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

3 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 79 73
Rank change year-on-year -16 -6 +5
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 1,215 704 1,149
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.86% 3.38% 3.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.53% 3.80% 3.90%
Number of salaries quoted 672 496 476
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 £74,059 £79,063 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,225 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.81% +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 48,081 18,522 29,488
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.79% 88.96% 88.70%
Number of salaries quoted 31,439 11,409 12,880
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.38% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £98,750
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 12 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 12 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 -25 997 £60,000 +9.09% 2,349
UK excluding London -18 708 £50,500 -3.81% 1,055
London -8 411 £70,000 - 1,420
Work from Home -21 396 £57,500 +4.55% 1,092
North of England -30 190 £55,000 +10.00% 282
South East -52 120 £50,000 -4.76% 217
Northern Ireland 0 114 £75,000 - 55
South West -3 111 £60,000 +20.00% 117
Midlands -43 93 £33,500 -36.19% 145
North West -39 92 £51,000 -7.27% 149
West Midlands -30 60 £34,500 -44.80% 90
Yorkshire -17 59 £63,076 +53.84% 95
East of England -79 40 £42,500 -22.73% 112
North East -21 39 £50,000 +39.54% 38
East Midlands -50 33 £30,000 -16.67% 55
Scotland -10 25 £55,000 +29.41% 99
Wales -54 15 £45,987 -23.36% 31

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 (6.01%) SharePoint
2 84 (3.82%) CMS
3 54 (2.46%) Confluence
4 52 (2.37%) 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 (1.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (1.50%) Chatbot
2 33 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (1.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 24 (1.09%) Adobe XD
5 22 (1.00%) Photoshop
6 20 (0.91%) Adobe Illustrator
7 19 (0.86%) 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%) Elementor
12 4 (0.18%) Trello
13 3 (0.14%) Adobe Premiere
13 3 (0.14%) Productboard
13 3 (0.14%) Zeplin
14 2 (0.091%) Final Cut Pro
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 13 (0.59%) 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 (17.66%) Azure
2 281 (12.79%) Microsoft 365
3 178 (8.10%) Power Platform
4 173 (7.87%) Figma
5 159 (7.24%) AWS
6 158 (7.19%) SaaS
7 135 (6.14%) Entra ID
8 92 (4.19%) Azure DevOps
9 79 (3.60%) Power Automate
10 71 (3.23%) PowerApps
11 68 (3.10%) GCP
12 62 (2.82%) Microsoft Copilot
13 58 (2.64%) GitHub
13 58 (2.64%) Google Analytics
14 53 (2.41%) Dynamics 365
15 39 (1.78%) Serverless
16 37 (1.68%) Copilot Studio
16 37 (1.68%) OneDrive
17 35 (1.59%) Azure Logic Apps
18 29 (1.32%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 45 (2.05%) DNS
2 40 (1.82%) DHCP
3 35 (1.59%) Firewall
4 23 (1.05%) Broadband
4 23 (1.05%) VPN
5 19 (0.86%) TCP/IP
6 17 (0.77%) Network Security
6 17 (0.77%) 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 (0.36%) Intranet
9 8 (0.36%) 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 (4.05%) Power BI
2 61 (2.78%) SQL Server
3 43 (1.96%) Relational Database
4 33 (1.50%) MySQL
5 29 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
6 26 (1.18%) 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 (0.36%) 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 (4.05%) JIRA
2 84 (3.82%) Git
3 38 (1.73%) Claude Code
4 24 (1.09%) Jenkins
5 20 (0.91%) Cypress.io
6 17 (0.77%) 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 (0.36%) Axure RP
11 8 (0.36%) Balsamiq
11 8 (0.36%) 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
1 813 (37.01%) Social Skills
2 399 (18.16%) Finance
3 374 (17.02%) Analytical Skills
4 250 (11.38%) Marketing
5 218 (9.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 205 (9.33%) Public Sector
7 132 (6.01%) Retail
8 130 (5.92%) Law
9 124 (5.64%) Presentation Skills
10 103 (4.69%) Organisational Skills
11 82 (3.73%) Legal
12 79 (3.60%) Influencing Skills
13 69 (3.14%) 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 (19.62%) Senior
2 322 (14.66%) Designer
3 289 (13.15%) Developer
4 257 (11.70%) Analyst
5 243 (11.06%) Lead
6 226 (10.29%) UX Designer
7 106 (4.82%) Senior Analyst
8 104 (4.73%) ITSM Analyst
9 103 (4.69%) Software Engineer
10 101 (4.60%) Support Analyst
11 93 (4.23%) IT Support
12 87 (3.96%) UI Designer
13 84 (3.82%) Senior Developer
14 80 (3.64%) UI/UX Designer
15 70 (3.19%) Process Analyst
16 66 (3.00%) Architect
16 66 (3.00%) Senior Designer
17 64 (2.91%) IT Manager
18 57 (2.59%) Business Analyst
19 54 (2.46%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 189 (8.60%) CSS
1 189 (8.60%) HTML
2 147 (6.69%) .NET
3 137 (6.24%) React
4 101 (4.60%) REST
5 74 (3.37%) Node.js
6 69 (3.14%) 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 (1.59%) Spring
12 34 (1.55%) AngularJS
13 33 (1.50%) Terraform
14 31 (1.41%) jQuery
14 31 (1.41%) Spring Boot
15 28 (1.27%) HTML5
16 27 (1.23%) CSS3
16 27 (1.23%) Playwright
17 24 (1.09%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 197 (8.97%) Product Ownership
2 99 (4.51%) Mobile App
3 84 (3.82%) Onboarding
4 74 (3.37%) Enterprise Software
5 65 (2.96%) Management Information System
6 64 (2.91%) Cloud Native
7 59 (2.69%) Social Media
8 56 (2.55%) Self-Motivation
9 37 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
10 33 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
11 31 (1.41%) Driving Licence
12 27 (1.23%) AI Agents
13 23 (1.05%) Algorithms
13 23 (1.05%) Graphic Design
14 21 (0.96%) Blog
15 20 (0.91%) Low-Code
16 19 (0.86%) Virtual Team
17 18 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
17 18 (0.82%) Taxonomies
18 16 (0.73%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 184 (8.38%) Windows
2 59 (2.69%) Apple iOS
3 49 (2.23%) Windows Server
4 47 (2.14%) Android
5 45 (2.05%) Windows 10
6 43 (1.96%) macOS
7 37 (1.68%) Linux
8 9 (0.41%) Unix
9 8 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
10 6 (0.27%) Windows 7
11 3 (0.14%) AIX
11 3 (0.14%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.091%) CentOS
13 1 (0.046%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 637 (28.99%) Continuous Improvement
2 545 (24.81%) UX Design
3 544 (24.76%) Agile
4 494 (22.49%) Problem-Solving
5 476 (21.67%) AI
6 346 (15.75%) Analytics
7 327 (14.88%) Decision-Making
8 318 (14.47%) Stakeholder Management
9 313 (14.25%) Roadmaps
10 279 (12.70%) Mentoring
11 269 (12.24%) ITIL
12 262 (11.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 253 (11.52%) Service Management
14 242 (11.02%) ITSM
15 208 (9.47%) DevOps
16 207 (9.42%) CI/CD
17 188 (8.56%) Service Design
18 179 (8.15%) Change Management
18 179 (8.15%) Project Delivery
19 178 (8.10%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 238 (10.83%) JavaScript
2 187 (8.51%) SQL
3 164 (7.46%) TypeScript
4 157 (7.15%) C#
5 139 (6.33%) Python
6 95 (4.32%) Java
7 76 (3.46%) PowerShell
8 29 (1.32%) PHP
9 24 (1.09%) 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
1 305 (13.88%) Degree
2 163 (7.42%) Security Cleared
3 97 (4.42%) SC Cleared
4 48 (2.18%) Microsoft Certification
5 33 (1.50%) Postgraduate
6 32 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
7 30 (1.37%) DV Cleared
8 26 (1.18%) DBS Check
9 24 (1.09%) Master's Degree
10 21 (0.96%) ITIL Certification
11 20 (0.91%) A+ Certification
11 20 (0.91%) PhD
12 14 (0.64%) CISSP
13 13 (0.59%) PMI Certification
14 12 (0.55%) ICAEW
15 9 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
16 8 (0.36%) Azure Certification
17 7 (0.32%) ISTQB
17 7 (0.32%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 7 (0.32%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 284 (12.93%) Accessibility
2 128 (5.83%) QA
3 89 (4.05%) WCAG
4 72 (3.28%) Data Quality
5 60 (2.73%) GDPR
6 35 (1.59%) 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
1 127 (5.78%) Active Directory
2 74 (3.37%) 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
7 1 (0.046%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.046%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 99 (4.51%) Microsoft Intune
2 48 (2.18%) Kubernetes
3 20 (0.91%) SCCM
4 17 (0.77%) Jamf Pro
5 11 (0.50%) Grafana
5 11 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (0.41%) Ansible
7 4 (0.18%) Packer
7 4 (0.18%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.091%) AirWatch
8 2 (0.091%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.046%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.046%) AppManager
9 1 (0.046%) Argo
9 1 (0.046%) Forefront Identity Manager
9 1 (0.046%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.046%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 476 (21.67%) Microsoft
2 123 (5.60%) Google
3 120 (5.46%) Adobe
4 50 (2.28%) ServiceNow
5 46 (2.09%) Oracle
6 41 (1.87%) Salesforce
6 41 (1.87%) SAP
7 31 (1.41%) Cisco
8 29 (1.32%) OpenAI
9 24 (1.09%) Apple
10 22 (1.00%) Workday
11 20 (0.91%) Meraki
12 18 (0.82%) iManage
13 15 (0.68%) VMware
14 14 (0.64%) Dynatrace
15 13 (0.59%) Okta
16 11 (0.50%) Avaya
16 11 (0.50%) Genesys
17 9 (0.41%) Optimizely
17 9 (0.41%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud