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

3 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 55 92
Rank change year-on-year -28 +37 -6
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 1,058 1,293 1,239
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.99% 4.88% 2.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.73% 5.31% 3.41%
Number of salaries quoted 734 529 696
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% +4.55% -10.20%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,844 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.50% +7.69% -9.09%

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 38,686 24,373 36,376
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.95% 91.94% 81.12%
Number of salaries quoted 26,646 12,644 24,131
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -11.29%
75th Percentile £79,250 £75,000 £73,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -9.09%

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 31 May 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 31 May 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 -20 942 £57,500 -1.71% 411
UK excluding London -16 687 £52,500 -2.50% 346
Work from Home -28 390 £57,500 -4.17% 216
London -36 300 £70,000 - 158
North of England -25 256 £51,310 -6.71% 90
North West -15 149 £53,000 -7.83% 57
East of England +35 119 £80,150 +60.30% 41
South East +28 115 £53,250 +6.50% 115
Midlands -13 76 £45,000 -16.18% 51
Yorkshire -4 63 £50,000 +21.21% 15
South West -21 58 £60,000 +12.68% 33
North East -2 44 £47,000 +370.00% 20
West Midlands -41 40 £43,999 -20.00% 35
Scotland -27 38 £50,000 +8.70% 9
East Midlands +8 36 £45,000 +40.63% 15
Wales -11 22 £50,000 -25.93% 13
Northern Ireland -25 4 £39,500 - 1

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
1 122 (2.84%) CMS
1 122 (2.84%) SharePoint
2 72 (1.68%) Confluence
3 46 (1.07%) Microsoft Exchange
4 27 (0.63%) WordPress
5 9 (0.21%) Drupal
6 8 (0.19%) Umbraco
7 7 (0.16%) nginx
8 4 (0.093%) Moodle
9 3 (0.070%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.070%) Headless CMS
9 3 (0.070%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.047%) IIS
10 2 (0.047%) Skype for Business
10 2 (0.047%) Totara
11 1 (0.023%) Apache
11 1 (0.023%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 34 (0.79%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 33 (0.77%) Adobe XD
3 32 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
4 23 (0.54%) Photoshop
5 21 (0.49%) Adobe Illustrator
5 21 (0.49%) Sketch
6 20 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
7 14 (0.33%) Adobe After Effects
8 13 (0.30%) UserZoom
9 10 (0.23%) Chatbot
9 10 (0.23%) InDesign
10 9 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 9 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
11 6 (0.14%) InVision
12 5 (0.12%) Trello
13 3 (0.070%) Adobe Premiere
13 3 (0.070%) MS Visio
13 3 (0.070%) Productboard
13 3 (0.070%) SPSS
14 2 (0.047%) Pro Tools
Business Applications
1 31 (0.72%) Shopify
2 23 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 20 (0.47%) Magento
4 10 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
5 9 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
6 5 (0.12%) SAP ERP
7 4 (0.093%) Dynamics AX
7 4 (0.093%) Dynamics GP
8 2 (0.047%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.047%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.047%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.047%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.047%) Towers Watson Igloo
9 1 (0.023%) Elite 3E
9 1 (0.023%) Oracle General Ledger
9 1 (0.023%) Oracle Payables
9 1 (0.023%) PeopleSoft HCM
9 1 (0.023%) SAP EWM
9 1 (0.023%) SAP HCM
9 1 (0.023%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 2,447 (56.93%) Cloud Computing
2 332 (7.72%) Azure
3 239 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
4 219 (5.10%) Figma
5 162 (3.77%) AWS
6 146 (3.40%) SaaS
7 136 (3.16%) Power Platform
8 102 (2.37%) Entra ID
9 75 (1.74%) Azure DevOps
10 71 (1.65%) Adobe Analytics
11 65 (1.51%) GCP
11 65 (1.51%) GitHub
11 65 (1.51%) Google Analytics
12 53 (1.23%) Power Automate
12 53 (1.23%) PowerApps
