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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 254 185 252
Rank change year-on-year -69 +67 -54
Permanent jobs citing UX Design 215 294 283
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.95% 1.77% 1.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% 1.90% 1.30%
Number of salaries quoted 137 128 198
10th Percentile £38,900 £41,055 £29,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,813 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,250 £87,500 £78,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,716 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.18% +10.39% -13.71%

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 18,760 15,439 21,772
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.60% 92.96% 87.70%
Number of salaries quoted 13,517 8,929 15,511
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,852 £40,600 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,005
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

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 14 August 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 10 (4.65%) CMS
2 8 (3.72%) Confluence
2 8 (3.72%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.79%) WordPress
4 1 (0.47%) Moodle
Applications
1 16 (7.44%) Adobe XD
2 9 (4.19%) Photoshop
3 8 (3.72%) Adobe Illustrator
3 8 (3.72%) InDesign
4 5 (2.33%) Sketch
5 2 (0.93%) Adobe After Effects
5 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.93%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.47%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.47%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.47%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.47%) InVision
6 1 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.47%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 2 (0.93%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 1 (0.47%) Magento
2 1 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 66 (30.70%) Figma
2 48 (22.33%) Azure
3 39 (18.14%) AWS
4 22 (10.23%) SaaS
5 15 (6.98%) Adobe Analytics
5 15 (6.98%) GitHub
5 15 (6.98%) Google Analytics
5 15 (6.98%) Power Platform
6 14 (6.51%) GCP
7 12 (5.58%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (4.65%) Serverless
9 8 (3.72%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (3.72%) Power Automate
9 8 (3.72%) PowerApps
10 7 (3.26%) GitHub Copilot
11 6 (2.79%) PaaS
12 5 (2.33%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 4 (1.86%) Anthropic Claude
13 4 (1.86%) n8n
13 4 (1.86%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.98%) Broadband
2 4 (1.86%) SMS
3 1 (0.47%) DNS
3 1 (0.47%) Intranet
3 1 (0.47%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.26%) Metadata
1 7 (3.26%) PostgreSQL
1 7 (3.26%) Power BI
2 6 (2.79%) MongoDB
2 6 (2.79%) MySQL
2 6 (2.79%) SQL Server
3 4 (1.86%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.93%) GIS
4 2 (0.93%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.47%) Data Hub
5 1 (0.47%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (11.16%) Git
2 11 (5.12%) Balsamiq
3 9 (4.19%) Axure RP
3 9 (4.19%) JIRA
4 7 (3.26%) Claude Code
4 7 (3.26%) Cypress.io
5 4 (1.86%) Selenium
6 3 (1.40%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (0.93%) NUnit
7 2 (0.93%) Vite
7 2 (0.93%) webpack
8 1 (0.47%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.47%) Jenkins
General
1 57 (26.51%) Social Skills
2 33 (15.35%) Public Sector
3 28 (13.02%) Finance
3 28 (13.02%) Marketing
4 26 (12.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 25 (11.63%) Law
6 21 (9.77%) Games
7 19 (8.84%) Analytical Skills
8 12 (5.58%) Retail
9 9 (4.19%) Legal
9 9 (4.19%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (2.79%) Multimedia
10 6 (2.79%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (2.79%) Publishing
11 5 (2.33%) Advertising
12 4 (1.86%) Banking
12 4 (1.86%) Local Government
13 3 (1.40%) Back Office
13 3 (1.40%) Financial Institution
13 3 (1.40%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 82 (38.14%) Designer
