The first table below looks at the demand for the User Experience Designer role in IT jobs advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited User Experience Designer in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the South East region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
User Experience (UX) Designer
Rank 385 411 418
Rank change year-on-year
+26 +7
Permanent jobs requiring a User Experience Designer 51 32 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 0.232% 0.135% 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.244% 0.141% 0.014%
Number of salaries quoted 37 28 2
Average salary £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -5.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £34,250 £30,000 £38,000
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £53,000 £62,000
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £40,000 £34,500
% change year-on-year
+12.50% +15.94%
All Job Titles
South East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
20893 22619 21470
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 94.89% 95.19% 94.41%
Number of salaries quoted 17337 19571 18458
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £26,250 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
User Experience Designer
England

User Experience Designer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing User Experience Designer across the South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

South East User Experience Designer Jobs Demand Trend

User Experience Designer
Salary Trend

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

South East User Experience Designer Salary Trend

User Experience Designer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing User Experience Designer across the South East region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

South East User Experience Designer Salary Histogram

User Experience Designer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing User Experience Designer within the South East region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Surrey +30 15 £50,000 +42.85%
Kent -14 9 £57,500 +8.49%
West Sussex -1 7 £33,750 -32.50%
Berkshire -3 7 £36,500 -25.51%
East Sussex - 6 £47,500 -
Middlesex - 4 £51,250 -
Buckinghamshire -4 3 £42,500 +63.46%
Hampshire -4 1 £57,500 +91.66%
User Experience Designer
England

User Experience Designer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East region that cited User Experience Designer in their job title 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 with User Experience Designer in their job title.

1 36 (51.43%) Information Architecture
2 30 (42.86%) E-Commerce
3 29 (41.43%) HTML
4 28 (40.00%) CSS
5 27 (38.57%) Photoshop
6 25 (35.71%) JavaScript
7 23 (32.86%) Axure RP
8 21 (30.00%) Adobe Illustrator
9 18 (25.71%) OmniGraffle
10 16 (22.86%) Advertising
10 16 (22.86%) Agile Software Development
11 11 (15.71%) Usability Testing
12 10 (14.29%) jQuery
12 10 (14.29%) XHTML
12 10 (14.29%) Adobe
12 10 (14.29%) User Experience Design
13 9 (12.86%) Analytics
13 9 (12.86%) Flash
13 9 (12.86%) XSLT
14 8 (11.43%) Retail
14 8 (11.43%) Degree
14 8 (11.43%) MS Visio
14 8 (11.43%) Social Media
15 6 (8.571%) Marketing
15 6 (8.571%) Web Design
15 6 (8.571%) Ajax
16 5 (7.143%) Web Development
16 5 (7.143%) SEO
16 5 (7.143%) iDTV
16 5 (7.143%) PHP

User Experience Designer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East region that cited User Experience Designer in their job title 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 with User Experience Designer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 29 (41.43%) HTML
2 28 (40.00%) CSS
3 10 (14.29%) XHTML
3 10 (14.29%) jQuery
4 9 (12.86%) XSLT
4 9 (12.86%) Flash
5 6 (8.571%) Ajax
6 5 (7.143%) HTML5
7 2 (2.857%) Haml
7 2 (2.857%) Sass
7 2 (2.857%) HTML5 Canvas
8 1 (1.429%) WPF
8 1 (1.429%) DHTML
8 1 (1.429%) Cocoa
8 1 (1.429%) WinForms
8 1 (1.429%) Web Services
8 1 (1.429%) MFC
Application Platforms
1 4 (5.714%) ColdFusion
2 3 (4.286%) CMS
3 2 (2.857%) Drupal
3 2 (2.857%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.429%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 27 (38.57%) Photoshop
2 21 (30.00%) Adobe Illustrator
3 18 (25.71%) OmniGraffle
4 8 (11.43%) MS Visio
5 3 (4.286%) Fireworks
6 1 (1.429%) MS Office
6 1 (1.429%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (5.714%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.857%) Internet
Development Applications
1 23 (32.86%) Axure RP
2 2 (2.857%) Dreamweaver
General
1 16 (22.86%) Advertising
2 8 (11.43%) Retail
3 6 (8.571%) Marketing
4 3 (4.286%) Publishing
5 1 (1.429%) Games
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.43%) Social Media
2 5 (7.143%) iDTV
3 4 (5.714%) Mobile App
4 3 (4.286%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.857%) Blackberry
5 2 (2.857%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.857%) Digital Media
6 1 (1.429%) Kindle
6 1 (1.429%) Web 2.0
6 1 (1.429%) Computer Science
6 1 (1.429%) RIA
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.857%) Android
1 2 (2.857%) Mac OS
1 2 (2.857%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.429%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (51.43%) Information Architecture
2 30 (42.86%) E-Commerce
3 16 (22.86%) Agile Software Development
4 11 (15.71%) Usability Testing
5 10 (14.29%) User Experience Design
6 9 (12.86%) Analytics
7 6 (8.571%) Web Design
8 5 (7.143%) SEO
8 5 (7.143%) Web Development
9 4 (5.714%) Web Marketing
9 4 (5.714%) Market Research
10 3 (4.286%) Project Planning
10 3 (4.286%) Scrum
10 3 (4.286%) Benchmarking
11 2 (2.857%) Project Management
11 2 (2.857%) B2C
11 2 (2.857%) Rapid Prototyping
12 1 (1.429%) Web Analytics
12 1 (1.429%) Workflow
12 1 (1.429%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (35.71%) JavaScript
2 5 (7.143%) PHP
3 4 (5.714%) Ruby
4 2 (2.857%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (11.43%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.429%) ISO 9001
Vendors
1 10 (14.29%) Adobe
2 4 (5.714%) Google
3 2 (2.857%) EPiServer
3 2 (2.857%) Facebook
3 2 (2.857%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.429%) Apple
4 1 (1.429%) Oracle
4 1 (1.429%) SAP
Middlesex, South East
Strong customer empathy is crucial as you will be designing solutions that put the customer at the heart of the experience; this includes annotated screens, wireframes and research...
Hudson IT London
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum + pension and bonus
Posted: 23 April 2013