User Experience Jobs

UX
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring User Experience skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited User Experience over the 3 months leading up to 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

3 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 70 86
Rank change year-on-year -9 +16 -50
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 1,164 1,163 1,148
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.33% 3.08% 3.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.78% 4.02% 3.72%
Number of salaries quoted 473 490 844
10th Percentile £34,100 £32,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £46,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -12.70% +5.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £71,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £83,750 £102,105
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.76%

All Process and 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 30,761 28,917 30,823
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 88.04% 76.47% 94.78%
Number of salaries quoted 14,831 18,236 21,793
10th Percentile £26,500 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £35,625 £42,705 £45,326
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,800 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.46% -5.92% +4.17%
75th Percentile £73,708 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £96,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing User Experience as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for User Experience in the UK

User Experience
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing User Experience.

Salary trend for User Experience in the UK

User Experience
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing User Experience over the 3 months to 16 July 2025.

Salary histogram for User Experience in the UK

User Experience
Top 18 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 16 July 2025. 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 -23 992 £60,000 +5.29% 2,585
UK excluding London -41 739 £55,000 - 1,421
Work from Home +59 653 £63,000 +6.75% 1,363
North of England -31 361 £50,000 +11.11% 401
London +57 342 £73,750 +13.46% 1,375
North West -13 336 £56,250 +25.00% 241
South East -38 117 £57,500 +4.55% 359
Scotland +11 90 £77,500 +29.17% 70
Midlands -54 74 £55,000 +10.00% 215
West Midlands -1 60 £55,000 -3.49% 148
South West -11 43 £53,750 -10.42% 175
East of England -30 38 £60,000 +23.08% 142
Yorkshire -50 17 £37,500 -34.78% 125
East Midlands -55 14 £52,500 +40.00% 66
North East -13 8 £10,000 -76.06% 38
Northern Ireland +1 7 - - 36
Wales -24 7 £67,500 +68.75% 51
Channel Islands +1 2 £87,500 +59.09% 1

User Experience
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 95 (4.87%) CMS
2 63 (3.23%) SharePoint
3 54 (2.77%) WordPress
4 36 (1.84%) Confluence
5 30 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
6 18 (0.92%) Drupal
6 18 (0.92%) Skype for Business
7 14 (0.72%) Headless CMS
7 14 (0.72%) Umbraco
8 11 (0.56%) IBM Domino
9 8 (0.41%) Apache
10 6 (0.31%) Apache Spark
10 6 (0.31%) IIS
11 5 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
12 4 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 4 (0.20%) Liferay
12 4 (0.20%) nginx
12 4 (0.20%) SAP Portal
13 3 (0.15%) Apache Solr
14 2 (0.10%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 50 (2.56%) Adobe XD
2 45 (2.31%) Sketch
3 42 (2.15%) Microsoft Excel
4 37 (1.90%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 24 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
6 22 (1.13%) Photoshop
7 18 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 18 (0.92%) MS Visio
8 15 (0.77%) Adobe Illustrator
9 12 (0.61%) InDesign
10 9 (0.46%) Adobe Premiere
10 9 (0.46%) Chatbot
11 8 (0.41%) InVision
12 5 (0.26%) Trello
12 5 (0.26%) UserZoom
13 3 (0.15%) Adobe After Effects
13 3 (0.15%) Adobe Captivate
14 2 (0.10%) Elementor
14 2 (0.10%) Final Cut Pro
14 2 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 36 (1.84%) Shopify
2 33 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 30 (1.54%) NetSuite
4 12 (0.61%) Magento
5 11 (0.56%) JDE OneWorld
6 7 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
7 6 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
7 6 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
8 4 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
9 3 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
10 2 (0.10%) Adobe Campaign
10 2 (0.10%) iTrent
10 2 (0.10%) Oracle EBS R12
10 2 (0.10%) Workday HCM
11 1 (0.051%) Elite 3E
11 1 (0.051%) Lorenzo
11 1 (0.051%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 1 (0.051%) Sage 200
11 1 (0.051%) Sprinklr
11 1 (0.051%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 581 (29.76%) AWS
2 579 (29.66%) Azure
3 264 (13.52%) GCP
4 156 (7.99%) Figma
5 118 (6.05%) Microsoft 365
6 104 (5.33%) SaaS
7 96 (4.92%) Google Analytics
8 85 (4.35%) Power Platform
9 59 (3.02%) Serverless
10 52 (2.66%) GitHub
11 50 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
12 40 (2.05%) PowerApps
13 37 (1.90%) Power Automate
14 35 (1.79%) AWS Lambda
15 32 (1.64%) Dynamics 365
15 32 (1.64%) Entra ID
16 30 (1.54%) Azure Logic Apps
17 27 (1.38%) Azure AI
18 24 (1.23%) Boomi
18 24 (1.23%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 19 (0.97%) Unified Communications
1 19 (0.97%) Wireless
2 18 (0.92%) Skype
3 17 (0.87%) Internet
4 11 (0.56%) DNS
5 10 (0.51%) HTTP
6 9 (0.46%) WAN
7 8 (0.41%) LAN
7 8 (0.41%) VPN
8 7 (0.36%) Cisco IOS
8 7 (0.36%) TCP/IP
9 6 (0.31%) Firewall
9 6 (0.31%) Intranet
10 4 (0.20%) DHCP
10 4 (0.20%) LoRaWAN
10 4 (0.20%) Remote Desktop
11 3 (0.15%) Broadband
11 3 (0.15%) NetScaler
12 2 (0.10%) DMZ
12 2 (0.10%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 156 (7.99%) SQL Server
2 84 (4.30%) PostgreSQL
3 68 (3.48%) MySQL
4 58 (2.97%) Power BI
5 43 (2.20%) NoSQL
6 30 (1.54%) MongoDB
7 29 (1.49%) Relational Database
8 22 (1.13%) Tableau
9 20 (1.02%) DynamoDB
10 12 (0.61%) DB2
11 11 (0.56%) Amazon Aurora
11 11 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
12 9 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
12 9 (0.46%) Metadata
12 9 (0.46%) Redis
13 7 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
13 7 (0.36%) Mixpanel
14 6 (0.31%) Big Data
14 6 (0.31%) BigQuery
14 6 (0.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 196 (10.04%) JIRA
2 157 (8.04%) Git
3 117 (5.99%) GitLab
4 110 (5.64%) Selenium
5 99 (5.07%) Cucumber
5 99 (5.07%) Maven
6 96 (4.92%) Bitbucket
7 91 (4.66%) SonarQube
8 90 (4.61%) Sonatype Nexus
9 29 (1.49%) Jenkins
10 23 (1.18%) Cypress.io
11 21 (1.08%) Axure RP
12 20 (1.02%) webpack
13 16 (0.82%) Balsamiq
13 16 (0.82%) Vite
14 11 (0.56%) Visual Studio
15 10 (0.51%) Appium
15 10 (0.51%) Octopus Deploy
15 10 (0.51%) Storybook
15 10 (0.51%) Subversion
General
1 574 (29.41%) Finance
2 564 (28.89%) Social Skills
3 396 (20.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 295 (15.11%) Banking
5 261 (13.37%) Marketing
6 247 (12.65%) Analytical Skills
7 205 (10.50%) Law
8 150 (7.68%) Retail
9 108 (5.53%) Investment Banking
10 92 (4.71%) Corporate Banking
11 65 (3.33%) Public Sector
12 64 (3.28%) Legal
13 45 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
14 42 (2.15%) Advertising
15 38 (1.95%) Games
16 35 (1.79%) Manufacturing
17 31 (1.59%) Front Office
18 30 (1.54%) Financial Institution
19 25 (1.28%) Electronics
19 25 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 609 (31.20%) Senior
2 481 (24.64%) Developer
3 366 (18.75%) Software Engineer
4 203 (10.40%) Designer
5 201 (10.30%) Senior Software Engineer
6 169 (8.66%) Senior Developer
7 138 (7.07%) Lead
8 135 (6.92%) UX Designer
9 117 (5.99%) Analyst
10 104 (5.33%) Senior Designer
11 98 (5.02%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 90 (4.61%) Senior UX Designer
13 87 (4.46%) Full-Stack Developer
14 71 (3.64%) Product Manager
15 70 (3.59%) Architect
16 59 (3.02%) React Developer
17 50 (2.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 49 (2.51%) Solutions Architect
19 46 (2.36%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
