Interaction Design (IxD)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Interaction Design skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Interaction Design over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 701 727 518
Rank change year-on-year +26 -209 +185
Permanent jobs citing Interaction Design 184 235 1,054
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.24% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.25% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 101 100 269
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,480 £38,037
25th Percentile £40,988 £46,157 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,965 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.39% +4.35% -2.13%
75th Percentile £62,200 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £85,125 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,965 £60,000 £46,200
% change year-on-year -3.39% +29.87% -19.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Interaction Design is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85,075 94,861 153,532
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.25% 95.59% 95.75%
Number of salaries quoted 59,840 55,938 82,447
10th Percentile £29,071 £34,000 £33,714
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

Interaction Design
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Interaction Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Interaction Design in the UK

Interaction Design
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Interaction Design.

Salary trend for Interaction Design in the UK

Interaction Design
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Interaction Design over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Interaction Design in the UK

Interaction Design
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Interaction Design within the UK over the 6 months to 17 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
UK excluding London +31 158 £57,965 -3.39% 27
England +21 127 £57,965 -10.82% 41
Work from Home +79 73 £46,855 -14.81% 31
North of England +105 66 £57,965 -29.74% 19
Scotland -3 55 £58,800 +27.39%
North West +26 31 £57,965 -29.74% 10
London +56 26 £61,900 -8.30% 14
Yorkshire +86 18 £51,482 - 5
Midlands -3 18 £41,774 - 3
North East +13 17 £57,965 - 4
West Midlands +19 14 £50,287 - 1
South West -10 12 £49,522 +13.70%
East Midlands -11 4 £30,000 - 2
South East -13 4 £50,000 -34.43% 3
Wales +14 1 £58,800 +61.10% 1
East of England -52 1 £35,000 -41.67% 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £58,800 -

Interaction Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (1.09%) CMS
Applications
1 12 (6.52%) Sketch
2 8 (4.35%) Adobe XD
3 4 (2.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 3 (1.63%) InVision
5 2 (1.09%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.54%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.54%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 1 (0.54%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 71 (38.59%) Figma
2 43 (23.37%) SurveyMonkey
3 9 (4.89%) Azure
4 7 (3.80%) dbt
5 6 (3.26%) Heroku
6 5 (2.72%) Azure Stack
6 5 (2.72%) IaaS
6 5 (2.72%) PaaS
6 5 (2.72%) SaaS
7 2 (1.09%) Azure API Management
7 2 (1.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (1.09%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (1.09%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (1.09%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (1.09%) Cloudflare
7 2 (1.09%) Google Analytics
8 1 (0.54%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.17%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.09%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (5.98%) JIRA
2 1 (0.54%) Git
General
1 79 (42.93%) Finance
2 70 (38.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 68 (36.96%) Marketing
4 62 (33.70%) Law
5 44 (23.91%) Public Sector
6 34 (18.48%) Social Skills
7 32 (17.39%) Social Science
8 10 (5.43%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (5.43%) Retail
9 9 (4.89%) Banking
10 8 (4.35%) Investment Banking
11 5 (2.72%) Automotive
12 4 (2.17%) Legal
13 1 (0.54%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 109 (59.24%) Designer
2 66 (35.87%) Interaction Designer
3 54 (29.35%) Lead
4 34 (18.48%) Senior
5 32 (17.39%) Senior Designer
6 29 (15.76%) UX Designer
7 20 (10.87%) Senior Interaction Designer
8 11 (5.98%) Lead Designer
8 11 (5.98%) Senior UX Designer
8 11 (5.98%) User Experience Researcher
9 10 (5.43%) Product Designer
10 7 (3.80%) User Researcher
11 6 (3.26%) UI Designer
11 6 (3.26%) UI/UX Designer
12 5 (2.72%) Associate Director
12 5 (2.72%) Technology Director
13 4 (2.17%) Architect
13 4 (2.17%) Technical Architect
14 2 (1.09%) Developer
14 2 (1.09%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (21.74%) HTML
2 39 (21.20%) CSS
3 21 (11.41%) React
4 4 (2.17%) Next.js
5 2 (1.09%) .NET
5 2 (1.09%) .NET Framework
5 2 (1.09%) DOM
5 2 (1.09%) HTML5
5 2 (1.09%) Node.js
5 2 (1.09%) REST
5 2 (1.09%) RESTful
5 2 (1.09%) Sass
6 1 (0.54%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.54%) SVG
Miscellaneous
1 38 (20.65%) Market Risk
2 26 (14.13%) Product Ownership
3 9 (4.89%) Cloud Native
4 8 (4.35%) Blockchain
4 8 (4.35%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.09%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.09%) Graphic Design
7 1 (0.54%) Social Media
7 1 (0.54%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.54%) Vector Graphics
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (59.24%) User Experience
2 97 (52.72%) User Research
3 88 (47.83%) Service Design
4 82 (44.57%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 73 (39.67%) Prototyping
6 65 (35.33%) UX Design
7 63 (34.24%) UX Research
8 62 (33.70%) Psychology
9 59 (32.07%) Fintech
10 58 (31.52%) Agile
11 54 (29.35%) Information Architecture
12 50 (27.17%) Product Management
13 49 (26.63%) Qualitative Research
14 48 (26.09%) Cognitive Science
14 48 (26.09%) Wireframes
15 46 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
15 46 (25.00%) Analytics
16 44 (23.91%) Mentoring
17 43 (23.37%) Anthropology
18 42 (22.83%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 32 (17.39%) JavaScript
1 32 (17.39%) R
2 4 (2.17%) Bash
2 4 (2.17%) C#
2 4 (2.17%) PowerShell
2 4 (2.17%) Python
3 2 (1.09%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 79 (42.93%) Degree
2 43 (23.37%) Master's Degree
2 43 (23.37%) PhD
3 9 (4.89%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.89%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (46.20%) Accessibility
2 36 (19.57%) WCAG
3 3 (1.63%) Actionable Recommendations
3 3 (1.63%) GDPR
4 2 (1.09%) ISO 9000
4 2 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.09%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 4 (2.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 32 (17.39%) Qualtrics
2 17 (9.24%) Adobe
3 9 (4.89%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.09%) CA Agile Central
4 2 (1.09%) Google