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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 252 186 231
Rank change year-on-year -66 +45 -50
Permanent jobs citing UX Design 206 295 439
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.96% 1.79% 1.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.17% 1.92% 1.55%
Number of salaries quoted 122 132 349
10th Percentile £39,125 £41,250 £29,950
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% -15.38%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,250 £87,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -14.69%

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 17,646 15,385 28,336
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.65% 93.30% 88.77%
Number of salaries quoted 12,860 9,109 21,557
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,848 £33,750
25th Percentile £44,972 £41,250 £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 £78,750 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.84%

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 15 July 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 7 (3.40%) Confluence
2 6 (2.91%) CMS
2 6 (2.91%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.97%) WordPress
4 1 (0.49%) Moodle
Applications
1 10 (4.85%) Adobe XD
2 8 (3.88%) Photoshop
3 7 (3.40%) Adobe Illustrator
4 5 (2.43%) InDesign
5 4 (1.94%) Sketch
6 2 (0.97%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.49%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.49%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.49%) InVision
Business Applications
1 2 (0.97%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 1 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 75 (36.41%) Figma
2 37 (17.96%) Azure
3 32 (15.53%) AWS
4 31 (15.05%) SaaS
5 17 (8.25%) Adobe Analytics
5 17 (8.25%) GitHub
6 13 (6.31%) GCP
7 12 (5.83%) Power Platform
8 11 (5.34%) Serverless
9 10 (4.85%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (4.37%) GitHub Copilot
11 8 (3.88%) Google Analytics
12 6 (2.91%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (2.91%) PaaS
12 6 (2.91%) Power Automate
12 6 (2.91%) PowerApps
13 5 (2.43%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 4 (1.94%) ChatGPT
14 4 (1.94%) n8n
14 4 (1.94%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 31 (15.05%) Broadband
2 3 (1.46%) SMS
3 1 (0.49%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.88%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (3.40%) Metadata
2 7 (3.40%) MongoDB
3 6 (2.91%) Power BI
4 5 (2.43%) MySQL
5 3 (1.46%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.46%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.46%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.97%) GIS
7 1 (0.49%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.49%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (10.19%) Git
2 7 (3.40%) Claude Code
2 7 (3.40%) JIRA
3 6 (2.91%) Cypress.io
4 5 (2.43%) Axure RP
4 5 (2.43%) Balsamiq
5 3 (1.46%) Vite
5 3 (1.46%) webpack
6 2 (0.97%) NUnit
6 2 (0.97%) Vagrant
6 2 (0.97%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.97%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.49%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.49%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.49%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.49%) Maven
General
1 46 (22.33%) Social Skills
2 26 (12.62%) Law
3 23 (11.17%) Games
4 22 (10.68%) Finance
5 21 (10.19%) Marketing
6 19 (9.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (8.74%) Presentation Skills
7 18 (8.74%) Public Sector
8 14 (6.80%) Retail
9 12 (5.83%) Analytical Skills
10 8 (3.88%) Back Office
10 8 (3.88%) Banking
10 8 (3.88%) Financial Institution
10 8 (3.88%) Polish Language
11 6 (2.91%) Legal
11 6 (2.91%) Multimedia
12 5 (2.43%) Advertising
12 5 (2.43%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (1.46%) Publishing
