Figma: market
Figma is the main interface design tool: mockups, prototypes, design systems and designers collaborating with engineering in one file. We track 2 288 open positions listing Figma, 2 159 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. 47% of the postings allow fully remote work. Below is measured Figma demand.
The Figma market currently has 2,288 open roles, 2,159 of them freshly observed. Median salary $6,250/mo. Observed candidate pool — 710.
47% of Figma postings allow fully remote work; the share counts only postings that state the work format.
⚠ salary known for 132 of 2288 jobs; remote share from 1895 with a stated format; 2159 counted as fresh observations; trend and hiring difficulty are not shown
Demand and observed supply
| Open demand | 2,288 |
| Observed supply | 710 |
⚠ candidates matching a vacancy are not counted yet: demand and the observed pool are shown
Salary distribution
One in ten earns under $2,175, one in ten over $14,963. Half the market falls between $3,804 and $11,041. Sample: 132.
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 | 621 |
| PL | 261 |
| RU | 115 |
| IN | 96 |
| GB | 78 |
| DE | 73 |
| UA | 63 |
| CA | 63 |
| HK | 46 |
| ES | 38 |
The top country for Figma demand is the US (621 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 | 1,205 |
| Frontend | 177 |
| Product | 132 |
| Fullstack | 125 |
| PM | 74 |
| Analyst | 52 |
| Mobile | 41 |
| AI Engineer | 40 |
| Architect | 37 |
| DevOps | 32 |
⚠ the `Other` and `IT` buckets are excluded as non-roles
Demand by grade
| grade | jobs |
|---|---|
| senior | 635 |
| lead | 176 |
| middle | 167 |
| principal | 89 |
| junior | 77 |
Senior-and-above is about 79% of 1 144 graded Figma postings.
⚠ demand side only: the grade of the observed pool is unknown for most of it
Employers
Demand is spread across 1,316 employers. The largest accounts for 1.6%, the top ten for 9.2%; the remaining 90.8% is long tail.
| share | value |
|---|---|
| top-1 | 1.6% |
| top-3 | 4.2% |
| top-10 | 9.2% |
| long tail | 90.8% |
⚠ names are not shown: staffing agencies and end employers are not yet told apart by the classifier
Where Zorky sees this market
Observed across 124 sources; the largest accounts for 26.2% — this market does not rest on a single channel.
Figma postings arrive mostly from ATS & career sites and job boards & aggregators.
Recent openings
- Product & Visual Designer · HK
- Content Creator · US
- Senior UI UX Engineer · HK
- (Senior) System Analyst (up to 75k/monthly) · HK
- IT Support Engineer · GB
- Desarrollador Full Stack Java / React - Remoto · CL
- Associate Product Manager / Product Manager · TH
- Product Manager (UX-focused) · PL
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 2026-10-20
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 2 288 open positions naming Figma explicitly; for design roles it is effectively mandatory, so the real reach is wider.