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UX Design jobs in 2026 — demand, top roles hiring, and related skills

As of 2026-11-05, UX Design appears in 1,020 job postings indexed by Skillenai over the past 90 days — Product Designer has the most postings mentioning UX Design, with demand share up 8.7% vs the prior 4 weeks.

Last updated · 90d ending 2026-11-05

Postings · last 90 days
1,020
Demand vs prior month
up 8.7% vs the prior 4 weeks
Top role · 36.5% of skill postings
Product Designer
Top hiring metro
New York City

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Frequently asked questions about UX Design

+Is UX Design in demand in 2026?

Yes. UX Design appears in 1,020 job postings indexed by Skillenai over the 90 days ending 2026-11-05. Product Designer accounts for the most postings mentioning UX Design (36.5% of all postings mentioning UX Design).

+What jobs require UX Design?

According to the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-11-05, among roles with at least 20 postings, the highest shares mentioning UX Design are UX Designer (42.9% of that role’s postings mention UX Design), UX/UI Designer (25.3% of that role’s postings mention UX Design), Founding Product Engineer (15.4% of that role’s postings mention UX Design).

+What skills are commonly paired with UX Design?

Across job postings indexed by Skillenai (90 days ending 2026-11-05), UX Design most often appears alongside prototyping, design systems, Figma, user research, Interaction Design.

+Where is UX Design most in demand?

As of 2026-11-05, the metro areas posting the most jobs requiring UX Design are New York City, San Francisco, Bengaluru, London, Toronto, according to the Skillenai jobs index.

+How can I keep up with new UX Design content and jobs?

Skillenai indexes news, blog posts, and research papers mentioning UX Design alongside the jobs index. You can subscribe to a daily email digest of new UX Design content from your Skillenai account.

+Which skills come before and after UX Design?

The skill-flow chart shows skills documented in adjacent positions across observed employer changes. An outgoing skill is documented in the following position but not the preceding one. These are ideas to explore, not proven prerequisites, acquisition dates, or levels of mastery. Each ribbon counts employer moves with that skill pair; one move can contribute several pairs.

Weekly indexed postings requiring UX Design — last 90 days

Salary distribution

Box = 25th–75th percentile · tick = median · whisker = 10th–90th · USD, annualized

Career paths around UX Design

Skills documented before and after this skill across employer changes.

Historical career profiles · all locations

Skills before UX Design

Before UX Designuser flows → UX Design: 6 observed employer moves with this skill pairuser research → UX Design: 3 observed employer moves with this skill pairCSS → UX Design: 3 observed employer moves with this skill pairHTML5 → UX Design: 3 observed employer moves with this skill pairCompetitive analysis → UX Design: 3 observed employer moves with this skill pairPrototyping → UX Design: 3 observed employer moves with this skill pairUI design → UX Design: 3 observed employer moves with this skill pairHTML → UX Design: 3 observed employer moves with this skill pairUX Designuser flows: 6 movesuser flows6 movesuser research: 3 movesuser research3 movesCSS: 3 movesCSS3 movesHTML5: 3 movesHTML53 movesCompetitive analysis: 3 movesCompetitiveanalysis3 movesPrototyping: 3 movesPrototyping3 movesUI design: 3 movesUI design3 movesHTML: 3 movesHTML3 moves

Skills after UX Design

After UX DesignUX Design → information architecture: 5 observed employer moves with this skill pairUX Design → Figma: 4 observed employer moves with this skill pairUX Design → branding: 4 observed employer moves with this skill pairUX Design → user research: 4 observed employer moves with this skill pairUX Design → sketch: 3 observed employer moves with this skill pairUX Design → Prototyping: 3 observed employer moves with this skill pairUX Design → wireframing: 3 observed employer moves with this skill pairUX Design → user flows: 3 observed employer moves with this skill pairUX Designinformation architecture: 5 movesinformationarchitecture5 movesFigma: 4 movesFigma4 movesbranding: 4 movesbranding4 movesuser research: 4 movesuser research4 movessketch: 3 movessketch3 movesPrototyping: 3 movesPrototyping3 moveswireframing: 3 moveswireframing3 movesuser flows: 3 movesuser flows3 moves
How to read this chart · view counts

Each side is an independent set of observed employer moves, not the same people followed through three stages. Ribbon widths compare move counts within that side. Internal moves are not included.

The following position documents a skill that the preceding position does not. Skills must be linked to both positions, with clear dates and no overlap. One move can connect several skill pairs. These patterns suggest skills to explore; they do not establish prerequisites, when a skill was learned, or a higher skill level.

Source: Skillenai talent graph, historical career profiles. Historical descriptions and coverage can change. Only the leading published connections are shown.

Observed connections and move counts
ConnectionMoves
Before: user flows6
Before: user research3
Before: CSS3
Before: HTML53
Before: Competitive analysis3
Before: Prototyping3
Before: UI design3
Before: HTML3
After: information architecture5
After: Figma4
After: branding4
After: user research4
After: sketch3
After: Prototyping3
After: wireframing3
After: user flows3

Roles most likely to require UX Design

Among roles with at least 20 postings in the same period.

RolePostings mentioning skill% of role postings mentioning skill
UX Designer24342.9%
UX/UI Designer4325.3%
Founding Product Engineer415.4%
UI Designer914.1%
UI/UX Designer3913.5%
Product Designer37212.6%
UX Engineer310.0%
Digital Product Designer210.0%
UI/UX Engineer210.0%
AI Product Designer29.1%

Roles with the most UX Design postings

RolePostings mentioning skillShare of skill postings
Product Designer37236.5%
UX Designer24323.8%
Product Manager10510.3%
UX/UI Designer434.2%
UI/UX Designer393.8%
Design Engineer151.5%
Software Engineer131.3%
Product Owner90.9%
UI Designer90.9%
UX Product Designer70.7%

Top companies posting jobs requiring UX Design

Employers ranked by indexed job postings in the last 90 days.

Top companies posting jobs requiring UX Design
CompanyPostings · 90 days
CLERA21
Cisco14
Amazon12
Stripe10
Assemblyai9
Scopely8
Staffnixcom8
Figma8
Inetum7
Barclays6

Job postings indexed over the past 90 days, grouped by resolved employer. Counts are postings, not hires. Companies without a published page appear without a link.

Top metros hiring for UX Design

NamePostingsShare
New York City494.8%
San Francisco424.1%
Bengaluru272.6%
London262.5%
Toronto161.6%
Boston141.4%
Berlin131.3%
Seattle111.1%
Copenhagen90.9%

Skills commonly paired with UX Design

prototyping (519)design systems (495)Figma (467)user research (348)Interaction Design (331)UI Design (301)product design (236)usability testing (226)Wireframing (214)information architecture (196)

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How this was computed

Weekly job-count charts omit the incomplete current week (weeks start Monday, UTC). Totals include all postings in the stated window. Counts derive from the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-11-05. Skills are resolved against the Skillenai canonical taxonomy, so the same entity is counted whether a posting writes 'Python', 'Python 3', or 'python'. Role prevalence divides postings mentioning UX Design by all postings for each role in the same window, ranking roles with at least 20 postings. Role distribution divides each role’s UX Design postings by all UX Design postings, including postings without a role. Shares need not sum to 100% for the displayed roles. Pages refresh weekly (or daily for the top-50 most-requested skills). Adjusted posting share: 0.3% to 0.3%. Demand share change is the relative percentage change between these adjusted shares. Each employer-and-ATS group has at least 10 postings in each 90-day window; its earlier posting count supplies the same weight in both windows. The panel includes 2,472 identified employers and covers 71% of earlier and 70% of latest indexed postings. Windows: 2026-07-07 to 2026-10-05 and 2026-08-04 to 2026-11-02 (UTC; end dates excluded). The windows overlap by 62 days. Dates reflect indexing, not the employer’s posting date. This measures posting mix, not total hiring or market-wide demand. Matching excludes entrants and exits; changes in crawl completeness within an employer or ATS can still affect the result.

source
Skillenai jobs index, deduplicated daily
entity_id
9a4702e03ddf123a
data_as_of
2026-11-05
window_days
90
Compiled by Jared Rand · Data sourced from the Skillenai labor market index