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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 210 207 220
Rank change year-on-year -3 +13 -55
Permanent jobs citing UX Design 208 271 470
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.11% 1.80% 1.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.34% 1.89% 1.59%
Number of salaries quoted 133 128 387
10th Percentile £41,500 £41,250 £29,900
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -17.36%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,563 £68,125
90th Percentile £79,820 £87,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -12.00%

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 15,505 14,349 29,620
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.74% 95.06% 90.89%
Number of salaries quoted 11,008 8,690 23,384
10th Percentile £34,000 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £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 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £58,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.56% +6.36% -10.10%

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 May 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 5 (2.40%) Confluence
2 3 (1.44%) CMS
2 3 (1.44%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.48%) Moodle
3 1 (0.48%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (6.73%) Adobe XD
2 6 (2.88%) Sketch
3 3 (1.44%) Adobe Illustrator
3 3 (1.44%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.96%) Adobe After Effects
4 2 (0.96%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.96%) InVision
5 1 (0.48%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.48%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 84 (40.38%) Figma
2 41 (19.71%) SaaS
3 35 (16.83%) AWS
4 30 (14.42%) Azure
5 18 (8.65%) Adobe Analytics
6 17 (8.17%) GCP
6 17 (8.17%) GitHub
7 12 (5.77%) Google Analytics
8 11 (5.29%) GitHub Copilot
9 9 (4.33%) Serverless
10 6 (2.88%) PaaS
11 5 (2.40%) Power Platform
12 4 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (1.92%) ChatGPT
12 4 (1.92%) n8n
12 4 (1.92%) Zapier
13 3 (1.44%) Microsoft 365
13 3 (1.44%) Power Automate
13 3 (1.44%) PowerApps
14 2 (0.96%) Heroku
Communications & Networking
1 38 (18.27%) Broadband
2 2 (0.96%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.40%) Metadata
1 5 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (1.44%) MongoDB
3 2 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (0.96%) MySQL
3 2 (0.96%) Power BI
4 1 (0.48%) GIS
4 1 (0.48%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.48%) Redis
4 1 (0.48%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (7.69%) Git
2 11 (5.29%) Axure RP
3 10 (4.81%) Balsamiq
4 8 (3.85%) Visual Studio
5 5 (2.40%) JIRA
6 4 (1.92%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.44%) Vite
7 3 (1.44%) webpack
8 2 (0.96%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.96%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.48%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.48%) Maven
9 1 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 38 (18.27%) Social Skills
2 27 (12.98%) Law
3 23 (11.06%) Finance
3 23 (11.06%) Presentation Skills
4 21 (10.10%) Games
5 19 (9.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 19 (9.13%) Public Sector
6 17 (8.17%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (5.77%) Marketing
7 12 (5.77%) Retail
8 9 (4.33%) Legal
8 9 (4.33%) Telecoms
9 7 (3.37%) Back Office
9 7 (3.37%) Banking
9 7 (3.37%) Financial Institution
9 7 (3.37%) Polish Language
10 4 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.44%) Social Science
12 2 (0.96%) iGaming
12 2 (0.96%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 78 (37.50%) Designer
2 55 (26.44%) Lead
3 54 (25.96%) UX Designer
4 37 (17.79%) Senior
5 33 (15.87%) Developer
6 24 (11.54%) Software Engineer
7 18 (8.65%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 17 (8.17%) Lead Designer
9 14 (6.73%) Lead Software Engineer
9 14 (6.73%) Lead UX Designer
10 13 (6.25%) Product Designer
11 12 (5.77%) Senior Designer
12 10 (4.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 10 (4.81%) UI Designer
12 10 (4.81%) UI/UX Designer
12 10 (4.81%) User Experience Manager
13 8 (3.85%) Architect
13 8 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
14 7 (3.37%) Lead Developer
14 7 (3.37%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (19.71%) React
2 26 (12.50%) HTML
3 25 (12.02%) CSS
4 18 (8.65%) Web Services
5 16 (7.69%) .NET
6 14 (6.73%) WebSockets
7 13 (6.25%) AngularJS
8 11 (5.29%) RESTful
9 10 (4.81%) Material Design
10 9 (4.33%) REST
11 8 (3.85%) Blazor
11 8 (3.85%) HTML5
11 8 (3.85%) WebAssembly
12 7 (3.37%) Spring
12 7 (3.37%) Vue
13 6 (2.88%) gRPC
13 6 (2.88%) Spring Boot
14 5 (2.40%) Django
14 5 (2.40%) jQuery
14 5 (2.40%) Twisted
Miscellaneous
1 55 (26.44%) Product Ownership
2 29 (13.94%) Mobile App
3 18 (8.65%) Cloud Native
3 18 (8.65%) Social Media
4 13 (6.25%) e-Learning
5 10 (4.81%) AI Agents
6 9 (4.33%) Onboarding
6 9 (4.33%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.40%) Video Conferencing
8 4 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.92%) Low-Code
9 3 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.96%) Animation
10 2 (0.96%) Blog
10 2 (0.96%) Life Science
10 2 (0.96%) NHS
10 2 (0.96%) PropTech
10 2 (0.96%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.33%) Android
2 5 (2.40%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (100.00%) User Experience
2 88 (42.31%) Agile
3 66 (31.73%) User Research
4 59 (28.37%) AI
4 59 (28.37%) Full-Stack Development
5 55 (26.44%) Mentoring
6 52 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 51 (24.52%) Software Engineering
7 51 (24.52%) Wireframes
8 50 (24.04%) Prototyping
9 47 (22.60%) Customer Experience
10 42 (20.19%) Analytics
11 39 (18.75%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 37 (17.79%) Inclusive Design
13 33 (15.87%) Collaborative Culture
14 31 (14.90%) Roadmaps
15 29 (13.94%) Continuous Improvement
15 29 (13.94%) Scrum
15 29 (13.94%) Workshop Facilitation
16 28 (13.46%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 50 (24.04%) JavaScript
2 40 (19.23%) TypeScript
3 23 (11.06%) Python
4 22 (10.58%) Java
5 15 (7.21%) C#
6 6 (2.88%) C++
7 5 (2.40%) Kotlin
8 4 (1.92%) Go
9 3 (1.44%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.44%) SQL
Qualifications
1 34 (16.35%) Degree
2 30 (14.42%) Security Cleared
3 21 (10.10%) SC Cleared
4 13 (6.25%) DBS Check
5 11 (5.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (4.33%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.44%) ICAEW
7 3 (1.44%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (29.33%) Accessibility
2 32 (15.38%) WCAG
3 25 (12.02%) QA
4 8 (3.85%) GDPR
5 5 (2.40%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.92%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.96%) GxP
7 2 (0.96%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.96%) PERC
7 2 (0.96%) PMO
8 1 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 17 (8.17%) Docker
2 5 (2.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (4.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.96%) Packer
2 2 (0.96%) Progress Chef
2 2 (0.96%) Terraform
3 1 (0.48%) Grafana
3 1 (0.48%) Kibana
3 1 (0.48%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 57 (27.40%) Adobe
2 15 (7.21%) Microsoft
3 12 (5.77%) Google
4 2 (0.96%) Databricks
4 2 (0.96%) dotdigital
4 2 (0.96%) Salesforce
4 2 (0.96%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 1 (0.48%) SAP