UX Design Jobs in Scotland

User Experience Design (UXD)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 145 160 132
Rank change year-on-year +15 -28 +9
Permanent jobs citing UX Design 149 56 134
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 2.16% 1.30% 2.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.41% 1.37% 2.34%
Number of salaries quoted 55 20 79
10th Percentile £31,750 £38,275 £39,945
25th Percentile £32,500 £44,375 £44,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £62,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.39% +12.73% +27.74%
75th Percentile £63,750 £82,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £119,168 £72,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £58,500
% change year-on-year -12.00% +6.84% +6.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,184 4,076 5,728
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 89.82% 94.61% 91.18%
Number of salaries quoted 2,548 2,038 2,896
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,569 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,313 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £83,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for UX Design in Scotland

UX Design
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for UX Design in Scotland

UX Design
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing UX Design in Scotland over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for UX Design in Scotland

UX Design
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing UX Design within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 9 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
Glasgow -50 96 £49,000 +3.16% 4
Edinburgh +24 24 £55,000 -31.25% 7
Dundee - 9 £47,500 -
Aberdeen - 7 £35,000 -
Midlothian - 5 - - 1
South Lanarkshire - 2 £34,500 -
Stirling - 2 £50,000 - 2
Aberdeenshire - 2 £37,500 -
East Lothian - 2 - -
UX Design
UK

UX Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 6 (4.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (3.36%) WordPress
3 2 (1.34%) Apache
4 1 (0.67%) CMS
Applications
1 28 (18.79%) Sketch
2 10 (6.71%) InVision
3 5 (3.36%) Adobe Illustrator
3 5 (3.36%) Photoshop
4 3 (2.01%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (1.34%) Adobe After Effects
Cloud Services
1 44 (29.53%) Figma
2 15 (10.07%) AWS
3 12 (8.05%) Miro
3 12 (8.05%) SaaS
4 11 (7.38%) SurveyMonkey
5 8 (5.37%) Heroku
6 7 (4.70%) Serverless
7 2 (1.34%) Azure
7 2 (1.34%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.67%) Adobe Creative Cloud
8 1 (0.67%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.07%) MySQL
2 14 (9.40%) SQL Server
3 6 (4.03%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (4.03%) Redis
4 3 (2.01%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.34%) Power BI
5 2 (1.34%) Tableau
6 1 (0.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 23 (15.44%) JIRA
2 8 (5.37%) Git
3 6 (4.03%) Moq
General
1 87 (58.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 75 (50.34%) Finance
3 71 (47.65%) Marketing
4 69 (46.31%) Law
5 51 (34.23%) Social Skills
6 13 (8.72%) Presentation Skills
7 11 (7.38%) Influencing Skills
8 9 (6.04%) Banking
9 7 (4.70%) Private Banking
9 7 (4.70%) Tech for Good
10 4 (2.68%) Analytical Skills
11 3 (2.01%) Manufacturing
11 3 (2.01%) Polish Language
11 3 (2.01%) Public Sector
12 2 (1.34%) Legal
12 2 (1.34%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.67%) Advertising
13 1 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 51 (34.23%) Lead
2 49 (32.89%) Designer
3 46 (30.87%) UX Designer
4 38 (25.50%) Developer
5 33 (22.15%) Software Engineer
6 30 (20.13%) Senior
7 28 (18.79%) Senior Designer
7 28 (18.79%) Senior UX Designer
8 27 (18.12%) Lead Software Engineer
9 25 (16.78%) UI Engineer
10 18 (12.08%) UI Designer
10 18 (12.08%) UI/UX Designer
11 14 (9.40%) User Experience Researcher
12 13 (8.72%) Software Developer
13 11 (7.38%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 11 (7.38%) UX Engineer
14 9 (6.04%) Senior UI Designer
14 9 (6.04%) Senior UI/UX Designer
15 8 (5.37%) Lead Developer
16 7 (4.70%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (38.93%) React
2 52 (34.90%) HTML
3 42 (28.19%) CSS
4 31 (20.81%) AngularJS
5 28 (18.79%) Node.js
6 20 (13.42%) Vue
7 16 (10.74%) Spring
7 16 (10.74%) Spring Boot
8 14 (9.40%) DOM
8 14 (9.40%) Web Services
9 9 (6.04%) .NET
10 8 (5.37%) jQuery
11 7 (4.70%) .NET Framework
11 7 (4.70%) Serverless Framework
12 6 (4.03%) Ajax
12 6 (4.03%) ASP.NET MVC
12 6 (4.03%) ASP.NET MVC 3
12 6 (4.03%) CSS3
12 6 (4.03%) Entity Framework
12 6 (4.03%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
Miscellaneous
1 22 (14.77%) Market Risk
2 17 (11.41%) Cloud Native
3 14 (9.40%) Management Information System
3 14 (9.40%) Product Ownership
4 12 (8.05%) Greenfield Project
4 12 (8.05%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (4.70%) Mobile App
6 6 (4.03%) Algorithms
7 5 (3.36%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.68%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (2.01%) Graphic Design
10 2 (1.34%) Life Science
10 2 (1.34%) PropTech
11 1 (0.67%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.68%) Android
1 4 (2.68%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (100.00%) User Experience
2 82 (55.03%) Agile
3 48 (32.21%) UX Research
4 42 (28.19%) Visualisation
5 40 (26.85%) Software Engineering
6 38 (25.50%) Mentoring
7 34 (22.82%) User Research
8 32 (21.48%) Coaching
9 31 (20.81%) Collaborative Working
9 31 (20.81%) Operational Stability
9 31 (20.81%) SDLC
10 29 (19.46%) Information Architecture
11 25 (16.78%) CI/CD
11 25 (16.78%) Community of Practice
11 25 (16.78%) Continuous Delivery
11 25 (16.78%) Data Visualisation
12 23 (15.44%) Problem-Solving
12 23 (15.44%) Wireframes
13 22 (14.77%) Interaction Design
14 21 (14.09%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 64 (42.95%) JavaScript
2 34 (22.82%) TypeScript
3 29 (19.46%) Java
4 15 (10.07%) PHP
5 12 (8.05%) Python
6 10 (6.71%) C#
7 7 (4.70%) T-SQL
8 6 (4.03%) C
9 4 (2.68%) Kotlin
9 4 (2.68%) Swift
10 2 (1.34%) SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (26.17%) Degree
2 15 (10.07%) Master's Degree
3 11 (7.38%) PhD
4 10 (6.71%) SC Cleared
4 10 (6.71%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (27.52%) Accessibility
2 13 (8.72%) WCAG
3 6 (4.03%) QA
4 2 (1.34%) GLP
System Software
1 6 (4.03%) Docker
Vendors
1 12 (8.05%) ServiceNow
2 10 (6.71%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.01%) Adobe
4 2 (1.34%) Charles River