UX
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for User Experience skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited User Experience over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 86 73 38
Rank change year-on-year -13 -35 +11
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 3,124 4,183 13,627
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.10% 4.25% 8.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.65% 4.44% 8.68%
Number of salaries quoted 1,960 2,332 4,286
10th Percentile £31,250 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £47,500 £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £68,750 £80,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £97,328 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

User Experience is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85,549 94,155 156,986
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.76% 95.59% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 60,063 55,401 82,663
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing User Experience as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for User Experience in the UK

User Experience
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing User Experience.

Salary trend for User Experience in the UK

User Experience
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing User Experience over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for User Experience in the UK

User Experience
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing User Experience within the UK over the 6 months to 23 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -14 2,621 £51,000 -21.54% 1,009
UK excluding London +17 2,364 £47,500 -13.64% 666
Work from Home -16 1,225 £50,000 -23.08% 524
London -60 637 £65,000 -7.14% 488
North of England +47 624 £47,500 -17.39% 208
South East -38 444 £50,000 -9.09% 225
Midlands +83 434 £47,500 -9.52% 93
North West +65 404 £45,000 -22.16% 142
Scotland -14 339 £49,000 -15.24% 38
South West +46 334 £55,000 - 52
West Midlands +64 258 £50,000 -4.76% 58
East Midlands +78 168 £35,000 -40.43% 33
Yorkshire +7 158 £50,000 -9.09% 51
East of England -49 130 £40,000 -33.33% 43
North East +23 62 £42,500 +6.25% 16
Wales -13 39 £37,218 -26.38% 6
Northern Ireland +25 23 £46,250 +23.33% 5
Isle of Man - 1 £36,000 -

User Experience
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 93 (2.98%) CMS
2 90 (2.88%) WordPress
3 60 (1.92%) Confluence
4 42 (1.34%) Apache Spark
4 42 (1.34%) SharePoint
5 24 (0.77%) Apache
6 20 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
7 18 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
8 13 (0.42%) Drupal
9 12 (0.38%) JBoss
9 12 (0.38%) Red Hat Fuse
10 10 (0.32%) Umbraco
11 8 (0.26%) EPiServer
12 7 (0.22%) nginx
13 6 (0.19%) Ethereum
14 5 (0.16%) IIS
14 5 (0.16%) Joomla!
14 5 (0.16%) Kentico
14 5 (0.16%) Solana
15 4 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 146 (4.67%) Sketch
2 83 (2.66%) Adobe XD
3 79 (2.53%) Microsoft Excel
4 70 (2.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 70 (2.24%) Photoshop
5 61 (1.95%) Microsoft Office
6 59 (1.89%) Adobe Illustrator
7 38 (1.22%) UserZoom
8 36 (1.15%) InVision
9 35 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 25 (0.80%) InDesign
11 24 (0.77%) Adobe After Effects
12 15 (0.48%) MS Visio
12 15 (0.48%) Trello
13 14 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
14 11 (0.35%) Blender
15 10 (0.32%) Chatbot
16 8 (0.26%) Adobe Captivate
17 7 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
18 5 (0.16%) CANalyzer
Business Applications
1 41 (1.31%) Magento
2 39 (1.25%) Shopify
3 18 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
4 14 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
5 12 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
6 9 (0.29%) SAP CO
6 9 (0.29%) SAP FI
6 9 (0.29%) SAP FI/CO
7 7 (0.22%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.16%) Distributed Ledger
8 5 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (0.064%) CiviCRM
9 2 (0.064%) Dynamics NAV
9 2 (0.064%) Endur
9 2 (0.064%) Infor SunSystems
10 1 (0.032%) Data Workbench
10 1 (0.032%) Oracle EBS
10 1 (0.032%) SAP CRM
10 1 (0.032%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 555 (17.77%) Azure
2 400 (12.80%) AWS
3 334 (10.69%) Figma
4 238 (7.62%) IBM Cloud
5 229 (7.33%) Power Platform
6 199 (6.37%) Azure DevOps
7 188 (6.02%) SaaS
8 161 (5.15%) Serverless
9 133 (4.26%) Azure Logic Apps
10 129 (4.13%) Azure Functions
11 127 (4.07%) Azure Service Bus
12 125 (4.00%) Azure API Management
13 121 (3.87%) Microsoft 365
14 107 (3.43%) PowerApps
15 105 (3.36%) Power Automate
16 92 (2.94%) Miro
17 89 (2.85%) GCP
18 81 (2.59%) SurveyMonkey
19 63 (2.02%) GitHub
20 59 (1.89%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 40 (1.28%) Firewall
2 38 (1.22%) Wi-Fi
3 32 (1.02%) HTTP
4 22 (0.70%) Wireless
5 21 (0.67%) MQTT
6 20 (0.64%) Internet
7 19 (0.61%) 4G
8 18 (0.58%) DNS
8 18 (0.58%) DSL
9 16 (0.51%) Intranet
10 12 (0.38%) 3G
10 12 (0.38%) LAN
10 12 (0.38%) RS-485
11 11 (0.35%) DHCP
12 10 (0.32%) SAN
13 9 (0.29%) TCP/IP
13 9 (0.29%) VPN
14 8 (0.26%) WAN
15 7 (0.22%) Ethernet
15 7 (0.22%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 321 (10.28%) MongoDB
2 312 (9.99%) PostgreSQL
3 256 (8.19%) DB2
3 256 (8.19%) NoSQL
4 191 (6.11%) Power BI
5 161 (5.15%) Relational Database
6 138 (4.42%) MySQL
7 99 (3.17%) SQL Server
8 89 (2.85%) Tableau
9 51 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
10 49 (1.57%) Big Data
11 40 (1.28%) Redis
12 36 (1.15%) Data Vault
13 35 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
14 24 (0.77%) Data Lake
15 21 (0.67%) Hadoop
16 20 (0.64%) Scylla
17 16 (0.51%) Apache Ignite
17 16 (0.51%) Geospatial Data
18 15 (0.48%) GIS
Development Applications
1 286 (9.15%) Git
2 182 (5.83%) JIRA
3 64 (2.05%) Jenkins
4 34 (1.09%) webpack
5 33 (1.06%) Visual Studio
6 32 (1.02%) Cypress.io
7 26 (0.83%) Bitbucket
8 24 (0.77%) Selenium
9 22 (0.70%) Cucumber
10 18 (0.58%) Axure RP
11 17 (0.54%) gulp
12 16 (0.51%) IntelliJ
13 15 (0.48%) Balsamiq
13 15 (0.48%) PHPUnit
13 15 (0.48%) Postman
14 11 (0.35%) Jasmine
14 11 (0.35%) Maven
15 10 (0.32%) Android Studio
15 10 (0.32%) Moq
15 10 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 949 (30.38%) Social Skills
2 643 (20.58%) Finance
3 558 (17.86%) Marketing
4 477 (15.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 401 (12.84%) Public Sector
6 343 (10.98%) Analytical Skills
7 256 (8.19%) Law
8 148 (4.74%) Retail
9 126 (4.03%) Banking
10 124 (3.97%) Presentation Skills
11 91 (2.91%) Manufacturing
12 87 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
13 71 (2.27%) Legal
14 59 (1.89%) Games
15 49 (1.57%) Investment Banking
16 40 (1.28%) Automotive
17 38 (1.22%) Advertising
17 38 (1.22%) Social Science
18 36 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
19 35 (1.12%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 1,007 (32.23%) Developer
2 501 (16.04%) Senior
3 359 (11.49%) Designer
4 327 (10.47%) Lead
5 259 (8.29%) Full Stack Developer
6 241 (7.71%) UX Designer
7 222 (7.11%) Software Engineer
8 197 (6.31%) Senior Developer
9 180 (5.76%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 157 (5.03%) UI Designer
11 146 (4.67%) Architect
12 142 (4.55%) UI/UX Designer
13 137 (4.39%) Azure Developer
14 134 (4.29%) Full Stack Engineer
15 131 (4.19%) Analyst
16 111 (3.55%) Azure Engineer
17 99 (3.17%) React Developer
18 95 (3.04%) Senior Designer
19 93 (2.98%) Product Manager
20 84 (2.69%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 872 (27.91%) HTML
2 816 (26.12%) CSS
3 710 (22.73%) React
4 474 (15.17%) AngularJS
5 449 (14.37%) .NET
6 424 (13.57%) Vue
7 370 (11.84%) REST
8 363 (11.62%) jQuery
9 305 (9.76%) Web Services
10 304 (9.73%) Node.js
11 303 (9.70%) ASP.NET
12 284 (9.09%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 253 (8.10%) Backbone.js
14 241 (7.71%) ASP.NET Core
15 238 (7.62%) Ember.js
16 144 (4.61%) RESTful
17 118 (3.78%) Sass
18 109 (3.49%) HTML5
19 103 (3.30%) Laravel
20 76 (2.43%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 336 (10.76%) Algorithms
2 313 (10.02%) Data Structures
3 290 (9.28%) Blockchain
4 283 (9.06%) Product Ownership
5 241 (7.71%) Hybrid Cloud
6 165 (5.28%) Mobile App
7 125 (4.00%) e-Learning
8 102 (3.27%) Management Information System
9 75 (2.40%) Onboarding
10 70 (2.24%) Greenfield Project
10 70 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
11 69 (2.21%) Social Media
12 64 (2.05%) Cloud Native
13 50 (1.60%) Graphic Design
14 42 (1.34%) Data Centre
15 38 (1.22%) Market Risk
16 36 (1.15%) Virtual Team
17 32 (1.02%) Animation
18 28 (0.90%) IoT
19 27 (0.86%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 407 (13.03%) Windows
2 355 (11.36%) Linux
3 325 (10.40%) Android
3 325 (10.40%) Apple iOS
4 42 (1.34%) Windows Server
5 39 (1.25%) Windows Server 2016
6 38 (1.22%) Windows Server 2019
7 36 (1.15%) Windows Server 2012
8 34 (1.09%) CentOS
9 26 (0.83%) Mac OS
10 14 (0.45%) Windows 10
11 12 (0.38%) Embedded Linux
12 8 (0.26%) Unix
13 7 (0.22%) VMS
14 6 (0.19%) Ubuntu
15 3 (0.096%) Windows Embedded Compact
16 2 (0.064%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 2 (0.064%) SUSE
16 2 (0.064%) Windows Server 2003
17 1 (0.032%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,065 (34.09%) UX Design
2 1,061 (33.96%) Agile
3 813 (26.02%) Problem-Solving
4 528 (16.90%) Full Stack Development
5 498 (15.94%) DevOps
6 453 (14.50%) Web Development
7 418 (13.38%) Mentoring
8 398 (12.74%) Software Engineering
9 393 (12.58%) Analytics
10 390 (12.48%) Artificial Intelligence
11 381 (12.20%) Design Patterns
12 369 (11.81%) Front End Development
13 344 (11.01%) Roadmaps
14 322 (10.31%) Responsive Web Design
15 319 (10.21%) Design Thinking
16 297 (9.51%) MVC
17 295 (9.44%) OO
18 290 (9.28%) User Research
19 285 (9.12%) OOP
20 282 (9.03%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 961 (30.76%) JavaScript
2 601 (19.24%) SQL
3 447 (14.31%) C#
4 367 (11.75%) Python
5 326 (10.44%) Java
6 303 (9.70%) TypeScript
7 194 (6.21%) PHP
8 64 (2.05%) Bash
9 56 (1.79%) PowerShell
10 50 (1.60%) Go
11 45 (1.44%) Kotlin
12 43 (1.38%) Scala
13 42 (1.34%) R
14 41 (1.31%) C++
15 35 (1.12%) C
16 34 (1.09%) T-SQL
17 33 (1.06%) Swift
18 23 (0.74%) SystemVerilog
18 23 (0.74%) Tcl
19 18 (0.58%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 581 (18.60%) Degree
2 186 (5.95%) Security Cleared
3 120 (3.84%) SC Cleared
4 119 (3.81%) Master's Degree
5 103 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 45 (1.44%) PhD
7 38 (1.22%) DV Cleared
8 35 (1.12%) ITIL Certification
9 30 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
10 21 (0.67%) CIPD
11 20 (0.64%) CSPO
12 16 (0.51%) MBA
13 15 (0.48%) ISTQB
14 11 (0.35%) DBS Check
15 8 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
15 8 (0.26%) HND
16 7 (0.22%) Azure Certification
16 7 (0.22%) PMI Certification
17 6 (0.19%) IIBA
17 6 (0.19%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 240 (7.68%) Accessibility
2 156 (4.99%) QA
3 92 (2.94%) WCAG
4 50 (1.60%) GDPR
5 49 (1.57%) SLA
6 45 (1.44%) Actionable Recommendations
7 10 (0.32%) Data Quality
7 10 (0.32%) PMO
8 8 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 7 (0.22%) HIPAA
10 5 (0.16%) ISO 26262
11 3 (0.096%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.064%) HL7
12 2 (0.064%) IEC 62304
12 2 (0.064%) ISO 13485
12 2 (0.064%) ISO 14001
13 1 (0.032%) MiFID
13 1 (0.032%) NIST
13 1 (0.032%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 83 (2.66%) Docker
2 71 (2.27%) Active Directory
3 32 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (0.83%) Hyper-V
5 13 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (0.29%) Firmware
7 7 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.096%) XenDesktop
10 2 (0.064%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.064%) XenApp
11 1 (0.032%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 69 (2.21%) Kubernetes
2 26 (0.83%) Terraform
3 23 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
4 20 (0.64%) SCCM
5 6 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 6 (0.19%) Progress Chef
5 6 (0.19%) ServiceCenter
6 5 (0.16%) Ansible
6 5 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
7 4 (0.13%) Grafana
7 4 (0.13%) vCenter Server
7 4 (0.13%) WSUS
8 3 (0.096%) ZABBIX
9 2 (0.064%) Backup Exec
9 2 (0.064%) cPanel
9 2 (0.064%) Plesk
9 2 (0.064%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.064%) Trend Micro Deep Security
9 2 (0.064%) WebSphere Cast Iron
10 1 (0.032%) Packer
Vendors
1 454 (14.53%) Microsoft
2 273 (8.74%) Red Hat
3 238 (7.62%) IBM
4 227 (7.27%) Adobe
5 175 (5.60%) Google
6 86 (2.75%) Oracle
7 76 (2.43%) Qualtrics
8 58 (1.86%) Apple
9 53 (1.70%) Dell
9 53 (1.70%) VMware
10 48 (1.54%) ServiceNow
11 46 (1.47%) Salesforce
12 38 (1.22%) HP
13 35 (1.12%) Samsung
13 35 (1.12%) SAP
14 27 (0.86%) Databricks
15 26 (0.83%) Facebook
16 22 (0.70%) Alteryx
16 22 (0.70%) WooCommerce
16 22 (0.70%) Xamarin