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 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

3 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 65 80
Rank change year-on-year +49 +15 -21
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 2,410 1,212 835
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 8.56% 4.07% 3.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.04% 4.47% 3.84%
Number of salaries quoted 534 476 690
10th Percentile £30,500 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,464 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,313 £82,188
90th Percentile £95,875 £108,418 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -13.04%

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 23,999 27,119 21,733
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.21% 91.02% 93.39%
Number of salaries quoted 14,207 11,778 16,992
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £46,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,100 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,436 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.75% +4.76% -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 20 November 2025.

Salary histogram for User Experience in the UK

User Experience
Top 18 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 20 November 2025. 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 +50 2,273 £55,000 -10.57% 1,439
UK excluding London +59 1,744 £52,500 +5.00% 747
North of England +55 730 £50,000 -10.71% 204
North West +53 632 £56,250 -2.17% 138
London +29 561 £70,000 -9.68% 796
South East +42 499 £54,500 +6.34% 279
Work from Home -23 315 £55,000 -18.52% 845
East of England +51 278 £55,000 -3.38% 42
Midlands +57 116 £40,000 +14.29% 88
Yorkshire +39 90 £42,039 -19.93% 47
East Midlands +25 74 £36,250 +3.57% 35
South West +6 61 £55,000 +15.79% 77
West Midlands +45 43 £42,039 -15.92% 53
Wales +16 31 £52,250 +90.00% 20
Scotland -29 24 £46,750 -20.43% 31
Northern Ireland 0 10 £95,000 +31.03% 14
North East -17 8 £50,000 +17.65% 20
Channel Islands +1 6 - -

