User Experience Job Trends in Gloucestershire

UX
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring User Experience skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 62 78
Rank change year-on-year +30 +16 -12
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 30 16 43
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 3.57% 2.93% 3.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.57% 3.13% 3.65%
Number of salaries quoted 23 8 18
10th Percentile - £43,855 £36,075
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,250 £44,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.26% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £73,750 £59,375 £59,375
90th Percentile £77,000 £66,500 £63,625
South West median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 656 512 1,177
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 78.10% 93.60% 89.57%
Number of salaries quoted 444 198 835
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,375
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,313 £69,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £77,620
South West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -3.69%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

User Experience job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

User Experience
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing User Experience.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing User Experience

User Experience
Salary Histogram in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing User Experience in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 26 February 2026.

Salary histogram for User Experience in Gloucestershire

User Experience
Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing User Experience within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 26 February 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
Cheltenham +5 12 £42,500 - 3
Gloucester -3 5 £75,000 +36.36% 2
Filton +4 3 £42,500 -8.60% 2
Stroud - 1 £45,000 -
User Experience
South West

User Experience
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 3 (10.00%) Confluence
2 2 (6.67%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (30.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 9 (30.00%) Dynamics NAV
1 9 (30.00%) Magento
1 9 (30.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 10 (33.33%) AWS
2 9 (30.00%) Dynamics 365
3 6 (20.00%) Azure
4 5 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (10.00%) Amazon S3
5 3 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (10.00%) GCP
5 3 (10.00%) Google Workspace
5 3 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (10.00%) Serverless
6 1 (3.33%) DigitalOcean
6 1 (3.33%) Google Ads
6 1 (3.33%) Google Analytics
6 1 (3.33%) MailChimp
Communications & Networking
1 5 (16.67%) Internet
2 3 (10.00%) Firewall
2 3 (10.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (30.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.33%) MySQL
2 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (40.00%) JIRA
2 3 (10.00%) Balsamiq
3 1 (3.33%) Git
General
1 13 (43.33%) Social Skills
2 9 (30.00%) Back Office
3 5 (16.67%) Banking
3 5 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (13.33%) Public Sector
5 3 (10.00%) Military
6 1 (3.33%) Advertising
6 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Games
6 1 (3.33%) Marketing
6 1 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (33.33%) Senior
2 9 (30.00%) Analyst
3 8 (26.67%) Support Analyst
4 5 (16.67%) Lecturer
4 5 (16.67%) Software Analyst
5 4 (13.33%) Applications Support
5 4 (13.33%) Applications Support Analyst
5 4 (13.33%) Senior Analyst
5 4 (13.33%) Senior Support Analyst
5 4 (13.33%) Software Support Analyst
6 3 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support
6 3 (10.00%) Consultant
6 3 (10.00%) Designer
6 3 (10.00%) Desktop Support
6 3 (10.00%) DevSecOps Consultant
6 3 (10.00%) Senior Consultant
6 3 (10.00%) Senior Designer
6 3 (10.00%) Senior UX Designer
6 3 (10.00%) Software Engineer
6 3 (10.00%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (30.00%) Middleware
1 9 (30.00%) REST
1 9 (30.00%) SOAP
2 3 (10.00%) React
2 3 (10.00%) Spring
2 3 (10.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (3.33%) AngularJS
3 1 (3.33%) Laravel
3 1 (3.33%) LoopBack
3 1 (3.33%) Node.js
3 1 (3.33%) RESTful
3 1 (3.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (26.67%) IoT
2 3 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.00%) Mobile App
2 3 (10.00%) Video\Live Streaming
3 1 (3.33%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.33%) Blog
3 1 (3.33%) Graphic Design
3 1 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.33%) Social Media
3 1 (3.33%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (43.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 12 (40.00%) ITSM
3 11 (36.67%) AI
3 11 (36.67%) CRM
4 10 (33.33%) API Integration
4 10 (33.33%) Change Management
4 10 (33.33%) E-Commerce
5 9 (30.00%) Data Management
5 9 (30.00%) ERP
5 9 (30.00%) Service Management
6 8 (26.67%) Machine Learning
7 7 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (23.33%) UX Design
8 6 (20.00%) DevOps
8 6 (20.00%) Software Engineering
8 6 (20.00%) Web Development
9 5 (16.67%) Agile
9 5 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
10 4 (13.33%) Full-Stack Development
10 4 (13.33%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (30.00%) SQL
1 9 (30.00%) T-SQL
2 3 (10.00%) Bash
2 3 (10.00%) C#
2 3 (10.00%) Go
2 3 (10.00%) Java
2 3 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (10.00%) Python
2 3 (10.00%) VBScript
3 1 (3.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.33%) PHP
3 1 (3.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (30.00%) Degree
2 8 (26.67%) Security Cleared
3 6 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 5 (16.67%) Master's Degree
4 5 (16.67%) PhD
4 5 (16.67%) Postgraduate
5 3 (10.00%) CITP
5 3 (10.00%) CREST Certified
6 2 (6.67%) DV Cleared
7 1 (3.33%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 1 (3.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (43.33%) Microsoft
2 9 (30.00%) ConnectWise
2 9 (30.00%) ServiceNow
2 9 (30.00%) WooCommerce
3 4 (13.33%) Google
4 1 (3.33%) Adobe
4 1 (3.33%) HubSpot
4 1 (3.33%) Salesforce