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

3 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 60 71
Rank change year-on-year -25 +11 +10
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 1,063 1,206 1,242
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.95% 4.44% 2.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.69% 4.88% 3.86%
Number of salaries quoted 721 470 547
10th Percentile £31,250 £34,900 £34,150
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £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 £69,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £55,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.31% +0.91% -

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 39,479 24,721 32,197
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.40% 90.98% 77.19%
Number of salaries quoted 27,986 12,318 20,387
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 28 June 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 28 June 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 -19 939 £56,500 -5.83% 613
UK excluding London -14 662 £52,000 -6.31% 422
Work from Home -30 402 £57,000 -8.80% 304
London -25 313 £71,061 +1.52% 298
North of England -25 233 £51,619 -6.15% 119
North West -30 135 £55,000 -8.33% 65
South East +31 126 £52,500 -8.70% 147
East of England +39 106 £72,500 +16.00% 45
Midlands -11 77 £45,497 -17.28% 54
South West -38 57 £60,000 +9.09% 40
Yorkshire +15 53 £45,000 -10.00% 28
North East -7 45 £49,310 +393.10% 27
West Midlands -45 42 £47,500 -13.64% 34
Scotland -20 36 £60,000 -22.58% 13
East Midlands +13 35 £45,000 -2.70% 20
Wales -25 24 £50,000 -25.93% 5
Northern Ireland -12 3 £39,500 - 7