13 3 (1.46%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 80 (38.83%) Designer
2 55 (26.70%) UX Designer
3 48 (23.30%) Lead
4 37 (17.96%) Developer
5 36 (17.48%) Senior
6 21 (10.19%) UI Designer
6 21 (10.19%) UI/UX Designer
7 16 (7.77%) Lead Designer
7 16 (7.77%) Senior Designer
7 16 (7.77%) Software Engineer
8 14 (6.80%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 14 (6.80%) Lead UX Designer
9 11 (5.34%) Product Designer
10 10 (4.85%) Architect
10 10 (4.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 9 (4.37%) Full-Stack Developer
12 8 (3.88%) Lead Developer
12 8 (3.88%) Lead Software Engineer
12 8 (3.88%) Senior UX Designer
12 8 (3.88%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (21.36%) React
2 26 (12.62%) HTML
3 25 (12.14%) CSS
4 14 (6.80%) .NET
5 13 (6.31%) AngularJS
5 13 (6.31%) Web Services
6 10 (4.85%) RESTful
7 9 (4.37%) NestJS
7 9 (4.37%) Spring
8 8 (3.88%) HTML5
9 7 (3.40%) REST
9 7 (3.40%) Spring Boot
9 7 (3.40%) Vue
10 6 (2.91%) Django
10 6 (2.91%) Jest
10 6 (2.91%) Material Design
10 6 (2.91%) Node.js
11 5 (2.43%) jQuery
11 5 (2.43%) Twisted
11 5 (2.43%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 45 (21.84%) Product Ownership
2 20 (9.71%) Cloud Native
3 18 (8.74%) Social Media
4 15 (7.28%) Mobile App
5 13 (6.31%) Onboarding
6 10 (4.85%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (3.88%) e-Learning
8 6 (2.91%) AI Agents
9 5 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (2.43%) Video Conferencing
10 4 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.94%) Low-Code
11 2 (0.97%) Animation
11 2 (0.97%) Blog
11 2 (0.97%) Graphic Design
11 2 (0.97%) Life Science
11 2 (0.97%) NHS
11 2 (0.97%) PropTech
11 2 (0.97%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.43%) Linux
2 1 (0.49%) Android
2 1 (0.49%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (100.00%) User Experience
2 90 (43.69%) Agile
3 65 (31.55%) User Research
4 54 (26.21%) Mentoring
5 52 (25.24%) AI
6 51 (24.76%) Full-Stack Development
6 51 (24.76%) Problem-Solving
7 45 (21.84%) Prototyping
8 44 (21.36%) Customer Experience
9 41 (19.90%) Wireframes
10 40 (19.42%) Analytics
11 39 (18.93%) Continuous Improvement
11 39 (18.93%) Software Engineering
11 39 (18.93%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 35 (16.99%) Scrum
13 28 (13.59%) Roadmaps
14 27 (13.11%) Collaborative Culture
15 26 (12.62%) Workshop Facilitation
16 24 (11.65%) Workflow
17 23 (11.17%) Inclusive Design
Programming Languages
1 48 (23.30%) JavaScript
2 44 (21.36%) TypeScript
3 16 (7.77%) Python
4 15 (7.28%) C#
5 14 (6.80%) Java
6 5 (2.43%) PowerShell
6 5 (2.43%) SQL
7 2 (0.97%) C
7 2 (0.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (0.97%) PHP
Qualifications
1 25 (12.14%) Security Cleared
2 23 (11.17%) Degree
3 16 (7.77%) SC Cleared
4 9 (4.37%) DV Cleared
5 8 (3.88%) DBS Check
6 4 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.46%) ICAEW
8 2 (0.97%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.49%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (28.64%) Accessibility
2 26 (12.62%) WCAG
3 22 (10.68%) QA
4 9 (4.37%) GDPR
5 5 (2.43%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.46%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.46%) PERC
7 2 (0.97%) GxP
7 2 (0.97%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.97%) PMO
7 2 (0.97%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 17 (8.25%) Docker
2 5 (2.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (1.94%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.97%) Packer
2 2 (0.97%) Progress Chef
2 2 (0.97%) Terraform
3 1 (0.49%) Grafana
3 1 (0.49%) Kibana
3 1 (0.49%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 50 (24.27%) Adobe
2 16 (7.77%) Microsoft
3 8 (3.88%) Google
4 3 (1.46%) dotdigital
4 3 (1.46%) OpenAI
4 3 (1.46%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.46%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 2 (0.97%) Databricks
5 2 (0.97%) SAP
6 1 (0.49%) Hotjar
6 1 (0.49%) OneLogin