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

3 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 79 92
Rank change year-on-year -24 +13 -13
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 1,083 675 953
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.78% 3.00% 2.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.41% 3.52% 3.41%
Number of salaries quoted 658 492 451
10th Percentile £31,425 £30,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £42,161 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £78,125
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £48,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +9.38% -12.73%

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 44,995 19,184 27,968
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.86% 85.36% 86.81%
Number of salaries quoted 30,639 12,469 13,382
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £34,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £53,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -10.38% +0.95%

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 September 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 20 September 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 -29 923 £57,000 +3.64% 2,692
UK excluding London -23 604 £50,000 -4.76% 1,156
London -10 376 £65,000 -7.14% 1,751
Work from Home -32 373 £55,000 -4.35% 1,139
North of England -10 182 £55,000 +17.02% 333
South East -61 104 £44,000 -20.00% 265
South West 0 102 £60,000 +20.00% 122
Midlands -26 93 £34,500 -36.41% 167
North West -31 90 £55,000 +10.00% 214
West Midlands -17 63 £36,126 -42.20% 119
Yorkshire +9 58 £61,538 +75.82% 80
Northern Ireland -39 51 £75,000 - 64
North East -17 34 £50,000 +61.29% 41
East of England -58 31 £45,000 -18.18% 98
East Midlands -39 30 £30,000 -18.37% 48
Scotland -21 22 £55,000 +29.41% 87
Wales -60 19 £38,500 -42.96% 24

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
1 144 (6.65%) SharePoint
2 90 (4.16%) CMS
3 66 (3.05%) Confluence
4 48 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
5 36 (1.66%) WordPress
6 13 (0.60%) IIS
7 10 (0.46%) Moodle
8 5 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.23%) Skype for Business
9 4 (0.18%) Apache
9 4 (0.18%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.14%) Umbraco
11 2 (0.092%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.092%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.092%) Drupal
11 2 (0.092%) nginx
11 2 (0.092%) SharePoint Server
11 2 (0.092%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.092%) Totara
12 1 (0.046%) ExpressionEngine
Applications
1 44 (2.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 36 (1.66%) Microsoft Office
3 32 (1.48%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 30 (1.39%) Chatbot
5 29 (1.34%) Adobe XD
6 22 (1.02%) Photoshop
7 20 (0.92%) Adobe Illustrator
8 19 (0.88%) InDesign
9 16 (0.74%) Sketch
10 15 (0.69%) UserZoom
11 11 (0.51%) Adobe After Effects
12 9 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
13 8 (0.37%) MS Visio
14 5 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
15 3 (0.14%) Adobe Premiere
15 3 (0.14%) InVision
15 3 (0.14%) Productboard
15 3 (0.14%) Trello
15 3 (0.14%) Zeplin
16 2 (0.092%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 23 (1.06%) Shopify
2 19 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
3 17 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
4 14 (0.65%) Workday HCM
5 11 (0.51%) NetSuite
6 8 (0.37%) Magento
7 3 (0.14%) Adobe Campaign
7 3 (0.14%) Carpe Diem
7 3 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
7 3 (0.14%) Elite 3E
7 3 (0.14%) iTrent
7 3 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.092%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.092%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.092%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.092%) Towers Watson Igloo
8 2 (0.092%) Visualfiles
9 1 (0.046%) Bloomberg TOMS
9 1 (0.046%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 389 (17.97%) Azure
2 285 (13.16%) Microsoft 365
3 188 (8.68%) Figma
4 180 (8.31%) Power Platform
5 168 (7.76%) AWS
6 149 (6.88%) SaaS
7 120 (5.54%) Entra ID
8 96 (4.43%) Azure DevOps
9 87 (4.02%) Power Automate
10 79 (3.65%) PowerApps
11 66 (3.05%) Google Analytics
12 64 (2.96%) GCP
13 56 (2.59%) Microsoft Copilot
14 54 (2.49%) GitHub
15 51 (2.36%) Dynamics 365
16 43 (1.99%) Azure Logic Apps
17 40 (1.85%) OneDrive
18 37 (1.71%) Adobe Analytics
18 37 (1.71%) Serverless
19 33 (1.52%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 44 (2.03%) DNS
2 38 (1.76%) DHCP
3 36 (1.66%) Broadband
4 34 (1.57%) Firewall
5 22 (1.02%) VPN
6 20 (0.92%) TCP/IP
7 17 (0.79%) VoIP
8 15 (0.69%) Network Security
9 14 (0.65%) Internet
9 14 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
10 11 (0.51%) CTI
11 9 (0.42%) Kerberos
12 8 (0.37%) HTTP
12 8 (0.37%) Wireless
13 6 (0.28%) Intranet
13 6 (0.28%) VLAN
14 5 (0.23%) SAN
14 5 (0.23%) Skype
14 5 (0.23%) SMS
14 5 (0.23%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (4.34%) Power BI
2 64 (2.96%) SQL Server
3 38 (1.76%) Relational Database
4 27 (1.25%) MySQL
4 27 (1.25%) NoSQL
4 27 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
5 18 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
6 16 (0.74%) Metadata
7 15 (0.69%) Looker
8 12 (0.55%) MongoDB
9 10 (0.46%) BigQuery
9 10 (0.46%) Tableau
10 9 (0.42%) Redis
11 8 (0.37%) GIS
12 7 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
13 6 (0.28%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (0.28%) Power Query
14 5 (0.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 5 (0.23%) Star Schema
15 4 (0.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 97 (4.48%) JIRA
2 85 (3.93%) Git
3 34 (1.57%) Claude Code
4 23 (1.06%) Jenkins
5 18 (0.83%) Cypress.io
6 15 (0.69%) fastlane
7 12 (0.55%) Oracle Forms
7 12 (0.55%) Selenium
7 12 (0.55%) Team Foundation Server
8 10 (0.46%) Balsamiq
8 10 (0.46%) Crashlytics
9 8 (0.37%) Axure RP
9 8 (0.37%) GitLab
9 8 (0.37%) Postman
10 7 (0.32%) Storybook
10 7 (0.32%) Xcode
11 6 (0.28%) Bitbucket
11 6 (0.28%) Cucumber
12 5 (0.23%) Android Studio
12 5 (0.23%) Gradle
General
1 768 (35.47%) Social Skills
2 399 (18.43%) Finance
3 325 (15.01%) Analytical Skills
4 270 (12.47%) Marketing
5 199 (9.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 194 (8.96%) Public Sector
7 136 (6.28%) Retail
8 132 (6.10%) Law
9 102 (4.71%) Organisational Skills
10 85 (3.93%) Legal
11 77 (3.56%) Influencing Skills
12 74 (3.42%) Presentation Skills
13 71 (3.28%) Banking
14 44 (2.03%) Games
15 32 (1.48%) Advertising
16 26 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
16 26 (1.20%) Manufacturing
17 25 (1.15%) Multimedia
18 24 (1.11%) Publishing
19 22 (1.02%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 408 (18.85%) Senior
2 338 (15.61%) Designer
3 300 (13.86%) Developer
4 244 (11.27%) Lead
5 240 (11.09%) UX Designer
6 203 (9.38%) Analyst
7 105 (4.85%) Software Engineer
8 95 (4.39%) IT Support
9 92 (4.25%) Senior Developer
10 87 (4.02%) UI Designer
11 80 (3.70%) UI/UX Designer
12 79 (3.65%) Senior Designer
13 67 (3.09%) Support Analyst
14 64 (2.96%) Architect
14 64 (2.96%) IT Manager
15 63 (2.91%) Product Manager
16 62 (2.86%) Senior Analyst
16 62 (2.86%) Support Engineer
17 57 (2.63%) Business Analyst
18 56 (2.59%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 209 (9.65%) HTML
2 208 (9.61%) CSS
3 156 (7.21%) .NET
4 142 (6.56%) React
5 97 (4.48%) REST
6 77 (3.56%) Node.js
7 70 (3.23%) RESTful
8 53 (2.45%) .NET Core
9 52 (2.40%) JSON
10 47 (2.17%) Next.js
11 45 (2.08%) ASP.NET
12 36 (1.66%) AngularJS
13 32 (1.48%) jQuery
14 31 (1.43%) Spring
15 30 (1.39%) Terraform
16 29 (1.34%) HTML5
17 28 (1.29%) CSS3
18 27 (1.25%) Spring Boot
19 26 (1.20%) Playwright
20 25 (1.15%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 200 (9.24%) Product Ownership
2 100 (4.62%) Mobile App
3 96 (4.43%) Onboarding
4 73 (3.37%) Enterprise Software
5 68 (3.14%) Social Media
6 62 (2.86%) Cloud Native
7 59 (2.73%) Self-Motivation
8 57 (2.63%) Management Information System
9 34 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
10 32 (1.48%) Driving Licence
11 30 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
12 26 (1.20%) AI Agents
13 24 (1.11%) Algorithms
14 23 (1.06%) Graphic Design
15 21 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
16 19 (0.88%) Blog
17 18 (0.83%) e-Learning
18 17 (0.79%) Virtual Team
19 16 (0.74%) Learning Management System
19 16 (0.74%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 169 (7.81%) Windows
2 62 (2.86%) Apple iOS
3 49 (2.26%) Windows 10
4 44 (2.03%) Windows Server
5 42 (1.94%) Android
