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

3 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 79 73
Rank change year-on-year -14 -6 +6
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 1,230 702 1,150
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.87% 3.37% 3.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.53% 3.78% 3.89%
Number of salaries quoted 683 495 471
10th Percentile £32,500 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £74,985 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £99,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.86% +5.00% -4.76%

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 48,708 18,583 29,543
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.88% 89.16% 88.91%
Number of salaries quoted 31,877 11,482 12,879
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.43% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £45,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +22.22% -16.67% +2.86%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 -21 1,010 £60,000 +9.09% 2,348
UK excluding London -19 721 £51,000 -2.86% 1,075
London -5 412 £70,000 - 1,397
Work from Home -25 399 £60,000 +9.09% 1,093
North of England -29 194 £56,250 +12.50% 278
South East -49 129 £50,000 -6.54% 232
Northern Ireland +8 114 £75,000 - 57
South West -7 112 £60,000 +17.07% 118
North West -39 92 £55,000 - 148
Midlands -42 90 £34,500 -34.29% 152
Yorkshire -12 62 £63,076 +34.20% 96
West Midlands -38 59 £34,500 -44.80% 95
East of England -74 41 £42,500 -22.73% 114
North East -25 40 £52,500 +46.52% 34
East Midlands -54 31 £36,250 +0.69% 57
Scotland -7 25 £55,000 +29.41% 99
Wales -62 16 £48,961 -18.40% 30

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
1 132 (5.98%) SharePoint
2 78 (3.53%) CMS
3 52 (2.35%) Microsoft Exchange
4 50 (2.26%) Confluence
5 47 (2.13%) WordPress
6 15 (0.68%) IIS
7 10 (0.45%) Moodle
8 7 (0.32%) Apache
9 5 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
9 5 (0.23%) Skype for Business
10 4 (0.18%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.091%) Apache Spark
12 2 (0.091%) nginx
12 2 (0.091%) SharePoint Server
12 2 (0.091%) Totara
13 1 (0.045%) Ethereum
13 1 (0.045%) Hedera
13 1 (0.045%) MTS
13 1 (0.045%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 42 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 34 (1.54%) Chatbot
3 32 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
4 26 (1.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 24 (1.09%) Adobe XD
6 21 (0.95%) Photoshop
7 19 (0.86%) Adobe Illustrator
8 18 (0.81%) InDesign
9 14 (0.63%) Sketch
10 11 (0.50%) Adobe After Effects
10 11 (0.50%) UserZoom
11 9 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
11 9 (0.41%) MS Visio
12 6 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
13 5 (0.23%) Elementor
14 4 (0.18%) Trello
15 3 (0.14%) Adobe Premiere
15 3 (0.14%) Productboard
15 3 (0.14%) Zeplin
16 2 (0.091%) InVision
Business Applications
1 24 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 22 (1.00%) Shopify
3 16 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.72%) Workday HCM
4 14 (0.63%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.23%) Magento
6 4 (0.18%) 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
7 3 (0.14%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.091%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.091%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.091%) SAP GRC
8 2 (0.091%) Towers Watson Igloo
8 2 (0.091%) Visualfiles
9 1 (0.045%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 392 (17.75%) Azure
2 283 (12.81%) Microsoft 365
3 180 (8.15%) Power Platform
4 166 (7.51%) Figma
5 164 (7.42%) AWS
6 159 (7.20%) SaaS
7 135 (6.11%) Entra ID
8 96 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
9 80 (3.62%) Power Automate
10 72 (3.26%) PowerApps
11 68 (3.08%) GCP
12 63 (2.85%) Microsoft Copilot
13 59 (2.67%) GitHub
14 54 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
14 54 (2.44%) Google Analytics
15 40 (1.81%) Serverless
16 37 (1.67%) Copilot Studio
17 36 (1.63%) OneDrive
18 34 (1.54%) Azure Logic Apps
19 31 (1.40%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 46 (2.08%) DNS
