User Experience Jobs in the South East

UX
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 16 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 159 99 63
Rank change year-on-year -60 -36 -17
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 169 470 601
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.75% 2.50% 4.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.91% 3.06% 4.84%
Number of salaries quoted 111 293 324
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,850 £34,825
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,713 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.43% -9.09% -6.78%
75th Percentile £62,875 £62,500 £71,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £73,500 £83,375
England median annual salary £58,000 £51,000 £63,000
% change year-on-year +13.73% -19.05% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,828 15,346 12,405
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 91.64% 81.58% 94.31%
Number of salaries quoted 4,385 10,447 7,508
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,905 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,574 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing User Experience as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for User Experience in the South East

User Experience
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing User Experience in the South East.

Salary trend for User Experience in the South East

User Experience
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing User Experience in the South East over the 6 months to 16 June 2025.

Salary histogram for User Experience in the South East

User Experience
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing User Experience within the South East region over the 6 months to 16 June 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
Thames Valley -7 70 £55,000 +24.13% 747
Berkshire -9 33 £65,000 +73.33% 483
Hampshire -29 32 £50,000 -9.09% 281
Buckinghamshire +13 24 £47,500 +7.20% 158
Surrey +15 19 £57,500 +21.05% 189
East Sussex +21 17 £50,000 -5.84% 112
Oxfordshire +17 13 £55,000 +4.76% 106
West Sussex +38 10 £57,500 +27.78% 95
Kent +15 9 £37,500 -30.23% 142
Middlesex -10 9 - - 3
Sussex +18 2 £75,000 +29.31% 15
User Experience
England

User Experience
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 13 (7.69%) CMS
2 12 (7.10%) SharePoint
3 7 (4.14%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (3.55%) IBM Domino
4 6 (3.55%) Umbraco
5 5 (2.96%) WordPress
6 3 (1.78%) IIS
7 2 (1.18%) Apache
7 2 (1.18%) Apache Spark
7 2 (1.18%) Drupal
8 1 (0.59%) Confluence
8 1 (0.59%) EPiServer
Applications
1 5 (2.96%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 4 (2.37%) Sketch
3 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.59%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.59%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.59%) InDesign
4 1 (0.59%) InVision
4 1 (0.59%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.59%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.59%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 34 (20.12%) AWS
2 30 (17.75%) Azure
3 12 (7.10%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (7.10%) Power Platform
4 11 (6.51%) Google Analytics
5 9 (5.33%) Figma
5 9 (5.33%) SaaS
6 6 (3.55%) GitHub
7 5 (2.96%) Azure App Service
7 5 (2.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 5 (2.96%) Azure Functions
7 5 (2.96%) Azure Logic Apps
7 5 (2.96%) Azure Service Bus
7 5 (2.96%) PaaS
7 5 (2.96%) Serverless
8 3 (1.78%) Azure AI
8 3 (1.78%) Contentsquare
8 3 (1.78%) Google Ads
8 3 (1.78%) npm
8 3 (1.78%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.55%) Cisco IOS
1 6 (3.55%) LAN
1 6 (3.55%) WAN
2 1 (0.59%) 3G
2 1 (0.59%) GPRS
2 1 (0.59%) LTE
2 1 (0.59%) Modbus
2 1 (0.59%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (11.83%) SQL Server
2 7 (4.14%) Power BI
3 5 (2.96%) MySQL
4 3 (1.78%) SQLite
5 2 (1.18%) Hadoop
5 2 (1.18%) Pinecone
5 2 (1.18%) Weaviate
6 1 (0.59%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.59%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.59%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (10.06%) Git
2 6 (3.55%) JIRA
2 6 (3.55%) Vite
3 5 (2.96%) Appium
3 5 (2.96%) Cucumber
3 5 (2.96%) rollup.js
4 4 (2.37%) Bitbucket
4 4 (2.37%) Visual Studio
5 3 (1.78%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.78%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (1.78%) Selenium
5 3 (1.78%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (1.18%) Babel
6 2 (1.18%) MLflow
6 2 (1.18%) webpack
7 1 (0.59%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.59%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.59%) gulp
7 1 (0.59%) PostCSS
7 1 (0.59%) Sourcetree
General
1 65 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 37 (21.89%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (20.12%) Finance
4 27 (15.98%) Law
5 21 (12.43%) Marketing
6 7 (4.14%) Electronics
6 7 (4.14%) Publishing
7 6 (3.55%) Games
8 5 (2.96%) Advertising
8 5 (2.96%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.37%) Legal
10 3 (1.78%) Back Office
10 3 (1.78%) Health Technology
10 3 (1.78%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.78%) Retail
11 2 (1.18%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.59%) Banking
12 1 (0.59%) Billing
12 1 (0.59%) Digital Healthcare
12 1 (0.59%) Korean Language
Job Titles
1 60 (35.50%) Developer
2 32 (18.93%) Senior
3 28 (16.57%) Lead
4 24 (14.20%) Senior Developer
5 23 (13.61%) Full-Stack Developer
6 17 (10.06%) C# Developer
7 15 (8.88%) .NET Developer
8 14 (8.28%) Analyst
8 14 (8.28%) C# .NET Developer
9 10 (5.92%) QA Analyst
9 10 (5.92%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 9 (5.33%) Product Manager
11 8 (4.73%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 8 (4.73%) Support Engineer
12 7 (4.14%) Designer
12 7 (4.14%) React Developer
12 7 (4.14%) Senior React Developer
12 7 (4.14%) Software Engineer
12 7 (4.14%) Test Analyst
13 6 (3.55%) Platform Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (23.67%) .NET
2 29 (17.16%) React
3 27 (15.98%) CSS
3 27 (15.98%) HTML
4 26 (15.38%) RESTful
5 15 (8.88%) AngularJS
5 15 (8.88%) ASP.NET
5 15 (8.88%) Node.js
6 10 (5.92%) .NET Framework
7 6 (3.55%) Jest
8 5 (2.96%) Gherkin
8 5 (2.96%) HTML5
8 5 (2.96%) Sass
9 4 (2.37%) .NET Core
9 4 (2.37%) CSS3
9 4 (2.37%) Laravel
9 4 (2.37%) REST
9 4 (2.37%) Vue
9 4 (2.37%) XML
10 3 (1.78%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.28%) Mobile App
2 10 (5.92%) Onboarding
3 9 (5.33%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.55%) Driving Licence
4 6 (3.55%) Marketing Technology
5 4 (2.37%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.78%) AI Agents
6 3 (1.78%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.18%) Social Media
8 1 (0.59%) 3D Graphics
8 1 (0.59%) Animation
8 1 (0.59%) Augmented Reality
8 1 (0.59%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.59%) Clustering
8 1 (0.59%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.59%) e-Learning
8 1 (0.59%) IoT
8 1 (0.59%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.59%) NB-IoT
8 1 (0.59%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 15 (8.88%) Android
2 11 (6.51%) Windows
3 9 (5.33%) Apple iOS
4 6 (3.55%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.18%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (36.09%) Agile
2 58 (34.32%) Problem-Solving
3 54 (31.95%) UX Design
4 35 (20.71%) Full-Stack Development
5 32 (18.93%) Project Management
6 27 (15.98%) E-Commerce
7 24 (14.20%) Data Analysis
8 23 (13.61%) Front End Development
8 23 (13.61%) Process Improvement
9 21 (12.43%) Artificial Intelligence
9 21 (12.43%) Data Security
9 21 (12.43%) Digital Strategy
9 21 (12.43%) Test Automation
10 20 (11.83%) Software Engineering
11 19 (11.24%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 19 (11.24%) Robotic Process Automation
12 18 (10.65%) Analytics
12 18 (10.65%) Continuous Improvement
12 18 (10.65%) Machine Learning
12 18 (10.65%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 44 (26.04%) C#
2 40 (23.67%) JavaScript
3 23 (13.61%) SQL
4 12 (7.10%) TypeScript
5 10 (5.92%) Python
6 5 (2.96%) Bicep
6 5 (2.96%) Go
6 5 (2.96%) Java
7 4 (2.37%) PHP
8 2 (1.18%) C++
8 2 (1.18%) Dart
8 2 (1.18%) R
8 2 (1.18%) VBA
9 1 (0.59%) ABAP
9 1 (0.59%) C
9 1 (0.59%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.59%) Swift
9 1 (0.59%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 28 (16.57%) Degree
2 20 (11.83%) PMI Certification
2 20 (11.83%) PMP
3 9 (5.33%) Security Cleared
4 8 (4.73%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (4.73%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.37%) DBS Check
5 4 (2.37%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.37%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.18%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.59%) CISSP
7 1 (0.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (15.98%) QA
2 18 (10.65%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.78%) 21 CFR Part 11
3 3 (1.78%) GDPR
3 3 (1.78%) Good Clinical Practice
3 3 (1.78%) WCAG
4 2 (1.18%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (4.14%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.37%) Docker
3 3 (1.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.18%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 7 (4.14%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.18%) Kubeflow
2 2 (1.18%) SCCM
2 2 (1.18%) SCOM
2 2 (1.18%) SCSM
3 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 22 (13.02%) SAP
2 20 (11.83%) Workday
3 19 (11.24%) Concur
4 15 (8.88%) Microsoft
5 14 (8.28%) Google
6 6 (3.55%) Adobe
6 6 (3.55%) Cisco
6 6 (3.55%) Palo Alto
7 4 (2.37%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.37%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.78%) Foundry
8 3 (1.78%) Hotjar
8 3 (1.78%) HubSpot
8 3 (1.78%) VMware
9 2 (1.18%) Splunk
9 2 (1.18%) Spotify
10 1 (0.59%) Apple
10 1 (0.59%) Citrix
10 1 (0.59%) Optimizely
10 1 (0.59%) Rollbar