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

3 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 63 82
Rank change year-on-year -15 +19 +1
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 1,019 1,055 1,457
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.02% 4.47% 3.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.76% 4.86% 3.72%
Number of salaries quoted 702 495 842
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £51,750
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -17.20%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,835 £52,713 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.23% +5.43% -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 36,933 21,717 39,184
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.34% 91.92% 84.76%
Number of salaries quoted 24,679 11,825 26,375
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +1.82% -8.84%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.09%

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 8 May 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 8 May 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 -8 886 £60,000 +4.35% 768
UK excluding London -12 633 £52,835 +0.23% 525
Work from Home -25 373 £60,000 +1.27% 416
London -26 294 £70,000 - 332
North of England -25 231 £55,000 - 147
North West -24 128 £56,800 +0.94% 90
East of England +28 103 £85,000 +100.00% 63
South East +16 103 £48,885 -2.23% 132
Midlands -9 78 £43,750 -18.51% 85
Yorkshire -5 74 £50,000 +17.65% 34
South West -18 57 £52,500 -7.55% 57
West Midlands -50 43 £42,500 -20.84% 61
Scotland -27 38 £55,500 +12.82% 34
East Midlands +9 35 £52,500 +64.06% 23
North East -12 29 £55,000 -6.38% 23
Wales -12 21 £42,934 - 11
Northern Ireland - 4 £39,500 - 10

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
1 117 (2.12%) CMS
2 107 (1.94%) SharePoint
3 74 (1.34%) Confluence
4 36 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
5 29 (0.53%) WordPress
6 11 (0.20%) Drupal
7 10 (0.18%) Umbraco
8 8 (0.14%) nginx
9 3 (0.054%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.054%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.036%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.036%) IIS
11 1 (0.018%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.018%) Apache
11 1 (0.018%) Camunda
11 1 (0.018%) Moodle
11 1 (0.018%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.018%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 39 (0.71%) Adobe XD
2 29 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (0.47%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 21 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
5 20 (0.36%) Sketch
6 17 (0.31%) Photoshop
7 16 (0.29%) Adobe Illustrator
8 9 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 9 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
8 9 (0.16%) UserZoom
9 8 (0.14%) Chatbot
10 7 (0.13%) Adobe After Effects
10 7 (0.13%) InVision
10 7 (0.13%) MS Visio
11 4 (0.072%) InDesign
12 3 (0.054%) Adobe Premiere
12 3 (0.054%) Microsoft Project
12 3 (0.054%) SPSS
12 3 (0.054%) Trello
13 2 (0.036%) Avid Media Composer
Business Applications
1 32 (0.58%) Shopify
2 21 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.34%) Magento
4 9 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
5 7 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
6 5 (0.091%) Dynamics AX
6 5 (0.091%) SAP ERP
7 4 (0.072%) Dynamics GP
8 3 (0.054%) Workday HCM
9 2 (0.036%) Remedy ITSM
10 1 (0.018%) Elite 3E
10 1 (0.018%) Oracle General Ledger
10 1 (0.018%) Oracle Payables
10 1 (0.018%) Oracle Receivables
10 1 (0.018%) Payment Gateway
10 1 (0.018%) SAP Business One
10 1 (0.018%) SAP EWM
10 1 (0.018%) SAP HCM
10 1 (0.018%) SAP HR
10 1 (0.018%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 3,745 (67.81%) Cloud Computing
2 297 (5.38%) Azure
3 212 (3.84%) Figma
4 202 (3.66%) Microsoft 365
5 171 (3.10%) AWS
6 128 (2.32%) Power Platform
7 122 (2.21%) SaaS
8 86 (1.56%) Entra ID
9 71 (1.29%) Google Analytics
10 70 (1.27%) Adobe Analytics
11 69 (1.25%) GCP
12 65 (1.18%) GitHub
13 60 (1.09%) Azure DevOps
14 56 (1.01%) PowerApps
15 49 (0.89%) Power Automate
16 42 (0.76%) OneDrive
17 41 (0.74%) Azure Logic Apps
17 41 (0.74%) Contentsquare
18 39 (0.71%) Serverless
19 34 (0.62%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 3,752 (67.93%) Internet
2 78 (1.41%) Broadband
3 22 (0.40%) HTTP
3 22 (0.40%) VPN
4 19 (0.34%) DNS
4 19 (0.34%) Firewall
5 16 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
6 15 (0.27%) DHCP
7 12 (0.22%) TCP/IP
8 6 (0.11%) Kerberos
9 5 (0.091%) VoIP
10 4 (0.072%) Intranet
10 4 (0.072%) NAS
10 4 (0.072%) SAN
11 3 (0.054%) LAN
11 3 (0.054%) Network Security
12 2 (0.036%) Bluetooth
12 2 (0.036%) Unified Communications
12 2 (0.036%) VLAN
13 1 (0.018%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (1.16%) Power BI
2 55 (1.00%) SQL Server
3 34 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (0.45%) Looker
5 23 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
5 23 (0.42%) NoSQL
6 19 (0.34%) MySQL
7 18 (0.33%) MongoDB
8 17 (0.31%) Metadata
9 15 (0.27%) BigQuery
10 10 (0.18%) Tableau
11 9 (0.16%) DB2
11 9 (0.16%) Relational Database
12 8 (0.14%) Redis
13 6 (0.11%) SAP BW
13 6 (0.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 5 (0.091%) Data Warehouse
14 5 (0.091%) Elasticsearch
15 4 (0.072%) GIS
15 4 (0.072%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 118 (2.14%) JIRA
2 66 (1.20%) Git
3 25 (0.45%) Axure RP
3 25 (0.45%) Balsamiq
4 20 (0.36%) Selenium
5 19 (0.34%) Jenkins
6 16 (0.29%) webpack
7 15 (0.27%) Crashlytics
7 15 (0.27%) Vite
8 14 (0.25%) Bitbucket
9 13 (0.24%) Cucumber
9 13 (0.24%) XCTest
10 10 (0.18%) Cypress.io
11 9 (0.16%) Visual Studio
12 8 (0.14%) Claude Code
12 8 (0.14%) Postman
12 8 (0.14%) Storybook
12 8 (0.14%) TeamCity
13 6 (0.11%) fastlane
13 6 (0.11%) JUnit
General
1 4,251 (76.97%) Social Skills
2 3,858 (69.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3,800 (68.80%) Banking
4 283 (5.12%) Finance
5 227 (4.11%) Marketing
6 179 (3.24%) Analytical Skills
7 135 (2.44%) Public Sector
8 101 (1.83%) Legal
9 85 (1.54%) Law
10 83 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
11 78 (1.41%) Retail
12 63 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
13 61 (1.10%) Games
14 46 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
15 32 (0.58%) Advertising
15 32 (0.58%) Manufacturing
16 26 (0.47%) Telecoms
17 21 (0.38%) Back Office
18 16 (0.29%) Documentation Skills
19 13 (0.24%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 2,865 (51.87%) Lecturer
2 373 (6.75%) Senior
3 295 (5.34%) Designer
4 243 (4.40%) Developer
5 216 (3.91%) UX Designer
6 185 (3.35%) Lead
7 122 (2.21%) Analyst
8 87 (1.58%) Senior Designer
9 86 (1.56%) Senior Developer
10 83 (1.50%) Software Engineer
11 64 (1.16%) Senior UX Designer
11 64 (1.16%) UI Designer
12 63 (1.14%) Product Manager
13 55 (1.00%) UI/UX Designer
14 54 (0.98%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 52 (0.94%) Architect
15 52 (0.94%) Senior Manager
16 48 (0.87%) Full-Stack Developer
17 47 (0.85%) IT Support
18 44 (0.80%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 197 (3.57%) HTML
2 196 (3.55%) CSS
3 181 (3.28%) React
4 113 (2.05%) .NET
5 90 (1.63%) REST
6 81 (1.47%) RESTful
7 65 (1.18%) AngularJS
8 63 (1.14%) Node.js
9 53 (0.96%) Vue
10 41 (0.74%) HTML5
11 40 (0.72%) .NET Core
11 40 (0.72%) JSON
12 33 (0.60%) Web Services
13 32 (0.58%) CSS3
14 26 (0.47%) ASP.NET
15 25 (0.45%) Next.js
15 25 (0.45%) SOAP
16 24 (0.43%) Microsoft Graph
16 24 (0.43%) SPFx
17 23 (0.42%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 3,750 (67.90%) IoT
2 182 (3.30%) Product Ownership
3 113 (2.05%) Mobile App
4 109 (1.97%) Onboarding
5 55 (1.00%) Social Media
6 51 (0.92%) Cloud Native
7 46 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
8 41 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
9 34 (0.62%) AI Agents
10 33 (0.60%) Greenfield Project
11 32 (0.58%) Management Information System
12 28 (0.51%) Self-Motivation
13 21 (0.38%) Low-Code
13 21 (0.38%) Public Cloud
14 20 (0.36%) e-Learning
15 18 (0.33%) Life Science
16 15 (0.27%) Distributed Systems
17 14 (0.25%) CMDB
17 14 (0.25%) Driving Licence
18 13 (0.24%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 84 (1.52%) Windows
2 63 (1.14%) Apple iOS
3 48 (0.87%) Android
4 29 (0.53%) Windows 10
5 22 (0.40%) Linux
5 22 (0.40%) Windows Server
6 19 (0.34%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.11%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.072%) Mac OS X
8 4 (0.072%) Unix
9 3 (0.054%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.036%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.018%) VMS
11 1 (0.018%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,066 (73.62%) AI
2 3,825 (69.26%) Machine Learning
3 3,796 (68.73%) Cybersecurity
4 3,791 (68.64%) Web Development
5 525 (9.51%) Agile
6 517 (9.36%) UX Design
7 341 (6.17%) Continuous Improvement
8 338 (6.12%) Problem-Solving
9 332 (6.01%) Analytics
10 285 (5.16%) Roadmaps
11 246 (4.45%) Mentoring
12 179 (3.24%) Decision-Making
13 178 (3.22%) Software Engineering
14 175 (3.17%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 170 (3.08%) User Research
16 169 (3.06%) Full-Stack Development
17 164 (2.97%) DevOps
18 148 (2.68%) CI/CD
19 139 (2.52%) Product Roadmap
20 135 (2.44%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 256 (4.64%) JavaScript
2 155 (2.81%) TypeScript
3 137 (2.48%) SQL
4 113 (2.05%) Python
5 110 (1.99%) Java
6 106 (1.92%) C#
7 50 (0.91%) PowerShell
8 41 (0.74%) PHP
9 23 (0.42%) Kotlin
10 22 (0.40%) Swift
11 20 (0.36%) Go
12 11 (0.20%) Bash
12 11 (0.20%) Bicep
12 11 (0.20%) C++
13 10 (0.18%) T-SQL
14 7 (0.13%) Rust
15 5 (0.091%) ABAP
16 4 (0.072%) Apex Code
16 4 (0.072%) Scala
17 3 (0.054%) VB
Qualifications
1 3,942 (71.37%) Degree
2 3,764 (68.15%) Master's Degree
3 3,748 (67.86%) PhD
4 3,745 (67.81%) Postgraduate
5 155 (2.81%) Security Cleared
6 98 (1.77%) SC Cleared
7 39 (0.71%) DBS Check
7 39 (0.71%) DV Cleared
8 30 (0.54%) Computer Science Degree
9 19 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
10 15 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (0.13%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 7 (0.13%) PMI Certification
11 7 (0.13%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 6 (0.11%) CISSP
13 5 (0.091%) ITIL Certification
13 5 (0.091%) PMP
13 5 (0.091%) SAP Certification
14 4 (0.072%) A+ Certification
14 4 (0.072%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 286 (5.18%) Accessibility
2 111 (2.01%) QA
3 95 (1.72%) WCAG
4 56 (1.01%) GDPR
5 25 (0.45%) Data Quality
6 15 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
7 14 (0.25%) SLA
8 12 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
9 11 (0.20%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 8 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 5 (0.091%) HIPAA
11 5 (0.091%) NEBOSH
12 4 (0.072%) PMO
13 3 (0.054%) GRC
13 3 (0.054%) SOC 2
14 2 (0.036%) GxP
14 2 (0.036%) PERC
15 1 (0.018%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 1 (0.018%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 91 (1.65%) Active Directory
2 64 (1.16%) Docker
3 7 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.091%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.072%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.036%) vSphere
8 1 (0.018%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 67 (1.21%) Microsoft Intune
2 47 (0.85%) Kubernetes
3 32 (0.58%) Terraform
4 22 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
5 10 (0.18%) Grafana
5 10 (0.18%) Jamf Pro
6 6 (0.11%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.11%) SCCM
7 5 (0.091%) Ansible
8 2 (0.036%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.036%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 2 (0.036%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.036%) Packer
8 2 (0.036%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.018%) Argo
9 1 (0.018%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.018%) Kibana
9 1 (0.018%) MOM
Vendors
1 308 (5.58%) Microsoft
2 191 (3.46%) Adobe
3 101 (1.83%) Google
4 71 (1.29%) ServiceNow
5 50 (0.91%) Salesforce
6 35 (0.63%) HubSpot
7 28 (0.51%) Nexthink
8 24 (0.43%) Apple
9 23 (0.42%) SAP
10 18 (0.33%) BMC
11 17 (0.31%) Braze
11 17 (0.31%) Oracle
12 16 (0.29%) Hotjar
13 14 (0.25%) Amplitude
14 12 (0.22%) Atlassian
14 12 (0.22%) OpenAI
15 11 (0.20%) iManage
15 11 (0.20%) VMware
16 10 (0.18%) New Relic
16 10 (0.18%) WooCommerce