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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 260 182 246
Rank change year-on-year -78 +64 -54
Permanent jobs citing UX Design 207 292 334
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.94% 1.77% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.13% 1.91% 1.42%
Number of salaries quoted 135 131 245
10th Percentile £39,000 £41,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,625 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -15.38%
75th Percentile £72,500 £78,125 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,250 £87,500 £79,500
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 18,280 15,315 23,472
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.99% 93.04% 88.02%
Number of salaries quoted 13,282 9,035 17,224
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £41,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year - +3.51% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £96,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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 30 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 9 (4.35%) Confluence
2 8 (3.86%) CMS
2 8 (3.86%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.45%) WordPress
4 1 (0.48%) Moodle
Applications
1 15 (7.25%) Adobe XD
2 8 (3.86%) Photoshop
3 7 (3.38%) Adobe Illustrator
4 6 (2.90%) InDesign
5 5 (2.42%) Sketch
6 2 (0.97%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.48%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.48%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.48%) InVision
7 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
7 1 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.48%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.97%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 1 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 63 (30.43%) Figma
2 47 (22.71%) Azure
3 38 (18.36%) AWS
4 27 (13.04%) SaaS
5 15 (7.25%) Adobe Analytics
5 15 (7.25%) GitHub
5 15 (7.25%) Power Platform
6 14 (6.76%) GCP
7 13 (6.28%) Serverless
8 12 (5.80%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (5.80%) Google Analytics
9 8 (3.86%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (3.86%) Power Automate
9 8 (3.86%) PowerApps
10 7 (3.38%) GitHub Copilot
11 6 (2.90%) PaaS
12 5 (2.42%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 4 (1.93%) ChatGPT
13 4 (1.93%) n8n
13 4 (1.93%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.25%) Broadband
2 4 (1.93%) SMS
3 1 (0.48%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.38%) Metadata
1 7 (3.38%) MongoDB
1 7 (3.38%) PostgreSQL
1 7 (3.38%) Power BI
2 5 (2.42%) MySQL
2 5 (2.42%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.45%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.45%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.97%) GIS
5 1 (0.48%) Data Hub
5 1 (0.48%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.48%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.48%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (12.56%) Git
2 9 (4.35%) Balsamiq
2 9 (4.35%) JIRA
3 8 (3.86%) Axure RP
4 7 (3.38%) Claude Code
4 7 (3.38%) Cypress.io
5 4 (1.93%) Selenium
6 3 (1.45%) Vite
6 3 (1.45%) webpack
7 2 (0.97%) NUnit
7 2 (0.97%) Vagrant
7 2 (0.97%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.48%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.48%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.48%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.48%) Maven
General
1 51 (24.64%) Social Skills
2 27 (13.04%) Law
3 26 (12.56%) Finance
3 26 (12.56%) Public Sector
4 25 (12.08%) Marketing
5 23 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 21 (10.14%) Games
7 17 (8.21%) Analytical Skills
8 13 (6.28%) Retail
9 9 (4.35%) Legal
10 6 (2.90%) Multimedia
10 6 (2.90%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (2.42%) Advertising
11 5 (2.42%) Back Office
11 5 (2.42%) Banking
11 5 (2.42%) Financial Institution
11 5 (2.42%) Polish Language
11 5 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (2.42%) Publishing
