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

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 212 226 190
Rank change year-on-year +14 -36 -36
Permanent jobs citing UX Design 178 204 491
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.06% 1.47% 1.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 1.55% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 114 137 404
10th Percentile £43,750 £40,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,684 £46,250 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.17% +4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £78,500 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £88,000 £86,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £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 14,330 13,188 27,572
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 85.21% 95.33% 92.07%
Number of salaries quoted 9,436 8,773 22,841
10th Percentile £31,250 £34,281 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.86%

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 March 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 3 (1.69%) CMS
1 3 (1.69%) Confluence
1 3 (1.69%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.56%) WordPress
Applications
1 23 (12.92%) Adobe XD
2 7 (3.93%) Sketch
3 3 (1.69%) Chatbot
3 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.56%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (0.56%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.56%) InVision
4 1 (0.56%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (1.12%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (1.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 84 (47.19%) Figma
2 40 (22.47%) AWS
3 32 (17.98%) SaaS
4 30 (16.85%) Azure
5 18 (10.11%) GCP
5 18 (10.11%) GitHub
6 17 (9.55%) Google Analytics
7 13 (7.30%) GitHub Copilot
8 11 (6.18%) Adobe Analytics
9 10 (5.62%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (5.06%) Miro
11 3 (1.69%) Power Platform
11 3 (1.69%) PowerApps
11 3 (1.69%) Serverless
12 2 (1.12%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (1.12%) Heroku
13 1 (0.56%) Azure DevOps
13 1 (0.56%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 32 (17.98%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.81%) NoSQL
2 3 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (1.69%) Power BI
3 2 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.12%) Metadata
3 2 (1.12%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.12%) MySQL
4 1 (0.56%) Redis
4 1 (0.56%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (9.55%) Balsamiq
2 15 (8.43%) Axure RP
3 13 (7.30%) Git
4 8 (4.49%) Visual Studio
5 4 (2.25%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.69%) JIRA
6 3 (1.69%) Vite
6 3 (1.69%) webpack
7 2 (1.12%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.12%) Jenkins
7 2 (1.12%) Vagrant
8 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.56%) Maven
8 1 (0.56%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 33 (18.54%) Social Skills
2 29 (16.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 23 (12.92%) Law
4 22 (12.36%) Presentation Skills
5 20 (11.24%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (11.24%) Public Sector
6 16 (8.99%) Telecoms
7 15 (8.43%) Finance
8 14 (7.87%) Games
9 8 (4.49%) Retail
10 7 (3.93%) Digital Health
10 7 (3.93%) Legal
10 7 (3.93%) Marketing
11 5 (2.81%) Back Office
11 5 (2.81%) Banking
11 5 (2.81%) Financial Institution
11 5 (2.81%) Polish Language
12 4 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (1.69%) Military
14 1 (0.56%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 53 (29.78%) Designer
2 49 (27.53%) Lead
3 44 (24.72%) Senior
4 37 (20.79%) UX Designer
5 33 (18.54%) Developer
6 16 (8.99%) Software Engineer
7 15 (8.43%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 14 (7.87%) Product Designer
9 12 (6.74%) Full-Stack Developer
9 12 (6.74%) Lead Designer
10 9 (5.06%) Applications Engineer
10 9 (5.06%) Lead Developer
11 8 (4.49%) Lead Software Engineer
11 8 (4.49%) Lead UX Designer
11 8 (4.49%) User Experience Manager
12 7 (3.93%) Android Engineer
12 7 (3.93%) Blazor Developer
12 7 (3.93%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 7 (3.93%) React Developer
12 7 (3.93%) Senior Android Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (21.35%) React
2 32 (17.98%) CSS
3 31 (17.42%) HTML
4 21 (11.80%) WebSockets
5 18 (10.11%) .NET
6 16 (8.99%) AngularJS
7 15 (8.43%) RESTful
8 13 (7.30%) REST
8 13 (7.30%) Vue
9 12 (6.74%) gRPC
10 10 (5.62%) HTML5
10 10 (5.62%) Web Services
11 9 (5.06%) Kafka
11 9 (5.06%) Node.js
12 8 (4.49%) Blazor
12 8 (4.49%) Material Design
12 8 (4.49%) WebAssembly
13 6 (3.37%) GraphQL
14 5 (2.81%) ASP.NET
14 5 (2.81%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 46 (25.84%) Product Ownership
2 34 (19.10%) Mobile App
3 12 (6.74%) AI Agents
3 12 (6.74%) Cloud Native
4 10 (5.62%) Social Media
5 9 (5.06%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (4.49%) Onboarding
7 7 (3.93%) e-Learning
8 4 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.69%) Video Conferencing
10 2 (1.12%) Educational Technology
10 2 (1.12%) NHS
10 2 (1.12%) PropTech
11 1 (0.56%) Graphic Design
11 1 (0.56%) Reinsurance
11 1 (0.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 1 (0.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (9.55%) Android
2 3 (1.69%) Linux
3 1 (0.56%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (100.00%) User Experience
2 78 (43.82%) Agile
3 61 (34.27%) User Research
4 57 (32.02%) Wireframes
5 54 (30.34%) Full-Stack Development
6 51 (28.65%) Customer Experience
7 49 (27.53%) AI
8 47 (26.40%) Problem-Solving
9 45 (25.28%) Mentoring
10 44 (24.72%) Software Engineering
11 42 (23.60%) Prototyping
12 41 (23.03%) Analytics
13 40 (22.47%) Inclusive Design
14 34 (19.10%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 29 (16.29%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
16 27 (15.17%) DevOps
17 26 (14.61%) CI/CD
17 26 (14.61%) Front End Development
17 26 (14.61%) Workshop Facilitation
18 25 (14.04%) Design Thinking
Programming Languages
1 49 (27.53%) JavaScript
2 31 (17.42%) TypeScript
3 24 (13.48%) Python
4 19 (10.67%) Java
5 17 (9.55%) C#
6 13 (7.30%) Go
7 9 (5.06%) C++
7 9 (5.06%) SQL
8 8 (4.49%) Kotlin
9 3 (1.69%) Bash
9 3 (1.69%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.69%) VBA
9 3 (1.69%) VBScript
10 2 (1.12%) PHP
10 2 (1.12%) Ruby
11 1 (0.56%) Swift
Qualifications
1 54 (30.34%) Degree
2 28 (15.73%) Security Cleared
3 25 (14.04%) SC Cleared
4 16 (8.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (5.06%) DBS Check
6 7 (3.93%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.69%) CITP
7 3 (1.69%) CREST Certified
7 3 (1.69%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.56%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (32.02%) Accessibility
2 34 (19.10%) WCAG
3 19 (10.67%) QA
4 4 (2.25%) GDPR
4 4 (2.25%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.69%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 24 (13.48%) Docker
2 3 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (7.87%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.12%) Packer
2 2 (1.12%) Progress Chef
2 2 (1.12%) Terraform
3 1 (0.56%) Grafana
3 1 (0.56%) Kibana
3 1 (0.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 57 (32.02%) Adobe
2 17 (9.55%) Google
3 15 (8.43%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.56%) dotdigital
4 1 (0.56%) Salesforce