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 leading to 11 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 748 686 814
Rank change year-on-year -62 +128 -134
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Designer 26 33 45
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.033% 0.059% 0.059%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.034% 0.067% 0.062%
Number of salaries quoted 24 19 35
10th Percentile £52,500 £45,000 £51,406
25th Percentile £55,400 £55,125 £58,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +3.85% +30.00%
75th Percentile - £72,750 £72,250
90th Percentile - £80,284 £75,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +7.41%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 75,674 49,280 72,604
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.86% 88.84% 95.48%
Number of salaries quoted 52,932 29,318 42,781
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 11 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 11 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 +25 14 £75,000 +6.76% 2
Yorkshire +58 6 £75,000 +2.74%
Scotland -60 6 £55,000 - 3
North West -19 5 £75,000 +45.63% 2
West Midlands -13 3 £66,900 -0.89% 1
Midlands -29 3 £66,900 -0.89% 1
North East - 3 £75,000 -
South East -31 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 11 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 (69.23%) Interaction Design
2 11 (42.31%) Prototyping
3 10 (38.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (30.77%) Service Design
4 8 (30.77%) Agile
5 7 (26.92%) Retail
5 7 (26.92%) Mentoring
5 7 (26.92%) Strategic Thinking
5 7 (26.92%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 7 (26.92%) Accessibility
6 6 (23.08%) dbt
6 6 (23.08%) User Research
6 6 (23.08%) Design Patterns
6 6 (23.08%) Line Management
6 6 (23.08%) Front End Development
6 6 (23.08%) User Experience
6 6 (23.08%) Data Visualisation
6 6 (23.08%) SC Cleared
6 6 (23.08%) Security Cleared
6 6 (23.08%) Visualisation
7 5 (19.23%) UX Design
8 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (15.38%) Creative Problem-Solving
8 4 (15.38%) Figma
8 4 (15.38%) Storytelling
8 4 (15.38%) Miro
9 3 (11.54%) B2B
9 3 (11.54%) B2C
9 3 (11.54%) SaaS
10 2 (7.69%) 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (23.08%) dbt
2 4 (15.38%) Figma
2 4 (15.38%) Miro
3 3 (11.54%) SaaS
4 1 (3.85%) Azure
4 1 (3.85%) Azure API Management
4 1 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (3.85%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.85%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
1 1 (3.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Visual Studio
1 1 (3.85%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 10 (38.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 7 (26.92%) Retail
3 1 (3.85%) Finance
3 1 (3.85%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.85%) ADO
1 1 (3.85%) CSS
1 1 (3.85%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.85%) Distributed Architecture
1 1 (3.85%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (69.23%) Interaction Design
2 11 (42.31%) Prototyping
3 8 (30.77%) Agile
3 8 (30.77%) Service Design
4 7 (26.92%) Mentoring
4 7 (26.92%) Strategic Thinking
4 7 (26.92%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 6 (23.08%) Data Visualisation
5 6 (23.08%) Design Patterns
5 6 (23.08%) Front End Development
5 6 (23.08%) Line Management
5 6 (23.08%) User Experience
5 6 (23.08%) User Research
5 6 (23.08%) Visualisation
6 5 (19.23%) UX Design
7 4 (15.38%) Creative Problem-Solving
7 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (15.38%) Storytelling
8 3 (11.54%) B2B
8 3 (11.54%) B2C
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.85%) C#
1 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
1 1 (3.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (23.08%) SC Cleared
1 6 (23.08%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (26.92%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.85%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft