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

3 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 57 70
Rank change year-on-year -26 +13 +14
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 1,066 1,262 1,419
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.96% 4.70% 3.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.72% 5.13% 3.98%
Number of salaries quoted 734 489 613
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,575
25th Percentile £39,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,648 £59,800 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.94% +8.73% -12.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,874 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% -1.82%

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 39,207 24,587 35,646
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.18% 91.54% 78.32%
Number of salaries quoted 27,380 12,222 22,418
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £36,250 £41,217
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 13 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 13 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 -23 944 £57,500 -4.17% 596
UK excluding London -21 681 £52,500 -4.55% 408
Work from Home -28 395 £57,500 -8.00% 305
London -31 308 £70,000 - 293
North of England -24 252 £50,000 -9.09% 114
North West -29 144 £52,500 -11.39% 82
East of England +57 119 £76,500 +61.05% 44
South East +26 117 £54,000 -1.82% 150
Midlands -19 74 £45,497 -15.26% 41
Yorkshire +1 58 £45,497 -9.01% 21
South West -33 55 £60,000 +9.09% 35
North East -1 50 £47,000 +370.00% 12
West Midlands -51 39 £47,500 -13.64% 29
Scotland -19 38 £55,000 -12.00% 13
East Midlands +11 35 £45,000 +29.50% 12
Wales -22 23 £50,000 -25.93% 10
Northern Ireland -18 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
1 124 (6.64%) SharePoint
2 119 (6.37%) CMS
3 67 (3.59%) Confluence
4 48 (2.57%) Microsoft Exchange
5 27 (1.45%) WordPress
6 9 (0.48%) Drupal
7 8 (0.43%) 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 (0.054%) Apache
12 1 (0.054%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 36 (1.93%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 33 (1.77%) Microsoft Office
3 30 (1.61%) Adobe XD
4 25 (1.34%) Photoshop
5 23 (1.23%) Adobe Illustrator
6 22 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
7 20 (1.07%) Sketch
8 14 (0.75%) Adobe After Effects
9 13 (0.70%) UserZoom
10 12 (0.64%) InDesign
11 9 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
12 8 (0.43%) Chatbot
12 8 (0.43%) 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
16 2 (0.11%) Pro Tools
Business Applications
1 27 (1.45%) Shopify
2 20 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.80%) Magento
4 11 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
5 6 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
6 5 (0.27%) Dynamics GP
6 5 (0.27%) SAP ERP
7 4 (0.21%) Dynamics AX
8 3 (0.16%) NetSuite
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
9 2 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
9 2 (0.11%) Towers Watson Igloo
9 2 (0.11%) Workday HCM
10 1 (0.054%) Elite 3E
10 1 (0.054%) Oracle General Ledger
10 1 (0.054%) Oracle Payables
10 1 (0.054%) Oracle Receivables
10 1 (0.054%) SAP Business One
10 1 (0.054%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 330 (17.68%) Azure
2 250 (13.39%) Microsoft 365
3 217 (11.62%) Figma
4 158 (8.46%) AWS
5 141 (7.55%) SaaS
6 136 (7.28%) Power Platform
7 98 (5.25%) Entra ID
8 83 (4.45%) Azure DevOps
9 68 (3.64%) Adobe Analytics
9 68 (3.64%) GitHub
10 62 (3.32%) Google Analytics
11 60 (3.21%) GCP
12 54 (2.89%) Power Automate
13 53 (2.84%) PowerApps
14 45 (2.41%) Serverless
15 43 (2.30%) Contentsquare
16 41 (2.20%) Azure Logic Apps
17 40 (2.14%) OneDrive
18 36 (1.93%) Microsoft Copilot
19 30 (1.61%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 81 (4.34%) Broadband
2 27 (1.45%) Firewall
3 26 (1.39%) DNS
3 26 (1.39%) VPN
4 22 (1.18%) DHCP
5 17 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
6 14 (0.75%) HTTP
7 11 (0.59%) TCP/IP
8 9 (0.48%) Internet
8 9 (0.48%) VoIP
9 8 (0.43%) Kerberos
10 5 (0.27%) SAN
10 5 (0.27%) VLAN
10 5 (0.27%) Wireless
11 4 (0.21%) NAS
11 4 (0.21%) Network Security
11 4 (0.21%) SMS
11 4 (0.21%) Structured Cabling
11 4 (0.21%) Unified Communications
12 3 (0.16%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (3.80%) Power BI
2 42 (2.25%) SQL Server
3 28 (1.50%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
5 22 (1.18%) Looker
6 18 (0.96%) MySQL
7 16 (0.86%) Metadata
7 16 (0.86%) MongoDB
8 14 (0.75%) NoSQL
9 12 (0.64%) BigQuery
10 10 (0.54%) Relational Database
11 9 (0.48%) Tableau
12 8 (0.43%) Redis
13 5 (0.27%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (0.27%) Data Warehouse
13 5 (0.27%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (0.27%) GIS
13 5 (0.27%) SAP BW
13 5 (0.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 4 (0.21%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 103 (5.52%) JIRA
2 75 (4.02%) Git
3 20 (1.07%) Crashlytics
4 19 (1.02%) fastlane
4 19 (1.02%) Jenkins
5 17 (0.91%) Claude Code
6 15 (0.80%) Axure RP
6 15 (0.80%) Balsamiq
6 15 (0.80%) XCTest
7 14 (0.75%) Vite
8 12 (0.64%) Cypress.io
8 12 (0.64%) webpack
9 11 (0.59%) Selenium
10 10 (0.54%) Postman
11 9 (0.48%) Xcode
12 8 (0.43%) Bitbucket
12 8 (0.43%) Storybook
13 6 (0.32%) Android Studio
13 6 (0.32%) Cucumber
13 6 (0.32%) Gradle
General
1 520 (27.85%) Social Skills
2 287 (15.37%) Finance
3 240 (12.85%) Marketing
4 193 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
5 146 (7.82%) Public Sector
6 128 (6.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 106 (5.68%) Legal
8 94 (5.03%) Retail
9 91 (4.87%) Organisational Skills
10 77 (4.12%) Law
11 69 (3.70%) Games
12 57 (3.05%) Presentation Skills
13 46 (2.46%) Influencing Skills
14 39 (2.09%) Banking
15 37 (1.98%) Advertising
16 33 (1.77%) Manufacturing
17 21 (1.12%) Back Office
18 17 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
18 17 (0.91%) Multimedia
19 15 (0.80%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 356 (19.07%) Senior
2 321 (17.19%) Designer
3 274 (14.68%) Developer
4 237 (12.69%) UX Designer
5 197 (10.55%) Lead
6 126 (6.75%) Analyst
7 99 (5.30%) Senior Developer
8 91 (4.87%) Senior Designer
9 82 (4.39%) UI Designer
10 80 (4.28%) Software Engineer
11 74 (3.96%) UI/UX Designer
12 73 (3.91%) IT Support
13 68 (3.64%) Senior UX Designer
14 60 (3.21%) Product Manager
15 58 (3.11%) Support Engineer
16 57 (3.05%) Architect
16 57 (3.05%) IT Manager
17 56 (3.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
18 51 (2.73%) Product Designer
19 47 (2.52%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 196 (10.50%) HTML
2 194 (10.39%) CSS
3 172 (9.21%) React
4 119 (6.37%) .NET
5 87 (4.66%) REST
6 72 (3.86%) RESTful
7 58 (3.11%) AngularJS
8 53 (2.84%) Node.js
9 48 (2.57%) Vue
10 47 (2.52%) .NET Core
11 45 (2.41%) JSON
12 36 (1.93%) HTML5
13 30 (1.61%) CSS3
14 28 (1.50%) SwiftUI
14 28 (1.50%) Web Services
15 27 (1.45%) Next.js
15 27 (1.45%) Sass
16 26 (1.39%) ASP.NET
17 25 (1.34%) SOAP
17 25 (1.34%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 191 (10.23%) Product Ownership
2 121 (6.48%) Mobile App
3 107 (5.73%) Onboarding
4 64 (3.43%) Social Media
5 46 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
6 44 (2.36%) Cloud Native
7 40 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
8 36 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
9 28 (1.50%) Management Information System
10 25 (1.34%) AI Agents
11 24 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
12 22 (1.18%) Driving Licence
13 19 (1.02%) e-Learning
14 18 (0.96%) Life Science
15 17 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
15 17 (0.91%) Low-Code
16 16 (0.86%) Public Cloud
17 15 (0.80%) Graphic Design
17 15 (0.80%) Security Posture
18 13 (0.70%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 123 (6.59%) Windows
