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

3 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 61 71
Rank change year-on-year -38 +10 +12
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 997 1,123 1,071
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.88% 4.09% 2.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.57% 4.64% 3.88%
Number of salaries quoted 687 456 473
10th Percentile £30,750 £34,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,813 £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 £72,500 £77,500 £72,500
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 38,830 24,192 27,576
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.25% 88.15% 76.05%
Number of salaries quoted 27,906 13,017 17,675
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £44,121
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.32%
75th Percentile £77,514 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £53,287
% change year-on-year +15.79% -10.86% -3.11%

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 25 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 25 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 -25 895 £55,000 -8.33% 831
UK excluding London -40 590 £50,000 -9.09% 465
Work from Home -47 368 £55,000 -12.00% 372
London -22 324 £70,000 -6.67% 461
North of England -41 201 £52,000 +6.67% 138
South East -19 111 £52,500 -8.70% 129
North West -50 109 £45,000 -14.29% 63
Midlands +15 88 £45,000 -18.18% 54
South West -20 69 £60,000 +14.29% 63
East of England +25 68 £46,250 -24.49% 54
West Midlands -14 52 £50,000 -9.09% 44
Yorkshire +20 46 £52,786 +5.57% 44
North East -3 46 £50,810 +408.10% 31
East Midlands +18 36 £42,500 -22.73% 10
Wales -25 26 £49,480 -26.70% 5
Scotland -27 24 £60,500 -23.17% 24
Northern Ireland -61 3 £39,500 - 13

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
1 152 (7.75%) SharePoint
2 121 (6.17%) CMS
3 66 (3.36%) Confluence
4 53 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
5 30 (1.53%) WordPress
6 8 (0.41%) Drupal
7 5 (0.25%) IIS
7 5 (0.25%) Moodle
7 5 (0.25%) Skype for Business
7 5 (0.25%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.15%) Apache
8 3 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.15%) Headless CMS
8 3 (0.15%) nginx
8 3 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
9 2 (0.10%) Totara
10 1 (0.051%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.051%) ExpressionEngine
10 1 (0.051%) NServiceBus
10 1 (0.051%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 33 (1.68%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 33 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
2 31 (1.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 29 (1.48%) Adobe XD
4 22 (1.12%) Photoshop
4 22 (1.12%) Sketch
5 20 (1.02%) Adobe Illustrator
6 17 (0.87%) Chatbot
6 17 (0.87%) UserZoom
7 15 (0.76%) InDesign
8 13 (0.66%) Adobe After Effects
9 10 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
10 6 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
11 5 (0.25%) InVision
12 4 (0.20%) MS Visio
12 4 (0.20%) Trello
13 3 (0.15%) Productboard
13 3 (0.15%) SPSS
14 2 (0.10%) Camtasia
14 2 (0.10%) Final Cut Pro
Business Applications
1 23 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (1.02%) Shopify
3 17 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
4 12 (0.61%) Magento
5 11 (0.56%) NetSuite
6 6 (0.31%) Dynamics GP
6 6 (0.31%) Workday HCM
7 4 (0.20%) SAP ERP
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
1 389 (19.83%) Azure
2 293 (14.93%) Microsoft 365
3 198 (10.09%) Figma
4 163 (8.31%) Power Platform
5 156 (7.95%) AWS
6 136 (6.93%) SaaS
7 119 (6.07%) Entra ID
8 100 (5.10%) Azure DevOps
9 80 (4.08%) Power Automate
10 76 (3.87%) PowerApps
11 66 (3.36%) Adobe Analytics
12 65 (3.31%) Google Analytics
13 64 (3.26%) GitHub
14 60 (3.06%) GCP
15 56 (2.85%) Microsoft Copilot
