User-Centered Design (UCD) Job Trends in Swansea

User-Centered Design (UCD)
West Wales > Swansea

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Swansea requiring User-Centered Design (UCD) skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 - 30
Rank change year-on-year - - +12
Permanent jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) 9 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Swansea 3.23% - 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.71% - 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 9 0 1
10th Percentile £39,100 - -
25th Percentile £46,250 - £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 - £40,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -25.58%
75th Percentile £75,000 - £42,500
90th Percentile £76,000 - -
West Wales median annual salary £72,500 - £40,000
% change year-on-year - - -25.58%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Swansea

User-Centered Design (UCD) 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 Swansea.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 191 41 147
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Swansea 68.46% 82.00% 80.77%
Number of salaries quoted 118 26 129
10th Percentile £35,000 £21,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,355 £37,733 £46,131
Median % change year-on-year +41.40% -18.20% +13.19%
75th Percentile £68,494 £53,762 £57,500
90th Percentile £79,160 £59,857 £70,000
West Wales median annual salary £45,000 £37,733 £45,000
% change year-on-year +19.26% -16.15% +10.42%

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Job Vacancy Trend in Swansea

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing User-Centered Design (UCD) relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Swansea.

User-Centered Design (UCD) job vacancy trend in Swansea

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Salary Trend in Swansea

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Swansea citing User-Centered Design (UCD).

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Swansea citing User-Centered Design (UCD)

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Salary Histogram in Swansea

Salary distribution for jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) in Swansea over the 6 months to 5 June 2026.

Salary histogram for User-Centered Design (UCD) in Swansea

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swansea 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 2 (22.22%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 8 (88.89%) AWS
1 8 (88.89%) Serverless
2 7 (77.78%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (44.44%) GitHub
3 4 (44.44%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (22.22%) Amazon S3
6 1 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (11.11%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (11.11%) Azure
6 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (11.11%) CloudFront
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Adabas
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (11.11%) DynamoDB
1 1 (11.11%) MySQL
1 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Jenkins
1 4 (44.44%) JIRA
2 3 (33.33%) Selenium
3 2 (22.22%) Cypress.io
3 2 (22.22%) Git
3 2 (22.22%) JUnit
3 2 (22.22%) Postman
3 2 (22.22%) REST Assured
3 2 (22.22%) Zephyr
4 1 (11.11%) Burp Suite
4 1 (11.11%) Cucumber
4 1 (11.11%) Gatling
4 1 (11.11%) GitLab
4 1 (11.11%) JMeter
4 1 (11.11%) Mocha
4 1 (11.11%) Newman
4 1 (11.11%) Pa11y
4 1 (11.11%) RSpec
4 1 (11.11%) TestRail
General
1 9 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Developer
1 2 (22.22%) Lead
1 2 (22.22%) Senior
1 2 (22.22%) Software Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Development Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Product Owner
2 1 (11.11%) React Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Ruby on Rails Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Software Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Software Development Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Software Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Test Development Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (77.78%) Node.js
1 7 (77.78%) Ruby on Rails
1 7 (77.78%) Spring Boot
2 5 (55.56%) React
2 5 (55.56%) Spring
3 3 (33.33%) REST
4 2 (22.22%) AWS CDK
4 2 (22.22%) CSS
4 2 (22.22%) CSS3
4 2 (22.22%) GraphQL
4 2 (22.22%) HTML
4 2 (22.22%) HTML5
4 2 (22.22%) Jest
4 2 (22.22%) Playwright
4 2 (22.22%) Serverless Framework
5 1 (11.11%) AWS SAM
5 1 (11.11%) Kafka
5 1 (11.11%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (77.78%) Cloud Native
2 6 (66.67%) Mainframe
3 5 (55.56%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (55.56%) Product Ownership
4 2 (22.22%) Digital Wallet
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Agile
2 7 (77.78%) CI/CD
2 7 (77.78%) Microservices
3 6 (66.67%) Scrum
4 5 (55.56%) Kanban
4 5 (55.56%) Migration
5 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (44.44%) Observability
5 4 (44.44%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 4 (44.44%) Software Engineering
5 4 (44.44%) Test Automation
6 3 (33.33%) AI
6 3 (33.33%) BDD
6 3 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
6 3 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (33.33%) DevOps
6 3 (33.33%) Event-Driven
6 3 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (33.33%) OWASP
6 3 (33.33%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) Java
1 7 (77.78%) Ruby
2 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) COBOL
3 1 (11.11%) Natural
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Certification
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (22.22%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (22.22%) ISTQB
2 2 (22.22%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
3 1 (11.11%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (11.11%) CSPO
3 1 (11.11%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (55.56%) WCAG
2 4 (44.44%) Accessibility
3 1 (11.11%) GDPR
3 1 (11.11%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (11.11%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) OneLogin
2 2 (22.22%) Oracle