Designer Jobs

Designer
UK

The median Designer salary in the UK is £45,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 313 350 206
Rank change year-on-year +37 -144 +58
Permanent jobs requiring a Designer 955 868 3,439
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.91% 0.92% 2.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.96% 1.00% 2.12%
Number of salaries quoted 694 651 1,290
10th Percentile £26,250 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,759 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.87% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £60,025 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £81,250 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +5.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 99,552 86,380 162,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 91.27% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,786 55,655 84,889
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%

Designer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Designer in the UK

Designer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Designer.

Salary trend for Designer in the UK

Designer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Designer over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Designer in the UK

Designer
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Designer within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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
England +44 820 £45,000 -21.74% 289
UK excluding London +170 694 £45,000 -10.00% 167
Work from Home +13 360 £49,000 -18.33% 104
North of England +137 235 £45,000 -5.26% 60
London -53 216 £53,183 -11.36% 135
North West +69 134 £45,000 +2.22% 35
South East +53 132 £40,000 -12.57% 38
Midlands +40 100 £41,774 -27.35% 20
East of England +42 73 £46,110 -27.67% 12
Yorkshire +85 68 £45,000 -15.89% 17
Scotland -15 68 £49,000 +8.89% 24
West Midlands +8 61 £46,250 -19.57% 12
South West +1 58 £46,000 -16.36% 16
East Midlands +13 39 £35,000 -47.17% 9
North East +15 33 £57,965 +22.03% 8
Wales +17 16 £32,500 -33.33% 1
Northern Ireland +32 12 £39,390 - 1

Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 June 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 featuring Designer in the job title.

1 375 (39.27%) User Experience
2 314 (32.88%) UX Design
3 264 (27.64%) Adobe
4 235 (24.61%) Figma
5 217 (22.72%) Prototyping
6 206 (21.57%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 190 (19.90%) Marketing
8 188 (19.69%) Social Skills
9 183 (19.16%) Accessibility
9 183 (19.16%) Agile
10 160 (16.75%) HTML
11 143 (14.97%) Wireframes
11 143 (14.97%) User Research
12 139 (14.55%) Photoshop
13 135 (14.14%) Interaction Design
14 134 (14.03%) Sketch
15 132 (13.82%) Problem-Solving
15 132 (13.82%) Adobe Creative Suite
15 132 (13.82%) Adobe Illustrator
16 129 (13.51%) Security Cleared
16 129 (13.51%) Coaching
17 117 (12.25%) SC Cleared
18 115 (12.04%) Customer Experience
19 112 (11.73%) Degree
20 111 (11.62%) Graphic Design
21 102 (10.68%) Mentoring
21 102 (10.68%) Workshop Facilitation
22 100 (10.47%) Service Design
22 100 (10.47%) Design Patterns
23 98 (10.26%) WCAG

