Senior UI Designer Jobs

Senior User Interface Designer
UK

The median Senior User Interface Designer salary in the UK is £60,000 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 844 876 1062
Rank change year-on-year +32 +186 -164
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior UI Designer 63 71 200
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.060% 0.075% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.063% 0.082% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 14 62 68
10th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £54,063 £56,250 £53,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -13.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £67,500 £76,250 £78,125
90th Percentile £78,000 £89,625 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +10.53% -34.48%

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%

Senior UI Designer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior UI Designer in the UK

Senior UI Designer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior UI Designer in the UK

Senior UI Designer
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Senior UI Designer in the UK

Senior UI 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 Senior UI 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 +7 46 £55,000 +4.76% 10
England +11 45 £60,000 -7.69% 9
London +66 14 £62,500 -3.85% 4
North of England - 12 - - 1
South East +1 8 £55,000 -12.00% 2
North West - 8 - - 1
Scotland - 8 - - 6
Work from Home +10 7 £57,500 -17.86% 9
Midlands -11 6 £70,000 -
South West -24 4 - - 2
Wales - 4 - -
Yorkshire - 4 - -
East Midlands - 4 - -
Northern Ireland - 4 - -
West Midlands -16 2 £70,000 -

Senior UI Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

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

1 60 (95.24%) User Experience
2 59 (93.65%) UX Design
2 59 (93.65%) Figma
3 52 (82.54%) Sketch
4 51 (80.95%) HTML
5 49 (77.78%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 49 (77.78%) Problem-Solving
6 48 (76.19%) Accessibility
7 47 (74.60%) Prototyping
7 47 (74.60%) Workshop Facilitation
8 46 (73.02%) Sprint Review
8 46 (73.02%) Design Patterns
8 46 (73.02%) Miro
8 46 (73.02%) Digital Customer Experience
8 46 (73.02%) Customer Experience
8 46 (73.02%) Stakeholder Management
8 46 (73.02%) WCAG
8 46 (73.02%) Actionable Insight
8 46 (73.02%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
8 46 (73.02%) Low-Fidelity Prototypes
8 46 (73.02%) Coaching
8 46 (73.02%) Heroku
8 46 (73.02%) SC Cleared
8 46 (73.02%) Security Cleared
9 8 (12.70%) Adobe
10 6 (9.52%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 4 (6.35%) Visualisation
11 4 (6.35%) Data Visualisation
11 4 (6.35%) CSS
11 4 (6.35%) Agile

Senior UI 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 52 (82.54%) Sketch
2 6 (9.52%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 3 (4.76%) Adobe Illustrator
3 3 (4.76%) Photoshop
4 2 (3.17%) Adobe After Effects
4 2 (3.17%) Final Cut Pro
5 1 (1.59%) Adobe XD
5 1 (1.59%) InVision
5 1 (1.59%) Zeplin
Cloud Services
1 59 (93.65%) Figma
2 46 (73.02%) Heroku
2 46 (73.02%) Miro
3 1 (1.59%) SaaS
3 1 (1.59%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 1 (1.59%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.17%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Axure RP
General
1 4 (6.35%) Social Skills
2 3 (4.76%) Games
2 3 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (3.17%) Retail
4 1 (1.59%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (80.95%) HTML
2 4 (6.35%) CSS
3 1 (1.59%) CarPlay
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.76%) Graphic Design
1 3 (4.76%) Motion Graphics
2 2 (3.17%) Animation
2 2 (3.17%) Augmented Reality
2 2 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.59%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.59%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.59%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (95.24%) User Experience
2 59 (93.65%) UX Design
3 49 (77.78%) Problem-Solving
3 49 (77.78%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 47 (74.60%) Prototyping
4 47 (74.60%) Workshop Facilitation
5 46 (73.02%) Actionable Insight
5 46 (73.02%) Coaching
5 46 (73.02%) Customer Experience
5 46 (73.02%) Design Patterns
5 46 (73.02%) Digital Customer Experience
5 46 (73.02%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
5 46 (73.02%) Low-Fidelity Prototypes
5 46 (73.02%) Sprint Review
5 46 (73.02%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (6.35%) Agile
6 4 (6.35%) Data Visualisation
6 4 (6.35%) User Research
6 4 (6.35%) Visualisation
7 3 (4.76%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 2 (3.17%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 46 (73.02%) SC Cleared
1 46 (73.02%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.35%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (76.19%) Accessibility
2 46 (73.02%) WCAG
Vendors
1 8 (12.70%) Adobe
2 2 (3.17%) Hotjar
3 1 (1.59%) Apple
3 1 (1.59%) Salesforce