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UI Designer Career Market Report 2026

355 active jobs. 219 companies. Median salary $95K. Data from Greenhouse, Lever, Workday, Ashby, SmartRecruiters, Workable, and 14 additional ATS sources. Last computed: 2026-06-01.

355
Active Job Openings
219
Companies Hiring
$95K
Median Salary (US)
76%
With Salary Data

About This Report

The UI Designer market data on this page is updated daily from 800,000+ active job postings across 20 ATS platforms.

Greenhouse Lever Workday Ashby SmartRecruiters Workable + 14 more ATS sources

Salary: Extracted via NLP. Only USD $5K-$3M included. Skills: Named entity recognition, noise-filtered (generic soft skills excluded). Experience: Inferred from title + description. Coverage: 76% of positions include salary data.

Key Findings

Median salary: $95K in the US

Middle 50% of salaries range from $84K to $210K.

Remote roles pay 25% above the US national median

Remote-first employers competing nationally for talent. The premium reflects company quality (remote-first firms tend to be well-funded), not a work-mode bonus.

Figma is the most-demanded skill at 66%

SCRUM demand rose +3.7pp — fastest-growing skill

Mindlance leads hiring with 11 open positions

Biggest salary jump: Senior → Staff (+$85K, +69%)

Salary increase: +$85K · Sample: Senior → Staff

AI automation risk: medium-high (score 70/100)

Score: 70/100 · AI/LLM demand: 39% of postings

Week-over-week changes reflect dataset expansion, not market surge

Recent growth in tracked postings is from adding new data sources, not a one-week hiring boom. Interpret trend data with this in mind.

Salary by Experience Level

LevelJobsP25MedianP90
Senior11$93K$125K$270K
Mid-Level5$84K$84K$138K
Junior4$90K$94K$102K
Staff3$146K$210K$210K

What jumps out

Senior → Staff: +$85K (69%) — the biggest single-step increase. The salary curve is back-loaded: the largest raises come at transitions where scope changes from executing tasks to owning outcomes, or from owning outcomes to shaping architecture across teams.

Salary by Country

CountryJobsMedianCurrency
United States22$125KUSD
Canada5$78KUSD
Remote4$156KUSD

Work Mode

ModeShare
On-Site4.2%
Remote16.9%
Hybrid3.9%

~80% of postings do not specify work mode. Figures show only positions where it is explicitly stated.

Top Skills in Demand

Figma
66%
Adobe Creative Suite
41%
AI/LLM
39%
HTML/CSS
21%
JavaScript
13%
Sketch
12%
R
10%
Animation
9%
Salesforce
6%
Quality Assurance
6%
SAP
5%
A/B Testing
4%

Skills on the Rise

SCRUM ↑+3.7pp

Declining in Demand

Attention to Detail ↓-16.5ppAgile ↓-12.8ppEditing ↓-5.3ppAI/LLM ↓-4.2ppFigma ↓-4.1pp

Top Companies Hiring

CompanyOpeningsShare
Mindlance113.1%
Vmlenterprisesolutions92.5%
Konradgroup72.0%
Galileo51.4%
Pavago51.4%
Amazon41.1%
Applaudostudios41.1%
Krgtechnology41.1%

Top Countries by Job Volume

CountryJobs
United States101
Remote22
India18
United Kingdom13
Canada11
Singapore8
France7
Poland7

Education Requirements

LevelSharePositions
Associate Degree48.3%130
Master's Degree13.0%35
Bachelor's Degree11.2%30

Certifications

CPA (1%)

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