User-Centered Design (UCD) Jobs in England

User-Centered Design (UCD)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring User-Centered Design (UCD) skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited User-Centered Design (UCD) over the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 476 478 511
Rank change year-on-year +2 +33 -35
Permanent jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) 189 392 490
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.41% 0.46% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.54% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 116 238 255
10th Percentile £44,075 £40,988 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,563 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,965 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.51% -7.26% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,965 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.51% -3.39% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 43,566 73,204 88,358
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 93.64% 85.81% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 23,957 53,948 52,209
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,000 £34,296
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,783
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,000 £73,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £101,185
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

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

Job postings citing User-Centered Design (UCD) as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for User-Centered Design (UCD) in England

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) in England.

Salary trend for User-Centered Design (UCD) in England

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) in England over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

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

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) within the England region over the 6 months to 4 May 2025. 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
London +129 110 £62,500 +8.70% 147
North of England -56 35 £52,500 -9.43% 29
South West +83 19 £68,525 +14.21% 7
Yorkshire +43 18 £53,750 -7.27% 5
North West -55 12 £52,500 -9.43% 17
Midlands +21 10 £62,500 +7.82% 15
West Midlands +34 8 £72,500 +22.05% 8
South East +85 6 £52,500 +65.35% 29
North East +29 5 £50,000 -13.74% 7
East of England +42 3 £65,000 +40.97% 2
East Midlands +21 2 £31,000 -34.74% 6
User-Centered Design (UCD)
UK

