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 13 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 200 248 208
Rank change year-on-year +48 -40 -59
Permanent jobs citing UX Design 190 197 436
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.18% 1.26% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.36% 1.33% 1.70%
Number of salaries quoted 125 122 361
10th Percentile £43,750 £40,125 £33,750
25th Percentile £48,238 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -10.85%
75th Percentile £78,500 £74,688 £78,750
90th Percentile £132,500 £87,250 £90,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -8.00%

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 13,929 14,866 25,619
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 86.27% 94.76% 92.68%
Number of salaries quoted 9,007 8,893 21,194
10th Percentile £30,500 £36,250 £34,760
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,329
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,779 £57,549
Median % change year-on-year -4.43% +9.09% -7.92%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,700 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 13 February 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 (5.26%) Confluence
2 4 (2.11%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.11%) WordPress
3 2 (1.05%) CMS
Applications
1 21 (11.05%) Adobe XD
2 7 (3.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (2.63%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 5 (2.63%) Sketch
4 4 (2.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (1.58%) Adobe Illustrator
5 3 (1.58%) Chatbot
5 3 (1.58%) InDesign
5 3 (1.58%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (1.58%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.53%) InVision
Business Applications
1 3 (1.58%) Payment Gateway
1 3 (1.58%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 76 (40.00%) Figma
2 41 (21.58%) SaaS
3 38 (20.00%) AWS
4 34 (17.89%) Azure
5 17 (8.95%) GitHub
6 15 (7.89%) GCP
6 15 (7.89%) Google Analytics
7 14 (7.37%) Microsoft 365
8 13 (6.84%) GitHub Copilot
9 10 (5.26%) Miro
10 6 (3.16%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (2.63%) Power Platform
12 4 (2.11%) PowerApps
13 3 (1.58%) Adobe Analytics
13 3 (1.58%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (1.58%) Serverless
14 1 (0.53%) Azure Key Vault
14 1 (0.53%) Entra ID
14 1 (0.53%) Firebase
14 1 (0.53%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 25 (13.16%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.16%) NoSQL
2 5 (2.63%) Power BI
3 3 (1.58%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.05%) Metadata
4 2 (1.05%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.05%) MySQL
5 1 (0.53%) Redis
5 1 (0.53%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.53%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.53%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (7.89%) Balsamiq
2 13 (6.84%) Axure RP
3 11 (5.79%) Git
4 10 (5.26%) JIRA
5 8 (4.21%) Visual Studio
6 5 (2.63%) Cypress.io
7 4 (2.11%) Jenkins
8 3 (1.58%) CircleCI
8 3 (1.58%) Vite
8 3 (1.58%) webpack
9 2 (1.05%) Storybook
9 2 (1.05%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.53%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.53%) Maven
10 1 (0.53%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.53%) TeamCity
General
1 42 (22.11%) Social Skills
2 25 (13.16%) Finance
2 25 (13.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 24 (12.63%) Marketing
4 22 (11.58%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (11.58%) Presentation Skills
5 21 (11.05%) Law
6 19 (10.00%) Public Sector
7 16 (8.42%) Telecoms
8 12 (6.32%) Legal
9 10 (5.26%) Retail
10 8 (4.21%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (3.68%) Digital Health
12 4 (2.11%) Back Office
12 4 (2.11%) Banking
12 4 (2.11%) Financial Institution
12 4 (2.11%) Polish Language
13 3 (1.58%) Games
13 3 (1.58%) Military
13 3 (1.58%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 47 (24.74%) Designer
