Senior Designer Job Trends in the South East

Senior Designer
England > South East

The median Senior Designer salary in the South East is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 November 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 279 298 261
Rank change year-on-year +19 -37 +161
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Designer 4 12 11
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.045% 0.11% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.049% 0.11% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 4 12 6
10th Percentile - £52,750 £39,375
25th Percentile £55,000 - £44,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -28.13%
75th Percentile £65,625 - £60,000
90th Percentile £66,750 £57,250 £61,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £57,982 £70,000
% change year-on-year +12.10% -17.17% +12.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South East. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the South East with a recognized job title 8,163 10,935 7,407
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.83% 96.39% 94.82%
Number of salaries quoted 4,737 6,094 5,282
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.96% -4.17% -

Senior Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Designer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Senior Designer job vacancy trend in the South East

Senior Designer
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for Senior Designer job vacancies in the South East.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Designer job vacancies in the South East

Senior Designer
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Designer within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Thames Valley +7 3 £60,000 +9.09% 15
Buckinghamshire - 3 £60,000 -
Kent - 1 £65,000 - 1
Senior Designer
England

Senior Designer Skill Set
Top 24 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 1 November 2025, Senior Designer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South East region featuring Senior Designer in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) 3D Modelling
1 3 (75.00%) AutoCAD
1 3 (75.00%) CAD
1 3 (75.00%) Revit
2 1 (25.00%) ADSL2
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Data Lineage
2 1 (25.00%) Data Management
2 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (25.00%) Databricks
2 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) ER Studio
2 1 (25.00%) Metadata
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement

Senior Designer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Applications
1 3 (75.00%) AutoCAD
1 3 (75.00%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) ADSL2
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (25.00%) Metadata
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) ER Studio
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Video Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) 3D Modelling
1 3 (75.00%) CAD
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Data Lineage
2 1 (25.00%) Data Management
2 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Databricks