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 27 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

3 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 77 80
Rank change year-on-year -5 +3 -12
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 824 667 2,050
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.05% 3.61% 3.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.74% 3.86% 3.79%
Number of salaries quoted 541 429 1,425
10th Percentile £32,000 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +20.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -13.64%

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 30,085 17,292 54,072
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.95% 93.58% 85.65%
Number of salaries quoted 19,957 10,349 40,706
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +14.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -7.41%

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 27 March 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 27 March 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 -9 717 £56,500 -5.83% 728
UK excluding London -8 480 £52,500 +5.00% 522
Work from Home +1 315 £58,446 -2.59% 357
London -14 257 £62,500 -13.79% 296
North of England -13 149 £55,000 +14.58% 176
Midlands -2 92 £45,000 -3.46% 93
South East -35 77 £53,750 +7.50% 122
North West -23 75 £55,000 - 94
South West -16 70 £50,000 -9.09% 59
Yorkshire -1 60 £57,150 +34.47% 45
West Midlands +6 57 £45,000 -29.41% 62
East of England -15 52 £82,175 +152.85% 33
East Midlands -19 35 £47,500 +35.71% 31
Scotland -23 20 £62,500 +11.11% 23
Wales -3 19 £42,934 - 19
North East -26 14 £60,000 +6.19% 39
Northern Ireland - 3 £62,500 - 5

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
1 115 (2.02%) CMS
2 75 (1.32%) SharePoint
3 69 (1.21%) Confluence
4 36 (0.63%) WordPress
5 31 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
6 17 (0.30%) Drupal
7 11 (0.19%) Umbraco
8 8 (0.14%) nginx
9 5 (0.088%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.053%) Appian
10 3 (0.053%) IIS
10 3 (0.053%) Joomla!
11 2 (0.035%) Apache
11 2 (0.035%) CICS
11 2 (0.035%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.035%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.018%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.018%) Camunda
12 1 (0.018%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 52 (0.91%) Adobe XD
2 30 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 29 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
4 26 (0.46%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 24 (0.42%) Sketch
6 23 (0.40%) Photoshop
7 21 (0.37%) Adobe Illustrator
8 14 (0.25%) MS Visio
9 10 (0.18%) Chatbot
9 10 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 8 (0.14%) Adobe After Effects
10 8 (0.14%) InDesign
10 8 (0.14%) InVision
11 7 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
12 5 (0.088%) UserZoom
13 4 (0.070%) Adobe Premiere
14 3 (0.053%) AutoCAD
14 3 (0.053%) Trello
15 2 (0.035%) Adobe Captivate
15 2 (0.035%) Avid Media Composer
Business Applications
1 39 (0.68%) Shopify
2 18 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
4 16 (0.28%) Magento
5 9 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
6 6 (0.11%) Dynamics GP
6 6 (0.11%) Workday HCM
7 5 (0.088%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.070%) Payment Gateway
8 4 (0.070%) SAP BPC
9 2 (0.035%) Dynamics AX
9 2 (0.035%) Remedy ITSM
9 2 (0.035%) Sage X3
9 2 (0.035%) SAP Business One
10 1 (0.018%) Oracle General Ledger
10 1 (0.018%) Oracle SCM
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 4,044 (70.97%) Cloud Computing
2 272 (4.77%) Azure
3 215 (3.77%) Figma
4 178 (3.12%) AWS
5 161 (2.83%) Microsoft 365
6 114 (2.00%) SaaS
7 103 (1.81%) Power Platform
8 77 (1.35%) Google Analytics
9 69 (1.21%) GitHub
10 67 (1.18%) GCP
11 62 (1.09%) Azure DevOps
12 61 (1.07%) Entra ID
13 60 (1.05%) Adobe Analytics
14 44 (0.77%) Serverless
15 37 (0.65%) PowerApps
16 33 (0.58%) Dynamics 365
17 32 (0.56%) Miro
18 31 (0.54%) Contentsquare
19 29 (0.51%) Azure Logic Apps
19 29 (0.51%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4,051 (71.10%) Internet
