150+ Design & UX Jobs in Baltimore, MD

Observed local pay is split by sub-role. The broad arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media family in Baltimore had a $68,860 annual median in 2025, with $49,440 at the 25th percentile and $94,130 at the 75th percentile. A direct Maryland UX Designer I posting listed $70,743-$110,288. Directional local posting data centers current advertised ranges on about $90k to $125k, while Maryland Design, Creative & UX openings averaged about $74,748 on new postings in September 2026.

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Advertised pay

Across the 138 openings that disclose pay, the advertised range midpoint runs $80,368 at the 25th percentile, $101,250 at the median and $144,238 at the 75th. These are advertised ranges, not earned pay.

Active openings as of October 15, 2026

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What our analysts see this month

Competitive market | next 3-6 months

This is a competitive market rather than a broken one. Baltimore's unemployment rate was 3.9% in August 2026 and metro employment was up 0.5272% year-over-year, but Maryland-wide Design, Creative & UX employment was down 1.4% and active postings were down 2.2% year-over-year. The local opening mix is small, spread across more than 20 companies in the sampled 90-day window, and skews toward mid and senior roles more than entry-level work. The best odds are in UX/product-style work tied to research, prototyping, design systems, and service delivery rather than pure production design.

Best positioned: A mid-to-senior designer who can show Figma, research, prototyping, design-systems work, and comfort with AI-influenced workflows has the best odds right now.

Main caution: Do not assume the headline posted ranges reflect the whole market; the broader local arts/media wage median is lower, which means the best-paying jobs are concentrated in a narrower slice of roles.

From the September 2026 market report

Who is hiring here

Counted across all 176 openings in this market. 10 of the employers below are hiring for more than one role right now.

1. Northrop Grumman Corp.: 17 open roles
2. Jacobs Engineering Group: 6 open roles
3. Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC: 6 open roles
4. Baltimore Aircoil Company, Inc.: 4 open roles
5. Interclypse, Inc.: 4 open roles
6. Johnson, Mirmiran & Thompson, Inc.: 4 open roles
7. KCW Engineering Technologies, Inc.: 4 open roles
8. Dpr Construction, Inc.: 3 open roles
9. Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.: 3 open roles
10. The Johns Hopkins University: 3 open roles

Where the openings are

• Baltimore: 54
• Annapolis: 15
• Annapolis Junction: 15
• Laurel: 9
• Columbia: 9
• Linthicum: 9
• Towson: 8
• Owings Mills: 6

Work arrangement

on-site 124 (70%), hybrid 43 (24%), remote 9 (5%)

Where the demand is

Real opportunity is concentrated in UX/product-style work, not a broad creative hiring wave. The clearest local skill mix centers on Figma, wireframing, prototyping, user research, design systems, interaction design, and usability testing, and a Maryland Digital Services UX posting emphasized human-centered design, iterative delivery, user research, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and work on a web design system and CMS. That points to employers valuing designers who can move from discovery through structured delivery, especially in enterprise and public-service contexts. The second pocket of opportunity is contractor and consulting-style work. In the local posting sample, the named employers that appeared most consistently were Chenega Corporation and AgileEngine, LLC., which suggests a market where openings can cluster around project-based digital delivery rather than large in-house design teams. But the market is not broad: the sampled 90-day pool showed more than 20 postings across more than 20 companies, and Baltimore's information sector employment was down 4.1096% year-over-year. For pure graphic-design or production-heavy creative work, the long-run backdrop is less favorable, with BLS projecting graphic designer employment to decline 2% from 2025 to 2035 even though replacement openings will still exist.

• Public-sector and enterprise UX (high): Best fit for candidates who can show research, service design, design systems, CMS experience, and cross-functional delivery discipline.
• Contractor and consulting digital delivery (moderate): A practical path for mid-career candidates who can work across stakeholders and ship structured UX/product work on client timelines.
• Graphic design and production-heavy creative work (limited): Still viable, but likely tighter and more price-sensitive than UX/product work, with a weaker long-run outlook than interface and digital design roles.

Where to focus: Prioritize UX/product and design-systems roles with public-sector, enterprise, or contractor employers, and treat brand-only graphic design roles as a secondary lane.

