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The table below looks at the prevalence of the term User Experience in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited User Experience over the 6 months to 20 April 2018 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.
| UX UK |
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6 months to
20 Apr 2018 |
Same period 2017 |
Same period 2016 |
| Rank |
65 |
69 |
73 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
+4 |
+4 |
+12 |
| Permanent jobs citing User Experience |
8,100 |
7,131 |
8,036 |
| As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK |
4.56% |
4.13% |
3.93% |
| As % of the Miscellaneous category |
10.69% |
9.75% |
8.94% |
| Number of salaries quoted |
6,310 |
5,789 |
6,728 |
| UK median annual salary |
£50,000 |
£47,500 |
£46,000 |
| Median salary % change year-on-year |
+5.26% |
+3.26% |
+2.22% |
| 10th Percentile |
£30,000 |
£29,000 |
£27,500 |
| 90th Percentile |
£77,500 |
£75,000 |
£73,750 |
| UK excluding London median annual salary |
£44,000 |
£40,000 |
£40,000 |
| % change year-on-year |
+10.00% |
- |
+3.90% |
User Experience is in the Generic IT Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.
| All Generic IT Skills UK |
| Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills |
75,758 |
73,134 |
89,928 |
| As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK |
42.68% |
42.39% |
43.94% |
| Number of salaries quoted |
59,722 |
59,501 |
72,576 |
| UK median annual salary |
£50,000 |
£47,500 |
£48,570 |
| Median salary % change year-on-year |
+5.26% |
-2.20% |
+7.93% |
| 10th Percentile |
£27,500 |
£27,500 |
£27,500 |
| 90th Percentile |
£82,500 |
£80,000 |
£78,750 |
| UK excluding London median annual salary |
£45,000 |
£41,500 |
£42,500 |
| % change year-on-year |
+8.43% |
-2.35% |
+6.25% |
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User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend
Job postings citing User Experience as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised.
User Experience
Salary Trend
This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing User Experience.
User Experience
Salary Histogram
The salary distribution of IT jobs citing User Experience over the 6 months to 20 April 2018.
User Experience
Top 16 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 20 April 2018.
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
Job
Vacancies |
| England |
+4 |
7,658 |
£50,000 |
+5.26% |
1,424 |
| UK excluding London |
+11 |
4,311 |
£44,000 |
+10.00% |
902 |
| London |
0 |
3,667 |
£57,500 |
+4.55% |
583 |
| South East |
+22 |
1,308 |
£45,000 |
+5.88% |
235 |
| North of England |
+4 |
1,000 |
£40,000 |
+6.67% |
251 |
| South West |
+15 |
608 |
£50,000 |
+33.33% |
116 |
| Midlands |
+15 |
557 |
£37,500 |
-6.25% |
129 |
| North West |
-14 |
510 |
£40,000 |
- |
129 |
| East of England |
+38 |
507 |
£47,500 |
+5.56% |
109 |
| Yorkshire |
+33 |
432 |
£38,000 |
+8.57% |
97 |
| West Midlands |
+40 |
385 |
£39,500 |
-1.25% |
62 |
| Scotland |
+4 |
270 |
£45,000 |
+12.50% |
44 |
| East Midlands |
-18 |
172 |
£35,000 |
-6.67% |
66 |
| Wales |
+24 |
126 |
£42,500 |
-5.56% |
12 |
| North East |
-35 |
58 |
£35,000 |
+27.27% |
25 |
| Northern Ireland |
-15 |
4 |
£40,000 |
+14.29% |
6 |
For the 6 months to 20 April 2018, IT jobs citing User Experience also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity.
The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads with a requirement for User Experience.
| 1 |
3,980 (49.14%) |
Agile Software Development |
| 2 |
3,343 (41.27%) |
JavaScript |
| 3 |
3,182 (39.28%) |
HTML |
| 4 |
3,060 (37.78%) |
CSS |
| 5 |
1,563 (19.30%) |
AngularJS |
| 6 |
1,476 (18.22%) |
HTML5 |
| 7 |
1,423 (17.57%) |
Front End Development |
| 8 |
1,272 (15.70%) |
Scrum |
| 9 |
1,232 (15.21%) |
Java |
| 10 |
1,223 (15.10%) |
Finance |
| 11 |
1,222 (15.09%) |
jQuery |
| 12 |
1,207 (14.90%) |
Web Development |
| 13 |
1,185 (14.63%) |
Degree |
| 13 |
1,185 (14.63%) |
Wireframes |
| 14 |
1,147 (14.16%) |
Git (software) |
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User Experience
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category
The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category.
The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:
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