Designer
UK

The median Designer salary in the UK is £46,855 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 316 357 217
Rank change year-on-year +41 -140 +45
Permanent jobs requiring a Designer 907 940 3,045
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.92% 0.93% 1.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.97% 1.01% 2.02%
Number of salaries quoted 651 688 1,298
10th Percentile £26,250 £35,673 £37,500
25th Percentile £33,884 £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 £73,813 £70,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £82,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,200
% change year-on-year -14.29% +0.57% +4.40%

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 93,776 92,678 150,788
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.45% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,209 58,362 84,200
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 £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

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 9 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 9 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 +44 782 £46,110 -23.15% 307
UK excluding London +156 643 £45,000 -14.29% 198
Work from Home +5 340 £50,000 -16.67% 143
London -60 223 £57,500 -8.00% 126
North of England +125 208 £45,000 -7.37% 74
South East +50 123 £40,000 -20.00% 36
North West +54 119 £45,000 - 47
Midlands +48 100 £43,250 -34.72% 33
East of England +50 69 £46,110 -23.15% 17
Scotland -27 64 £49,000 -6.67% 22
Yorkshire +108 58 £45,000 -18.18% 17
West Midlands +35 57 £47,500 -28.30% 20
South West 0 55 £46,000 -14.42% 19
East Midlands +19 43 £37,500 -43.40% 14
North East +22 31 £53,982 -10.03% 12
Wales +10 14 £32,500 -26.68% 2
Northern Ireland +36 10 £40,400 - 1

Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 9 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.

1 371 (40.90%) User Experience
2 314 (34.62%) UX Design
3 259 (28.56%) Adobe
4 235 (25.91%) Figma
5 220 (24.26%) Prototyping
6 203 (22.38%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 195 (21.50%) Accessibility
8 191 (21.06%) Agile
9 190 (20.95%) Social Skills
10 188 (20.73%) Marketing
11 160 (17.64%) HTML
12 153 (16.87%) User Research
13 142 (15.66%) Wireframes
14 137 (15.10%) Sketch
15 136 (14.99%) Problem-Solving
16 135 (14.88%) Photoshop
17 133 (14.66%) Security Cleared
18 129 (14.22%) Coaching
19 128 (14.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
20 127 (14.00%) Adobe Illustrator
21 115 (12.68%) SC Cleared
21 115 (12.68%) Degree
22 114 (12.57%) Customer Experience
23 111 (12.24%) Graphic Design
24 108 (11.91%) Interaction Design
25 102 (11.25%) Workshop Facilitation
25 102 (11.25%) Mentoring
26 101 (11.14%) WCAG
26 101 (11.14%) Design Patterns
27 96 (10.58%) 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
3 10 (1.10%) Confluence
4 6 (0.66%) Umbraco
5 4 (0.44%) IBM Domino
6 3 (0.33%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.33%) Totara
7 2 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 137 (15.10%) Sketch
2 135 (14.88%) Photoshop
3 128 (14.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 127 (14.00%) Adobe Illustrator
5 76 (8.38%) InDesign
6 55 (6.06%) Adobe XD
7 54 (5.95%) Adobe After Effects
8 32 (3.53%) Adobe Premiere
8 32 (3.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 30 (3.31%) InVision
9 30 (3.31%) Microsoft Office
10 23 (2.54%) Adobe Captivate
11 22 (2.43%) AutoCAD
12 15 (1.65%) CINEMA 4D
13 14 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
14 9 (0.99%) Simulink
14 9 (0.99%) SketchUp
15 8 (0.88%) 3ds Max
16 6 (0.66%) Revit
16 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
1 235 (25.91%) Figma
2 56 (6.17%) Miro
3 53 (5.84%) Heroku
4 34 (3.75%) Adobe Creative Cloud
5 30 (3.31%) 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%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 18 (1.98%) 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%) DHCP
5 3 (0.33%) DNS
5 3 (0.33%) NaaS
5 3 (0.33%) Wireless
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%) HTTP
7 1 (0.11%) Intranet
7 1 (0.11%) OSPF
7 1 (0.11%) TCP/IP
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 24 (2.65%) JIRA
2 6 (0.66%) Axure RP
3 5 (0.55%) Git
3 5 (0.55%) Subversion
4 2 (0.22%) Balsamiq
4 2 (0.22%) WiX
5 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 190 (20.95%) Social Skills
2 188 (20.73%) Marketing
3 88 (9.70%) Finance
4 67 (7.39%) Public Sector
5 65 (7.17%) Retail
6 62 (6.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 43 (4.74%) Advertising
8 37 (4.08%) Organisational Skills
9 31 (3.42%) Games
10 28 (3.09%) Analytical Skills
10 28 (3.09%) 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
15 9 (0.99%) Legal
16 7 (0.77%) Automotive
16 7 (0.77%) Back Office
16 7 (0.77%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 160 (17.64%) HTML
2 79 (8.71%) CSS
3 23 (2.54%) React
4 12 (1.32%) 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%) SVG
9 2 (0.22%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 111 (12.24%) Graphic Design
2 78 (8.60%) Social Media
3 58 (6.39%) Animation
3 58 (6.39%) Product Ownership
4 32 (3.53%) Motion Graphics
5 31 (3.42%) Mobile App
6 23 (2.54%) e-Learning
7 20 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
8 19 (2.09%) Data Centre
8 19 (2.09%) Video Editing
9 18 (1.98%) Blockchain
10 17 (1.87%) Photography
11 16 (1.76%) Home Automation
11 16 (1.76%) Smart Home
12 12 (1.32%) Digital Media
13 11 (1.21%) Market Risk
14 10 (1.10%) FPGA
14 10 (1.10%) SCORM
14 10 (1.10%) VHDL
15 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
1 371 (40.90%) User Experience
2 314 (34.62%) UX Design
3 220 (24.26%) Prototyping
4 203 (22.38%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 191 (21.06%) Agile
6 153 (16.87%) User Research
7 142 (15.66%) Wireframes
8 136 (14.99%) Problem-Solving
9 129 (14.22%) Coaching
10 114 (12.57%) Customer Experience
11 108 (11.91%) Interaction Design
12 102 (11.25%) Mentoring
12 102 (11.25%) Workshop Facilitation
13 101 (11.14%) Design Patterns
14 96 (10.58%) Service Design
15 89 (9.81%) Actionable Insight
16 82 (9.04%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
17 78 (8.60%) Analytics
18 70 (7.72%) Journey Map
19 69 (7.61%) Digital Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 53 (5.84%) 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
1 133 (14.66%) Security Cleared
2 115 (12.68%) Degree
2 115 (12.68%) SC Cleared
3 17 (1.87%) 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
5 8 (0.88%) DV Cleared
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%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.22%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 195 (21.50%) Accessibility
2 101 (11.14%) WCAG
3 12 (1.32%) 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
1 1 (0.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 259 (28.56%) 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
7 6 (0.66%) F5
7 6 (0.66%) Facebook
7 6 (0.66%) SAP
8 5 (0.55%) PeopleSoft
8 5 (0.55%) Vectorworks
9 4 (0.44%) dotdigital
9 4 (0.44%) Hotjar
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