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

3 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 75 84
Rank change year-on-year -5 +9 -4
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 970 816 1,757
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.05% 3.81% 3.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.75% 4.14% 3.66%
Number of salaries quoted 661 490 1,115
10th Percentile £31,500 £32,475 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £44,813 £39,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% +15.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,375 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,835 £51,724 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.15% +3.45% -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 35,218 19,707 48,034
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.33% 91.95% 85.59%
Number of salaries quoted 23,105 11,954 34,083
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,591 £57,500 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.16% +8.49% -11.67%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -8.90%

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 23 April 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 23 April 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 -5 842 £58,446 +1.65% 890
UK excluding London +5 598 £52,835 +2.15% 759
Work from Home +6 374 £59,223 +1.24% 352
London -26 277 £68,000 -2.86% 246
North of England 0 223 £55,000 - 372
North West +5 122 £55,000 - 304
East of England +6 88 £85,000 +100.00% 58
South East -27 88 £48,885 -2.23% 135
Midlands -18 84 £45,249 -15.72% 113
Yorkshire -1 77 £55,000 +15.79% 51
South West -8 62 £50,000 -16.67% 50
West Midlands -36 46 £45,000 -16.18% 62
East Midlands -18 38 £60,000 +87.50% 51
Scotland -19 34 £53,750 -2.27% 20
North East -18 24 £59,223 +4.82% 19
Wales -15 18 £42,934 - 9
Northern Ireland - 3 £49,750 - 17

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 (2.10%) CMS
2 101 (1.74%) SharePoint
3 73 (1.25%) Confluence
4 35 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
5 29 (0.50%) WordPress
6 15 (0.26%) Drupal
7 10 (0.17%) Umbraco
8 8 (0.14%) nginx
9 3 (0.052%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.052%) IIS
9 3 (0.052%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.034%) CICS
10 2 (0.034%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.034%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.017%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.017%) Apache
11 1 (0.017%) Appian
11 1 (0.017%) Camunda
Applications
1 44 (0.76%) Adobe XD
2 33 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
3 30 (0.52%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 28 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
5 21 (0.36%) Photoshop
6 20 (0.34%) Adobe Illustrator
6 20 (0.34%) Sketch
7 10 (0.17%) Chatbot
7 10 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 9 (0.15%) Adobe After Effects
8 9 (0.15%) MS Visio
8 9 (0.15%) UserZoom
9 7 (0.12%) InVision
9 7 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
10 6 (0.10%) InDesign
11 4 (0.069%) Adobe Premiere
12 3 (0.052%) AutoCAD
12 3 (0.052%) Microsoft Project
12 3 (0.052%) SPSS
12 3 (0.052%) Trello
Business Applications
1 35 (0.60%) Shopify
2 20 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (0.34%) Magento
3 9 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
4 6 (0.10%) Dynamics GP
5 5 (0.086%) SAP ERP
5 5 (0.086%) SAP S/4HANA
6 3 (0.052%) Dynamics AX
6 3 (0.052%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.034%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.034%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.034%) Sage X3
8 1 (0.017%) Elite 3E
8 1 (0.017%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.017%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.017%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.017%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.017%) SAP EWM
8 1 (0.017%) SAP HCM
8 1 (0.017%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 4,034 (69.34%) Cloud Computing
2 290 (4.98%) Azure
3 220 (3.78%) Figma
4 189 (3.25%) Microsoft 365
5 186 (3.20%) AWS
6 118 (2.03%) Power Platform
7 116 (1.99%) SaaS
8 86 (1.48%) Google Analytics
9 76 (1.31%) Entra ID
10 71 (1.22%) GCP
10 71 (1.22%) GitHub
11 70 (1.20%) Adobe Analytics
12 55 (0.95%) Azure DevOps
13 52 (0.89%) PowerApps
14 43 (0.74%) Contentsquare
14 43 (0.74%) Power Automate
15 39 (0.67%) OneDrive
16 35 (0.60%) Serverless
17 34 (0.58%) Azure Logic Apps
17 34 (0.58%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4,043 (69.49%) Internet
2 79 (1.36%) Broadband
3 24 (0.41%) Firewall
4 23 (0.40%) HTTP
5 22 (0.38%) DNS
5 22 (0.38%) VPN
6 17 (0.29%) DHCP
7 15 (0.26%) TCP/IP
7 15 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (0.10%) LAN
9 5 (0.086%) Intranet
9 5 (0.086%) Kerberos
10 4 (0.069%) NAS
10 4 (0.069%) Network Security
10 4 (0.069%) SAN
10 4 (0.069%) VoIP
11 3 (0.052%) Bluetooth
11 3 (0.052%) WAN
11 3 (0.052%) WebEx
12 2 (0.034%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (1.03%) Power BI
2 51 (0.88%) SQL Server
3 35 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
4 30 (0.52%) Looker
5 24 (0.41%) NoSQL
6 20 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
6 20 (0.34%) MySQL
7 19 (0.33%) Metadata
8 18 (0.31%) MongoDB
9 16 (0.28%) BigQuery
10 12 (0.21%) DB2
11 10 (0.17%) Tableau
12 9 (0.15%) Relational Database
13 7 (0.12%) Redis
14 6 (0.10%) Data Warehouse
14 6 (0.10%) SAP BW
15 5 (0.086%) Elasticsearch
16 4 (0.069%) Oracle Reports
16 4 (0.069%) QGIS
16 4 (0.069%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 119 (2.05%) JIRA
2 71 (1.22%) Git
3 32 (0.55%) Balsamiq
4 30 (0.52%) Axure RP
5 20 (0.34%) Jenkins
5 20 (0.34%) Selenium
6 16 (0.28%) webpack
7 15 (0.26%) Bitbucket
7 15 (0.26%) Vite
8 14 (0.24%) Crashlytics
8 14 (0.24%) Cucumber
8 14 (0.24%) Cypress.io
9 12 (0.21%) XCTest
10 11 (0.19%) Visual Studio
11 9 (0.15%) Postman
11 9 (0.15%) TeamCity
12 8 (0.14%) Storybook
13 6 (0.10%) Claude Code
13 6 (0.10%) fastlane
13 6 (0.10%) JUnit
General
1 4,556 (78.31%) Social Skills
2 4,156 (71.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4,104 (70.54%) Banking
4 296 (5.09%) Finance
5 235 (4.04%) Marketing
6 190 (3.27%) Analytical Skills
7 141 (2.42%) Public Sector
8 116 (1.99%) Legal
9 85 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
10 82 (1.41%) Law
11 78 (1.34%) Retail
12 67 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
13 61 (1.05%) Games
14 47 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
15 34 (0.58%) Manufacturing
16 32 (0.55%) Advertising
16 32 (0.55%) Telecoms
17 19 (0.33%) Back Office
18 18 (0.31%) Documentation Skills
19 13 (0.22%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 3,129 (53.78%) Lecturer
2 382 (6.57%) Senior
3 279 (4.80%) Designer
4 239 (4.11%) Developer
5 197 (3.39%) UX Designer
6 194 (3.33%) Lead
7 123 (2.11%) Analyst
8 89 (1.53%) Senior Developer
9 88 (1.51%) Software Engineer
10 85 (1.46%) Senior Designer
11 69 (1.19%) Product Manager
12 60 (1.03%) Senior UX Designer
13 57 (0.98%) Senior Manager
13 57 (0.98%) UI Designer
14 56 (0.96%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 50 (0.86%) Service Manager
16 49 (0.84%) IT Support
17 46 (0.79%) Architect
17 46 (0.79%) IT Manager
17 46 (0.79%) UI/UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 196 (3.37%) HTML
2 194 (3.33%) CSS
3 192 (3.30%) React
4 110 (1.89%) .NET
5 86 (1.48%) RESTful
6 85 (1.46%) REST
7 70 (1.20%) Node.js
8 67 (1.15%) AngularJS
9 56 (0.96%) Vue
10 35 (0.60%) HTML5
10 35 (0.60%) JSON
11 34 (0.58%) Web Services
12 31 (0.53%) .NET Core
13 29 (0.50%) Next.js
14 26 (0.45%) CSS3
15 25 (0.43%) Spring
15 25 (0.43%) WebSockets
16 24 (0.41%) Laravel
17 23 (0.40%) .NET Framework
18 22 (0.38%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4,043 (69.49%) IoT
2 186 (3.20%) Product Ownership
3 119 (2.05%) Mobile App
4 105 (1.80%) Onboarding
5 63 (1.08%) Social Media
6 55 (0.95%) Cloud Native
7 46 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
8 39 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
9 38 (0.65%) AI Agents
10 37 (0.64%) Management Information System
11 34 (0.58%) Greenfield Project
12 29 (0.50%) Self-Motivation
13 22 (0.38%) e-Learning
13 22 (0.38%) Public Cloud
14 20 (0.34%) CMDB
14 20 (0.34%) Low-Code
15 18 (0.31%) Life Science
16 17 (0.29%) Distributed Systems
17 16 (0.28%) Driving Licence
18 15 (0.26%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 74 (1.27%) Windows
2 61 (1.05%) Apple iOS
3 53 (0.91%) Android
4 24 (0.41%) Windows 10
5 23 (0.40%) Linux
6 21 (0.36%) Windows Server
7 17 (0.29%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.12%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.069%) Mac OS X
9 4 (0.069%) Unix
10 3 (0.052%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.052%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.034%) zOS
12 1 (0.017%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.017%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,353 (74.82%) AI
2 4,115 (70.73%) Machine Learning
3 4,104 (70.54%) Cybersecurity
4 4,084 (70.20%) Web Development
5 540 (9.28%) Agile
6 506 (8.70%) UX Design
7 367 (6.31%) Continuous Improvement
8 351 (6.03%) Problem-Solving
9 349 (6.00%) Analytics
10 285 (4.90%) Roadmaps
11 245 (4.21%) Mentoring
12 187 (3.21%) Decision-Making
13 180 (3.09%) Software Engineering
14 175 (3.01%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 171 (2.94%) User Research
16 170 (2.92%) Full-Stack Development
17 166 (2.85%) DevOps
18 150 (2.58%) CI/CD
19 141 (2.42%) Product Roadmap
19 141 (2.42%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 266 (4.57%) JavaScript
2 164 (2.82%) TypeScript
3 138 (2.37%) SQL
4 121 (2.08%) Java
5 109 (1.87%) Python
6 94 (1.62%) C#
7 51 (0.88%) PowerShell
8 41 (0.70%) PHP
9 26 (0.45%) Kotlin
10 23 (0.40%) Go
10 23 (0.40%) Swift
11 14 (0.24%) Bash
12 13 (0.22%) C++
13 11 (0.19%) Bicep
14 10 (0.17%) T-SQL
15 7 (0.12%) Rust
16 6 (0.10%) ABAP
17 5 (0.086%) Apex Code
18 4 (0.069%) Scala
19 3 (0.052%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4,252 (73.08%) Degree
2 4,056 (69.71%) Master's Degree
3 4,038 (69.41%) PhD
4 4,035 (69.35%) Postgraduate
5 151 (2.60%) Security Cleared
6 109 (1.87%) SC Cleared
7 42 (0.72%) DBS Check
8 34 (0.58%) Computer Science Degree
9 27 (0.46%) DV Cleared
10 18 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
11 16 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
12 10 (0.17%) PMI Certification
13 8 (0.14%) PMP
14 7 (0.12%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 7 (0.12%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 5 (0.086%) CISSP
15 5 (0.086%) ISTQB
15 5 (0.086%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 5 (0.086%) SAP Certification
16 4 (0.069%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 296 (5.09%) Accessibility
2 118 (2.03%) QA
3 101 (1.74%) WCAG
4 58 (1.00%) GDPR
5 24 (0.41%) Data Quality
6 13 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
7 12 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
7 12 (0.21%) PCI DSS
7 12 (0.21%) SLA
8 10 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 19770
9 8 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 6 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 5 (0.086%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.069%) NEBOSH
13 3 (0.052%) PERC
13 3 (0.052%) PMO
13 3 (0.052%) SOC 2
14 2 (0.034%) GRC
14 2 (0.034%) GxP
15 1 (0.017%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 82 (1.41%) Active Directory
2 69 (1.19%) Docker
3 16 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.086%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.069%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.052%) vSphere
8 2 (0.034%) RACF
9 1 (0.017%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 60 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
2 51 (0.88%) Kubernetes
3 36 (0.62%) Terraform
4 21 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
5 10 (0.17%) Grafana
5 10 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
6 6 (0.10%) Ansible
6 6 (0.10%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.086%) SCCM
8 2 (0.034%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.034%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 2 (0.034%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 2 (0.034%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.034%) Packer
8 2 (0.034%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.034%) SmoothWall
9 1 (0.017%) Argo
9 1 (0.017%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.017%) Nessus
9 1 (0.017%) Nmap
Vendors
1 295 (5.07%) Microsoft
2 195 (3.35%) Adobe
3 124 (2.13%) Google
4 77 (1.32%) ServiceNow
5 47 (0.81%) Salesforce
6 40 (0.69%) HubSpot
7 29 (0.50%) Nexthink
8 27 (0.46%) Apple
9 24 (0.41%) SAP
10 21 (0.36%) Oracle
11 20 (0.34%) Hotjar
12 19 (0.33%) BMC
13 16 (0.28%) Braze
14 13 (0.22%) Amplitude
14 13 (0.22%) Atlassian
15 12 (0.21%) iManage
16 10 (0.17%) New Relic
16 10 (0.17%) Splunk
16 10 (0.17%) VMware
16 10 (0.17%) WooCommerce