12 4 (1.93%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 76 (36.71%) Designer
2 55 (26.57%) UX Designer
3 44 (21.26%) Developer
4 36 (17.39%) Lead
5 34 (16.43%) Senior
6 25 (12.08%) UI Designer
7 24 (11.59%) UI/UX Designer
8 16 (7.73%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 15 (7.25%) Senior Designer
9 15 (7.25%) Software Engineer
10 12 (5.80%) Architect
10 12 (5.80%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 12 (5.80%) Lead Designer
10 12 (5.80%) Lead UX Designer
11 11 (5.31%) Full-Stack Developer
12 9 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
13 8 (3.86%) Content Designer
13 8 (3.86%) Lead Developer
13 8 (3.86%) Senior UX Designer
14 7 (3.38%) User Experience Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (22.71%) React
2 31 (14.98%) CSS
2 31 (14.98%) HTML
3 20 (9.66%) .NET
4 16 (7.73%) REST
5 13 (6.28%) AngularJS
5 13 (6.28%) Web Services
6 10 (4.83%) HTML5
6 10 (4.83%) Node.js
6 10 (4.83%) RESTful
7 9 (4.35%) NestJS
7 9 (4.35%) Spring
8 8 (3.86%) Jest
8 8 (3.86%) Vue
9 7 (3.38%) Spring Boot
10 6 (2.90%) CSS3
10 6 (2.90%) Django
10 6 (2.90%) Framer.js
10 6 (2.90%) WebSockets
11 5 (2.42%) Twisted
Miscellaneous
1 49 (23.67%) Product Ownership
2 20 (9.66%) Cloud Native
3 16 (7.73%) Social Media
4 13 (6.28%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (5.31%) Onboarding
5 11 (5.31%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (3.38%) e-Learning
7 6 (2.90%) AI Agents
8 5 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (2.42%) Video Conferencing
9 4 (1.93%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.93%) IoT
9 4 (1.93%) Low-Code
10 3 (1.45%) Blog
10 3 (1.45%) Graphic Design
11 2 (0.97%) Animation
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 (2.42%) Linux
2 1 (0.48%) Android
2 1 (0.48%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (100.00%) User Experience
2 101 (48.79%) Agile
3 56 (27.05%) User Research
4 55 (26.57%) AI
5 49 (23.67%) Mentoring
6 46 (22.22%) Prototyping
7 45 (21.74%) Analytics
8 43 (20.77%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 42 (20.29%) Full-Stack Development
10 41 (19.81%) Continuous Improvement
10 41 (19.81%) Problem-Solving
11 35 (16.91%) Scrum
12 32 (15.46%) Wireframes
13 31 (14.98%) DevOps
14 29 (14.01%) Customer Experience
15 28 (13.53%) Workshop Facilitation
16 27 (13.04%) CI/CD
16 27 (13.04%) Roadmaps
17 26 (12.56%) Software Engineering
18 25 (12.08%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 52 (25.12%) JavaScript
2 45 (21.74%) TypeScript
3 18 (8.70%) C#
4 15 (7.25%) Python
5 13 (6.28%) Java
6 5 (2.42%) PowerShell
6 5 (2.42%) SQL
7 3 (1.45%) C
7 3 (1.45%) PHP
8 2 (0.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 30 (14.49%) Security Cleared
2 26 (12.56%) Degree
3 22 (10.63%) SC Cleared
4 9 (4.35%) DV Cleared
5 7 (3.38%) DBS Check
6 5 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.42%) ICAEW
7 3 (1.45%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.48%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (31.88%) Accessibility
2 32 (15.46%) WCAG
3 24 (11.59%) QA
4 10 (4.83%) GDPR
5 6 (2.90%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.93%) PERC
7 3 (1.45%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.45%) Software Quality Assurance
8 2 (0.97%) GxP
8 2 (0.97%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.97%) PMO
9 1 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 22 (10.63%) Docker
2 5 (2.42%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (4.83%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.90%) Terraform
3 2 (0.97%) Packer
3 2 (0.97%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.48%) Grafana
4 1 (0.48%) Kibana
4 1 (0.48%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 39 (18.84%) Adobe
2 22 (10.63%) Microsoft
3 12 (5.80%) Google
4 5 (2.42%) OpenAI
4 5 (2.42%) Salesforce
5 4 (1.93%) dotdigital
5 4 (1.93%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 2 (0.97%) Databricks
6 2 (0.97%) SAP
7 1 (0.48%) Guidewire
7 1 (0.48%) Hotjar
7 1 (0.48%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.48%) OneLogin
7 1 (0.48%) TIBCO