Designer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Designer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Designer salary in the UK excluding London is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 296 434 255
Rank change year-on-year +138 -179 -9
Permanent jobs requiring a Designer 643 324 1,010
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.90% 0.55% 1.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.95% 0.62% 1.47%
Number of salaries quoted 482 238 538
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,771 £42,091
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £59,500 £68,438 £60,000
90th Percentile £62,200 £77,800 £70,000
UK median annual salary £46,855 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -18.51% - +9.52%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 67,926 52,593 68,736
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 89.19% 95.74%
Number of salaries quoted 47,990 30,014 42,465
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Designer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Designer in the UK excluding London

Designer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Designer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Designer in the UK excluding London

Designer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Designer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Designer in the UK excluding London

Designer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Designer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 May 2024. 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
North of England +125 208 £45,000 -5.26% 91
South East +55 126 £40,000 -17.10% 46
North West +48 116 £45,000 - 54
Midlands +43 96 £41,887 -32.98% 26
East of England +43 70 £46,110 -29.06% 21
Scotland -21 64 £49,000 -10.09% 19
Yorkshire +101 60 £45,000 -17.05% 24
West Midlands +34 57 £47,500 -24.00% 16
South West -2 55 £46,000 -14.42% 14
East Midlands +23 39 £35,000 -47.17% 11
North East +19 32 £57,965 +28.81% 14
Wales +13 14 £32,500 -33.33% 3
Northern Ireland +30 10 £40,400 -
Designer
UK

Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, Designer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Designer in the job title.

1 253 (39.35%) User Experience
2 212 (32.97%) UX Design
3 198 (30.79%) Adobe
4 168 (26.13%) Prototyping
5 163 (25.35%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 160 (24.88%) Accessibility
7 152 (23.64%) Figma
8 131 (20.37%) Marketing
9 127 (19.75%) Agile
10 119 (18.51%) HTML
11 116 (18.04%) Coaching
12 115 (17.88%) Photoshop
13 112 (17.42%) Social Skills
14 108 (16.80%) Security Cleared
14 108 (16.80%) Adobe Illustrator
15 102 (15.86%) User Research
15 102 (15.86%) Sketch
16 98 (15.24%) SC Cleared
17 97 (15.09%) Adobe Creative Suite
18 96 (14.93%) Wireframes
19 90 (14.00%) Customer Experience
20 89 (13.84%) Interaction Design
20 89 (13.84%) Graphic Design
21 88 (13.69%) WCAG
22 87 (13.53%) Mentoring
23 85 (13.22%) Problem-Solving
24 84 (13.06%) Workshop Facilitation
25 80 (12.44%) Degree
26 79 (12.29%) Design Patterns
27 73 (11.35%) InDesign

