The first table below looks at the demand for User Experience Design skills in IT jobs advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited User Experience Design over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Edinburgh region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
User Experience Design
Rank 90 88 97
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +9
Permanent jobs citing User Experience Design 2 5 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.189% 0.373% 0.259%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.254% 0.518% 0.328%
Number of salaries quoted 0 5 0
Average salary - £50,000 -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,000 £46,500
% change year-on-year
-4.76% -9.67%
All Processes & Methodologies
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
787 965 1220
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 74.46% 72.01% 79.12%
Number of salaries quoted 463 681 859
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% -2.43%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £27,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £61,700 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
User Experience Design
Scotland

User Experience Design
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing User Experience Design across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Edinburgh User Experience Design Jobs Demand Trend

User Experience Design
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing User Experience Design across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh User Experience Design Salary Trend

User Experience Design
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region citing User Experience Design also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited User Experience Design.

1 4 (66.67%) Scrum
1 4 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
1 4 (66.67%) Publishing
1 4 (66.67%) HTML
1 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 4 (66.67%) CSS
1 4 (66.67%) Flash
1 4 (66.67%) Ajax
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Investment Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Social Media
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (16.67%) Marketing
3 1 (16.67%) Project Planning
3 1 (16.67%) Degree
3 1 (16.67%) Resource Management
3 1 (16.67%) Digital Marketing
3 1 (16.67%) Usability Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Project Management
3 1 (16.67%) Workflow
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Advertising
3 1 (16.67%) PRINCE2

User Experience Design
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region citing User Experience Design also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited User Experience Design. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (66.67%) HTML
1 4 (66.67%) CSS
1 4 (66.67%) Flash
1 4 (66.67%) Ajax
General
1 4 (66.67%) Publishing
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Investment Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Marketing
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) User Experience Designer
1 5 (83.33%) Designer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Designer
2 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Digital Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Scrum
1 4 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) PRINCE2
3 1 (16.67%) Project Management
3 1 (16.67%) Workflow
3 1 (16.67%) Project Planning
3 1 (16.67%) Resource Management
3 1 (16.67%) Digital Marketing
3 1 (16.67%) Usability Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree