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

3 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 84 67
Rank change year-on-year -15 -17 +11
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 1,077 747 1,161
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.93% 3.00% 3.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.61% 3.49% 3.95%
Number of salaries quoted 689 476 505
10th Percentile £31,750 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -12.70%
75th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £88,148 £100,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%

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 41,206 21,430 29,416
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.96% 86.15% 77.81%
Number of salaries quoted 28,855 13,283 17,343
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £33,500
25th Percentile £41,360 £36,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.18% -8.33% -
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 £54,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -12.04% +0.93%

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 21 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 21 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 -13 943 £55,000 -4.35% 605
UK excluding London -10 622 £50,000 -4.76% 439
Work from Home -21 418 £55,000 -8.33% 301
London -9 364 £66,750 -11.00% 269
North of England +5 197 £52,786 +11.13% 120
Midlands -4 108 £42,500 -22.73% 71
South East -63 107 £50,000 -9.09% 133
North West -28 97 £42,500 -12.82% 61
South West -16 84 £60,000 +20.00% 58
West Midlands -7 67 £43,000 -24.56% 52
Yorkshire +17 55 £60,000 +20.00% 38
East of England -7 51 £45,000 -18.18% 27
North East -9 45 £50,000 +61.29% 22
East Midlands -19 41 £42,500 +3.03% 19
Northern Ireland -55 27 £46,000 - 12
Scotland +15 26 £55,000 -18.52% 17
Wales -43 22 £45,000 -33.33% 11

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 (7.61%) SharePoint
2 100 (4.78%) CMS
3 68 (3.25%) Confluence
4 50 (2.39%) Microsoft Exchange
5 34 (1.63%) WordPress
6 8 (0.38%) IIS
7 7 (0.33%) Moodle
8 5 (0.24%) Skype for Business
8 5 (0.24%) Umbraco
9 4 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.19%) Drupal
10 3 (0.14%) Apache
10 3 (0.14%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.096%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.096%) nginx
11 2 (0.096%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.096%) Totara
12 1 (0.048%) ExpressionEngine
12 1 (0.048%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.048%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 43 (2.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (1.58%) Adobe XD
2 33 (1.58%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (1.39%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 25 (1.20%) Chatbot
5 20 (0.96%) Sketch
6 19 (0.91%) UserZoom
7 18 (0.86%) Photoshop
8 16 (0.77%) Adobe Illustrator
8 16 (0.77%) InDesign
9 10 (0.48%) Adobe After Effects
10 9 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
11 8 (0.38%) MS Visio
11 8 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
12 4 (0.19%) InVision
13 3 (0.14%) Productboard
13 3 (0.14%) SPSS
13 3 (0.14%) Trello
13 3 (0.14%) Zeplin
14 2 (0.096%) Final Cut Pro
Business Applications
1 22 (1.05%) Shopify
2 17 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
4 11 (0.53%) NetSuite
4 11 (0.53%) Workday HCM
5 10 (0.48%) Magento
6 5 (0.24%) Dynamics GP
7 3 (0.14%) Carpe Diem
7 3 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.14%) Elite 3E
7 3 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.096%) Adobe Campaign
8 2 (0.096%) iTrent
8 2 (0.096%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.096%) Towers Watson Igloo
8 2 (0.096%) Visualfiles
9 1 (0.048%) Bloomberg TOMS
9 1 (0.048%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 1 (0.048%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 410 (19.62%) Azure
2 294 (14.07%) Microsoft 365
3 204 (9.76%) Figma
4 174 (8.33%) Power Platform
5 173 (8.28%) AWS
6 138 (6.60%) SaaS
7 122 (5.84%) Entra ID
8 106 (5.07%) Azure DevOps
9 91 (4.35%) Power Automate
10 84 (4.02%) PowerApps
11 72 (3.44%) Google Analytics
12 67 (3.21%) GCP
13 63 (3.01%) GitHub
14 60 (2.87%) Microsoft Copilot
15 59 (2.82%) Adobe Analytics
16 50 (2.39%) Dynamics 365
17 48 (2.30%) Azure Logic Apps
18 43 (2.06%) Contentsquare
18 43 (2.06%) OneDrive
18 43 (2.06%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 58 (2.78%) Broadband
2 37 (1.77%) Firewall
3 36 (1.72%) DNS
4 29 (1.39%) DHCP
5 21 (1.00%) VPN
6 20 (0.96%) TCP/IP
7 18 (0.86%) VoIP
8 16 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
9 15 (0.72%) Network Security
10 11 (0.53%) CTI
11 9 (0.43%) HTTP
11 9 (0.43%) Kerberos
12 8 (0.38%) Wireless
13 7 (0.33%) Internet
13 7 (0.33%) VLAN
14 6 (0.29%) Intranet
14 6 (0.29%) Unified Communications
15 5 (0.24%) SAN
15 5 (0.24%) Skype
15 5 (0.24%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (4.55%) Power BI
2 66 (3.16%) SQL Server
3 33 (1.58%) Relational Database
4 29 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
6 22 (1.05%) MySQL
7 21 (1.00%) NoSQL
8 17 (0.81%) Looker
9 15 (0.72%) Metadata
10 11 (0.53%) MongoDB
11 10 (0.48%) Tableau
12 9 (0.43%) BigQuery
12 9 (0.43%) Redis
13 7 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
14 6 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
14 6 (0.29%) GIS
14 6 (0.29%) Power Query
15 5 (0.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 5 (0.24%) Star Schema
16 4 (0.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 96 (4.59%) JIRA
2 94 (4.50%) Git
3 30 (1.44%) Claude Code
4 24 (1.15%) Jenkins
5 20 (0.96%) fastlane
6 18 (0.86%) Cypress.io
7 17 (0.81%) Crashlytics
8 13 (0.62%) Balsamiq
8 13 (0.62%) Selenium
9 12 (0.57%) Axure RP
9 12 (0.57%) XCTest
10 10 (0.48%) Postman
11 9 (0.43%) Xcode
12 8 (0.38%) Oracle Forms
12 8 (0.38%) Team Foundation Server
13 6 (0.29%) Android Studio
13 6 (0.29%) Bitbucket
13 6 (0.29%) Gradle
13 6 (0.29%) NUnit
14 5 (0.24%) Appium
General
1 719 (34.40%) Social Skills
2 369 (17.66%) Finance
3 287 (13.73%) Analytical Skills
4 268 (12.82%) Marketing
5 193 (9.23%) Public Sector
6 187 (8.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 139 (6.65%) Retail
8 131 (6.27%) Law
9 102 (4.88%) Organisational Skills
10 95 (4.55%) Legal
11 67 (3.21%) Games
11 67 (3.21%) Influencing Skills
12 55 (2.63%) Banking
13 50 (2.39%) Presentation Skills
14 33 (1.58%) Advertising
15 29 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
16 27 (1.29%) Manufacturing
17 21 (1.00%) Financial Institution
17 21 (1.00%) Multimedia
18 18 (0.86%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 387 (18.52%) Senior
2 338 (16.17%) Designer
3 300 (14.35%) Developer
4 251 (12.01%) Lead
5 241 (11.53%) UX Designer
6 185 (8.85%) Analyst
7 104 (4.98%) Senior Developer
8 97 (4.64%) Software Engineer
9 91 (4.35%) IT Support
9 91 (4.35%) UI Designer
10 86 (4.11%) Senior Designer
11 84 (4.02%) UI/UX Designer
12 72 (3.44%) Product Manager
13 64 (3.06%) Architect
13 64 (3.06%) IT Manager
14 63 (3.01%) Support Engineer
15 62 (2.97%) Business Analyst
16 59 (2.82%) Senior UX Designer
17 56 (2.68%) Full-Stack Developer
17 56 (2.68%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 206 (9.86%) CSS
1 206 (9.86%) HTML
2 159 (7.61%) .NET
3 151 (7.22%) React
4 102 (4.88%) REST
5 76 (3.64%) RESTful
6 65 (3.11%) Node.js
7 64 (3.06%) .NET Core
8 56 (2.68%) JSON
9 47 (2.25%) ASP.NET
10 40 (1.91%) Next.js
11 36 (1.72%) AngularJS
12 32 (1.53%) HTML5
13 31 (1.48%) CSS3
14 28 (1.34%) Blazor
14 28 (1.34%) jQuery
15 27 (1.29%) Spring
16 26 (1.24%) SPFx
16 26 (1.24%) Vue
17 25 (1.20%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 201 (9.62%) Product Ownership
2 109 (5.22%) Mobile App
3 101 (4.83%) Onboarding
4 71 (3.40%) Enterprise Software
5 70 (3.35%) Social Media
6 58 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
7 49 (2.34%) Cloud Native
8 46 (2.20%) Management Information System
9 29 (1.39%) Driving Licence
10 27 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
11 26 (1.24%) AI Agents
12 23 (1.10%) Algorithms
13 21 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
14 20 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
15 19 (0.91%) Graphic Design
16 18 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
16 18 (0.86%) Virtual Team
17 17 (0.81%) Blog
18 16 (0.77%) Security Posture
