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

3 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 62 72
Rank change year-on-year -32 +10 +7
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 980 1,155 1,102
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.85% 4.13% 2.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.54% 4.66% 3.92%
Number of salaries quoted 688 468 480
10th Percentile £30,500 £34,350 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,800 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £56,988
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.29% -9.54%
75th Percentile £73,750 £76,563 £72,500
90th Percentile £91,625 £100,000 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £57,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.28% +3.64% -

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 38,551 24,768 28,093
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.85% 88.56% 76.14%
Number of salaries quoted 27,858 13,027 18,001
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £43,742
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £78,312 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -4.55%

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 17 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 17 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 -24 880 £55,000 -8.33% 602
UK excluding London -38 595 £50,000 -12.28% 383
Work from Home -52 364 £55,000 -13.39% 276
London -22 306 £70,000 -5.08% 301
North of England -29 201 £51,000 +2.00% 111
South East -19 111 £52,500 -8.70% 121
North West -47 111 £49,250 -10.45% 61
Midlands +14 87 £47,500 -13.64% 47
East of England +40 80 £55,000 -10.20% 44
South West -29 63 £60,000 +11.63% 51
West Midlands -15 51 £50,000 -9.09% 32
Yorkshire +18 46 £51,250 +36.67% 30
North East -1 44 £51,619 +416.19% 20
East Midlands +17 36 £45,000 -14.29% 15
Scotland -17 26 £61,000 -21.29% 13
Wales -24 25 £50,000 -25.93% 5
Northern Ireland -55 2 £39,500 - 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
1 147 (7.65%) SharePoint
2 121 (6.30%) CMS
3 63 (3.28%) Confluence
4 50 (2.60%) Microsoft Exchange
5 28 (1.46%) WordPress
6 8 (0.42%) Drupal
7 6 (0.31%) Umbraco
8 4 (0.21%) Moodle
9 3 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.16%) Headless CMS
9 3 (0.16%) IIS
9 3 (0.16%) nginx
9 3 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.10%) Apache
10 2 (0.10%) Skype for Business
10 2 (0.10%) Totara
11 1 (0.052%) ExpressionEngine
11 1 (0.052%) NServiceBus
11 1 (0.052%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 33 (1.72%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 33 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (1.46%) Adobe XD
3 24 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
4 23 (1.20%) Photoshop
5 22 (1.14%) Sketch
6 21 (1.09%) Adobe Illustrator
7 17 (0.88%) UserZoom
8 16 (0.83%) Chatbot
9 14 (0.73%) Adobe After Effects
9 14 (0.73%) InDesign
10 9 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
11 6 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
12 5 (0.26%) InVision
13 4 (0.21%) Trello
14 3 (0.16%) Productboard
14 3 (0.16%) SPSS
15 2 (0.10%) Adobe Premiere
15 2 (0.10%) Camtasia
15 2 (0.10%) Final Cut Pro
Business Applications
1 22 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
1 22 (1.14%) Shopify
2 16 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.68%) Magento
4 9 (0.47%) NetSuite
5 6 (0.31%) Dynamics GP
6 5 (0.26%) SAP ERP
7 4 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
7 4 (0.21%) Elite 3E
7 4 (0.21%) Workday HCM
8 3 (0.16%) Carpe Diem
8 3 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
8 3 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.16%) 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 (0.052%) Oracle Payables
10 1 (0.052%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 369 (19.20%) Azure
2 283 (14.72%) Microsoft 365
3 205 (10.67%) Figma
4 152 (7.91%) Power Platform
5 150 (7.80%) AWS
6 133 (6.92%) SaaS
7 115 (5.98%) Entra ID
8 99 (5.15%) Azure DevOps
9 75 (3.90%) Power Automate
10 70 (3.64%) PowerApps
11 69 (3.59%) Adobe Analytics
12 66 (3.43%) GitHub
13 61 (3.17%) Google Analytics
