User Experience Job Trends in Glasgow

UX
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring User Experience skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 93 37
Rank change year-on-year +25 -56 +5
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 11 75 43
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 1.49% 3.77% 5.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.64% 4.12% 5.53%
Number of salaries quoted 6 22 24
10th Percentile £31,875 £37,325 £45,132
25th Percentile £39,000 £39,438 £48,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -25.00% +9.09%
75th Percentile £76,875 £68,438 £73,750
90th Percentile £82,875 £77,125 -
Scotland median annual salary £62,500 £54,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +15.74% -10.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

User Experience 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 Glasgow.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 669 1,822 777
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 90.53% 91.51% 96.76%
Number of salaries quoted 263 561 591
10th Percentile £29,550 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £67,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £75,000
Scotland median annual salary £38,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -30.91% +4.76% -4.55%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings citing User Experience as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for User Experience in Glasgow

User Experience
Salary Trend in Glasgow

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing User Experience.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing User Experience

User Experience
Salary Histogram in Glasgow

Salary distribution for jobs citing User Experience in Glasgow over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Salary histogram for User Experience in Glasgow

User Experience
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 1 (9.09%) SAP Portal
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) AWS
1 1 (9.09%) Azure
1 1 (9.09%) BlazeMeter
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Relational Database
2 1 (9.09%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
2 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
2 1 (9.09%) Qlik Sense
2 1 (9.09%) RDBMS
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) JUnit
2 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
2 1 (9.09%) JIRA
2 1 (9.09%) Maven
General
1 5 (45.45%) Banking
1 5 (45.45%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Marketing
4 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (9.09%) Investment Banking
4 1 (9.09%) Law
4 1 (9.09%) Legal
4 1 (9.09%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Senior
2 3 (27.27%) Designer
2 3 (27.27%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Senior Designer
2 3 (27.27%) Senior UX Designer
2 3 (27.27%) UX Designer
3 2 (18.18%) UX Developer
4 1 (9.09%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (9.09%) Administrator
4 1 (9.09%) Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Graduate IT Support
4 1 (9.09%) IT Support
4 1 (9.09%) Java Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Lead
4 1 (9.09%) Mobile Product Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Product Owner
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior UX Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) CSS
1 2 (18.18%) Kafka
1 2 (18.18%) Spring
2 1 (9.09%) HTML
2 1 (9.09%) J2EE
2 1 (9.09%) JSON
2 1 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (9.09%) React
2 1 (9.09%) REST
2 1 (9.09%) SailPoint
2 1 (9.09%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Algorithms
1 1 (9.09%) Mobile App
1 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
1 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
1 1 (9.09%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Agile
2 6 (54.55%) UX Design
3 5 (45.45%) Project Management
3 5 (45.45%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (36.36%) Design Thinking
4 4 (36.36%) Journey Map
4 4 (36.36%) Prototyping
4 4 (36.36%) Usability Testing
4 4 (36.36%) User Research
4 4 (36.36%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 4 (36.36%) UX Research
4 4 (36.36%) Wireframes
5 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
5 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (18.18%) Design Patterns
5 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (18.18%) TDD
5 2 (18.18%) Test Automation
5 2 (18.18%) Visualisation
6 1 (9.09%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Java
1 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
1 2 (18.18%) SQL
2 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Grafana
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (9.09%) SCCM
1 1 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) Citrix
2 1 (9.09%) Dynatrace
2 1 (9.09%) ForgeRock
2 1 (9.09%) IBM
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) SAP
2 1 (9.09%) Splunk