16 49 (2.50%) Serverless
17 46 (2.34%) Azure Logic Apps
17 46 (2.34%) Contentsquare
17 46 (2.34%) Dynamics 365
18 44 (2.24%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 71 (3.62%) Broadband
2 34 (1.73%) Firewall
3 28 (1.43%) DNS
4 24 (1.22%) DHCP
5 23 (1.17%) VPN
6 21 (1.07%) VoIP
7 15 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
8 12 (0.61%) CTI
8 12 (0.61%) TCP/IP
9 11 (0.56%) Kerberos
10 10 (0.51%) HTTP
11 9 (0.46%) Internet
11 9 (0.46%) 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 (0.25%) SAN
14 5 (0.25%) Skype
15 4 (0.20%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (4.54%) Power BI
2 61 (3.11%) SQL Server
3 24 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (1.17%) Azure SQL Database
5 20 (1.02%) Looker
5 20 (1.02%) Relational Database
6 17 (0.87%) MySQL
7 16 (0.82%) Metadata
8 15 (0.76%) NoSQL
9 13 (0.66%) MongoDB
10 11 (0.56%) BigQuery
11 8 (0.41%) Redis
11 8 (0.41%) Tableau
12 7 (0.36%) Power Query
13 5 (0.25%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (0.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 5 (0.25%) Star Schema
14 4 (0.20%) Data Warehouse
14 4 (0.20%) SAP BW
14 4 (0.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 100 (5.10%) JIRA
2 84 (4.28%) Git
3 23 (1.17%) Claude Code
3 23 (1.17%) Jenkins
4 21 (1.07%) fastlane
5 20 (1.02%) Crashlytics
6 15 (0.76%) XCTest
7 14 (0.71%) Cypress.io
8 11 (0.56%) Balsamiq
8 11 (0.56%) webpack
9 10 (0.51%) Axure RP
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
1 608 (30.99%) Social Skills
2 319 (16.26%) Finance
3 246 (12.54%) Marketing
4 227 (11.57%) Analytical Skills
5 171 (8.72%) Public Sector
6 152 (7.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 117 (5.96%) Retail
8 109 (5.56%) Legal
9 105 (5.35%) Law
10 94 (4.79%) Organisational Skills
11 75 (3.82%) Games
12 60 (3.06%) Influencing Skills
13 42 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
14 38 (1.94%) Advertising
15 36 (1.83%) Banking
16 32 (1.63%) Manufacturing
17 22 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
18 19 (0.97%) Multimedia
19 17 (0.87%) Publishing
20 15 (0.76%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 345 (17.58%) Senior
2 319 (16.26%) Designer
3 283 (14.42%) Developer
4 229 (11.67%) UX Designer
5 225 (11.47%) Lead
6 145 (7.39%) Analyst
7 103 (5.25%) Senior Developer
8 89 (4.54%) Software Engineer
8 89 (4.54%) UI Designer
9 88 (4.49%) Senior Designer
10 86 (4.38%) IT Support
11 85 (4.33%) UI/UX Designer
12 67 (3.41%) Architect
13 65 (3.31%) Product Manager
14 64 (3.26%) Support Engineer
15 63 (3.21%) Senior UX Designer
16 61 (3.11%) IT Manager
17 54 (2.75%) Business Analyst
18 51 (2.60%) Full-Stack Developer
19 49 (2.50%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 200 (10.19%) HTML
2 199 (10.14%) CSS
3 155 (7.90%) React
4 143 (7.29%) .NET
5 93 (4.74%) REST
6 78 (3.98%) RESTful
7 57 (2.91%) .NET Core
8 55 (2.80%) Node.js
9 47 (2.40%) JSON
10 44 (2.24%) AngularJS
11 38 (1.94%) HTML5
12 37 (1.89%) ASP.NET
13 35 (1.78%) Next.js
14 32 (1.63%) CSS3
14 32 (1.63%) Vue
15 26 (1.33%) SPFx
15 26 (1.33%) SwiftUI
16 25 (1.27%) jQuery
16 25 (1.27%) Sass
17 24 (1.22%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 186 (9.48%) Product Ownership
2 110 (5.61%) Mobile App
3 100 (5.10%) Onboarding
4 73 (3.72%) Social Media
5 62 (3.16%) Enterprise Software
6 49 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
7 47 (2.40%) Cloud Native
8 31 (1.58%) Management Information System
9 26 (1.33%) Driving Licence
10 25 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
11 24 (1.22%) AI Agents
11 24 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
11 24 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
12 19 (0.97%) Low-Code
13 18 (0.92%) Algorithms
13 18 (0.92%) Graphic Design
14 15 (0.76%) Security Posture
15 14 (0.71%) Life Science
16 13 (0.66%) Animation
