User-Centered Design (UCD) Jobs in the Thames Valley

User-Centered Design (UCD)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring User-Centered Design (UCD) skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited User-Centered Design (UCD) over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 166 212 245
Rank change year-on-year +46 +33 +14
Permanent jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) 5 28 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.17% 0.42% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.49% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 3 7 9
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51,250 £29,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £30,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +75.00% -55.56% +58.82%
75th Percentile £53,750 £45,750 £71,250
90th Percentile - £56,250 £71,500
South East median annual salary £52,500 £31,750 £67,500
% change year-on-year +65.35% -52.96% +35.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,806 5,737 5,815
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.88% 85.18% 94.71%
Number of salaries quoted 1,229 4,015 3,158
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £39,750 £38,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £73,833 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £87,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing User-Centered Design (UCD) as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for User-Centered Design (UCD) in the Thames Valley

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for User-Centered Design (UCD) in the Thames Valley

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
Buckinghamshire +50 3 £52,500 +56.72% 1
Berkshire +34 2 - - 2
User-Centered Design (UCD)
South East

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) GitLab
1 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (60.00%) JUnit
1 3 (60.00%) Mockito
General
1 5 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
1 3 (60.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Designer
2 2 (40.00%) Service Designer
2 2 (40.00%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) AngularJS
1 3 (60.00%) Hibernate
1 3 (60.00%) Kafka
1 3 (60.00%) OAuth
1 3 (60.00%) OAuth2
1 3 (60.00%) RabbitMQ
1 3 (60.00%) React
1 3 (60.00%) RESTful
1 3 (60.00%) Spring
1 3 (60.00%) Spring Boot
1 3 (60.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 3 (60.00%) API Development
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Community of Practice
2 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
2 3 (60.00%) Integration Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Microservices
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) SDLC
2 3 (60.00%) SOLID
2 3 (60.00%) Unit Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Business Change Management
3 2 (40.00%) Change Management
3 2 (40.00%) Design Thinking
3 2 (40.00%) Service Design
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (40.00%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes