Interaction Designer Jobs

Interaction Designer
UK

The median Interaction Designer salary in the UK is £46,855 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 811 920 1111
Rank change year-on-year +109 +191 -218
Permanent jobs requiring an Interaction Designer 96 27 150
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.091% 0.029% 0.089%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.096% 0.031% 0.093%
Number of salaries quoted 94 18 46
10th Percentile £39,390 £41,750 -
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,037
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,855 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +22.22% -26.53%
75th Percentile £62,200 £67,500 £63,125
90th Percentile £75,000 £69,125 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £46,157 £38,774
% change year-on-year -2.51% +19.04% -29.50%

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%

Interaction Designer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Interaction Designer in the UK

Interaction Designer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Interaction Designer in the UK

Interaction Designer
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Interaction Designer in the UK

Interaction Designer
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Interaction 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
UK excluding London +56 89 £45,000 -2.51%
England +109 86 £57,965 -1.79%
North of England - 68 £57,965 -
Work from Home +99 67 £41,774 -24.05% 1
North West - 29 £57,965 -
Yorkshire - 24 £49,869 -
North East - 15 £57,965 -
Midlands - 7 £41,774 -
West Midlands - 7 £41,774 -
London +110 6 £52,828 -5.37%
Scotland -63 3 £39,390 -14.66%
Northern Ireland - 3 £39,390 -
South West - 3 £39,390 -
Wales - 3 £39,390 -
South East - 2 £39,390 -

Interaction Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Interaction 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 Interaction Designer in the job title.

1 96 (100.00%) Interaction Design
2 51 (53.13%) Accessibility
3 50 (52.08%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 49 (51.04%) Prototyping
5 43 (44.79%) Mentoring
6 40 (41.67%) Public Sector
7 37 (38.54%) Analytics
8 36 (37.50%) WCAG
8 36 (37.50%) Coaching
9 34 (35.42%) Agile
10 31 (32.29%) Design Patterns
11 27 (28.13%) Service Design
12 13 (13.54%) User Research
13 9 (9.38%) User Experience
13 9 (9.38%) SC Cleared
13 9 (9.38%) Security Cleared
14 7 (7.29%) Line Management
14 7 (7.29%) Visualisation
14 7 (7.29%) Data Visualisation
14 7 (7.29%) HTML
14 7 (7.29%) JavaScript
14 7 (7.29%) CSS
14 7 (7.29%) Retail
14 7 (7.29%) Usability Testing
14 7 (7.29%) Front End Development
14 7 (7.29%) Wireframes
14 7 (7.29%) Figma
14 7 (7.29%) Strategic Thinking
14 7 (7.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 7 (7.29%) dbt

Interaction 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:

Applications
1 6 (6.25%) Sketch
2 2 (2.08%) Adobe XD
Cloud Services
1 7 (7.29%) dbt
1 7 (7.29%) Figma
2 6 (6.25%) Heroku
3 1 (1.04%) AWS
General
1 40 (41.67%) Public Sector
2 7 (7.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 7 (7.29%) Retail
3 6 (6.25%) Social Skills
4 1 (1.04%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.29%) CSS
1 7 (7.29%) HTML
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (100.00%) Interaction Design
2 50 (52.08%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 49 (51.04%) Prototyping
4 43 (44.79%) Mentoring
5 37 (38.54%) Analytics
6 36 (37.50%) Coaching
7 34 (35.42%) Agile
8 31 (32.29%) Design Patterns
9 27 (28.13%) Service Design
10 13 (13.54%) User Research
11 9 (9.38%) User Experience
12 7 (7.29%) Data Visualisation
12 7 (7.29%) Front End Development
12 7 (7.29%) Line Management
12 7 (7.29%) Strategic Thinking
12 7 (7.29%) Usability Testing
12 7 (7.29%) Visualisation
12 7 (7.29%) Wireframes
13 6 (6.25%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
14 5 (5.21%) Low-Fidelity Prototypes
Programming Languages
1 7 (7.29%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 9 (9.38%) SC Cleared
1 9 (9.38%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.04%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (53.13%) Accessibility
2 36 (37.50%) WCAG
Vendors
1 2 (2.08%) Adobe