 (29.86%) Figma
2 47 (22.27%) Azure
3 39 (18.48%) AWS
4 27 (12.80%) SaaS
5 15 (7.11%) Adobe Analytics
5 15 (7.11%) GitHub
5 15 (7.11%) Power Platform
6 14 (6.64%) GCP
7 13 (6.16%) Google Analytics
8 12 (5.69%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (5.69%) Serverless
9 8 (3.79%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (3.79%) Power Automate
9 8 (3.79%) PowerApps
10 7 (3.32%) GitHub Copilot
11 6 (2.84%) PaaS
12 5 (2.37%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 4 (1.90%) ChatGPT
13 4 (1.90%) n8n
13 4 (1.90%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.11%) Broadband
2 4 (1.90%) SMS
3 1 (0.47%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.32%) Metadata
1 7 (3.32%) MongoDB
1 7 (3.32%) PostgreSQL
1 7 (3.32%) Power BI
2 6 (2.84%) MySQL
3 5 (2.37%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.42%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.42%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.95%) GIS
6 1 (0.47%) Data Hub
6 1 (0.47%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (12.32%) Git
2 9 (4.27%) Balsamiq
2 9 (4.27%) JIRA
3 8 (3.79%) Axure RP
4 7 (3.32%) Claude Code
4 7 (3.32%) Cypress.io
5 4 (1.90%) Selenium
6 3 (1.42%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (1.42%) Vite
6 3 (1.42%) webpack
7 2 (0.95%) NUnit
8 1 (0.47%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.47%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.47%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.47%) Maven
8 1 (0.47%) Vagrant
General
1 55 (26.07%) Social Skills
2 29 (13.74%) Public Sector
3 28 (13.27%) Law
4 26 (12.32%) Finance
5 25 (11.85%) Marketing
6 24 (11.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 21 (9.95%) Games
8 18 (8.53%) Analytical Skills
9 13 (6.16%) Retail
10 9 (4.27%) Legal
11 8 (3.79%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (2.84%) Multimedia
12 6 (2.84%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (2.84%) Publishing
13 5 (2.37%) Advertising
13 5 (2.37%) Back Office
13 5 (2.37%) Banking
13 5 (2.37%) Financial Institution
13 5 (2.37%) Polish Language
14 4 (1.90%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 77 (36.49%) Designer
2 56 (26.54%) UX Designer
3 46 (21.80%) Developer
4 36 (17.06%) Lead
5 35 (16.59%) Senior
6 26 (12.32%) UI Designer
7 25 (11.85%) UI/UX Designer
8 16 (7.58%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 15 (7.11%) Senior Designer
10 14 (6.64%) Software Engineer
11 13 (6.16%) Architect
12 12 (5.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 12 (5.69%) Lead Designer
12 12 (5.69%) Lead UX Designer
13 11 (5.21%) Full-Stack Developer
14 9 (4.27%) Solutions Architect
15 8 (3.79%) Content Designer
15 8 (3.79%) Lead Developer
15 8 (3.79%) Senior UX Designer
16 7 (3.32%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (21.80%) React
2 33 (15.64%) CSS
2 33 (15.64%) HTML
3 20 (9.48%) .NET
4 16 (7.58%) REST
5 13 (6.16%) AngularJS
5 13 (6.16%) Web Services
6 11 (5.21%) HTML5
6 11 (5.21%) Node.js
7 10 (4.74%) RESTful
8 9 (4.27%) NestJS
9 8 (3.79%) Jest
9 8 (3.79%) Spring
9 8 (3.79%) Vue
10 7 (3.32%) CSS3
11 6 (2.84%) Django
11 6 (2.84%) Framer.js
11 6 (2.84%) Spring Boot
11 6 (2.84%) WebSockets
12 5 (2.37%) Material Design
Miscellaneous
1 51 (24.17%) Product Ownership
2 19 (9.00%) Cloud Native
3 16 (7.58%) Social Media
4 13 (6.16%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (5.21%) Onboarding
5 11 (5.21%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (3.32%) e-Learning
7 6 (2.84%) AI Agents
8 5 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (2.37%) Video Conferencing
9 4 (1.90%) Graphic Design
9 4 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.90%) IoT
9 4 (1.90%) Low-Code
10 3 (1.42%) Blog
11 2 (0.95%) Animation
11 2 (0.95%) Life Science
11 2 (0.95%) NHS
11 2 (0.95%) PropTech
11 2 (0.95%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.84%) Linux
2 1 (0.47%) Android
2 1 (0.47%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (100.00%) User Experience
2 102 (48.34%) Agile
3 58 (27.49%) User Research
4 55 (26.07%) AI
5 48 (22.75%) Analytics
5 48 (22.75%) Mentoring
6 47 (22.27%) Prototyping
7 44 (20.85%) Problem-Solving
7 44 (20.85%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 42 (19.91%) Continuous Improvement
8 42 (19.91%) Full-Stack Development
9 35 (16.59%) Scrum
10 34 (16.11%) Wireframes
11 30 (14.22%) Customer Experience
11 30 (14.22%) DevOps
11 30 (14.22%) Workshop Facilitation
12 28 (13.27%) Roadmaps
13 27 (12.80%) CI/CD
13 27 (12.80%) Usability Testing
14 25 (11.85%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 55 (26.07%) JavaScript
2 45 (21.33%) TypeScript
3 18 (8.53%) C#
4 16 (7.58%) Python
5 12 (5.69%) Java
6 6 (2.84%) SQL
7 5 (2.37%) PHP
7 5 (2.37%) PowerShell
8 4 (1.90%) C
9 2 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 32 (15.17%) Security Cleared
2 27 (12.80%) Degree
3 23 (10.90%) SC Cleared
4 9 (4.27%) DV Cleared
5 8 (3.79%) DBS Check
6 5 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.37%) ICAEW
7 3 (1.42%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.47%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (31.75%) Accessibility
2 34 (16.11%) WCAG
3 25 (11.85%) QA
4 10 (4.74%) GDPR
5 6 (2.84%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.90%) PERC
7 3 (1.42%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.42%) Software Quality Assurance
8 2 (0.95%) GxP
8 2 (0.95%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.95%) PMO
9 1 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 21 (9.95%) Docker
2 5 (2.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (4.27%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.37%) Terraform
3 1 (0.47%) Grafana
3 1 (0.47%) Kibana
3 1 (0.47%) Packer
3 1 (0.47%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.47%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 39 (18.48%) Adobe
2 23 (10.90%) Microsoft
3 13 (6.16%) Google
4 5 (2.37%) OpenAI
4 5 (2.37%) Salesforce
5 4 (1.90%) dotdigital
5 4 (1.90%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 2 (0.95%) Databricks
6 2 (0.95%) SAP
7 1 (0.47%) Guidewire
7 1 (0.47%) Hotjar
7 1 (0.47%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.47%) OneLogin
7 1 (0.47%) TIBCO