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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 77 64
Rank change year-on-year +23 -13 +5
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 137 339 201
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 4.59% 5.06% 4.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.95% 5.49% 4.67%
Number of salaries quoted 22 96 76
10th Percentile £39,250 £32,500 £38,125
25th Percentile £44,984 £40,000 £44,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £49,000 £57,810
Median % change year-on-year +30.10% -15.24% -1.18%
75th Percentile £146,300 £65,000 £74,688
90th Percentile - £82,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +15.00% -20.00% +4.17%

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 2,769 6,175 4,305
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.67% 92.10% 94.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1,324 2,396 2,142
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,750 £32,075
25th Percentile £40,563 £40,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

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 23 May 2025.

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 23 May 2025. 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
Lanarkshire - 35 - - 1
Edinburgh -11 30 £127,680 +132.15% 101
Glasgow +35 12 £42,250 -13.78% 88
West Lothian - 12 - - 4
South Lanarkshire +4 10 - -
North Lanarkshire - 8 - -
Renfrewshire - 6 - - 9
Stirling +1 4 - -
East Ayrshire - 3 - -
Midlothian -7 2 - - 2
Fife - 2 - - 2
Falkirk - 2 - -
Aberdeen +21 1 £65,000 +85.71% 80
Dundee -3 1 £50,890 +7.14% 8
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 4 (2.92%) CMS
1 4 (2.92%) SAP Portal
2 3 (2.19%) Drupal
3 1 (0.73%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.73%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (2.19%) Adobe Premiere
1 3 (2.19%) Photoshop
2 2 (1.46%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.46%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (6.57%) AWS
2 8 (5.84%) Azure
3 4 (2.92%) GCP
3 4 (2.92%) Google Analytics
4 3 (2.19%) Figma
5 2 (1.46%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (1.46%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (1.46%) ChatGPT
5 2 (1.46%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (1.46%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (1.46%) OpenShift
5 2 (1.46%) Power Automate
5 2 (1.46%) Power Platform
5 2 (1.46%) PowerApps
6 1 (0.73%) Adobe Analytics
6 1 (0.73%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (0.73%) Datadog
6 1 (0.73%) Firebase
6 1 (0.73%) GitHub
6 1 (0.73%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.84%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.92%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.46%) Power BI
2 2 (1.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (1.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (5.84%) Jenkins
1 8 (5.84%) Maven
2 2 (1.46%) Cypress.io
2 2 (1.46%) Git
3 1 (0.73%) Appium
3 1 (0.73%) GitLab
3 1 (0.73%) Postman
3 1 (0.73%) Selenium
3 1 (0.73%) SoapUI
3 1 (0.73%) Vite
General
1 107 (78.10%) Banking
2 105 (76.64%) Finance
3 10 (7.30%) Social Skills
4 6 (4.38%) Marketing
5 5 (3.65%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.19%) Advertising
6 3 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.19%) Legal
7 2 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.46%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.73%) Retail
8 1 (0.73%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 95 (69.34%) Senior
2 82 (59.85%) Designer
3 81 (59.12%) Senior Designer
4 80 (58.39%) Senior UX Designer
4 80 (58.39%) UX Designer
5 25 (18.25%) Developer
6 17 (12.41%) UX Developer
7 11 (8.03%) Lead
7 11 (8.03%) Senior Developer
8 9 (6.57%) Senior UX Developer
9 8 (5.84%) Android Engineer
10 3 (2.19%) Principal Engineer
10 3 (2.19%) Software Engineer
11 2 (1.46%) Administrator
11 2 (1.46%) IT Administrator
11 2 (1.46%) IT Graduate
11 2 (1.46%) IT Support
11 2 (1.46%) Product Manager
11 2 (1.46%) Senior Software Engineer
11 2 (1.46%) Senior Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (8.03%) RESTful
2 8 (5.84%) Android Jetpack
2 8 (5.84%) Jetpack Compose
3 5 (3.65%) CSS
3 5 (3.65%) HTML
3 5 (3.65%) React
4 3 (2.19%) .NET
4 3 (2.19%) JSON
5 2 (1.46%) GraphQL
5 2 (1.46%) Playwright
5 2 (1.46%) React Native
6 1 (0.73%) Apollo GraphQL
6 1 (0.73%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.73%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (0.73%) HTML5
6 1 (0.73%) JWT
6 1 (0.73%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (0.73%) Redux
6 1 (0.73%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.73%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.76%) Product Ownership
2 11 (8.03%) Mobile App
3 9 (6.57%) Online Banking
4 8 (5.84%) Virtual Team
5 5 (3.65%) Social Media
6 3 (2.19%) Blog
7 2 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.46%) Wiki
8 1 (0.73%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.73%) Graphic Design
8 1 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.73%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.73%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.73%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.73%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.73%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.57%) Android
2 1 (0.73%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.73%) Linux
2 1 (0.73%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (83.21%) UX Design
2 111 (81.02%) Agile
3 103 (75.18%) Project Management
4 101 (73.72%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 99 (72.26%) Journey Map
5 99 (72.26%) Prototyping
6 98 (71.53%) Design Thinking
6 98 (71.53%) UX Research
7 97 (70.80%) Stakeholder Management
7 97 (70.80%) User Research
8 96 (70.07%) Usability Testing
8 96 (70.07%) Wireframes
9 17 (12.41%) DevOps
10 14 (10.22%) Roadmaps
11 13 (9.49%) Test Automation
12 12 (8.76%) Problem-Solving
13 11 (8.03%) CI/CD
13 11 (8.03%) Full-Stack Development
13 11 (8.03%) TDD
13 11 (8.03%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 20 (14.60%) JavaScript
2 9 (6.57%) Kotlin
3 6 (4.38%) Java
4 4 (2.92%) Python
4 4 (2.92%) TypeScript
5 3 (2.19%) C#
6 2 (1.46%) SQL
7 1 (0.73%) Bash
7 1 (0.73%) Go
7 1 (0.73%) Objective-C
7 1 (0.73%) Swift
Qualifications
1 4 (2.92%) Security Cleared
2 2 (1.46%) ACCA
3 1 (0.73%) CCDP
3 1 (0.73%) CCNP
3 1 (0.73%) CCSP
3 1 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (0.73%) Degree
3 1 (0.73%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (70.80%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.73%) QA
System Software
1 8 (5.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (6.57%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.84%) Terraform
3 2 (1.46%) Grafana
4 1 (0.73%) Opsgenie
4 1 (0.73%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (3.65%) Google
2 4 (2.92%) SAP
3 3 (2.19%) Adobe
3 3 (2.19%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.19%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.46%) IBM
4 2 (1.46%) Splunk
5 1 (0.73%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.73%) ForgeRock
5 1 (0.73%) Maxymiser
5 1 (0.73%) Medallia
5 1 (0.73%) Oracle