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

3 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 83 82
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 -19
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 801 605 1,925
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.09% 3.45% 3.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.83% 3.65% 3.66%
Number of salaries quoted 514 400 1,390
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,450 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,856 £44,400 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £76,563 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,645 £95,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £50,000 £46,958
% change year-on-year +3.00% +6.48% -14.62%

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 28,343 16,556 52,641
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.79% 94.28% 85.18%
Number of salaries quoted 18,982 9,689 40,092
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,580 £28,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +14.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £98,750 £103,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -7.94%

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 March 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 March 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 -1 701 £55,000 -4.35% 836
UK excluding London -5 451 £51,500 +3.00% 588
Work from Home 0 301 £57,500 -4.17% 446
London +2 258 £60,000 -17.24% 370
North of England -11 124 £58,446 +16.89% 182
Midlands +15 102 £45,000 -1.58% 91
South East -30 86 £55,000 +10.00% 175
West Midlands +17 67 £45,000 -28.00% 61
South West -8 67 £50,000 -2.44% 65
North West -13 63 £55,000 - 96
Yorkshire -3 53 £58,446 +37.52% 45
East of England -12 41 £77,000 +136.92% 47
East Midlands -20 35 £42,500 +21.43% 30
Wales 0 15 £42,934 - 19
Scotland -23 15 £62,500 -32.50% 17
North East -25 8 £60,000 +7.62% 42
Northern Ireland -29 2 £78,750 - 4

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
1 111 (1.95%) CMS
2 72 (1.27%) SharePoint
3 68 (1.20%) Confluence
4 36 (0.63%) WordPress
5 31 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
6 21 (0.37%) Drupal
7 11 (0.19%) Umbraco
8 8 (0.14%) nginx
9 5 (0.088%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.053%) Appian
10 3 (0.053%) IIS
10 3 (0.053%) Joomla!
11 2 (0.035%) Apache
11 2 (0.035%) CICS
11 2 (0.035%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.035%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.018%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.018%) Camunda
12 1 (0.018%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.018%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 52 (0.91%) Adobe XD
2 29 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 25 (0.44%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 25 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
4 24 (0.42%) Photoshop
4 24 (0.42%) Sketch
5 22 (0.39%) Adobe Illustrator
6 18 (0.32%) MS Visio
7 11 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 9 (0.16%) Chatbot
9 8 (0.14%) Adobe After Effects
9 8 (0.14%) InDesign
10 7 (0.12%) InVision
10 7 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
11 4 (0.070%) Adobe Premiere
12 3 (0.053%) AutoCAD
12 3 (0.053%) Trello
13 2 (0.035%) Avid Media Composer
13 2 (0.035%) Elementor
13 2 (0.035%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 38 (0.67%) Shopify
2 18 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
3 17 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
4 12 (0.21%) Magento
5 9 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
6 8 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
7 6 (0.11%) Workday HCM
8 5 (0.088%) Payment Gateway
8 5 (0.088%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.070%) SAP BPC
10 2 (0.035%) Dynamics AX
10 2 (0.035%) Oracle Payables
10 2 (0.035%) Oracle Receivables
10 2 (0.035%) Remedy ITSM
10 2 (0.035%) Sage X3
10 2 (0.035%) SAP Business One
11 1 (0.018%) Oracle SCM
11 1 (0.018%) Salesforce CRM
11 1 (0.018%) SAP HR
11 1 (0.018%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 4,044 (71.11%) Cloud Computing
2 277 (4.87%) Azure
3 221 (3.89%) Figma
4 181 (3.18%) AWS
5 157 (2.76%) Microsoft 365
6 113 (1.99%) SaaS
7 102 (1.79%) Power Platform
8 76 (1.34%) Google Analytics
9 71 (1.25%) GitHub
10 66 (1.16%) GCP
11 65 (1.14%) Azure DevOps
12 58 (1.02%) Entra ID
13 56 (0.98%) Adobe Analytics
14 41 (0.72%) Serverless
15 36 (0.63%) Miro
16 34 (0.60%) Dynamics 365
16 34 (0.60%) PowerApps
17 26 (0.46%) Azure Logic Apps
17 26 (0.46%) GitHub Copilot
17 26 (0.46%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 4,050 (71.22%) Internet
2 47 (0.83%) Broadband
3 26 (0.46%) VPN
4 20 (0.35%) Firewall
5 18 (0.32%) HTTP
6 17 (0.30%) DNS
7 13 (0.23%) DHCP
8 11 (0.19%) TCP/IP
8 11 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
9 8 (0.14%) LAN
10 5 (0.088%) Intranet
10 5 (0.088%) VoIP
10 5 (0.088%) WAN
11 4 (0.070%) Bluetooth
12 3 (0.053%) Kerberos
12 3 (0.053%) Network Security
12 3 (0.053%) VLAN
12 3 (0.053%) WebEx
13 2 (0.035%) Modbus
13 2 (0.035%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (0.95%) SQL Server
2 52 (0.91%) Power BI
3 34 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
4 29 (0.51%) Looker
5 27 (0.47%) MySQL
6 26 (0.46%) NoSQL
7 20 (0.35%) MongoDB
8 19 (0.33%) Relational Database
9 14 (0.25%) Tableau
10 13 (0.23%) BigQuery
10 13 (0.23%) Metadata
11 12 (0.21%) DB2
12 7 (0.12%) Oracle Reports
12 7 (0.12%) Redis
13 6 (0.11%) SAP BW
14 5 (0.088%) Elasticsearch
15 4 (0.070%) Azure SQL Database
16 3 (0.053%) Big Data
16 3 (0.053%) MariaDB
16 3 (0.053%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 134 (2.36%) JIRA
2 92 (1.62%) Git
3 38 (0.67%) Axure RP
4 33 (0.58%) Balsamiq
5 27 (0.47%) Jenkins
6 21 (0.37%) webpack
7 20 (0.35%) Selenium
8 18 (0.32%) Cypress.io
9 17 (0.30%) Vite
10 13 (0.23%) NeoLoad
10 13 (0.23%) Visual Studio
11 12 (0.21%) Bitbucket
11 12 (0.21%) Cucumber
11 12 (0.21%) eCATT
11 12 (0.21%) Storybook
12 11 (0.19%) Postman
13 10 (0.18%) TeamCity
14 9 (0.16%) Crashlytics
15 7 (0.12%) GitLab
15 7 (0.12%) XCTest
General
1 4,522 (79.51%) Social Skills
2 4,176 (73.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4,121 (72.46%) Banking
4 296 (5.20%) Finance
5 219 (3.85%) Marketing
6 175 (3.08%) Analytical Skills
7 137 (2.41%) Public Sector
8 115 (2.02%) Law
9 106 (1.86%) Legal
10 75 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
11 72 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
12 66 (1.16%) Retail
13 65 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
14 40 (0.70%) Manufacturing
15 37 (0.65%) Telecoms
16 33 (0.58%) Games
17 28 (0.49%) Advertising
18 19 (0.33%) Back Office
19 13 (0.23%) Digital Health
20 12 (0.21%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 3,139 (55.20%) Lecturer
2 334 (5.87%) Senior
3 265 (4.66%) Developer
4 212 (3.73%) Designer
5 159 (2.80%) Lead
6 146 (2.57%) Analyst
7 140 (2.46%) UX Designer
8 78 (1.37%) Senior Developer
9 74 (1.30%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 71 (1.25%) Software Engineer
11 59 (1.04%) Full-Stack Developer
12 58 (1.02%) Senior Manager
13 55 (0.97%) Product Manager
14 53 (0.93%) Senior Designer
15 48 (0.84%) IT Support
15 48 (0.84%) UI Designer
16 46 (0.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 42 (0.74%) Business Analyst
18 40 (0.70%) UI/UX Designer
19 37 (0.65%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 235 (4.13%) HTML
2 229 (4.03%) CSS
3 223 (3.92%) React
4 117 (2.06%) .NET
5 95 (1.67%) REST
5 95 (1.67%) RESTful
6 83 (1.46%) Node.js
7 78 (1.37%) AngularJS
8 71 (1.25%) Vue
9 47 (0.83%) HTML5
10 37 (0.65%) CSS3
11 36 (0.63%) Next.js
12 31 (0.55%) Spring
13 28 (0.49%) WebSockets
14 27 (0.47%) .NET Framework
14 27 (0.47%) GraphQL
14 27 (0.47%) Spring Boot
15 25 (0.44%) ASP.NET
15 25 (0.44%) JSON
16 24 (0.42%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4,055 (71.30%) IoT
2 172 (3.02%) Product Ownership
3 110 (1.93%) Mobile App
4 87 (1.53%) Onboarding
5 60 (1.06%) Cloud Native
6 50 (0.88%) Social Media
7 42 (0.74%) Management Information System
8 41 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
9 38 (0.67%) Legacy Systems
10 33 (0.58%) AI Agents
11 31 (0.55%) Enterprise Software
12 29 (0.51%) Greenfield Project
13 20 (0.35%) Low-Code
14 18 (0.32%) Analytical Mindset
15 17 (0.30%) Driving Licence
16 16 (0.28%) Distributed Systems
16 16 (0.28%) e-Learning
17 15 (0.26%) CMDB
17 15 (0.26%) Life Science
18 14 (0.25%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 62 (1.09%) Windows
2 61 (1.07%) Android
3 60 (1.06%) Apple iOS
4 22 (0.39%) Windows 10
5 19 (0.33%) Linux
6 15 (0.26%) Mac OS
7 13 (0.23%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.11%) Unix
9 4 (0.070%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.053%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.053%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.035%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.035%) zOS
12 1 (0.018%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,322 (76.00%) AI
2 4,109 (72.25%) Machine Learning
3 4,100 (72.09%) Cybersecurity
4 4,086 (71.85%) Web Development
5 558 (9.81%) Agile
6 464 (8.16%) UX Design
7 389 (6.84%) Problem-Solving
8 354 (6.22%) Continuous Improvement
9 341 (6.00%) Analytics
10 248 (4.36%) Roadmaps
11 215 (3.78%) Mentoring
12 193 (3.39%) Full-Stack Development
13 183 (3.22%) DevOps
14 174 (3.06%) Decision-Making
15 168 (2.95%) Software Engineering
16 166 (2.92%) CI/CD
16 166 (2.92%) User Research
17 163 (2.87%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
18 146 (2.57%) Front End Development
19 145 (2.55%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 291 (5.12%) JavaScript
2 169 (2.97%) TypeScript
3 123 (2.16%) SQL
4 120 (2.11%) Java
5 108 (1.90%) Python
6 101 (1.78%) C#
7 46 (0.81%) PHP
8 38 (0.67%) PowerShell
9 24 (0.42%) Kotlin
10 21 (0.37%) Go
11 17 (0.30%) Swift
12 16 (0.28%) Bash
13 15 (0.26%) C++
14 10 (0.18%) T-SQL
15 9 (0.16%) Bicep
16 7 (0.12%) ABAP
16 7 (0.12%) Rust
17 6 (0.11%) R
17 6 (0.11%) Ruby
18 4 (0.070%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4,284 (75.33%) Degree
2 4,073 (71.62%) Master's Degree
3 4,047 (71.16%) PhD
4 4,046 (71.14%) Postgraduate
5 159 (2.80%) Security Cleared
6 114 (2.00%) SC Cleared
7 45 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
8 34 (0.60%) DBS Check
9 24 (0.42%) DV Cleared
10 21 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
11 12 (0.21%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 11 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
13 10 (0.18%) PMI Certification
14 8 (0.14%) PMP
15 7 (0.12%) PRINCE2 Certification
16 6 (0.11%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 5 (0.088%) SAP Certification
18 4 (0.070%) ACCA
18 4 (0.070%) Cisco Certification
18 4 (0.070%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 323 (5.68%) Accessibility
2 115 (2.02%) QA
3 100 (1.76%) WCAG
4 61 (1.07%) GDPR
5 19 (0.33%) Data Quality
6 17 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
7 12 (0.21%) PCI DSS
8 10 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
8 10 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 19770
9 9 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 7 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 6 (0.11%) PERC
11 6 (0.11%) SLA
12 5 (0.088%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.053%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.035%) GRC
14 2 (0.035%) HL7
14 2 (0.035%) SOC 2
15 1 (0.018%) NCSC
15 1 (0.018%) NIST
System Software
1 78 (1.37%) Active Directory
2 68 (1.20%) Docker
3 18 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.070%) Firmware
6 3 (0.053%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.053%) vSphere
7 2 (0.035%) RACF
8 1 (0.018%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.018%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 52 (0.91%) Kubernetes
2 48 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
3 41 (0.72%) Terraform
4 21 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
5 13 (0.23%) HP ALM
6 10 (0.18%) Grafana
7 8 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
8 7 (0.12%) Ansible
9 6 (0.11%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.070%) SCCM
11 2 (0.035%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 2 (0.035%) Nessus
11 2 (0.035%) Nmap
11 2 (0.035%) Packer
11 2 (0.035%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.035%) SmoothWall
12 1 (0.018%) Argo
12 1 (0.018%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.018%) Kibana
12 1 (0.018%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 242 (4.26%) Microsoft
2 163 (2.87%) Adobe
3 120 (2.11%) Google
4 74 (1.30%) ServiceNow
5 48 (0.84%) Salesforce
6 41 (0.72%) SAP
7 34 (0.60%) HubSpot
8 27 (0.47%) Nexthink
8 27 (0.47%) Oracle
9 23 (0.40%) Apple
9 23 (0.40%) Hotjar
10 21 (0.37%) Qualtrics
11 18 (0.32%) Atlassian
12 17 (0.30%) BMC
13 16 (0.28%) Cisco
14 14 (0.25%) HP
15 12 (0.21%) iManage
15 12 (0.21%) Sitecore
15 12 (0.21%) Splunk
16 10 (0.18%) New Relic