Figma: market
Figma is the main interface design tool: mockups, prototypes, design systems and designers collaborating with engineering in one file. We track 2 409 open positions listing Figma, 2 336 of them fresh. Figma is mandatory for UX/UI and product designers and increasingly appears for frontend developers, product managers and analysts who work with mockups. Most of the demand comes from Design, Frontend and Product roles. It most often appears next to design systems, usability and Photoshop. 45% of the postings allow fully remote work. Below is measured Figma demand.
The Figma market currently has 2,409 open roles, 2,336 of them freshly observed. Median salary $6,378/mo. Observed candidate pool — 719.
45% of Figma postings allow fully remote work; the share counts only postings that state the work format.
⚠ salary known for 175 of 2409 jobs; remote share from 2011 with a stated format; 2336 counted as fresh observations; trend and hiring difficulty are not shown
Timeline: postings and sources
How many Figma postings appeared each week since 10 Aug, and from how many sources. The second line separates market growth from coverage growth: a jump in the week new sources were connected means we started seeing more, not that the market grew.
New postings and active sources per week
Sources over the period: 221
New sources connected: 17 Aug +22 · 24 Aug +30 · 31 Aug +20 · 7 Sept +16 · 14 Sept +13 · 21 Sept +29 · 28 Sept +13 · 5 Oct +11 · 12 Oct +16
Week = posting first-seen date, all statuses. A posting belongs to the technology by its stack tag; the series starts on 10 Aug 2026 — earlier tags were assigned differently and are not comparable. Sources are distinct collection channels; their names are not published.
Salaries over time
Median Figma salary per week, USD per month.
Median salary, USD per month
Only postings with a USD salary and a known period (month or year), $500–$50,000 per month. Weeks with fewer than 10 such postings are left blank — that means no data, not zero.
Remote work over time
Share of Figma postings offering fully remote work, per week.
Remote postings, %
The share is among postings that state a format (remote, hybrid, office). Weeks with fewer than 10 such postings are left blank.
Countries over time
How the share of Figma postings in each of the top countries changed, per week.
Postings in the country, %
Share among postings with a known country; the chart shows the five countries with the most postings over six months. Weeks with fewer than 20 postings with a known country are left blank. A rising share can mean a newly connected source in that country rather than market growth.
Demand and observed supply
| Open demand | 2,409 |
| Observed supply | 719 |
⚠ candidates matching a vacancy are not counted yet: demand and the observed pool are shown
Salary distribution
One in ten earns under $2,709, one in ten over $16,214. Half the market falls between $3,804 and $11,348. Sample: 175.
The range histogram for Figma postings uses only postings with an explicit compensation range; the median is computed over the same sample.
Demand geography
| country | jobs |
|---|---|
| US | 639 |
| PL | 290 |
| RU | 119 |
| IN | 100 |
| GB | 88 |
| DE | 73 |
| CA | 68 |
| UA | 66 |
| HK | 58 |
| ES | 42 |
The top country for Figma demand is the US (639 positions).
⚠ job counts only: salary by country is not published
Used together with
Figma most often appears next to design systems, usability and Photoshop. React and JavaScript among the neighbours mark postings at the design-frontend boundary.
Roles that use it
| role | jobs |
|---|---|
| Design | 1,260 |
| Frontend | 199 |
| Product | 147 |
| Fullstack | 130 |
| PM | 79 |
| Analyst | 53 |
| Mobile | 45 |
| Architect | 40 |
| AI Engineer | 37 |
| DevOps | 33 |
⚠ the `Other` and `IT` buckets are excluded as non-roles
Demand by grade
| grade | jobs |
|---|---|
| senior | 691 |
| lead | 183 |
| middle | 183 |
| principal | 102 |
| junior | 81 |
Senior-and-above is about 79% of 1 240 graded Figma postings.
⚠ demand side only: the grade of the observed pool is unknown for most of it
Employers
Demand is spread across 1,394 employers. The largest accounts for 1.5%, the top ten for 8.6%; the remaining 91.5% is long tail.
| share | value |
|---|---|
| top-1 | 1.5% |
| top-3 | 3.9% |
| top-10 | 8.6% |
| long tail | 91.5% |
⚠ names are not shown: staffing agencies and end employers are not yet told apart by the classifier
Where Zorky sees this market
Observed across 127 sources; the largest accounts for 26.1% — this market does not rest on a single channel.
Figma postings arrive mostly from ATS & career sites and job boards & aggregators.
Recent openings
- Senior UI/UX Designer · HK
- Diseñador UX/UI · US
- UX Content Designer, Banking · HK
- Senior Graphic Designer · HK
- Senior Product Designer (UI/UX) · PL · $4,500
- Senior Angular Frontend Developer · PL
- Właściciel produktu aplikacji mobilnej (k/m) · PL
- Frontend-разработчик (React) · RU
Adjacent markets
⚠ adjacent markets for comparison are not defined yet
How this is measured
- Vacancy
- an open job that cleared the quality gate and lists at least two technologies
- Observed candidate
- a candidate whose stack contains this technology; an aggregate — not a single record leaves the perimeter
- Matchable candidate
- not counted yet
- Window
- jobs open at the moment the snapshot was built
About the data
- Some breakdowns are hidden: their data coverage is not yet sufficient.
- Statistics are shown only where the sample clears a quality gate.
- A missing block does not mean a value of zero.
Breakdowns currently hidden: 7.
Data as of 2026-10-23
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about the Figma market — short answers from the same data slice.
What does the Figma skill mean for a designer?
Auto Layout and component variants, tokens and design systems, interactive prototypes, team libraries, handing designs off to engineering (Dev Mode).
Why does a frontend developer need Figma?
To pull sizes, tokens and component states on their own, understand the design system and discuss changes directly in the mockup instead of trading screenshots.
How big is Figma demand?
The slice tracks 2 409 open positions naming Figma explicitly; for design roles it is effectively mandatory, so the real reach is wider.