200+ Design & UX Jobs in Philadelphia, PA

Government wage data shows a split market. In Philadelphia, the broad arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media group averaged $36.12 per hour in May 2025, while the broader media-and-design family had a 2025 median of $62,500, a 75th percentile of $90,250, and a 90th percentile of $123,380. A more digital slice of the market paid better: web and digital interface designers in the metro had a $94,390 median in 2023. By contrast, sampled current local postings center on about $97k to $137k, which likely reflects a tilt toward product, UX, and senior roles rather than the whole category.

Full September 2026 market report

Advertised pay

Across the 97 openings that disclose pay, the advertised range midpoint runs $70,000 at the 25th percentile, $92,150 at the median and $124,950 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

Philadelphia is a workable but competitive Design, Creative & UX market right now, not a broad hiring surge. The metro labor market itself is healthier than a year ago: unemployment was 4.4% in August 2026 and metro employment level was up 2.6130% year-over-year. But the occupation-specific read is cooler: Pennsylvania design, creative & UX employment was essentially flat year-over-year in September 2026, while active postings were down 5.7%. That makes this a better market for focused digital designers than for generalist creatives, especially because only about 15% of sampled postings were entry level.

Best positioned: Mid-career product, UX, or interface designers who can show Figma, prototyping, interaction design, and some AI-assisted or code-adjacent workflow have the best odds, because local postings most often mention Figma, product design, interaction design, and prototyping, while hiring managers nationally are increasingly prioritizing AI-tool proficiency.

Main caution: The biggest mistake is reading the current high posted salary bands as the whole market; sampled local postings center on about $97k to $137k, but broader government wage benchmarks for the local occupation family are much lower and the metro cost of living is roughly 9.8 percent above the national average.

From the September 2026 market report

Who is hiring here

Counted across all 209 openings in this market. 10 of the employers below are hiring for more than one role right now.

1. Jacobs Engineering Group: 9 open roles
2. URBN Urban Outfitters, Inc.: 9 open roles
3. EwingCole: 6 open roles
4. Floor & Decor: 3 open roles
5. GE Aerospace: 3 open roles
6. Honeywell International Inc.: 3 open roles
7. SEPTA: 3 open roles
8. Urban Outfitters, Inc.: 3 open roles
9. Weston Solutions, Inc.: 3 open roles
10. Anthropologie: 2 open roles

Where the openings are

• Philadelphia: 104
• Wilmington: 9
• Conshohocken: 8
• West Chester: 7
• King of Prussia: 6
• Camden: 6
• Malvern: 4
• Ardmore: 3

Work arrangement

on-site 131 (63%), hybrid 62 (30%), remote 16 (8%)

Where the demand is

Real opportunity is concentrated in business-facing design rather than pure creative headcount. Professional and Business Services employment in the metro reached 499.6 thousand in August 2026 and was up 1.7308% year-over-year, while Information employment was 50 thousand and down 3.6609%. That tilts openings toward consulting, agencies, enterprise services, and in-house teams attached to operations, commerce, or customer experience, not toward broad media-style hiring. The category is also a relatively small slice of the local job base. Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations represented 1.1% of Philadelphia-area employment in May 2025, versus 1.3% nationally. In the sampled local opening mix, more than 30 postings were spread across more than 30 companies over the last 90 days, with recurring names including Lagos, Circle, Stream Companies, QVC, and Deloitte. The typical active posting has been open around 35 days, which looks more like deliberate screening than urgent bulk hiring. Within that smaller market, product and interface work has the clearer long-run tailwind. Nationally, the BLS projects web developers and digital designers to grow 5% from 2025 to 2035, while graphic designer employment is projected to decline 2%. In practice, Philadelphia job seekers should treat pure graphic-design positioning as a narrower lane and lead with product, interface, systems, or commerce work whenever they can.

• Product, UX, and interface design (high): Best fit with the metro's stronger Professional and Business Services base and with local postings emphasizing Figma, product design, interaction design, and prototyping.
• Brand, e-commerce, and consumer creative (moderate): Supported by recurring employer names such as Lagos and QVC, but less broad than product-oriented hiring.
• Graphic, motion, and illustration-only roles (limited): Local evidence is thinner here, and the national outlook is weaker for graphic designers than for web and digital designers.

Where to focus: Prioritize product and interface work inside service businesses, consulting, fintech, and e-commerce, and treat purely aesthetic generalist roles as a secondary lane.

Roles worth searching next

• Front-end developer: It is a natural bridge for designers because coded prototyping is gaining value and more design work is overlapping with implementation.
• Product manager: A growing share of designers are already doing PM-adjacent work, and systems thinking is becoming more important in hiring.
• Design operations or program manager: This is a good fit for designers whose strength is systems, tooling, process, and cross-functional coordination rather than portfolio polish.
• AI creative technologist: This bridge role is becoming more real: the title AI Creative Technologist rose 123% in Autodesk's 2026 AI jobs data.

What postings ask for

• Figma (table_stakes | immediate): Figma appears in about 40% of sampled local postings, making it the clearest common tool across product and UX work in this market. Who: Everyone targeting UX, UI, product, and most digital brand roles.
• Prototyping and interaction design (differentiator | immediate): Interaction design and prototyping each show up in about 20% of sampled local postings, which tells you employers want more than static screens. Who: Entry-level and career-switching candidates who need to prove they can move from concept to usable flow.
• Adobe Creative Cloud, including Illustrator and Photoshop (table_stakes | immediate): Adobe Creative Cloud, Illustrator, and Photoshop each appear in about 20% of sampled local postings, especially relevant for brand, marketing-design, and multi-format creative work. Who: Graphic, brand, motion, and hybrid visual designers.
• Product design (premium | immediate): Product design shows up in about 20% of sampled local postings, and it maps well to the metro's stronger business-services demand rather than weaker information-sector hiring. Who: Mid-career designers, digital designers moving up-market, and switchers with business-process or SaaS knowledge.
• Practical AI literacy (differentiator | immediate): Half of surveyed design leaders say AI fluency now matters more in hiring, 73% of hiring managers see increasing need for AI-tool proficiency, and the share of U.S. creative postings explicitly listing AI skills rose to 15%, up from 10%. Who: All candidates, but especially UX and product designers competing for fewer digital roles.
• Front-end prototyping with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (premium | near-term): Coded prototyping is becoming a core requirement at leading tech companies, and 65% of designers report doing more work traditionally associated with product management, engineering, or design engineering. Who: UX, product, and interface designers who want better odds in consulting, SaaS, or front-end-adjacent roles.

Questions about this market

What do Design, Creative & UX roles pay in Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD?

Government wage data shows a split market. In Philadelphia, the broad arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media group averaged $36.12 per hour in May 2025, while the broader media-and-design family had a 2025 median of $62,500, a 75th percentile of $90,250, and a 90th percentile of $123,380. A more digital slice of the market paid better: web and digital interface designers in the metro had a $94,390 median in 2023. By contrast, sampled current local postings center on about $97k to $137k, which likely reflects a tilt toward product, UX, and senior roles rather than the whole category. Philadelphia can pay well for digital-interface and product-oriented design, but that upside is not spread evenly across graphic, motion, illustration, and general creative roles.

Where is demand for Design, Creative & UX roles in Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD concentrated?

Real opportunity is concentrated in business-facing design rather than pure creative headcount. Professional and Business Services employment in the metro reached 499.6 thousand in August 2026 and was up 1.7308% year-over-year, while Information employment was 50 thousand and down 3.6609%. That tilts openings toward consulting, agencies, enterprise services, and in-house teams attached to operations, commerce, or customer experience, not toward broad media-style hiring. The category is also a relatively small slice of the local job base. Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations represented 1.1% of Philadelphia-area employment in May 2025, versus 1.3% nationally. In the sampled local opening mix, more than 30 postings were spread across more than 30 companies over the last 90 days, with recurring names including Lagos, Circle, Stream Companies, QVC, and Deloitte. The typical active posting has been open around 35 days, which looks more like deliberate screening than urgent bulk hiring. Within that smaller market, product and interface work has the clearer long-run tailwind. Nationally, the BLS projects web developers and digital designers to grow 5% from 2025 to 2035, while graphic designer employment is projected to decline 2%. In practice, Philadelphia job seekers should treat pure graphic-design positioning as a narrower lane and lead with product, interface, systems, or commerce work whenever they can.

Which employers are hiring the most Design, Creative & UX talent in Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD?

Recent postings show the most activity from Lagos, Llc (5 postings), Circle (5 postings), Stream Companies (5 postings). See the full market report for the complete employer landscape.

Can Design, Creative & UX roles in Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD be done remotely?

Of recent postings, 30% are remote and 35% hybrid, with 40% on-site. Use the Remote filter above to see only remote openings.

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