User-Centered Design (UCD) Jobs in the UK excluding London

User-Centered Design (UCD)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 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 404 416 525
Rank change year-on-year +12 +109 -26
Permanent jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) 177 389 211
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.45% 0.55% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.65% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 49 197 95
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,988 £41,512
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,110 £47,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,965 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.43% -3.39% +14.29%
75th Percentile £68,525 £62,500 £73,751
90th Percentile £75,772 £71,082 £84,350
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,965 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.11% -3.39% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 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-Centered Design (UCD)
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for User-Centered Design (UCD) in the UK excluding London

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for User-Centered Design (UCD) in the UK excluding London

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for User-Centered Design (UCD) in the UK excluding London

User-Centered Design (UCD)
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-Centered Design (UCD) 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
Scotland +147 100 £47,500 -5.00% 11
North of England -73 32 £51,250 -11.58% 68
South West +79 19 £68,525 +14.21% 14
Yorkshire +28 16 £52,500 -9.43% 23
North West -66 11 £52,500 -9.43% 33
Midlands +28 10 £62,500 +7.82% 30
South East +77 8 £52,500 +65.35% 53
West Midlands +37 8 £72,500 +22.05% 20
North East +25 5 £50,000 -13.74% 12
Isle of Man - 4 - -
East of England +33 3 £65,000 +40.97% 14
Northern Ireland +29 2 - - 3
East Midlands +16 2 £31,000 -20.00% 8
Wales +22 1 £68,500 +110.77% 6
User-Centered Design (UCD)
UK

User-Centered Design (UCD)
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 9 (5.08%) WordPress
2 3 (1.69%) CMS
3 2 (1.13%) Drupal
4 1 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.56%) Confluence
4 1 (0.56%) SAS
Applications
1 12 (6.78%) Sketch
2 10 (5.65%) Adobe XD
3 2 (1.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 18 (10.17%) Figma
2 13 (7.34%) AWS
3 10 (5.65%) Azure
4 7 (3.95%) Stripe
5 5 (2.82%) GCP
5 5 (2.82%) Google Analytics
6 4 (2.26%) GitHub
7 2 (1.13%) Google Tag Manager
7 2 (1.13%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.56%) AWS IoT
8 1 (0.56%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.56%) ChatGPT
8 1 (0.56%) Miro
8 1 (0.56%) SaaS
8 1 (0.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.56%) MQTT
1 1 (0.56%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.52%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (2.26%) Relational Database
2 4 (2.26%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.26%) SQLite
3 3 (1.69%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.13%) Metadata
4 2 (1.13%) Power BI
4 2 (1.13%) Spark SQL
5 1 (0.56%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.56%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.56%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.56%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.56%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.56%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.56%) Metadata Repository
5 1 (0.56%) MySQL
5 1 (0.56%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.56%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (0.56%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 8 (4.52%) Git
2 3 (1.69%) GitLab
2 3 (1.69%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.69%) JUnit
2 3 (1.69%) Mockito
2 3 (1.69%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.56%) JIRA
3 1 (0.56%) Vite
General
1 105 (59.32%) Finance
2 101 (57.06%) Banking
3 28 (15.82%) Social Skills
4 11 (6.21%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (6.21%) Public Sector
5 7 (3.95%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (3.39%) Automotive
6 6 (3.39%) Legal
7 5 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.26%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.26%) Marketing
9 3 (1.69%) Electronics
10 2 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.56%) Games
11 1 (0.56%) Law
11 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.56%) Publishing
11 1 (0.56%) Retail
11 1 (0.56%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 101 (57.06%) Designer
2 91 (51.41%) Senior
3 90 (50.85%) UX Designer
4 80 (45.20%) Senior Designer
4 80 (45.20%) Senior UX Designer
5 38 (21.47%) Developer
6 22 (12.43%) UX Developer
7 17 (9.60%) Product Manager
8 15 (8.47%) Lead
9 11 (6.21%) Senior Developer
9 11 (6.21%) Senior UX Developer
10 8 (4.52%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 8 (4.52%) Service Designer
10 8 (4.52%) UI Designer
10 8 (4.52%) UI/UX Designer
11 7 (3.95%) Digital Product Manager
11 7 (3.95%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
11 7 (3.95%) Web Developer
11 7 (3.95%) Website Developer
12 6 (3.39%) Lead Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (10.73%) CSS
2 18 (10.17%) HTML
3 9 (5.08%) RESTful
4 8 (4.52%) React
5 7 (3.95%) Next.js
5 7 (3.95%) Node.js
6 5 (2.82%) Tailwind CSS
7 4 (2.26%) .NET
7 4 (2.26%) AngularJS
7 4 (2.26%) Express.js
7 4 (2.26%) JSON
7 4 (2.26%) Kafka
8 3 (1.69%) Hibernate
8 3 (1.69%) LINQ
8 3 (1.69%) OAuth
8 3 (1.69%) OAuth2
8 3 (1.69%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (1.69%) Spring
8 3 (1.69%) Vue
8 3 (1.69%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (3.95%) Learning Management System
2 6 (3.39%) Management Information System
2 6 (3.39%) Mobile App
3 4 (2.26%) N-Tier
3 4 (2.26%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.69%) Animation
4 3 (1.69%) Video Editing
5 2 (1.13%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.13%) NHS
6 1 (0.56%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.56%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.56%) Educational Technology
6 1 (0.56%) Graphic Design
6 1 (0.56%) IoT
6 1 (0.56%) Online Games
6 1 (0.56%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.13%) Windows
2 1 (0.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (81.36%) Agile
2 135 (76.27%) User Experience
3 127 (71.75%) User Research
4 122 (68.93%) UX Design
5 116 (65.54%) Prototyping
6 114 (64.41%) Usability Testing
7 113 (63.84%) Wireframes
8 110 (62.15%) Project Management
8 110 (62.15%) Stakeholder Management
9 107 (60.45%) Design Thinking
10 103 (58.19%) UX Research
11 100 (56.50%) Journey Map
12 20 (11.30%) Roadmaps
13 18 (10.17%) Mentoring
14 16 (9.04%) Coaching
15 14 (7.91%) Front End Development
16 13 (7.34%) Problem-Solving
17 12 (6.78%) E-Commerce
18 11 (6.21%) Analytics
19 10 (5.65%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 14 (7.91%) JavaScript
2 11 (6.21%) SQL
3 7 (3.95%) PHP
4 6 (3.39%) TypeScript
5 4 (2.26%) Java
6 3 (1.69%) C#
7 2 (1.13%) Python
8 1 (0.56%) Bash
8 1 (0.56%) PROC SQL
8 1 (0.56%) R
Qualifications
1 7 (3.95%) Degree
2 5 (2.82%) SC Cleared
2 5 (2.82%) Security Cleared
3 3 (1.69%) DBS Check
3 3 (1.69%) HND
4 2 (1.13%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.13%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (0.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (67.23%) Accessibility
2 8 (4.52%) WCAG
3 2 (1.13%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.56%) GDPR
4 1 (0.56%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.56%) PMO
4 1 (0.56%) QA
System Software
1 3 (1.69%) Docker
2 1 (0.56%) Apache Flume
2 1 (0.56%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (1.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.56%) Kibana
2 1 (0.56%) logstash
2 1 (0.56%) Oozie
Vendors
1 13 (7.34%) Adobe
2 7 (3.95%) Microsoft
3 6 (3.39%) Google
4 3 (1.69%) EMC
5 2 (1.13%) Databricks
5 2 (1.13%) SAP
6 1 (0.56%) Informatica
6 1 (0.56%) MicroStrategy