UX Research Jobs in Scotland

User Experience Research (UXR)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring UX Research skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited UX Research 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 163 204 236
Rank change year-on-year +41 +32 -36
Permanent jobs citing UX Research 90 6 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.58% 0.16% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.80% 0.16% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 2 5 11
10th Percentile £38,250 £53,250 £45,350
25th Percentile £39,375 £63,750 £59,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -37.04% +3.85% +22.41%
75th Percentile £44,375 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £44,750 £75,750 -
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £55,197
% change year-on-year -11.54% +17.76% +0.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

UX Research 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%

UX Research
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing UX Research as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for UX Research in Scotland

UX Research
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing UX Research in Scotland.

Salary trend for UX Research in Scotland

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Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing UX Research 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 -8 78 £45,000 -33.33% 1
Edinburgh +36 6 - -
Midlothian - 5 - -
South Lanarkshire - 1 £40,000 -
UX Research
UK

UX Research
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 (4.44%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 20 (22.22%) Sketch
2 8 (8.89%) InVision
3 7 (7.78%) UserZoom
4 5 (5.56%) Adobe Illustrator
4 5 (5.56%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 63 (70.00%) Figma
2 48 (53.33%) SurveyMonkey
3 4 (4.44%) Amazon S3
3 4 (4.44%) Amazon SQS
3 4 (4.44%) AWS
3 4 (4.44%) GCP
3 4 (4.44%) Google Docs
3 4 (4.44%) Lucidchart
3 4 (4.44%) Miro
3 4 (4.44%) SaaS
3 4 (4.44%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.44%) Big Data
1 4 (4.44%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (4.44%) Hadoop
1 4 (4.44%) Redis
1 4 (4.44%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 23 (25.56%) JIRA
2 7 (7.78%) Jenkins
General
1 78 (86.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 78 (86.67%) Marketing
2 77 (85.56%) Finance
2 77 (85.56%) Law
3 30 (33.33%) Social Science
4 27 (30.00%) Social Skills
5 3 (3.33%) Polish Language
6 2 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.22%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 45 (50.00%) Lead
2 22 (24.44%) User Experience Researcher
3 21 (23.33%) Designer
3 21 (23.33%) UX Designer
4 19 (21.11%) Senior
4 19 (21.11%) Senior Designer
4 19 (21.11%) Senior UX Designer
5 7 (7.78%) Software Engineer
6 4 (4.44%) Principal Engineer
6 4 (4.44%) Principal Software Engineer
7 3 (3.33%) Lead Software Engineer
7 3 (3.33%) UI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (18.89%) CSS
1 17 (18.89%) HTML
1 17 (18.89%) React
2 6 (6.67%) AngularJS
3 4 (4.44%) GraphQL
3 4 (4.44%) Kafka
4 3 (3.33%) DOM
4 3 (3.33%) LESS
4 3 (3.33%) Sass
4 3 (3.33%) Spring
4 3 (3.33%) Spring Boot
4 3 (3.33%) Twitter Bootstrap
4 3 (3.33%) Vue
4 3 (3.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 38 (42.22%) Market Risk
2 13 (14.44%) Product Ownership
3 12 (13.33%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (13.33%) Management Information System
4 5 (5.56%) Onboarding
5 4 (4.44%) Algorithms
5 4 (4.44%) Data Structures
6 3 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (3.33%) Graphic Design
6 3 (3.33%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (100.00%) User Experience
2 67 (74.44%) User Research
3 52 (57.78%) Interaction Design
4 48 (53.33%) Actionable Insight
4 48 (53.33%) Anthropology
4 48 (53.33%) Psychology
4 48 (53.33%) Service Design
4 48 (53.33%) UX Design
5 47 (52.22%) Information Architecture
6 42 (46.67%) Product Management
6 42 (46.67%) Project Planning
7 41 (45.56%) Cognitive Science
7 41 (45.56%) Fintech
7 41 (45.56%) Qualitative Research
8 38 (42.22%) Agile
9 37 (41.11%) Roadmaps
10 30 (33.33%) Business Strategy
10 30 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
10 30 (33.33%) Objectives and Key Results
10 30 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 30 (33.33%) R
2 17 (18.89%) JavaScript
3 7 (7.78%) Java
4 4 (4.44%) Bash
4 4 (4.44%) Go
4 4 (4.44%) Python
4 4 (4.44%) Scala
5 3 (3.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 62 (68.89%) Degree
2 44 (48.89%) Master's Degree
3 41 (45.56%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (21.11%) Accessibility
2 7 (7.78%) Actionable Recommendations
3 3 (3.33%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 4 (4.44%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 37 (41.11%) Qualtrics
2 12 (13.33%) ServiceNow
3 4 (4.44%) Dell
3 4 (4.44%) Google