2 60 (1.05%) Broadband
3 25 (0.44%) VPN
4 19 (0.33%) DNS
5 18 (0.32%) Firewall
5 18 (0.32%) HTTP
6 14 (0.25%) DHCP
7 12 (0.21%) TCP/IP
7 12 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
8 8 (0.14%) LAN
9 6 (0.11%) Intranet
10 5 (0.088%) WAN
11 4 (0.070%) VoIP
12 3 (0.053%) Bluetooth
12 3 (0.053%) Kerberos
12 3 (0.053%) WebEx
13 2 (0.035%) HTTPS
13 2 (0.035%) Network Security
13 2 (0.035%) VLAN
13 2 (0.035%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (0.93%) Power BI
2 51 (0.90%) SQL Server
3 34 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
4 32 (0.56%) Looker
5 25 (0.44%) MySQL
5 25 (0.44%) NoSQL
6 19 (0.33%) MongoDB
7 15 (0.26%) Relational Database
8 14 (0.25%) BigQuery
9 13 (0.23%) Metadata
9 13 (0.23%) Tableau
10 11 (0.19%) DB2
11 8 (0.14%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (0.12%) Redis
13 6 (0.11%) Oracle Reports
13 6 (0.11%) SAP BW
14 5 (0.088%) Elasticsearch
15 3 (0.053%) Power Query
16 2 (0.035%) Oracle Database
16 2 (0.035%) PostHog
Development Applications
1 133 (2.33%) JIRA
2 88 (1.54%) Git
3 34 (0.60%) Axure RP
4 32 (0.56%) Balsamiq
5 25 (0.44%) Jenkins
6 21 (0.37%) webpack
7 19 (0.33%) Selenium
8 18 (0.32%) Cypress.io
9 17 (0.30%) Vite
10 13 (0.23%) Cucumber
10 13 (0.23%) Visual Studio
11 12 (0.21%) Crashlytics
11 12 (0.21%) eCATT
11 12 (0.21%) NeoLoad
12 11 (0.19%) Bitbucket
13 10 (0.18%) Postman
13 10 (0.18%) XCTest
14 9 (0.16%) Storybook
14 9 (0.16%) TeamCity
15 8 (0.14%) GitLab
General
1 4,519 (79.31%) Social Skills
2 4,174 (73.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4,113 (72.18%) Banking
4 299 (5.25%) Finance
5 226 (3.97%) Marketing
6 173 (3.04%) Analytical Skills
7 136 (2.39%) Public Sector
8 106 (1.86%) Legal
9 99 (1.74%) Law
10 75 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
11 73 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
12 67 (1.18%) Retail
13 56 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
14 43 (0.75%) Games
15 41 (0.72%) Manufacturing
16 36 (0.63%) Telecoms
17 26 (0.46%) Advertising
18 19 (0.33%) Back Office
19 13 (0.23%) Digital Health
20 12 (0.21%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 3,139 (55.09%) Lecturer
2 339 (5.95%) Senior
3 253 (4.44%) Developer
4 224 (3.93%) Designer
5 168 (2.95%) Lead
6 154 (2.70%) UX Designer
7 146 (2.56%) Analyst
8 82 (1.44%) Senior Developer
9 72 (1.26%) Software Engineer
10 68 (1.19%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 59 (1.04%) Product Manager
12 58 (1.02%) Senior Manager
13 56 (0.98%) Senior Designer
14 53 (0.93%) Full-Stack Developer
15 50 (0.88%) UI Designer
16 47 (0.82%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 47 (0.82%) IT Support
17 44 (0.77%) Business Analyst
18 42 (0.74%) UI/UX Designer
19 39 (0.68%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 225 (3.95%) HTML
2 216 (3.79%) CSS
3 208 (3.65%) React
4 114 (2.00%) .NET
5 92 (1.61%) RESTful
6 89 (1.56%) REST
7 78 (1.37%) Node.js
8 75 (1.32%) AngularJS
9 68 (1.19%) Vue
10 44 (0.77%) HTML5
11 34 (0.60%) CSS3
12 31 (0.54%) Next.js
12 31 (0.54%) Spring
13 27 (0.47%) Spring Boot
14 26 (0.46%) .NET Framework
14 26 (0.46%) JSON
14 26 (0.46%) Web Services
15 25 (0.44%) WebSockets
16 24 (0.42%) .NET Core
16 24 (0.42%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4,053 (71.13%) IoT
2 178 (3.12%) Product Ownership
3 112 (1.97%) Mobile App
4 89 (1.56%) Onboarding
5 57 (1.00%) Cloud Native
6 53 (0.93%) Social Media
7 45 (0.79%) Management Information System
8 38 (0.67%) Legacy Systems
9 36 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
10 35 (0.61%) Enterprise Software
11 32 (0.56%) AI Agents
11 32 (0.56%) Greenfield Project
12 19 (0.33%) Low-Code
13 18 (0.32%) Driving Licence
14 17 (0.30%) Analytical Mindset
14 17 (0.30%) Life Science
15 16 (0.28%) Distributed Systems
16 15 (0.26%) CMDB
16 15 (0.26%) e-Learning
16 15 (0.26%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 62 (1.09%) Apple iOS
1 62 (1.09%) Windows
2 56 (0.98%) Android
3 22 (0.39%) Linux
4 18 (0.32%) Windows 10
5 17 (0.30%) Mac OS
6 16 (0.28%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.11%) Unix
8 4 (0.070%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.053%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.053%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.035%) zOS
11 1 (0.018%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.018%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,328 (75.96%) AI
2 4,108 (72.10%) Machine Learning
3 4,106 (72.06%) Cybersecurity
4 4,085 (71.69%) Web Development
5 549 (9.63%) Agile
6 462 (8.11%) UX Design
7 363 (6.37%) Problem-Solving
8 348 (6.11%) Continuous Improvement
9 337 (5.91%) Analytics
10 269 (4.72%) Roadmaps
11 217 (3.81%) Mentoring
12 184 (3.23%) Full-Stack Development
13 174 (3.05%) DevOps
14 168 (2.95%) Decision-Making
15 166 (2.91%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
16 163 (2.86%) User Research
17 160 (2.81%) Software Engineering
18 158 (2.77%) CI/CD
19 135 (2.37%) Front End Development
20 133 (2.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 283 (4.97%) JavaScript
2 162 (2.84%) TypeScript
3 118 (2.07%) Java
4 116 (2.04%) SQL
5 101 (1.77%) Python
6 95 (1.67%) C#
7 43 (0.75%) PHP
8 40 (0.70%) PowerShell
9 27 (0.47%) Kotlin
10 22 (0.39%) Swift
11 21 (0.37%) Go
12 15 (0.26%) Bash
13 14 (0.25%) C++
14 10 (0.18%) T-SQL
15 9 (0.16%) Bicep
16 6 (0.11%) ABAP
17 5 (0.088%) Rust
18 4 (0.070%) R
18 4 (0.070%) Ruby
19 3 (0.053%) XAML
Qualifications
1 4,282 (75.15%) Degree
2 4,071 (71.45%) Master's Degree
3 4,048 (71.04%) PhD
4 4,045 (70.99%) Postgraduate
5 153 (2.69%) Security Cleared
6 107 (1.88%) SC Cleared
7 43 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
8 34 (0.60%) DBS Check
9 26 (0.46%) DV Cleared
10 22 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
11 12 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
12 11 (0.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 10 (0.18%) PMI Certification
14 8 (0.14%) PMP
15 7 (0.12%) PRINCE2 Certification
16 6 (0.11%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 5 (0.088%) ISTQB
17 5 (0.088%) SAP Certification
18 4 (0.070%) ACCA
18 4 (0.070%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 308 (5.41%) Accessibility
2 114 (2.00%) QA
3 98 (1.72%) WCAG
4 62 (1.09%) GDPR
5 22 (0.39%) Data Quality
6 16 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
7 13 (0.23%) PCI DSS
8 10 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 19770
9 9 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
9 9 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 7 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 6 (0.11%) PERC
12 5 (0.088%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.088%) SLA
13 4 (0.070%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.035%) GRC
14 2 (0.035%) HL7
14 2 (0.035%) SOC 2
15 1 (0.018%) COBIT
15 1 (0.018%) PMO
System Software
1 78 (1.37%) Active Directory
2 69 (1.21%) Docker
3 18 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.053%) Firmware
5 3 (0.053%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.053%) vSphere
6 2 (0.035%) RACF
7 1 (0.018%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 51 (0.90%) Kubernetes
2 49 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
3 36 (0.63%) Terraform
4 21 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
5 13 (0.23%) HP ALM
6 10 (0.18%) Grafana
7 9 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
8 6 (0.11%) Ansible
8 6 (0.11%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.070%) SCCM
10 2 (0.035%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.035%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 2 (0.035%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 2 (0.035%) Oracle RMAN
10 2 (0.035%) Packer
10 2 (0.035%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.035%) SmoothWall
11 1 (0.018%) Argo
11 1 (0.018%) Kibana
11 1 (0.018%) Nessus
Vendors
1 252 (4.42%) Microsoft
2 175 (3.07%) Adobe
3 118 (2.07%) Google
4 76 (1.33%) ServiceNow
5 49 (0.86%) Salesforce
6 39 (0.68%) SAP
7 37 (0.65%) HubSpot
8 28 (0.49%) Nexthink
9 26 (0.46%) Oracle
10 25 (0.44%) Apple
11 22 (0.39%) Hotjar
12 19 (0.33%) BMC
13 17 (0.30%) Atlassian
14 14 (0.25%) HP
15 12 (0.21%) Cisco
15 12 (0.21%) Qualtrics
15 12 (0.21%) Sitecore
16 11 (0.19%) iManage
16 11 (0.19%) Splunk
17 10 (0.18%) New Relic