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 19 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

3 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 60 68
Rank change year-on-year -23 +8 +17
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 1,081 1,244 1,397
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.96% 4.63% 3.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.72% 5.05% 3.92%
Number of salaries quoted 735 480 601
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,975 £35,000
25th Percentile £39,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,195 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.01% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,219 £69,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -

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 39,787 24,618 35,596
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.10% 91.55% 77.58%
Number of salaries quoted 27,951 12,226 22,463
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -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 19 June 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 19 June 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 -20 957 £57,500 -4.17% 569
UK excluding London -17 687 £52,000 -5.45% 409
Work from Home -24 405 £57,500 -8.00% 292
London -27 316 £71,000 +1.43% 283
North of England -24 246 £50,000 -9.09% 115
North West -26 143 £52,500 -12.50% 71
South East +27 124 £54,000 -1.82% 135
East of England +59 115 £73,750 +28.26% 35
Midlands -22 78 £47,500 -11.53% 50
South West -35 58 £60,000 +9.09% 36
Yorkshire +1 54 £45,000 -10.00% 21
North East +4 49 £49,310 +393.10% 24
West Midlands -41 43 £47,500 -13.64% 33
Scotland -17 39 £55,000 -21.43% 28
East Midlands +12 35 £45,000 +25.00% 17
Wales -23 25 £50,000 -25.93% 5
Northern Ireland -16 3 £39,500 - 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
1 127 (6.72%) SharePoint
2 120 (6.35%) CMS
3 68 (3.60%) Confluence
4 49 (2.59%) Microsoft Exchange
5 27 (1.43%) WordPress
6 9 (0.48%) Drupal
7 8 (0.42%) Umbraco
8 7 (0.37%) nginx
9 4 (0.21%) Moodle
10 3 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.16%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.11%) IIS
11 2 (0.11%) Skype for Business
11 2 (0.11%) Totara
12 1 (0.053%) Apache
12 1 (0.053%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 38 (2.01%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 34 (1.80%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (1.53%) Adobe XD
4 27 (1.43%) Photoshop
5 25 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
6 24 (1.27%) Adobe Illustrator
7 20 (1.06%) Sketch
8 17 (0.90%) UserZoom
9 15 (0.79%) Adobe After Effects
10 13 (0.69%) InDesign
11 9 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
12 8 (0.42%) Chatbot
12 8 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
13 6 (0.32%) InVision
14 4 (0.21%) Trello
15 3 (0.16%) Adobe Premiere
15 3 (0.16%) Productboard
15 3 (0.16%) SPSS
16 2 (0.11%) Camtasia
17 1 (0.053%) Avid Media Composer
Business Applications
1 26 (1.38%) Shopify
2 20 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.74%) Magento
4 13 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.26%) Dynamics GP
5 5 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (0.26%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.21%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.21%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.16%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.11%) Towers Watson Igloo
8 2 (0.11%) Visualfiles
9 1 (0.053%) Elite 3E
9 1 (0.053%) Oracle General Ledger
9 1 (0.053%) Oracle Payables
9 1 (0.053%) Oracle Receivables
9 1 (0.053%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 337 (17.83%) Azure
2 259 (13.70%) Microsoft 365
3 220 (11.64%) Figma
4 161 (8.52%) AWS
5 137 (7.25%) Power Platform
6 136 (7.20%) SaaS
7 100 (5.29%) Entra ID
8 86 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
9 72 (3.81%) Adobe Analytics
10 68 (3.60%) GitHub
11 64 (3.39%) Google Analytics
12 63 (3.33%) GCP
13 58 (3.07%) Power Automate
14 56 (2.96%) PowerApps
15 47 (2.49%) Contentsquare
15 47 (2.49%) Serverless
16 41 (2.17%) Azure Logic Apps
17 40 (2.12%) OneDrive
18 38 (2.01%) Microsoft Copilot
19 30 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 85 (4.50%) Broadband
2 27 (1.43%) Firewall
3 26 (1.38%) VPN
4 25 (1.32%) DNS
5 21 (1.11%) DHCP
6 18 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
7 13 (0.69%) HTTP
8 10 (0.53%) TCP/IP
8 10 (0.53%) VoIP
9 9 (0.48%) Internet
9 9 (0.48%) Kerberos
10 6 (0.32%) Wireless
11 5 (0.26%) Network Security
11 5 (0.26%) SAN
11 5 (0.26%) VLAN
12 4 (0.21%) NAS
12 4 (0.21%) SMS
12 4 (0.21%) Structured Cabling
12 4 (0.21%) Unified Communications
13 3 (0.16%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (3.86%) Power BI
2 45 (2.38%) SQL Server
3 27 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
5 22 (1.16%) Looker
6 18 (0.95%) MySQL
7 17 (0.90%) Metadata
8 16 (0.85%) MongoDB
9 15 (0.79%) NoSQL
10 13 (0.69%) BigQuery
11 10 (0.53%) Relational Database
12 9 (0.48%) Tableau
13 8 (0.42%) Redis
14 5 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
14 5 (0.26%) Data Warehouse
14 5 (0.26%) GIS
14 5 (0.26%) SAP BW
14 5 (0.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 4 (0.21%) Elasticsearch
15 4 (0.21%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 102 (5.40%) JIRA
2 74 (3.92%) Git
3 21 (1.11%) Jenkins
4 20 (1.06%) Crashlytics
4 20 (1.06%) fastlane
5 18 (0.95%) Claude Code
6 15 (0.79%) XCTest
7 14 (0.74%) Vite
8 13 (0.69%) Axure RP
8 13 (0.69%) Balsamiq
9 12 (0.63%) Cypress.io
9 12 (0.63%) webpack
10 11 (0.58%) Selenium
11 10 (0.53%) Postman
12 9 (0.48%) Storybook
12 9 (0.48%) Xcode
13 8 (0.42%) Bitbucket
14 6 (0.32%) Android Studio
14 6 (0.32%) Cucumber
14 6 (0.32%) Gradle
General
1 531 (28.10%) Social Skills
2 289 (15.29%) Finance
3 239 (12.65%) Marketing
4 195 (10.32%) Analytical Skills
5 147 (7.78%) Public Sector
6 128 (6.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 108 (5.71%) Legal
8 98 (5.19%) Retail
9 92 (4.87%) Organisational Skills
10 81 (4.29%) Law
11 73 (3.86%) Games
12 54 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
13 48 (2.54%) Influencing Skills
14 39 (2.06%) Advertising
15 37 (1.96%) Banking
16 31 (1.64%) Manufacturing
17 19 (1.01%) Back Office
18 18 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
18 18 (0.95%) Multimedia
19 14 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 356 (18.84%) Senior
2 322 (17.04%) Designer
3 275 (14.55%) Developer
4 234 (12.38%) UX Designer
5 206 (10.90%) Lead
6 129 (6.83%) Analyst
7 100 (5.29%) Senior Developer
8 89 (4.71%) Senior Designer
9 81 (4.29%) Software Engineer
10 80 (4.23%) UI Designer
11 74 (3.92%) IT Support
12 72 (3.81%) UI/UX Designer
13 66 (3.49%) Senior UX Designer
14 60 (3.17%) Product Manager
15 58 (3.07%) Architect
15 58 (3.07%) IT Manager
15 58 (3.07%) Support Engineer
16 55 (2.91%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
17 50 (2.65%) Product Designer
18 47 (2.49%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 198 (10.48%) HTML
2 196 (10.37%) CSS
3 176 (9.31%) React
4 123 (6.51%) .NET
5 89 (4.71%) REST
6 72 (3.81%) RESTful
7 58 (3.07%) AngularJS
8 54 (2.86%) Node.js
9 49 (2.59%) .NET Core
10 47 (2.49%) Vue
11 45 (2.38%) JSON
12 36 (1.90%) HTML5
13 30 (1.59%) CSS3
14 29 (1.53%) Next.js
15 28 (1.48%) SwiftUI
15 28 (1.48%) Web Services
16 27 (1.43%) ASP.NET
16 27 (1.43%) Sass
17 26 (1.38%) SOAP
17 26 (1.38%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 193 (10.21%) Product Ownership
2 125 (6.61%) Mobile App
3 108 (5.71%) Onboarding
4 71 (3.76%) Social Media
5 44 (2.33%) Cloud Native
5 44 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
6 40 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
7 37 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
8 26 (1.38%) AI Agents
8 26 (1.38%) Management Information System
9 24 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
10 22 (1.16%) Driving Licence
11 18 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
11 18 (0.95%) e-Learning
11 18 (0.95%) Low-Code
12 17 (0.90%) Life Science
13 16 (0.85%) Graphic Design
13 16 (0.85%) Security Posture
14 14 (0.74%) Algorithms
14 14 (0.74%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 127 (6.72%) Windows
2 71 (3.76%) Apple iOS
3 40 (2.12%) Android
4 37 (1.96%) Windows Server
5 35 (1.85%) Windows 10
6 29 (1.53%) Linux
6 29 (1.53%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.21%) Mac OS X
8 4 (0.21%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.11%) Unix
9 2 (0.11%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.053%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 549 (29.05%) UX Design
2 504 (26.67%) Agile
3 407 (21.53%) Continuous Improvement
4 392 (20.74%) Problem-Solving
5 340 (17.99%) AI
6 338 (17.88%) Analytics
7 298 (15.77%) Roadmaps
8 251 (13.28%) Mentoring
9 180 (9.52%) Decision-Making
10 176 (9.31%) DevOps
11 171 (9.05%) Software Engineering
12 170 (8.99%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
13 168 (8.89%) CI/CD
14 164 (8.68%) User Research
15 159 (8.41%) Full-Stack Development
16 152 (8.04%) Stakeholder Management
17 142 (7.51%) Customer Experience
17 142 (7.51%) Product Roadmap
18 139 (7.35%) Workflow
19 137 (7.25%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 239 (12.65%) JavaScript
2 160 (8.47%) TypeScript
3 132 (6.98%) SQL
4 126 (6.67%) C#
5 116 (6.14%) Python
6 102 (5.40%) Java
7 65 (3.44%) PowerShell
8 42 (2.22%) PHP
9 31 (1.64%) Swift
10 23 (1.22%) Kotlin
11 11 (0.58%) ABAP
11 11 (0.58%) Go
12 8 (0.42%) Bash
12 8 (0.42%) C++
12 8 (0.42%) Rust
13 7 (0.37%) Apex Code
13 7 (0.37%) Bicep
13 7 (0.37%) T-SQL
14 6 (0.32%) VB.NET
14 6 (0.32%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 170 (8.99%) Degree
2 136 (7.20%) Security Cleared
3 81 (4.29%) SC Cleared
4 41 (2.17%) DV Cleared
5 34 (1.80%) DBS Check
6 19 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (0.69%) Master's Degree
9 9 (0.48%) CISSP
10 8 (0.42%) ICAEW
10 8 (0.42%) Postgraduate
11 7 (0.37%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 6 (0.32%) ISTQB
12 6 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
12 6 (0.32%) SAP Certification
13 5 (0.26%) PMI Certification
14 4 (0.21%) A+ Certification
14 4 (0.21%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 4 (0.21%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 300 (15.87%) Accessibility
2 115 (6.08%) QA
3 98 (5.19%) WCAG
4 61 (3.23%) GDPR
5 33 (1.75%) Data Quality
6 22 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
7 18 (0.95%) SLA
8 12 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 8 (0.42%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.26%) HIPAA
11 5 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 5 (0.26%) NEBOSH
12 4 (0.21%) PMO
12 4 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.16%) PERC
13 3 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
14 2 (0.11%) GxP
15 1 (0.053%) COBIT
15 1 (0.053%) GRC
System Software
1 107 (5.66%) Active Directory
2 53 (2.80%) Docker
3 9 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (0.32%) BitLocker
4 6 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.053%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 70 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
2 29 (1.53%) Kubernetes
3 21 (1.11%) Terraform
4 14 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
5 12 (0.63%) SCCM
6 7 (0.37%) Grafana
6 7 (0.37%) Jamf Pro
7 6 (0.32%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.21%) Ansible
9 2 (0.11%) Data Guard
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (0.11%) Packer
9 2 (0.11%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.053%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.053%) Kibana
Vendors
1 372 (19.68%) Microsoft
2 195 (10.32%) Adobe
3 96 (5.08%) Google
4 70 (3.70%) ServiceNow
5 53 (2.80%) Salesforce
6 29 (1.53%) Apple
7 28 (1.48%) SAP
8 27 (1.43%) Oracle
9 26 (1.38%) HubSpot
10 23 (1.22%) Nexthink
11 20 (1.06%) iManage
12 19 (1.01%) Braze
13 18 (0.95%) Hotjar
14 16 (0.85%) Amplitude
15 15 (0.79%) OpenAI
16 14 (0.74%) Dynatrace
17 13 (0.69%) BMC
18 10 (0.53%) Meraki
18 10 (0.53%) TikTok
18 10 (0.53%) VMware