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 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 - 30
Rank change year-on-year - - +14
Permanent jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) 43 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Swansea 12.87% - 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.61% - 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 41 0 1
10th Percentile £30,000 - -
25th Percentile £46,250 - £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - £40,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -25.58%
75th Percentile £75,000 - £42,500
90th Percentile £80,000 - -
West Wales median annual salary £70,000 - £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 231 34 153
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Swansea 69.16% 77.27% 79.69%
Number of salaries quoted 153 27 133
10th Percentile £35,000 £21,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £37,733 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +45.76% -24.53% +17.65%
75th Percentile £73,750 £53,762 £57,500
90th Percentile £78,280 £59,857 £70,000
West Wales median annual salary £50,000 £37,733 £46,131
% change year-on-year +32.51% -18.20% +7.91%

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 9 July 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 9 (20.93%) Confluence
2 2 (4.65%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (9.30%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (6.98%) Adobe XD
2 3 (6.98%) Sketch
3 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (4.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (2.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (13.95%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 28 (65.12%) AWS
2 20 (46.51%) Serverless
3 18 (41.86%) AWS Lambda
4 17 (39.53%) Azure
5 15 (34.88%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (23.26%) GitHub
6 10 (23.26%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (20.93%) GCP
8 8 (18.60%) Amazon S3
8 8 (18.60%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (13.95%) Figma
10 5 (11.63%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (11.63%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (11.63%) CloudFront
10 5 (11.63%) Miro
11 4 (9.30%) Amazon EventBridge
11 4 (9.30%) Amazon SQS
12 1 (2.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 1 (2.33%) Lucidchart
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.95%) NoSQL
2 5 (11.63%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (9.30%) MySQL
3 4 (9.30%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (6.98%) DynamoDB
4 3 (6.98%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.33%) Adabas
5 1 (2.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (30.23%) JIRA
2 10 (23.26%) Jenkins
3 7 (16.28%) Git
3 7 (16.28%) Selenium
4 6 (13.95%) JUnit
5 4 (9.30%) Cypress.io
5 4 (9.30%) Postman
5 4 (9.30%) REST Assured
5 4 (9.30%) Zephyr
6 3 (6.98%) GitLab
6 3 (6.98%) Newman
6 3 (6.98%) TestRail
7 1 (2.33%) Burp Suite
7 1 (2.33%) Cucumber
7 1 (2.33%) Gatling
7 1 (2.33%) JMeter
7 1 (2.33%) Mocha
7 1 (2.33%) Pa11y
7 1 (2.33%) RSpec
General
1 38 (88.37%) Public Sector
2 21 (48.84%) Social Skills
3 14 (32.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (13.95%) Finance
5 5 (11.63%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (9.30%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (9.30%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (6.98%) Banking
7 3 (6.98%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 10 (23.26%) Lead
2 9 (20.93%) Developer
3 6 (13.95%) Architect
3 6 (13.95%) Designer
3 6 (13.95%) Software Developer
4 5 (11.63%) Senior
4 5 (11.63%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (6.98%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (6.98%) Java Developer
5 3 (6.98%) Senior Developer
5 3 (6.98%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (6.98%) Senior Software Developer
5 3 (6.98%) Test Leader
5 3 (6.98%) UX Designer
6 2 (4.65%) Agile Delivery Manager
6 2 (4.65%) Interaction Designer
6 2 (4.65%) Principal Developer
6 2 (4.65%) Principal Software Developer
6 2 (4.65%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
6 2 (4.65%) Senior Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (55.81%) Spring Boot
2 20 (46.51%) Node.js
3 18 (41.86%) Ruby on Rails
3 18 (41.86%) Spring
4 12 (27.91%) React
5 10 (23.26%) Kafka
6 9 (20.93%) AWS CDK
6 9 (20.93%) REST
7 7 (16.28%) CSS
7 7 (16.28%) HTML
7 7 (16.28%) RESTful
8 6 (13.95%) GraphQL
8 6 (13.95%) Hibernate
8 6 (13.95%) JPA
8 6 (13.95%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (11.63%) Serverless Framework
10 4 (9.30%) CSS3
10 4 (9.30%) HTML5
10 4 (9.30%) Jest
10 4 (9.30%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 24 (55.81%) Cloud Native
2 18 (41.86%) Mainframe
3 14 (32.56%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (27.91%) Product Ownership
5 9 (20.93%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (13.95%) Digital Wallet
7 5 (11.63%) Onboarding
8 3 (6.98%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (6.98%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (6.98%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.30%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (100.00%) Agile
2 26 (60.47%) CI/CD
3 25 (58.14%) Microservices
4 22 (51.16%) Scrum
5 21 (48.84%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 21 (48.84%) Stakeholder Management
6 20 (46.51%) DevOps
7 19 (44.19%) Infrastructure as Code
8 17 (39.53%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (39.53%) Technical Leadership
9 16 (37.21%) Collaborative Working
9 16 (37.21%) Migration
9 16 (37.21%) Software Engineering
10 15 (34.88%) Continuous Improvement
10 15 (34.88%) Event-Driven
10 15 (34.88%) Observability
11 14 (32.56%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 13 (30.23%) Kanban
12 13 (30.23%) Roadmaps
13 12 (27.91%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 26 (60.47%) Java
2 18 (41.86%) Ruby
3 5 (11.63%) COBOL
4 4 (9.30%) JavaScript
5 3 (6.98%) SQL
6 2 (4.65%) Bicep
6 2 (4.65%) C#
6 2 (4.65%) Go
6 2 (4.65%) Python
6 2 (4.65%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.33%) Natural
Qualifications
1 6 (13.95%) AWS Certification
1 6 (13.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 5 (11.63%) SC Cleared
2 5 (11.63%) Security Cleared
2 5 (11.63%) TOGAF Certification
3 4 (9.30%) ISTQB
3 4 (9.30%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
3 4 (9.30%) PMI Certification
3 4 (9.30%) PMP
4 3 (6.98%) Degree
5 2 (4.65%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (4.65%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (2.33%) CBAP
6 1 (2.33%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (2.33%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (34.88%) Accessibility
2 13 (30.23%) WCAG
3 5 (11.63%) Government Security Classifications
3 5 (11.63%) NCSC
3 5 (11.63%) QA
4 1 (2.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 12 (27.91%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (48.84%) Terraform
2 11 (25.58%) Kubernetes
3 3 (6.98%) Grafana
3 3 (6.98%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (11.63%) OneLogin
2 4 (9.30%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.30%) Oracle
3 3 (6.98%) Adobe
3 3 (6.98%) Google
3 3 (6.98%) Splunk