User Experience Jobs in Scotland

UX
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring User Experience skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited User Experience over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 85 88 69
Rank change year-on-year +3 -19 -2
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 220 133 243
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 3.86% 3.51% 3.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.40% 3.65% 4.32%
Number of salaries quoted 64 60 130
10th Percentile £32,500 £39,875 £42,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,047 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -2.04% +34.32%
75th Percentile £67,906 £74,688 £75,000
90th Percentile £84,250 £82,500 £78,750
UK median annual salary £52,550 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -15.92% +4.17% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,004 3,640 5,626
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 87.82% 95.94% 92.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2,133 1,969 3,041
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,555 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,548 £83,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for User Experience in Scotland

User Experience
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing User Experience in Scotland.

Salary trend for User Experience in Scotland

User Experience
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing User Experience in Scotland over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for User Experience in Scotland

User Experience
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing User Experience within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
Glasgow -32 147 £50,000 -16.67% 7
Edinburgh +38 43 £60,000 -7.69% 4
Dundee +1 7 £47,500 -15.66%
Aberdeen - 6 £35,000 - 1
Midlothian - 5 - - 3
South Lanarkshire +3 3 £35,000 +20.69% 2
Stirling - 3 £50,000 -
East Lothian - 2 - -
Dunbartonshire - 1 - -
User Experience
UK

User Experience
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 5 (2.27%) WordPress
2 4 (1.82%) Apache
2 4 (1.82%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.91%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.45%) CMS
Applications
1 28 (12.73%) Sketch
2 10 (4.55%) InVision
3 7 (3.18%) UserZoom
4 6 (2.73%) Adobe Illustrator
4 6 (2.73%) Photoshop
5 4 (1.82%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.91%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.45%) Adobe Captivate
7 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 82 (37.27%) Figma
2 48 (21.82%) SurveyMonkey
3 17 (7.73%) AWS
4 16 (7.27%) Miro
5 15 (6.82%) SaaS
6 14 (6.36%) Azure
7 9 (4.09%) Power Platform
8 8 (3.64%) Heroku
9 7 (3.18%) GCP
10 4 (1.82%) Amazon S3
10 4 (1.82%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (1.82%) Google Docs
10 4 (1.82%) Lucidchart
10 4 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (1.82%) Serverless
10 4 (1.82%) Slack
11 2 (0.91%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 2 (0.91%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (0.91%) Contentful
12 1 (0.45%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.45%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (0.45%) HTTP
1 1 (0.45%) MQTT
1 1 (0.45%) Structured Cabling
1 1 (0.45%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.45%) VLAN
1 1 (0.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (7.27%) MySQL
2 9 (4.09%) Power BI
3 8 (3.64%) Tableau
4 7 (3.18%) SQL Server
5 6 (2.73%) Data Vault
5 6 (2.73%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (2.27%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.82%) Big Data
7 4 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (1.82%) Hadoop
7 4 (1.82%) Redis
7 4 (1.82%) Scylla
8 1 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.45%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 23 (10.45%) JIRA
2 14 (6.36%) Git
3 7 (3.18%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.82%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.91%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.45%) Selenium
General
1 115 (52.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 114 (51.82%) Finance
3 102 (46.36%) Law
4 98 (44.55%) Marketing
5 62 (28.18%) Social Skills
6 30 (13.64%) Social Science
7 18 (8.18%) Banking
8 12 (5.45%) Public Sector
9 11 (5.00%) Investment Banking
10 8 (3.64%) Analytical Skills
10 8 (3.64%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.82%) Legal
11 4 (1.82%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.36%) Polish Language
13 2 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.91%) Tech for Good
14 1 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.45%) Electronics
14 1 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 72 (32.73%) Lead
2 53 (24.09%) Designer
3 47 (21.36%) UX Designer
4 41 (18.64%) Senior
5 34 (15.45%) Software Engineer
6 32 (14.55%) Developer
6 32 (14.55%) Senior Designer
6 32 (14.55%) Senior UX Designer
7 22 (10.00%) User Experience Researcher
8 21 (9.55%) UI Designer
8 21 (9.55%) UI/UX Designer
9 19 (8.64%) Lead Software Engineer
10 14 (6.36%) UI Engineer
11 13 (5.91%) Architect
11 13 (5.91%) Senior UI Designer
11 13 (5.91%) Senior UI/UX Designer
12 12 (5.45%) Software Developer
13 9 (4.09%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 8 (3.64%) PHP Developer
15 6 (2.73%) Principal Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (24.55%) React
2 50 (22.73%) HTML
3 40 (18.18%) CSS
4 31 (14.09%) AngularJS
5 21 (9.55%) Node.js
6 20 (9.09%) Vue
7 18 (8.18%) Spring Boot
8 17 (7.73%) Spring
9 15 (6.82%) Web Services
10 14 (6.36%) DOM
11 10 (4.55%) .NET
12 6 (2.73%) .NET Core
12 6 (2.73%) .NET Framework
12 6 (2.73%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 5 (2.27%) Sass
13 5 (2.27%) SignalR
13 5 (2.27%) WCF
13 5 (2.27%) WF
14 4 (1.82%) Kafka
14 4 (1.82%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 38 (17.27%) Market Risk
2 17 (7.73%) Algorithms
3 16 (7.27%) Management Information System
4 14 (6.36%) Product Ownership
5 12 (5.45%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (5.00%) Cloud Native
7 8 (3.64%) Mobile App
8 5 (2.27%) Graphic Design
8 5 (2.27%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.82%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.36%) PropTech
11 2 (0.91%) Life Science
11 2 (0.91%) Public Cloud
12 1 (0.45%) Analytical Mindset
12 1 (0.45%) IoT
12 1 (0.45%) Marketing Technology
12 1 (0.45%) Raspberry Pi
12 1 (0.45%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.27%) Android
2 3 (1.36%) Windows
3 2 (0.91%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.91%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (55.91%) UX Design
2 93 (42.27%) Agile
3 90 (40.91%) UX Research
4 74 (33.64%) User Research
5 65 (29.55%) Actionable Insight
6 60 (27.27%) Service Design
7 59 (26.82%) Information Architecture
8 53 (24.09%) Interaction Design
9 48 (21.82%) Anthropology
9 48 (21.82%) Psychology
10 44 (20.00%) Mentoring
11 42 (19.09%) Product Management
11 42 (19.09%) Project Planning
12 41 (18.64%) Cognitive Science
12 41 (18.64%) Fintech
12 41 (18.64%) Qualitative Research
12 41 (18.64%) Software Engineering
13 40 (18.18%) Roadmaps
14 37 (16.82%) Problem-Solving
15 36 (16.36%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 55 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 30 (13.64%) R
3 29 (13.18%) TypeScript
4 17 (7.73%) Java
5 13 (5.91%) PHP
6 10 (4.55%) C#
6 10 (4.55%) SQL
7 9 (4.09%) Python
8 4 (1.82%) Bash
8 4 (1.82%) C
8 4 (1.82%) Go
8 4 (1.82%) Kotlin
8 4 (1.82%) Scala
9 2 (0.91%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.91%) Swift
9 2 (0.91%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 80 (36.36%) Degree
2 45 (20.45%) Master's Degree
3 41 (18.64%) PhD
4 17 (7.73%) Security Cleared
5 16 (7.27%) SC Cleared
6 2 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.45%) CCDP
7 1 (0.45%) CCNP
7 1 (0.45%) CCSP
7 1 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (19.09%) Accessibility
2 13 (5.91%) WCAG
3 11 (5.00%) QA
4 7 (3.18%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.91%) GLP
6 1 (0.45%) PMO
6 1 (0.45%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (0.91%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.45%) Docker
2 1 (0.45%) Firmware
2 1 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (1.82%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.45%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 37 (16.82%) Qualtrics
2 12 (5.45%) ServiceNow
3 9 (4.09%) Microsoft
4 7 (3.18%) Adobe
5 5 (2.27%) Google
6 4 (1.82%) Dell
7 2 (0.91%) Charles River
7 2 (0.91%) Netlify
8 1 (0.45%) Apple
8 1 (0.45%) Cisco
8 1 (0.45%) Nexthink
8 1 (0.45%) Nintex
8 1 (0.45%) NVIDIA
8 1 (0.45%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.45%) Polycom
8 1 (0.45%) SAP
8 1 (0.45%) VMware
8 1 (0.45%) Xamarin
8 1 (0.45%) Zscaler