User Experience Job Trends

UX
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring User Experience skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 3 months leading up to 4 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

3 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 64 71
Rank change year-on-year -24 +7 +8
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 1,037 1,183 1,214
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.91% 4.21% 2.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.64% 4.67% 3.86%
Number of salaries quoted 710 477 543
10th Percentile £30,725 £36,050 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,960 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £57,143 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +3.90% -

All Process & 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 39,299 25,310 31,471
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.54% 90.08% 77.10%
Number of salaries quoted 28,045 12,850 19,910
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £41,732
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,575
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -4.55%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing User Experience relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

User Experience job vacancy trend in the UK

User Experience
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing User Experience.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing User Experience

User Experience
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing User Experience over the 3 months to 4 July 2026.

Salary histogram for User Experience in the UK

User Experience
Top 17 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 3 months to 4 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 3 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -16 919 £55,750 -7.08% 948
UK excluding London -11 645 £50,000 -12.50% 532
Work from Home -28 387 £55,195 -11.69% 460
London -29 305 £70,000 - 521
North of England -22 225 £47,000 -14.55% 161
North West -28 129 £47,500 -20.83% 80
South East +3 124 £52,500 -8.70% 154
East of England +38 99 £68,000 +13.33% 50
Midlands -10 80 £47,500 -13.64% 72
South West -41 56 £60,000 +9.09% 47
Yorkshire +21 50 £41,250 -17.50% 42
North East -1 46 £50,810 +408.10% 40
West Midlands -38 45 £47,500 -13.64% 46
East Midlands +19 35 £45,000 -14.29% 26
Scotland -16 35 £60,500 -21.94% 35
Wales -19 23 £50,000 -25.93% 6
Northern Ireland -28 3 £39,500 - 16

