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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 263 192 105
Rank change year-on-year -71 -87 +57
Permanent jobs citing UX Design 1,101 1,991 5,243
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.12% 1.92% 3.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.30% 2.01% 3.50%
Number of salaries quoted 747 980 1,869
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 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £76,700
90th Percentile £82,500 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +2.04%

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 84,624 98,922 149,770
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.89% 95.62% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 59,744 58,119 83,346
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,500 £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% +9.38%

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 5 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 5 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 -94 851 £55,000 -15.38% 385
UK excluding London -16 797 £50,000 -9.09% 208
Work from Home -59 479 £55,000 -15.38% 219
London -159 234 £65,000 -5.55% 189
North of England +18 191 £50,000 -9.09% 71
Scotland +15 153 £47,500 -11.63% 19
South East -64 138 £55,000 - 29
Midlands +52 126 £50,000 +11.11% 40
South West +24 115 £55,000 +7.32% 25
North West +3 113 £45,000 -30.77% 51
West Midlands +53 88 £55,000 +22.22% 25
Yorkshire +72 62 £51,000 +2.00% 14
East of England -86 43 £46,000 -23.33% 22
East Midlands -16 30 £38,750 -29.55% 15
Wales -12 18 £32,500 -27.78%
Northern Ireland +32 17 £45,000 -14.29% 2
North East -16 16 £51,250 +33.55% 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 35 (3.18%) WordPress
2 30 (2.72%) CMS
3 28 (2.54%) JBoss
3 28 (2.54%) Red Hat Fuse
4 27 (2.45%) Confluence
5 11 (1.00%) SharePoint
6 7 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.45%) Kentico
7 5 (0.45%) Umbraco
8 4 (0.36%) IBM Domino
9 3 (0.27%) Cloud Foundry
10 2 (0.18%) Moodle
11 1 (0.091%) Drupal
11 1 (0.091%) IIS
11 1 (0.091%) SharePoint Server
11 1 (0.091%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 140 (12.72%) Sketch
2 63 (5.72%) Adobe XD
3 45 (4.09%) Photoshop
4 40 (3.63%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 35 (3.18%) Adobe Illustrator
5 35 (3.18%) InVision
6 25 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
7 18 (1.63%) Adobe After Effects
8 11 (1.00%) InDesign
9 10 (0.91%) Chatbot
10 9 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
11 7 (0.64%) Blender
11 7 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
12 6 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
12 6 (0.54%) UserZoom
13 5 (0.45%) CANalyzer
14 3 (0.27%) CINEMA 4D
14 3 (0.27%) Trello
15 2 (0.18%) Adobe Premiere
15 2 (0.18%) Final Cut Pro
Business Applications
1 20 (1.82%) Shopify
2 17 (1.54%) Magento
3 5 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.36%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.18%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.091%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.091%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.091%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 234 (21.25%) Figma
2 122 (11.08%) AWS
3 97 (8.81%) Azure
4 78 (7.08%) SaaS
5 56 (5.09%) Miro
6 48 (4.36%) Heroku
7 34 (3.09%) Azure DevOps
8 30 (2.72%) Power Platform
9 27 (2.45%) PowerApps
10 26 (2.36%) Power Automate
11 24 (2.18%) GitHub
12 21 (1.91%) GCP
12 21 (1.91%) Microsoft 365
13 19 (1.73%) Cloud Computing
13 19 (1.73%) Google Analytics
14 17 (1.54%) SurveyMonkey
15 15 (1.36%) Serverless
16 13 (1.18%) Adobe Creative Cloud
16 13 (1.18%) npm
17 10 (0.91%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.73%) HTTP
2 7 (0.64%) Intranet
3 5 (0.45%) Ethernet
3 5 (0.45%) Internet
4 4 (0.36%) SSH
5 3 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.091%) AMQP
6 1 (0.091%) MQTT
6 1 (0.091%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (5.36%) MySQL
2 53 (4.81%) SQL Server
3 27 (2.45%) Power BI
4 21 (1.91%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (1.54%) Relational Database
6 15 (1.36%) Redis
7 13 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
8 10 (0.91%) Geospatial Data
9 8 (0.73%) GIS
9 8 (0.73%) Spatial Data
10 7 (0.64%) Big Data
11 6 (0.54%) MongoDB
12 5 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (0.45%) MariaDB
13 4 (0.36%) NoSQL
14 3 (0.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 3 (0.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 2 (0.18%) Apache Cassandra
15 2 (0.18%) Data Mining
16 1 (0.091%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 116 (10.54%) Git
2 81 (7.36%) JIRA
3 28 (2.54%) IntelliJ
4 20 (1.82%) webpack
5 16 (1.45%) Postman
6 15 (1.36%) Jenkins
7 11 (1.00%) Visual Studio
8 9 (0.82%) Cucumber
8 9 (0.82%) Cypress.io
8 9 (0.82%) Moq
9 8 (0.73%) Android Studio
9 8 (0.73%) Bitbucket
9 8 (0.73%) Maven
10 7 (0.64%) gulp
11 5 (0.45%) Axure RP
11 5 (0.45%) Babel
11 5 (0.45%) CANoe
12 4 (0.36%) GitLab
12 4 (0.36%) Octopus Deploy
12 4 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 379 (34.42%) Social Skills
2 244 (22.16%) Finance
3 208 (18.89%) Marketing
4 173 (15.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 113 (10.26%) Law
6 94 (8.54%) Analytical Skills
7 70 (6.36%) Public Sector
8 69 (6.27%) Banking
9 55 (5.00%) Retail
10 49 (4.45%) Presentation Skills
11 29 (2.63%) Legal
12 25 (2.27%) Automotive
13 24 (2.18%) Manufacturing
14 22 (2.00%) Games
15 20 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
16 19 (1.73%) Advertising
17 18 (1.63%) Electronics
18 15 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
19 14 (1.27%) Investment Banking
20 11 (1.00%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 381 (34.60%) Developer
2 315 (28.61%) Designer
3 265 (24.07%) Senior
4 250 (22.71%) UX Designer
5 157 (14.26%) Lead
6 156 (14.17%) UI Designer
7 144 (13.08%) UI/UX Designer
8 118 (10.72%) Software Engineer
9 95 (8.63%) Senior Designer
10 88 (7.99%) Senior Developer
11 86 (7.81%) Senior UX Designer
12 85 (7.72%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 58 (5.27%) Senior UI Designer
14 56 (5.09%) Senior UI/UX Designer
15 47 (4.27%) Full Stack Developer
16 43 (3.91%) Senior Software Engineer
17 42 (3.81%) React Developer
17 42 (3.81%) Software Developer
18 38 (3.45%) Lead Software Engineer
19 36 (3.27%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 337 (30.61%) HTML
2 276 (25.07%) CSS
3 217 (19.71%) React
4 139 (12.62%) AngularJS
5 97 (8.81%) .NET
6 94 (8.54%) RESTful
7 79 (7.18%) REST
8 69 (6.27%) Vue
9 68 (6.18%) Node.js
10 67 (6.09%) Web Services
11 57 (5.18%) JSON
12 51 (4.63%) HTML5
13 48 (4.36%) Spring
14 45 (4.09%) SOAP
15 42 (3.81%) Sass
16 37 (3.36%) XML
17 36 (3.27%) Laravel
18 34 (3.09%) jQuery
19 33 (3.00%) ASP.NET
19 33 (3.00%) Java EE
Miscellaneous
1 114 (10.35%) Product Ownership
2 78 (7.08%) Mobile App
3 35 (3.18%) Greenfield Project
4 34 (3.09%) Algorithms
5 31 (2.82%) Blockchain
6 30 (2.72%) Data Structures
7 23 (2.09%) Graphic Design
8 22 (2.00%) Market Risk
8 22 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
9 21 (1.91%) Cloud Native
9 21 (1.91%) Management Information System
10 19 (1.73%) Onboarding
11 17 (1.54%) SCADA
12 16 (1.45%) Animation
12 16 (1.45%) Operational Technology
13 14 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
14 12 (1.09%) BBC
14 12 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
15 11 (1.00%) Client/Server
15 11 (1.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 41 (3.72%) Android
2 37 (3.36%) Apple iOS
3 34 (3.09%) Windows
4 19 (1.73%) Windows Server
5 17 (1.54%) Linux
6 3 (0.27%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,101 (100.00%) User Experience
2 409 (37.15%) Agile
3 374 (33.97%) Problem-Solving
4 222 (20.16%) Front End Development
5 197 (17.89%) Software Engineering
6 186 (16.89%) Wireframes
7 175 (15.89%) Prototyping
8 173 (15.71%) User Research
9 158 (14.35%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 142 (12.90%) DevOps
11 134 (12.17%) Actionable Insight
11 134 (12.17%) Mentoring
12 130 (11.81%) Collaborative Working
13 126 (11.44%) Full Stack Development
14 115 (10.45%) Customer Experience
14 115 (10.45%) UX Research
15 114 (10.35%) Design Patterns
16 110 (9.99%) Stakeholder Management
17 106 (9.63%) Visualisation
18 103 (9.36%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 333 (30.25%) JavaScript
2 120 (10.90%) TypeScript
3 112 (10.17%) Java
4 99 (8.99%) C#
5 93 (8.45%) PHP
6 89 (8.08%) SQL
7 81 (7.36%) Python
8 31 (2.82%) Kotlin
9 18 (1.63%) Rust
10 17 (1.54%) T-SQL
11 16 (1.45%) Go
12 14 (1.27%) Clojure
12 14 (1.27%) F#
12 14 (1.27%) Haskell
12 14 (1.27%) Swift
12 14 (1.27%) VB.NET
13 12 (1.09%) C
14 9 (0.82%) Dart
15 6 (0.54%) C++
15 6 (0.54%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 201 (18.26%) Degree
2 115 (10.45%) Security Cleared
3 95 (8.63%) SC Cleared
4 47 (4.27%) Master's Degree
5 21 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (1.18%) DV Cleared
7 12 (1.09%) CSPO
7 12 (1.09%) MBA
8 11 (1.00%) PhD
9 7 (0.64%) HND
10 6 (0.54%) IIBA
11 3 (0.27%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.18%) Postgraduate
13 1 (0.091%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.091%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.091%) ISEB
13 1 (0.091%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 175 (15.89%) Accessibility
2 74 (6.72%) WCAG
3 52 (4.72%) QA
4 17 (1.54%) GDPR
5 8 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (0.45%) ISO 26262
7 4 (0.36%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.18%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.18%) IEC 62304
9 2 (0.18%) ISO 13485
10 1 (0.091%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 43 (3.91%) Docker
2 16 (1.45%) Hyper-V
2 16 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.18%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (0.18%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 17 (1.54%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.00%) Terraform
3 1 (0.091%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 124 (11.26%) Adobe
2 84 (7.63%) Microsoft
3 61 (5.54%) Google
4 25 (2.27%) Salesforce
5 21 (1.91%) ServiceNow
6 17 (1.54%) Xamarin
7 16 (1.45%) VMware
8 12 (1.09%) Facebook
8 12 (1.09%) Qualtrics
8 12 (1.09%) Sony
9 11 (1.00%) Hotjar
9 11 (1.00%) WooCommerce
10 9 (0.82%) SAP
11 8 (0.73%) DevExpress
12 7 (0.64%) Mapbox
13 4 (0.36%) Databricks
13 4 (0.36%) dotdigital
13 4 (0.36%) Oracle
14 3 (0.27%) Snapchat
14 3 (0.27%) YouTube