20 43 (2.20%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 423 (21.67%) React
2 378 (19.36%) CSS
3 371 (19.01%) HTML
4 334 (17.11%) .NET
5 305 (15.63%) Node.js
6 227 (11.63%) RESTful
7 161 (8.25%) HTML5
8 153 (7.84%) CSS3
9 148 (7.58%) REST
10 136 (6.97%) Redux
11 135 (6.92%) Jest
12 121 (6.20%) Sass
13 120 (6.15%) Kafka
14 117 (5.99%) Spring
15 115 (5.89%) Spring Boot
16 108 (5.53%) AngularJS
17 91 (4.66%) JPA
18 55 (2.82%) Next.js
19 46 (2.36%) Vue
20 44 (2.25%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 238 (12.19%) Product Ownership
2 220 (11.27%) Self-Motivation
3 178 (9.12%) Cyberattack
3 178 (9.12%) Linux Command Line
4 112 (5.74%) Enterprise Software
5 100 (5.12%) Mobile App
6 51 (2.61%) Social Media
7 49 (2.51%) Algorithms
8 48 (2.46%) Onboarding
9 41 (2.10%) Data Structures
10 33 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
11 32 (1.64%) Management Information System
12 30 (1.54%) e-Learning
13 27 (1.38%) Fixed Income
14 26 (1.33%) Cloud Native
15 23 (1.18%) Virtual Team
16 21 (1.08%) Video Conferencing
17 20 (1.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 20 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
18 19 (0.97%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 231 (11.83%) Linux
2 102 (5.23%) Android
3 89 (4.56%) Apple iOS
4 82 (4.20%) Windows
5 33 (1.69%) Windows Server
6 14 (0.72%) Windows 10
7 10 (0.51%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.10%) Unix
9 2 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.051%) CentOS
10 1 (0.051%) Debian
10 1 (0.051%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 989 (50.67%) Agile
2 565 (28.94%) UX Design
3 447 (22.90%) Software Engineering
4 439 (22.49%) Mentoring
5 417 (21.36%) Problem-Solving
6 349 (17.88%) Microservices
7 302 (15.47%) DevOps
8 300 (15.37%) Scrum
9 299 (15.32%) CI/CD
10 291 (14.91%) Full-Stack Development
11 283 (14.50%) Front End Development
12 276 (14.14%) Project Management
13 273 (13.99%) Machine Learning
14 268 (13.73%) Analytics
15 262 (13.42%) Roadmaps
16 248 (12.70%) Test Automation
17 242 (12.40%) Artificial Intelligence
18 222 (11.37%) Prototyping
19 217 (11.12%) User Research
20 212 (10.86%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 695 (35.60%) JavaScript
2 391 (20.03%) Java
3 366 (18.75%) Python
4 348 (17.83%) TypeScript
5 289 (14.81%) SQL
6 192 (9.84%) Go
7 189 (9.68%) C++
8 180 (9.22%) Rust
9 160 (8.20%) C#
10 53 (2.72%) PHP
11 33 (1.69%) Kotlin
12 31 (1.59%) PowerShell
13 30 (1.54%) Swift
14 16 (0.82%) Bicep
15 12 (0.61%) Objective-C
16 7 (0.36%) C
16 7 (0.36%) R
17 6 (0.31%) Bash
18 5 (0.26%) Apex Code
18 5 (0.26%) Scala
Qualifications
1 276 (14.14%) Degree
2 259 (13.27%) Security Cleared
3 190 (9.73%) DV Cleared
4 185 (9.48%) AWS Certification
5 180 (9.22%) AWS Certified Developer
6 178 (9.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 96 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
8 53 (2.72%) SC Cleared
9 26 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
10 24 (1.23%) DBS Check
11 23 (1.18%) PMI Certification
11 23 (1.18%) PMP
12 22 (1.13%) Master's Degree
13 16 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
14 15 (0.77%) Azure Certification
15 11 (0.56%) PhD
16 10 (0.51%) ISTQB
17 8 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
18 5 (0.26%) CISSP
19 4 (0.20%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 382 (19.57%) Accessibility
2 248 (12.70%) QA
3 49 (2.51%) GDPR
4 39 (2.00%) WCAG
5 14 (0.72%) Data Quality
6 12 (0.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 10 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (0.51%) SLA
8 9 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
9 6 (0.31%) COBIT
10 5 (0.26%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 5 (0.26%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.26%) Software Quality Assurance
11 4 (0.20%) Good Clinical Practice
12 3 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.15%) PERC
13 2 (0.10%) IEC 62304
13 2 (0.10%) NCSC
13 2 (0.10%) NIST
13 2 (0.10%) Section 508
System Software
1 199 (10.19%) Docker
2 55 (2.82%) Active Directory
3 11 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.10%) Firmware
6 2 (0.10%) HDFS
6 2 (0.10%) KVM
6 2 (0.10%) Xen
7 1 (0.051%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.051%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 192 (9.84%) Kubernetes
2 40 (2.05%) Terraform
3 26 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 16 (0.82%) Grafana
5 13 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
6 12 (0.61%) SCCM
7 6 (0.31%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.20%) Puppet
9 3 (0.15%) Ansible
9 3 (0.15%) Kibana
10 2 (0.10%) CFEngine
10 2 (0.10%) Kubeflow
10 2 (0.10%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.10%) SCOM
10 2 (0.10%) SCSM
10 2 (0.10%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 1 (0.051%) AppManager
11 1 (0.051%) Backup Exec
11 1 (0.051%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.051%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 230 (11.78%) Microsoft
2 171 (8.76%) Google
3 126 (6.45%) Adobe
4 90 (4.61%) Solace
5 89 (4.56%) ServiceNow
6 69 (3.53%) Salesforce
7 60 (3.07%) SAP
8 36 (1.84%) Oracle
9 34 (1.74%) Workday
10 31 (1.59%) Cisco
11 23 (1.18%) Apple
12 22 (1.13%) Hotjar
13 21 (1.08%) Databricks
14 20 (1.02%) VMware
15 19 (0.97%) Concur
16 18 (0.92%) IBM
16 18 (0.92%) Mitel
16 18 (0.92%) Polycom
16 18 (0.92%) ShoreTel
17 17 (0.87%) Facebook