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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 220 188 230
Rank change year-on-year -32 +42 -52
Permanent jobs citing UX Design 216 289 472
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.06% 1.85% 1.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.29% 1.96% 1.57%
Number of salaries quoted 128 130 379
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £29,950
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,250 £87,500 £82,181
UK median annual salary £60,000 £59,900 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.17% +8.91% -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 16,752 14,764 30,098
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.21% 94.38% 88.98%
Number of salaries quoted 12,199 8,615 23,204
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,500 £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 £79,688 £75,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 26 June 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 (2.78%) Confluence
2 5 (2.31%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.39%) CMS
4 1 (0.46%) Moodle
4 1 (0.46%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (5.09%) Adobe XD
2 8 (3.70%) Photoshop
3 7 (3.24%) Adobe Illustrator
4 5 (2.31%) InDesign
5 4 (1.85%) Sketch
6 2 (0.93%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.46%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.46%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.46%) InVision
Business Applications
1 2 (0.93%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 1 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 83 (38.43%) Figma
2 37 (17.13%) Azure
3 35 (16.20%) SaaS
4 34 (15.74%) AWS
5 18 (8.33%) GitHub
6 17 (7.87%) Adobe Analytics
7 14 (6.48%) GCP
8 11 (5.09%) GitHub Copilot
8 11 (5.09%) Power Platform
9 9 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (4.17%) Google Analytics
9 9 (4.17%) Serverless
10 6 (2.78%) PaaS
11 5 (2.31%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 5 (2.31%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (2.31%) Power Automate
11 5 (2.31%) PowerApps
12 4 (1.85%) ChatGPT
12 4 (1.85%) n8n
12 4 (1.85%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 38 (17.59%) Broadband
2 3 (1.39%) SMS
3 1 (0.46%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (3.24%) Metadata
3 6 (2.78%) MongoDB
3 6 (2.78%) Power BI
4 5 (2.31%) MySQL
5 2 (0.93%) GIS
5 2 (0.93%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.93%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.93%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.46%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (8.33%) Git
2 7 (3.24%) Claude Code
3 6 (2.78%) Axure RP
3 6 (2.78%) Balsamiq
3 6 (2.78%) JIRA
4 5 (2.31%) Cypress.io
5 4 (1.85%) Visual Studio
6 3 (1.39%) Vite
6 3 (1.39%) webpack
7 2 (0.93%) NUnit
7 2 (0.93%) Vagrant
7 2 (0.93%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.46%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.46%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.46%) Maven
General
1 46 (21.30%) Social Skills
2 25 (11.57%) Law
3 24 (11.11%) Finance
4 23 (10.65%) Games
4 23 (10.65%) Presentation Skills
5 19 (8.80%) Marketing
6 18 (8.33%) Public Sector
7 17 (7.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (6.48%) Retail
9 13 (6.02%) Analytical Skills
10 8 (3.70%) Back Office
10 8 (3.70%) Banking
10 8 (3.70%) Financial Institution
10 8 (3.70%) Polish Language
11 7 (3.24%) Legal
12 6 (2.78%) Multimedia
13 5 (2.31%) Advertising
13 5 (2.31%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (1.39%) Social Science
15 2 (0.93%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 83 (38.43%) Designer
2 57 (26.39%) Lead
2 57 (26.39%) UX Designer
3 38 (17.59%) Senior
4 35 (16.20%) Developer
5 20 (9.26%) Software Engineer
5 20 (9.26%) UI Designer
5 20 (9.26%) UI/UX Designer
6 17 (7.87%) Lead Designer
6 17 (7.87%) Senior Designer
7 14 (6.48%) Lead UX Designer
8 13 (6.02%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 13 (6.02%) Product Designer
9 12 (5.56%) Lead Software Engineer
10 10 (4.63%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 9 (4.17%) Full-Stack Developer
11 9 (4.17%) User Experience Manager
12 8 (3.70%) Architect
12 8 (3.70%) Lead Developer
12 8 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (20.83%) React
2 25 (11.57%) HTML
3 23 (10.65%) CSS
4 16 (7.41%) Web Services
5 15 (6.94%) .NET
6 13 (6.02%) AngularJS
7 10 (4.63%) Spring
8 9 (4.17%) NestJS
8 9 (4.17%) Spring Boot
9 8 (3.70%) RESTful
10 7 (3.24%) HTML5
10 7 (3.24%) Material Design
10 7 (3.24%) Vue
11 6 (2.78%) Django
11 6 (2.78%) REST
12 5 (2.31%) ASP.NET
12 5 (2.31%) Framer.js
12 5 (2.31%) jQuery
12 5 (2.31%) Twisted
12 5 (2.31%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 50 (23.15%) Product Ownership
2 24 (11.11%) Mobile App
3 20 (9.26%) Cloud Native
4 18 (8.33%) Social Media
5 13 (6.02%) Onboarding
6 11 (5.09%) e-Learning
7 9 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (2.78%) AI Agents
9 5 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (2.31%) Video Conferencing
10 4 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.85%) Low-Code
11 3 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (0.93%) Animation
12 2 (0.93%) Blog
12 2 (0.93%) Life Science
12 2 (0.93%) NHS
12 2 (0.93%) PropTech
12 2 (0.93%) Reinsurance
13 1 (0.46%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.31%) Linux
2 1 (0.46%) Android
2 1 (0.46%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 216 (100.00%) User Experience
2 93 (43.06%) Agile
3 69 (31.94%) User Research
4 62 (28.70%) Full-Stack Development
5 61 (28.24%) Mentoring
6 57 (26.39%) Problem-Solving
7 53 (24.54%) AI
8 50 (23.15%) Software Engineering
9 48 (22.22%) Customer Experience
9 48 (22.22%) Wireframes
10 47 (21.76%) Prototyping
11 39 (18.06%) Analytics
11 39 (18.06%) Continuous Improvement
12 37 (17.13%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
13 36 (16.67%) Scrum
14 34 (15.74%) Collaborative Culture
15 31 (14.35%) Inclusive Design
16 30 (13.89%) Roadmaps
17 27 (12.50%) Design Thinking
18 25 (11.57%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
Programming Languages
1 49 (22.69%) JavaScript
2 47 (21.76%) TypeScript
3 20 (9.26%) Python
4 18 (8.33%) Java
5 16 (7.41%) C#
6 5 (2.31%) PowerShell
7 4 (1.85%) SQL
8 2 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.46%) PHP
Qualifications
1 25 (11.57%) Security Cleared
2 24 (11.11%) Degree
3 16 (7.41%) SC Cleared
4 11 (5.09%) DBS Check
5 9 (4.17%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.39%) ICAEW
8 2 (0.93%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.46%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (27.31%) Accessibility
2 26 (12.04%) WCAG
3 25 (11.57%) QA
4 9 (4.17%) GDPR
5 5 (2.31%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.39%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.39%) PERC
7 2 (0.93%) GxP
7 2 (0.93%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.93%) PMO
7 2 (0.93%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 18 (8.33%) Docker
2 5 (2.31%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (2.78%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.93%) Packer
2 2 (0.93%) Progress Chef
2 2 (0.93%) Terraform
3 1 (0.46%) Grafana
3 1 (0.46%) Kibana
3 1 (0.46%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 58 (26.85%) Adobe
2 16 (7.41%) Microsoft
3 9 (4.17%) Google
4 3 (1.39%) dotdigital
4 3 (1.39%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.39%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 2 (0.93%) Databricks
5 2 (0.93%) OpenAI
5 2 (0.93%) SAP
6 1 (0.46%) Hotjar