14 58 (3.02%) GCP
15 53 (2.76%) Microsoft Copilot
16 48 (2.50%) Serverless
17 46 (2.39%) Azure Logic Apps
17 46 (2.39%) Contentsquare
18 42 (2.19%) OneDrive
19 41 (2.13%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 78 (4.06%) Broadband
2 33 (1.72%) Firewall
3 28 (1.46%) DNS
4 25 (1.30%) VPN
5 24 (1.25%) DHCP
6 21 (1.09%) VoIP
7 16 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
8 12 (0.62%) CTI
8 12 (0.62%) TCP/IP
9 11 (0.57%) Kerberos
10 10 (0.52%) HTTP
11 9 (0.47%) Internet
11 9 (0.47%) Wireless
12 7 (0.36%) VLAN
13 6 (0.31%) Intranet
13 6 (0.31%) Network Security
13 6 (0.31%) Unified Communications
14 5 (0.26%) SAN
15 4 (0.21%) NAS
15 4 (0.21%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (4.27%) Power BI
2 57 (2.97%) SQL Server
3 24 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
5 19 (0.99%) Looker
6 17 (0.88%) Metadata
6 17 (0.88%) MySQL
7 14 (0.73%) MongoDB
7 14 (0.73%) Relational Database
8 13 (0.68%) NoSQL
9 12 (0.62%) BigQuery
10 8 (0.42%) Redis
11 6 (0.31%) Power Query
11 6 (0.31%) Tableau
12 5 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (0.26%) SAP BW
12 5 (0.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (0.21%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (0.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (0.21%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 98 (5.10%) JIRA
2 79 (4.11%) Git
3 22 (1.14%) Claude Code
3 22 (1.14%) Jenkins
4 21 (1.09%) fastlane
5 20 (1.04%) Crashlytics
6 15 (0.78%) XCTest
7 12 (0.62%) Cypress.io
8 11 (0.57%) webpack
9 10 (0.52%) Vite
10 9 (0.47%) Axure RP
10 9 (0.47%) Balsamiq
10 9 (0.47%) Xcode
11 7 (0.36%) Bitbucket
11 7 (0.36%) Selenium
12 6 (0.31%) Android Studio
12 6 (0.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 6 (0.31%) Gradle
12 6 (0.31%) NUnit
12 6 (0.31%) Postman
General
1 578 (30.07%) Social Skills
2 293 (15.24%) Finance
3 240 (12.49%) Marketing
4 212 (11.03%) Analytical Skills
5 172 (8.95%) Public Sector
6 135 (7.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 113 (5.88%) Retail
8 112 (5.83%) Legal
9 94 (4.89%) Organisational Skills
10 92 (4.79%) Law
11 74 (3.85%) Games
12 61 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
13 48 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
14 40 (2.08%) Advertising
15 33 (1.72%) Manufacturing
16 31 (1.61%) Banking
17 20 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
18 19 (0.99%) Multimedia
19 17 (0.88%) Back Office
20 16 (0.83%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 347 (18.05%) Senior
2 309 (16.08%) Designer
3 273 (14.20%) Developer
4 224 (11.65%) UX Designer
5 223 (11.60%) Lead
6 140 (7.28%) Analyst
7 99 (5.15%) Senior Developer
8 85 (4.42%) IT Support
8 85 (4.42%) Senior Designer
9 83 (4.32%) Software Engineer
9 83 (4.32%) UI Designer
10 80 (4.16%) UI/UX Designer
11 67 (3.49%) IT Manager
12 65 (3.38%) Product Manager
13 64 (3.33%) Senior UX Designer
13 64 (3.33%) Support Engineer
14 63 (3.28%) Architect
15 50 (2.60%) Business Analyst
15 50 (2.60%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
16 48 (2.50%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 190 (9.89%) HTML
2 189 (9.83%) CSS
3 159 (8.27%) React
4 137 (7.13%) .NET
5 91 (4.73%) REST
6 77 (4.01%) RESTful
7 54 (2.81%) .NET Core
7 54 (2.81%) Node.js
8 48 (2.50%) AngularJS
9 47 (2.45%) JSON
10 36 (1.87%) HTML5
11 35 (1.82%) Vue
12 33 (1.72%) ASP.NET
13 32 (1.66%) Next.js
14 30 (1.56%) CSS3
15 27 (1.40%) Sass
16 26 (1.35%) SPFx
16 26 (1.35%) SwiftUI
17 24 (1.25%) jQuery
17 24 (1.25%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 179 (9.31%) Product Ownership
2 111 (5.78%) Mobile App
3 101 (5.25%) Onboarding
4 72 (3.75%) Social Media
5 54 (2.81%) Enterprise Software
6 47 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
7 44 (2.29%) Cloud Native
8 32 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
9 30 (1.56%) Management Information System
10 26 (1.35%) AI Agents
11 25 (1.30%) Driving Licence
12 24 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
13 23 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
14 17 (0.88%) Graphic Design
14 17 (0.88%) Low-Code
15 16 (0.83%) Algorithms
15 16 (0.83%) Life Science
16 15 (0.78%) Security Posture
17 12 (0.62%) Animation
17 12 (0.62%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 137 (7.13%) Windows
2 70 (3.64%) Apple iOS
3 43 (2.24%) Windows Server
4 38 (1.98%) Android
4 38 (1.98%) Windows 10
5 32 (1.66%) Mac OS
6 27 (1.40%) Linux
7 8 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (0.26%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.21%) Mac OS X
10 2 (0.10%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.052%) CentOS
11 1 (0.052%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 539 (28.04%) Agile
2 519 (27.00%) UX Design
3 451 (23.47%) Continuous Improvement
4 426 (22.16%) Problem-Solving
5 365 (18.99%) AI
6 351 (18.26%) Analytics
7 320 (16.65%) Roadmaps
8 259 (13.48%) Mentoring
9 197 (10.25%) DevOps
10 188 (9.78%) Decision-Making
11 177 (9.21%) Stakeholder Management
12 174 (9.05%) CI/CD
13 169 (8.79%) Software Engineering
14 167 (8.69%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 161 (8.38%) User Research
16 154 (8.01%) ITIL
17 150 (7.80%) Customer Experience
18 146 (7.60%) Workflow
19 144 (7.49%) Full-Stack Development
19 144 (7.49%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 227 (11.81%) JavaScript
2 146 (7.60%) TypeScript
3 145 (7.54%) C#
4 138 (7.18%) SQL
5 111 (5.78%) Python
6 87 (4.53%) Java
7 66 (3.43%) PowerShell
8 32 (1.66%) PHP
9 30 (1.56%) Swift
10 24 (1.25%) Kotlin
11 14 (0.73%) ABAP
12 11 (0.57%) C++
13 9 (0.47%) C
13 9 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 9 (0.47%) Go
13 9 (0.47%) VB.NET
14 7 (0.36%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.31%) Apex Code
15 6 (0.31%) Rust
15 6 (0.31%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 165 (8.58%) Degree
2 130 (6.76%) Security Cleared
3 78 (4.06%) SC Cleared
4 37 (1.93%) DV Cleared
5 26 (1.35%) DBS Check
6 22 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (0.57%) CISSP
7 11 (0.57%) Master's Degree
7 11 (0.57%) Postgraduate
8 9 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (0.42%) ICAEW
9 8 (0.42%) ISTQB
10 6 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
10 6 (0.31%) SAP Certification
11 5 (0.26%) PMI Certification
11 5 (0.26%) PMP
12 3 (0.16%) A+ Certification
12 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (0.16%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 307 (15.97%) Accessibility
2 112 (5.83%) QA
3 96 (4.99%) WCAG
4 69 (3.59%) GDPR
5 48 (2.50%) Data Quality
6 23 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials
7 21 (1.09%) SLA
8 12 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 10 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 8 (0.42%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.26%) NEBOSH
13 4 (0.21%) HIPAA
13 4 (0.21%) PMO
13 4 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.21%) Software Quality Assurance
14 3 (0.16%) PERC
15 2 (0.10%) GRC
15 2 (0.10%) GxP
15 2 (0.10%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 116 (6.04%) Active Directory
2 51 (2.65%) Docker
3 9 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (0.36%) BitLocker
5 6 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.052%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 79 (4.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 27 (1.40%) Kubernetes
3 16 (0.83%) Terraform
4 12 (0.62%) SCCM
4 12 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
5 11 (0.57%) Jamf Pro
6 4 (0.21%) Ansible
6 4 (0.21%) Grafana
6 4 (0.21%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.10%) Data Guard
7 2 (0.10%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (0.10%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.10%) Packer
7 2 (0.10%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.052%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.052%) Kibana
Vendors
1 414 (21.54%) Microsoft
2 183 (9.52%) Adobe
3 90 (4.68%) Google
4 64 (3.33%) ServiceNow
5 49 (2.55%) Salesforce
6 34 (1.77%) Apple
7 32 (1.66%) SAP
8 30 (1.56%) Oracle
9 26 (1.35%) iManage
10 18 (0.94%) Braze
10 18 (0.94%) HubSpot
11 16 (0.83%) Amplitude
11 16 (0.83%) Cisco
11 16 (0.83%) Hotjar
11 16 (0.83%) OpenAI
12 15 (0.78%) Dynatrace
13 13 (0.68%) Nexthink
14 12 (0.62%) Genesys
15 11 (0.57%) Avaya
15 11 (0.57%) VMware