User Experience Design (UXD)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for UX Design skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited UX Design 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 273 207 100
Rank change year-on-year -66 -107 +56
Permanent jobs citing UX Design 1,065 1,767 5,851
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.06% 1.79% 3.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 1.88% 3.73%
Number of salaries quoted 724 933 1,831
10th Percentile £31,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £59,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +5.04% +12.26%
75th Percentile £68,750 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £96,250 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +8.91% +1.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

UX Design 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%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing UX Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for UX Design in the UK

UX Design
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing UX Design.

Salary trend for UX Design in the UK

UX Design
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing UX Design over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for UX Design in the UK

UX Design
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing UX Design 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 -91 819 £55,000 -15.38% 344
UK excluding London +10 785 £50,000 -9.09% 217
Work from Home -67 466 £55,000 -15.38% 164
London -172 209 £65,000 -3.70% 169
North of England +42 188 £50,000 -6.98% 72
Scotland +26 152 £47,500 -13.64% 16
South East -58 134 £55,000 - 68
Midlands +38 124 £50,000 - 32
South West +54 112 £55,000 +10.00% 14
North West +3 111 £45,000 -30.77% 48
West Midlands +50 92 £52,500 +10.53% 18
Yorkshire +83 61 £51,000 +2.00% 18
East of England -78 46 £46,000 -26.98% 16
East Midlands -10 24 £30,000 -45.45% 13
Wales -11 17 £32,500 -39.53%
Northern Ireland +32 16 £46,250 -11.90% 1
North East -9 16 £51,250 +26.54% 6

