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

3 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 63 71
Rank change year-on-year -24 +8 +8
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 1,053 1,205 1,236
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.93% 4.34% 2.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.66% 4.79% 3.87%
Number of salaries quoted 723 476 550
10th Percentile £30,850 £36,250 £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% -12.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,310 £57,143 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.21% +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 39,601 25,146 31,959
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.55% 90.53% 77.05%
Number of salaries quoted 28,260 12,693 20,257
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £41,250
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 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £51,674
% change year-on-year +15.79% -8.08% -6.05%

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 2 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 2 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 -22 932 £57,500 -4.17% 1,005
UK excluding London -24 652 £51,310 -10.21% 552
Work from Home -32 392 £56,500 -9.60% 498
London -29 313 £70,000 - 551
North of England -24 229 £47,500 -13.64% 172
North West -32 130 £52,500 -12.50% 92
South East +17 124 £53,250 -7.39% 153
East of England +38 101 £71,750 +14.80% 53
Midlands -10 79 £47,500 -13.64% 71
South West -39 57 £60,000 +9.09% 54
Yorkshire +13 52 £42,500 -15.00% 43
North East 0 47 £50,810 +408.10% 38
West Midlands -45 44 £47,500 -13.64% 43
Scotland -16 36 £60,000 -22.58% 36
East Midlands +13 35 £45,000 -14.29% 28
Wales -26 23 £50,000 -25.93% 7
Northern Ireland -30 3 £39,500 - 15

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 (7.25%) SharePoint
2 120 (6.26%) CMS
3 65 (3.39%) Confluence
4 51 (2.66%) Microsoft Exchange
5 28 (1.46%) WordPress
6 9 (0.47%) Drupal
7 7 (0.37%) Umbraco
8 5 (0.26%) nginx
9 4 (0.21%) Moodle
10 3 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.16%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.10%) IIS
11 2 (0.10%) Skype for Business
11 2 (0.10%) Totara
12 1 (0.052%) Apache
12 1 (0.052%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.052%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 36 (1.88%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 34 (1.77%) Microsoft Office
3 28 (1.46%) Adobe XD
4 26 (1.36%) Photoshop
5 24 (1.25%) Adobe Illustrator
5 24 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
6 21 (1.10%) Sketch
7 17 (0.89%) UserZoom
8 15 (0.78%) Adobe After Effects
9 14 (0.73%) Chatbot
9 14 (0.73%) InDesign
10 9 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
11 6 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
12 5 (0.26%) InVision
13 4 (0.21%) Trello
14 3 (0.16%) Adobe Premiere
14 3 (0.16%) Productboard
14 3 (0.16%) SPSS
15 2 (0.10%) Camtasia
16 1 (0.052%) Blender
Business Applications
1 24 (1.25%) Shopify
2 20 (1.04%) 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 (18.58%) Azure
2 276 (14.41%) Microsoft 365
3 208 (10.86%) Figma
4 159 (8.30%) AWS
5 148 (7.72%) Power Platform
6 135 (7.05%) SaaS
7 106 (5.53%) Entra ID
8 93 (4.85%) Azure DevOps
9 71 (3.71%) Adobe Analytics
10 68 (3.55%) GitHub
10 68 (3.55%) Power Automate
11 66 (3.44%) GCP
12 64 (3.34%) Google Analytics
13 63 (3.29%) PowerApps
14 47 (2.45%) Contentsquare
14 47 (2.45%) Microsoft Copilot
14 47 (2.45%) Serverless
15 45 (2.35%) Azure Logic Apps
16 41 (2.14%) OneDrive
17 35 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 78 (4.07%) 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 (0.57%) HTTP
7 11 (0.57%) 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%) NAS
14 4 (0.21%) SMS
14 4 (0.21%) Structured Cabling
14 4 (0.21%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (4.18%) Power BI
2 49 (2.56%) SQL Server
3 27 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
5 23 (1.20%) Looker
6 19 (0.99%) Metadata
7 18 (0.94%) MySQL
8 15 (0.78%) BigQuery
8 15 (0.78%) MongoDB
9 13 (0.68%) NoSQL
10 12 (0.63%) Relational Database
11 9 (0.47%) Redis
12 8 (0.42%) Tableau
13 5 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (0.26%) Data Warehouse
13 5 (0.26%) GIS
13 5 (0.26%) SAP BW
13 5 (0.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 4 (0.21%) QGIS
14 4 (0.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 102 (5.32%) JIRA
2 76 (3.97%) Git
3 22 (1.15%) Jenkins
4 21 (1.10%) fastlane
5 20 (1.04%) Crashlytics
6 19 (0.99%) Claude Code
7 15 (0.78%) XCTest
8 12 (0.63%) Vite
9 11 (0.57%) webpack
10 10 (0.52%) Axure RP
10 10 (0.52%) Balsamiq
10 10 (0.52%) Cypress.io
11 9 (0.47%) Postman
11 9 (0.47%) Selenium
11 9 (0.47%) Xcode
12 8 (0.42%) Storybook
13 7 (0.37%) Bitbucket
14 6 (0.31%) Android Studio
14 6 (0.31%) Gradle
14 6 (0.31%) NUnit
General
1 553 (28.86%) Social Skills
2 299 (15.61%) Finance
3 238 (12.42%) Marketing
4 199 (10.39%) Analytical Skills
5 163 (8.51%) Public Sector
6 133 (6.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 113 (5.90%) Legal
8 104 (5.43%) Retail
9 92 (4.80%) Organisational Skills
10 88 (4.59%) Law
11 74 (3.86%) Games
12 55 (2.87%) Influencing Skills
13 48 (2.51%) Presentation Skills
14 40 (2.09%) Advertising
15 36 (1.88%) Banking
16 33 (1.72%) Manufacturing
17 20 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
17 20 (1.04%) Multimedia
18 18 (0.94%) Back Office
19 14 (0.73%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 357 (18.63%) Senior
2 320 (16.70%) Designer
3 273 (14.25%) Developer
4 233 (12.16%) UX Designer
5 212 (11.06%) Lead
6 140 (7.31%) Analyst
7 99 (5.17%) Senior Developer
8 89 (4.65%) Senior Designer
9 82 (4.28%) UI Designer
10 81 (4.23%) Software Engineer
11 80 (4.18%) IT Support
12 75 (3.91%) UI/UX Designer
13 67 (3.50%) Senior UX Designer
14 64 (3.34%) Product Manager
15 63 (3.29%) Support Engineer
16 62 (3.24%) Architect
16 62 (3.24%) IT Manager
17 52 (2.71%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
18 51 (2.66%) Business Analyst
19 48 (2.51%) Product Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 192 (10.02%) HTML
2 190 (9.92%) CSS
3 168 (8.77%) React
4 132 (6.89%) .NET
5 91 (4.75%) REST
6 73 (3.81%) RESTful
7 53 (2.77%) AngularJS
7 53 (2.77%) Node.js
8 52 (2.71%) .NET Core
9 47 (2.45%) JSON
10 42 (2.19%) Vue
11 35 (1.83%) HTML5
12 30 (1.57%) ASP.NET
13 29 (1.51%) CSS3
13 29 (1.51%) Next.js
14 27 (1.41%) Sass
14 27 (1.41%) SwiftUI
15 26 (1.36%) SPFx
15 26 (1.36%) Web Services
16 25 (1.30%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 188 (9.81%) Product Ownership
2 117 (6.11%) Mobile App
3 108 (5.64%) Onboarding
4 73 (3.81%) Social Media
5 46 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
6 44 (2.30%) Cloud Native
7 39 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
8 37 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
9 28 (1.46%) Management Information System
10 27 (1.41%) AI Agents
11 23 (1.20%) Driving Licence
11 23 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
12 19 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
12 19 (0.99%) Low-Code
13 17 (0.89%) Life Science
13 17 (0.89%) Security Posture
14 16 (0.84%) Algorithms
14 16 (0.84%) e-Learning
15 15 (0.78%) Graphic Design
16 12 (0.63%) Animation
Operating Systems
1 131 (6.84%) Windows
2 71 (3.71%) Apple iOS
3 40 (2.09%) Android
3 40 (2.09%) Windows Server
4 36 (1.88%) Windows 10
5 29 (1.51%) Mac OS
6 28 (1.46%) 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
1 536 (27.97%) UX Design
2 519 (27.09%) Agile
3 430 (22.44%) Continuous Improvement
4 405 (21.14%) Problem-Solving
5 362 (18.89%) AI
6 350 (18.27%) Analytics
7 312 (16.28%) Roadmaps
8 252 (13.15%) Mentoring
9 191 (9.97%) DevOps
10 188 (9.81%) Decision-Making
11 176 (9.19%) CI/CD
12 168 (8.77%) Software Engineering
12 168 (8.77%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
13 163 (8.51%) Stakeholder Management
14 160 (8.35%) User Research
15 149 (7.78%) Full-Stack Development
16 146 (7.62%) Workflow
17 144 (7.52%) ITIL
17 144 (7.52%) Product Roadmap
18 140 (7.31%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 230 (12.00%) JavaScript
2 154 (8.04%) TypeScript
3 139 (7.25%) SQL
4 136 (7.10%) C#
5 117 (6.11%) Python
6 95 (4.96%) Java
7 67 (3.50%) PowerShell
8 38 (1.98%) PHP
9 31 (1.62%) Swift
10 24 (1.25%) 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%) Bash
14 7 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 7 (0.37%) Rust
14 7 (0.37%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.31%) Bicep
15 6 (0.31%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 166 (8.66%) Degree
2 142 (7.41%) Security Cleared
3 84 (4.38%) 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 (0.57%) 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%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 304 (15.87%) Accessibility
2 120 (6.26%) QA
3 95 (4.96%) WCAG
4 68 (3.55%) GDPR
5 43 (2.24%) Data Quality
6 25 (1.30%) 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 (5.90%) Active Directory
2 55 (2.87%) 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 (3.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 29 (1.51%) 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 (20.77%) Microsoft
2 187 (9.76%) Adobe
3 96 (5.01%) Google
4 67 (3.50%) ServiceNow
5 55 (2.87%) Salesforce
6 29 (1.51%) Apple
6 29 (1.51%) SAP
7 28 (1.46%) Oracle
8 25 (1.30%) iManage
9 22 (1.15%) 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 (0.57%) BMC
16 11 (0.57%) Meraki
17 10 (0.52%) VMware