Designer
UK

The median Designer salary in the UK is £46,855 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 May 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
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 314 364 206
Rank change year-on-year +50 -158 +53
Permanent jobs requiring a Designer 906 897 3,271
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.90% 0.91% 2.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.95% 1.00% 2.08%
Number of salaries quoted 656 663 1,290
10th Percentile £26,250 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £33,919 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,855 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.51% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £60,741 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £82,500 £80,688
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% 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 95,626 90,111 157,385
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.75% 91.48% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 68,292 56,801 84,606
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,250 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,250 £50,173
% change year-on-year -6.10% +6.13% +5.63%

Designer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Designer in the UK

Designer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Designer in the UK

Designer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Designer over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Designer in the UK

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 Designer within the UK over the 6 months to 23 May 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 +49 782 £46,110 -20.84% 298
UK excluding London +176 650 £45,000 -14.29% 186
Work from Home +4 333 £50,000 -16.67% 112
London -58 215 £56,250 -6.25% 125
North of England +121 214 £45,000 -7.37% 80
South East +63 126 £40,000 -20.00% 35
North West +47 118 £45,000 - 49
Midlands +43 97 £42,000 -30.00% 22
East of England +47 70 £46,110 -29.06% 16
Scotland -14 64 £49,000 -0.67% 22
Yorkshire +100 63 £45,000 -15.89% 21
West Midlands +30 58 £47,500 -20.83% 12
South West +9 55 £46,000 -14.42% 17
East Midlands +25 39 £35,000 -47.17% 11
North East +20 33 £57,965 +28.81% 11
Wales +15 14 £32,500 -33.33% 1
Northern Ireland +36 10 £40,400 -

Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 23 May 2024, 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 Designer in the job title.

1 359 (39.62%) User Experience
2 301 (33.22%) UX Design
3 259 (28.59%) Adobe
4 233 (25.72%) Figma
5 212 (23.40%) Prototyping
6 198 (21.85%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 188 (20.75%) Marketing
8 183 (20.20%) Accessibility
9 181 (19.98%) Social Skills
10 178 (19.65%) Agile
11 159 (17.55%) HTML
12 142 (15.67%) User Research
13 136 (15.01%) Wireframes
14 135 (14.90%) Photoshop
15 133 (14.68%) Sketch
16 130 (14.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
17 129 (14.24%) Coaching
17 129 (14.24%) Problem-Solving
18 128 (14.13%) Adobe Illustrator
19 127 (14.02%) Security Cleared
20 115 (12.69%) SC Cleared
20 115 (12.69%) Degree
21 114 (12.58%) Interaction Design
22 112 (12.36%) Customer Experience
23 111 (12.25%) Graphic Design
24 101 (11.15%) Workshop Facilitation
24 101 (11.15%) Mentoring
25 100 (11.04%) WCAG
25 100 (11.04%) Design Patterns
26 96 (10.60%) Service Design