6 37 (1.71%) Linux
7 32 (1.48%) Mac OS
8 8 (0.37%) Unix
8 8 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (0.28%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.28%) Windows 7
10 4 (0.18%) Mac OS X
11 2 (0.092%) AIX
11 2 (0.092%) CentOS
12 1 (0.046%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 586 (27.07%) Continuous Improvement
2 573 (26.47%) Agile
3 566 (26.14%) UX Design
4 486 (22.45%) Problem-Solving
5 457 (21.11%) AI
6 357 (16.49%) Analytics
7 331 (15.29%) Roadmaps
8 283 (13.07%) Mentoring
9 280 (12.93%) Stakeholder Management
10 255 (11.78%) Decision-Making
11 215 (9.93%) DevOps
12 211 (9.75%) ITIL
13 199 (9.19%) CI/CD
14 197 (9.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 182 (8.41%) Service Management
16 178 (8.22%) Software Engineering
17 175 (8.08%) ITSM
18 163 (7.53%) User Research
18 163 (7.53%) Workflow
19 159 (7.34%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 252 (11.64%) JavaScript
2 185 (8.55%) SQL
3 164 (7.58%) TypeScript
4 160 (7.39%) C#
5 132 (6.10%) Python
6 100 (4.62%) Java
7 79 (3.65%) PowerShell
8 27 (1.25%) PHP
9 23 (1.06%) Swift
10 22 (1.02%) VB.NET
11 18 (0.83%) C++
11 18 (0.83%) Kotlin
12 12 (0.55%) Bash
13 11 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 10 (0.46%) C
15 9 (0.42%) ABAP
15 9 (0.42%) VBScript
16 7 (0.32%) VB
17 6 (0.28%) Go
17 6 (0.28%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 239 (11.04%) Degree
2 165 (7.62%) Security Cleared
3 97 (4.48%) SC Cleared
4 43 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
5 35 (1.62%) DV Cleared
6 32 (1.48%) DBS Check
7 29 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
8 20 (0.92%) Postgraduate
9 19 (0.88%) A+ Certification
10 15 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
11 12 (0.55%) ICAEW
12 11 (0.51%) Master's Degree
13 10 (0.46%) PMI Certification
14 9 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
14 9 (0.42%) CISSP
14 9 (0.42%) Network+ Certification
15 8 (0.37%) PhD
16 7 (0.32%) ISTQB
17 6 (0.28%) IIBA
18 5 (0.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 292 (13.49%) Accessibility
2 129 (5.96%) QA
3 96 (4.43%) WCAG
4 70 (3.23%) Data Quality
5 61 (2.82%) GDPR
6 41 (1.89%) SLA
7 20 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
8 15 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
9 12 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 10 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 5 (0.23%) NEBOSH
11 5 (0.23%) PMO
11 5 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.18%) GRC
12 4 (0.18%) PERC
12 4 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
13 3 (0.14%) GxP
13 3 (0.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 3 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 2 (0.092%) HIPAA
System Software
1 121 (5.59%) Active Directory
2 60 (2.77%) Docker
3 11 (0.51%) BitLocker
4 10 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
5 8 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.23%) vSphere
7 4 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.092%) Firmware
8 2 (0.092%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.092%) UAG
8 2 (0.092%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.046%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 82 (3.79%) Microsoft Intune
2 41 (1.89%) Kubernetes
3 20 (0.92%) SCCM
4 13 (0.60%) Jamf Pro
5 9 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.37%) Ansible
7 4 (0.18%) Grafana
8 2 (0.092%) AirWatch
8 2 (0.092%) Packer
8 2 (0.092%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.092%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.046%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.046%) AppManager
9 1 (0.046%) Argo
9 1 (0.046%) Forefront Identity Manager
9 1 (0.046%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.046%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 469 (21.66%) Microsoft
2 151 (6.97%) Adobe
3 111 (5.13%) Google
4 48 (2.22%) ServiceNow
5 46 (2.12%) Salesforce
6 41 (1.89%) Oracle
7 37 (1.71%) SAP
8 29 (1.34%) Apple
9 27 (1.25%) OpenAI
10 24 (1.11%) Cisco
11 19 (0.88%) iManage
12 18 (0.83%) Workday
13 17 (0.79%) VMware
14 13 (0.60%) Dynatrace
14 13 (0.60%) Meraki
15 12 (0.55%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
15 12 (0.55%) TikTok
16 11 (0.51%) Avaya
16 11 (0.51%) Okta
16 11 (0.51%) Pinterest