13 45 (1.05%) Contentsquare
14 44 (1.02%) Serverless
15 43 (1.00%) OneDrive
16 42 (0.98%) Azure Logic Apps
17 35 (0.81%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2,454 (57.10%) Internet
2 82 (1.91%) Broadband
3 27 (0.63%) VPN
4 26 (0.60%) DNS
5 23 (0.54%) Firewall
6 22 (0.51%) DHCP
7 20 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
8 16 (0.37%) HTTP
9 12 (0.28%) TCP/IP
10 9 (0.21%) VoIP
11 8 (0.19%) Kerberos
12 5 (0.12%) SAN
13 4 (0.093%) NAS
13 4 (0.093%) Network Security
13 4 (0.093%) SMS
13 4 (0.093%) Structured Cabling
13 4 (0.093%) Unified Communications
13 4 (0.093%) VLAN
14 3 (0.070%) LAN
14 3 (0.070%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (1.58%) Power BI
2 50 (1.16%) SQL Server
3 32 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (0.58%) Looker
5 23 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
6 19 (0.44%) MySQL
7 18 (0.42%) Metadata
7 18 (0.42%) MongoDB
8 15 (0.35%) BigQuery
9 14 (0.33%) NoSQL
10 10 (0.23%) Relational Database
10 10 (0.23%) Tableau
11 9 (0.21%) Redis
12 6 (0.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 5 (0.12%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (0.12%) Data Warehouse
13 5 (0.12%) DB2
13 5 (0.12%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (0.12%) GIS
13 5 (0.12%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 111 (2.58%) JIRA
2 74 (1.72%) Git
3 20 (0.47%) Jenkins
4 19 (0.44%) Balsamiq
5 18 (0.42%) Axure RP
5 18 (0.42%) Crashlytics
6 15 (0.35%) fastlane
6 15 (0.35%) Selenium
7 14 (0.33%) Claude Code
7 14 (0.33%) Vite
7 14 (0.33%) webpack
7 14 (0.33%) XCTest
8 12 (0.28%) Cypress.io
9 10 (0.23%) Bitbucket
10 9 (0.21%) Cucumber
11 8 (0.19%) Postman
11 8 (0.19%) Storybook
11 8 (0.19%) Visual Studio
12 7 (0.16%) Xcode
13 6 (0.14%) Android Studio
General
1 2,962 (68.92%) Social Skills
2 2,573 (59.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2,486 (57.84%) Banking
4 285 (6.63%) Finance
5 245 (5.70%) Marketing
6 192 (4.47%) Analytical Skills
7 146 (3.40%) Public Sector
8 106 (2.47%) Legal
9 93 (2.16%) Organisational Skills
10 91 (2.12%) Retail
11 82 (1.91%) Law
12 67 (1.56%) Games
13 57 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
14 44 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
15 33 (0.77%) Advertising
16 32 (0.74%) Manufacturing
17 24 (0.56%) Back Office
18 22 (0.51%) Telecoms
19 18 (0.42%) Documentation Skills
20 14 (0.33%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,847 (42.97%) Lecturer
2 364 (8.47%) Senior
3 310 (7.21%) Designer
4 273 (6.35%) Developer
5 225 (5.23%) UX Designer
6 193 (4.49%) Lead
7 129 (3.00%) Analyst
8 99 (2.30%) Senior Developer
9 88 (2.05%) Senior Designer
10 79 (1.84%) Software Engineer
11 73 (1.70%) UI Designer
12 65 (1.51%) Senior UX Designer
12 65 (1.51%) UI/UX Designer
13 63 (1.47%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 63 (1.47%) IT Support
14 61 (1.42%) IT Manager
14 61 (1.42%) Product Manager
15 60 (1.40%) Architect
16 53 (1.23%) Support Engineer
17 50 (1.16%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 202 (4.70%) CSS
1 202 (4.70%) HTML
2 175 (4.07%) React
3 112 (2.61%) .NET
4 92 (2.14%) REST
5 77 (1.79%) RESTful
6 61 (1.42%) AngularJS
7 54 (1.26%) Node.js
8 49 (1.14%) Vue
9 44 (1.02%) .NET Core
10 43 (1.00%) JSON
11 38 (0.88%) HTML5
12 32 (0.74%) CSS3
13 28 (0.65%) Sass
13 28 (0.65%) Web Services
14 27 (0.63%) SOAP
15 26 (0.60%) Next.js
16 25 (0.58%) SwiftUI
17 24 (0.56%) ASP.NET
17 24 (0.56%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 2,451 (57.03%) IoT
2 194 (4.51%) Product Ownership
3 121 (2.82%) Mobile App
4 110 (2.56%) Onboarding
5 67 (1.56%) Social Media
6 47 (1.09%) Cloud Native
7 44 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
8 40 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
9 34 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
10 31 (0.72%) AI Agents
11 28 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
11 28 (0.65%) Management Information System
12 18 (0.42%) Driving Licence
12 18 (0.42%) e-Learning
12 18 (0.42%) Low-Code
13 17 (0.40%) Life Science
13 17 (0.40%) Public Cloud
14 15 (0.35%) Analytical Mindset
14 15 (0.35%) Graphic Design
14 15 (0.35%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 114 (2.65%) Windows
2 66 (1.54%) Apple iOS
3 44 (1.02%) Android
4 32 (0.74%) Windows 10
4 32 (0.74%) Windows Server
5 27 (0.63%) Mac OS
6 26 (0.60%) Linux
7 5 (0.12%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.093%) Mac OS X
9 2 (0.047%) Unix
9 2 (0.047%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.023%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,789 (64.89%) AI
2 2,528 (58.82%) Machine Learning
3 2,513 (58.47%) Cybersecurity
4 2,499 (58.14%) Web Development
5 542 (12.61%) UX Design
6 512 (11.91%) Agile
7 387 (9.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 372 (8.66%) Problem-Solving
9 333 (7.75%) Analytics
10 300 (6.98%) Roadmaps
11 255 (5.93%) Mentoring
12 179 (4.16%) Decision-Making
13 171 (3.98%) DevOps
14 167 (3.89%) Software Engineering
15 166 (3.86%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
16 157 (3.65%) Full-Stack Development
17 156 (3.63%) User Research
18 155 (3.61%) CI/CD
19 147 (3.42%) Product Roadmap
20 146 (3.40%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 251 (5.84%) JavaScript
2 153 (3.56%) TypeScript
3 126 (2.93%) SQL
4 116 (2.70%) C#
4 116 (2.70%) Python
5 101 (2.35%) Java
6 57 (1.33%) PowerShell
7 45 (1.05%) PHP
8 26 (0.60%) Kotlin
8 26 (0.60%) Swift
9 14 (0.33%) Go
10 9 (0.21%) Bash
10 9 (0.21%) Bicep
10 9 (0.21%) C++
10 9 (0.21%) T-SQL
11 8 (0.19%) Rust
12 7 (0.16%) ABAP
13 6 (0.14%) Apex Code
14 5 (0.12%) VB
15 4 (0.093%) C
Qualifications
1 2,634 (61.28%) Degree
2 2,463 (57.31%) Master's Degree
3 2,451 (57.03%) Postgraduate
4 2,449 (56.98%) PhD
5 145 (3.37%) Security Cleared
6 88 (2.05%) SC Cleared
7 41 (0.95%) DV Cleared
8 35 (0.81%) DBS Check
9 24 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
10 17 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
11 14 (0.33%) BPSS Clearance
12 8 (0.19%) CISSP
12 8 (0.19%) ICAEW
13 7 (0.16%) ITIL Certification
13 7 (0.16%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 6 (0.14%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 6 (0.14%) PMI Certification
14 6 (0.14%) SAP Certification
15 5 (0.12%) PMP
16 4 (0.093%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 296 (6.89%) Accessibility
2 111 (2.58%) QA
3 101 (2.35%) WCAG
4 59 (1.37%) GDPR
5 30 (0.70%) Data Quality
6 20 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
7 15 (0.35%) SLA
8 12 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 8 (0.19%) PCI DSS
10 6 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
10 6 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 5 (0.12%) HIPAA
11 5 (0.12%) NEBOSH
12 4 (0.093%) PMO
13 3 (0.070%) GRC
13 3 (0.070%) PERC
14 2 (0.047%) GxP
14 2 (0.047%) SOC 2
15 1 (0.023%) COBIT
15 1 (0.023%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 105 (2.44%) Active Directory
2 56 (1.30%) Docker
3 6 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.093%) BitLocker
5 4 (0.093%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.023%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 73 (1.70%) Microsoft Intune
2 36 (0.84%) Kubernetes
3 26 (0.60%) Terraform
4 21 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
5 10 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
6 9 (0.21%) SCCM
7 8 (0.19%) Grafana
8 5 (0.12%) Ansible
8 5 (0.12%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.047%) Data Guard
9 2 (0.047%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 2 (0.047%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (0.047%) Packer
9 2 (0.047%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.023%) Argo
10 1 (0.023%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.023%) Kibana
10 1 (0.023%) MOM
Vendors
1 350 (8.14%) Microsoft
2 191 (4.44%) Adobe
3 96 (2.23%) Google
4 73 (1.70%) ServiceNow
5 53 (1.23%) Salesforce
6 30 (0.70%) HubSpot
7 27 (0.63%) Apple
8 24 (0.56%) SAP
9 23 (0.54%) Nexthink
9 23 (0.54%) Oracle
10 18 (0.42%) Braze
11 16 (0.37%) Hotjar
12 15 (0.35%) Amplitude
12 15 (0.35%) BMC
13 13 (0.30%) iManage
13 13 (0.30%) OpenAI
14 11 (0.26%) Dynatrace
15 10 (0.23%) VMware
15 10 (0.23%) WooCommerce
16 9 (0.21%) Atlassian