2 60 (27.91%) UX Designer
3 43 (20.00%) Developer
4 37 (17.21%) Senior
5 36 (16.74%) Lead
6 29 (13.49%) UI Designer
7 27 (12.56%) UI/UX Designer
8 17 (7.91%) Senior Designer
9 14 (6.51%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 14 (6.51%) Software Engineer
10 13 (6.05%) Architect
11 12 (5.58%) Lead Designer
11 12 (5.58%) Lead UX Designer
12 10 (4.65%) Full-Stack Developer
13 9 (4.19%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 9 (4.19%) Product Manager
13 9 (4.19%) Senior UX Designer
13 9 (4.19%) Solutions Architect
14 8 (3.72%) Content Designer
15 7 (3.26%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (20.00%) React
2 31 (14.42%) CSS
2 31 (14.42%) HTML
3 18 (8.37%) .NET
4 16 (7.44%) REST
5 13 (6.05%) Web Services
6 12 (5.58%) Node.js
7 9 (4.19%) NestJS
7 9 (4.19%) RESTful
8 8 (3.72%) AngularJS
8 8 (3.72%) Framer.js
9 7 (3.26%) Jest
9 7 (3.26%) Vue
10 6 (2.79%) CSS3
10 6 (2.79%) Django
10 6 (2.79%) HTML5
10 6 (2.79%) Spring
10 6 (2.79%) WebSockets
11 5 (2.33%) ASP.NET
11 5 (2.33%) Twisted
Miscellaneous
1 53 (24.65%) Product Ownership
2 17 (7.91%) Cloud Native
3 16 (7.44%) Social Media
4 14 (6.51%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (5.12%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (4.65%) Onboarding
7 7 (3.26%) AI Agents
7 7 (3.26%) e-Learning
8 5 (2.33%) Graphic Design
8 5 (2.33%) Video Conferencing
9 4 (1.86%) Blog
9 4 (1.86%) IoT
9 4 (1.86%) Low-Code
10 2 (0.93%) Animation
10 2 (0.93%) Educational Technology
10 2 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.93%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.93%) PropTech
10 2 (0.93%) Virtual Reality
10 2 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.79%) Linux
2 2 (0.93%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.47%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (100.00%) User Experience
2 102 (47.44%) Agile
3 61 (28.37%) User Research
4 57 (26.51%) AI
5 51 (23.72%) Mentoring
6 50 (23.26%) Analytics
7 48 (22.33%) Prototyping
8 46 (21.40%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 42 (19.53%) Continuous Improvement
9 42 (19.53%) Problem-Solving
10 38 (17.67%) Full-Stack Development
11 36 (16.74%) Wireframes
12 35 (16.28%) Scrum
13 31 (14.42%) Workshop Facilitation
14 30 (13.95%) Roadmaps
15 29 (13.49%) Customer Experience
15 29 (13.49%) DevOps
16 28 (13.02%) CI/CD
16 28 (13.02%) Usability Testing
17 26 (12.09%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 51 (23.72%) JavaScript
2 41 (19.07%) TypeScript
3 19 (8.84%) C#
4 15 (6.98%) Python
5 10 (4.65%) Java
6 8 (3.72%) SQL
7 5 (2.33%) PHP
7 5 (2.33%) PowerShell
8 4 (1.86%) C
9 2 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.47%) Swift
Qualifications
1 35 (16.28%) Security Cleared
2 27 (12.56%) Degree
3 25 (11.63%) SC Cleared
4 9 (4.19%) DBS Check
5 8 (3.72%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.79%) ICAEW
7 5 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.40%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.47%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (31.63%) Accessibility
2 37 (17.21%) WCAG
3 28 (13.02%) QA
4 7 (3.26%) GDPR
5 4 (1.86%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.86%) PERC
6 3 (1.40%) Software Quality Assurance
7 2 (0.93%) GxP
7 2 (0.93%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.93%) PMO
8 1 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 19 (8.84%) Docker
2 5 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (3.26%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 43 (20.00%) Adobe
2 24 (11.16%) Microsoft
3 15 (6.98%) Google
4 6 (2.79%) Salesforce
5 5 (2.33%) OpenAI
6 4 (1.86%) dotdigital
6 4 (1.86%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 2 (0.93%) Databricks
7 2 (0.93%) SAP
8 1 (0.47%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (0.47%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.47%) Hotjar
8 1 (0.47%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.47%) OneLogin
8 1 (0.47%) Oracle
8 1 (0.47%) RedGate
8 1 (0.47%) TIBCO