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

3 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 76 84
Rank change year-on-year -4 +8 -2
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 968 823 1,651
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.99% 3.74% 3.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.69% 4.07% 3.71%
Number of salaries quoted 664 489 1,019
10th Percentile £31,485 £32,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,150 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.61% +15.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,171 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.28% +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 35,981 20,224 44,462
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.83% 92.03% 85.27%
Number of salaries quoted 23,788 11,792 30,878
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,000 £39,073
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £57,500 £54,237
Median % change year-on-year +3.48% +6.02% -9.61%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,300 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.60% - -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 29 April 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 29 April 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 -7 837 £59,764 +3.94% 739
UK excluding London +18 603 £53,171 +1.28% 602
Work from Home +2 366 £60,000 - 293
London -27 272 £68,000 -2.86% 222
North of England -4 218 £55,000 - 288
North West -3 120 £56,100 +1.92% 228
South East -11 95 £48,885 -2.23% 111
East of England +20 93 £85,000 +100.00% 48
Midlands -21 83 £45,000 -16.18% 94
Yorkshire -4 73 £53,750 +13.16% 46
South West -16 59 £50,000 -16.67% 42
West Midlands -36 44 £42,500 -20.84% 55
East Midlands -8 39 £56,250 +75.78% 39
Scotland -18 36 £55,500 +9.06% 15
North East -18 25 £55,000 -6.38% 16
Wales -11 18 £42,934 - 6
Northern Ireland - 3 £49,750 - 12

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
1 119 (2.05%) CMS
2 104 (1.79%) SharePoint
3 73 (1.26%) Confluence
4 36 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
5 27 (0.46%) WordPress
6 15 (0.26%) Drupal
7 10 (0.17%) Umbraco
8 8 (0.14%) nginx
9 3 (0.052%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.052%) IIS
9 3 (0.052%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.034%) CICS
10 2 (0.034%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.017%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.017%) Apache
11 1 (0.017%) Appian
11 1 (0.017%) Camunda
11 1 (0.017%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 42 (0.72%) Adobe XD
2 34 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
3 28 (0.48%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 28 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
4 20 (0.34%) Sketch
5 19 (0.33%) Photoshop
6 18 (0.31%) Adobe Illustrator
7 10 (0.17%) Chatbot
7 10 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 9 (0.15%) MS Visio
8 9 (0.15%) UserZoom
9 8 (0.14%) Adobe After Effects
9 8 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
10 7 (0.12%) InVision
11 5 (0.086%) InDesign
12 3 (0.052%) Adobe Premiere
12 3 (0.052%) AutoCAD
12 3 (0.052%) Microsoft Project
12 3 (0.052%) SPSS
12 3 (0.052%) Trello
Business Applications
1 34 (0.58%) Shopify
2 20 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (0.34%) Magento
3 9 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
4 6 (0.10%) Dynamics GP
4 6 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.086%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.069%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.052%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.034%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.034%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.034%) Sage X3
9 1 (0.017%) Elite 3E
9 1 (0.017%) Oracle General Ledger
9 1 (0.017%) Oracle Payables
9 1 (0.017%) Oracle Receivables
9 1 (0.017%) SAP Business One
9 1 (0.017%) SAP HCM
9 1 (0.017%) SAP HR
9 1 (0.017%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 4,034 (69.40%) Cloud Computing
2 293 (5.04%) Azure
3 217 (3.73%) Figma
4 194 (3.34%) Microsoft 365
5 182 (3.13%) AWS
6 124 (2.13%) Power Platform
7 117 (2.01%) SaaS
8 82 (1.41%) Google Analytics
9 78 (1.34%) Entra ID
10 72 (1.24%) GCP
11 70 (1.20%) Adobe Analytics