UX Design
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 33 (3.10%) WordPress
2 29 (2.72%) CMS
3 27 (2.54%) Confluence
4 12 (1.13%) JBoss
4 12 (1.13%) Red Hat Fuse
5 10 (0.94%) SharePoint
6 7 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.47%) Kentico
7 5 (0.47%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
8 3 (0.28%) IBM Domino
9 2 (0.19%) IIS
10 1 (0.094%) Apache
10 1 (0.094%) SharePoint Server
10 1 (0.094%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 137 (12.86%) Sketch
2 61 (5.73%) Adobe XD
3 45 (4.23%) Photoshop
4 40 (3.76%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 36 (3.38%) Adobe Illustrator
5 36 (3.38%) InVision
6 25 (2.35%) Microsoft Office
7 18 (1.69%) Adobe After Effects
8 11 (1.03%) InDesign
9 9 (0.85%) Chatbot
9 9 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
10 7 (0.66%) Blender
10 7 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
11 6 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
11 6 (0.56%) UserZoom
12 5 (0.47%) CANalyzer
13 3 (0.28%) CINEMA 4D
13 3 (0.28%) Trello
14 2 (0.19%) Adobe Premiere
14 2 (0.19%) Final Cut Pro
Business Applications
1 20 (1.88%) Shopify
2 16 (1.50%) Magento
3 5 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.38%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.19%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.094%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.094%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.094%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 233 (21.88%) Figma
2 130 (12.21%) AWS
3 94 (8.83%) Azure
4 78 (7.32%) SaaS
5 58 (5.45%) Miro
6 47 (4.41%) Heroku
7 31 (2.91%) Power Platform
8 28 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
9 26 (2.44%) PowerApps
10 25 (2.35%) GCP
10 25 (2.35%) Power Automate
11 24 (2.25%) GitHub
12 20 (1.88%) Cloud Computing
12 20 (1.88%) Microsoft 365
13 19 (1.78%) Google Analytics
14 17 (1.60%) SurveyMonkey
15 15 (1.41%) Serverless
16 13 (1.22%) Adobe Creative Cloud
17 10 (0.94%) npm
17 10 (0.94%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.94%) HTTP
2 7 (0.66%) Intranet
3 5 (0.47%) Ethernet
3 5 (0.47%) Internet
3 5 (0.47%) SSH
4 3 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.094%) AMQP
5 1 (0.094%) MQTT
5 1 (0.094%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (5.92%) MySQL
2 53 (4.98%) SQL Server
3 29 (2.72%) Power BI
4 21 (1.97%) PostgreSQL
5 18 (1.69%) Relational Database
6 15 (1.41%) Redis
7 13 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
8 10 (0.94%) Geospatial Data
9 8 (0.75%) GIS
9 8 (0.75%) Spatial Data
10 7 (0.66%) Big Data
11 6 (0.56%) MariaDB
12 5 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (0.47%) MongoDB
12 5 (0.47%) NoSQL
13 3 (0.28%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (0.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (0.28%) Tableau
14 2 (0.19%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 110 (10.33%) Git
2 81 (7.61%) JIRA
3 21 (1.97%) webpack
4 14 (1.31%) Jenkins
5 13 (1.22%) Postman
6 12 (1.13%) IntelliJ
7 11 (1.03%) Visual Studio
8 9 (0.85%) Moq
9 8 (0.75%) Android Studio
9 8 (0.75%) Bitbucket
9 8 (0.75%) Maven
10 7 (0.66%) Cucumber
10 7 (0.66%) Cypress.io
10 7 (0.66%) gulp
11 5 (0.47%) Axure RP
11 5 (0.47%) Babel
11 5 (0.47%) CANoe
12 4 (0.38%) GitLab
12 4 (0.38%) Octopus Deploy
12 4 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 368 (34.55%) Social Skills
2 228 (21.41%) Finance
3 206 (19.34%) Marketing
4 165 (15.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 107 (10.05%) Law
6 92 (8.64%) Analytical Skills
7 66 (6.20%) Banking
8 55 (5.16%) Public Sector
8 55 (5.16%) Retail
9 49 (4.60%) Presentation Skills
10 26 (2.44%) Automotive
10 26 (2.44%) Legal
11 25 (2.35%) Manufacturing
12 22 (2.07%) Games
13 20 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
14 19 (1.78%) Electronics
15 18 (1.69%) Advertising
16 15 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
17 14 (1.31%) Investment Banking
18 11 (1.03%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 374 (35.12%) Developer
2 301 (28.26%) Designer
3 246 (23.10%) Senior
4 241 (22.63%) UX Designer
5 153 (14.37%) Lead
5 153 (14.37%) UI Designer
6 142 (13.33%) UI/UX Designer
7 99 (9.30%) Software Engineer
8 90 (8.45%) Senior Designer
9 89 (8.36%) Senior Developer
10 82 (7.70%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 82 (7.70%) Senior UX Designer
11 57 (5.35%) Senior UI Designer
