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 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

3 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 61 71
Rank change year-on-year -33 +10 +11
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 1,050 1,119 1,081
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.95% 4.09% 2.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.64% 4.66% 3.92%
Number of salaries quoted 717 466 481
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,250 £46,250 £44,263
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £56,988
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.29% -8.82%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £100,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,277
% change year-on-year -9.09% +9.39% -8.59%

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 39,756 24,027 27,559
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.70% 87.76% 76.02%
Number of salaries quoted 28,379 13,292 17,510
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £32,750
25th Percentile £42,441 £36,250 £44,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -0.41%
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 £53,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -10.38% -3.64%

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 1 August 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 1 August 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 -23 945 £55,000 -8.33% 1,108
UK excluding London -50 613 £50,000 -9.09% 625
Work from Home -46 397 £55,000 -12.00% 543
London -15 355 £70,000 -6.67% 633
North of England -47 200 £52,000 +4.00% 169
South East -36 111 £51,250 -10.87% 153
North West -52 106 £43,750 -16.67% 94
Midlands +6 99 £45,000 -18.18% 82
South West -15 83 £60,000 +17.07% 81
East of England +16 64 £47,500 -24.00% 57
West Midlands -4 62 £47,500 -14.80% 60
Yorkshire +27 48 £55,000 +10.00% 54
North East -4 46 £48,500 +136.59% 21
East Midlands +7 37 £42,500 -13.17% 22
Wales -29 26 £48,961 -27.47% 36
Scotland -31 23 £57,500 -25.81% 41
Northern Ireland -58 7 £42,750 - 18

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
1 159 (7.81%) SharePoint
2 121 (5.94%) CMS
3 66 (3.24%) Confluence
4 53 (2.60%) Microsoft Exchange
5 34 (1.67%) WordPress
6 7 (0.34%) Drupal
7 6 (0.29%) IIS
7 6 (0.29%) Moodle
8 5 (0.25%) Skype for Business
8 5 (0.25%) Umbraco
9 4 (0.20%) Apache
10 3 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.15%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.15%) nginx
11 2 (0.098%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.098%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.098%) Totara
12 1 (0.049%) ExpressionEngine
12 1 (0.049%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.049%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 33 (1.62%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 33 (1.62%) Adobe XD
1 33 (1.62%) Microsoft Excel
1 33 (1.62%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (1.13%) Sketch
3 22 (1.08%) Photoshop
4 20 (0.98%) Adobe Illustrator
5 18 (0.88%) Chatbot
5 18 (0.88%) UserZoom
6 15 (0.74%) InDesign
7 13 (0.64%) Adobe After Effects
8 9 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
9 6 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 5 (0.25%) InVision
10 5 (0.25%) MS Visio
11 4 (0.20%) Trello
12 3 (0.15%) Productboard
12 3 (0.15%) SPSS
13 2 (0.098%) Camtasia
13 2 (0.098%) Final Cut Pro
Business Applications
1 21 (1.03%) Shopify
2 20 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
4 11 (0.54%) Magento
4 11 (0.54%) NetSuite
5 8 (0.39%) Workday HCM
6 6 (0.29%) Dynamics GP
7 3 (0.15%) Carpe Diem
7 3 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.15%) Elite 3E
7 3 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
7 3 (0.15%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.098%) Adobe Campaign
8 2 (0.098%) Dynamics NAV
8 2 (0.098%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.098%) Towers Watson Igloo
8 2 (0.098%) Visualfiles
9 1 (0.049%) Oracle Payables
9 1 (0.049%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 405 (19.88%) Azure
2 306 (15.02%) Microsoft 365
3 203 (9.97%) Figma
4 168 (8.25%) Power Platform
5 166 (8.15%) AWS
6 142 (6.97%) SaaS
7 123 (6.04%) Entra ID
8 104 (5.11%) Azure DevOps
9 84 (4.12%) Power Automate
10 80 (3.93%) PowerApps
11 68 (3.34%) GitHub
11 68 (3.34%) Google Analytics
12 64 (3.14%) Adobe Analytics
13 61 (2.99%) GCP
14 59 (2.90%) Microsoft Copilot
15 50 (2.45%) Dynamics 365
16 48 (2.36%) Serverless
17 46 (2.26%) Azure Logic Apps
18 45 (2.21%) OneDrive
19 44 (2.16%) Contentsquare
Communications & Networking
1 62 (3.04%) Broadband
2 37 (1.82%) Firewall
3 30 (1.47%) DNS
4 25 (1.23%) DHCP
5 24 (1.18%) VPN
6 21 (1.03%) VoIP
7 15 (0.74%) TCP/IP
7 15 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
8 12 (0.59%) CTI
8 12 (0.59%) Kerberos
9 10 (0.49%) HTTP
10 9 (0.44%) Internet
10 9 (0.44%) Wireless
11 7 (0.34%) Intranet
11 7 (0.34%) Network Security
11 7 (0.34%) VLAN
12 6 (0.29%) Unified Communications
13 5 (0.25%) SAN
13 5 (0.25%) Skype
13 5 (0.25%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (4.37%) Power BI
2 62 (3.04%) SQL Server
3 25 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (1.23%) Relational Database
4 23 (1.13%) Azure SQL Database
5 19 (0.93%) MySQL
6 18 (0.88%) Looker
7 16 (0.79%) Metadata
7 16 (0.79%) NoSQL
8 13 (0.64%) MongoDB
9 11 (0.54%) BigQuery
10 9 (0.44%) Redis
11 8 (0.39%) Tableau
12 6 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
12 6 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (0.29%) Power Query
13 5 (0.25%) GIS
13 5 (0.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 5 (0.25%) Star Schema
14 4 (0.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 103 (5.06%) JIRA
2 95 (4.66%) Git
3 27 (1.33%) Claude Code
4 24 (1.18%) Jenkins
5 21 (1.03%) fastlane
6 20 (0.98%) Crashlytics
7 15 (0.74%) Cypress.io
7 15 (0.74%) XCTest
8 13 (0.64%) Balsamiq
9 12 (0.59%) Axure RP
10 11 (0.54%) Selenium
10 11 (0.54%) webpack
11 9 (0.44%) Vite
11 9 (0.44%) Xcode
12 8 (0.39%) Postman
13 7 (0.34%) Bitbucket
14 6 (0.29%) Android Studio
14 6 (0.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 6 (0.29%) Gradle
14 6 (0.29%) NUnit
General
1 645 (31.66%) Social Skills
2 343 (16.84%) Finance
3 261 (12.81%) Marketing
4 244 (11.98%) Analytical Skills
5 175 (8.59%) Public Sector
6 167 (8.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 127 (6.23%) Retail
8 113 (5.55%) Law
9 111 (5.45%) Legal
10 98 (4.81%) Organisational Skills
11 74 (3.63%) Games
12 64 (3.14%) Influencing Skills
13 45 (2.21%) Banking
14 39 (1.91%) Advertising
15 38 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
16 32 (1.57%) Manufacturing
17 24 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
18 20 (0.98%) Multimedia
19 18 (0.88%) Publishing
20 15 (0.74%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 358 (17.57%) Senior
2 329 (16.15%) Designer
3 298 (14.63%) Developer
4 238 (11.68%) Lead
5 236 (11.59%) UX Designer
6 152 (7.46%) Analyst
7 105 (5.15%) Senior Developer
8 92 (4.52%) UI Designer
9 90 (4.42%) IT Support
9 90 (4.42%) Software Engineer
10 88 (4.32%) Senior Designer
11 87 (4.27%) UI/UX Designer
12 71 (3.49%) Architect
13 66 (3.24%) Product Manager
14 64 (3.14%) Senior UX Designer
14 64 (3.14%) Support Engineer
15 62 (3.04%) IT Manager
16 55 (2.70%) Business Analyst
17 53 (2.60%) Full-Stack Developer
18 50 (2.45%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 206 (10.11%) HTML
2 204 (10.01%) CSS
3 158 (7.76%) React
4 153 (7.51%) .NET
5 102 (5.01%) REST
6 80 (3.93%) RESTful
7 61 (2.99%) .NET Core
8 57 (2.80%) Node.js
9 50 (2.45%) JSON
10 45 (2.21%) AngularJS
11 39 (1.91%) ASP.NET
11 39 (1.91%) HTML5
12 37 (1.82%) Next.js
13 32 (1.57%) CSS3
14 31 (1.52%) Vue
15 27 (1.33%) jQuery
16 26 (1.28%) Blazor
16 26 (1.28%) SPFx
16 26 (1.28%) SwiftUI
17 25 (1.23%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 193 (9.47%) Product Ownership
2 107 (5.25%) Mobile App
3 104 (5.11%) Onboarding
4 73 (3.58%) Social Media
5 70 (3.44%) Enterprise Software
6 54 (2.65%) Self-Motivation
7 47 (2.31%) Cloud Native
8 33 (1.62%) Management Information System
9 30 (1.47%) Driving Licence
10 28 (1.37%) AI Agents
11 24 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
11 24 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
11 24 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
12 21 (1.03%) Algorithms
13 20 (0.98%) Graphic Design
14 19 (0.93%) Low-Code
15 16 (0.79%) Security Posture
16 15 (0.74%) Animation
17 14 (0.69%) e-Learning
17 14 (0.69%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 150 (7.36%) Windows
2 73 (3.58%) Apple iOS
3 45 (2.21%) Windows Server
4 43 (2.11%) Android
5 40 (1.96%) Windows 10
6 35 (1.72%) Mac OS
7 28 (1.37%) Linux
8 8 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (0.25%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.20%) Mac OS X
10 4 (0.20%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.049%) AIX
11 1 (0.049%) CentOS
11 1 (0.049%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 573 (28.13%) Agile
2 543 (26.66%) UX Design
3 497 (24.40%) Continuous Improvement
4 447 (21.94%) Problem-Solving
5 413 (20.27%) AI
6 369 (18.11%) Analytics
7 333 (16.35%) Roadmaps
8 256 (12.57%) Mentoring
9 217 (10.65%) Decision-Making
10 214 (10.51%) Stakeholder Management
11 213 (10.46%) DevOps
12 192 (9.43%) CI/CD
13 176 (8.64%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 165 (8.10%) User Research
15 161 (7.90%) ITIL
15 161 (7.90%) Software Engineering
16 155 (7.61%) Workflow
17 150 (7.36%) Customer Experience
18 146 (7.17%) Product Roadmap
19 142 (6.97%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 250 (12.27%) JavaScript
2 158 (7.76%) C#
3 157 (7.71%) SQL
4 152 (7.46%) TypeScript
5 117 (5.74%) Python
6 89 (4.37%) Java
7 73 (3.58%) PowerShell
8 32 (1.57%) PHP
8 32 (1.57%) Swift
9 27 (1.33%) Kotlin
10 12 (0.59%) ABAP
10 12 (0.59%) VB.NET
11 11 (0.54%) C
11 11 (0.54%) C++
12 9 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 8 (0.39%) Go
13 8 (0.39%) VBScript
14 7 (0.34%) VB
15 6 (0.29%) Bash
15 6 (0.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 189 (9.28%) Degree
2 141 (6.92%) Security Cleared
3 85 (4.17%) SC Cleared
4 39 (1.91%) DV Cleared
5 31 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
6 28 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (1.28%) DBS Check
8 13 (0.64%) Master's Degree
9 12 (0.59%) CISSP
10 11 (0.54%) ICAEW
10 11 (0.54%) Postgraduate
11 10 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
11 10 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
12 7 (0.34%) ISTQB
12 7 (0.34%) PMI Certification
13 5 (0.25%) PMP
13 5 (0.25%) SAP Certification
14 4 (0.20%) CBAP
15 3 (0.15%) IIBA
15 3 (0.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 326 (16.00%) Accessibility
2 119 (5.84%) QA
3 108 (5.30%) WCAG
4 70 (3.44%) GDPR
5 62 (3.04%) Data Quality
6 25 (1.23%) SLA
7 21 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials
8 14 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
9 12 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 11 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 8 (0.39%) PCI DSS
12 5 (0.25%) NEBOSH
13 4 (0.20%) PERC
13 4 (0.20%) PMO
13 4 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
14 3 (0.15%) GxP
14 3 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 2 (0.098%) GRC
15 2 (0.098%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 120 (5.89%) Active Directory
2 57 (2.80%) Docker
3 9 (0.44%) BitLocker
3 9 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.098%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.049%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 88 (4.32%) Microsoft Intune
2 33 (1.62%) Kubernetes
3 19 (0.93%) Terraform
4 15 (0.74%) SCCM
5 13 (0.64%) Jamf Pro
6 12 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.25%) Ansible
8 4 (0.20%) Grafana
9 3 (0.15%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.098%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.098%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 2 (0.098%) Oracle RMAN
11 1 (0.049%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.049%) Forefront Identity Manager
11 1 (0.049%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.049%) Kibana
11 1 (0.049%) Packer
11 1 (0.049%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 453 (22.24%) Microsoft
2 172 (8.44%) Adobe
3 106 (5.20%) Google
4 62 (3.04%) ServiceNow
5 52 (2.55%) Salesforce
6 37 (1.82%) Apple
7 34 (1.67%) Oracle
8 33 (1.62%) SAP
9 22 (1.08%) iManage
10 18 (0.88%) Braze
10 18 (0.88%) Cisco
10 18 (0.88%) OpenAI
11 17 (0.83%) HubSpot
12 16 (0.79%) Amplitude
12 16 (0.79%) Hotjar
13 15 (0.74%) Dynatrace
14 14 (0.69%) Meraki
15 12 (0.59%) Genesys
16 11 (0.54%) Avaya
16 11 (0.54%) VMware