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 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

3 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 80 88
Rank change year-on-year -28 +8 -9
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 1,031 650 920
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.74% 2.88% 2.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.36% 3.39% 3.39%
Number of salaries quoted 645 468 460
10th Percentile £31,750 £30,500 £32,250
25th Percentile £39,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -12.52%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,750 £100,000 £92,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £48,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +9.38% -12.73%

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 43,690 19,196 27,157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.55% 85.20% 85.15%
Number of salaries quoted 30,245 12,419 13,805
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £34,750
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,638 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,683 £53,000
% change year-on-year +15.35% -10.03% +0.95%

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 15 September 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 15 September 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 -25 898 £57,000 -0.87% 3,111
UK excluding London -22 576 £50,000 -4.76% 1,357
Work from Home -31 374 £55,000 -4.35% 1,340
London -8 356 £65,000 -10.34% 2,037
North of England -13 173 £55,000 +15.79% 370
South East -52 104 £48,750 -10.96% 282
South West -5 99 £60,000 +20.00% 151
Midlands -20 96 £38,250 -27.14% 177
North West -26 83 £55,000 +7.32% 231
West Midlands -17 64 £38,125 -39.00% 129
Yorkshire +17 56 £61,538 +75.82% 97
North East -25 34 £50,000 +61.29% 45
East of England -50 34 £45,000 -18.18% 133
East Midlands -34 32 £42,500 +13.33% 48
Northern Ireland -49 29 £75,000 - 95
Scotland -17 23 £55,000 +29.41% 119
Wales -66 18 £38,500 -42.96% 35

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
1 148 (7.10%) SharePoint
2 86 (4.12%) CMS
3 65 (3.12%) Confluence
4 48 (2.30%) Microsoft Exchange
5 37 (1.77%) WordPress
6 11 (0.53%) IIS
7 10 (0.48%) Moodle
8 5 (0.24%) Skype for Business
9 4 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.14%) Apache
10 3 (0.14%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.14%) Umbraco
11 2 (0.096%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.096%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.096%) Drupal
11 2 (0.096%) nginx
11 2 (0.096%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.096%) Totara
12 1 (0.048%) ExpressionEngine
12 1 (0.048%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 43 (2.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 36 (1.73%) Microsoft Office
3 32 (1.53%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 31 (1.49%) Chatbot
5 30 (1.44%) Adobe XD
6 22 (1.06%) Photoshop
7 20 (0.96%) Adobe Illustrator
8 19 (0.91%) InDesign
9 17 (0.82%) Sketch
10 15 (0.72%) UserZoom
11 11 (0.53%) Adobe After Effects
12 9 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
13 8 (0.38%) MS Visio
14 6 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
15 3 (0.14%) Adobe Premiere
15 3 (0.14%) InVision
15 3 (0.14%) Productboard
15 3 (0.14%) SPSS
15 3 (0.14%) Trello
15 3 (0.14%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 22 (1.06%) Shopify
2 18 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.62%) Workday HCM
4 11 (0.53%) NetSuite
5 8 (0.38%) Magento
6 3 (0.14%) Adobe Campaign
6 3 (0.14%) Carpe Diem
6 3 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
6 3 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
6 3 (0.14%) Elite 3E
6 3 (0.14%) iTrent
6 3 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.096%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.096%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.096%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.096%) Towers Watson Igloo
7 2 (0.096%) Visualfiles
8 1 (0.048%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 1 (0.048%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 390 (18.71%) Azure
2 280 (13.43%) Microsoft 365
3 186 (8.92%) Figma
4 179 (8.59%) Power Platform
5 173 (8.30%) AWS
6 146 (7.00%) SaaS
7 122 (5.85%) Entra ID
8 98 (4.70%) Azure DevOps
9 88 (4.22%) Power Automate
10 80 (3.84%) PowerApps
