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 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

3 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 64 78
Rank change year-on-year +48 +14 -20
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 2,399 1,294 850
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 8.38% 4.18% 3.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.91% 4.58% 3.90%
Number of salaries quoted 517 554 698
10th Percentile £30,500 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,410 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,250
% change year-on-year +5.00% -0.50% -12.61%

All Process and 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 24,220 28,268 21,783
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.58% 91.36% 93.39%
Number of salaries quoted 14,321 13,195 17,041
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -4.55%

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 23 November 2025.

Salary histogram for User Experience in the UK

User Experience
Top 18 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 23 November 2025. 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 +48 2,266 £55,000 -8.33% 710
UK excluding London +56 1,735 £52,500 +5.00% 559
North of England +52 731 £50,000 -9.09% 115
North West +44 633 £57,500 - 60
London +31 564 £70,000 -8.46% 277
South East +42 493 £53,500 -2.73% 250
Work from Home -25 307 £55,000 -15.38% 408
East of England +45 278 £55,000 +10.00% 30
Midlands +51 117 £40,000 +14.29% 77
Yorkshire +28 90 £42,039 -6.58% 35
East Midlands +22 76 £35,000 - 27
South West +8 59 £55,000 +12.82% 58
West Midlands +47 42 £42,039 -19.93% 49
Wales +21 29 £51,250 +86.36% 11
Scotland -33 22 £46,750 -7.43% 20
Northern Ireland -1 10 £95,000 - 6
North East -12 8 £50,000 +17.65% 21
Channel Islands +2 7 £90,000 +260.00%

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 91 (2.90%) CMS
2 58 (1.85%) SharePoint
3 57 (1.82%) Confluence
4 52 (1.66%) WordPress
5 24 (0.76%) Drupal
6 13 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
6 13 (0.41%) Umbraco
7 11 (0.35%) Headless CMS
8 4 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.13%) Apache
8 4 (0.13%) Appian
8 4 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
9 3 (0.096%) Joomla!
9 3 (0.096%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.064%) CICS
10 2 (0.064%) EPiServer
10 2 (0.064%) IIS
10 2 (0.064%) nginx
11 1 (0.032%) concrete5
11 1 (0.032%) Moodle
Applications
1 61 (1.94%) Adobe XD
2 47 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 45 (1.43%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 36 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
5 35 (1.12%) Sketch
6 33 (1.05%) Photoshop
7 25 (0.80%) Adobe Illustrator
8 24 (0.76%) MS Visio
9 21 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 20 (0.64%) InDesign
11 7 (0.22%) Chatbot
12 5 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
13 4 (0.13%) Adobe After Effects
13 4 (0.13%) Adobe Premiere
13 4 (0.13%) Elementor
13 4 (0.13%) InVision
14 3 (0.096%) Adobe Captivate
14 3 (0.096%) AutoCAD
15 2 (0.064%) Microsoft Project
15 2 (0.064%) Trello
Business Applications
1 41 (1.31%) Shopify
2 31 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
3 24 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.19%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.16%) Dynamics GP
5 5 (0.16%) Magento
5 5 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.13%) SAP BPC
7 3 (0.096%) Infor SunSystems
7 3 (0.096%) SAP Business One
7 3 (0.096%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.064%) Adobe Campaign
8 2 (0.064%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 2 (0.064%) iTrent
8 2 (0.064%) OpenCart
8 2 (0.064%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.064%) Sage X3
9 1 (0.032%) Oracle Receivables
9 1 (0.032%) TRIRIGA
Cloud Services
1 1,599 (50.96%) Cloud Computing
2 299 (9.53%) Azure
3 232 (7.39%) AWS
4 182 (5.80%) Figma
5 140 (4.46%) Microsoft 365
6 104 (3.31%) Google Analytics
7 97 (3.09%) SaaS
8 78 (2.49%) Power Platform
9 72 (2.29%) GCP
10 70 (2.23%) Azure DevOps
11 60 (1.91%) Serverless
12 59 (1.88%) GitHub
13 39 (1.24%) Entra ID
14 37 (1.18%) PowerApps
15 34 (1.08%) AWS Lambda
16 32 (1.02%) Miro
17 28 (0.89%) Azure Logic Apps
17 28 (0.89%) Power Automate
18 24 (0.76%) Dynamics 365
18 24 (0.76%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 1,604 (51.12%) Internet
2 19 (0.61%) DNS
2 19 (0.61%) Firewall
3 15 (0.48%) TCP/IP
4 14 (0.45%) DHCP
5 11 (0.35%) VLAN
6 9 (0.29%) HTTP
7 8 (0.25%) Intranet
8 7 (0.22%) VPN
9 6 (0.19%) Broadband
9 6 (0.19%) LAN
10 5 (0.16%) WAN
11 4 (0.13%) Bluetooth
11 4 (0.13%) Intrusion Detection
11 4 (0.13%) Modbus
11 4 (0.13%) Network Security
11 4 (0.13%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (0.13%) Wireshark
11 4 (0.13%) ZigBee
12 3 (0.096%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (1.91%) SQL Server
2 52 (1.66%) Power BI
3 45 (1.43%) MySQL
4 42 (1.34%) NoSQL
5 38 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
6 29 (0.92%) Relational Database
7 20 (0.64%) MongoDB
8 14 (0.45%) DynamoDB
8 14 (0.45%) Looker
9 13 (0.41%) Tableau
10 11 (0.35%) Metadata
11 9 (0.29%) BigQuery
11 9 (0.29%) Oracle Reports
12 8 (0.25%) DB2
13 7 (0.22%) Amazon Aurora
13 7 (0.22%) Mixpanel
13 7 (0.22%) Redis
14 6 (0.19%) MariaDB
15 4 (0.13%) Elasticsearch
15 4 (0.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 136 (4.33%) Git
2 121 (3.86%) JIRA
3 32 (1.02%) Cypress.io
4 31 (0.99%) Axure RP
5 28 (0.89%) webpack
6 27 (0.86%) Jenkins
7 26 (0.83%) Balsamiq
8 17 (0.54%) Vite
9 16 (0.51%) Storybook
10 15 (0.48%) Bitbucket
11 14 (0.45%) NeoLoad
12 13 (0.41%) GitLab
12 13 (0.41%) Selenium
13 12 (0.38%) eCATT
14 11 (0.35%) Babel
14 11 (0.35%) TeamCity
15 10 (0.32%) Postman
16 9 (0.29%) gulp
17 8 (0.25%) Xcode
18 7 (0.22%) Cucumber
General
1 2,184 (69.60%) Social Skills
2 1,717 (54.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,677 (53.44%) Banking
4 317 (10.10%) Finance
5 290 (9.24%) Marketing
6 206 (6.56%) Analytical Skills
7 189 (6.02%) Law
8 108 (3.44%) Legal
9 97 (3.09%) Public Sector
10 85 (2.71%) Retail
11 50 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
12 47 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
13 46 (1.47%) Manufacturing
14 44 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
15 34 (1.08%) Telecoms
16 24 (0.76%) Advertising
17 19 (0.61%) Electronics
18 16 (0.51%) Publishing
19 15 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
20 14 (0.45%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,292 (41.17%) Lecturer
2 361 (11.50%) Developer
3 284 (9.05%) Senior
4 153 (4.88%) Analyst
5 150 (4.78%) Designer
6 135 (4.30%) Lead
7 121 (3.86%) Senior Developer
8 98 (3.12%) Full-Stack Developer
9 74 (2.36%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 65 (2.07%) Product Manager
11 63 (2.01%) IT Support
12 62 (1.98%) Software Engineer
13 59 (1.88%) UX Designer
14 54 (1.72%) Business Analyst
15 43 (1.37%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
16 42 (1.34%) Senior Manager
17 41 (1.31%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 40 (1.27%) Architect
19 38 (1.21%) React Developer
20 35 (1.12%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 314 (10.01%) React
2 297 (9.46%) HTML
3 279 (8.89%) CSS
4 150 (4.78%) .NET
5 121 (3.86%) Node.js
6 113 (3.60%) RESTful
7 70 (2.23%) AngularJS