Roles worth searching next

• Front-end web developer: This is a strong bridge for designers who already think in flows, components, and handoff, especially as design-to-code pipelines become more important and web/digital design has a stronger growth outlook than classic graphic design.
• Product analyst or associate product manager: AI is shifting more design value toward problem definition, tradeoffs, and product decisions, which makes this a natural pivot for designers with strong research and stakeholder skills.
• Business analyst: The local public-service UX signal emphasized service delivery, process understanding, CMS work, and cross-disciplinary collaboration, all of which translate well into analyst work.
• Digital project manager: A contractor- and delivery-oriented market rewards people who can coordinate timelines, stakeholders, and implementation, not just create artifacts.

What postings ask for

• Figma (table_stakes | immediate): Figma was the most-requested hard skill in the sampled local postings, showing up in about 50% of them. Who: Everyone in UX, UI, product, and modern digital design.
• Wireframing and prototyping (table_stakes | immediate): Wireframing and prototyping each appeared in about 40% of sampled local postings, so employers are screening for process, not just finished visuals. Who: Entry-level and career-switching candidates who need to prove they can think through flows.
• User research and usability testing (differentiator | immediate): Local postings explicitly ask for user research and usability testing, and the Maryland UX Designer I role centered research-led, human-centered service design. Who: Anyone trying to move beyond graphic production into UX or product design.
• Design systems (premium | near-term): Design systems appeared in about 25% of sampled local postings, and they also showed up in the Maryland public-sector UX role, making them a strong signal of maturity and scalability. Who: Mid-career designers aiming for enterprise, government, or platform teams.
• Service design and CMS collaboration (differentiator | near-term): The clearest direct local role signal tied design work to human-centered service delivery, collaboration across disciplines, and CMS plus web design system work. Who: Candidates targeting government, education, healthcare, or process-heavy service organizations.
• AI-assisted research and UX for AI products (premium | near-term): Adobe found the share of U.S. creative postings explicitly listing AI skills rose from 10% in September 2025 to 15% in April 2026, and Figma reported that 73% of hiring managers wanted more candidates proficient in AI tools while 79% wanted more designers of AI products. Who: Mid-career designers and switchers trying to stand out in slower hiring conditions.

Questions about this market

What do Design, Creative & UX roles pay in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD?

Observed local pay is split by sub-role. The broad arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media family in Baltimore had a $68,860 annual median in 2025, with $49,440 at the 25th percentile and $94,130 at the 75th percentile. A direct Maryland UX Designer I posting listed $70,743-$110,288. Directional local posting data centers current advertised ranges on about $90k to $125k, while Maryland Design, Creative & UX openings averaged about $74,748 on new postings in September 2026. This looks like a mixed market where UX/product-style roles can pay well, but category-wide averages still include lower-paid graphics and media work. Nationally, web and digital interface designers had a $104,000 median annual wage in May 2025 versus $62,960 for graphic designers, which helps explain why the local pay picture is so wide.

Where is demand for Design, Creative & UX roles in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD concentrated?

Real opportunity is concentrated in UX/product-style work, not a broad creative hiring wave. The clearest local skill mix centers on Figma, wireframing, prototyping, user research, design systems, interaction design, and usability testing, and a Maryland Digital Services UX posting emphasized human-centered design, iterative delivery, user research, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and work on a web design system and CMS. That points to employers valuing designers who can move from discovery through structured delivery, especially in enterprise and public-service contexts. The second pocket of opportunity is contractor and consulting-style work. In the local posting sample, the named employers that appeared most consistently were Chenega Corporation and AgileEngine, LLC., which suggests a market where openings can cluster around project-based digital delivery rather than large in-house design teams. But the market is not broad: the sampled 90-day pool showed more than 20 postings across more than 20 companies, and Baltimore's information sector employment was down 4.1096% year-over-year. For pure graphic-design or production-heavy creative work, the long-run backdrop is less favorable, with BLS projecting graphic designer employment to decline 2% from 2025 to 2035 even though replacement openings will still exist.

Which employers are hiring the most Design, Creative & UX talent in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD?

Recent postings show the most activity from Chenega Corporation (5 postings), AgileEngine, LLC. (5 postings). See the full market report for the complete employer landscape.

Can Design, Creative & UX roles in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD be done remotely?

Of recent postings, 15% are remote and 20% hybrid, with 60% on-site. Use the Remote filter above to see only remote openings.

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