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

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 203 233 205
Rank change year-on-year +30 -28 -57
Permanent jobs citing UX Design 181 209 451
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.11% 1.37% 1.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.29% 1.44% 1.75%
Number of salaries quoted 116 132 373
10th Percentile £43,750 £40,060 £32,650
25th Percentile £48,053 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -10.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £132,500 £88,625 £89,750
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 14,012 14,514 25,744
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 85.84% 95.01% 92.69%
Number of salaries quoted 9,096 8,740 21,398
10th Percentile £30,625 £36,250 £34,757
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £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 23 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 6 (3.31%) Confluence
2 4 (2.21%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.66%) CMS
3 3 (1.66%) WordPress
Applications
1 20 (11.05%) Adobe XD
2 6 (3.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.31%) Sketch
3 3 (1.66%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 3 (1.66%) Chatbot
3 3 (1.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.10%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (1.10%) InDesign
4 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.10%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.55%) InVision
Business Applications
1 3 (1.66%) Payment Gateway
1 3 (1.66%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 81 (44.75%) Figma
2 38 (20.99%) AWS
3 37 (20.44%) SaaS
4 30 (16.57%) Azure
5 17 (9.39%) GitHub
6 16 (8.84%) GCP
7 14 (7.73%) Google Analytics
8 13 (7.18%) GitHub Copilot
8 13 (7.18%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (4.97%) Miro
10 7 (3.87%) Adobe Analytics
11 5 (2.76%) Power Platform
12 4 (2.21%) PowerApps
13 3 (1.66%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (1.66%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (1.66%) Serverless
14 1 (0.55%) Firebase
14 1 (0.55%) Heroku
Communications & Networking
1 29 (16.02%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.76%) NoSQL
1 5 (2.76%) Power BI
2 3 (1.66%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.10%) Metadata
3 2 (1.10%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.10%) MySQL
4 1 (0.55%) Redis
4 1 (0.55%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (7.73%) Balsamiq
2 12 (6.63%) Axure RP
2 12 (6.63%) Git
3 8 (4.42%) Visual Studio
4 6 (3.31%) JIRA
5 5 (2.76%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.66%) CircleCI
6 3 (1.66%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.66%) Vite
6 3 (1.66%) webpack
7 2 (1.10%) Vagrant
8 1 (0.55%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.55%) Maven
8 1 (0.55%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 36 (19.89%) Social Skills
2 26 (14.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 22 (12.15%) Presentation Skills
4 20 (11.05%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (11.05%) Law
5 18 (9.94%) Finance
6 16 (8.84%) Public Sector
6 16 (8.84%) Telecoms
7 15 (8.29%) Marketing
8 11 (6.08%) Legal
9 10 (5.52%) Retail
10 7 (3.87%) Digital Health
10 7 (3.87%) Games
10 7 (3.87%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (2.76%) Back Office
11 5 (2.76%) Banking
11 5 (2.76%) Financial Institution
11 5 (2.76%) Polish Language
12 3 (1.66%) Military
13 2 (1.10%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 49 (27.07%) Designer
2 47 (25.97%) Lead
3 42 (23.20%) Senior
4 34 (18.78%) Developer
5 32 (17.68%) UX Designer
6 16 (8.84%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 15 (8.29%) Product Designer
8 14 (7.73%) Software Engineer
9 12 (6.63%) Full-Stack Developer
10 10 (5.52%) Lead Designer
10 10 (5.52%) User Experience Manager
11 9 (4.97%) Applications Engineer
12 8 (4.42%) Analyst
12 8 (4.42%) Lead Developer
12 8 (4.42%) Lead Software Engineer
12 8 (4.42%) Product Manager
13 7 (3.87%) Android Engineer
13 7 (3.87%) Blazor Developer
13 7 (3.87%) React Developer
13 7 (3.87%) UX Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (20.99%) React
2 31 (17.13%) CSS
3 29 (16.02%) HTML
4 20 (11.05%) WebSockets
5 18 (9.94%) .NET
6 15 (8.29%) AngularJS
6 15 (8.29%) RESTful
7 13 (7.18%) REST
7 13 (7.18%) Vue
8 12 (6.63%) gRPC
9 11 (6.08%) HTML5
10 10 (5.52%) Node.js
11 9 (4.97%) Kafka
12 8 (4.42%) Blazor
12 8 (4.42%) GraphQL
12 8 (4.42%) Material Design
12 8 (4.42%) Web Services
12 8 (4.42%) WebAssembly
13 6 (3.31%) CSS3
14 5 (2.76%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 43 (23.76%) Product Ownership
2 34 (18.78%) Mobile App
3 12 (6.63%) AI Agents
3 12 (6.63%) Cloud Native
4 9 (4.97%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (4.42%) Social Media
6 7 (3.87%) e-Learning
7 6 (3.31%) Onboarding
8 5 (2.76%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.66%) Graphic Design
9 3 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.10%) Animation
10 2 (1.10%) Educational Technology
10 2 (1.10%) Motion Graphics
10 2 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.55%) Reinsurance
11 1 (0.55%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 1 (0.55%) Video Conferencing
11 1 (0.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (9.39%) Android
2 1 (0.55%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (100.00%) User Experience
2 78 (43.09%) Agile
3 58 (32.04%) User Research
4 57 (31.49%) Wireframes
5 52 (28.73%) Full-Stack Development
6 51 (28.18%) Problem-Solving
7 50 (27.62%) Customer Experience
8 47 (25.97%) AI
9 42 (23.20%) Mentoring
9 42 (23.20%) Software Engineering
10 39 (21.55%) Prototyping
11 37 (20.44%) Analytics
12 35 (19.34%) Inclusive Design
13 30 (16.57%) Continuous Improvement
13 30 (16.57%) Design Thinking
14 29 (16.02%) DevOps
14 29 (16.02%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
15 28 (15.47%) CI/CD
15 28 (15.47%) Front End Development
16 27 (14.92%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 45 (24.86%) JavaScript
2 31 (17.13%) TypeScript
3 23 (12.71%) Python
4 19 (10.50%) Java
5 17 (9.39%) C#
6 13 (7.18%) Go
7 10 (5.52%) SQL
8 9 (4.97%) C++
9 8 (4.42%) Kotlin
10 4 (2.21%) VBA
11 3 (1.66%) Bash
11 3 (1.66%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.66%) Ruby
11 3 (1.66%) VBScript
12 2 (1.10%) PHP
13 1 (0.55%) Swift
Qualifications
1 54 (29.83%) Degree
2 24 (13.26%) Security Cleared
3 22 (12.15%) SC Cleared
4 16 (8.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (4.97%) DBS Check
6 8 (4.42%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.66%) CITP
7 3 (1.66%) CREST Certified
8 2 (1.10%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.55%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (28.73%) Accessibility
2 29 (16.02%) WCAG
3 19 (10.50%) QA
4 4 (2.21%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.21%) GDPR
4 4 (2.21%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.10%) ISO 9001
5 2 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 22 (12.15%) Docker
2 1 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (7.73%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.10%) Grafana
2 2 (1.10%) Packer
2 2 (1.10%) Progress Chef
2 2 (1.10%) Terraform
3 1 (0.55%) Kibana
3 1 (0.55%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 54 (29.83%) Adobe
2 14 (7.73%) Google
2 14 (7.73%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.10%) Cisco
4 1 (0.55%) dotdigital
4 1 (0.55%) Salesforce