User Experience Jobs in the UK excluding London

UX
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 77 90
Rank change year-on-year -27 +13 -37
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 1,150 2,345 2,121
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.92% 3.31% 3.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.14% 3.94% 3.74%
Number of salaries quoted 519 1,402 969
10th Percentile £31,500 £30,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £39,250 £36,365 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £49,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -10.91% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £77,500 £83,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £51,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +12.75% -18.40% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,661 59,520 56,714
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.93% 83.89% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 17,979 41,130 29,107
10th Percentile £26,929 £27,218 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing User Experience as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for User Experience in the UK excluding London

User Experience
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing User Experience in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for User Experience in the UK excluding London

User Experience
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing User Experience in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for User Experience in the UK excluding London

User Experience
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing User Experience within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 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
North of England -11 500 £52,500 +10.53% 420
North West -11 414 £55,000 +22.22% 278
South East -46 174 £55,000 +10.00% 495
Scotland +23 142 £56,250 +14.80% 78
Midlands -72 135 £49,474 +4.15% 173
South West -15 102 £46,500 -15.45% 124
West Midlands -39 94 £54,344 +8.69% 128
East of England +6 84 £42,500 +6.25% 143
Yorkshire -5 65 £42,500 -15.00% 95
East Midlands -61 41 £35,000 - 39
North East +3 21 £48,000 +9.71% 53
Northern Ireland +24 4 - - 23
Isle of Man +18 4 - -
Wales +7 4 £52,500 +41.89% 25
Channel Islands - 1 £87,500 -
User Experience
UK

User Experience
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 50 (4.35%) CMS
2 35 (3.04%) SharePoint
3 30 (2.61%) WordPress
4 25 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
5 18 (1.57%) IBM Domino
5 18 (1.57%) Skype for Business
6 12 (1.04%) Confluence
7 6 (0.52%) Drupal
8 5 (0.43%) Headless CMS
9 4 (0.35%) IIS
9 4 (0.35%) SAP Portal
9 4 (0.35%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.26%) Apache
10 3 (0.26%) Strapi
11 2 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.17%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.17%) Apache Spark
12 1 (0.087%) Apache Airflow
12 1 (0.087%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.087%) Tomcat
Applications
1 23 (2.00%) Adobe XD
2 22 (1.91%) Sketch
3 20 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
4 17 (1.48%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 12 (1.04%) Photoshop
6 11 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
7 8 (0.70%) Adobe Illustrator
8 6 (0.52%) InDesign
8 6 (0.52%) MS Visio
9 5 (0.43%) Adobe Premiere
9 5 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 4 (0.35%) Chatbot
11 3 (0.26%) Adobe After Effects
11 3 (0.26%) Notion
11 3 (0.26%) Trello
12 1 (0.087%) Acrobat
12 1 (0.087%) Blender
12 1 (0.087%) CINEMA 4D
12 1 (0.087%) InVision
12 1 (0.087%) Moqups
Business Applications
1 18 (1.57%) Shopify
2 14 (1.22%) Magento
3 12 (1.04%) Payment Gateway
4 11 (0.96%) NetSuite
5 8 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.087%) iTrent
7 1 (0.087%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.087%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.087%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.087%) Sage 200
7 1 (0.087%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 394 (34.26%) Azure
2 386 (33.57%) AWS
3 188 (16.35%) GCP
4 70 (6.09%) Figma
5 56 (4.87%) Microsoft 365
6 49 (4.26%) Power Platform
7 32 (2.78%) SaaS
8 30 (2.61%) GitHub
9 28 (2.43%) Google Analytics
10 24 (2.09%) Serverless
11 22 (1.91%) Azure DevOps
12 17 (1.48%) Power Automate
12 17 (1.48%) PowerApps
13 16 (1.39%) Slack
14 13 (1.13%) AWS Lambda
14 13 (1.13%) Azure Logic Apps
14 13 (1.13%) Entra ID
15 12 (1.04%) Zapier
16 10 (0.87%) Azure Functions
16 10 (0.87%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 25 (2.17%) Internet
2 20 (1.74%) Wireless
3 19 (1.65%) Unified Communications
4 18 (1.57%) Skype
5 7 (0.61%) Cisco IOS
5 7 (0.61%) HTTP
5 7 (0.61%) LAN
5 7 (0.61%) WAN
6 6 (0.52%) DNS
7 5 (0.43%) VPN
8 4 (0.35%) LoRaWAN
8 4 (0.35%) Remote Desktop
8 4 (0.35%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.17%) 3G
9 2 (0.17%) DHCP
9 2 (0.17%) DMZ
9 2 (0.17%) Firewall
9 2 (0.17%) GPRS
9 2 (0.17%) LTE
9 2 (0.17%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (12.35%) SQL Server
2 56 (4.87%) MySQL
3 28 (2.43%) Power BI
4 23 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
5 18 (1.57%) NoSQL
6 14 (1.22%) MongoDB
7 8 (0.70%) Relational Database
7 8 (0.70%) SQLite
8 7 (0.61%) Data Lake
9 6 (0.52%) DynamoDB
10 5 (0.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (0.43%) Tableau
11 4 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.35%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (0.35%) Hadoop
11 4 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (0.26%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.26%) Big Data
13 2 (0.17%) Looker
13 2 (0.17%) Redis
Development Applications
1 162 (14.09%) JIRA
2 107 (9.30%) GitLab
3 106 (9.22%) Selenium
4 98 (8.52%) Maven
5 96 (8.35%) Cucumber
6 95 (8.26%) Git
7 93 (8.09%) Bitbucket
8 91 (7.91%) SonarQube
9 90 (7.83%) Sonatype Nexus
10 30 (2.61%) Visual Studio
11 20 (1.74%) Jenkins
12 17 (1.48%) webpack
13 13 (1.13%) Cypress.io
14 10 (0.87%) Appium
15 9 (0.78%) Babel
15 9 (0.78%) Vite
16 7 (0.61%) Subversion
17 6 (0.52%) JMeter
17 6 (0.52%) JUnit
17 6 (0.52%) rollup.js
General
1 325 (28.26%) Finance
2 300 (26.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 253 (22.00%) Social Skills
4 219 (19.04%) Banking
5 129 (11.22%) Retail
6 128 (11.13%) Analytical Skills
7 90 (7.83%) Corporate Banking
7 90 (7.83%) Investment Banking
8 87 (7.57%) Marketing
9 55 (4.78%) Law
10 27 (2.35%) Avionics
11 26 (2.26%) Games
12 25 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
13 24 (2.09%) Advertising
14 23 (2.00%) Manufacturing
15 22 (1.91%) Electronics
16 19 (1.65%) Pharmaceutical
17 15 (1.30%) Public Sector
18 14 (1.22%) Financial Institution
19 13 (1.13%) Legal
Job Titles
1 419 (36.43%) Senior
2 298 (25.91%) Software Engineer
3 249 (21.65%) Developer
4 186 (16.17%) Senior Software Engineer
5 136 (11.83%) Designer
6 110 (9.57%) UX Designer
7 88 (7.65%) Senior Designer
7 88 (7.65%) Senior UX Designer
8 84 (7.30%) Lead
9 71 (6.17%) Senior Developer
10 57 (4.96%) Analyst
11 48 (4.17%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 47 (4.09%) Full-Stack Developer
13 34 (2.96%) .NET Developer
14 29 (2.52%) Product Manager
15 28 (2.43%) IT Support
16 27 (2.35%) Architect
16 27 (2.35%) C# Developer
17 25 (2.17%) Software Developer
17 25 (2.17%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 279 (24.26%) .NET
2 236 (20.52%) CSS
3 232 (20.17%) HTML
4 222 (19.30%) Node.js
5 219 (19.04%) React
6 166 (14.43%) RESTful
7 118 (10.26%) REST
8 116 (10.09%) HTML5
9 115 (10.00%) Jest
10 110 (9.57%) CSS3
11 102 (8.87%) Kafka
11 102 (8.87%) Redux
12 101 (8.78%) Sass
13 97 (8.43%) Spring Boot
14 96 (8.35%) Spring
15 91 (7.91%) JPA
16 58 (5.04%) AngularJS
17 35 (3.04%) Vue
18 30 (2.61%) Laravel
19 28 (2.43%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 184 (16.00%) Self-Motivation
2 172 (14.96%) Cyberattack
2 172 (14.96%) Linux Command Line
3 159 (13.83%) Product Ownership
4 96 (8.35%) Enterprise Software
5 58 (5.04%) Mobile App
6 30 (2.61%) Algorithms
7 23 (2.00%) Social Media
8 18 (1.57%) Digital Signage
8 18 (1.57%) Video Conferencing
9 17 (1.48%) Data Structures
10 16 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
11 14 (1.22%) Onboarding
12 12 (1.04%) Virtual Team
13 11 (0.96%) e-Learning
13 11 (0.96%) Renewable Energy
14 10 (0.87%) Online Banking
15 9 (0.78%) Cloud Native
15 9 (0.78%) Distributed Architecture
15 9 (0.78%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 218 (18.96%) Linux
2 64 (5.57%) Windows
3 56 (4.87%) Android
4 40 (3.48%) Apple iOS
5 19 (1.65%) Windows Server
6 12 (1.04%) Mac OS
7 11 (0.96%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.35%) Windows Vista
9 3 (0.26%) Windows 7
9 3 (0.26%) Windows 8
10 1 (0.087%) CentOS
10 1 (0.087%) Debian
10 1 (0.087%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 611 (53.13%) Agile
2 367 (31.91%) Software Engineering
3 351 (30.52%) UX Design
4 325 (28.26%) Mentoring
5 311 (27.04%) Microservices
6 244 (21.22%) Problem-Solving
7 227 (19.74%) Scrum
8 213 (18.52%) Machine Learning
9 212 (18.43%) Project Management
10 208 (18.09%) Front End Development
11 192 (16.70%) Full-Stack Development
12 188 (16.35%) CI/CD
13 186 (16.17%) DevOps
14 185 (16.09%) Cloud Security
15 184 (16.00%) Data Engineering
16 175 (15.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 166 (14.43%) Test Automation
18 149 (12.96%) SDLC
19 141 (12.26%) Wireframes
20 135 (11.74%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 478 (41.57%) JavaScript
2 336 (29.22%) Java
3 255 (22.17%) Python
4 200 (17.39%) TypeScript
5 190 (16.52%) Go
6 184 (16.00%) C++
7 178 (15.48%) SQL
8 174 (15.13%) Rust
9 105 (9.13%) C#
10 62 (5.39%) PHP
11 27 (2.35%) C
12 20 (1.74%) Kotlin
13 12 (1.04%) Swift
14 8 (0.70%) PowerShell
15 6 (0.52%) Bicep
15 6 (0.52%) R
16 5 (0.43%) Dart
17 4 (0.35%) Perl
17 4 (0.35%) VB
18 3 (0.26%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 215 (18.70%) Security Cleared
2 185 (16.09%) DV Cleared
3 172 (14.96%) AWS Certification
3 172 (14.96%) AWS Certified Developer
3 172 (14.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 162 (14.09%) Degree
5 53 (4.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 23 (2.00%) PMI Certification
6 23 (2.00%) PMP
7 20 (1.74%) SC Cleared
8 19 (1.65%) DBS Check
9 10 (0.87%) ISTQB
9 10 (0.87%) PhD
10 8 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
12 5 (0.43%) Master's Degree
12 5 (0.43%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 4 (0.35%) CISSP
13 4 (0.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 259 (22.52%) Accessibility
2 179 (15.57%) QA
3 14 (1.22%) WCAG
4 8 (0.70%) GDPR
4 8 (0.70%) SLA
5 7 (0.61%) Data Quality
6 5 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.43%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.35%) COBIT
8 2 (0.17%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 2 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.17%) Good Clinical Practice
8 2 (0.17%) IEC 62304
8 2 (0.17%) ISO 13485
8 2 (0.17%) NCSC
8 2 (0.17%) NIST
9 1 (0.087%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.087%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.087%) ISO/IEC 19770
System Software
1 144 (12.52%) Docker
2 33 (2.87%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.17%) HDFS
5 1 (0.087%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.087%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 140 (12.17%) Kubernetes
2 20 (1.74%) Terraform
3 10 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (0.70%) Grafana
5 7 (0.61%) SCCM
6 4 (0.35%) Kibana
7 3 (0.26%) WMI
8 2 (0.17%) Kubeflow
8 2 (0.17%) Puppet
8 2 (0.17%) SCOM
8 2 (0.17%) SCSM
9 1 (0.087%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.087%) Ansible
9 1 (0.087%) cPanel
9 1 (0.087%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.087%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.087%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 134 (11.65%) Microsoft
2 90 (7.83%) Solace
3 57 (4.96%) Adobe
3 57 (4.96%) Google
4 33 (2.87%) SAP
5 26 (2.26%) Cisco
6 25 (2.17%) ServiceNow
7 22 (1.91%) Salesforce
8 20 (1.74%) Workday
9 19 (1.65%) Concur
10 18 (1.57%) Mitel
10 18 (1.57%) Polycom
10 18 (1.57%) ShoreTel
11 16 (1.39%) WooCommerce
12 13 (1.13%) Oracle
13 11 (0.96%) Apple
14 10 (0.87%) Bloomberg
14 10 (0.87%) Facebook
14 10 (0.87%) New Relic
15 9 (0.78%) VMware