2 42 (1.90%) DHCP
3 34 (1.54%) Firewall
4 23 (1.04%) VPN
5 19 (0.86%) TCP/IP
6 18 (0.81%) Broadband
7 17 (0.77%) Network Security
7 17 (0.77%) VoIP
8 11 (0.50%) CTI
8 11 (0.50%) Internet
8 11 (0.50%) Kerberos
8 11 (0.50%) LAN
8 11 (0.50%) WAN
8 11 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (0.41%) Intranet
10 8 (0.36%) Wireless
11 6 (0.27%) SMS
11 6 (0.27%) VLAN
12 5 (0.23%) Skype
12 5 (0.23%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (4.07%) Power BI
2 64 (2.90%) SQL Server
3 46 (2.08%) Relational Database
4 35 (1.58%) MySQL
5 31 (1.40%) PostgreSQL
6 26 (1.18%) NoSQL
7 17 (0.77%) Metadata
8 15 (0.68%) Looker
9 12 (0.54%) MongoDB
10 11 (0.50%) BigQuery
11 9 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
11 9 (0.41%) GIS
11 9 (0.41%) Redis
12 8 (0.36%) Tableau
13 7 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
13 7 (0.32%) Power Query
14 6 (0.27%) Elasticsearch
15 5 (0.23%) Star Schema
16 4 (0.18%) Data Warehouse
16 4 (0.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 91 (4.12%) JIRA
2 88 (3.98%) Git
3 40 (1.81%) Claude Code
4 24 (1.09%) Jenkins
5 20 (0.91%) Cypress.io
6 18 (0.81%) fastlane
7 16 (0.72%) GitLab
8 14 (0.63%) Oracle Forms
8 14 (0.63%) Team Foundation Server
9 11 (0.50%) Selenium
10 9 (0.41%) Crashlytics
10 9 (0.41%) Postman
11 8 (0.36%) Axure RP
11 8 (0.36%) Balsamiq
12 7 (0.32%) Storybook
12 7 (0.32%) Xcode
13 5 (0.23%) Android Studio
13 5 (0.23%) Appium
13 5 (0.23%) Gradle
13 5 (0.23%) JUnit
General
1 814 (36.85%) Social Skills
2 405 (18.33%) Finance
3 376 (17.02%) Analytical Skills
4 251 (11.36%) Marketing
5 219 (9.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 206 (9.33%) Public Sector
7 129 (5.84%) Law
8 126 (5.70%) Retail
9 124 (5.61%) Presentation Skills
10 106 (4.80%) Organisational Skills
11 80 (3.62%) Influencing Skills
12 77 (3.49%) Legal
13 71 (3.21%) Banking
14 35 (1.58%) Advertising
15 27 (1.22%) Publishing
16 26 (1.18%) Games
17 23 (1.04%) Manufacturing
18 22 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
18 22 (1.00%) Financial Institution
19 21 (0.95%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 432 (19.56%) Senior
2 315 (14.26%) Designer
3 299 (13.54%) Developer
4 258 (11.68%) Analyst
5 243 (11.00%) Lead
6 221 (10.00%) UX Designer
7 106 (4.80%) Senior Analyst
8 105 (4.75%) Software Engineer
9 104 (4.71%) ITSM Analyst
10 102 (4.62%) Support Analyst
11 95 (4.30%) IT Support
12 86 (3.89%) UI Designer
13 85 (3.85%) Senior Developer
14 79 (3.58%) UI/UX Designer
15 70 (3.17%) Process Analyst
16 66 (2.99%) Architect
17 64 (2.90%) IT Manager
18 63 (2.85%) Senior Designer
19 58 (2.63%) Business Analyst
20 55 (2.49%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 193 (8.74%) HTML
2 192 (8.69%) CSS
3 150 (6.79%) .NET
4 141 (6.38%) React
5 105 (4.75%) REST
6 76 (3.44%) Node.js
7 74 (3.35%) RESTful
8 53 (2.40%) Next.js
9 45 (2.04%) ASP.NET
10 44 (1.99%) .NET Core
11 41 (1.86%) JSON
12 36 (1.63%) Spring
13 34 (1.54%) AngularJS
13 34 (1.54%) Terraform
14 32 (1.45%) Spring Boot
15 31 (1.40%) jQuery
16 29 (1.31%) HTML5
16 29 (1.31%) Playwright
17 28 (1.27%) CSS3
18 24 (1.09%) LESS
Miscellaneous
1 197 (8.92%) Product Ownership
2 99 (4.48%) Mobile App
3 83 (3.76%) Onboarding
4 74 (3.35%) Enterprise Software
5 67 (3.03%) Management Information System
6 65 (2.94%) Cloud Native
7 60 (2.72%) Self-Motivation
8 58 (2.63%) Social Media
9 37 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
10 33 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
11 31 (1.40%) Driving Licence
12 28 (1.27%) AI Agents
13 23 (1.04%) Graphic Design
14 22 (1.00%) Blog
15 21 (0.95%) Algorithms
16 20 (0.91%) Low-Code
17 19 (0.86%) Taxonomies
17 19 (0.86%) Virtual Team
18 18 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
19 16 (0.72%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 188 (8.51%) Windows
2 60 (2.72%) Apple iOS
3 51 (2.31%) Windows Server
4 49 (2.22%) Android
5 46 (2.08%) Windows 10
6 43 (1.95%) macOS
7 38 (1.72%) Linux
8 10 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
9 9 (0.41%) Unix
10 6 (0.27%) Windows 7
11 3 (0.14%) AIX
11 3 (0.14%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.091%) CentOS
13 1 (0.045%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 631 (28.56%) Continuous Improvement
2 548 (24.81%) UX Design
3 542 (24.54%) Agile
4 507 (22.95%) Problem-Solving
5 479 (21.68%) AI
6 341 (15.44%) Analytics
7 328 (14.85%) Decision-Making
8 324 (14.67%) Stakeholder Management
9 313 (14.17%) Roadmaps
10 275 (12.45%) Mentoring
11 266 (12.04%) ITIL
12 265 (12.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 252 (11.41%) Service Management
14 243 (11.00%) ITSM
15 215 (9.73%) CI/CD
16 214 (9.69%) DevOps
17 189 (8.56%) Service Design
18 182 (8.24%) Software Engineering
19 181 (8.19%) Project Delivery
20 177 (8.01%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 242 (10.96%) JavaScript
2 187 (8.47%) SQL
3 167 (7.56%) TypeScript
4 161 (7.29%) C#
5 139 (6.29%) Python
6 96 (4.35%) Java
7 75 (3.40%) PowerShell
8 31 (1.40%) PHP
9 24 (1.09%) Swift
9 24 (1.09%) VB.NET
10 21 (0.95%) Kotlin
11 18 (0.81%) C++
12 13 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 10 (0.45%) Bash
13 10 (0.45%) C
13 10 (0.45%) T-SQL
14 9 (0.41%) ABAP
14 9 (0.41%) VBScript
15 7 (0.32%) Go
16 6 (0.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 307 (13.90%) Degree
2 164 (7.42%) Security Cleared
3 98 (4.44%) SC Cleared
4 47 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
5 35 (1.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 33 (1.49%) Postgraduate
7 29 (1.31%) DBS Check
7 29 (1.31%) DV Cleared
8 24 (1.09%) Master's Degree
9 21 (0.95%) ITIL Certification
10 20 (0.91%) A+ Certification
10 20 (0.91%) PhD
11 14 (0.63%) CISSP
12 13 (0.59%) PMI Certification
13 12 (0.54%) ICAEW
14 11 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
15 8 (0.36%) Azure Certification
16 7 (0.32%) ISTQB
16 7 (0.32%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 7 (0.32%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 287 (12.99%) Accessibility
2 132 (5.98%) QA
3 84 (3.80%) WCAG
4 72 (3.26%) Data Quality
5 60 (2.72%) GDPR
6 34 (1.54%) SLA
7 19 (0.86%) Actionable Recommendations
8 15 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
9 12 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 10 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 6 (0.27%) GRC
12 5 (0.23%) PMO
12 5 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.18%) NEBOSH
13 4 (0.18%) PERC
13 4 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
14 3 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 2 (0.091%) GxP
15 2 (0.091%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 2 (0.091%) PSD2
System Software
1 130 (5.89%) Active Directory
2 77 (3.49%) Docker
3 12 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
4 11 (0.50%) BitLocker
5 7 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.32%) vSphere
6 2 (0.091%) Firmware
6 2 (0.091%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.091%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (0.091%) UAG
6 2 (0.091%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.045%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.045%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 97 (4.39%) Microsoft Intune
2 49 (2.22%) Kubernetes
3 20 (0.91%) SCCM
4 17 (0.77%) Jamf Pro
5 11 (0.50%) Grafana
5 11 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (0.41%) Ansible
7 4 (0.18%) Packer
7 4 (0.18%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.091%) AirWatch
8 2 (0.091%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.045%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.045%) AppManager
9 1 (0.045%) Argo
9 1 (0.045%) Forefront Identity Manager
9 1 (0.045%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.045%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 480 (21.73%) Microsoft
2 123 (5.57%) Google
3 114 (5.16%) Adobe
4 50 (2.26%) ServiceNow
5 47 (2.13%) Oracle
6 42 (1.90%) Salesforce
6 42 (1.90%) SAP
7 31 (1.40%) Cisco
8 29 (1.31%) OpenAI
9 24 (1.09%) Apple
10 23 (1.04%) Workday
11 20 (0.91%) Meraki
12 18 (0.81%) iManage
13 15 (0.68%) VMware
14 14 (0.63%) Dynatrace
14 14 (0.63%) Okta
15 11 (0.50%) Avaya
15 11 (0.50%) Genesys
16 9 (0.41%) Optimizely
16 9 (0.41%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud