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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 220 191 229
Rank change year-on-year -29 +38 -63
Permanent jobs citing UX Design 219 285 480
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.09% 1.84% 1.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.33% 1.95% 1.56%
Number of salaries quoted 132 126 384
10th Percentile £41,375 £41,250 £29,825
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,313 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,250 £87,500 £82,380
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £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 16,496 14,625 30,850
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.89% 94.51% 88.84%
Number of salaries quoted 11,943 8,513 23,831
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £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 £80,000 £75,000
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 20 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 (2.74%) Confluence
2 5 (2.28%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.37%) CMS
4 1 (0.46%) Moodle
4 1 (0.46%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (5.48%) Adobe XD
2 8 (3.65%) Photoshop
3 7 (3.20%) Adobe Illustrator
4 5 (2.28%) InDesign
5 4 (1.83%) Sketch
6 2 (0.91%) 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 (0.91%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 1 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 86 (39.27%) Figma
2 38 (17.35%) SaaS
3 36 (16.44%) Azure
4 34 (15.53%) AWS
5 19 (8.68%) GitHub
6 17 (7.76%) Adobe Analytics
7 14 (6.39%) GCP
8 12 (5.48%) GitHub Copilot
9 11 (5.02%) Power Platform
10 10 (4.57%) Google Analytics
11 9 (4.11%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (4.11%) Serverless
12 6 (2.74%) PaaS
13 5 (2.28%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 5 (2.28%) Microsoft 365
13 5 (2.28%) Power Automate
13 5 (2.28%) PowerApps
14 4 (1.83%) ChatGPT
14 4 (1.83%) n8n
14 4 (1.83%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 38 (17.35%) Broadband
2 3 (1.37%) SMS
3 1 (0.46%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.20%) Metadata
1 7 (3.20%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (2.74%) Power BI
3 5 (2.28%) MongoDB
4 4 (1.83%) MySQL
5 2 (0.91%) GIS
5 2 (0.91%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.91%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.91%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.46%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (8.22%) Git
2 7 (3.20%) Axure RP
2 7 (3.20%) Balsamiq
3 6 (2.74%) Claude Code
3 6 (2.74%) JIRA
3 6 (2.74%) Visual Studio
4 5 (2.28%) Cypress.io
5 3 (1.37%) Vite
5 3 (1.37%) webpack
6 2 (0.91%) NUnit
6 2 (0.91%) Vagrant
6 2 (0.91%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.46%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.46%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.46%) Maven
General
1 46 (21.00%) Social Skills
2 25 (11.42%) Law
3 24 (10.96%) Finance
4 23 (10.50%) Games
4 23 (10.50%) Presentation Skills
5 19 (8.68%) Public Sector
6 18 (8.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 18 (8.22%) Marketing
7 14 (6.39%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (6.39%) Retail
8 8 (3.65%) Back Office
8 8 (3.65%) Banking
8 8 (3.65%) Financial Institution
8 8 (3.65%) Legal
8 8 (3.65%) Polish Language
9 6 (2.74%) Multimedia
10 5 (2.28%) Advertising
10 5 (2.28%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.37%) Social Science
12 2 (0.91%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 85 (38.81%) Designer
2 60 (27.40%) UX Designer
3 58 (26.48%) Lead
4 38 (17.35%) Senior
5 35 (15.98%) Developer
6 21 (9.59%) Software Engineer
7 20 (9.13%) UI Designer
7 20 (9.13%) UI/UX Designer
8 17 (7.76%) Lead Designer
8 17 (7.76%) Senior Designer
9 14 (6.39%) Lead UX Designer
10 13 (5.94%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 13 (5.94%) Lead Software Engineer
10 13 (5.94%) Product Designer
11 10 (4.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 9 (4.11%) User Experience Manager
13 8 (3.65%) Architect
13 8 (3.65%) Lead Developer
13 8 (3.65%) Senior UX Designer
13 8 (3.65%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (20.55%) React
2 26 (11.87%) HTML
3 24 (10.96%) CSS
4 17 (7.76%) .NET
4 17 (7.76%) Web Services
5 13 (5.94%) AngularJS
6 9 (4.11%) Material Design
6 9 (4.11%) Spring
7 8 (3.65%) NestJS
7 8 (3.65%) Spring Boot
8 7 (3.20%) HTML5
8 7 (3.20%) RESTful
8 7 (3.20%) Vue
9 6 (2.74%) Blazor
9 6 (2.74%) Django
9 6 (2.74%) REST
9 6 (2.74%) WebAssembly
10 5 (2.28%) ASP.NET Core
10 5 (2.28%) Framer.js
10 5 (2.28%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 54 (24.66%) Product Ownership
2 24 (10.96%) Mobile App
3 20 (9.13%) Cloud Native
4 18 (8.22%) Social Media
5 12 (5.48%) e-Learning
5 12 (5.48%) Onboarding
6 9 (4.11%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (2.74%) AI Agents
8 5 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (2.28%) Video Conferencing
9 4 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.83%) Low-Code
10 3 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.91%) Animation
11 2 (0.91%) Blog
11 2 (0.91%) Life Science
11 2 (0.91%) NHS
11 2 (0.91%) PropTech
11 2 (0.91%) Reinsurance
12 1 (0.46%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.28%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (100.00%) User Experience
2 94 (42.92%) Agile
3 69 (31.51%) User Research
4 62 (28.31%) Full-Stack Development
5 60 (27.40%) Mentoring
6 57 (26.03%) Problem-Solving
7 55 (25.11%) AI
8 51 (23.29%) Wireframes
9 50 (22.83%) Software Engineering
10 49 (22.37%) Prototyping
11 48 (21.92%) Customer Experience
12 40 (18.26%) Analytics
12 40 (18.26%) Continuous Improvement
13 38 (17.35%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 36 (16.44%) Scrum
15 33 (15.07%) Collaborative Culture
16 32 (14.61%) Inclusive Design
17 31 (14.16%) Roadmaps
18 26 (11.87%) Design Thinking
19 25 (11.42%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 51 (23.29%) JavaScript
2 48 (21.92%) TypeScript
3 21 (9.59%) Python
4 19 (8.68%) Java
5 18 (8.22%) C#
6 5 (2.28%) PowerShell
7 4 (1.83%) SQL
8 2 (0.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.46%) PHP
Qualifications
1 26 (11.87%) Security Cleared
2 25 (11.42%) Degree
3 17 (7.76%) SC Cleared
4 12 (5.48%) DBS Check
5 9 (4.11%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.37%) ICAEW
8 2 (0.91%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.46%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (28.31%) Accessibility
2 29 (13.24%) WCAG
3 25 (11.42%) QA
4 9 (4.11%) GDPR
5 5 (2.28%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.37%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.37%) PERC
7 2 (0.91%) GxP
7 2 (0.91%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.91%) PMO
7 2 (0.91%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 17 (7.76%) Docker
2 5 (2.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (2.74%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.91%) Packer
2 2 (0.91%) Progress Chef
2 2 (0.91%) Terraform
3 1 (0.46%) Grafana
3 1 (0.46%) Kibana
3 1 (0.46%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 59 (26.94%) Adobe
2 16 (7.31%) Microsoft
3 10 (4.57%) Google
4 3 (1.37%) dotdigital
4 3 (1.37%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.37%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 2 (0.91%) Databricks
5 2 (0.91%) OpenAI
5 2 (0.91%) SAP
6 1 (0.46%) Hotjar