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 31 (3.42%) WordPress
2 11 (1.21%) CMS
2 11 (1.21%) Confluence
3 6 (0.66%) Umbraco
4 5 (0.55%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.33%) IBM Domino
5 3 (0.33%) Totara
6 2 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 135 (14.90%) Photoshop
2 133 (14.68%) Sketch
3 130 (14.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 128 (14.13%) Adobe Illustrator
5 76 (8.39%) InDesign
6 54 (5.96%) Adobe XD
7 53 (5.85%) Adobe After Effects
8 33 (3.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 31 (3.42%) Adobe Premiere
9 31 (3.42%) InVision
9 31 (3.42%) Microsoft Office
10 22 (2.43%) Adobe Captivate
10 22 (2.43%) AutoCAD
11 15 (1.66%) CINEMA 4D
12 14 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
13 9 (0.99%) Simulink
13 9 (0.99%) SketchUp
14 8 (0.88%) 3ds Max
15 6 (0.66%) Revit
15 6 (0.66%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.55%) Oracle General Ledger
1 5 (0.55%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 4 (0.44%) Magento
2 4 (0.44%) Shopify
3 1 (0.11%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 233 (25.72%) Figma
2 57 (6.29%) Miro
3 52 (5.74%) Heroku
4 33 (3.64%) Adobe Creative Cloud
5 29 (3.20%) SaaS
6 20 (2.21%) OCI
7 11 (1.21%) SurveyMonkey
8 9 (0.99%) Azure
8 9 (0.99%) Google Analytics
9 7 (0.77%) AWS
9 7 (0.77%) dbt
9 7 (0.77%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 7 (0.77%) WhatsApp
10 6 (0.66%) Canva
11 5 (0.55%) MailChimp
11 5 (0.55%) Stripe
12 2 (0.22%) Asana
12 2 (0.22%) Dialogflow
12 2 (0.22%) IBM Watson
12 2 (0.22%) Wix.com
Communications & Networking
1 18 (1.99%) Structured Cabling
2 9 (0.99%) VPN
3 8 (0.88%) Cisco Firepower
4 5 (0.55%) SSL
5 3 (0.33%) Broadband
5 3 (0.33%) NaaS
5 3 (0.33%) Wireless
6 2 (0.22%) DHCP
6 2 (0.22%) DNS
6 2 (0.22%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.22%) Internet
6 2 (0.22%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (0.22%) VSAN
7 1 (0.11%) BGP
7 1 (0.11%) DMVPN
7 1 (0.11%) EIGRP
7 1 (0.11%) Intranet
7 1 (0.11%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (0.55%) SAP BW
2 3 (0.33%) Relational Database
3 2 (0.22%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.11%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (0.11%) GIS
4 1 (0.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 25 (2.76%) JIRA
2 6 (0.66%) Axure RP
3 5 (0.55%) Git
3 5 (0.55%) Subversion
4 2 (0.22%) Balsamiq
5 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 188 (20.75%) Marketing
2 181 (19.98%) Social Skills
3 76 (8.39%) Finance
4 67 (7.40%) Public Sector
5 65 (7.17%) Retail
6 55 (6.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 42 (4.64%) Advertising
8 37 (4.08%) Organisational Skills
9 31 (3.42%) Games
10 27 (2.98%) Analytical Skills
11 22 (2.43%) Law
11 22 (2.43%) Presentation Skills
12 20 (2.21%) Multimedia
13 11 (1.21%) Publishing
14 10 (1.10%) Manufacturing
15 9 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (0.77%) Automotive
16 7 (0.77%) Back Office
16 7 (0.77%) Banking
16 7 (0.77%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (17.55%) HTML
2 79 (8.72%) CSS
3 22 (2.43%) React
4 11 (1.21%) HTML5
5 6 (0.66%) Sass
6 5 (0.55%) SOAP
6 5 (0.55%) Unreal Engine
7 4 (0.44%) AngularJS
7 4 (0.44%) Next.js
7 4 (0.44%) Unity (Game Engine)
8 3 (0.33%) EDI
8 3 (0.33%) Kafka
8 3 (0.33%) LDAP
8 3 (0.33%) LESS
8 3 (0.33%) ODBC
8 3 (0.33%) REST
8 3 (0.33%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 2 (0.22%) .NET
9 2 (0.22%) jQuery
9 2 (0.22%) SVG
Miscellaneous
1 111 (12.25%) Graphic Design
2 79 (8.72%) Social Media
3 59 (6.51%) Product Ownership
4 56 (6.18%) Animation
5 31 (3.42%) Motion Graphics
6 30 (3.31%) Mobile App
7 23 (2.54%) e-Learning
8 20 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
9 19 (2.10%) Data Centre
10 18 (1.99%) Blockchain
10 18 (1.99%) Video Editing
11 17 (1.88%) Photography
12 16 (1.77%) Home Automation
12 16 (1.77%) Smart Home
13 12 (1.32%) Digital Media
14 11 (1.21%) Market Risk
15 10 (1.10%) FPGA
15 10 (1.10%) SCORM
15 10 (1.10%) VHDL
16 9 (0.99%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 8 (0.88%) Windows
2 6 (0.66%) Android
3 5 (0.55%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.22%) Linux
4 2 (0.22%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 359 (39.62%) User Experience
2 301 (33.22%) UX Design
3 212 (23.40%) Prototyping
4 198 (21.85%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 178 (19.65%) Agile
6 142 (15.67%) User Research
7 136 (15.01%) Wireframes
8 129 (14.24%) Coaching
8 129 (14.24%) Problem-Solving
9 114 (12.58%) Interaction Design
10 112 (12.36%) Customer Experience
11 101 (11.15%) Mentoring
11 101 (11.15%) Workshop Facilitation
12 100 (11.04%) Design Patterns
13 96 (10.60%) Service Design
14 83 (9.16%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
15 82 (9.05%) Actionable Insight
16 75 (8.28%) Analytics
17 69 (7.62%) Digital Customer Experience
18 68 (7.51%) Journey Map
Programming Languages
1 54 (5.96%) JavaScript
2 7 (0.77%) R
3 6 (0.66%) PHP
4 5 (0.55%) TypeScript
5 4 (0.44%) C
5 4 (0.44%) SystemVerilog
6 3 (0.33%) SQL
7 2 (0.22%) C#
7 2 (0.22%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.11%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 127 (14.02%) Security Cleared
2 115 (12.69%) Degree
2 115 (12.69%) SC Cleared
3 17 (1.88%) JNCIS
4 9 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (0.99%) CIPD
5 8 (0.88%) CCNA
5 8 (0.88%) CCNP
5 8 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (0.66%) Master's Degree
7 5 (0.55%) Oracle Certification
8 3 (0.33%) HND
8 3 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (0.33%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.33%) PMP
9 2 (0.22%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.11%) Chartered Engineer
10 1 (0.11%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 183 (20.20%) Accessibility
2 100 (11.04%) WCAG
3 11 (1.21%) GDPR
4 5 (0.55%) GAAP
4 5 (0.55%) IFRS
5 3 (0.33%) GRC
5 3 (0.33%) NIST
6 1 (0.11%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.11%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 5 (0.55%) Firmware
2 2 (0.22%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (0.11%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 259 (28.59%) Adobe
2 28 (3.09%) Microsoft
3 20 (2.21%) Juniper
3 20 (2.21%) Oracle
4 10 (1.10%) Google
5 9 (0.99%) Cisco
5 9 (0.99%) Salesforce
6 7 (0.77%) Instagram
6 7 (0.77%) SAP
7 6 (0.66%) F5
7 6 (0.66%) Facebook
8 5 (0.55%) Hotjar
8 5 (0.55%) PeopleSoft
8 5 (0.55%) Vectorworks
9 4 (0.44%) dotdigital
9 4 (0.44%) Intel
9 4 (0.44%) Microsemi
9 4 (0.44%) ServiceNow
9 4 (0.44%) Twitter
9 4 (0.44%) Xilinx