User Experience Jobs

UX
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 22 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 77 74
Rank change year-on-year -6 -3 -37
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 1,887 3,521 3,765
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.34% 3.15% 4.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.62% 3.84% 4.33%
Number of salaries quoted 907 2,034 2,193
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,720 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £50,750 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.27% -18.80% +4.17%
75th Percentile £76,250 £68,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £97,290
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,688 £49,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.57% -10.91% +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 52,087 91,737 86,891
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 92.16% 82.04% 95.42%
Number of salaries quoted 26,282 63,381 53,040
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £38,824 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year - -9.54% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £80,453
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing User Experience as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for User Experience in the UK

User Experience
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing User Experience.

Salary trend for User Experience in the UK

User Experience
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing User Experience over the 6 months to 22 June 2025.

Salary histogram for User Experience in the UK

User Experience
Top 19 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 22 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
England -10 1,627 £60,000 +17.65% 9,113
UK excluding London -35 1,118 £53,688 +9.57% 5,050
Work from Home +25 985 £62,500 +25.00% 4,832
London +46 621 £70,000 +7.69% 4,648
North of England -27 490 £53,750 +14.44% 1,392
North West -28 420 £55,021 +22.27% 828
South East -54 169 £52,500 +5.00% 1,218
Scotland +17 137 £70,000 +40.01% 331
Midlands -51 134 £53,688 +13.03% 753
West Midlands -25 106 £55,000 +10.00% 455
South West -26 94 £49,500 -10.00% 558
East of England +1 76 £47,500 +18.75% 571
Yorkshire -48 52 £42,500 -15.00% 454
East Midlands -68 28 £35,000 - 296
North East -2 18 £48,000 +12.94% 110
Northern Ireland +15 7 - - 110
Wales +9 5 £67,500 +80.31% 149
Isle of Man +17 4 - -
Channel Islands - 2 £87,500 -