12 55 (5.16%) Senior UI/UX Designer
13 46 (4.32%) Full Stack Developer
14 43 (4.04%) React Developer
14 43 (4.04%) Software Developer
15 38 (3.57%) Lead Software Engineer
16 36 (3.38%) Product Manager
17 32 (3.00%) UI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 344 (32.30%) HTML
2 283 (26.57%) CSS
3 215 (20.19%) React
4 117 (10.99%) AngularJS
5 97 (9.11%) .NET
6 76 (7.14%) RESTful
7 70 (6.57%) Vue
8 67 (6.29%) Node.js
9 61 (5.73%) REST
10 51 (4.79%) HTML5
11 47 (4.41%) Web Services
12 45 (4.23%) Sass
13 41 (3.85%) Laravel
14 38 (3.57%) JSON
15 34 (3.19%) jQuery
16 32 (3.00%) ASP.NET
16 32 (3.00%) Spring
17 29 (2.72%) CSS3
18 28 (2.63%) .NET Framework
19 26 (2.44%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 117 (10.99%) Product Ownership
2 79 (7.42%) Mobile App
3 38 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
4 34 (3.19%) Algorithms
5 33 (3.10%) Blockchain
6 30 (2.82%) Data Structures
7 23 (2.16%) Graphic Design
8 22 (2.07%) Cloud Native
8 22 (2.07%) Market Risk
8 22 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
9 21 (1.97%) Management Information System
10 20 (1.88%) Onboarding
11 17 (1.60%) SCADA
12 16 (1.50%) Operational Technology
13 15 (1.41%) Animation
14 12 (1.13%) BBC
14 12 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
14 12 (1.13%) Virtual Team
15 11 (1.03%) Client/Server
16 10 (0.94%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 41 (3.85%) Android
2 37 (3.47%) Apple iOS
3 35 (3.29%) Windows
4 20 (1.88%) Linux
5 19 (1.78%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.38%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.094%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,065 (100.00%) User Experience
2 378 (35.49%) Agile
3 345 (32.39%) Problem-Solving
4 207 (19.44%) Front End Development
5 178 (16.71%) Software Engineering
6 174 (16.34%) Wireframes
7 162 (15.21%) Prototyping
8 160 (15.02%) User Research
9 147 (13.80%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 138 (12.96%) DevOps
11 121 (11.36%) Full Stack Development
12 116 (10.89%) Mentoring
13 115 (10.80%) UX Research
14 112 (10.52%) Collaborative Working
14 112 (10.52%) Customer Experience
15 110 (10.33%) Actionable Insight
16 109 (10.23%) Design Patterns
16 109 (10.23%) Stakeholder Management
17 107 (10.05%) Visualisation
18 103 (9.67%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 341 (32.02%) JavaScript
2 128 (12.02%) TypeScript
3 95 (8.92%) C#
3 95 (8.92%) Java
4 92 (8.64%) PHP
5 88 (8.26%) SQL
6 84 (7.89%) Python
7 31 (2.91%) Kotlin
8 17 (1.60%) T-SQL
9 16 (1.50%) Go
10 15 (1.41%) Rust
11 14 (1.31%) Swift
12 12 (1.13%) C
13 11 (1.03%) VB.NET
14 10 (0.94%) Clojure
14 10 (0.94%) F#
14 10 (0.94%) Haskell
15 7 (0.66%) C++
16 5 (0.47%) PowerShell
16 5 (0.47%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 204 (19.15%) Degree
2 93 (8.73%) Security Cleared
3 79 (7.42%) SC Cleared
4 47 (4.41%) Master's Degree
5 22 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (1.13%) CSPO
6 12 (1.13%) MBA
7 11 (1.03%) PhD
8 7 (0.66%) HND
9 6 (0.56%) DV Cleared
9 6 (0.56%) IIBA
10 3 (0.28%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.19%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.094%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.094%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 163 (15.31%) Accessibility
2 71 (6.67%) WCAG
3 47 (4.41%) QA
4 15 (1.41%) GDPR
5 8 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
6 6 (0.56%) Data Quality
7 5 (0.47%) ISO 26262
8 3 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.19%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.19%) IEC 62304
9 2 (0.19%) ISO 13485
10 1 (0.094%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 44 (4.13%) Docker
2 16 (1.50%) Hyper-V
2 16 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.19%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (0.19%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (1.78%) Kubernetes
2 14 (1.31%) Terraform
3 1 (0.094%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 122 (11.46%) Adobe
2 83 (7.79%) Microsoft
3 62 (5.82%) Google
4 25 (2.35%) Salesforce
5 21 (1.97%) ServiceNow
6 17 (1.60%) Xamarin
7 16 (1.50%) VMware
8 12 (1.13%) Facebook
8 12 (1.13%) Hotjar
8 12 (1.13%) Qualtrics
8 12 (1.13%) Sony
9 11 (1.03%) WooCommerce
10 9 (0.85%) SAP
11 8 (0.75%) DevExpress
12 7 (0.66%) Mapbox
13 5 (0.47%) Databricks
14 4 (0.38%) dotdigital
14 4 (0.38%) Oracle
15 3 (0.28%) Snapchat
15 3 (0.28%) YouTube