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 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

3 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 62 74
Rank change year-on-year -36 +12 +10
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 988 1,133 1,057
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.86% 4.09% 2.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.55% 4.63% 3.83%
Number of salaries quoted 685 464 474
10th Percentile £30,750 £33,900 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,800 £45,875 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £76,563 £70,300
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

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 38,791 24,455 27,577
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.06% 88.31% 76.04%
Number of salaries quoted 27,973 13,008 17,667
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £43,911
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.32%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £53,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -11.21% -2.73%

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 24 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 24 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 -25 888 £55,000 -8.33% 829
UK excluding London -38 587 £50,000 -9.09% 503
Work from Home -46 365 £55,000 -12.00% 393
London -24 320 £70,000 -6.67% 429
North of England -41 201 £52,000 +4.00% 151
South East -17 112 £50,000 -13.04% 137
North West -51 109 £45,000 -14.29% 66
Midlands +17 88 £45,000 -18.18% 58
South West -21 67 £60,000 +11.63% 65
East of England +27 66 £46,250 -22.92% 57
West Midlands -13 54 £50,000 -9.09% 47
Yorkshire +26 46 £52,786 +5.57% 52
North East +1 46 £51,619 +416.19% 33
East Midlands +12 34 £42,500 -26.09% 11
Wales -22 26 £49,480 -26.70% 7
Scotland -27 24 £60,500 -23.17% 29
Northern Ireland -60 3 £39,500 - 13

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
1 151 (7.74%) SharePoint
2 120 (6.15%) CMS
3 64 (3.28%) Confluence
4 52 (2.67%) Microsoft Exchange
5 30 (1.54%) WordPress
6 8 (0.41%) Drupal
7 5 (0.26%) IIS
7 5 (0.26%) Moodle
7 5 (0.26%) Umbraco
8 4 (0.21%) Skype for Business
9 3 (0.15%) Apache
9 3 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.15%) Headless CMS
9 3 (0.15%) nginx
9 3 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.10%) Totara
11 1 (0.051%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.051%) ExpressionEngine
11 1 (0.051%) NServiceBus
11 1 (0.051%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 33 (1.69%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 32 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (1.49%) Adobe XD
4 27 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
5 22 (1.13%) Photoshop
5 22 (1.13%) Sketch
6 20 (1.03%) Adobe Illustrator
7 17 (0.87%) Chatbot
7 17 (0.87%) UserZoom
8 14 (0.72%) InDesign
9 13 (0.67%) Adobe After Effects
10 10 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
11 6 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
12 5 (0.26%) InVision
13 4 (0.21%) Trello
14 3 (0.15%) Productboard
14 3 (0.15%) SPSS
15 2 (0.10%) Camtasia
15 2 (0.10%) Final Cut Pro
15 2 (0.10%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 22 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (1.03%) Shopify
3 17 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
4 12 (0.62%) Magento
5 10 (0.51%) NetSuite
6 6 (0.31%) Dynamics GP
6 6 (0.31%) Workday HCM
7 4 (0.21%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.15%) Carpe Diem
8 3 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
8 3 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.15%) Elite 3E
8 3 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
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 (0.051%) Oracle Payables
10 1 (0.051%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 385 (19.73%) Azure
2 291 (14.92%) Microsoft 365
3 196 (10.05%) Figma
4 161 (8.25%) Power Platform
5 153 (7.84%) AWS
6 138 (7.07%) SaaS
7 117 (6.00%) Entra ID
8 100 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
9 79 (4.05%) Power Automate
10 75 (3.84%) PowerApps
11 66 (3.38%) Adobe Analytics
12 64 (3.28%) GitHub
12 64 (3.28%) Google Analytics
13 58 (2.97%) GCP
14 56 (2.87%) Microsoft Copilot
15 49 (2.51%) Serverless
16 46 (2.36%) Azure Logic Apps
16 46 (2.36%) Contentsquare
17 45 (2.31%) Dynamics 365
18 44 (2.26%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 71 (3.64%) Broadband
2 33 (1.69%) Firewall
3 27 (1.38%) DNS
4 23 (1.18%) DHCP
4 23 (1.18%) VPN
5 21 (1.08%) VoIP
6 15 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
7 12 (0.62%) CTI
8 11 (0.56%) Kerberos
8 11 (0.56%) TCP/IP
9 10 (0.51%) HTTP
10 9 (0.46%) Internet
10 9 (0.46%) Wireless
11 7 (0.36%) VLAN
12 6 (0.31%) Intranet
12 6 (0.31%) Network Security
12 6 (0.31%) Unified Communications
13 5 (0.26%) SAN
14 4 (0.21%) NAS
14 4 (0.21%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (4.46%) Power BI
2 59 (3.02%) SQL Server
3 24 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
5 19 (0.97%) Looker
6 18 (0.92%) Relational Database
7 17 (0.87%) MySQL
8 16 (0.82%) Metadata
9 15 (0.77%) NoSQL
10 13 (0.67%) MongoDB
11 11 (0.56%) BigQuery
12 8 (0.41%) Redis
13 7 (0.36%) Tableau
14 6 (0.31%) Power Query
15 5 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
15 5 (0.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 4 (0.21%) Data Warehouse
16 4 (0.21%) SAP BW
16 4 (0.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 4 (0.21%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 98 (5.02%) JIRA
2 83 (4.25%) Git
3 23 (1.18%) Claude Code
3 23 (1.18%) Jenkins
4 21 (1.08%) fastlane
5 20 (1.03%) Crashlytics
6 15 (0.77%) XCTest
7 14 (0.72%) Cypress.io
8 11 (0.56%) Balsamiq
8 11 (0.56%) webpack
9 10 (0.51%) Axure RP
10 9 (0.46%) Vite
10 9 (0.46%) Xcode
11 8 (0.41%) Selenium
12 7 (0.36%) Bitbucket
13 6 (0.31%) Android Studio
13 6 (0.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (0.31%) Gradle
13 6 (0.31%) NUnit
13 6 (0.31%) Postman
General
1 600 (30.75%) Social Skills
2 313 (16.04%) Finance
3 245 (12.56%) Marketing
4 221 (11.33%) Analytical Skills
5 175 (8.97%) Public Sector
6 150 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 114 (5.84%) Retail
8 107 (5.48%) Legal
9 103 (5.28%) Law
10 93 (4.77%) Organisational Skills
11 75 (3.84%) Games
12 60 (3.08%) Influencing Skills
13 41 (2.10%) Presentation Skills
14 38 (1.95%) Advertising
15 35 (1.79%) Banking
16 31 (1.59%) Manufacturing
17 21 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
18 19 (0.97%) Multimedia
19 17 (0.87%) Publishing
20 15 (0.77%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 343 (17.58%) Senior
2 317 (16.25%) Designer
3 283 (14.51%) Developer
4 231 (11.84%) UX Designer
5 224 (11.48%) Lead
6 142 (7.28%) Analyst
7 104 (5.33%) Senior Developer
8 88 (4.51%) UI Designer
9 87 (4.46%) Software Engineer
10 86 (4.41%) IT Support
11 85 (4.36%) UI/UX Designer
12 84 (4.31%) Senior Designer
13 66 (3.38%) Architect
14 65 (3.33%) Product Manager
15 64 (3.28%) IT Manager
16 63 (3.23%) Support Engineer
17 62 (3.18%) Senior UX Designer
18 52 (2.67%) Business Analyst
19 50 (2.56%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
19 50 (2.56%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 199 (10.20%) HTML
2 198 (10.15%) CSS
3 155 (7.94%) React
4 142 (7.28%) .NET
5 92 (4.72%) REST
6 77 (3.95%) RESTful
7 56 (2.87%) .NET Core
8 55 (2.82%) Node.js
9 47 (2.41%) JSON
10 44 (2.26%) AngularJS
11 37 (1.90%) HTML5
12 36 (1.85%) ASP.NET
13 35 (1.79%) Next.js
14 32 (1.64%) Vue
15 31 (1.59%) CSS3
16 26 (1.33%) SPFx
16 26 (1.33%) SwiftUI
17 25 (1.28%) jQuery
17 25 (1.28%) Sass
18 23 (1.18%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 184 (9.43%) Product Ownership
2 108 (5.54%) Mobile App
3 99 (5.07%) Onboarding
4 73 (3.74%) Social Media
5 61 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
6 49 (2.51%) Self-Motivation
7 47 (2.41%) Cloud Native
8 31 (1.59%) Management Information System
9 28 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
10 26 (1.33%) Driving Licence
11 24 (1.23%) AI Agents
11 24 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
11 24 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
12 19 (0.97%) Low-Code
13 18 (0.92%) Graphic Design
14 17 (0.87%) Algorithms
15 15 (0.77%) Security Posture
16 14 (0.72%) Life Science
17 13 (0.67%) Animation
17 13 (0.67%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 140 (7.18%) Windows
2 71 (3.64%) Apple iOS
3 44 (2.26%) Windows Server
4 41 (2.10%) Android
5 39 (2.00%) Windows 10
6 33 (1.69%) Mac OS
7 27 (1.38%) Linux
8 8 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (0.26%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.21%) Mac OS X
11 3 (0.15%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.051%) AIX
12 1 (0.051%) CentOS
12 1 (0.051%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 546 (27.99%) Agile
2 525 (26.91%) UX Design
3 471 (24.14%) Continuous Improvement
4 429 (21.99%) Problem-Solving
5 387 (19.84%) AI
6 357 (18.30%) Analytics
7 321 (16.45%) Roadmaps
8 254 (13.02%) Mentoring
9 203 (10.40%) DevOps
10 198 (10.15%) Decision-Making
11 190 (9.74%) Stakeholder Management
12 176 (9.02%) CI/CD
13 171 (8.76%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 167 (8.56%) User Research
15 162 (8.30%) Software Engineering
16 156 (8.00%) ITIL
17 147 (7.53%) Workflow
18 145 (7.43%) Customer Experience
19 143 (7.33%) Product Roadmap
20 136 (6.97%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 235 (12.05%) JavaScript
2 149 (7.64%) C#
3 147 (7.53%) TypeScript
4 146 (7.48%) SQL
5 114 (5.84%) Python
6 86 (4.41%) Java
7 69 (3.54%) PowerShell
8 31 (1.59%) Swift
9 29 (1.49%) PHP
10 26 (1.33%) Kotlin
11 13 (0.67%) ABAP
12 12 (0.62%) C++
13 11 (0.56%) VB.NET
14 10 (0.51%) C
15 9 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 9 (0.46%) Go
16 7 (0.36%) VBScript
17 6 (0.31%) Rust
17 6 (0.31%) T-SQL
17 6 (0.31%) VB
Qualifications
1 172 (8.82%) Degree
2 136 (6.97%) Security Cleared
3 82 (4.20%) SC Cleared
4 38 (1.95%) DV Cleared
5 26 (1.33%) DBS Check
6 25 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
7 23 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (0.67%) Master's Degree
9 11 (0.56%) CISSP
9 11 (0.56%) Postgraduate
10 10 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
11 9 (0.46%) ICAEW
12 8 (0.41%) ISTQB
12 8 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
13 6 (0.31%) SAP Certification
14 5 (0.26%) PMI Certification
14 5 (0.26%) PMP
15 3 (0.15%) A+ Certification
15 3 (0.15%) PhD
15 3 (0.15%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 317 (16.25%) Accessibility
2 116 (5.95%) QA
3 104 (5.33%) WCAG
4 70 (3.59%) GDPR
5 54 (2.77%) Data Quality
6 23 (1.18%) SLA
7 21 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
8 11 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 11 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 9 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
10 8 (0.41%) PCI DSS
11 5 (0.26%) NEBOSH
12 4 (0.21%) PMO
12 4 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.21%) Software Quality Assurance
13 3 (0.15%) HIPAA
13 3 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 3 (0.15%) PERC
14 2 (0.10%) GRC
14 2 (0.10%) GxP
System Software
1 117 (6.00%) Active Directory
2 54 (2.77%) Docker
3 9 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
4 8 (0.41%) BitLocker
5 6 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.051%) Firmware
7 1 (0.051%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 84 (4.31%) Microsoft Intune
2 30 (1.54%) Kubernetes
3 16 (0.82%) Terraform
4 13 (0.67%) SCCM
5 12 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
6 11 (0.56%) Jamf Pro
7 4 (0.21%) Ansible
7 4 (0.21%) Grafana
7 4 (0.21%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.10%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.10%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 2 (0.10%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.10%) Packer
8 2 (0.10%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.051%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.051%) Forefront Identity Manager
9 1 (0.051%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.051%) Kibana
Vendors
1 426 (21.83%) Microsoft
2 174 (8.92%) Adobe
3 95 (4.87%) Google
4 61 (3.13%) ServiceNow
5 50 (2.56%) Salesforce
6 37 (1.90%) Apple
7 33 (1.69%) SAP
8 32 (1.64%) Oracle
9 23 (1.18%) iManage
10 18 (0.92%) Braze
10 18 (0.92%) OpenAI
11 17 (0.87%) Cisco
12 16 (0.82%) Amplitude
12 16 (0.82%) Hotjar
12 16 (0.82%) HubSpot
13 15 (0.77%) Dynatrace
14 14 (0.72%) Meraki
15 12 (0.62%) Genesys
16 11 (0.56%) Avaya
16 11 (0.56%) VMware