2 43 (22.63%) Senior
3 42 (22.11%) Lead
4 38 (20.00%) Developer
5 29 (15.26%) UX Designer
6 17 (8.95%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 16 (8.42%) Product Designer
8 15 (7.89%) Product Manager
9 13 (6.84%) Full-Stack Developer
9 13 (6.84%) Software Engineer
10 12 (6.32%) User Experience Manager
11 10 (5.26%) Analyst
12 9 (4.74%) Applications Engineer
13 8 (4.21%) Lead Software Engineer
14 7 (3.68%) Android Engineer
14 7 (3.68%) Blazor Developer
14 7 (3.68%) Lead Developer
14 7 (3.68%) React Developer
14 7 (3.68%) Senior Android Engineer
14 7 (3.68%) UX Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (20.53%) React
2 31 (16.32%) CSS
3 29 (15.26%) HTML
4 21 (11.05%) .NET
5 19 (10.00%) WebSockets
6 15 (7.89%) RESTful
7 14 (7.37%) AngularJS
8 13 (6.84%) REST
9 12 (6.32%) gRPC
9 12 (6.32%) Vue
10 11 (5.79%) HTML5
11 10 (5.26%) Node.js
12 9 (4.74%) Blazor
12 9 (4.74%) Kafka
13 8 (4.21%) GraphQL
13 8 (4.21%) Material Design
13 8 (4.21%) WebAssembly
14 7 (3.68%) Web Services
15 6 (3.16%) CSS3
15 6 (3.16%) Ionic Framework
Miscellaneous
1 44 (23.16%) Product Ownership
2 35 (18.42%) Mobile App
3 12 (6.32%) AI Agents
3 12 (6.32%) Cloud Native
4 9 (4.74%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (4.74%) Onboarding
5 7 (3.68%) Analytical Mindset
5 7 (3.68%) e-Learning
6 5 (2.63%) Social Media
7 4 (2.11%) Graphic Design
7 4 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.58%) Animation
8 3 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.58%) Motion Graphics
9 2 (1.05%) Educational Technology
10 1 (0.53%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.53%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.53%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 1 (0.53%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (9.47%) Android
2 2 (1.05%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (100.00%) User Experience
2 83 (43.68%) Agile
3 59 (31.05%) Wireframes
4 57 (30.00%) User Research
5 55 (28.95%) Problem-Solving
6 52 (27.37%) Full-Stack Development
7 51 (26.84%) Customer Experience
8 46 (24.21%) AI
9 43 (22.63%) Mentoring
9 43 (22.63%) Software Engineering
10 37 (19.47%) Inclusive Design
11 35 (18.42%) Prototyping
12 34 (17.89%) Analytics
12 34 (17.89%) Design Thinking
13 33 (17.37%) Continuous Improvement
13 33 (17.37%) DevOps
14 30 (15.79%) CI/CD
15 29 (15.26%) Front End Development
16 28 (14.74%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
17 25 (13.16%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 47 (24.74%) JavaScript
2 32 (16.84%) TypeScript
3 22 (11.58%) Python
4 19 (10.00%) C#
4 19 (10.00%) Java
5 13 (6.84%) Go
6 12 (6.32%) SQL
7 9 (4.74%) C++
8 8 (4.21%) Kotlin
9 4 (2.11%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.11%) VBA
10 3 (1.58%) Bash
10 3 (1.58%) Ruby
10 3 (1.58%) VBScript
11 2 (1.05%) PHP
12 1 (0.53%) Bicep
12 1 (0.53%) Swift
12 1 (0.53%) XAML
Qualifications
1 61 (32.11%) Degree
2 26 (13.68%) Security Cleared
3 25 (13.16%) SC Cleared
4 16 (8.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (4.74%) DBS Check
6 8 (4.21%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.58%) CITP
7 3 (1.58%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.53%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.53%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (28.42%) Accessibility
2 29 (15.26%) WCAG
3 19 (10.00%) QA
4 4 (2.11%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.11%) GDPR
4 4 (2.11%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.58%) ISO 9001
5 3 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 21 (11.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (7.37%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.11%) Terraform
3 2 (1.05%) Grafana
3 2 (1.05%) Packer
3 2 (1.05%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.53%) Kibana
4 1 (0.53%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 53 (27.89%) Adobe
2 17 (8.95%) Microsoft
3 15 (7.89%) Google
4 3 (1.58%) Cisco
5 1 (0.53%) dotdigital
5 1 (0.53%) Salesforce