User Experience Engineer
UK

The median User Experience Engineer salary in the UK is £32,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 872 978 1125
Rank change year-on-year +106 +147 -234
Permanent jobs requiring a UX Engineer 22 7 79
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.022% 0.007% 0.051%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.024% 0.007% 0.053%
Number of salaries quoted 3 4 37
10th Percentile - £35,350 £45,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £46,375 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £55,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -40.91% -26.67% -11.76%
75th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £65,750 - £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £32,500 £55,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -40.91% -26.67% +36.36%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 92,682 96,623 147,884
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.57% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,673 60,571 85,427
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

UX Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured UX Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for UX Engineer in the UK

UX Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for UX Engineer in the UK

UX Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing UX Engineer over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for UX Engineer in the UK

UX Engineer
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing UX Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 24 April 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
UK excluding London +38 21 £32,500 -40.91% 1
Scotland - 17 - -
England +122 5 £32,500 -40.91% 2
Work from Home +106 3 £32,500 +16.07% 1
East of England - 2 £32,500 -
London +159 1 - - 1
West Midlands +30 1 - - 1
Midlands +3 1 - - 1
Yorkshire - 1 £72,500 -
North of England - 1 £72,500 -

UX Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, UX Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring UX Engineer in the job title.

1 22 (100.00%) User Experience
2 20 (90.91%) UX Design
3 18 (81.82%) Finance
3 18 (81.82%) Law
3 18 (81.82%) Agile
3 18 (81.82%) Artificial Intelligence
3 18 (81.82%) React
4 17 (77.27%) Community of Practice
4 17 (77.27%) Operational Stability
4 17 (77.27%) Social Skills
4 17 (77.27%) Presentation Skills
4 17 (77.27%) Influencing Skills
4 17 (77.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 17 (77.27%) CI/CD
4 17 (77.27%) Continuous Delivery
4 17 (77.27%) SDLC
4 17 (77.27%) Case Management
4 17 (77.27%) Creative Thinking
4 17 (77.27%) Collaborative Working
4 17 (77.27%) Software Engineering
4 17 (77.27%) Marketing
4 17 (77.27%) Java
4 17 (77.27%) Python
4 17 (77.27%) Business Intelligence
4 17 (77.27%) Workflow
4 17 (77.27%) Visualisation
4 17 (77.27%) Machine Learning
4 17 (77.27%) TypeScript
5 3 (13.64%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
5 3 (13.64%) Figma

UX Engineer Skill Set
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:

Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Adobe XD
1 1 (4.55%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 3 (13.64%) Figma
2 1 (4.55%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Git
General
1 18 (81.82%) Finance
1 18 (81.82%) Law
2 17 (77.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 17 (77.27%) Influencing Skills
2 17 (77.27%) Marketing
2 17 (77.27%) Presentation Skills
2 17 (77.27%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (81.82%) React
2 1 (4.55%) AngularJS
2 1 (4.55%) CSS
2 1 (4.55%) HTML
2 1 (4.55%) HTML5
2 1 (4.55%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.55%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (100.00%) User Experience
2 20 (90.91%) UX Design
3 18 (81.82%) Agile
3 18 (81.82%) Artificial Intelligence
4 17 (77.27%) Business Intelligence
4 17 (77.27%) Case Management
4 17 (77.27%) CI/CD
4 17 (77.27%) Collaborative Working
4 17 (77.27%) Community of Practice
4 17 (77.27%) Continuous Delivery
4 17 (77.27%) Creative Thinking
4 17 (77.27%) Machine Learning
4 17 (77.27%) Operational Stability
4 17 (77.27%) SDLC
4 17 (77.27%) Software Engineering
4 17 (77.27%) Visualisation
4 17 (77.27%) Workflow
5 3 (13.64%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
6 2 (9.09%) Web Application Development
6 2 (9.09%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 17 (77.27%) Java
1 17 (77.27%) Python
1 17 (77.27%) TypeScript
2 2 (9.09%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (4.55%) Adobe