18 16 (0.77%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 158 (7.56%) Windows
2 74 (3.54%) Apple iOS
3 48 (2.30%) Windows Server
4 44 (2.11%) Android
5 41 (1.96%) Windows 10
6 35 (1.67%) Mac OS
7 27 (1.29%) Linux
8 8 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (0.24%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.19%) Mac OS X
10 4 (0.19%) Windows 7
11 2 (0.096%) AIX
11 2 (0.096%) Unix
12 1 (0.048%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 576 (27.56%) Agile
2 549 (26.27%) UX Design
3 535 (25.60%) Continuous Improvement
4 467 (22.34%) Problem-Solving
5 438 (20.96%) AI
6 370 (17.70%) Analytics
7 335 (16.03%) Roadmaps
8 278 (13.30%) Mentoring
9 239 (11.44%) Decision-Making
10 237 (11.34%) Stakeholder Management
11 219 (10.48%) DevOps
12 201 (9.62%) CI/CD
13 174 (8.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 172 (8.23%) Software Engineering
15 171 (8.18%) ITIL
16 169 (8.09%) Customer Experience
17 166 (7.94%) User Research
18 161 (7.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 159 (7.61%) Workflow
20 154 (7.37%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 254 (12.15%) JavaScript
2 172 (8.23%) SQL
3 165 (7.89%) C#
4 156 (7.46%) TypeScript
5 122 (5.84%) Python
6 93 (4.45%) Java
7 75 (3.59%) PowerShell
8 32 (1.53%) Swift
9 28 (1.34%) PHP
10 24 (1.15%) Kotlin
11 17 (0.81%) VB.NET
12 13 (0.62%) C++
13 11 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 10 (0.48%) C
15 9 (0.43%) ABAP
16 8 (0.38%) Go
16 8 (0.38%) VBScript
17 7 (0.33%) Bash
17 7 (0.33%) VB
18 6 (0.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 209 (10.00%) Degree
2 151 (7.22%) Security Cleared
3 91 (4.35%) SC Cleared
4 39 (1.87%) DV Cleared
5 37 (1.77%) Microsoft Certification
6 28 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
7 25 (1.20%) DBS Check
8 12 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
8 12 (0.57%) ICAEW
8 12 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
9 11 (0.53%) Postgraduate
10 9 (0.43%) CISSP
10 9 (0.43%) PMI Certification
11 8 (0.38%) Master's Degree
12 6 (0.29%) IIBA
12 6 (0.29%) ISTQB
13 5 (0.24%) A+ Certification
13 5 (0.24%) Network+ Certification
14 4 (0.19%) AWS Certification
15 3 (0.14%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 312 (14.93%) Accessibility
2 130 (6.22%) QA
3 111 (5.31%) WCAG
4 68 (3.25%) Data Quality
5 61 (2.92%) GDPR
6 33 (1.58%) SLA
7 19 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
8 17 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
9 12 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 11 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 5 (0.24%) NEBOSH
11 5 (0.24%) PMO
12 4 (0.19%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.19%) PERC
12 4 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.19%) 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 (0.096%) HIPAA
System Software
1 118 (5.65%) Active Directory
2 59 (2.82%) Docker
3 11 (0.53%) BitLocker
4 9 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.096%) Firmware
7 2 (0.096%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 86 (4.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 38 (1.82%) Kubernetes
3 16 (0.77%) Jamf Pro
4 15 (0.72%) SCCM
5 8 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (0.29%) Ansible
7 5 (0.24%) Grafana
8 2 (0.096%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.096%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 2 (0.096%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.096%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.048%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.048%) Argo
9 1 (0.048%) Forefront Identity Manager
9 1 (0.048%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 461 (22.06%) Microsoft
2 174 (8.33%) Adobe
3 110 (5.26%) Google
4 49 (2.34%) ServiceNow
5 47 (2.25%) Salesforce
6 39 (1.87%) Oracle
7 33 (1.58%) Apple
8 30 (1.44%) SAP
9 23 (1.10%) OpenAI
10 19 (0.91%) Cisco
10 19 (0.91%) iManage
11 15 (0.72%) Braze
11 15 (0.72%) Dynatrace
11 15 (0.72%) HubSpot
12 13 (0.62%) Amplitude
12 13 (0.62%) Workday
13 12 (0.57%) Hotjar
14 11 (0.53%) Avaya
14 11 (0.53%) Genesys
14 11 (0.53%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud