UX Designer Jobs

User Experience Designer
UK

The median User Experience Designer salary in the UK is £49,000 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 666 639 441
Rank change year-on-year -27 -198 +26
Permanent jobs requiring a UX Designer 246 326 1,390
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.34% 0.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.38% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 133 256 580
10th Percentile £29,000 £40,000 £37,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.33% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £57,500 £72,500 £67,813
90th Percentile £67,500 £80,625 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +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%

UX Designer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for UX Designer in the UK

UX Designer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for UX Designer in the UK

UX Designer
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for UX Designer in the UK

UX 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 UX 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 +27 180 £45,000 -14.29% 29
England -85 171 £49,000 -18.33% 58
Work from Home -20 83 £50,000 -16.67% 25
London -24 46 £60,000 -4.00% 33
Scotland -24 45 £49,000 +22.26% 8
North of England +30 38 £45,000 - 9
Midlands +3 29 £47,500 -5.00% 3
South East -3 25 £50,000 -4.76% 5
North West -1 21 £45,000 -2.70% 6
East of England -9 16 £45,000 -30.77%
East Midlands -8 15 £42,500 - 1
West Midlands -8 14 £47,500 -5.00% 2
Yorkshire +55 13 £51,250 +10.81% 2
South West -24 13 £42,500 -15.00% 4
Wales +12 8 £32,500 -38.10%
Northern Ireland - 6 - - 1
North East -8 4 £47,500 +14.46% 1

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

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

1 246 (100.00%) UX Design
1 246 (100.00%) User Experience
2 149 (60.57%) Figma
3 117 (47.56%) Prototyping
4 106 (43.09%) Wireframes
5 97 (39.43%) Sketch
6 96 (39.02%) HTML
7 94 (38.21%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 84 (34.15%) Problem-Solving
9 77 (31.30%) Accessibility
10 75 (30.49%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
11 72 (29.27%) Social Skills
12 71 (28.86%) Workshop Facilitation
13 64 (26.02%) User Research
13 64 (26.02%) Adobe
14 63 (25.61%) Security Cleared
15 61 (24.80%) WCAG
15 61 (24.80%) Low-Fidelity Prototypes
16 60 (24.39%) SC Cleared
17 58 (23.58%) Actionable Insight
17 58 (23.58%) Customer Experience
18 57 (23.17%) Miro
19 52 (21.14%) Marketing
19 52 (21.14%) Agile
20 51 (20.73%) Stakeholder Management
20 51 (20.73%) Coaching
20 51 (20.73%) Design Patterns
21 46 (18.70%) Digital Customer Experience
21 46 (18.70%) Sprint Review
21 46 (18.70%) Heroku

UX 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 4 (1.63%) CMS
1 4 (1.63%) Umbraco
2 2 (0.81%) WordPress
3 1 (0.41%) Confluence
3 1 (0.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 97 (39.43%) Sketch
2 35 (14.23%) Adobe XD
3 23 (9.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 22 (8.94%) Photoshop
5 21 (8.54%) Adobe Illustrator
6 20 (8.13%) InVision
7 8 (3.25%) InDesign
8 3 (1.22%) Adobe After Effects
8 3 (1.22%) Zeplin
9 2 (0.81%) Notion
10 1 (0.41%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 3 (1.22%) Magento
2 2 (0.81%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 149 (60.57%) Figma
2 57 (23.17%) Miro
3 46 (18.70%) Heroku
4 16 (6.50%) SaaS
5 11 (4.47%) SurveyMonkey
6 7 (2.85%) Google Analytics
6 7 (2.85%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 5 (2.03%) Stripe
8 4 (1.63%) Adobe Creative Cloud
8 4 (1.63%) WhatsApp
9 2 (0.81%) Asana
10 1 (0.41%) Azure
10 1 (0.41%) Pendo
10 1 (0.41%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.41%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.41%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.41%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.41%) Geospatial Data
1 1 (0.41%) GIS
1 1 (0.41%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 12 (4.88%) JIRA
2 5 (2.03%) Axure RP
3 1 (0.41%) Balsamiq
3 1 (0.41%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 72 (29.27%) Social Skills
2 52 (21.14%) Marketing
3 34 (13.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 29 (11.79%) Finance
5 17 (6.91%) Law
6 11 (4.47%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (4.47%) Games
6 11 (4.47%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (3.66%) Advertising
8 7 (2.85%) Retail
9 6 (2.44%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.63%) Publishing
11 3 (1.22%) Automotive
11 3 (1.22%) Polish Language
12 2 (0.81%) iGaming
12 2 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.81%) Social Housing
12 2 (0.81%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.41%) Humanities
13 1 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (39.02%) HTML
2 37 (15.04%) CSS
3 17 (6.91%) React
4 4 (1.63%) AngularJS
5 3 (1.22%) LESS
5 3 (1.22%) Sass
5 3 (1.22%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 2 (0.81%) Vue
7 1 (0.41%) CarPlay
7 1 (0.41%) Framer.js
7 1 (0.41%) Next.js
7 1 (0.41%) SVG
7 1 (0.41%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 21 (8.54%) Mobile App
2 15 (6.10%) Blockchain
3 12 (4.88%) Product Ownership
4 11 (4.47%) Market Risk
5 6 (2.44%) Graphic Design
6 5 (2.03%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.22%) Motion Graphics
8 3 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.81%) IoT
10 1 (0.41%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.41%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.41%) Driving Licence
10 1 (0.41%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.41%) NHS
10 1 (0.41%) Social Media
10 1 (0.41%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.81%) Android
2 1 (0.41%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 246 (100.00%) User Experience
1 246 (100.00%) UX Design
2 117 (47.56%) Prototyping
3 106 (43.09%) Wireframes
4 94 (38.21%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 84 (34.15%) Problem-Solving
6 75 (30.49%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
7 71 (28.86%) Workshop Facilitation
8 64 (26.02%) User Research
9 61 (24.80%) Low-Fidelity Prototypes
10 58 (23.58%) Actionable Insight
10 58 (23.58%) Customer Experience
11 52 (21.14%) Agile
12 51 (20.73%) Coaching
12 51 (20.73%) Design Patterns
12 51 (20.73%) Stakeholder Management
13 46 (18.70%) Digital Customer Experience
13 46 (18.70%) Sprint Review
14 41 (16.67%) Usability Testing
15 33 (13.41%) UX Research
Programming Languages
1 29 (11.79%) JavaScript
2 3 (1.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 63 (25.61%) Security Cleared
2 60 (24.39%) SC Cleared
3 29 (11.79%) Degree
4 3 (1.22%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.41%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (31.30%) Accessibility
2 61 (24.80%) WCAG
3 1 (0.41%) GDPR
Vendors
1 64 (26.02%) Adobe
2 10 (4.07%) Salesforce
3 6 (2.44%) Google
4 5 (2.03%) Hotjar
5 4 (1.63%) dotdigital
6 2 (0.81%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (0.41%) Apple
7 1 (0.41%) Peregrine
7 1 (0.41%) SAP