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 10 (5.29%) WordPress
2 9 (4.76%) CMS
3 5 (2.65%) CICS
3 5 (2.65%) Confluence
4 3 (1.59%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.06%) Drupal
Applications
1 24 (12.70%) Adobe XD
2 16 (8.47%) Sketch
3 7 (3.70%) InVision
4 5 (2.65%) Trello
5 4 (2.12%) Adobe After Effects
5 4 (2.12%) Adobe Illustrator
5 4 (2.12%) Photoshop
6 2 (1.06%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (1.06%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.06%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 40 (21.16%) Figma
2 18 (9.52%) AWS
3 14 (7.41%) Azure
4 9 (4.76%) Power Platform
5 8 (4.23%) Google Analytics
6 7 (3.70%) Stripe
7 6 (3.17%) GCP
7 6 (3.17%) SaaS
8 4 (2.12%) Adobe Creative Cloud
8 4 (2.12%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (2.12%) ChatGPT
8 4 (2.12%) GitHub
8 4 (2.12%) Miro
9 3 (1.59%) Anthropic Claude
9 3 (1.59%) Google Workspace
9 3 (1.59%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.59%) Microsoft Copilot
9 3 (1.59%) Slack
10 2 (1.06%) Google Tag Manager
10 2 (1.06%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.06%) Intranet
2 1 (0.53%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.76%) Power BI
2 8 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.17%) Relational Database
4 5 (2.65%) DB2
4 5 (2.65%) Tableau
5 4 (2.12%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.59%) Metadata
6 3 (1.59%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.59%) SQLite
7 1 (0.53%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.53%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.53%) MySQL
7 1 (0.53%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 11 (5.82%) Axure RP
1 11 (5.82%) Git
1 11 (5.82%) JIRA
2 9 (4.76%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.17%) Balsamiq
3 6 (3.17%) GitLab
4 5 (2.65%) Postman
5 3 (1.59%) JUnit
5 3 (1.59%) Mockito
5 3 (1.59%) SoapUI
5 3 (1.59%) Visual Studio
6 2 (1.06%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.06%) IntelliJ
6 2 (1.06%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.53%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.53%) Gatling
7 1 (0.53%) JMeter
7 1 (0.53%) Locust
7 1 (0.53%) Metasploit
7 1 (0.53%) REST Assured
General
1 64 (33.86%) Social Skills
2 42 (22.22%) Public Sector
3 36 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (12.17%) Marketing
5 20 (10.58%) Finance
5 20 (10.58%) Law
6 18 (9.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (7.41%) Legal
8 11 (5.82%) Publishing
9 9 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (4.23%) Manufacturing
11 7 (3.70%) Advertising
11 7 (3.70%) Electronics
11 7 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (3.17%) Automotive
12 6 (3.17%) Tech for Good
13 4 (2.12%) Telecoms
14 3 (1.59%) Banking
15 2 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
16 1 (0.53%) Retail
Job Titles
1 55 (29.10%) Designer
2 45 (23.81%) Product Manager
3 27 (14.29%) Developer
4 22 (11.64%) Lead
5 20 (10.58%) UX Designer
6 18 (9.52%) Digital Product Manager
6 18 (9.52%) Senior
6 18 (9.52%) Service Designer
7 15 (7.94%) User Researcher
8 14 (7.41%) Consultant
9 10 (5.29%) Junior
10 9 (4.76%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 9 (4.76%) Junior Designer
10 9 (4.76%) Software Engineer
10 9 (4.76%) UI Designer
10 9 (4.76%) UI/UX Designer
10 9 (4.76%) UX Developer
11 8 (4.23%) Senior Designer
11 8 (4.23%) Web Developer
12 7 (3.70%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (19.05%) CSS
2 35 (18.52%) HTML
3 13 (6.88%) RESTful
4 11 (5.82%) React
5 8 (4.23%) Node.js
6 7 (3.70%) JSON
6 7 (3.70%) Next.js
7 6 (3.17%) AngularJS
8 4 (2.12%) .NET
8 4 (2.12%) Express.js
8 4 (2.12%) OAuth
8 4 (2.12%) OAuth2
8 4 (2.12%) SOAP
8 4 (2.12%) Spring
8 4 (2.12%) Spring Boot
8 4 (2.12%) Tailwind CSS
8 4 (2.12%) Web Services
9 3 (1.59%) Hibernate
9 3 (1.59%) Vue
9 3 (1.59%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 28 (14.81%) Product Ownership
2 11 (5.82%) NHS
3 8 (4.23%) Housing Association
3 8 (4.23%) Mobile App
4 7 (3.70%) Learning Management System
5 6 (3.17%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.65%) Social Media
7 4 (2.12%) Digital Media
7 4 (2.12%) N-Tier
8 3 (1.59%) Animation
8 3 (1.59%) IBM Mainframe
8 3 (1.59%) Mainframe
8 3 (1.59%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.59%) Video Editing
9 2 (1.06%) Client/Server
9 2 (1.06%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.06%) Educational Technology
9 2 (1.06%) Graphic Design
9 2 (1.06%) Hackathon
9 2 (1.06%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.65%) zOS
2 4 (2.12%) Windows
3 2 (1.06%) Android
3 2 (1.06%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.06%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (57.14%) Agile
2 89 (47.09%) User Experience
3 75 (39.68%) User Research
4 50 (26.46%) Roadmaps
5 48 (25.40%) UX Design
6 43 (22.75%) Problem-Solving
7 40 (21.16%) Usability Testing
8 39 (20.63%) Continuous Improvement
9 38 (20.11%) Wireframes
10 32 (16.93%) Scrum
11 31 (16.40%) Analytics
12 30 (15.87%) Decision-Making
13 29 (15.34%) Business Analysis
13 29 (15.34%) Prototyping
14 25 (13.23%) Product Management
15 24 (12.70%) Mentoring
15 24 (12.70%) Service Design
15 24 (12.70%) Stakeholder Management
15 24 (12.70%) Workshop Facilitation
16 23 (12.17%) Product Strategy
Programming Languages
1 30 (15.87%) JavaScript
2 13 (6.88%) SQL
3 7 (3.70%) Java
3 7 (3.70%) PHP
4 6 (3.17%) TypeScript
5 5 (2.65%) COBOL
6 3 (1.59%) C#
6 3 (1.59%) Python
7 2 (1.06%) Bash
7 2 (1.06%) JCL
Qualifications
1 34 (17.99%) Security Cleared
2 30 (15.87%) Degree
3 24 (12.70%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (3.17%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.65%) CSPO
6 5 (2.65%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.12%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.59%) HND
8 3 (1.59%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 3 (1.59%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.53%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.53%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (33.86%) Accessibility
2 20 (10.58%) WCAG
3 9 (4.76%) QA
4 2 (1.06%) GDPR
5 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.53%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.53%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.53%) NCSC
5 1 (0.53%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (2.12%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (2.12%) CA Endevor
1 4 (2.12%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.06%) MAINVIEW
3 1 (0.53%) Nessus
Vendors
1 31 (16.40%) Adobe
2 17 (8.99%) Microsoft
3 13 (6.88%) Google
4 6 (3.17%) Mercator
5 5 (2.65%) IBM
5 5 (2.65%) SAP
6 3 (1.59%) EMC
7 2 (1.06%) BMC
7 2 (1.06%) Splunk
8 1 (0.53%) Databricks
8 1 (0.53%) Hotjar
8 1 (0.53%) Salesforce