About UX/UI jobs
UX and UI design is a well-defined career path in UK tech, and the 49 roles currently listed on Geekery.io reflect the discipline’s growing maturity. The four main clusters are: product designers (designers who own the end-to-end experience of a product, working from research through high-fidelity UI), UX researchers (specialists in user research, usability testing, and insight generation), visual / UI designers (specialists in visual design, often with brand and marketing work alongside product), and design systems (designers and engineers who build and maintain the shared component libraries that product teams use).
The most-used tools in UK UX/UI ads: Figma (overwhelmingly — Sketch and Adobe XD have largely fallen away), FigJam for collaborative whiteboarding, Miro for research synthesis, Maze / UserTesting / Lookback for usability testing, Notion / Confluence for documentation, and a growing share of AI-assisted design tools (Galileo AI, Uizard) at smaller teams.
UK UX/UI salaries: junior £25,000–£35,000, mid-level £25,000–£80,000, senior £45,000–£110,000, expert / lead £40,000–£55,000. The UK median is around £37,500. London adds a 15% premium; Manchester, Bristol, and Leeds are close to national median.
UK UX/UI hiring is heavily concentrated in London, Manchester, Bristol, Edinburgh, Leeds, and Brighton, with strong demand in fintech, e-commerce, SaaS, media, and design-led consumer brands. UX/UI is strongly remote-friendly — around 55% of these roles offer full remote working within the UK, with the rest being hybrid.
If you’re considering a move into UX/UI from another field, the entry paths are: junior product designer at a startup (most common — many UK startups hire junior designers with a strong portfolio), design ops or research ops (operational roles inside design teams, often more accessible than direct design), or UX research (a growing specialism with strong demand and lower entry barriers than product design).