11 68 (3.26%) Google Analytics
12 67 (3.21%) GCP
13 57 (2.73%) Microsoft Copilot
14 56 (2.69%) GitHub
15 49 (2.35%) Dynamics 365
16 44 (2.11%) Azure Logic Apps
17 42 (2.01%) OneDrive
18 41 (1.97%) Serverless
19 37 (1.77%) Adobe Analytics
20 33 (1.58%) Adobe Creative Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 43 (2.06%) DNS
2 37 (1.77%) Broadband
3 36 (1.73%) DHCP
4 35 (1.68%) Firewall
5 22 (1.06%) VPN
6 21 (1.01%) TCP/IP
7 17 (0.82%) VoIP
8 15 (0.72%) Network Security
8 15 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
9 14 (0.67%) Internet
10 11 (0.53%) CTI
11 9 (0.43%) HTTP
11 9 (0.43%) Kerberos
12 8 (0.38%) Wireless
13 6 (0.29%) Intranet
13 6 (0.29%) VLAN
14 5 (0.24%) SAN
14 5 (0.24%) Skype
14 5 (0.24%) SMS
14 5 (0.24%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (4.51%) Power BI
2 64 (3.07%) SQL Server
3 37 (1.77%) Relational Database
4 27 (1.29%) NoSQL
4 27 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
5 25 (1.20%) MySQL
6 19 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
7 15 (0.72%) Looker
7 15 (0.72%) Metadata
8 11 (0.53%) MongoDB
9 10 (0.48%) Tableau
10 9 (0.43%) BigQuery
10 9 (0.43%) Redis
11 8 (0.38%) GIS
12 7 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
13 6 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (0.29%) Power Query
14 5 (0.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 5 (0.24%) Star Schema
15 4 (0.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 98 (4.70%) JIRA
2 89 (4.27%) Git
3 31 (1.49%) Claude Code
4 24 (1.15%) Jenkins
5 19 (0.91%) Cypress.io
6 15 (0.72%) fastlane
7 13 (0.62%) Selenium
8 12 (0.58%) Crashlytics
9 11 (0.53%) Oracle Forms
9 11 (0.53%) Team Foundation Server
10 10 (0.48%) Balsamiq
11 9 (0.43%) Postman
12 8 (0.38%) Axure RP
12 8 (0.38%) GitLab
13 7 (0.34%) Cucumber
13 7 (0.34%) Xcode
13 7 (0.34%) XCTest
14 6 (0.29%) Bitbucket
14 6 (0.29%) JUnit
15 5 (0.24%) Gradle
General
1 714 (34.24%) Social Skills
2 385 (18.47%) Finance
3 292 (14.00%) Analytical Skills
4 261 (12.52%) Marketing
5 192 (9.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 191 (9.16%) Public Sector
7 135 (6.47%) Retail
8 127 (6.09%) Law
9 102 (4.89%) Organisational Skills
10 81 (3.88%) Legal
11 72 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
12 67 (3.21%) Banking
13 50 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
14 43 (2.06%) Games
15 29 (1.39%) Advertising
16 28 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
17 26 (1.25%) Manufacturing
18 25 (1.20%) Multimedia
19 22 (1.06%) Financial Institution
20 21 (1.01%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 382 (18.32%) Senior
2 332 (15.92%) Designer
3 297 (14.24%) Developer
4 241 (11.56%) Lead
5 235 (11.27%) UX Designer
6 178 (8.54%) Analyst
7 102 (4.89%) Software Engineer
8 94 (4.51%) IT Support
8 94 (4.51%) Senior Developer
9 85 (4.08%) UI Designer
10 78 (3.74%) Senior Designer
10 78 (3.74%) UI/UX Designer
11 65 (3.12%) Product Manager
12 64 (3.07%) Architect
12 64 (3.07%) IT Manager
13 61 (2.93%) Support Engineer
14 58 (2.78%) Business Analyst
14 58 (2.78%) Support Analyst
15 56 (2.69%) Full-Stack Developer
16 53 (2.54%) Product Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 209 (10.02%) HTML
2 208 (9.98%) CSS
3 157 (7.53%) .NET
4 140 (6.71%) React
5 97 (4.65%) REST
6 74 (3.55%) Node.js
7 70 (3.36%) RESTful
8 55 (2.64%) .NET Core
9 53 (2.54%) JSON
10 45 (2.16%) ASP.NET
11 44 (2.11%) Next.js
12 35 (1.68%) AngularJS
13 31 (1.49%) jQuery
13 31 (1.49%) Spring
14 30 (1.44%) HTML5
15 29 (1.39%) CSS3
16 27 (1.29%) Spring Boot
16 27 (1.29%) Terraform
17 26 (1.25%) Blazor
18 24 (1.15%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 200 (9.59%) Product Ownership
2 99 (4.75%) Mobile App
3 94 (4.51%) Onboarding
4 74 (3.55%) Enterprise Software
5 63 (3.02%) Social Media
6 61 (2.93%) Self-Motivation
7 58 (2.78%) Cloud Native
8 52 (2.49%) Management Information System
9 34 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
10 30 (1.44%) Driving Licence
11 29 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
12 25 (1.20%) AI Agents
13 23 (1.10%) Algorithms
13 23 (1.10%) Graphic Design
14 20 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
15 19 (0.91%) Blog
16 18 (0.86%) e-Learning
17 17 (0.82%) Learning Management System
17 17 (0.82%) Virtual Team
18 16 (0.77%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 158 (7.58%) Windows
2 64 (3.07%) Apple iOS
3 45 (2.16%) Windows 10
3 45 (2.16%) Windows Server
4 39 (1.87%) Android
5 35 (1.68%) Linux
6 32 (1.53%) Mac OS
7 8 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
8 7 (0.34%) Unix
9 6 (0.29%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.29%) Windows 7
10 4 (0.19%) Mac OS X
11 2 (0.096%) AIX
11 2 (0.096%) CentOS
12 1 (0.048%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 566 (27.15%) Agile
2 553 (26.52%) UX Design
3 545 (26.14%) Continuous Improvement
4 469 (22.49%) Problem-Solving
5 445 (21.34%) AI
6 350 (16.79%) Analytics
7 326 (15.64%) Roadmaps
8 279 (13.38%) Mentoring
9 260 (12.47%) Stakeholder Management
10 224 (10.74%) Decision-Making
11 216 (10.36%) DevOps
12 198 (9.50%) CI/CD
13 176 (8.44%) ITIL
14 175 (8.39%) Software Engineering
15 165 (7.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 161 (7.72%) Workflow
17 154 (7.39%) Customer Experience
17 154 (7.39%) User Research
17 154 (7.39%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
18 148 (7.10%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 254 (12.18%) JavaScript
2 180 (8.63%) SQL
3 161 (7.72%) TypeScript
4 160 (7.67%) C#
5 129 (6.19%) Python
6 99 (4.75%) Java
7 79 (3.79%) PowerShell
8 27 (1.29%) PHP
9 25 (1.20%) Swift
10 21 (1.01%) VB.NET
11 20 (0.96%) Kotlin
12 17 (0.82%) C++
13 12 (0.58%) Bash
14 11 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 10 (0.48%) C
16 9 (0.43%) ABAP
16 9 (0.43%) VBScript
17 7 (0.34%) VB
18 6 (0.29%) Go
18 6 (0.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 213 (10.22%) Degree
2 152 (7.29%) Security Cleared
3 90 (4.32%) SC Cleared
4 41 (1.97%) Microsoft Certification
5 35 (1.68%) DV Cleared
6 29 (1.39%) DBS Check
7 28 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
8 19 (0.91%) Postgraduate
9 13 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
10 12 (0.58%) A+ Certification
10 12 (0.58%) ICAEW
11 11 (0.53%) Master's Degree
12 10 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
12 10 (0.48%) PMI Certification
13 9 (0.43%) CISSP
13 9 (0.43%) Network+ Certification
13 9 (0.43%) PhD
14 7 (0.34%) ISTQB
15 6 (0.29%) IIBA
16 5 (0.24%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 286 (13.72%) Accessibility
2 132 (6.33%) QA
3 96 (4.60%) WCAG
4 68 (3.26%) Data Quality
5 60 (2.88%) GDPR
6 40 (1.92%) SLA
7 19 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
8 15 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
9 12 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 10 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 5 (0.24%) NEBOSH
11 5 (0.24%) PMO
11 5 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.19%) GRC
12 4 (0.19%) PERC
12 4 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
13 3 (0.14%) GxP
13 3 (0.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 3 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 2 (0.096%) HIPAA
System Software
1 119 (5.71%) Active Directory
2 64 (3.07%) Docker
3 11 (0.53%) BitLocker
4 9 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
5 8 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.14%) vSphere
8 2 (0.096%) Firmware
8 2 (0.096%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.096%) UAG
Systems Management
1 84 (4.03%) Microsoft Intune
2 43 (2.06%) Kubernetes
3 18 (0.86%) SCCM
4 14 (0.67%) Jamf Pro
5 8 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (0.34%) Ansible
7 4 (0.19%) Grafana
8 2 (0.096%) AirWatch
8 2 (0.096%) Packer
8 2 (0.096%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.096%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.048%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.048%) AppManager
9 1 (0.048%) Argo
9 1 (0.048%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.048%) Forefront Identity Manager
9 1 (0.048%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.048%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.048%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.048%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 459 (22.01%) Microsoft
2 152 (7.29%) Adobe
3 108 (5.18%) Google
4 46 (2.21%) Salesforce
5 45 (2.16%) ServiceNow
6 40 (1.92%) Oracle
7 34 (1.63%) SAP
8 30 (1.44%) Apple
9 27 (1.29%) OpenAI
10 22 (1.06%) Cisco
11 19 (0.91%) iManage
12 17 (0.82%) Workday
13 16 (0.77%) VMware
14 13 (0.62%) Dynatrace
15 12 (0.58%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
16 11 (0.53%) Avaya
16 11 (0.53%) Genesys
16 11 (0.53%) HubSpot
16 11 (0.53%) Meraki
17 10 (0.48%) Hotjar