UX Research Jobs in the UK excluding London

User Experience Research (UXR)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for UX Research skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited UX Research over the 6 months to 20 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 561 605 593
Rank change year-on-year +44 -12 -73
Permanent jobs citing UX Research 191 166 258
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.28% 0.27% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.28% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 38 37 132
10th Percentile £29,750 £44,500 £33,775
25th Percentile £32,500 £56,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £70,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +33.33% +5.00%
75th Percentile £61,338 - £65,000
90th Percentile £62,290 £72,500 £68,625
UK median annual salary £57,500 £67,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -14.81% +22.73% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

UX Research is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 58,646 59,780 66,386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.61% 95.63% 94.00%
Number of salaries quoted 40,851 30,618 41,708
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,882 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.90% +4.54% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.93% +2.92% +9.09%

UX Research
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for UX Research in the UK excluding London

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Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for UX Research in the UK excluding London

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Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing UX Research in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 April 2024.

Salary histogram for UX Research in the UK excluding London

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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 UX Research within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 April 2024. 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 +61 137 - - 7
South West -11 20 £55,000 - 4
South East -4 13 £33,000 -47.20% 4
North of England +17 8 £30,000 -57.14% 11
Northern Ireland - 7 - - 1
Yorkshire +79 6 £30,000 -58.62% 1
West Midlands +38 6 £58,700 - 4
Midlands +9 6 £58,700 - 4
North East -6 1 - -
North West -13 1 - - 10
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UK

UX 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 23 (12.04%) Apache Spark
2 11 (5.76%) Confluence
Applications
1 38 (19.90%) UserZoom
2 34 (17.80%) Sketch
3 18 (9.42%) InVision
4 7 (3.66%) Adobe XD
5 5 (2.62%) Adobe Illustrator
5 5 (2.62%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.52%) Marvel
6 1 (0.52%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.52%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 3 (1.57%) Magento
2 1 (0.52%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 101 (52.88%) Figma
2 75 (39.27%) SurveyMonkey
3 29 (15.18%) Miro
4 23 (12.04%) Amazon S3
4 23 (12.04%) Amazon SQS
4 23 (12.04%) AWS
4 23 (12.04%) GCP
4 23 (12.04%) Google Docs
4 23 (12.04%) Lucidchart
4 23 (12.04%) SaaS
4 23 (12.04%) Slack
5 12 (6.28%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (3.14%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (2.62%) Azure
7 5 (2.62%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.62%) GitHub
8 1 (0.52%) Canva
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.14%) Intranet
2 3 (1.57%) Internet
3 1 (0.52%) SNA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (12.04%) Big Data
1 23 (12.04%) Elasticsearch
1 23 (12.04%) Hadoop
1 23 (12.04%) Redis
1 23 (12.04%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 34 (17.80%) JIRA
2 32 (16.75%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.52%) Axure RP
General
1 141 (73.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 114 (59.69%) Finance
2 114 (59.69%) Law
3 107 (56.02%) Marketing
4 86 (45.03%) Social Skills
5 32 (16.75%) Social Science
6 10 (5.24%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (4.71%) Banking
7 9 (4.71%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (4.71%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.57%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.57%) Polish Language
9 2 (1.05%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.52%) Advertising
10 1 (0.52%) Electronics
10 1 (0.52%) Korean Language
Job Titles
1 59 (30.89%) User Experience Researcher
2 49 (25.65%) Lead
3 31 (16.23%) Designer
4 30 (15.71%) UX Designer
5 29 (15.18%) Senior
6 26 (13.61%) Software Engineer
7 23 (12.04%) Principal Engineer
7 23 (12.04%) Principal Software Engineer
8 19 (9.95%) Senior Designer
8 19 (9.95%) Senior UX Designer
9 12 (6.28%) Product Manager
9 12 (6.28%) User Researcher
10 6 (3.14%) Senior Manager
10 6 (3.14%) Senior Product Manager
11 5 (2.62%) Applications Developer
11 5 (2.62%) Developer
11 5 (2.62%) Digital Product Manager
12 4 (2.09%) Analyst
12 4 (2.09%) Research Analyst
12 4 (2.09%) UX Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (12.04%) GraphQL
1 23 (12.04%) Kafka
2 21 (10.99%) CSS
2 21 (10.99%) HTML
3 18 (9.42%) React
4 6 (3.14%) AngularJS
5 5 (2.62%) .NET
6 3 (1.57%) DOM
6 3 (1.57%) LESS
6 3 (1.57%) Sass
6 3 (1.57%) Spring
6 3 (1.57%) Spring Boot
6 3 (1.57%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 3 (1.57%) Vue
6 3 (1.57%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 38 (19.90%) Market Risk
2 33 (17.28%) Product Ownership
3 23 (12.04%) Algorithms
3 23 (12.04%) Data Structures
4 12 (6.28%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (6.28%) Management Information System
5 8 (4.19%) Mobile App
6 6 (3.14%) NHS
7 5 (2.62%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.62%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.09%) Graphic Design
9 3 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.52%) Blog
10 1 (0.52%) Housing Association
10 1 (0.52%) PropTech
10 1 (0.52%) Social Media
10 1 (0.52%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.62%) Android
1 5 (2.62%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (100.00%) User Experience
2 127 (66.49%) User Research
3 86 (45.03%) UX Design
4 83 (43.46%) Actionable Insight
4 83 (43.46%) Psychology
5 78 (40.84%) Product Management
6 77 (40.31%) Agile
6 77 (40.31%) Anthropology
6 77 (40.31%) Service Design
7 76 (39.79%) Roadmaps
8 58 (30.37%) Mentoring
8 58 (30.37%) Qualitative Research
9 56 (29.32%) Data Visualisation
9 56 (29.32%) Visualisation
10 55 (28.80%) Interaction Design
11 53 (27.75%) Fintech
11 53 (27.75%) Strategic Thinking
12 50 (26.18%) Information Architecture
13 49 (25.65%) Analytics
13 49 (25.65%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 34 (17.80%) R
2 26 (13.61%) Java
3 24 (12.57%) Python
4 23 (12.04%) Bash
4 23 (12.04%) Go
4 23 (12.04%) Scala
5 18 (9.42%) JavaScript
6 5 (2.62%) C#
7 3 (1.57%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.52%) SQL
Qualifications
1 104 (54.45%) Degree
2 54 (28.27%) Master's Degree
3 45 (23.56%) PhD
4 6 (3.14%) CSPO
4 6 (3.14%) IIBA
5 1 (0.52%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.52%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.52%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (20.42%) Actionable Recommendations
2 34 (17.80%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.14%) QA
3 6 (3.14%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 23 (12.04%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 70 (36.65%) Qualtrics
2 23 (12.04%) Dell
2 23 (12.04%) Google
3 18 (9.42%) ServiceNow
4 17 (8.90%) Microsoft
5 10 (5.24%) Adobe
6 7 (3.66%) Salesforce
7 6 (3.14%) Hotjar
8 5 (2.62%) Apple
8 5 (2.62%) Xamarin