User Experience
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 96 (5.09%) CMS
2 59 (3.13%) SharePoint
3 58 (3.07%) WordPress
4 31 (1.64%) Confluence
4 31 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
5 19 (1.01%) Drupal
6 18 (0.95%) Skype for Business
7 12 (0.64%) Umbraco
8 11 (0.58%) IBM Domino
9 7 (0.37%) Apache
9 7 (0.37%) nginx
10 6 (0.32%) Headless CMS
10 6 (0.32%) IIS
11 5 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
11 5 (0.26%) Apache Spark
12 4 (0.21%) Liferay
12 4 (0.21%) SAP Portal
13 3 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.16%) Apache Solr
14 2 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 51 (2.70%) Adobe XD
2 41 (2.17%) Sketch
3 33 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
4 29 (1.54%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 26 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
6 18 (0.95%) Photoshop
7 16 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 15 (0.79%) MS Visio
9 13 (0.69%) Adobe Illustrator
10 11 (0.58%) InDesign
11 9 (0.48%) Adobe Premiere
11 9 (0.48%) Chatbot
12 8 (0.42%) InVision
12 8 (0.42%) Trello
13 5 (0.26%) UserZoom
14 3 (0.16%) Adobe After Effects
14 3 (0.16%) Adobe Captivate
15 2 (0.11%) Elementor
15 2 (0.11%) Final Cut Pro
16 1 (0.053%) Moqups
Business Applications
1 33 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (1.70%) NetSuite
3 22 (1.17%) Shopify
4 13 (0.69%) Magento
5 11 (0.58%) JDE OneWorld
6 8 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
7 6 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
9 3 (0.16%) Elite 3E
9 3 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
10 2 (0.11%) iTrent
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle EBS R12
10 2 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
10 2 (0.11%) Workday HCM
11 1 (0.053%) Dynamics GP
11 1 (0.053%) Lorenzo
11 1 (0.053%) Remedy ITSM
11 1 (0.053%) Sage 200
11 1 (0.053%) Sprinklr
11 1 (0.053%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 544 (28.83%) Azure
2 540 (28.62%) AWS
3 238 (12.61%) GCP
4 144 (7.63%) Figma
5 115 (6.09%) Microsoft 365
6 98 (5.19%) SaaS
7 94 (4.98%) Power Platform
8 75 (3.97%) Google Analytics
9 56 (2.97%) GitHub
10 45 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
11 44 (2.33%) Serverless
12 42 (2.23%) PowerApps
13 35 (1.85%) Power Automate
14 34 (1.80%) Dynamics 365
15 29 (1.54%) Entra ID
16 25 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
17 24 (1.27%) Boomi
17 24 (1.27%) Microsoft Copilot
18 23 (1.22%) Azure Logic Apps
19 21 (1.11%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 19 (1.01%) Internet
1 19 (1.01%) Unified Communications
1 19 (1.01%) Wireless
2 18 (0.95%) Skype
3 10 (0.53%) HTTP
4 9 (0.48%) DNS
5 8 (0.42%) VPN
5 8 (0.42%) WAN
6 7 (0.37%) Cisco IOS
6 7 (0.37%) LAN
7 6 (0.32%) Intranet
7 6 (0.32%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.26%) Firewall
9 4 (0.21%) LoRaWAN
9 4 (0.21%) Remote Desktop
10 3 (0.16%) Broadband
10 3 (0.16%) DHCP
10 3 (0.16%) NetScaler
11 2 (0.11%) DMZ
11 2 (0.11%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (8.32%) SQL Server
2 80 (4.24%) PostgreSQL
3 69 (3.66%) MySQL
4 61 (3.23%) Power BI
5 38 (2.01%) NoSQL
6 33 (1.75%) Tableau
7 30 (1.59%) MongoDB
7 30 (1.59%) Relational Database
8 17 (0.90%) DynamoDB
9 12 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
9 12 (0.64%) DB2
10 10 (0.53%) Amazon Aurora
10 10 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
10 10 (0.53%) Redis
11 8 (0.42%) Mixpanel
12 7 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
13 6 (0.32%) Big Data
13 6 (0.32%) Metadata
13 6 (0.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 6 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 200 (10.60%) JIRA
2 151 (8.00%) Git
3 117 (6.20%) GitLab
4 109 (5.78%) Selenium
5 102 (5.41%) Maven
6 99 (5.25%) Cucumber
7 97 (5.14%) Bitbucket
8 91 (4.82%) SonarQube
9 90 (4.77%) Sonatype Nexus
10 29 (1.54%) Jenkins
11 22 (1.17%) Visual Studio
12 21 (1.11%) Axure RP
13 18 (0.95%) Cypress.io
14 17 (0.90%) Vite
15 16 (0.85%) Balsamiq
16 14 (0.74%) webpack
17 10 (0.53%) Appium
17 10 (0.53%) Octopus Deploy
17 10 (0.53%) Subversion
18 9 (0.48%) JUnit
General
1 552 (29.25%) Finance
2 530 (28.09%) Social Skills
3 408 (21.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 297 (15.74%) Banking
5 240 (12.72%) Analytical Skills
6 232 (12.29%) Marketing
7 188 (9.96%) Law
8 143 (7.58%) Retail
9 111 (5.88%) Investment Banking
10 92 (4.88%) Corporate Banking
11 59 (3.13%) Public Sector
12 47 (2.49%) Legal
13 44 (2.33%) Advertising
14 43 (2.28%) Presentation Skills
15 40 (2.12%) Games
16 32 (1.70%) Front Office
17 31 (1.64%) Electronics
18 29 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
19 28 (1.48%) Financial Institution
20 26 (1.38%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 591 (31.32%) Senior
2 466 (24.70%) Developer
3 365 (19.34%) Software Engineer
4 202 (10.70%) Senior Software Engineer
5 196 (10.39%) Designer
6 143 (7.58%) Senior Developer
7 135 (7.15%) Lead
8 134 (7.10%) UX Designer
9 112 (5.94%) Analyst
10 105 (5.56%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 101 (5.35%) Senior Designer
12 89 (4.72%) Senior UX Designer
13 68 (3.60%) Architect
14 64 (3.39%) Product Manager
15 62 (3.29%) React Developer
16 61 (3.23%) Full-Stack Developer
17 47 (2.49%) Solutions Architect
