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Web Design Professionals

Web design professionals design, develop and maintain websites and web and mobile applications to meet a client’s specified requirements.

Wages

New workers
AVERAGE
Experienced
£28,442
£44,577
£78,601

New workers start around £28,442. Normal pay is £44,577 per year.
Highly experienced workers can earn up to £78,601.

Available jobs

In the past year there were 16,915 vacancies for this type of job

3.71%

Projected job growth over the next 8 years

Related courses

People work towards these careers by taking these courses at college and uni.

What they do most days?

  • Designs web interfaces for relational database systems.

  • Designs web pages and applications including graphics, animation and functionality to maximise visual effectiveness and facilitate appropriate access.

  • Presents design options to the client.

  • Liaises with internal/external client in order to define the requirements for the website or applications.

Hard Skills

Hard skills are specific, learnable, measurable, often industry or occupation-specific abilities related to a position.

Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.

  • User Experience (UX)

  • Figma (Design Software)

  • Prototyping

  • User Research

  • User Experience (UX) Design

  • User Interface (UI)

  • Wireframing

  • Product Design

  • Agile Methodology

  • Usability Testing

Soft Skills

Soft skills can be self-taught and usually do not necessitate a certain completed level of education.

Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.

  • Research

  • Communication

  • Influencing Skills

  • Innovation

  • Advocacy

  • Leadership

  • Problem Solving

  • Customer Service

  • Mentorship

  • Detail Oriented

How do I get a job like this?

People in these types of job started their career paths after studying courses like the ones below.

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