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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 63 34
Rank change year-on-year -12 -29 -7
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 10 28 39
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 1.27% 2.60% 5.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.40% 2.99% 5.80%
Number of salaries quoted 7 19 21
10th Percentile £39,350 £37,850 £45,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £39,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £44,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.61% -25.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,050 £74,500 £73,750
Scotland median annual salary £55,500 £60,000 £55,659
% change year-on-year -7.50% +7.80% -7.24%

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 712 938 672
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 90.24% 87.17% 97.11%
Number of salaries quoted 299 468 521
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,676 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,750 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.21% -0.47% +0.95%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £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

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing User Experience relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

User Experience job vacancy trend 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 22 October 2025.

Salary histogram for User Experience in Glasgow

User Experience
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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 1 (10.00%) AWS
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) BlazeMeter
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (10.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (10.00%) Qlik Sense
2 1 (10.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) JUnit
2 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) Maven
General
1 3 (30.00%) Banking
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
1 3 (30.00%) Marketing
2 2 (20.00%) Multimedia
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (10.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Law
3 1 (10.00%) Legal
3 1 (10.00%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Designer
1 3 (30.00%) Senior
1 3 (30.00%) Senior Designer
1 3 (30.00%) Senior UX Designer
1 3 (30.00%) UX Designer
2 2 (20.00%) Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Product Owner
3 1 (10.00%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (10.00%) Applications Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Java Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Product Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Support Team Leader
3 1 (10.00%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) CSS
1 2 (20.00%) Kafka
1 2 (20.00%) Spring
2 1 (10.00%) HTML
2 1 (10.00%) J2EE
2 1 (10.00%) JSON
2 1 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (10.00%) React
2 1 (10.00%) REST
2 1 (10.00%) SailPoint
2 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (10.00%) Algorithms
3 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Agile
2 4 (40.00%) UX Design
3 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (30.00%) TDD
3 3 (30.00%) Wireframes
4 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (20.00%) Design Patterns
4 2 (20.00%) Design Thinking
4 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (20.00%) Journey Map
4 2 (20.00%) Product Management
4 2 (20.00%) Project Management
4 2 (20.00%) Prototyping
4 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (20.00%) Usability Testing
4 2 (20.00%) User Research
4 2 (20.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 2 (20.00%) UX Research
4 2 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Java
1 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Grafana
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (10.00%) SCCM
1 1 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Citrix
2 1 (10.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (10.00%) ForgeRock
2 1 (10.00%) IBM
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Splunk