18 45 (2.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 42 (2.23%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
20 40 (2.12%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 378 (20.03%) React
2 361 (19.13%) CSS
3 350 (18.55%) HTML
4 315 (16.69%) .NET
5 281 (14.89%) Node.js
6 201 (10.65%) RESTful
7 158 (8.37%) HTML5
8 154 (8.16%) CSS3
9 149 (7.90%) REST
10 137 (7.26%) Redux
11 130 (6.89%) Jest
12 120 (6.36%) Kafka
13 119 (6.31%) Sass
14 115 (6.09%) Spring
15 112 (5.94%) Spring Boot
16 110 (5.83%) AngularJS
17 91 (4.82%) JPA
18 45 (2.38%) Vue
19 43 (2.28%) jQuery
20 41 (2.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 234 (12.40%) Product Ownership
2 212 (11.23%) Self-Motivation
3 178 (9.43%) Cyberattack
3 178 (9.43%) Linux Command Line
4 111 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
5 100 (5.30%) Mobile App
6 55 (2.91%) Algorithms
7 51 (2.70%) Social Media
8 44 (2.33%) Data Structures
9 38 (2.01%) Onboarding
10 31 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
10 31 (1.64%) e-Learning
10 31 (1.64%) Management Information System
11 27 (1.43%) Fixed Income
12 25 (1.32%) Virtual Team
13 23 (1.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 22 (1.17%) Video Conferencing
15 20 (1.06%) Cloud Native
16 19 (1.01%) Educational Technology
17 18 (0.95%) Digital Signage
Operating Systems
1 239 (12.67%) Linux
2 95 (5.03%) Android
3 87 (4.61%) Apple iOS
4 86 (4.56%) Windows
5 30 (1.59%) Windows Server
6 13 (0.69%) Windows 10
7 8 (0.42%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.11%) Unix
11 1 (0.053%) CentOS
11 1 (0.053%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 940 (49.81%) Agile
2 536 (28.40%) UX Design
3 451 (23.90%) Software Engineering
4 437 (23.16%) Mentoring
5 403 (21.36%) Problem-Solving
6 347 (18.39%) Microservices
7 298 (15.79%) Scrum
8 285 (15.10%) Front End Development
9 283 (15.00%) Project Management
10 274 (14.52%) DevOps
11 268 (14.20%) CI/CD
12 257 (13.62%) Full-Stack Development
13 256 (13.57%) Machine Learning
14 252 (13.35%) Roadmaps
15 245 (12.98%) Analytics
16 219 (11.61%) Test Automation
17 216 (11.45%) User Research
18 214 (11.34%) Artificial Intelligence
19 208 (11.02%) Prototyping
19 208 (11.02%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 671 (35.56%) JavaScript
2 393 (20.83%) Java
3 360 (19.08%) Python
4 330 (17.49%) TypeScript
5 285 (15.10%) SQL
6 194 (10.28%) C++
7 191 (10.12%) Go
8 180 (9.54%) Rust
9 156 (8.27%) C#
10 60 (3.18%) PHP
11 34 (1.80%) Kotlin
12 30 (1.59%) PowerShell
13 29 (1.54%) Swift
14 16 (0.85%) C
15 13 (0.69%) Objective-C
16 11 (0.58%) Bicep
17 7 (0.37%) Dart
17 7 (0.37%) R
18 6 (0.32%) Bash
18 6 (0.32%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 290 (15.37%) Degree
2 252 (13.35%) Security Cleared
3 189 (10.02%) DV Cleared
4 183 (9.70%) AWS Certification
5 180 (9.54%) AWS Certified Developer
6 178 (9.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 97 (5.14%) Computer Science Degree
8 47 (2.49%) SC Cleared
9 24 (1.27%) DBS Check
9 24 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
10 23 (1.22%) PMI Certification
10 23 (1.22%) PMP
11 21 (1.11%) Master's Degree
12 14 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
13 13 (0.69%) Azure Certification
14 11 (0.58%) PhD
15 10 (0.53%) ISTQB
16 8 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
17 6 (0.32%) CSPO
18 4 (0.21%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 361 (19.13%) Accessibility
2 230 (12.19%) QA
3 43 (2.28%) GDPR
4 38 (2.01%) WCAG
5 14 (0.74%) Data Quality
6 12 (0.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 10 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
8 8 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.42%) SLA
9 6 (0.32%) COBIT
10 5 (0.26%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.26%) Software Quality Assurance
11 4 (0.21%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 4 (0.21%) Good Clinical Practice
12 3 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.11%) IEC 62304
13 2 (0.11%) ISO 13485
13 2 (0.11%) NCSC
13 2 (0.11%) NIST
13 2 (0.11%) PERC
System Software
1 184 (9.75%) Docker
2 53 (2.81%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.11%) Firmware
6 2 (0.11%) HDFS
6 2 (0.11%) KVM
6 2 (0.11%) Xen
7 1 (0.053%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 175 (9.27%) Kubernetes
2 39 (2.07%) Terraform
3 27 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (0.79%) Grafana
5 14 (0.74%) SCCM
6 12 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.32%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.21%) Kibana
8 4 (0.21%) Puppet
9 3 (0.16%) Ansible
10 2 (0.11%) CFEngine
10 2 (0.11%) Kubeflow
10 2 (0.11%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.11%) SCOM
10 2 (0.11%) SCSM
11 1 (0.053%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.053%) Argo
11 1 (0.053%) Autotask
11 1 (0.053%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.053%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 231 (12.24%) Microsoft
2 145 (7.68%) Google
3 121 (6.41%) Adobe
4 90 (4.77%) Solace
5 86 (4.56%) ServiceNow
6 70 (3.71%) Salesforce
7 56 (2.97%) SAP
8 33 (1.75%) Workday
9 32 (1.70%) Oracle
10 29 (1.54%) Cisco
11 20 (1.06%) Databricks
12 19 (1.01%) Concur
12 19 (1.01%) Hotjar
12 19 (1.01%) Polycom
12 19 (1.01%) VMware
13 18 (0.95%) IBM
13 18 (0.95%) Mitel
13 18 (0.95%) ShoreTel
14 17 (0.90%) Facebook
14 17 (0.90%) WooCommerce