7 70 (2.23%) HTML5
8 67 (2.14%) REST
9 65 (2.07%) Next.js
10 52 (1.66%) CSS3
10 52 (1.66%) Vue
11 46 (1.47%) Jest
12 43 (1.37%) Spring
13 39 (1.24%) Spring Boot
14 37 (1.18%) .NET Framework
14 37 (1.18%) ASP.NET
14 37 (1.18%) GraphQL
15 31 (0.99%) Tailwind CSS
16 30 (0.96%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 1,610 (51.31%) IoT
2 126 (4.02%) Product Ownership
3 94 (3.00%) Onboarding
4 71 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
5 64 (2.04%) Cloud Native
6 60 (1.91%) Mobile App
7 50 (1.59%) Social Media
8 45 (1.43%) Management Information System
9 36 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
10 32 (1.02%) AI Agents
11 29 (0.92%) Driving Licence
12 25 (0.80%) e-Learning
13 22 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
14 21 (0.67%) Data Structures
14 21 (0.67%) Graphic Design
15 19 (0.61%) Algorithms
16 17 (0.54%) Legacy Systems
17 15 (0.48%) Animation
17 15 (0.48%) Blog
18 14 (0.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 72 (2.29%) Windows
2 71 (2.26%) Apple iOS
3 56 (1.78%) Android
4 41 (1.31%) Windows 10
5 25 (0.80%) Windows Server
6 15 (0.48%) Linux
7 7 (0.22%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.16%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.13%) Kali Linux
9 4 (0.13%) Unix
10 3 (0.096%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.064%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,865 (59.43%) AI
2 1,693 (53.95%) Machine Learning
3 1,677 (53.44%) Web Development
4 1,662 (52.96%) Cybersecurity
5 616 (19.63%) Agile
6 438 (13.96%) UX Design
7 391 (12.46%) Problem-Solving
8 335 (10.68%) Continuous Improvement
9 304 (9.69%) Analytics
10 237 (7.55%) Roadmaps
11 220 (7.01%) DevOps
12 215 (6.85%) CI/CD
13 202 (6.44%) Full-Stack Development
14 162 (5.16%) Front End Development
15 155 (4.94%) Mentoring
16 153 (4.88%) E-Commerce
16 153 (4.88%) Stakeholder Management
17 150 (4.78%) SEO
18 147 (4.68%) User Research
19 143 (4.56%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 347 (11.06%) JavaScript
2 205 (6.53%) TypeScript
3 147 (4.68%) SQL
4 135 (4.30%) Python
5 133 (4.24%) C#
6 123 (3.92%) Java
7 53 (1.69%) PowerShell
8 35 (1.12%) PHP
9 17 (0.54%) Bash
9 17 (0.54%) Swift
10 15 (0.48%) Kotlin
11 14 (0.45%) Go
12 12 (0.38%) Bicep
13 11 (0.35%) C++
14 10 (0.32%) VBScript
15 8 (0.25%) R
15 8 (0.25%) Ruby
15 8 (0.25%) Rust
16 7 (0.22%) XAML
17 6 (0.19%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,839 (58.60%) Degree
2 1,628 (51.88%) Master's Degree
3 1,601 (51.02%) PhD
3 1,601 (51.02%) Postgraduate
4 132 (4.21%) Security Cleared
5 96 (3.06%) SC Cleared
6 60 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
7 27 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
8 25 (0.80%) DV Cleared
9 23 (0.73%) DBS Check
10 19 (0.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 16 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
12 13 (0.41%) AWS Certification
13 12 (0.38%) MCSA
14 7 (0.22%) A+ Certification
14 7 (0.22%) Azure Certification
14 7 (0.22%) Cisco Certification
14 7 (0.22%) SAP Certification
15 6 (0.19%) AWS Certified Developer
15 6 (0.19%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 311 (9.91%) Accessibility
2 119 (3.79%) QA
3 74 (2.36%) WCAG
4 46 (1.47%) GDPR
5 26 (0.83%) SLA
6 17 (0.54%) Data Quality
7 10 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 19770
8 9 (0.29%) PERC
9 8 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 8 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.16%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 5 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
10 5 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.16%) GxP
11 3 (0.096%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.096%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.096%) Section 508
12 2 (0.064%) HL7
12 2 (0.064%) NIST
13 1 (0.032%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 83 (2.64%) Docker
2 76 (2.42%) Active Directory
3 20 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.19%) Firmware
6 4 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (0.096%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.096%) vSphere
8 2 (0.064%) RACF
8 2 (0.064%) XenDesktop
9 1 (0.032%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.032%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.032%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 83 (2.64%) Kubernetes
2 46 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
3 44 (1.40%) Terraform
4 12 (0.38%) HP ALM
5 6 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (0.16%) Grafana
6 5 (0.16%) SCCM
7 4 (0.13%) Nessus
7 4 (0.13%) Nmap
8 3 (0.096%) Ansible
8 3 (0.096%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.064%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 2 (0.064%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.064%) SmoothWall
9 2 (0.064%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 2 (0.064%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.032%) AppManager
10 1 (0.032%) Backup Exec
10 1 (0.032%) BMC PATROL
10 1 (0.032%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 236 (7.52%) Microsoft
2 153 (4.88%) Google
3 138 (4.40%) Adobe
4 57 (1.82%) SAP
5 45 (1.43%) ServiceNow
6 43 (1.37%) Salesforce
7 30 (0.96%) Oracle
8 27 (0.86%) Hotjar
9 25 (0.80%) Cisco
10 24 (0.76%) HubSpot
11 21 (0.67%) Apple
11 21 (0.67%) Qualtrics
12 16 (0.51%) Atlassian
13 15 (0.48%) Foundry
13 15 (0.48%) HP
13 15 (0.48%) Screaming Frog
14 11 (0.35%) Ahrefs
14 11 (0.35%) Databricks
15 10 (0.32%) Citrix
15 10 (0.32%) Splunk