UX Design Job Trends in Reading

User Experience Design (UXD)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Reading requiring UX Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 68 107
Rank change year-on-year +18 +39 -
Permanent jobs citing UX Design 13 1 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 1.57% 0.19% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.05% 0.21% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile - - £34,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £50,000 £36,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% +22.22% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £60,000 £54,375
90th Percentile - - £57,750
Berkshire median annual salary £70,000 £51,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year +36.59% -14.58% +6.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Reading

UX Design 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 Reading.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 635 466 1,212
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 76.51% 90.84% 88.79%
Number of salaries quoted 399 215 863
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £29,800
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £65,000 £83,125 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,750 £112,500 £83,750
Berkshire median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing UX Design relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Reading.

UX Design job vacancy trend in Reading

UX Design
Salary Trend in Reading

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing UX Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing UX Design

UX Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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:

Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (7.69%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) Azure
2 5 (38.46%) Figma
3 4 (30.77%) AWS
3 4 (30.77%) GCP
3 4 (30.77%) GitHub
4 1 (7.69%) Canva
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Git
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Retail
3 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Designer
1 6 (46.15%) UI Designer
1 6 (46.15%) UI/UX Designer
1 6 (46.15%) UX Designer
2 5 (38.46%) Senior
2 5 (38.46%) Senior Designer
2 5 (38.46%) Senior UI Designer
2 5 (38.46%) Senior UI/UX Designer
2 5 (38.46%) Senior UX Designer
3 4 (30.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 4 (30.77%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 4 (30.77%) Software Engineer
4 3 (23.08%) Developer
4 3 (23.08%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Developer
5 1 (7.69%) C# Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Web Applications Designer
5 1 (7.69%) Web Designer
5 1 (7.69%) Web UI Designer
5 1 (7.69%) Web UI/UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) Django
1 4 (30.77%) React
1 4 (30.77%) REST
1 4 (30.77%) Twisted
1 4 (30.77%) Web Services
1 4 (30.77%) WebSockets
2 3 (23.08%) .NET
2 3 (23.08%) .NET Core
2 3 (23.08%) .NET Framework
2 3 (23.08%) ASP.NET
2 3 (23.08%) Blazor
2 3 (23.08%) Entity Framework
2 3 (23.08%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Mobile App
2 4 (30.77%) Product Ownership
2 4 (30.77%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (30.77%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (7.69%) 3D Graphics
3 1 (7.69%) Graphic Design
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) User Experience
2 7 (53.85%) Full-Stack Development
3 5 (38.46%) E-Commerce
3 5 (38.46%) Mobile First
4 4 (30.77%) Agile
4 4 (30.77%) Asynchronous Programming
4 4 (30.77%) Code Quality
4 4 (30.77%) Collaborative Working
4 4 (30.77%) Containerisation
4 4 (30.77%) End-to-End Testing
4 4 (30.77%) High Availability
4 4 (30.77%) SBOM
4 4 (30.77%) Software Engineering
4 4 (30.77%) Test Automation
5 3 (23.08%) DevOps
5 3 (23.08%) Extreme Programming
6 1 (7.69%) AI
6 1 (7.69%) Creative Problem-Solving
6 1 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (7.69%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) JavaScript
1 4 (30.77%) Python
1 4 (30.77%) TypeScript
2 3 (23.08%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (46.15%) Accessibility
2 4 (30.77%) QA
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Docker
1 4 (30.77%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Adobe