User Experience
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 139 (7.27%) SharePoint
2 120 (6.28%) CMS
3 65 (3.40%) Confluence
4 51 (2.67%) Microsoft Exchange
5 28 (1.47%) WordPress
6 9 (0.47%) Drupal
7 7 (0.37%) Umbraco
8 4 (0.21%) Moodle
8 4 (0.21%) nginx
9 3 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.16%) Headless CMS
9 3 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.10%) IIS
10 2 (0.10%) Skype for Business
10 2 (0.10%) Totara
11 1 (0.052%) Apache
11 1 (0.052%) NServiceBus
11 1 (0.052%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 35 (1.83%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 34 (1.78%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (1.41%) Adobe XD
4 25 (1.31%) Photoshop
5 24 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
6 23 (1.20%) Adobe Illustrator
7 21 (1.10%) Sketch
8 17 (0.89%) UserZoom
9 15 (0.78%) Adobe After Effects
10 14 (0.73%) Chatbot
10 14 (0.73%) InDesign
11 9 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
12 6 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
13 5 (0.26%) InVision
14 4 (0.21%) Trello
15 3 (0.16%) Adobe Premiere
15 3 (0.16%) Productboard
15 3 (0.16%) SPSS
16 2 (0.10%) Camtasia
17 1 (0.052%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 23 (1.20%) Shopify
2 20 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.73%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (0.68%) Magento
5 8 (0.42%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.26%) Dynamics GP
6 5 (0.26%) SAP ERP
7 4 (0.21%) Dynamics AX
7 4 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
7 4 (0.21%) Elite 3E
8 3 (0.16%) Carpe Diem
8 3 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
8 3 (0.16%) Workday HCM
9 2 (0.10%) Adobe Campaign
9 2 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
9 2 (0.10%) Towers Watson Igloo
9 2 (0.10%) Visualfiles
10 1 (0.052%) Oracle General Ledger
10 1 (0.052%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 356 (18.63%) Azure
2 276 (14.44%) Microsoft 365
3 206 (10.78%) Figma
4 159 (8.32%) AWS
5 147 (7.69%) Power Platform
6 136 (7.12%) SaaS
7 106 (5.55%) Entra ID
8 93 (4.87%) Azure DevOps
9 70 (3.66%) Adobe Analytics
10 68 (3.56%) Power Automate
11 66 (3.45%) GitHub
12 64 (3.35%) GCP
13 63 (3.30%) PowerApps
14 62 (3.24%) Google Analytics
15 47 (2.46%) Contentsquare
15 47 (2.46%) Microsoft Copilot
15 47 (2.46%) Serverless
16 45 (2.35%) Azure Logic Apps
17 41 (2.15%) OneDrive
18 35 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 78 (4.08%) Broadband
2 32 (1.67%) Firewall
3 26 (1.36%) DNS
3 26 (1.36%) VPN
4 22 (1.15%) DHCP
5 18 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
6 16 (0.84%) VoIP
7 11 (0.58%) HTTP
7 11 (0.58%) TCP/IP
8 10 (0.52%) Kerberos
9 9 (0.47%) Internet
9 9 (0.47%) Wireless
10 8 (0.42%) CTI
11 7 (0.37%) VLAN
12 6 (0.31%) Network Security
13 5 (0.26%) SAN
14 4 (0.21%) Intranet
14 4 (0.21%) NAS
14 4 (0.21%) SMS
14 4 (0.21%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (4.13%) Power BI
2 50 (2.62%) SQL Server
3 26 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (1.26%) Azure SQL Database
5 22 (1.15%) Looker
6 18 (0.94%) Metadata
7 17 (0.89%) MySQL
8 15 (0.78%) MongoDB
9 14 (0.73%) BigQuery
10 13 (0.68%) NoSQL
11 12 (0.63%) Relational Database
12 8 (0.42%) Redis
13 7 (0.37%) Tableau
14 5 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
14 5 (0.26%) Data Warehouse
14 5 (0.26%) GIS
14 5 (0.26%) SAP BW
14 5 (0.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 4 (0.21%) Power Query
15 4 (0.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 101 (5.29%) JIRA
2 75 (3.92%) Git
3 22 (1.15%) Jenkins
4 21 (1.10%) fastlane
5 20 (1.05%) Crashlytics
6 19 (0.99%) Claude Code
7 15 (0.78%) XCTest
8 11 (0.58%) Vite
8 11 (0.58%) webpack
9 10 (0.52%) Cypress.io
10 9 (0.47%) Axure RP
10 9 (0.47%) Balsamiq
10 9 (0.47%) Selenium
10 9 (0.47%) Xcode
11 8 (0.42%) Postman
12 7 (0.37%) Bitbucket
12 7 (0.37%) Storybook
13 6 (0.31%) Android Studio
13 6 (0.31%) Cucumber
13 6 (0.31%) Gradle
General
1 557 (29.15%) Social Skills
2 300 (15.70%) Finance
3 237 (12.40%) Marketing
4 199 (10.41%) Analytical Skills
5 161 (8.42%) Public Sector
6 132 (6.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 113 (5.91%) Legal
8 104 (5.44%) Retail
9 94 (4.92%) Organisational Skills
10 86 (4.50%) Law
11 74 (3.87%) Games
12 55 (2.88%) Influencing Skills
13 47 (2.46%) Presentation Skills
14 40 (2.09%) Advertising
15 36 (1.88%) Banking
16 33 (1.73%) Manufacturing
17 20 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
17 20 (1.05%) Multimedia
18 18 (0.94%) Back Office
19 14 (0.73%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 354 (18.52%) Senior
2 316 (16.54%) Designer
3 272 (14.23%) Developer
4 228 (11.93%) UX Designer
5 214 (11.20%) Lead
6 139 (7.27%) Analyst
7 99 (5.18%) Senior Developer
8 87 (4.55%) Senior Designer
9 82 (4.29%) UI Designer
10 81 (4.24%) IT Support
11 79 (4.13%) Software Engineer
12 76 (3.98%) UI/UX Designer
13 66 (3.45%) Product Manager
14 65 (3.40%) Senior UX Designer
15 64 (3.35%) Support Engineer
16 62 (3.24%) IT Manager
17 61 (3.19%) Architect
18 52 (2.72%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
19 51 (2.67%) Business Analyst
