UX Design Jobs

User Experience Design (UXD)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for UX Design skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited UX Design over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 282 208 97
Rank change year-on-year -74 -111 +56
Permanent jobs citing UX Design 1,075 1,692 6,229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.02% 1.79% 3.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.22% 1.87% 3.85%
Number of salaries quoted 730 902 1,825
10th Percentile £31,250 £41,063 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £58,861
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +6.18% +7.02%
75th Percentile £68,750 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £95,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

UX 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 87,829 90,354 161,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.68% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,251 54,292 82,971
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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% +9.38%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for UX Design in the UK

UX Design
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for UX Design in the UK

UX Design
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for UX Design in the UK

UX 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 UX Design 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 -96 836 £55,000 -12.35% 285
UK excluding London +5 799 £50,000 -9.09% 157
Work from Home -61 474 £55,000 -15.38% 144
London -165 206 £65,000 -3.70% 138
North of England +46 195 £50,000 - 41
Scotland +11 148 £47,500 -13.64% 24
South East -69 140 £55,000 - 31
Midlands +37 131 £50,000 - 35
North West +13 119 £45,000 -18.18% 26
South West +41 112 £55,000 +10.00% 14
West Midlands +35 100 £55,000 +10.00% 20
Yorkshire +64 60 £51,000 +2.00% 11
East of England -86 46 £46,000 -29.23% 8
East Midlands -22 23 £30,000 -38.46% 15
North East -12 16 £51,250 +26.54% 4
Wales -14 16 £32,500 -40.91% 1
Northern Ireland +21 15 £46,250 -11.90% 4

UX 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 32 (2.98%) WordPress
2 30 (2.79%) CMS
3 27 (2.51%) Confluence
4 10 (0.93%) SharePoint
5 7 (0.65%) Umbraco
6 6 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.47%) Kentico
8 3 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
9 2 (0.19%) IBM Domino
9 2 (0.19%) IIS
10 1 (0.093%) Apache
10 1 (0.093%) SharePoint Server
10 1 (0.093%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 138 (12.84%) Sketch
2 62 (5.77%) Adobe XD
3 47 (4.37%) Photoshop
4 40 (3.72%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 39 (3.63%) Adobe Illustrator
6 35 (3.26%) InVision
7 25 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
8 18 (1.67%) Adobe After Effects
9 11 (1.02%) InDesign
10 9 (0.84%) Chatbot
10 9 (0.84%) Spreadsheet
11 7 (0.65%) Blender
11 7 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
12 6 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
12 6 (0.56%) UserZoom
13 4 (0.37%) CANalyzer
14 3 (0.28%) CINEMA 4D
14 3 (0.28%) Trello
14 3 (0.28%) Zeplin
15 2 (0.19%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 20 (1.86%) Shopify
2 16 (1.49%) Magento
3 5 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.37%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.19%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.093%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.093%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 234 (21.77%) Figma
2 136 (12.65%) AWS
3 96 (8.93%) Azure
4 80 (7.44%) SaaS
5 60 (5.58%) Miro
6 47 (4.37%) Heroku
7 32 (2.98%) Power Platform
8 28 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
9 27 (2.51%) GitHub
10 26 (2.42%) GCP
10 26 (2.42%) PowerApps
11 25 (2.33%) Power Automate
12 20 (1.86%) Cloud Computing
12 20 (1.86%) Microsoft 365
13 18 (1.67%) Google Analytics
14 17 (1.58%) SurveyMonkey
15 15 (1.40%) Serverless
16 13 (1.21%) Adobe Creative Cloud
17 10 (0.93%) npm
17 10 (0.93%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.93%) HTTP
2 8 (0.74%) Intranet
3 5 (0.47%) Internet
3 5 (0.47%) SSH
4 4 (0.37%) Ethernet
5 3 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.093%) AMQP
6 1 (0.093%) MQTT
6 1 (0.093%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (6.42%) MySQL
2 54 (5.02%) SQL Server
3 30 (2.79%) Power BI
4 21 (1.95%) PostgreSQL
5 18 (1.67%) Relational Database
6 14 (1.30%) Redis
7 12 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
7 12 (1.12%) Geospatial Data
8 8 (0.74%) GIS
8 8 (0.74%) Spatial Data
9 7 (0.65%) Big Data
10 6 (0.56%) MariaDB
11 5 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (0.47%) MongoDB
11 5 (0.47%) NoSQL
11 5 (0.47%) Tableau
12 3 (0.28%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (0.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 2 (0.19%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 113 (10.51%) Git
2 81 (7.53%) JIRA
3 22 (2.05%) webpack
4 14 (1.30%) Jenkins
5 12 (1.12%) Postman
6 11 (1.02%) Visual Studio
7 8 (0.74%) Android Studio
7 8 (0.74%) Axure RP
7 8 (0.74%) Bitbucket
7 8 (0.74%) Maven
7 8 (0.74%) Moq
8 7 (0.65%) Cucumber
8 7 (0.65%) Cypress.io
8 7 (0.65%) gulp
9 5 (0.47%) Babel
10 4 (0.37%) CANoe
10 4 (0.37%) GitLab
10 4 (0.37%) Octopus Deploy
10 4 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
10 4 (0.37%) Vite
General
1 372 (34.60%) Social Skills
2 225 (20.93%) Finance
3 207 (19.26%) Marketing
4 164 (15.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 105 (9.77%) Law
6 89 (8.28%) Analytical Skills
7 63 (5.86%) Banking
8 56 (5.21%) Retail
9 48 (4.47%) Presentation Skills
10 44 (4.09%) Public Sector
11 29 (2.70%) Legal
12 26 (2.42%) Manufacturing
13 25 (2.33%) Automotive
14 22 (2.05%) Games
15 19 (1.77%) Advertising
15 19 (1.77%) Electronics
16 18 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
17 16 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
18 14 (1.30%) Investment Banking
19 12 (1.12%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 382 (35.53%) Developer
2 314 (29.21%) Designer
3 246 (22.88%) Senior
3 246 (22.88%) UX Designer
4 155 (14.42%) UI Designer
5 154 (14.33%) Lead
6 141 (13.12%) UI/UX Designer
7 95 (8.84%) Senior Designer
8 93 (8.65%) Senior Developer
9 85 (7.91%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 84 (7.81%) Senior UX Designer
11 83 (7.72%) Software Engineer
12 59 (5.49%) Senior UI Designer
13 55 (5.12%) Senior UI/UX Designer
14 47 (4.37%) Full Stack Developer
15 45 (4.19%) React Developer
16 42 (3.91%) Software Developer
17 37 (3.44%) Lead Software Engineer
18 36 (3.35%) Product Manager
19 31 (2.88%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 349 (32.47%) HTML
2 291 (27.07%) CSS
3 218 (20.28%) React
4 106 (9.86%) AngularJS
5 100 (9.30%) .NET
6 71 (6.60%) Vue
7 69 (6.42%) Node.js
8 66 (6.14%) RESTful
9 52 (4.84%) HTML5
10 48 (4.47%) REST
11 47 (4.37%) Sass
12 44 (4.09%) Laravel
13 35 (3.26%) Web Services
14 34 (3.16%) jQuery
15 32 (2.98%) ASP.NET
16 30 (2.79%) Tailwind CSS
17 28 (2.60%) CSS3
18 27 (2.51%) .NET Framework
19 26 (2.42%) JSON
20 25 (2.33%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 119 (11.07%) Product Ownership
2 82 (7.63%) Mobile App
3 39 (3.63%) Greenfield Project
4 34 (3.16%) Algorithms
5 31 (2.88%) Blockchain
6 30 (2.79%) Data Structures
7 25 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
8 23 (2.14%) Graphic Design
9 22 (2.05%) Market Risk
10 21 (1.95%) Cloud Native
10 21 (1.95%) Management Information System
11 20 (1.86%) Onboarding
12 17 (1.58%) SCADA
13 16 (1.49%) Operational Technology
14 15 (1.40%) Animation
15 12 (1.12%) BBC
15 12 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
15 12 (1.12%) Virtual Team
16 11 (1.02%) Client/Server
16 11 (1.02%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 43 (4.00%) Android
2 39 (3.63%) Apple iOS
3 35 (3.26%) Windows
4 22 (2.05%) Linux
5 19 (1.77%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.37%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.093%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,075 (100.00%) User Experience
2 378 (35.16%) Agile
3 343 (31.91%) Problem-Solving
4 199 (18.51%) Front End Development
5 182 (16.93%) Wireframes
6 167 (15.53%) Prototyping
7 164 (15.26%) Software Engineering
8 160 (14.88%) User Research
9 152 (14.14%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 135 (12.56%) DevOps
11 123 (11.44%) Full Stack Development
12 118 (10.98%) UX Research
13 115 (10.70%) Customer Experience
14 111 (10.33%) Stakeholder Management
15 110 (10.23%) Design Patterns
16 106 (9.86%) Visualisation
17 105 (9.77%) Mentoring
18 104 (9.67%) CI/CD
19 103 (9.58%) Roadmaps
20 100 (9.30%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 352 (32.74%) JavaScript
2 132 (12.28%) TypeScript
3 96 (8.93%) C#
4 95 (8.84%) PHP
5 89 (8.28%) SQL
6 82 (7.63%) Python
7 79 (7.35%) Java
8 31 (2.88%) Kotlin
9 16 (1.49%) Go
9 16 (1.49%) T-SQL
10 14 (1.30%) Swift
11 13 (1.21%) Rust
12 11 (1.02%) C
13 10 (0.93%) VB.NET
14 8 (0.74%) Clojure
14 8 (0.74%) F#
14 8 (0.74%) Haskell
15 6 (0.56%) C++
16 5 (0.47%) PowerShell
16 5 (0.47%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 204 (18.98%) Degree
2 82 (7.63%) Security Cleared
3 68 (6.33%) SC Cleared
4 48 (4.47%) Master's Degree
5 25 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (1.12%) CSPO
6 12 (1.12%) MBA
7 11 (1.02%) PhD
8 7 (0.65%) HND
9 6 (0.56%) DV Cleared
9 6 (0.56%) IIBA
10 3 (0.28%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.19%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.093%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.093%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 162 (15.07%) Accessibility
2 70 (6.51%) WCAG
3 49 (4.56%) QA
4 15 (1.40%) GDPR
5 8 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
6 6 (0.56%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.37%) ISO 26262
8 3 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.19%) GLP
9 2 (0.19%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.19%) IEC 62304
9 2 (0.19%) ISO 13485
10 1 (0.093%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 43 (4.00%) Docker
2 16 (1.49%) Hyper-V
2 16 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.19%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (0.19%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 20 (1.86%) Kubernetes
2 16 (1.49%) Terraform
3 1 (0.093%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 126 (11.72%) Adobe
2 84 (7.81%) Microsoft
3 62 (5.77%) Google
4 27 (2.51%) Salesforce
5 21 (1.95%) ServiceNow
6 17 (1.58%) Xamarin
7 16 (1.49%) VMware
8 12 (1.12%) Hotjar
8 12 (1.12%) Qualtrics
8 12 (1.12%) Sony
9 11 (1.02%) Facebook
9 11 (1.02%) WooCommerce
10 8 (0.74%) DevExpress
10 8 (0.74%) SAP
11 7 (0.65%) Mapbox
12 5 (0.47%) Databricks
13 4 (0.37%) dotdigital
13 4 (0.37%) Oracle
14 3 (0.28%) TikTok
14 3 (0.28%) Twitter