16 13 (0.66%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 142 (7.24%) Windows
2 71 (3.62%) Apple iOS
3 44 (2.24%) Windows Server
4 41 (2.09%) Android
5 40 (2.04%) Windows 10
6 33 (1.68%) Mac OS
7 27 (1.38%) Linux
8 8 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (0.25%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.20%) Mac OS X
10 4 (0.20%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.051%) AIX
11 1 (0.051%) CentOS
11 1 (0.051%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 550 (28.03%) Agile
2 528 (26.91%) UX Design
3 471 (24.01%) Continuous Improvement
4 433 (22.07%) Problem-Solving
5 393 (20.03%) AI
6 362 (18.45%) Analytics
7 324 (16.51%) Roadmaps
8 254 (12.95%) Mentoring
9 205 (10.45%) DevOps
10 202 (10.30%) Decision-Making
11 197 (10.04%) Stakeholder Management
12 177 (9.02%) CI/CD
13 173 (8.82%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 168 (8.56%) User Research
15 164 (8.36%) Software Engineering
16 155 (7.90%) ITIL
17 147 (7.49%) Customer Experience
17 147 (7.49%) Workflow
18 144 (7.34%) Product Roadmap
19 137 (6.98%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 236 (12.03%) JavaScript
2 150 (7.65%) C#
3 148 (7.54%) SQL
4 147 (7.49%) TypeScript
5 114 (5.81%) Python
6 87 (4.43%) Java
7 71 (3.62%) PowerShell
8 31 (1.58%) Swift
9 29 (1.48%) PHP
10 26 (1.33%) Kotlin
11 13 (0.66%) ABAP
12 12 (0.61%) C++
13 11 (0.56%) VB.NET
14 10 (0.51%) C
14 10 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 9 (0.46%) Go
16 8 (0.41%) VBScript
17 7 (0.36%) VB
18 6 (0.31%) Rust
18 6 (0.31%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 174 (8.87%) Degree
2 139 (7.08%) Security Cleared
3 84 (4.28%) SC Cleared
4 38 (1.94%) DV Cleared
5 28 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
6 26 (1.33%) DBS Check
7 24 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (0.66%) Master's Degree
9 11 (0.56%) CISSP
9 11 (0.56%) Postgraduate
10 10 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
11 9 (0.46%) ICAEW
12 8 (0.41%) ISTQB
12 8 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
13 6 (0.31%) SAP Certification
14 5 (0.25%) PMI Certification
14 5 (0.25%) PMP
15 3 (0.15%) A+ Certification
15 3 (0.15%) PhD
15 3 (0.15%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 318 (16.21%) Accessibility
2 116 (5.91%) QA
3 104 (5.30%) WCAG
4 71 (3.62%) GDPR
5 56 (2.85%) Data Quality
6 23 (1.17%) SLA
7 21 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
8 11 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
8 11 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 11 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 8 (0.41%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.25%) NEBOSH
11 4 (0.20%) PMO
11 4 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
12 3 (0.15%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (0.15%) PERC
13 2 (0.10%) GRC
13 2 (0.10%) GxP
System Software
1 117 (5.96%) Active Directory
2 54 (2.75%) Docker
3 9 (0.46%) BitLocker
3 9 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.051%) Firmware
6 1 (0.051%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 85 (4.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 31 (1.58%) Kubernetes
3 16 (0.82%) Terraform
4 14 (0.71%) SCCM
5 12 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
6 11 (0.56%) Jamf Pro
7 4 (0.20%) Ansible
7 4 (0.20%) Grafana
7 4 (0.20%) 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
1 431 (21.97%) Microsoft
2 176 (8.97%) Adobe
3 98 (4.99%) Google
4 62 (3.16%) ServiceNow
5 51 (2.60%) Salesforce
6 37 (1.89%) Apple
7 33 (1.68%) Oracle
7 33 (1.68%) SAP
8 23 (1.17%) iManage
9 18 (0.92%) Braze
9 18 (0.92%) OpenAI
10 17 (0.87%) Cisco
11 16 (0.82%) Amplitude
11 16 (0.82%) Hotjar
11 16 (0.82%) HubSpot
12 15 (0.76%) Dynatrace
13 14 (0.71%) Meraki
14 12 (0.61%) Genesys
15 11 (0.56%) Avaya
15 11 (0.56%) VMware