20 49 (2.56%) Product Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 189 (9.89%) HTML
2 187 (9.79%) CSS
3 167 (8.74%) React
4 131 (6.86%) .NET
5 90 (4.71%) REST
6 73 (3.82%) RESTful
7 52 (2.72%) .NET Core
7 52 (2.72%) AngularJS
7 52 (2.72%) Node.js
8 46 (2.41%) JSON
9 40 (2.09%) Vue
10 35 (1.83%) HTML5
11 30 (1.57%) ASP.NET
12 29 (1.52%) CSS3
12 29 (1.52%) Next.js
13 27 (1.41%) Sass
13 27 (1.41%) SwiftUI
14 26 (1.36%) SPFx
14 26 (1.36%) Web Services
15 25 (1.31%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 185 (9.68%) Product Ownership
2 117 (6.12%) Mobile App
3 107 (5.60%) Onboarding
4 73 (3.82%) Social Media
5 48 (2.51%) Enterprise Software
6 44 (2.30%) Cloud Native
7 40 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
8 35 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
9 28 (1.47%) Management Information System
10 27 (1.41%) AI Agents
11 23 (1.20%) Driving Licence
11 23 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
12 21 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
13 19 (0.99%) Low-Code
14 17 (0.89%) Life Science
14 17 (0.89%) Security Posture
15 16 (0.84%) Algorithms
15 16 (0.84%) e-Learning
16 15 (0.78%) Graphic Design
17 12 (0.63%) Animation
Operating Systems
1 131 (6.86%) Windows
2 71 (3.72%) Apple iOS
3 40 (2.09%) Android
3 40 (2.09%) Windows Server
4 36 (1.88%) Windows 10
5 29 (1.52%) Mac OS
6 27 (1.41%) Linux
7 8 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.21%) Mac OS X
8 4 (0.21%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.10%) Unix
9 2 (0.10%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.052%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 530 (27.73%) UX Design
2 519 (27.16%) Agile
3 428 (22.40%) Continuous Improvement
4 404 (21.14%) Problem-Solving
5 360 (18.84%) AI
6 348 (18.21%) Analytics
7 312 (16.33%) Roadmaps
8 250 (13.08%) Mentoring
9 190 (9.94%) DevOps
10 187 (9.79%) Decision-Making
11 175 (9.16%) CI/CD
12 166 (8.69%) Software Engineering
13 165 (8.63%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 163 (8.53%) Stakeholder Management
15 159 (8.32%) User Research
16 147 (7.69%) Full-Stack Development
17 145 (7.59%) Workflow
18 144 (7.54%) ITIL
18 144 (7.54%) Product Roadmap
19 141 (7.38%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 226 (11.83%) JavaScript
2 154 (8.06%) TypeScript
3 139 (7.27%) SQL
4 136 (7.12%) C#
5 117 (6.12%) Python
6 92 (4.81%) Java
7 67 (3.51%) PowerShell
8 35 (1.83%) PHP
9 31 (1.62%) Swift
10 24 (1.26%) Kotlin
11 12 (0.63%) ABAP
12 10 (0.52%) Go
13 8 (0.42%) C++
14 7 (0.37%) Apex Code
14 7 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 7 (0.37%) Rust
14 7 (0.37%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.31%) Bash
15 6 (0.31%) VB.NET
15 6 (0.31%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 164 (8.58%) Degree
2 141 (7.38%) Security Cleared
3 83 (4.34%) SC Cleared
4 39 (2.04%) DV Cleared
5 31 (1.62%) DBS Check
6 22 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
7 21 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
9 12 (0.63%) Master's Degree
10 11 (0.58%) Postgraduate
11 10 (0.52%) CISSP
12 8 (0.42%) ICAEW
13 6 (0.31%) ISTQB
13 6 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
13 6 (0.31%) PMI Certification
13 6 (0.31%) SAP Certification
14 5 (0.26%) PMP
14 5 (0.26%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 4 (0.21%) A+ Certification
16 3 (0.16%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 301 (15.75%) Accessibility
2 120 (6.28%) QA
3 92 (4.81%) WCAG
4 68 (3.56%) GDPR
5 44 (2.30%) Data Quality
6 25 (1.31%) Cyber Essentials
7 19 (0.99%) SLA
8 14 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 9 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 8 (0.42%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.26%) HIPAA
12 5 (0.26%) NEBOSH
13 4 (0.21%) PMO
13 4 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.16%) PERC
14 3 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
15 2 (0.10%) GRC
15 2 (0.10%) GxP
16 1 (0.052%) COBIT
System Software
1 113 (5.91%) Active Directory
2 53 (2.77%) Docker
3 9 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (0.31%) BitLocker
4 6 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.052%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 72 (3.77%) Microsoft Intune
2 28 (1.47%) Kubernetes
3 21 (1.10%) Terraform
4 13 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
5 12 (0.63%) SCCM
6 7 (0.37%) Jamf Pro
7 6 (0.31%) Grafana
8 5 (0.26%) Ansible
8 5 (0.26%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.10%) Data Guard
9 2 (0.10%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 2 (0.10%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (0.10%) Packer
9 2 (0.10%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.052%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.052%) Kibana
Vendors
1 398 (20.83%) Microsoft
2 184 (9.63%) Adobe
3 93 (4.87%) Google
4 66 (3.45%) ServiceNow
5 54 (2.83%) Salesforce
6 29 (1.52%) Apple
6 29 (1.52%) SAP
7 28 (1.47%) Oracle
8 25 (1.31%) iManage
9 20 (1.05%) HubSpot
10 19 (0.99%) Braze
11 17 (0.89%) Hotjar
11 17 (0.89%) Nexthink
12 16 (0.84%) Amplitude
13 15 (0.78%) OpenAI
14 14 (0.73%) Dynatrace
15 12 (0.63%) Cisco
16 11 (0.58%) Meraki
17 10 (0.52%) BMC
17 10 (0.52%) VMware