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
1 136 (7.13%) SharePoint
2 120 (6.29%) CMS
3 66 (3.46%) Confluence
4 51 (2.67%) Microsoft Exchange
5 28 (1.47%) 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 (1.89%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 34 (1.78%) Microsoft Office
3 28 (1.47%) Adobe XD
4 26 (1.36%) Photoshop
5 24 (1.26%) Adobe Illustrator
5 24 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
6 21 (1.10%) Sketch
7 17 (0.89%) UserZoom
8 15 (0.79%) Adobe After Effects
9 14 (0.73%) InDesign
10 12 (0.63%) Chatbot
11 9 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
12 6 (0.31%) InVision
12 6 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
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%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 24 (1.26%) Shopify
2 20 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.73%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (0.68%) Magento
5 5 (0.26%) Dynamics GP
5 5 (0.26%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.26%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.21%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.16%) Elite 3E
7 3 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
7 3 (0.16%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.10%) Adobe Campaign
8 2 (0.10%) Carpe Diem
8 2 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.10%) Towers Watson Igloo
8 2 (0.10%) Visualfiles
9 1 (0.052%) Oracle General Ledger
9 1 (0.052%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 349 (18.30%) Azure
2 272 (14.26%) Microsoft 365
3 215 (11.27%) Figma
4 157 (8.23%) AWS
5 144 (7.55%) Power Platform
6 135 (7.08%) SaaS
7 104 (5.45%) Entra ID
8 90 (4.72%) Azure DevOps
9 71 (3.72%) Adobe Analytics
10 69 (3.62%) GitHub
11 65 (3.41%) GCP
11 65 (3.41%) Power Automate
12 64 (3.36%) Google Analytics
13 60 (3.15%) PowerApps
14 47 (2.46%) Contentsquare
15 45 (2.36%) Microsoft Copilot
15 45 (2.36%) Serverless
16 43 (2.25%) Azure Logic Apps
17 41 (2.15%) OneDrive
18 31 (1.63%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 85 (4.46%) Broadband
2 30 (1.57%) Firewall
3 26 (1.36%) VPN
4 25 (1.31%) DNS
5 21 (1.10%) DHCP
6 18 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
7 14 (0.73%) VoIP
8 11 (0.58%) HTTP
9 10 (0.52%) Kerberos
9 10 (0.52%) TCP/IP
10 9 (0.47%) Internet
11 8 (0.42%) Wireless
12 6 (0.31%) CTI
12 6 (0.31%) Network Security
12 6 (0.31%) VLAN
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 78 (4.09%) Power BI
2 48 (2.52%) SQL Server
3 27 (1.42%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (1.26%) Azure SQL Database
5 23 (1.21%) Looker
6 19 (1.00%) Metadata
7 18 (0.94%) MySQL
8 15 (0.79%) BigQuery
8 15 (0.79%) 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%) Power Query
14 4 (0.21%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 104 (5.45%) JIRA
2 75 (3.93%) Git
3 22 (1.15%) Jenkins
4 21 (1.10%) fastlane
5 20 (1.05%) Crashlytics
6 19 (1.00%) Claude Code
7 15 (0.79%) XCTest
8 12 (0.63%) Vite
9 11 (0.58%) Axure RP
9 11 (0.58%) webpack
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%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 6 (0.31%) Gradle
General
1 544 (28.53%) Social Skills
2 298 (15.63%) Finance
3 238 (12.48%) Marketing
4 200 (10.49%) Analytical Skills
5 157 (8.23%) Public Sector
6 130 (6.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 112 (5.87%) Legal
8 101 (5.30%) Retail
9 92 (4.82%) Organisational Skills
10 86 (4.51%) Law
11 74 (3.88%) Games
12 56 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
13 53 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
14 39 (2.05%) Advertising
15 36 (1.89%) Banking
16 33 (1.73%) Manufacturing
17 20 (1.05%) Multimedia
18 19 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
19 18 (0.94%) Back Office
20 13 (0.68%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 357 (18.72%) Senior
2 320 (16.78%) Designer
3 272 (14.26%) Developer
4 233 (12.22%) UX Designer
5 211 (11.06%) Lead
6 139 (7.29%) Analyst
7 98 (5.14%) Senior Developer
8 89 (4.67%) Senior Designer
9 81 (4.25%) UI Designer
10 80 (4.20%) Software Engineer
11 79 (4.14%) IT Support
12 74 (3.88%) UI/UX Designer
13 66 (3.46%) Senior UX Designer
14 64 (3.36%) Product Manager
15 63 (3.30%) Support Engineer
16 60 (3.15%) Architect
16 60 (3.15%) IT Manager
17 51 (2.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
18 50 (2.62%) Business Analyst
18 50 (2.62%) Product Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 193 (10.12%) HTML
2 191 (10.02%) CSS
3 165 (8.65%) React
4 128 (6.71%) .NET
5 90 (4.72%) REST
6 73 (3.83%) RESTful
7 54 (2.83%) AngularJS
8 51 (2.67%) .NET Core
8 51 (2.67%) Node.js
9 46 (2.41%) JSON
10 42 (2.20%) Vue
11 35 (1.84%) HTML5
12 29 (1.52%) ASP.NET
12 29 (1.52%) CSS3
12 29 (1.52%) Next.js
13 28 (1.47%) SwiftUI
14 27 (1.42%) Sass
15 26 (1.36%) SOAP
15 26 (1.36%) SPFx
15 26 (1.36%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 191 (10.02%) Product Ownership
2 125 (6.55%) Mobile App
3 109 (5.72%) Onboarding
4 73 (3.83%) Social Media
5 45 (2.36%) Enterprise Software
6 43 (2.25%) Cloud Native
7 38 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
8 37 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
9 27 (1.42%) AI Agents
9 27 (1.42%) Management Information System
10 23 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
11 22 (1.15%) Driving Licence
12 19 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
12 19 (1.00%) Low-Code
13 17 (0.89%) Life Science
13 17 (0.89%) Security Posture
14 16 (0.84%) e-Learning
15 15 (0.79%) Algorithms
15 15 (0.79%) Graphic Design
16 12 (0.63%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 130 (6.82%) Windows
2 72 (3.78%) Apple iOS
3 41 (2.15%) Android
4 39 (2.05%) Windows Server
5 36 (1.89%) Windows 10
6 29 (1.52%) Mac OS
7 28 (1.47%) Linux
8 8 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.21%) Mac OS X
9 4 (0.21%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.10%) Unix
10 2 (0.10%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.052%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 544 (28.53%) UX Design
2 516 (27.06%) Agile
3 423 (22.18%) Continuous Improvement
4 404 (21.19%) Problem-Solving
5 358 (18.77%) AI
6 347 (18.20%) Analytics
7 310 (16.26%) Roadmaps
8 255 (13.37%) Mentoring
9 187 (9.81%) Decision-Making
10 186 (9.75%) DevOps
11 172 (9.02%) CI/CD
11 172 (9.02%) Software Engineering
12 168 (8.81%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
13 167 (8.76%) User Research
14 162 (8.50%) Stakeholder Management
15 154 (8.08%) Full-Stack Development
16 146 (7.66%) Workflow
17 145 (7.60%) Customer Experience
18 144 (7.55%) ITIL
18 144 (7.55%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 226 (11.85%) JavaScript
2 154 (8.08%) TypeScript
3 138 (7.24%) SQL
4 131 (6.87%) C#
5 115 (6.03%) Python
6 94 (4.93%) Java
7 67 (3.51%) PowerShell
8 38 (1.99%) PHP
9 32 (1.68%) Swift
10 24 (1.26%) 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%) VB.NET
15 6 (0.31%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 164 (8.60%) Degree
2 137 (7.18%) Security Cleared
3 81 (4.25%) SC Cleared
4 39 (2.05%) DV Cleared
5 32 (1.68%) DBS Check
6 21 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
8 12 (0.63%) Master's Degree
9 11 (0.58%) Postgraduate
10 10 (0.52%) CISSP
11 8 (0.42%) ICAEW
12 6 (0.31%) ISTQB
12 6 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
12 6 (0.31%) PMI Certification
12 6 (0.31%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 6 (0.31%) SAP Certification
13 5 (0.26%) PMP
14 4 (0.21%) A+ Certification
15 3 (0.16%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 301 (15.78%) Accessibility
2 119 (6.24%) QA
3 96 (5.03%) WCAG
4 66 (3.46%) GDPR
5 40 (2.10%) Data Quality
6 24 (1.26%) Cyber Essentials
7 18 (0.94%) SLA
8 13 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 8 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 8 (0.42%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.26%) HIPAA
11 5 (0.26%) NEBOSH
12 4 (0.21%) PMO
12 4 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.16%) PERC
13 3 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
14 2 (0.10%) GRC
14 2 (0.10%) GxP
15 1 (0.052%) COBIT
System Software
1 112 (5.87%) Active Directory
2 54 (2.83%) 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 71 (3.72%) Microsoft Intune
2 28 (1.47%) Kubernetes
3 19 (1.00%) 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
1 391 (20.50%) Microsoft
2 194 (10.17%) Adobe
3 96 (5.03%) Google
4 69 (3.62%) ServiceNow
5 56 (2.94%) Salesforce
6 29 (1.52%) Apple
6 29 (1.52%) SAP
7 27 (1.42%) Oracle
8 24 (1.26%) iManage
9 23 (1.21%) HubSpot
10 19 (1.00%) Braze
10 19 (1.00%) Nexthink
11 18 (0.94%) Hotjar
12 16 (0.84%) Amplitude
13 15 (0.79%) OpenAI
14 14 (0.73%) Dynatrace
15 12 (0.63%) BMC
16 11 (0.58%) Meraki
17 10 (0.52%) Cisco
17 10 (0.52%) VMware