12 68 (1.17%) GitHub
13 55 (0.95%) Azure DevOps
14 54 (0.93%) PowerApps
15 46 (0.79%) Power Automate
16 43 (0.74%) Contentsquare
17 41 (0.71%) OneDrive
18 37 (0.64%) Azure Logic Apps
19 36 (0.62%) Serverless
20 34 (0.58%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 4,043 (69.55%) Internet
2 79 (1.36%) Broadband
3 24 (0.41%) HTTP
4 23 (0.40%) Firewall
5 22 (0.38%) VPN
6 21 (0.36%) DNS
7 17 (0.29%) DHCP
8 15 (0.26%) TCP/IP
8 15 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (0.086%) Kerberos
9 5 (0.086%) LAN
10 4 (0.069%) Intranet
10 4 (0.069%) NAS
10 4 (0.069%) Network Security
10 4 (0.069%) SAN
10 4 (0.069%) VoIP
11 3 (0.052%) Bluetooth
11 3 (0.052%) WebEx
12 2 (0.034%) WAN
12 2 (0.034%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (1.10%) Power BI
2 54 (0.93%) SQL Server
3 35 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
4 30 (0.52%) Looker
5 24 (0.41%) NoSQL
6 23 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
7 20 (0.34%) MySQL
8 18 (0.31%) Metadata
9 17 (0.29%) MongoDB
10 16 (0.28%) BigQuery
11 12 (0.21%) DB2
12 11 (0.19%) Tableau
13 9 (0.15%) Relational Database
14 7 (0.12%) Redis
15 6 (0.10%) Data Warehouse
15 6 (0.10%) SAP BW
16 5 (0.086%) Elasticsearch
16 5 (0.086%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 4 (0.069%) Oracle Reports
17 4 (0.069%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 118 (2.03%) JIRA
2 69 (1.19%) Git
3 30 (0.52%) Balsamiq
4 28 (0.48%) Axure RP
5 21 (0.36%) Selenium
6 20 (0.34%) Jenkins
7 16 (0.28%) webpack
8 15 (0.26%) Bitbucket
8 15 (0.26%) Crashlytics
8 15 (0.26%) Vite
9 14 (0.24%) Cucumber
10 13 (0.22%) XCTest
11 12 (0.21%) Cypress.io
12 10 (0.17%) Visual Studio
13 9 (0.15%) TeamCity
14 8 (0.14%) Postman
14 8 (0.14%) Storybook
15 6 (0.10%) Claude Code
15 6 (0.10%) fastlane
15 6 (0.10%) JUnit
General
1 4,553 (78.32%) Social Skills
2 4,151 (71.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4,100 (70.53%) Banking
4 287 (4.94%) Finance
5 227 (3.91%) Marketing
6 186 (3.20%) Analytical Skills
7 135 (2.32%) Public Sector
8 109 (1.88%) Legal
9 81 (1.39%) Law
9 81 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
10 76 (1.31%) Retail
11 64 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
12 61 (1.05%) Games
13 48 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
14 33 (0.57%) Manufacturing
15 31 (0.53%) Telecoms
16 30 (0.52%) Advertising
17 19 (0.33%) Back Office
18 17 (0.29%) Documentation Skills
19 13 (0.22%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 3,129 (53.83%) Lecturer
2 386 (6.64%) Senior
3 281 (4.83%) Designer
4 239 (4.11%) Developer
5 200 (3.44%) UX Designer
6 190 (3.27%) Lead
7 125 (2.15%) Analyst
8 89 (1.53%) Senior Developer
8 89 (1.53%) Software Engineer
9 85 (1.46%) Senior Designer
10 66 (1.14%) Product Manager
11 61 (1.05%) Senior UX Designer
12 59 (1.01%) UI Designer
13 56 (0.96%) Senior Manager
14 55 (0.95%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 49 (0.84%) Architect
15 49 (0.84%) IT Support
15 49 (0.84%) UI/UX Designer
16 46 (0.79%) IT Manager
16 46 (0.79%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 198 (3.41%) HTML
2 197 (3.39%) CSS
3 185 (3.18%) React
4 111 (1.91%) .NET
5 88 (1.51%) REST
6 85 (1.46%) RESTful
7 67 (1.15%) Node.js
8 66 (1.14%) AngularJS
9 54 (0.93%) Vue
10 38 (0.65%) HTML5
10 38 (0.65%) JSON
11 36 (0.62%) .NET Core
12 34 (0.58%) Web Services
13 29 (0.50%) CSS3
14 26 (0.45%) Next.js
15 25 (0.43%) Spring
15 25 (0.43%) WebSockets
16 24 (0.41%) .NET Framework
16 24 (0.41%) Laravel
16 24 (0.41%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 4,042 (69.53%) IoT
2 180 (3.10%) Product Ownership
3 118 (2.03%) Mobile App
4 104 (1.79%) Onboarding
5 61 (1.05%) Social Media
6 53 (0.91%) Cloud Native
7 46 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
8 40 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
9 39 (0.67%) AI Agents
10 37 (0.64%) Management Information System
11 35 (0.60%) Greenfield Project
12 27 (0.46%) Self-Motivation
13 23 (0.40%) Public Cloud
14 21 (0.36%) Low-Code
15 20 (0.34%) e-Learning
16 18 (0.31%) Life Science
17 17 (0.29%) Distributed Systems
18 16 (0.28%) CMDB
19 15 (0.26%) Analytical Mindset
19 15 (0.26%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 76 (1.31%) Windows
2 62 (1.07%) Apple iOS
3 54 (0.93%) Android
4 26 (0.45%) Windows 10
5 23 (0.40%) Linux
6 21 (0.36%) Windows Server
7 18 (0.31%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.12%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.069%) Mac OS X
9 4 (0.069%) Unix
10 3 (0.052%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.052%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.034%) zOS
12 1 (0.017%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.017%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,355 (74.92%) AI
2 4,120 (70.88%) Machine Learning
3 4,095 (70.45%) Cybersecurity
4 4,084 (70.26%) Web Development
5 529 (9.10%) Agile
6 506 (8.70%) UX Design
7 357 (6.14%) Continuous Improvement
8 340 (5.85%) Analytics
8 340 (5.85%) Problem-Solving
9 280 (4.82%) Roadmaps
10 245 (4.21%) Mentoring
11 187 (3.22%) Decision-Making
12 182 (3.13%) Software Engineering
13 171 (2.94%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 167 (2.87%) Full-Stack Development
15 165 (2.84%) User Research
16 164 (2.82%) DevOps
17 147 (2.53%) CI/CD
18 138 (2.37%) Product Roadmap
19 135 (2.32%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 263 (4.52%) JavaScript
2 161 (2.77%) TypeScript
3 140 (2.41%) SQL
4 120 (2.06%) Java
5 110 (1.89%) Python
6 100 (1.72%) C#
7 51 (0.88%) PowerShell
8 41 (0.71%) PHP
9 25 (0.43%) Kotlin
10 24 (0.41%) Go
11 22 (0.38%) Swift
12 13 (0.22%) Bash
12 13 (0.22%) C++
13 11 (0.19%) Bicep
14 10 (0.17%) T-SQL
15 8 (0.14%) Rust
16 5 (0.086%) ABAP
17 4 (0.069%) Apex Code
17 4 (0.069%) Scala
18 3 (0.052%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4,247 (73.06%) Degree
2 4,056 (69.77%) Master's Degree
3 4,038 (69.46%) PhD
4 4,035 (69.41%) Postgraduate
5 152 (2.61%) Security Cleared
6 108 (1.86%) SC Cleared
7 41 (0.71%) DBS Check
8 35 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
9 29 (0.50%) DV Cleared
10 18 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
11 16 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
12 10 (0.17%) PMI Certification
13 8 (0.14%) PMP
14 7 (0.12%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 7 (0.12%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 5 (0.086%) CISSP
15 5 (0.086%) SAP Certification
16 4 (0.069%) A+ Certification
16 4 (0.069%) ISTQB
16 4 (0.069%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 289 (4.97%) Accessibility
2 115 (1.98%) QA
3 98 (1.69%) WCAG
4 56 (0.96%) GDPR
5 23 (0.40%) Data Quality
6 14 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
6 14 (0.24%) SLA
7 12 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
7 12 (0.21%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 7 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 5 (0.086%) HIPAA
10 5 (0.086%) ISO/IEC 19770
10 5 (0.086%) NEBOSH
11 4 (0.069%) PMO
12 3 (0.052%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.034%) GRC
13 2 (0.034%) GxP
13 2 (0.034%) PERC
14 1 (0.017%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 84 (1.45%) Active Directory
2 67 (1.15%) Docker
3 10 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.10%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.069%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.052%) vSphere
8 2 (0.034%) RACF
Systems Management
1 61 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
2 51 (0.88%) Kubernetes
3 32 (0.55%) Terraform
4 21 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
5 10 (0.17%) Grafana
5 10 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
6 6 (0.10%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.086%) Ansible
7 5 (0.086%) SCCM
8 2 (0.034%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.034%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 2 (0.034%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 2 (0.034%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.034%) Packer
8 2 (0.034%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.017%) Kibana
9 1 (0.017%) MOM
9 1 (0.017%) Nessus
9 1 (0.017%) Nmap
9 1 (0.017%) SmoothWall
Vendors
1 301 (5.18%) Microsoft
2 194 (3.34%) Adobe
3 118 (2.03%) Google
4 72 (1.24%) ServiceNow
5 46 (0.79%) Salesforce
6 38 (0.65%) HubSpot
7 29 (0.50%) Nexthink
8 25 (0.43%) Apple
9 23 (0.40%) SAP
10 19 (0.33%) Hotjar
10 19 (0.33%) Oracle
11 18 (0.31%) BMC
12 17 (0.29%) Braze
13 14 (0.24%) Amplitude
14 13 (0.22%) Atlassian
15 12 (0.21%) iManage
16 11 (0.19%) VMware
17 10 (0.17%) New Relic
17 10 (0.17%) Splunk
17 10 (0.17%) WooCommerce