UX Design Job Trends in the East of England

User Experience Design (UXD)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring UX Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 163 124
Rank change year-on-year +16 -39 -8
Permanent jobs citing UX Design 12 19 14
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.29% 0.53% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.61% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 7 9 13
10th Percentile £42,250 £41,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £49,375 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £71,750 £70,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £78,500 £85,250 -
England median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +13.64% -12.00% -3.85%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

UX Design falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,121 3,107 1,900
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 75.57% 86.72% 88.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1,817 1,233 1,375
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £42,500 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing UX Design relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

UX Design job vacancy trend in the East of England

UX Design
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing UX Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing UX Design

UX Design
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing UX Design in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for UX Design in the East of England

UX Design
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing UX Design within the East of England region over the 6 months to 1 January 2026. 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
Cambridgeshire +10 10 £60,000 +9.09% 5
Essex -11 1 - - 6
Bedfordshire - 1 £57,000 - 1
UX Design
England

UX Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (16.67%) Redis
2 1 (8.33%) Power BI
General
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Legal
3 1 (8.33%) Local Government
3 1 (8.33%) Marketing
3 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Publishing
3 1 (8.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Software Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Lead
2 3 (25.00%) Lead Software Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Applications Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 2 (16.67%) JavaScript Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Product Owner
3 2 (16.67%) Technical Product Owner
3 2 (16.67%) UI Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) UX Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Head of Digital
4 1 (8.33%) Head of Product Management
4 1 (8.33%) Product Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (66.67%) React
2 5 (41.67%) AngularJS
2 5 (41.67%) Vue
3 3 (25.00%) Web Services
4 2 (16.67%) Node.js
5 1 (8.33%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 1 (8.33%) CSS
5 1 (8.33%) HTML
5 1 (8.33%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Product Ownership
2 3 (25.00%) e-Learning
3 2 (16.67%) Educational Technology
4 1 (8.33%) Algorithms
4 1 (8.33%) Data Structures
4 1 (8.33%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Android
1 1 (8.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) User Experience
2 6 (50.00%) Agile
3 5 (41.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (41.67%) Front End Development
3 5 (41.67%) Full-Stack Development
3 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (41.67%) Product Vision
3 5 (41.67%) Roadmaps
3 5 (41.67%) Scrum
3 5 (41.67%) Software Engineering
4 4 (33.33%) AI
4 4 (33.33%) Product Roadmap
5 3 (25.00%) Computer Science
5 3 (25.00%) Kanban
5 3 (25.00%) OO
5 3 (25.00%) Product Backlog
5 3 (25.00%) Scrum-ban
5 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (25.00%) Test Strategy
5 3 (25.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Java
1 6 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 6 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (25.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (8.33%) C++
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) DBS Check
2 4 (33.33%) Degree
3 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
4 1 (8.33%) Master's Degree
4 1 (8.33%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Huawei