Designer Skill Set
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 31 (3.25%) WordPress
2 11 (1.15%) CMS
3 10 (1.05%) Confluence
4 6 (0.63%) Umbraco
5 5 (0.52%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.31%) Totara
7 2 (0.21%) IBM Domino
7 2 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 139 (14.55%) Photoshop
2 134 (14.03%) Sketch
3 132 (13.82%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 132 (13.82%) Adobe Illustrator
4 77 (8.06%) InDesign
5 56 (5.86%) Adobe XD
6 53 (5.55%) Adobe After Effects
7 34 (3.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 31 (3.25%) Adobe Premiere
8 31 (3.25%) Microsoft Office
9 30 (3.14%) InVision
10 23 (2.41%) Adobe Captivate
11 22 (2.30%) AutoCAD
12 16 (1.68%) CINEMA 4D
13 14 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
14 9 (0.94%) Simulink
14 9 (0.94%) SketchUp
15 8 (0.84%) 3ds Max
16 6 (0.63%) Revit
16 6 (0.63%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.52%) Oracle General Ledger
1 5 (0.52%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 4 (0.42%) Magento
2 4 (0.42%) Shopify
3 1 (0.10%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 235 (24.61%) Figma
2 60 (6.28%) Miro
3 52 (5.45%) Heroku
4 33 (3.46%) Adobe Creative Cloud
5 29 (3.04%) SaaS
6 20 (2.09%) OCI
7 11 (1.15%) SurveyMonkey
8 9 (0.94%) Azure
8 9 (0.94%) Google Analytics
9 7 (0.73%) AWS
9 7 (0.73%) dbt
9 7 (0.73%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 7 (0.73%) WhatsApp
10 6 (0.63%) Canva
11 5 (0.52%) MailChimp
11 5 (0.52%) Stripe
12 3 (0.31%) Power Platform
13 2 (0.21%) Asana
13 2 (0.21%) Dialogflow
13 2 (0.21%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 18 (1.88%) Structured Cabling
2 9 (0.94%) VPN
3 8 (0.84%) Cisco Firepower
4 5 (0.52%) SSL
5 3 (0.31%) Broadband
5 3 (0.31%) NaaS
5 3 (0.31%) Wireless
6 2 (0.21%) DHCP
6 2 (0.21%) DNS
6 2 (0.21%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.21%) Internet
6 2 (0.21%) Intranet
6 2 (0.21%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (0.21%) VSAN
7 1 (0.10%) BGP
7 1 (0.10%) DMVPN
7 1 (0.10%) EIGRP
7 1 (0.10%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (0.52%) SAP BW
2 3 (0.31%) Geospatial Data
2 3 (0.31%) Power BI
2 3 (0.31%) Relational Database
3 2 (0.21%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (0.21%) Tableau
4 1 (0.10%) GIS
Development Applications
1 24 (2.51%) JIRA
2 9 (0.94%) Axure RP
3 5 (0.52%) Git
3 5 (0.52%) Subversion
4 3 (0.31%) Balsamiq
5 1 (0.10%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 190 (19.90%) Marketing
2 188 (19.69%) Social Skills
3 78 (8.17%) Finance
4 69 (7.23%) Public Sector
5 66 (6.91%) Retail
6 57 (5.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 43 (4.50%) Advertising
8 38 (3.98%) Organisational Skills
9 31 (3.25%) Games
10 25 (2.62%) Analytical Skills
11 24 (2.51%) Presentation Skills
12 23 (2.41%) Law
13 20 (2.09%) Multimedia
14 12 (1.26%) Manufacturing
15 11 (1.15%) Publishing
16 9 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
16 9 (0.94%) Legal
17 7 (0.73%) Automotive
17 7 (0.73%) Banking
17 7 (0.73%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 160 (16.75%) HTML
2 80 (8.38%) CSS
3 22 (2.30%) React
4 12 (1.26%) HTML5
5 6 (0.63%) Sass
6 5 (0.52%) SOAP
6 5 (0.52%) Unreal Engine
7 4 (0.42%) AngularJS
7 4 (0.42%) Next.js
7 4 (0.42%) Unity (Game Engine)
8 3 (0.31%) EDI
8 3 (0.31%) Kafka
8 3 (0.31%) LDAP
8 3 (0.31%) LESS
8 3 (0.31%) ODBC
8 3 (0.31%) REST
8 3 (0.31%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 2 (0.21%) .NET
9 2 (0.21%) SVG
9 2 (0.21%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 111 (11.62%) Graphic Design
2 80 (8.38%) Social Media
3 59 (6.18%) Product Ownership
4 57 (5.97%) Animation
5 32 (3.35%) Mobile App
5 32 (3.35%) Motion Graphics
6 23 (2.41%) e-Learning
7 20 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
8 19 (1.99%) Data Centre
9 18 (1.88%) Video Editing
10 17 (1.78%) Photography
11 16 (1.68%) Blockchain
11 16 (1.68%) Home Automation
11 16 (1.68%) Smart Home
12 12 (1.26%) Digital Media
13 11 (1.15%) Market Risk
14 10 (1.05%) Blog
14 10 (1.05%) FPGA
14 10 (1.05%) SCORM
14 10 (1.05%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 8 (0.84%) Windows
2 6 (0.63%) Android
3 5 (0.52%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.21%) Linux
4 2 (0.21%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.21%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 375 (39.27%) User Experience
2 314 (32.88%) UX Design
3 217 (22.72%) Prototyping
4 206 (21.57%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 183 (19.16%) Agile
6 143 (14.97%) User Research
6 143 (14.97%) Wireframes
7 135 (14.14%) Interaction Design
8 132 (13.82%) Problem-Solving
9 129 (13.51%) Coaching
10 115 (12.04%) Customer Experience
11 102 (10.68%) Mentoring
11 102 (10.68%) Workshop Facilitation
12 100 (10.47%) Design Patterns
12 100 (10.47%) Service Design
13 84 (8.80%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
14 82 (8.59%) Actionable Insight
15 77 (8.06%) Analytics
16 69 (7.23%) Digital Customer Experience
16 69 (7.23%) Journey Map
Programming Languages
1 56 (5.86%) JavaScript
2 7 (0.73%) R
3 6 (0.63%) PHP
4 5 (0.52%) TypeScript
5 4 (0.42%) C
5 4 (0.42%) SystemVerilog
6 3 (0.31%) SQL
7 2 (0.21%) C#
7 2 (0.21%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.10%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.10%) Python
Qualifications
1 129 (13.51%) Security Cleared
2 117 (12.25%) SC Cleared
3 112 (11.73%) Degree
4 17 (1.78%) JNCIS
5 9 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (0.94%) CIPD
6 8 (0.84%) CCNA
6 8 (0.84%) CCNP
6 8 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (0.63%) Master's Degree
8 5 (0.52%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (0.31%) HND
9 3 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.31%) PMI Certification
9 3 (0.31%) PMP
10 2 (0.21%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.10%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.10%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.10%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 183 (19.16%) Accessibility
2 98 (10.26%) WCAG
3 11 (1.15%) GDPR
4 5 (0.52%) GAAP
4 5 (0.52%) IFRS
5 3 (0.31%) GRC
5 3 (0.31%) NIST
5 3 (0.31%) QA
6 2 (0.21%) GLP
7 1 (0.10%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.10%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 5 (0.52%) Firmware
2 2 (0.21%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.21%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (0.10%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 264 (27.64%) Adobe
2 30 (3.14%) Microsoft
3 20 (2.09%) Juniper
3 20 (2.09%) Oracle
4 10 (1.05%) Google
4 10 (1.05%) Salesforce
5 9 (0.94%) Cisco
6 7 (0.73%) Instagram
6 7 (0.73%) SAP
7 6 (0.63%) F5
7 6 (0.63%) Facebook
8 5 (0.52%) Hotjar
8 5 (0.52%) PeopleSoft
8 5 (0.52%) Vectorworks
9 4 (0.42%) dotdigital
9 4 (0.42%) Intel
9 4 (0.42%) Microsemi
9 4 (0.42%) ServiceNow
9 4 (0.42%) Twitter
9 4 (0.42%) Xilinx