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 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

3 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 76 73
Rank change year-on-year -18 -3 +6
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 1,203 708 1,149
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.85% 3.37% 3.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.51% 3.80% 3.89%
Number of salaries quoted 665 498 476
10th Percentile £32,500 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £74,985 £78,438 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,150 £100,000 £95,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%

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 47,970 18,655 29,540
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.71% 88.91% 88.62%
Number of salaries quoted 31,445 11,513 12,894
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.43% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £45,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +22.22% -16.67% +2.86%

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 11 October 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 11 October 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 -22 984 £60,000 +9.09% 2,770
UK excluding London -14 701 £50,000 -4.76% 1,292
London -10 406 £70,000 - 1,626
Work from Home -25 393 £58,750 +6.82% 1,244
North of England -29 188 £57,500 +15.00% 356
South East -64 119 £50,000 -4.76% 268
Northern Ireland -1 114 £75,000 - 59
South West -1 111 £60,000 +20.00% 141
North West -35 91 £53,000 -3.64% 190
Midlands -37 91 £32,500 -38.10% 185
Yorkshire -9 59 £63,076 +80.22% 117
West Midlands -24 58 £33,500 -46.40% 115
North East -24 38 £57,500 +60.48% 49
East of England -82 38 £42,500 -22.73% 137
East Midlands -46 33 £30,000 -16.67% 70
Scotland -16 25 £55,000 +29.41% 109
Wales -56 15 £45,987 -23.36% 42

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
1 132 (6.02%) SharePoint
2 84 (3.83%) CMS
3 54 (2.46%) Confluence
4 51 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
5 43 (1.96%) WordPress
6 15 (0.68%) IIS
7 10 (0.46%) Moodle
8 7 (0.32%) Apache
9 5 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
9 5 (0.23%) Skype for Business
10 4 (0.18%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.091%) Apache Spark
12 2 (0.091%) nginx
12 2 (0.091%) SharePoint Server
12 2 (0.091%) Sitecore CMS
12 2 (0.091%) Totara
13 1 (0.046%) Drupal
13 1 (0.046%) ExpressionEngine
13 1 (0.046%) MTS
Applications
1 42 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (1.51%) Chatbot
2 33 (1.51%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (1.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 24 (1.10%) Adobe XD
5 22 (1.00%) Photoshop
6 20 (0.91%) Adobe Illustrator
7 19 (0.87%) InDesign
8 14 (0.64%) Sketch
9 11 (0.50%) Adobe After Effects
9 11 (0.50%) UserZoom
10 9 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 9 (0.41%) MS Visio
11 6 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
12 4 (0.18%) Trello
13 3 (0.14%) Adobe Premiere
13 3 (0.14%) Elementor
13 3 (0.14%) Productboard
13 3 (0.14%) Zeplin
14 2 (0.091%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 23 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (0.96%) Shopify
3 15 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.68%) Workday HCM
4 12 (0.55%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.23%) 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
6 3 (0.14%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.091%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.091%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.091%) SAP GRC
7 2 (0.091%) Towers Watson Igloo
7 2 (0.091%) Visualfiles
8 1 (0.046%) Bloomberg TOMS
Cloud Services
1 388 (17.71%) Azure
2 281 (12.83%) Microsoft 365
3 177 (8.08%) Power Platform
4 173 (7.90%) Figma
5 160 (7.30%) AWS
6 156 (7.12%) SaaS
7 133 (6.07%) Entra ID
8 92 (4.20%) Azure DevOps
9 79 (3.61%) Power Automate
10 71 (3.24%) PowerApps
11 68 (3.10%) GCP
12 61 (2.78%) Microsoft Copilot
13 58 (2.65%) GitHub
14 57 (2.60%) Google Analytics
15 52 (2.37%) Dynamics 365
16 39 (1.78%) Serverless
17 36 (1.64%) Copilot Studio
18 35 (1.60%) Azure Logic Apps
18 35 (1.60%) OneDrive
19 29 (1.32%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 45 (2.05%) DNS
2 41 (1.87%) DHCP
3 35 (1.60%) Firewall
4 23 (1.05%) Broadband
4 23 (1.05%) VPN
5 20 (0.91%) TCP/IP
6 17 (0.78%) Network Security
6 17 (0.78%) VoIP
7 12 (0.55%) Internet
7 12 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
8 11 (0.50%) CTI
8 11 (0.50%) Kerberos
8 11 (0.50%) LAN
8 11 (0.50%) WAN
9 8 (0.37%) Intranet
9 8 (0.37%) Wireless
10 6 (0.27%) SMS
10 6 (0.27%) VLAN
11 5 (0.23%) Skype
11 5 (0.23%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (4.06%) Power BI
2 61 (2.78%) SQL Server
3 43 (1.96%) Relational Database
4 32 (1.46%) MySQL
5 29 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
6 26 (1.19%) NoSQL
7 15 (0.68%) Metadata
8 14 (0.64%) Looker
9 12 (0.55%) MongoDB
10 11 (0.50%) BigQuery
11 10 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
12 9 (0.41%) GIS
12 9 (0.41%) Redis
13 8 (0.37%) Tableau
14 7 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
14 7 (0.32%) Power Query
15 5 (0.23%) Elasticsearch
15 5 (0.23%) Star Schema
16 4 (0.18%) Data Warehouse
16 4 (0.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 89 (4.06%) JIRA
2 83 (3.79%) Git
3 38 (1.73%) Claude Code
4 24 (1.10%) Jenkins
5 20 (0.91%) Cypress.io
6 17 (0.78%) fastlane
7 16 (0.73%) GitLab
8 14 (0.64%) Oracle Forms
8 14 (0.64%) Team Foundation Server
9 11 (0.50%) Selenium
10 9 (0.41%) Crashlytics
11 8 (0.37%) Axure RP
11 8 (0.37%) Balsamiq
11 8 (0.37%) Postman
12 7 (0.32%) Storybook
12 7 (0.32%) Xcode
13 5 (0.23%) Android Studio
13 5 (0.23%) Appium
13 5 (0.23%) Gradle
13 5 (0.23%) JUnit
General
1 810 (36.97%) Social Skills
2 397 (18.12%) Finance
3 373 (17.02%) Analytical Skills
4 249 (11.36%) Marketing
5 214 (9.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 205 (9.36%) Public Sector
7 132 (6.02%) Retail
8 130 (5.93%) Law
9 124 (5.66%) Presentation Skills
10 103 (4.70%) Organisational Skills
11 81 (3.70%) Legal
12 78 (3.56%) Influencing Skills
13 68 (3.10%) Banking
14 38 (1.73%) Advertising
15 31 (1.41%) Games
16 27 (1.23%) Publishing
17 23 (1.05%) Multimedia
18 22 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
18 22 (1.00%) Financial Institution
18 22 (1.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 431 (19.67%) Senior
2 324 (14.79%) Designer
3 289 (13.19%) Developer
4 257 (11.73%) Analyst
5 242 (11.05%) Lead
6 228 (10.41%) UX Designer
7 105 (4.79%) Senior Analyst
8 104 (4.75%) ITSM Analyst
9 102 (4.66%) Software Engineer
10 101 (4.61%) Support Analyst
11 93 (4.24%) IT Support
12 87 (3.97%) UI Designer
13 85 (3.88%) Senior Developer
14 80 (3.65%) UI/UX Designer
15 70 (3.19%) Process Analyst
16 67 (3.06%) Senior Designer
17 66 (3.01%) Architect
18 62 (2.83%) IT Manager
19 57 (2.60%) Business Analyst
20 55 (2.51%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 188 (8.58%) CSS
1 188 (8.58%) HTML
2 147 (6.71%) .NET
3 137 (6.25%) React
4 101 (4.61%) REST
5 74 (3.38%) Node.js
6 69 (3.15%) RESTful
7 50 (2.28%) Next.js
8 45 (2.05%) .NET Core
9 43 (1.96%) ASP.NET
10 41 (1.87%) JSON
11 35 (1.60%) Spring
12 34 (1.55%) AngularJS
13 33 (1.51%) Terraform
14 31 (1.41%) jQuery
14 31 (1.41%) Spring Boot
15 27 (1.23%) HTML5
15 27 (1.23%) Playwright
16 26 (1.19%) CSS3
17 24 (1.10%) LESS
Miscellaneous
1 199 (9.08%) Product Ownership
2 98 (4.47%) Mobile App
3 84 (3.83%) Onboarding
4 74 (3.38%) Enterprise Software
5 64 (2.92%) Cloud Native
6 62 (2.83%) Management Information System
7 59 (2.69%) Social Media
8 56 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
9 37 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
10 33 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
11 31 (1.41%) Driving Licence
12 26 (1.19%) AI Agents
13 23 (1.05%) Algorithms
13 23 (1.05%) Graphic Design
14 21 (0.96%) Blog
15 19 (0.87%) Low-Code
16 18 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
16 18 (0.82%) Taxonomies
16 18 (0.82%) Virtual Team
17 16 (0.73%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 185 (8.44%) Windows
2 58 (2.65%) Apple iOS
3 49 (2.24%) Windows Server
4 46 (2.10%) Windows 10
5 45 (2.05%) Android
6 42 (1.92%) macOS
7 38 (1.73%) Linux
8 9 (0.41%) Unix
9 8 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
10 6 (0.27%) Windows 7
