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

3 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 63 72
Rank change year-on-year -34 +9 +10
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 976 1,130 1,057
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.84% 4.08% 2.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.53% 4.62% 3.81%
Number of salaries quoted 684 460 476
10th Percentile £30,750 £33,625 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,819 £45,375 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £73,188 £75,968 £71,563
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

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 38,640 24,447 27,727
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.97% 88.36% 76.04%
Number of salaries quoted 27,959 12,985 17,765
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £43,997
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.64%
75th Percentile £78,016 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £53,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -11.21% -2.73%

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 July 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 23 July 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 -27 881 £55,000 -8.33% 822
UK excluding London -37 581 £50,000 -9.09% 464
Work from Home -48 356 £55,000 -12.00% 366
London -22 313 £70,000 -5.08% 465
North of England -40 199 £52,500 +5.00% 133
South East -16 114 £51,250 -10.87% 127
North West -51 110 £51,000 -2.86% 63
Midlands +13 85 £46,250 -15.91% 52
East of England +31 68 £45,000 -25.00% 53
South West -21 67 £60,000 +11.63% 62
West Midlands -20 51 £50,000 -9.09% 39
Yorkshire +26 45 £52,786 +5.57% 42
North East -1 44 £51,810 +418.10% 28
East Midlands +13 34 £42,500 -26.09% 13
Wales -25 24 £50,000 -25.93% 7
Scotland -22 23 £60,000 -23.81% 33
Northern Ireland -55 1 £39,500 - 12

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
1 147 (7.55%) SharePoint
2 120 (6.17%) CMS
3 64 (3.29%) Confluence
4 50 (2.57%) Microsoft Exchange
5 29 (1.49%) WordPress
6 8 (0.41%) Drupal
7 6 (0.31%) Umbraco
8 5 (0.26%) IIS
8 5 (0.26%) Moodle
9 4 (0.21%) Skype for Business
10 3 (0.15%) Apache
10 3 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.15%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.15%) nginx
10 3 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.10%) Totara
12 1 (0.051%) Apache Spark
12 1 (0.051%) ExpressionEngine
12 1 (0.051%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.051%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 33 (1.70%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 32 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (1.49%) Adobe XD
4 26 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
5 23 (1.18%) Photoshop
6 22 (1.13%) Sketch
7 21 (1.08%) Adobe Illustrator
8 17 (0.87%) Chatbot
8 17 (0.87%) UserZoom
9 14 (0.72%) Adobe After Effects
9 14 (0.72%) InDesign
10 9 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
11 6 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
12 5 (0.26%) InVision
13 4 (0.21%) Trello
14 3 (0.15%) Productboard
14 3 (0.15%) SPSS
15 2 (0.10%) Adobe Premiere
15 2 (0.10%) Camtasia
15 2 (0.10%) Final Cut Pro
Business Applications
1 21 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (1.03%) Shopify
3 17 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
4 12 (0.62%) Magento
5 10 (0.51%) NetSuite
6 6 (0.31%) Dynamics GP
7 4 (0.21%) SAP ERP
7 4 (0.21%) Workday HCM
8 3 (0.15%) Carpe Diem
8 3 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
8 3 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.15%) Elite 3E
8 3 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
9 2 (0.10%) Adobe Campaign
9 2 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
9 2 (0.10%) Towers Watson Igloo
9 2 (0.10%) Visualfiles
10 1 (0.051%) Oracle Payables
10 1 (0.051%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 380 (19.53%) Azure
2 286 (14.70%) Microsoft 365
3 199 (10.23%) Figma
4 159 (8.17%) Power Platform
5 153 (7.86%) AWS
6 139 (7.14%) SaaS
7 115 (5.91%) Entra ID
8 99 (5.09%) Azure DevOps
9 78 (4.01%) Power Automate
10 74 (3.80%) PowerApps
11 68 (3.49%) Adobe Analytics
12 65 (3.34%) GitHub
13 63 (3.24%) Google Analytics
14 58 (2.98%) GCP
15 55 (2.83%) Microsoft Copilot
16 49 (2.52%) Serverless
17 46 (2.36%) Azure Logic Apps
18 45 (2.31%) Contentsquare
18 45 (2.31%) Dynamics 365
19 43 (2.21%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 71 (3.65%) Broadband
2 33 (1.70%) Firewall
3 27 (1.39%) DNS
4 23 (1.18%) DHCP
4 23 (1.18%) VPN
5 21 (1.08%) VoIP
6 15 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
7 12 (0.62%) CTI
8 11 (0.57%) Kerberos
8 11 (0.57%) TCP/IP
9 10 (0.51%) HTTP
10 9 (0.46%) Internet
10 9 (0.46%) Wireless
11 7 (0.36%) VLAN
12 6 (0.31%) Intranet
12 6 (0.31%) Network Security
12 6 (0.31%) Unified Communications
13 5 (0.26%) SAN
14 4 (0.21%) NAS
14 4 (0.21%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (4.42%) Power BI
2 59 (3.03%) SQL Server
3 24 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
5 19 (0.98%) Looker
6 18 (0.92%) MySQL
6 18 (0.92%) Relational Database
7 16 (0.82%) Metadata
8 15 (0.77%) NoSQL
9 13 (0.67%) MongoDB
10 11 (0.57%) BigQuery
11 8 (0.41%) Redis
12 7 (0.36%) Tableau
13 6 (0.31%) Power Query
14 5 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
14 5 (0.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 4 (0.21%) Data Warehouse
15 4 (0.21%) SAP BW
15 4 (0.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 4 (0.21%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 97 (4.98%) JIRA
2 82 (4.21%) Git
3 23 (1.18%) Claude Code
3 23 (1.18%) Jenkins
4 21 (1.08%) fastlane
5 20 (1.03%) Crashlytics
6 15 (0.77%) XCTest
7 13 (0.67%) Cypress.io
8 11 (0.57%) webpack
9 10 (0.51%) Axure RP
9 10 (0.51%) Balsamiq
10 9 (0.46%) Vite
10 9 (0.46%) Xcode
11 8 (0.41%) Selenium
12 7 (0.36%) Bitbucket
13 6 (0.31%) Android Studio
13 6 (0.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (0.31%) Gradle
13 6 (0.31%) NUnit
13 6 (0.31%) Postman
General
1 590 (30.32%) Social Skills
2 307 (15.78%) Finance
3 244 (12.54%) Marketing
4 221 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
5 175 (8.99%) Public Sector
6 144 (7.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 115 (5.91%) Retail
8 108 (5.55%) Legal
9 100 (5.14%) Law
10 93 (4.78%) Organisational Skills
11 75 (3.85%) Games
12 62 (3.19%) Influencing Skills
13 40 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
14 38 (1.95%) Advertising
15 36 (1.85%) Banking
16 31 (1.59%) Manufacturing
17 21 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
18 20 (1.03%) Multimedia
19 16 (0.82%) Publishing
20 15 (0.77%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 340 (17.47%) Senior
2 316 (16.24%) Designer
3 284 (14.59%) Developer
4 231 (11.87%) UX Designer
5 223 (11.46%) Lead
6 135 (6.94%) Analyst
7 102 (5.24%) Senior Developer
8 87 (4.47%) UI Designer
9 85 (4.37%) Senior Designer
9 85 (4.37%) Software Engineer
10 84 (4.32%) UI/UX Designer
11 83 (4.27%) IT Support
12 66 (3.39%) Architect
12 66 (3.39%) IT Manager
12 66 (3.39%) Product Manager
13 63 (3.24%) Senior UX Designer
13 63 (3.24%) Support Engineer
14 51 (2.62%) Business Analyst
14 51 (2.62%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 50 (2.57%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 198 (10.17%) HTML
2 197 (10.12%) CSS
3 157 (8.07%) React
4 144 (7.40%) .NET
5 93 (4.78%) REST
6 78 (4.01%) RESTful
7 56 (2.88%) .NET Core
8 54 (2.77%) Node.js
9 47 (2.42%) JSON
10 44 (2.26%) AngularJS
11 36 (1.85%) ASP.NET
11 36 (1.85%) HTML5
12 34 (1.75%) Next.js
13 33 (1.70%) Vue
14 30 (1.54%) CSS3
15 27 (1.39%) Sass
16 26 (1.34%) SPFx
16 26 (1.34%) SwiftUI
17 25 (1.28%) jQuery
18 24 (1.23%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 186 (9.56%) Product Ownership
2 108 (5.55%) Mobile App
3 98 (5.04%) Onboarding
4 74 (3.80%) Social Media
5 59 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
6 49 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
7 48 (2.47%) Cloud Native
8 33 (1.70%) Management Information System
9 31 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
10 25 (1.28%) Driving Licence
11 24 (1.23%) AI Agents
11 24 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
11 24 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
12 18 (0.92%) Graphic Design
13 17 (0.87%) Algorithms
13 17 (0.87%) Low-Code
14 14 (0.72%) Life Science
14 14 (0.72%) Security Posture
15 13 (0.67%) Animation
15 13 (0.67%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 138 (7.09%) Windows
2 70 (3.60%) Apple iOS
3 43 (2.21%) Windows Server
4 40 (2.06%) Android
5 39 (2.00%) Windows 10
6 32 (1.64%) Mac OS
7 27 (1.39%) Linux
8 8 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (0.26%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.21%) Mac OS X
11 3 (0.15%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.051%) AIX
12 1 (0.051%) CentOS
12 1 (0.051%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 549 (28.21%) Agile
2 529 (27.18%) UX Design
3 464 (23.84%) Continuous Improvement
4 424 (21.79%) Problem-Solving
5 381 (19.58%) AI
6 357 (18.35%) Analytics
7 324 (16.65%) Roadmaps
8 258 (13.26%) Mentoring
9 200 (10.28%) DevOps
10 198 (10.17%) Decision-Making
11 189 (9.71%) Stakeholder Management
12 174 (8.94%) CI/CD
13 170 (8.74%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 163 (8.38%) Software Engineering
14 163 (8.38%) User Research
15 155 (7.97%) ITIL
16 146 (7.50%) Customer Experience
16 146 (7.50%) Product Roadmap
17 145 (7.45%) Workflow
18 137 (7.04%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 236 (12.13%) JavaScript
2 150 (7.71%) C#
3 148 (7.61%) TypeScript
4 144 (7.40%) SQL
5 113 (5.81%) Python
6 86 (4.42%) Java
7 69 (3.55%) PowerShell
8 31 (1.59%) Swift
9 29 (1.49%) PHP
10 26 (1.34%) Kotlin
11 13 (0.67%) ABAP
12 12 (0.62%) C++
13 11 (0.57%) VB.NET
14 10 (0.51%) C
15 9 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 9 (0.46%) Go
16 7 (0.36%) VBScript
17 6 (0.31%) Rust
17 6 (0.31%) T-SQL
17 6 (0.31%) VB
Qualifications
1 171 (8.79%) Degree
2 134 (6.89%) Security Cleared
3 81 (4.16%) SC Cleared
4 38 (1.95%) DV Cleared
5 25 (1.28%) DBS Check
6 24 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
7 23 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
8 13 (0.67%) Master's Degree
9 11 (0.57%) CISSP
9 11 (0.57%) Postgraduate
10 9 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (0.46%) ICAEW
11 8 (0.41%) ISTQB
11 8 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
12 6 (0.31%) SAP Certification
13 5 (0.26%) PMI Certification
13 5 (0.26%) PMP
14 3 (0.15%) A+ Certification
14 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 3 (0.15%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 316 (16.24%) Accessibility
2 114 (5.86%) QA
3 102 (5.24%) WCAG
4 69 (3.55%) GDPR
5 51 (2.62%) Data Quality
6 23 (1.18%) SLA
7 21 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
8 11 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 10 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 9 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
11 8 (0.41%) PCI DSS
12 5 (0.26%) NEBOSH
13 4 (0.21%) PMO
13 4 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.21%) Software Quality Assurance
14 3 (0.15%) HIPAA
14 3 (0.15%) PERC
15 2 (0.10%) GRC
15 2 (0.10%) GxP
15 2 (0.10%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 116 (5.96%) Active Directory
2 53 (2.72%) Docker
3 9 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
4 8 (0.41%) BitLocker
5 6 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.051%) Firmware
7 1 (0.051%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 82 (4.21%) Microsoft Intune
2 29 (1.49%) Kubernetes
3 16 (0.82%) Terraform
4 13 (0.67%) SCCM
5 12 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
6 11 (0.57%) Jamf Pro
7 4 (0.21%) Ansible
7 4 (0.21%) Grafana
7 4 (0.21%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.10%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.10%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 2 (0.10%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.10%) Packer
8 2 (0.10%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.051%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.051%) Forefront Identity Manager
9 1 (0.051%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.051%) Kibana
Vendors
1 423 (21.74%) Microsoft
2 177 (9.10%) Adobe
3 94 (4.83%) Google
4 60 (3.08%) ServiceNow
5 48 (2.47%) Salesforce
6 36 (1.85%) Apple
7 33 (1.70%) SAP
8 32 (1.64%) Oracle
9 23 (1.18%) iManage
10 18 (0.92%) OpenAI
11 17 (0.87%) Braze
11 17 (0.87%) Cisco
12 16 (0.82%) Amplitude
12 16 (0.82%) Hotjar
12 16 (0.82%) HubSpot
13 15 (0.77%) Dynatrace
14 13 (0.67%) Meraki
15 12 (0.62%) Genesys
16 11 (0.57%) Avaya
16 11 (0.57%) VMware