User-Centered Design (UCD) Job Trends in Edinburgh

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring User-Centered Design (UCD) skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 81 88
Rank change year-on-year +33 +7 +36
Permanent jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) 23 4 7
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 2.18% 0.46% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.18% 0.48% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 23 0 5
10th Percentile £42,000 - -
25th Percentile £46,250 - £55,400
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 - £70,000
75th Percentile £63,750 - -
90th Percentile £68,500 - -
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £40,000 £58,800
% change year-on-year +37.50% -31.97% +12.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

User-Centered Design (UCD) 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 Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 723 837 1,193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 68.53% 96.99% 85.40%
Number of salaries quoted 455 361 953
10th Percentile £29,300 £26,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,951 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £98,474 £96,539
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £51,645 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.87% -1.63% -8.70%

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing User-Centered Design (UCD) relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

User-Centered Design (UCD) job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing User-Centered Design (UCD).

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing User-Centered Design (UCD)

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 10 June 2026.

Salary histogram for User-Centered Design (UCD) in Edinburgh

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (26.09%) Confluence
2 3 (13.04%) Apache
2 3 (13.04%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 16 (69.57%) GCP
2 7 (30.43%) GitHub
3 4 (17.39%) Cloud Run
4 3 (13.04%) Apigee
4 3 (13.04%) Azure
4 3 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (13.04%) Cloud Composer
4 3 (13.04%) Dataform
5 2 (8.70%) Firebase
5 2 (8.70%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (4.35%) Google Play
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (26.09%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (13.04%) BigQuery
2 3 (13.04%) Metadata
3 2 (8.70%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 9 (39.13%) JIRA
2 3 (13.04%) fastlane
3 2 (8.70%) Jenkins
3 2 (8.70%) Xcode
4 1 (4.35%) Android Studio
4 1 (4.35%) Appium
4 1 (4.35%) Crashlytics
4 1 (4.35%) Gradle
4 1 (4.35%) Postman
4 1 (4.35%) REST Assured
4 1 (4.35%) SoapUI
4 1 (4.35%) TestRail
4 1 (4.35%) XCTest
4 1 (4.35%) Zephyr
General
1 23 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 16 (69.57%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.70%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) Senior
2 4 (17.39%) Architect
3 2 (8.70%) Analyst
3 2 (8.70%) Big Data Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Business Analyst
3 2 (8.70%) Data Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Developer
3 2 (8.70%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Lead
3 2 (8.70%) Lead DevOps
3 2 (8.70%) Product Manager
3 2 (8.70%) Project Manager
3 2 (8.70%) QC Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Security Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Senior Developer
3 2 (8.70%) Senior Manager
3 2 (8.70%) Senior Project Manager
3 2 (8.70%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (8.70%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) Great Expectations
1 2 (8.70%) RESTful
2 1 (4.35%) Android Jetpack
2 1 (4.35%) Android SDK
2 1 (4.35%) Core Data
2 1 (4.35%) iOS SDK
2 1 (4.35%) Jetpack Compose
2 1 (4.35%) REST
2 1 (4.35%) Retrofit
2 1 (4.35%) SwiftUI
2 1 (4.35%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Cloud Native
2 3 (13.04%) Mobile App
2 3 (13.04%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Android
1 2 (8.70%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (100.00%) Agile
2 15 (65.22%) DevOps
3 12 (52.17%) CI/CD
3 12 (52.17%) Knowledge Transfer
4 11 (47.83%) Mentoring
5 7 (30.43%) Kanban
5 7 (30.43%) Scrum
6 6 (26.09%) Architectural Patterns
7 5 (21.74%) API Integration
7 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (21.74%) Observability
7 5 (21.74%) Test Automation
8 4 (17.39%) Analytics
8 4 (17.39%) Deployment Automation
8 4 (17.39%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 3 (13.04%) API Testing
9 3 (13.04%) Mobile Device Management
9 3 (13.04%) SDLC
9 3 (13.04%) User Experience
9 3 (13.04%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (26.09%) Python
2 5 (21.74%) SQL
3 1 (4.35%) Java
3 1 (4.35%) Kotlin
3 1 (4.35%) Swift
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) Accessibility
1 3 (13.04%) Data Quality
1 3 (13.04%) GDPR
1 3 (13.04%) NCSC
1 3 (13.04%) WCAG
2 1 (4.35%) QA
Systems Management
1 11 (47.83%) Terraform
2 6 (26.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (73.91%) Google
2 9 (39.13%) Pega
3 2 (8.70%) Dynatrace
4 1 (4.35%) Apple