User Research Jobs in the UK excluding London

User Research
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring User Research skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited User Research over the 6 months leading up to 2 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 419 346 528
Rank change year-on-year -73 +182 -206
Permanent jobs citing User Research 169 523 215
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.42% 0.69% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.84% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 43 246 100
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £34,900
25th Percentile £52,250 £42,725 £40,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £49,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +27.55% -8.41% +0.73%
75th Percentile £80,100 £62,200 £71,250
90th Percentile - £71,725 £80,125
UK median annual salary £62,500 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +25.00% -13.04% -2.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

User Research 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 36,805 62,205 53,978
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.51% 81.88% 95.47%
Number of salaries quoted 17,600 42,597 28,533
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,300 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year +1.82% -9.54% +1.33%

User Research
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for User Research in the UK excluding London

User Research
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for User Research in the UK excluding London

User Research
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing User Research in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2025.

Salary histogram for User Research in the UK excluding London

User Research
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 Research within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
Scotland +76 106 £47,292 -3.49% 61
North of England -88 29 £80,100 +77.02% 341
North West -57 23 £80,100 +68.19% 159
South East +55 13 £38,750 -13.89% 360
South West +80 8 £68,525 +16.74% 163
West Midlands +23 7 £57,500 -0.40% 155
Midlands +8 7 £57,500 +4.83% 280
Yorkshire +6 5 £54,000 +19.34% 137
Isle of Man - 4 - -
East of England +35 2 £72,500 +107.14% 212
Wales +22 1 £55,000 +10.00% 38
North East +21 1 £42,500 -6.07% 45
Northern Ireland +21 1 - - 22
User Research
UK

User Research
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 7 (4.14%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (5.92%) Sketch
2 8 (4.73%) Adobe XD
3 2 (1.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.59%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.59%) InVision
4 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.59%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 17 (10.06%) Figma
2 7 (4.14%) AWS
2 7 (4.14%) Azure
2 7 (4.14%) SaaS
3 4 (2.37%) Google Analytics
4 2 (1.18%) AWS Fargate
4 2 (1.18%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (1.18%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (0.59%) Azure App Service
5 1 (0.59%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (0.59%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.18%) LoRaWAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.37%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (2.37%) Relational Database
2 2 (1.18%) Data Mining
3 1 (0.59%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.59%) Redis
3 1 (0.59%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (7.10%) JIRA
2 2 (1.18%) Git
3 1 (0.59%) Browser DevTools
3 1 (0.59%) Visual Studio
General
1 111 (65.68%) Finance
2 103 (60.95%) Banking
3 37 (21.89%) Social Skills
4 13 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (6.51%) Marketing
6 8 (4.73%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.37%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.37%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.78%) Automotive
9 2 (1.18%) Games
9 2 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.59%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.59%) Legal
10 1 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 101 (59.76%) Senior
2 100 (59.17%) Designer
3 91 (53.85%) UX Designer
4 83 (49.11%) Senior Designer
4 83 (49.11%) Senior UX Designer
5 32 (18.93%) Developer
6 22 (13.02%) UX Developer
7 17 (10.06%) Product Manager
8 11 (6.51%) Senior Developer
8 11 (6.51%) Senior UX Developer
9 8 (4.73%) Analyst
10 7 (4.14%) Lead
10 7 (4.14%) Product Owner
10 7 (4.14%) UI Designer
10 7 (4.14%) UI/UX Designer
11 6 (3.55%) Service Designer
12 5 (2.96%) Lead Developer
12 5 (2.96%) User Researcher
13 4 (2.37%) Product Designer
14 3 (1.78%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.10%) CSS
2 8 (4.73%) React
2 8 (4.73%) RESTful
3 7 (4.14%) HTML
4 5 (2.96%) Next.js
5 4 (2.37%) Express.js
5 4 (2.37%) Node.js
5 4 (2.37%) Tailwind CSS
6 3 (1.78%) NestJS
7 2 (1.18%) React Native
8 1 (0.59%) .NET
8 1 (0.59%) .NET Core
8 1 (0.59%) ASP.NET
8 1 (0.59%) ASP.NET Core
8 1 (0.59%) ASP.NET Web API
8 1 (0.59%) D3.js
8 1 (0.59%) FastAPI
8 1 (0.59%) JWT
8 1 (0.59%) LangChain
8 1 (0.59%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 27 (15.98%) Product Ownership
2 6 (3.55%) Mobile App
3 5 (2.96%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.37%) N-Tier
5 3 (1.78%) Animation
5 3 (1.78%) IoT
5 3 (1.78%) NHS
5 3 (1.78%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (1.78%) Video Editing
6 2 (1.18%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.18%) Graphic Design
6 2 (1.18%) PropTech
7 1 (0.59%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.59%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.59%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.18%) Windows
2 1 (0.59%) Android
2 1 (0.59%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (85.21%) Agile
2 128 (75.74%) User Experience
3 123 (72.78%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 122 (72.19%) UX Design
5 117 (69.23%) Prototyping
6 116 (68.64%) Stakeholder Management
7 115 (68.05%) Usability Testing
8 112 (66.27%) Wireframes
9 107 (63.31%) Journey Map
10 105 (62.13%) Design Thinking
11 103 (60.95%) Project Management
11 103 (60.95%) UX Research
12 26 (15.38%) Roadmaps
13 23 (13.61%) Analytics
13 23 (13.61%) Decision-Making
14 21 (12.43%) Backlog Prioritisation
15 16 (9.47%) Data-Driven Decision Making
16 15 (8.88%) Product Management
17 14 (8.28%) Line Management
18 12 (7.10%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 8 (4.73%) SQL
1 8 (4.73%) TypeScript
2 5 (2.96%) JavaScript
3 3 (1.78%) Python
4 2 (1.18%) C#
4 2 (1.18%) R
Qualifications
1 19 (11.24%) Degree
2 12 (7.10%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (2.37%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.18%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.18%) CITP
4 2 (1.18%) DBS Check
4 2 (1.18%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.59%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (65.68%) Accessibility
2 5 (2.96%) QA
3 4 (2.37%) WCAG
4 2 (1.18%) PMO
5 1 (0.59%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (2.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.59%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (5.92%) Adobe
2 5 (2.96%) Google
3 4 (2.37%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.18%) Databricks
4 2 (1.18%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.18%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.59%) Hotjar
5 1 (0.59%) SAP