User Experience Job Trends in the South West

UX
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring User Experience skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 70 105
Rank change year-on-year -6 +35 -34
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 107 143 125
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.11% 3.45% 2.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.94% 4.03% 2.94%
Number of salaries quoted 65 56 95
10th Percentile £27,000 £35,962 £33,448
25th Percentile £41,250 £44,375 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,313 £65,000
90th Percentile £73,250 £71,875 £83,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.76%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,639 3,549 4,251
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 71.62% 85.58% 89.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2,498 1,776 3,216
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,454 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +2.94%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,627
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing User Experience relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South West.

User Experience job vacancy trend in the South West

User Experience
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing User Experience.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing User Experience

User Experience
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing User Experience in the South West over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for User Experience in the South West

User Experience
Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Devon +15 28 £28,000 -37.78% 12
Bristol -10 27 £52,500 -4.55% 25
Gloucestershire +2 21 £57,500 +23.66% 16
Somerset -14 10 £52,500 +10.53% 14
Cornwall - 8 - -
Wiltshire +1 7 £65,000 +36.84% 11
Dorset -4 1 - - 16
Avon - 1 £52,500 - 15
User Experience
England

User Experience
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (2.80%) CMS
2 2 (1.87%) Confluence
3 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.93%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 2 (1.87%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.93%) Acrobat
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.93%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (5.61%) Magento
2 5 (4.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (4.67%) Dynamics NAV
2 5 (4.67%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 32 (29.91%) Cloud Computing
2 20 (18.69%) AWS
3 19 (17.76%) Azure
4 10 (9.35%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (4.67%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (3.74%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (3.74%) Amazon S3
6 4 (3.74%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (3.74%) Figma
6 4 (3.74%) SaaS
6 4 (3.74%) Serverless
7 2 (1.87%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.87%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.87%) Google Ads
7 2 (1.87%) Google Analytics
7 2 (1.87%) Pulumi
8 1 (0.93%) Firebase
8 1 (0.93%) IaaS
8 1 (0.93%) MailChimp
8 1 (0.93%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (29.91%) Internet
2 2 (1.87%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.93%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.67%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.80%) MySQL
2 3 (2.80%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.93%) GIS
3 1 (0.93%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.93%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (7.48%) JIRA
2 4 (3.74%) Git
3 3 (2.80%) Balsamiq
4 2 (1.87%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.87%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.93%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 62 (57.94%) Social Skills
2 35 (32.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 33 (30.84%) Banking
4 9 (8.41%) Marketing
5 7 (6.54%) Finance
5 7 (6.54%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.67%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.67%) Back Office
7 4 (3.74%) Military
8 3 (2.80%) Advertising
8 3 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.80%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.87%) Billing
9 2 (1.87%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.93%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.93%) Games
10 1 (0.93%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.93%) Law
10 1 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.93%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (25.23%) Lecturer
2 16 (14.95%) Senior
3 13 (12.15%) Designer
4 11 (10.28%) UX Designer
5 10 (9.35%) IT Support
6 9 (8.41%) Analyst
6 9 (8.41%) Developer
6 9 (8.41%) IT Support Technician
6 9 (8.41%) IT Technician
6 9 (8.41%) Support Technician
7 6 (5.61%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 6 (5.61%) Senior Designer
8 5 (4.67%) Senior User Experience Researcher
8 5 (4.67%) Senior UX Designer
8 5 (4.67%) Software Analyst
8 5 (4.67%) Support Analyst
8 5 (4.67%) User Experience Researcher
9 4 (3.74%) Senior Analyst
9 4 (3.74%) Senior Support Analyst
9 4 (3.74%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.41%) React
2 8 (7.48%) REST
3 6 (5.61%) .NET
3 6 (5.61%) Spring
4 5 (4.67%) CSS
4 5 (4.67%) HTML
4 5 (4.67%) Middleware
4 5 (4.67%) SOAP
4 5 (4.67%) Spring Boot
5 3 (2.80%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.87%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.87%) .NET Framework
6 2 (1.87%) Avalonia
6 2 (1.87%) Entity Framework
6 2 (1.87%) RESTful
6 2 (1.87%) Symfony
6 2 (1.87%) Vue
6 2 (1.87%) WPF
7 1 (0.93%) Framer.js
7 1 (0.93%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 32 (29.91%) IoT
2 10 (9.35%) Onboarding
2 10 (9.35%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (5.61%) Mobile App
4 4 (3.74%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.80%) Blog
6 2 (1.87%) iPad
6 2 (1.87%) iPhone
6 2 (1.87%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.93%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.93%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.93%) Animation
7 1 (0.93%) Cyber Security Posture
7 1 (0.93%) Graphic Design
7 1 (0.93%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.93%) Podcast
7 1 (0.93%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.93%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.93%) Social Media
7 1 (0.93%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 13 (12.15%) Apple iOS
2 9 (8.41%) Windows
2 9 (8.41%) Windows 10
3 2 (1.87%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (35.51%) Machine Learning
2 37 (34.58%) AI
3 35 (32.71%) Web Development
4 33 (30.84%) Cybersecurity
5 24 (22.43%) UX Design
6 23 (21.50%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (15.89%) DevOps
8 15 (14.02%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (10.28%) Agile
10 10 (9.35%) Full-Stack Development
11 9 (8.41%) Analytics
11 9 (8.41%) Software Engineering
12 8 (7.48%) CI/CD
12 8 (7.48%) Customer Service
12 8 (7.48%) SEO
13 7 (6.54%) Collaborative Culture
13 7 (6.54%) Microservices
13 7 (6.54%) Service Delivery
13 7 (6.54%) UX Research
13 7 (6.54%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 12 (11.21%) SQL
2 9 (8.41%) PowerShell
3 8 (7.48%) JavaScript
4 7 (6.54%) Java
4 7 (6.54%) Python
5 5 (4.67%) C#
5 5 (4.67%) T-SQL
6 3 (2.80%) Bash
6 3 (2.80%) Go
6 3 (2.80%) VBScript
7 2 (1.87%) PHP
7 2 (1.87%) XAML
8 1 (0.93%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.93%) R
8 1 (0.93%) Swift
8 1 (0.93%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 44 (41.12%) Degree
2 32 (29.91%) Master's Degree
2 32 (29.91%) PhD
2 32 (29.91%) Postgraduate
3 10 (9.35%) Security Cleared
4 8 (7.48%) SC Cleared
5 6 (5.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 3 (2.80%) CITP
6 3 (2.80%) CREST Certified
7 2 (1.87%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.61%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.74%) QA
3 1 (0.93%) GDPR
3 1 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.93%) NIST
3 1 (0.93%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (9.35%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.80%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (4.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.87%) Jamf Pro
2 2 (1.87%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (1.87%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (17.76%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.61%) arcserve
2 6 (5.61%) Cisco
2 6 (5.61%) Veeam
3 5 (4.67%) ConnectWise
3 5 (4.67%) ServiceNow
3 5 (4.67%) WooCommerce
4 3 (2.80%) Adobe
4 3 (2.80%) Google
5 2 (1.87%) Apple
5 2 (1.87%) HubSpot
5 2 (1.87%) Okta
5 2 (1.87%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.93%) Optimizely
6 1 (0.93%) Sitecore