Lead Designer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Lead Designer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Lead Designer salary in the UK excluding London is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 733 704 828
Rank change year-on-year -29 +124 -164
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Designer 25 31 46
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.033% 0.055% 0.062%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.034% 0.062% 0.065%
Number of salaries quoted 24 17 36
10th Percentile £52,500 £45,000 £51,406
25th Percentile £55,400 £50,750 £56,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +3.85% +30.00%
75th Percentile - £75,500 £70,063
90th Percentile - £82,068 £74,960
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,626 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.19% -2.58% +7.41%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 72,584 50,145 71,219
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.01% 88.91% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 51,010 29,573 42,922
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,296
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.37% +5.89%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Lead Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Designer in the UK excluding London

Lead Designer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead Designer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Lead Designer in the UK excluding London

Lead Designer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Designer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Designer in the UK excluding London

Lead Designer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Designer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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
North of England +29 14 £75,000 +6.76% 2
Yorkshire +63 6 £75,000 +2.74%
Scotland -72 6 £55,000 - 1
North West -12 5 £75,000 +45.63% 2
North East - 3 £75,000 -
West Midlands -6 2 £66,900 -0.89% 1
Midlands -25 2 £66,900 -0.89% 1
South East +12 1 £77,500 +55.00%
Wales - 1 £58,800 -
Northern Ireland - 1 £58,800 -
Lead Designer
UK

Lead Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 3 June 2024, Lead 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 across the UK excluding London region featuring Lead Designer in the job title.

1 18 (72.00%) Interaction Design
2 11 (44.00%) Prototyping
3 10 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (32.00%) Service Design
5 7 (28.00%) Mentoring
5 7 (28.00%) Strategic Thinking
5 7 (28.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 7 (28.00%) Agile
5 7 (28.00%) Retail
5 7 (28.00%) Accessibility
6 6 (24.00%) dbt
6 6 (24.00%) User Research
6 6 (24.00%) Design Patterns
6 6 (24.00%) Data Visualisation
6 6 (24.00%) SC Cleared
6 6 (24.00%) Security Cleared
6 6 (24.00%) Visualisation
6 6 (24.00%) Line Management
6 6 (24.00%) Front End Development
7 5 (20.00%) User Experience
7 5 (20.00%) UX Design
8 4 (16.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
8 4 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (16.00%) Figma
8 4 (16.00%) Storytelling
8 4 (16.00%) Miro
9 3 (12.00%) SaaS
9 3 (12.00%) B2B
9 3 (12.00%) B2C
10 2 (8.00%) Design Thinking

Lead Designer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (24.00%) dbt
2 4 (16.00%) Figma
2 4 (16.00%) Miro
3 3 (12.00%) SaaS
General
1 10 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 7 (28.00%) Retail
3 1 (4.00%) Finance
3 1 (4.00%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (72.00%) Interaction Design
2 11 (44.00%) Prototyping
3 8 (32.00%) Service Design
4 7 (28.00%) Agile
4 7 (28.00%) Mentoring
4 7 (28.00%) Strategic Thinking
4 7 (28.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 6 (24.00%) Data Visualisation
5 6 (24.00%) Design Patterns
5 6 (24.00%) Front End Development
5 6 (24.00%) Line Management
5 6 (24.00%) User Research
5 6 (24.00%) Visualisation
6 5 (20.00%) User Experience
6 5 (20.00%) UX Design
7 4 (16.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
7 4 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (16.00%) Storytelling
8 3 (12.00%) B2B
8 3 (12.00%) B2C
Qualifications
1 6 (24.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (24.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (28.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.00%) Data Quality