Designer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 26 (4.04%) WordPress
2 11 (1.71%) CMS
3 6 (0.93%) Umbraco
4 4 (0.62%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.47%) Totara
6 2 (0.31%) Confluence
6 2 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 115 (17.88%) Photoshop
2 108 (16.80%) Adobe Illustrator
3 102 (15.86%) Sketch
4 97 (15.09%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 73 (11.35%) InDesign
6 43 (6.69%) Adobe XD
7 37 (5.75%) Adobe After Effects
8 24 (3.73%) Adobe Premiere
8 24 (3.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 20 (3.11%) AutoCAD
10 18 (2.80%) Adobe Captivate
11 16 (2.49%) InVision
11 16 (2.49%) Microsoft Office
12 13 (2.02%) CINEMA 4D
13 9 (1.40%) Simulink
14 6 (0.93%) 3ds Max
14 6 (0.93%) Revit
14 6 (0.93%) SketchUp
15 4 (0.62%) Blender
16 3 (0.47%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.62%) Magento
2 3 (0.47%) Shopify
3 1 (0.16%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 152 (23.64%) Figma
2 51 (7.93%) Miro
3 46 (7.15%) Heroku
4 27 (4.20%) Adobe Creative Cloud
5 17 (2.64%) SaaS
6 11 (1.71%) SurveyMonkey
7 8 (1.24%) Google Analytics
8 6 (0.93%) dbt
9 5 (0.78%) Stripe
10 4 (0.62%) WhatsApp
11 3 (0.47%) Canva
12 2 (0.31%) Asana
12 2 (0.31%) Azure
13 1 (0.16%) AWS
13 1 (0.16%) Dynamics 365
13 1 (0.16%) Google Workspace
13 1 (0.16%) IaaS
13 1 (0.16%) Microsoft 365
13 1 (0.16%) PaaS
13 1 (0.16%) Pendo
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.24%) Cisco Firepower
2 6 (0.93%) VPN
3 3 (0.47%) Structured Cabling
4 2 (0.31%) Internet
5 1 (0.16%) BGP
5 1 (0.16%) DMVPN
5 1 (0.16%) EIGRP
5 1 (0.16%) Intranet
5 1 (0.16%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.31%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (0.16%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (0.16%) GIS
2 1 (0.16%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 14 (2.18%) JIRA
2 5 (0.78%) Git
2 5 (0.78%) Subversion
3 4 (0.62%) Axure RP
4 2 (0.31%) Balsamiq
4 2 (0.31%) WiX
5 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 131 (20.37%) Marketing
2 112 (17.42%) Social Skills
3 57 (8.86%) Public Sector
4 46 (7.15%) Finance
5 38 (5.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 37 (5.75%) Retail
7 26 (4.04%) Advertising
8 22 (3.42%) Games
8 22 (3.42%) Organisational Skills
9 21 (3.27%) Law
10 18 (2.80%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (1.87%) Multimedia
12 11 (1.71%) Publishing
13 9 (1.40%) Analytical Skills
13 9 (1.40%) Manufacturing
14 7 (1.09%) Automotive
15 5 (0.78%) Banking
16 4 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
16 4 (0.62%) Telecoms
17 3 (0.47%) Polish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (18.51%) HTML
2 54 (8.40%) CSS
3 19 (2.95%) React
4 11 (1.71%) HTML5
5 6 (0.93%) Sass
6 4 (0.62%) AngularJS
6 4 (0.62%) Next.js
7 3 (0.47%) EDI
7 3 (0.47%) LESS
7 3 (0.47%) Twitter Bootstrap
8 2 (0.31%) .NET
8 2 (0.31%) SOAP
8 2 (0.31%) SVG
8 2 (0.31%) Vue
9 1 (0.16%) jQuery
9 1 (0.16%) Unreal Engine
9 1 (0.16%) V-Ray
9 1 (0.16%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 89 (13.84%) Graphic Design
2 66 (10.26%) Social Media
3 52 (8.09%) Product Ownership
4 38 (5.91%) Animation
5 26 (4.04%) Mobile App
6 22 (3.42%) Motion Graphics
7 21 (3.27%) e-Learning
8 16 (2.49%) Home Automation
8 16 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
8 16 (2.49%) Smart Home
9 14 (2.18%) Photography
10 11 (1.71%) Market Risk
11 10 (1.56%) FPGA
11 10 (1.56%) VHDL
12 9 (1.40%) SCORM
13 7 (1.09%) Video Editing
14 6 (0.93%) Digital Media
15 5 (0.78%) Driving Licence
15 5 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
15 5 (0.78%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 6 (0.93%) Android
2 5 (0.78%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.31%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 253 (39.35%) User Experience
2 212 (32.97%) UX Design
3 168 (26.13%) Prototyping
4 163 (25.35%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 127 (19.75%) Agile
6 116 (18.04%) Coaching
7 102 (15.86%) User Research
8 96 (14.93%) Wireframes
9 90 (14.00%) Customer Experience
10 89 (13.84%) Interaction Design
11 87 (13.53%) Mentoring
12 85 (13.22%) Problem-Solving
13 84 (13.06%) Workshop Facilitation
14 79 (12.29%) Design Patterns
15 72 (11.20%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
16 70 (10.89%) Actionable Insight
17 69 (10.73%) Service Design
18 62 (9.64%) Journey Map
19 61 (9.49%) Digital Customer Experience
20 60 (9.33%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 42 (6.53%) JavaScript
2 5 (0.78%) PHP
3 4 (0.62%) C
3 4 (0.62%) SystemVerilog
4 3 (0.47%) SQL
5 2 (0.31%) C#
5 2 (0.31%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.16%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.16%) Python
Qualifications
1 108 (16.80%) Security Cleared
2 98 (15.24%) SC Cleared
3 80 (12.44%) Degree
4 17 (2.64%) JNCIS
5 9 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (1.40%) CIPD
6 8 (1.24%) CCNA
6 8 (1.24%) CCNP
6 8 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (0.62%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.47%) HND
9 2 (0.31%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.16%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.16%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.16%) MCSE
10 1 (0.16%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 160 (24.88%) Accessibility
2 88 (13.69%) WCAG
3 11 (1.71%) GDPR
4 1 (0.16%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.16%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 5 (0.78%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (0.16%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 198 (30.79%) Adobe
2 21 (3.27%) Microsoft
3 20 (3.11%) Juniper
4 9 (1.40%) Cisco
4 9 (1.40%) Google
5 6 (0.93%) F5
6 5 (0.78%) Hotjar
7 4 (0.62%) dotdigital
7 4 (0.62%) Instagram
7 4 (0.62%) Intel
7 4 (0.62%) Microsemi
7 4 (0.62%) Twitter
7 4 (0.62%) Xilinx
8 3 (0.47%) Facebook
8 3 (0.47%) Vectorworks
9 2 (0.31%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (0.31%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.31%) Sitecore
9 2 (0.31%) WooCommerce
10 1 (0.16%) Thales