UX Research Jobs in the UK excluding London

User Experience Research (UXR)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring UX Research skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited UX Research over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 467 565 681
Rank change year-on-year +98 +116 -103
Permanent jobs citing UX Research 112 200 67
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.28% 0.27% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.32% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 5 44 39
10th Percentile £55,214 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £55,535 £33,063 £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,245 £50,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +24.49% -28.57% +33.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £62,200 -
90th Percentile £96,500 £70,828 £73,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +21.74% -11.54% +13.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

UX 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 36,721 61,614 54,758
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.53% 82.28% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 17,560 42,296 28,644
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,564 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%

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 31 May 2025.

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 31 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 +85 98 - - 3
North of England +32 6 £60,000 +33.33% 25
North West +1 5 £60,000 +33.33% 10
Isle of Man - 4 - -
South West +84 3 £62,245 +8.25% 11
South East +63 1 £95,000 +175.36% 20
Yorkshire +52 1 - - 13
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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 4 (3.57%) IBM Domino
2 3 (2.68%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (3.57%) Google Analytics
2 2 (1.79%) ChatGPT
2 2 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (1.79%) Figma
2 2 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (0.89%) AWS
3 1 (0.89%) Miro
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.57%) Mixpanel
2 2 (1.79%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (2.68%) JIRA
General
1 100 (89.29%) Banking
1 100 (89.29%) Finance
2 2 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (0.89%) Manufacturing
3 1 (0.89%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 93 (83.04%) Senior
2 80 (71.43%) Designer
2 80 (71.43%) Senior Designer
3 79 (70.54%) Senior UX Designer
3 79 (70.54%) UX Designer
4 22 (19.64%) Developer
5 21 (18.75%) UX Developer
6 11 (9.82%) Senior Developer
6 11 (9.82%) Senior UX Developer
7 4 (3.57%) User Experience Researcher
8 2 (1.79%) Architect
8 2 (1.79%) Enterprise Architect
8 2 (1.79%) Lead
8 2 (1.79%) Product Manager
8 2 (1.79%) Senior Manager
8 2 (1.79%) Senior Product Manager
9 1 (0.89%) Agile Delivery Manager
9 1 (0.89%) Delivery Manager
9 1 (0.89%) Lead Developer
9 1 (0.89%) Visual Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.79%) Kafka
2 1 (0.89%) CSS
2 1 (0.89%) D3.js
2 1 (0.89%) NestJS
2 1 (0.89%) React
2 1 (0.89%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.57%) Product Ownership
2 2 (1.79%) Social Media
3 1 (0.89%) IoT
3 1 (0.89%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (100.00%) User Experience
2 108 (96.43%) Agile
2 108 (96.43%) UX Design
3 104 (92.86%) Project Management
3 104 (92.86%) Usability Testing
4 103 (91.96%) Stakeholder Management
4 103 (91.96%) User Research
4 103 (91.96%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 102 (91.07%) Design Thinking
5 102 (91.07%) Prototyping
6 101 (90.18%) Wireframes
7 100 (89.29%) Journey Map
8 7 (6.25%) Analytics
9 6 (5.36%) Product Strategy
10 4 (3.57%) Actionable Insight
10 4 (3.57%) Behavioural Analytics
10 4 (3.57%) Customer Insight
10 4 (3.57%) Qualitative Research
10 4 (3.57%) Quantitative Research
10 4 (3.57%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1 (0.89%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (3.57%) Degree
1 4 (3.57%) SC Cleared
1 4 (3.57%) Security Cleared
2 2 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (1.79%) CISSP
2 2 (1.79%) CITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (90.18%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.79%) QA
3 1 (0.89%) GDPR
3 1 (0.89%) HIPAA
System Software
1 2 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.89%) Docker
Vendors
1 4 (3.57%) Google
1 4 (3.57%) Hotjar
2 2 (1.79%) Adobe
2 2 (1.79%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.79%) Salesforce
2 2 (1.79%) ServiceNow
2 2 (1.79%) VMware