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 93 (2.96%) CMS
2 58 (1.84%) SharePoint
3 57 (1.81%) Confluence
4 51 (1.62%) WordPress
5 25 (0.79%) Drupal
6 16 (0.51%) Umbraco
7 13 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
8 11 (0.35%) Headless CMS
9 4 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.13%) Apache
9 4 (0.13%) Appian
9 4 (0.13%) IIS
9 4 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.095%) Joomla!
10 3 (0.095%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.064%) CICS
11 2 (0.064%) EPiServer
11 2 (0.064%) nginx
12 1 (0.032%) concrete5
12 1 (0.032%) Moodle
Applications
1 61 (1.94%) Adobe XD
2 46 (1.46%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 46 (1.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 37 (1.18%) Sketch
4 36 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
5 33 (1.05%) Photoshop
6 25 (0.79%) Adobe Illustrator
7 23 (0.73%) MS Visio
8 20 (0.64%) InDesign
8 20 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 7 (0.22%) Chatbot
10 5 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
11 4 (0.13%) Adobe After Effects
11 4 (0.13%) Adobe Premiere
11 4 (0.13%) Elementor
11 4 (0.13%) InVision
12 3 (0.095%) Adobe Captivate
12 3 (0.095%) AutoCAD
13 2 (0.064%) Microsoft Project
13 2 (0.064%) Trello
Business Applications
1 41 (1.30%) Shopify
2 31 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
3 24 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.19%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.16%) Dynamics GP
5 5 (0.16%) Magento
5 5 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.13%) SAP BPC
7 3 (0.095%) Infor SunSystems
7 3 (0.095%) SAP Business One
7 3 (0.095%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.064%) Adobe Campaign
8 2 (0.064%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 2 (0.064%) iTrent
8 2 (0.064%) OpenCart
8 2 (0.064%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.064%) Sage X3
9 1 (0.032%) Oracle Payables
9 1 (0.032%) TRIRIGA
Cloud Services
1 1,599 (50.81%) Cloud Computing
2 301 (9.56%) Azure
3 242 (7.69%) AWS
4 185 (5.88%) Figma
5 140 (4.45%) Microsoft 365
6 101 (3.21%) Google Analytics
7 99 (3.15%) SaaS
8 77 (2.45%) Power Platform
9 72 (2.29%) GCP
10 70 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
11 62 (1.97%) GitHub
11 62 (1.97%) Serverless
12 39 (1.24%) Entra ID
13 37 (1.18%) PowerApps
14 35 (1.11%) AWS Lambda
15 32 (1.02%) Miro
16 28 (0.89%) Azure Logic Apps
16 28 (0.89%) Power Automate
17 24 (0.76%) Dynamics 365
17 24 (0.76%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 1,605 (51.00%) Internet
2 18 (0.57%) DNS
2 18 (0.57%) Firewall
3 15 (0.48%) TCP/IP
4 13 (0.41%) DHCP
5 11 (0.35%) VLAN
6 8 (0.25%) HTTP
6 8 (0.25%) Intranet
7 7 (0.22%) VPN
8 6 (0.19%) Broadband
8 6 (0.19%) LAN
9 5 (0.16%) WAN
10 4 (0.13%) Bluetooth
10 4 (0.13%) Intrusion Detection
10 4 (0.13%) Modbus
10 4 (0.13%) Network Security
10 4 (0.13%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (0.13%) Wireshark
10 4 (0.13%) ZigBee
11 3 (0.095%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (1.84%) SQL Server
2 51 (1.62%) Power BI
3 47 (1.49%) MySQL
4 40 (1.27%) NoSQL
5 39 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
6 30 (0.95%) Relational Database
7 19 (0.60%) MongoDB
8 16 (0.51%) DynamoDB
9 14 (0.44%) Looker
10 12 (0.38%) Tableau
11 11 (0.35%) Metadata
12 10 (0.32%) Amazon Aurora
13 9 (0.29%) BigQuery
13 9 (0.29%) Oracle Reports
14 7 (0.22%) DB2
14 7 (0.22%) Mixpanel
14 7 (0.22%) Redis
15 6 (0.19%) MariaDB
16 4 (0.13%) Big Data
16 4 (0.13%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 141 (4.48%) Git
2 123 (3.91%) JIRA
3 34 (1.08%) Cypress.io
4 30 (0.95%) Axure RP
5 29 (0.92%) webpack
6 25 (0.79%) Balsamiq
6 25 (0.79%) Jenkins
7 21 (0.67%) Vite
8 16 (0.51%) Bitbucket
8 16 (0.51%) Storybook
9 14 (0.44%) GitLab
9 14 (0.44%) NeoLoad
10 13 (0.41%) Selenium
11 12 (0.38%) Babel
11 12 (0.38%) eCATT
12 10 (0.32%) Postman
12 10 (0.32%) TeamCity
13 9 (0.29%) gulp
14 8 (0.25%) Visual Studio Code
14 8 (0.25%) Xcode
General
1 2,193 (69.69%) Social Skills
2 1,724 (54.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,674 (53.19%) Banking
4 317 (10.07%) Finance
5 295 (9.37%) Marketing
6 207 (6.58%) Analytical Skills
7 195 (6.20%) Law
8 108 (3.43%) Legal
9 94 (2.99%) Public Sector
10 85 (2.70%) Retail
11 50 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
12 46 (1.46%) Manufacturing
13 44 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
14 43 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
15 34 (1.08%) Telecoms
16 26 (0.83%) Advertising
17 20 (0.64%) Electronics
18 16 (0.51%) Publishing
19 15 (0.48%) Games
19 15 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1,292 (41.05%) Lecturer
2 367 (11.66%) Developer
3 284 (9.02%) Senior
4 152 (4.83%) Analyst
4 152 (4.83%) Designer
5 136 (4.32%) Lead
6 125 (3.97%) Senior Developer
7 102 (3.24%) Full-Stack Developer
8 77 (2.45%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 67 (2.13%) Software Engineer
10 66 (2.10%) IT Support
11 65 (2.07%) Product Manager
12 58 (1.84%) UX Designer
13 54 (1.72%) Business Analyst
14 44 (1.40%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
15 42 (1.33%) Senior Manager
16 41 (1.30%) Architect
16 41 (1.30%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 39 (1.24%) React Developer
18 37 (1.18%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 323 (10.26%) React
2 300 (9.53%) HTML
3 284 (9.02%) CSS
4 151 (4.80%) .NET
5 122 (3.88%) Node.js
6 112 (3.56%) RESTful
7 73 (2.32%) AngularJS
8 72 (2.29%) HTML5
9 68 (2.16%) REST
10 64 (2.03%) Next.js
11 53 (1.68%) CSS3
11 53 (1.68%) Vue
12 50 (1.59%) Jest
13 46 (1.46%) Spring
14 42 (1.33%) Spring Boot
15 38 (1.21%) .NET Framework
15 38 (1.21%) ASP.NET
15 38 (1.21%) GraphQL
16 31 (0.99%) Tailwind CSS
17 30 (0.95%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 1,610 (51.16%) IoT
2 129 (4.10%) Product Ownership
3 95 (3.02%) Onboarding
4 72 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
5 64 (2.03%) Cloud Native
6 61 (1.94%) Mobile App
7 53 (1.68%) Social Media
8 48 (1.53%) Management Information System
9 36 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
10 32 (1.02%) AI Agents
11 30 (0.95%) Driving Licence
12 26 (0.83%) e-Learning
13 23 (0.73%) Data Structures
14 22 (0.70%) Algorithms
15 21 (0.67%) Graphic Design
15 21 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
16 15 (0.48%) Animation
16 15 (0.48%) Blog
16 15 (0.48%) Legacy Systems
17 14 (0.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 71 (2.26%) Apple iOS
1 71 (2.26%) Windows
2 57 (1.81%) Android
3 40 (1.27%) Windows 10
4 24 (0.76%) Windows Server
5 16 (0.51%) Linux
6 7 (0.22%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.16%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.13%) Kali Linux
8 4 (0.13%) Unix
8 4 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.064%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.064%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,869 (59.39%) AI
2 1,697 (53.92%) Machine Learning
3 1,678 (53.32%) Web Development
4 1,667 (52.97%) Cybersecurity
5 617 (19.61%) Agile
6 451 (14.33%) UX Design
7 396 (12.58%) Problem-Solving
8 335 (10.65%) Continuous Improvement
9 302 (9.60%) Analytics
10 232 (7.37%) Roadmaps
11 220 (6.99%) DevOps
12 219 (6.96%) CI/CD
13 206 (6.55%) Full-Stack Development
14 167 (5.31%) Front End Development
15 159 (5.05%) Mentoring
16 153 (4.86%) E-Commerce
16 153 (4.86%) SEO
17 148 (4.70%) Stakeholder Management
18 143 (4.54%) Prototyping
19 140 (4.45%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 350 (11.12%) JavaScript
2 213 (6.77%) TypeScript
3 149 (4.73%) SQL
4 135 (4.29%) Python
5 133 (4.23%) C#
6 127 (4.04%) Java
7 52 (1.65%) PowerShell
8 34 (1.08%) PHP
9 17 (0.54%) Bash
9 17 (0.54%) Kotlin
9 17 (0.54%) Swift
10 14 (0.44%) Go
11 12 (0.38%) Bicep
11 12 (0.38%) C++
12 10 (0.32%) VBScript
13 8 (0.25%) Ruby
13 8 (0.25%) Rust
14 7 (0.22%) R
14 7 (0.22%) XAML
15 6 (0.19%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,846 (58.66%) Degree
2 1,628 (51.73%) Master's Degree
3 1,601 (50.87%) PhD
3 1,601 (50.87%) Postgraduate
4 132 (4.19%) Security Cleared
5 96 (3.05%) SC Cleared
6 65 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
7 27 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
8 25 (0.79%) DV Cleared
9 23 (0.73%) DBS Check
10 19 (0.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 16 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
12 15 (0.48%) AWS Certification
13 12 (0.38%) MCSA
14 7 (0.22%) A+ Certification
14 7 (0.22%) AWS Certified Developer
14 7 (0.22%) Azure Certification
14 7 (0.22%) Cisco Certification
14 7 (0.22%) SAP Certification
15 5 (0.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 313 (9.95%) Accessibility
2 121 (3.84%) QA
3 72 (2.29%) WCAG
4 47 (1.49%) GDPR
5 26 (0.83%) SLA
6 18 (0.57%) Data Quality
7 10 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 19770
8 9 (0.29%) PERC
9 8 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 8 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 6 (0.19%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 5 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.16%) GxP
12 3 (0.095%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.095%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.095%) Section 508
13 2 (0.064%) HL7
13 2 (0.064%) NIST
14 1 (0.032%) SOC 2
System Software
1 84 (2.67%) Docker
2 75 (2.38%) Active Directory
3 20 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.19%) Firmware
6 3 (0.095%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.095%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.064%) RACF
7 2 (0.064%) vSphere
7 2 (0.064%) XenDesktop
8 1 (0.032%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.032%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.032%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 85 (2.70%) Kubernetes
2 47 (1.49%) Terraform
3 46 (1.46%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (0.38%) HP ALM
5 6 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (0.16%) Grafana
6 5 (0.16%) SCCM
7 4 (0.13%) Nessus
7 4 (0.13%) Nmap
8 3 (0.095%) Ansible
8 3 (0.095%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.064%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 2 (0.064%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.064%) SmoothWall
9 2 (0.064%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 2 (0.064%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.032%) AppManager
10 1 (0.032%) Backup Exec
10 1 (0.032%) BMC PATROL
10 1 (0.032%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 235 (7.47%) Microsoft
2 153 (4.86%) Google
3 140 (4.45%) Adobe
4 57 (1.81%) SAP
5 48 (1.53%) ServiceNow
6 46 (1.46%) Salesforce
7 32 (1.02%) Oracle
8 27 (0.86%) Hotjar
9 25 (0.79%) Cisco
9 25 (0.79%) HubSpot
10 21 (0.67%) Apple
10 21 (0.67%) Qualtrics
11 15 (0.48%) Atlassian
11 15 (0.48%) Foundry
11 15 (0.48%) HP
11 15 (0.48%) Screaming Frog
12 12 (0.38%) Databricks
13 11 (0.35%) Ahrefs
14 10 (0.32%) Citrix
14 10 (0.32%) Splunk