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

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 254 186 229
Rank change year-on-year -68 +43 -48
Permanent jobs citing UX Design 206 297 443
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.96% 1.80% 1.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.16% 1.92% 1.56%
Number of salaries quoted 123 132 350
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £29,975
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £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% -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 17,688 15,434 28,381
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.75% 93.34% 88.85%
Number of salaries quoted 12,944 9,142 21,602
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,913 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £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% -8.71%

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 12 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 5 (2.43%) CMS
2 5 (2.43%) 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 35 (16.99%) Azure
3 33 (16.02%) AWS
4 32 (15.53%) SaaS
5 17 (8.25%) Adobe Analytics
6 16 (7.77%) GitHub
7 12 (5.83%) GCP
8 11 (5.34%) Power Platform
9 10 (4.85%) Serverless
10 9 (4.37%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (4.37%) GitHub Copilot
11 8 (3.88%) Google Analytics
12 6 (2.91%) PaaS
13 5 (2.43%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 5 (2.43%) Microsoft 365
13 5 (2.43%) Power Automate
13 5 (2.43%) PowerApps
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
6 2 (0.97%) GIS
6 2 (0.97%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.49%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.49%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (9.71%) Git
2 7 (3.40%) Claude Code
2 7 (3.40%) JIRA
3 5 (2.43%) Axure RP
3 5 (2.43%) Balsamiq
3 5 (2.43%) Cypress.io
4 3 (1.46%) Vite
4 3 (1.46%) webpack
5 2 (0.97%) NUnit
5 2 (0.97%) Vagrant
5 2 (0.97%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.97%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.49%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.49%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (0.49%) Maven
General
1 46 (22.33%) Social Skills
2 25 (12.14%) Law
3 23 (11.17%) Finance
3 23 (11.17%) Games
4 21 (10.19%) Marketing
5 18 (8.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 17 (8.25%) Presentation Skills
6 17 (8.25%) Public Sector
7 14 (6.80%) Retail
8 12 (5.83%) Analytical Skills
9 8 (3.88%) Back Office
9 8 (3.88%) Banking
9 8 (3.88%) Financial Institution
9 8 (3.88%) Polish Language
10 6 (2.91%) Legal
10 6 (2.91%) Multimedia
11 5 (2.43%) Advertising
11 5 (2.43%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.46%) Publishing
12 3 (1.46%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 80 (38.83%) Designer
2 55 (26.70%) UX Designer
3 50 (24.27%) Lead
4 36 (17.48%) Senior
5 35 (16.99%) Developer
6 21 (10.19%) UI Designer
6 21 (10.19%) UI/UX Designer
7 18 (8.74%) Software Engineer
8 16 (7.77%) Lead Designer
8 16 (7.77%) Senior Designer
9 14 (6.80%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 14 (6.80%) Lead UX Designer
10 11 (5.34%) Product Designer
11 10 (4.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 10 (4.85%) Lead Software Engineer
12 9 (4.37%) Architect
12 9 (4.37%) Full-Stack Developer
13 8 (3.88%) Lead Developer
13 8 (3.88%) Solutions Architect
13 8 (3.88%) User Experience Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (21.84%) React
2 26 (12.62%) HTML
3 24 (11.65%) CSS
4 15 (7.28%) Web Services
5 13 (6.31%) .NET
5 13 (6.31%) AngularJS
6 9 (4.37%) NestJS
6 9 (4.37%) RESTful
6 9 (4.37%) Spring
7 8 (3.88%) HTML5
8 7 (3.40%) Spring Boot
8 7 (3.40%) Vue
9 6 (2.91%) Django
9 6 (2.91%) Material Design
9 6 (2.91%) Node.js
9 6 (2.91%) REST
10 5 (2.43%) ASP.NET
10 5 (2.43%) jQuery
10 5 (2.43%) Twisted
10 5 (2.43%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 47 (22.82%) 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%) e-Learning
6 10 (4.85%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (2.91%) AI Agents
8 5 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (2.43%) Video Conferencing
9 4 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.94%) Low-Code
10 3 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.97%) Animation
11 2 (0.97%) Blog
11 2 (0.97%) Life Science
11 2 (0.97%) NHS
11 2 (0.97%) PropTech
11 2 (0.97%) Reinsurance
12 1 (0.49%) Virtual Reality
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 91 (44.17%) Agile
3 63 (30.58%) User Research
4 53 (25.73%) Full-Stack Development
4 53 (25.73%) Mentoring
5 52 (25.24%) AI
5 52 (25.24%) Problem-Solving
6 46 (22.33%) Prototyping
7 43 (20.87%) Customer Experience
8 41 (19.90%) Software Engineering
9 40 (19.42%) Continuous Improvement
9 40 (19.42%) Wireframes
10 39 (18.93%) Analytics
11 38 (18.45%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 36 (17.48%) Scrum
13 29 (14.08%) Roadmaps
14 26 (12.62%) Collaborative Culture
15 25 (12.14%) Workshop Facilitation
16 24 (11.65%) Workflow
17 23 (11.17%) Inclusive Design
Programming Languages
1 49 (23.79%) JavaScript
2 45 (21.84%) TypeScript
3 18 (8.74%) Python
4 16 (7.77%) Java
5 14 (6.80%) C#
6 5 (2.43%) PowerShell
6 5 (2.43%) SQL
7 2 (0.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (0.97%) PHP
8 1 (0.49%) C
Qualifications
1 25 (12.14%) Security Cleared
2 23 (11.17%) Degree
3 16 (7.77%) SC Cleared
4 10 (4.85%) DBS Check
5 9 (4.37%) DV Cleared
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 58 (28.16%) Accessibility
2 25 (12.14%) WCAG
3 24 (11.65%) 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 16 (7.77%) 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 15 (7.28%) Microsoft
3 8 (3.88%) Google
4 3 (1.46%) dotdigital
4 3 (1.46%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.46%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 2 (0.97%) Databricks
5 2 (0.97%) OpenAI
5 2 (0.97%) SAP
6 1 (0.49%) Hotjar