2 68 (3.64%) Apple iOS
3 38 (2.04%) Android
4 36 (1.93%) Windows 10
4 36 (1.93%) Windows Server
5 28 (1.50%) Linux
5 28 (1.50%) Mac OS
6 7 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (0.21%) Mac OS X
7 4 (0.21%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.11%) Unix
8 2 (0.11%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.054%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 549 (29.41%) UX Design
2 503 (26.94%) Agile
3 395 (21.16%) Continuous Improvement
4 383 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
5 332 (17.78%) AI
5 332 (17.78%) Analytics
6 291 (15.59%) Roadmaps
7 249 (13.34%) Mentoring
8 181 (9.69%) Decision-Making
9 170 (9.11%) DevOps
10 167 (8.94%) Software Engineering
11 166 (8.89%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 160 (8.57%) CI/CD
13 159 (8.52%) Full-Stack Development
13 159 (8.52%) User Research
14 141 (7.55%) Stakeholder Management
15 140 (7.50%) Product Roadmap
16 139 (7.45%) ITIL
17 136 (7.28%) CRM
18 135 (7.23%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 239 (12.80%) JavaScript
2 152 (8.14%) TypeScript
3 126 (6.75%) SQL
4 123 (6.59%) C#
5 114 (6.11%) Python
6 101 (5.41%) Java
7 61 (3.27%) PowerShell
8 42 (2.25%) PHP
9 30 (1.61%) Swift
10 23 (1.23%) Kotlin
11 11 (0.59%) Go
12 9 (0.48%) ABAP
13 8 (0.43%) Bash
13 8 (0.43%) Rust
14 7 (0.37%) Apex Code
14 7 (0.37%) Bicep
14 7 (0.37%) C++
14 7 (0.37%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.32%) VB.NET
15 6 (0.32%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 176 (9.43%) Degree
2 137 (7.34%) Security Cleared
3 81 (4.34%) SC Cleared
4 41 (2.20%) DV Cleared
5 34 (1.82%) DBS Check
6 17 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (0.75%) Master's Degree
8 8 (0.43%) CISSP
8 8 (0.43%) ICAEW
9 7 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
9 7 (0.37%) Postgraduate
9 7 (0.37%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 6 (0.32%) SAP Certification
11 5 (0.27%) ISTQB
11 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 5 (0.27%) PMI Certification
12 4 (0.21%) PhD
12 4 (0.21%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 294 (15.75%) Accessibility
2 110 (5.89%) QA
3 98 (5.25%) WCAG
4 60 (3.21%) GDPR
5 30 (1.61%) Data Quality
6 22 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
7 16 (0.86%) SLA
8 12 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 8 (0.43%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.27%) HIPAA
11 5 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 5 (0.27%) NEBOSH
12 4 (0.21%) PMO
12 4 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.16%) PERC
14 2 (0.11%) GxP
14 2 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
15 1 (0.054%) COBIT
15 1 (0.054%) HL7
System Software
1 107 (5.73%) Active Directory
2 49 (2.62%) Docker
3 7 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (0.32%) BitLocker
5 5 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.054%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 69 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
2 28 (1.50%) Kubernetes
3 22 (1.18%) Terraform
4 16 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
5 11 (0.59%) SCCM
6 7 (0.37%) Jamf Pro
7 6 (0.32%) Grafana
8 5 (0.27%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.16%) Ansible
10 2 (0.11%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle RMAN
10 2 (0.11%) Packer
10 2 (0.11%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.054%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.054%) Kibana
Vendors
1 361 (19.34%) Microsoft
2 190 (10.18%) Adobe
3 93 (4.98%) Google
4 72 (3.86%) ServiceNow
5 53 (2.84%) Salesforce
6 27 (1.45%) Apple
6 27 (1.45%) HubSpot
7 26 (1.39%) SAP
8 25 (1.34%) Oracle
9 23 (1.23%) Nexthink
10 19 (1.02%) Braze
11 17 (0.91%) Hotjar
11 17 (0.91%) iManage
12 16 (0.86%) Amplitude
13 14 (0.75%) BMC
13 14 (0.75%) Dynatrace
13 14 (0.75%) OpenAI
14 10 (0.54%) TikTok
14 10 (0.54%) VMware
15 9 (0.48%) Pinterest