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

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 269 196 103
Rank change year-on-year -73 -93 +55
Permanent jobs citing UX Design 1,087 1,955 5,371
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.10% 1.93% 3.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.28% 2.02% 3.58%
Number of salaries quoted 745 963 1,838
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% +13.21%
75th Percentile £68,750 £80,000 £75,000
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% -

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 84,809 96,894 150,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,843 56,945 82,179
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,550
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 9 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 9 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 -93 843 £55,000 -15.38% 310
UK excluding London -14 789 £50,000 -9.09% 177
Work from Home -60 479 £55,000 -15.38% 179
London -163 229 £65,000 -5.55% 144
North of England +30 189 £50,000 -9.09% 70
Scotland +12 151 £47,500 -11.63% 19
South East -79 138 £55,000 - 25
Midlands +28 125 £50,000 +11.11% 32
South West +31 113 £55,000 +7.32% 16
North West -2 112 £45,000 -30.77% 51
West Midlands +46 89 £55,000 +22.22% 23
Yorkshire +76 60 £51,000 +2.00% 13
East of England -81 45 £46,000 -23.33% 14
East Midlands -22 28 £35,000 -36.36% 9
North East -12 17 £50,000 +30.29% 6
Wales -20 17 £32,500 -27.78%
Northern Ireland +33 15 £45,000 -14.29% 1

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 34 (3.13%) WordPress
2 30 (2.76%) CMS
3 27 (2.48%) Confluence
4 12 (1.10%) JBoss
4 12 (1.10%) Red Hat Fuse
5 11 (1.01%) SharePoint
6 7 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.46%) Kentico
7 5 (0.46%) Umbraco
8 4 (0.37%) IBM Domino
9 3 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
10 2 (0.18%) IIS
11 1 (0.092%) Apache
11 1 (0.092%) Drupal
11 1 (0.092%) Moodle
11 1 (0.092%) SharePoint Server
11 1 (0.092%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 140 (12.88%) Sketch
2 64 (5.89%) Adobe XD
3 45 (4.14%) Photoshop
4 40 (3.68%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 35 (3.22%) Adobe Illustrator
5 35 (3.22%) InVision
6 25 (2.30%) Microsoft Office
7 18 (1.66%) Adobe After Effects
8 11 (1.01%) InDesign
9 10 (0.92%) Chatbot
10 9 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
11 7 (0.64%) Blender
11 7 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
12 6 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
12 6 (0.55%) UserZoom
13 5 (0.46%) CANalyzer
14 3 (0.28%) CINEMA 4D
14 3 (0.28%) Trello
15 2 (0.18%) Adobe Premiere
15 2 (0.18%) Final Cut Pro
Business Applications
1 20 (1.84%) Shopify
2 16 (1.47%) Magento
3 5 (0.46%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.37%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.18%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.092%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.092%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.092%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 236 (21.71%) Figma
2 125 (11.50%) AWS
3 98 (9.02%) Azure
4 79 (7.27%) SaaS
5 57 (5.24%) Miro
6 48 (4.42%) Heroku
7 34 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
8 30 (2.76%) Power Platform
9 27 (2.48%) PowerApps
10 26 (2.39%) Power Automate
11 24 (2.21%) GitHub
12 22 (2.02%) GCP
13 21 (1.93%) Microsoft 365
14 20 (1.84%) Cloud Computing
15 19 (1.75%) Google Analytics
16 17 (1.56%) SurveyMonkey
17 15 (1.38%) Serverless
18 13 (1.20%) Adobe Creative Cloud
19 12 (1.10%) npm
20 10 (0.92%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.74%) HTTP
2 7 (0.64%) Intranet
3 5 (0.46%) Ethernet
3 5 (0.46%) Internet
4 4 (0.37%) SSH
5 3 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.092%) AMQP
6 1 (0.092%) MQTT
6 1 (0.092%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (5.52%) MySQL
2 54 (4.97%) SQL Server
3 27 (2.48%) Power BI
4 21 (1.93%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (1.56%) Relational Database
6 15 (1.38%) Redis
7 13 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
8 10 (0.92%) Geospatial Data
9 8 (0.74%) GIS
9 8 (0.74%) Spatial Data
10 7 (0.64%) Big Data
11 6 (0.55%) MongoDB
12 5 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (0.46%) MariaDB
12 5 (0.46%) NoSQL
13 3 (0.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (0.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 2 (0.18%) Apache Cassandra
14 2 (0.18%) Data Mining
15 1 (0.092%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 115 (10.58%) Git
2 81 (7.45%) JIRA
3 21 (1.93%) webpack
4 16 (1.47%) Postman
5 15 (1.38%) Jenkins
6 12 (1.10%) IntelliJ
7 11 (1.01%) Visual Studio
8 10 (0.92%) Cypress.io
9 9 (0.83%) Cucumber
9 9 (0.83%) Moq
10 8 (0.74%) Android Studio
10 8 (0.74%) Bitbucket
10 8 (0.74%) Maven
11 7 (0.64%) gulp
12 5 (0.46%) Axure RP
12 5 (0.46%) Babel
12 5 (0.46%) CANoe
13 4 (0.37%) GitLab
13 4 (0.37%) Selenium
13 4 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 379 (34.87%) Social Skills
2 243 (22.36%) Finance
3 206 (18.95%) Marketing
4 174 (16.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 115 (10.58%) Law
6 94 (8.65%) Analytical Skills
7 68 (6.26%) Banking
8 55 (5.06%) Retail
9 54 (4.97%) Public Sector
10 49 (4.51%) Presentation Skills
11 28 (2.58%) Legal
12 25 (2.30%) Automotive
12 25 (2.30%) Manufacturing
13 22 (2.02%) Games
14 20 (1.84%) Influencing Skills
15 19 (1.75%) Advertising
15 19 (1.75%) Electronics
16 15 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
17 14 (1.29%) Investment Banking
18 11 (1.01%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 381 (35.05%) Developer
2 314 (28.89%) Designer
3 251 (23.09%) UX Designer
4 248 (22.82%) Senior
5 157 (14.44%) Lead
5 157 (14.44%) UI Designer
6 145 (13.34%) UI/UX Designer
7 103 (9.48%) Software Engineer
8 93 (8.56%) Senior Designer
9 88 (8.10%) Senior Developer
10 85 (7.82%) Senior UX Designer
11 83 (7.64%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 58 (5.34%) Senior UI Designer
13 56 (5.15%) Senior UI/UX Designer
14 47 (4.32%) Full Stack Developer
15 43 (3.96%) Software Developer
16 42 (3.86%) React Developer
17 38 (3.50%) Lead Software Engineer
18 36 (3.31%) Product Manager
19 34 (3.13%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 339 (31.19%) HTML
2 278 (25.57%) CSS
3 218 (20.06%) React
4 122 (11.22%) AngularJS
5 99 (9.11%) .NET
6 78 (7.18%) RESTful
7 70 (6.44%) Vue
8 68 (6.26%) Node.js
9 63 (5.80%) REST
10 52 (4.78%) HTML5
11 50 (4.60%) Web Services
12 43 (3.96%) Sass
13 41 (3.77%) JSON
14 37 (3.40%) Laravel
15 34 (3.13%) jQuery
16 33 (3.04%) ASP.NET
17 32 (2.94%) Spring
18 30 (2.76%) CSS3
19 29 (2.67%) .NET Core
19 29 (2.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 116 (10.67%) Product Ownership
2 79 (7.27%) Mobile App
3 37 (3.40%) Greenfield Project
4 34 (3.13%) Algorithms
5 31 (2.85%) Blockchain
6 30 (2.76%) Data Structures
7 23 (2.12%) Graphic Design
7 23 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
8 22 (2.02%) Market Risk
9 21 (1.93%) Cloud Native
9 21 (1.93%) Management Information System
10 19 (1.75%) Onboarding
11 17 (1.56%) SCADA
12 16 (1.47%) Animation
12 16 (1.47%) Operational Technology
13 14 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
14 12 (1.10%) BBC
14 12 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
15 11 (1.01%) Client/Server
15 11 (1.01%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 42 (3.86%) Android
2 38 (3.50%) Apple iOS
3 35 (3.22%) Windows
4 19 (1.75%) Windows Server
5 18 (1.66%) Linux
6 4 (0.37%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.092%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,087 (100.00%) User Experience
2 392 (36.06%) Agile
3 354 (32.57%) Problem-Solving
4 206 (18.95%) Front End Development
5 184 (16.93%) Wireframes
6 183 (16.84%) Software Engineering
7 173 (15.92%) Prototyping
8 171 (15.73%) User Research
9 157 (14.44%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 142 (13.06%) DevOps
11 125 (11.50%) Full Stack Development
12 118 (10.86%) Actionable Insight
13 117 (10.76%) Mentoring
14 115 (10.58%) Design Patterns
14 115 (10.58%) UX Research
15 113 (10.40%) Customer Experience
16 112 (10.30%) Collaborative Working
17 110 (10.12%) Stakeholder Management
18 106 (9.75%) Visualisation
19 102 (9.38%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 335 (30.82%) JavaScript
2 122 (11.22%) TypeScript
3 101 (9.29%) C#
4 97 (8.92%) Java
5 92 (8.46%) PHP
6 91 (8.37%) SQL
7 84 (7.73%) Python
8 31 (2.85%) Kotlin
9 19 (1.75%) Rust
10 17 (1.56%) T-SQL
11 16 (1.47%) Go
12 14 (1.29%) Clojure
12 14 (1.29%) F#
12 14 (1.29%) Haskell
12 14 (1.29%) Swift
12 14 (1.29%) VB.NET
13 12 (1.10%) C
14 9 (0.83%) Dart
15 7 (0.64%) C++
16 6 (0.55%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 202 (18.58%) Degree
2 99 (9.11%) Security Cleared
3 79 (7.27%) SC Cleared
4 47 (4.32%) Master's Degree
5 21 (1.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (1.20%) DV Cleared
7 12 (1.10%) CSPO
7 12 (1.10%) MBA
8 11 (1.01%) PhD
9 7 (0.64%) HND
10 6 (0.55%) IIBA
11 3 (0.28%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.18%) Postgraduate
13 1 (0.092%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.092%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.092%) ISEB
13 1 (0.092%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 175 (16.10%) Accessibility
2 73 (6.72%) WCAG
3 52 (4.78%) QA
4 16 (1.47%) GDPR
5 8 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (0.46%) ISO 26262
7 4 (0.37%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.18%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.18%) IEC 62304
9 2 (0.18%) ISO 13485
10 1 (0.092%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 43 (3.96%) Docker
2 16 (1.47%) Hyper-V
2 16 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.18%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (0.18%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 17 (1.56%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.01%) Terraform
3 1 (0.092%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 125 (11.50%) Adobe
2 84 (7.73%) Microsoft
3 61 (5.61%) Google
4 25 (2.30%) Salesforce
5 21 (1.93%) ServiceNow
6 17 (1.56%) Xamarin
7 16 (1.47%) VMware
8 12 (1.10%) Facebook
8 12 (1.10%) Qualtrics
8 12 (1.10%) Sony
9 11 (1.01%) Hotjar
9 11 (1.01%) WooCommerce
10 9 (0.83%) SAP
11 8 (0.74%) DevExpress
12 7 (0.64%) Mapbox
13 4 (0.37%) Databricks
13 4 (0.37%) dotdigital
13 4 (0.37%) Oracle
14 3 (0.28%) TikTok
14 3 (0.28%) Twitter