11 4 (0.18%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.14%) AIX
13 2 (0.091%) CentOS
14 1 (0.046%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 636 (29.03%) Continuous Improvement
2 548 (25.01%) UX Design
3 544 (24.83%) Agile
4 492 (22.46%) Problem-Solving
5 471 (21.50%) AI
6 343 (15.65%) Analytics
7 323 (14.74%) Decision-Making
8 315 (14.38%) Stakeholder Management
9 310 (14.15%) Roadmaps
10 278 (12.69%) Mentoring
11 267 (12.19%) ITIL
12 260 (11.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 251 (11.46%) Service Management
14 241 (11.00%) ITSM
15 208 (9.49%) DevOps
16 206 (9.40%) CI/CD
17 187 (8.53%) Service Design
18 178 (8.12%) Change Management
19 177 (8.08%) Project Delivery
19 177 (8.08%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 237 (10.82%) JavaScript
2 187 (8.53%) SQL
3 164 (7.49%) TypeScript
4 157 (7.17%) C#
5 136 (6.21%) Python
6 95 (4.34%) Java
7 76 (3.47%) PowerShell
8 28 (1.28%) PHP
9 24 (1.10%) VB.NET
10 23 (1.05%) Swift
11 20 (0.91%) Kotlin
12 18 (0.82%) C++
13 13 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 10 (0.46%) Bash
14 10 (0.46%) C
15 9 (0.41%) ABAP
15 9 (0.41%) VBScript
16 7 (0.32%) T-SQL
17 6 (0.27%) Go
17 6 (0.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 301 (13.74%) Degree
2 163 (7.44%) Security Cleared
3 97 (4.43%) SC Cleared
4 46 (2.10%) Microsoft Certification
5 32 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 30 (1.37%) DV Cleared
6 30 (1.37%) Postgraduate
7 26 (1.19%) DBS Check
8 21 (0.96%) ITIL Certification
9 20 (0.91%) A+ Certification
9 20 (0.91%) Master's Degree
10 17 (0.78%) PhD
11 13 (0.59%) CISSP
12 12 (0.55%) ICAEW
12 12 (0.55%) PMI Certification
13 9 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
14 7 (0.32%) Azure Certification
14 7 (0.32%) ISTQB
14 7 (0.32%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 7 (0.32%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 285 (13.01%) Accessibility
2 127 (5.80%) QA
3 89 (4.06%) WCAG
4 72 (3.29%) Data Quality
5 60 (2.74%) GDPR
6 35 (1.60%) SLA
7 18 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
8 15 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
9 12 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 10 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 5 (0.23%) GRC
11 5 (0.23%) PMO
11 5 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.18%) NEBOSH
12 4 (0.18%) PERC
12 4 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
13 3 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 2 (0.091%) GxP
14 2 (0.091%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 2 (0.091%) PSD2
System Software
1 126 (5.75%) Active Directory
2 74 (3.38%) Docker
3 12 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
4 11 (0.50%) BitLocker
5 7 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.32%) vSphere
6 2 (0.091%) Firmware
6 2 (0.091%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.091%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (0.091%) UAG
6 2 (0.091%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.091%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.046%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 98 (4.47%) Microsoft Intune
2 48 (2.19%) Kubernetes
3 20 (0.91%) SCCM
4 17 (0.78%) Jamf Pro
5 11 (0.50%) Grafana
6 10 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.41%) Ansible
8 4 (0.18%) Packer
8 4 (0.18%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.091%) AirWatch
9 2 (0.091%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.046%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.046%) AppManager
10 1 (0.046%) Argo
10 1 (0.046%) Forefront Identity Manager
10 1 (0.046%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.046%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 476 (21.73%) Microsoft
2 121 (5.52%) Google
3 120 (5.48%) Adobe
4 49 (2.24%) ServiceNow
5 46 (2.10%) Oracle
6 41 (1.87%) SAP
7 40 (1.83%) Salesforce
8 31 (1.41%) Cisco
9 29 (1.32%) OpenAI
10 24 (1.10%) Apple
11 22 (1.00%) Workday
12 20 (0.91%) Meraki
13 18 (0.82%) iManage
14 16 (0.73%) VMware
15 14 (0.64%) Dynatrace
16 13 (0.59%) Okta
17 11 (0.50%) Avaya
17 11 (0.50%) Genesys
18 9 (0.41%) Optimizely
18 9 (0.41%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud