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 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

3 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 59 72
Rank change year-on-year -24 +13 +13
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 1,079 1,226 1,276
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.96% 4.55% 2.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.71% 4.98% 3.84%
Number of salaries quoted 738 480 573
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,200 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,782 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £56,988
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.29% -8.82%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,310 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.71% - -

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 39,774 24,607 33,253
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.24% 91.23% 77.27%
Number of salaries quoted 28,221 12,253 21,122
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -3.51% -8.80%
75th Percentile £79,207 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £51,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -7.77% -6.36%

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 26 June 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 26 June 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 -20 954 £56,500 -5.83% 665
UK excluding London -15 674 £51,310 -6.71% 451
Work from Home -29 402 £57,000 -8.80% 287
London -23 321 £71,121 +1.60% 325
North of England -24 239 £51,310 -6.71% 125
North West -26 138 £53,500 -9.70% 69
South East +25 130 £52,500 -8.70% 150
East of England +45 109 £72,500 +19.83% 46
Midlands -23 75 £46,499 -13.39% 59
South West -35 56 £60,000 +9.09% 45
Yorkshire +17 55 £45,000 -10.00% 31
North East -1 46 £51,619 +416.19% 26
West Midlands -47 41 £47,500 -13.64% 36
Scotland -15 38 £55,000 -29.03% 22
East Midlands +14 34 £45,000 +12.50% 23
Wales -27 24 £50,000 -25.93% 7
Northern Ireland -14 3 £39,500 - 6

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
1 135 (7.12%) SharePoint
2 120 (6.33%) CMS
3 67 (3.53%) Confluence
4 51 (2.69%) Microsoft Exchange
5 27 (1.42%) WordPress
6 9 (0.47%) Drupal
7 7 (0.37%) Umbraco
8 6 (0.32%) nginx
9 4 (0.21%) Moodle
10 3 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.16%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.11%) IIS
11 2 (0.11%) Skype for Business
11 2 (0.11%) Totara
12 1 (0.053%) Apache
12 1 (0.053%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 36 (1.90%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 34 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
3 28 (1.48%) Adobe XD
4 27 (1.42%) Photoshop
5 25 (1.32%) Adobe Illustrator
6 23 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
7 21 (1.11%) Sketch
8 17 (0.90%) UserZoom
9 15 (0.79%) Adobe After Effects
10 14 (0.74%) InDesign
11 9 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
12 8 (0.42%) Chatbot
13 6 (0.32%) InVision
13 6 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
14 4 (0.21%) Trello
15 3 (0.16%) Adobe Premiere
15 3 (0.16%) Productboard
15 3 (0.16%) SPSS
16 2 (0.11%) Camtasia
17 1 (0.053%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 25 (1.32%) Shopify
2 20 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.69%) Magento
3 13 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.26%) Dynamics GP
4 5 (0.26%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.26%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.21%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.16%) Elite 3E
6 3 (0.16%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.11%) Carpe Diem
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.11%) Towers Watson Igloo
7 2 (0.11%) Visualfiles
8 1 (0.053%) Adobe Campaign
8 1 (0.053%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.053%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 346 (18.24%) Azure
2 269 (14.18%) Microsoft 365
3 216 (11.39%) Figma
4 157 (8.28%) AWS
5 141 (7.43%) Power Platform
6 134 (7.06%) SaaS
7 102 (5.38%) Entra ID
8 89 (4.69%) Azure DevOps
9 72 (3.80%) Adobe Analytics
10 68 (3.58%) GitHub
11 64 (3.37%) GCP
11 64 (3.37%) Google Analytics
12 63 (3.32%) Power Automate
13 59 (3.11%) PowerApps
14 47 (2.48%) Contentsquare
15 45 (2.37%) Serverless
16 44 (2.32%) Microsoft Copilot
17 43 (2.27%) Azure Logic Apps
18 41 (2.16%) OneDrive
19 30 (1.58%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 85 (4.48%) Broadband
2 30 (1.58%) Firewall
3 26 (1.37%) VPN
4 25 (1.32%) DNS
5 21 (1.11%) DHCP
6 18 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
7 11 (0.58%) HTTP
8 10 (0.53%) Kerberos
8 10 (0.53%) TCP/IP
8 10 (0.53%) VoIP
9 9 (0.47%) Internet
10 8 (0.42%) Wireless
11 6 (0.32%) Network Security
11 6 (0.32%) VLAN
12 5 (0.26%) SAN
13 4 (0.21%) NAS
13 4 (0.21%) SMS
13 4 (0.21%) Structured Cabling
13 4 (0.21%) Unified Communications
14 3 (0.16%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (3.95%) Power BI
2 46 (2.42%) SQL Server
3 28 (1.48%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
5 23 (1.21%) Looker
6 19 (1.00%) Metadata
6 19 (1.00%) MySQL
7 15 (0.79%) BigQuery
7 15 (0.79%) MongoDB
8 12 (0.63%) NoSQL
8 12 (0.63%) Relational Database
9 9 (0.47%) Redis
9 9 (0.47%) Tableau
10 5 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (0.26%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (0.26%) GIS
10 5 (0.26%) SAP BW
10 5 (0.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (0.21%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (0.21%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 103 (5.43%) JIRA
2 74 (3.90%) Git
3 22 (1.16%) Jenkins
4 20 (1.05%) Crashlytics
4 20 (1.05%) fastlane
5 19 (1.00%) Claude Code
6 15 (0.79%) XCTest
7 13 (0.69%) Vite
8 11 (0.58%) Axure RP
8 11 (0.58%) webpack
9 10 (0.53%) Balsamiq
9 10 (0.53%) Cypress.io
10 9 (0.47%) Postman
10 9 (0.47%) Selenium
10 9 (0.47%) Xcode
11 7 (0.37%) Bitbucket
11 7 (0.37%) Storybook
12 6 (0.32%) Android Studio
12 6 (0.32%) Cucumber
12 6 (0.32%) Gradle
General
1 539 (28.41%) Social Skills
2 295 (15.55%) Finance
3 238 (12.55%) Marketing
4 199 (10.49%) Analytical Skills
5 150 (7.91%) Public Sector
6 128 (6.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 112 (5.90%) Legal
8 100 (5.27%) Retail
9 92 (4.85%) Organisational Skills
10 84 (4.43%) Law
11 74 (3.90%) Games
12 55 (2.90%) Presentation Skills
13 50 (2.64%) Influencing Skills
14 39 (2.06%) Advertising
15 36 (1.90%) Banking
16 33 (1.74%) Manufacturing
17 20 (1.05%) Multimedia
18 19 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
19 18 (0.95%) Back Office
20 13 (0.69%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 356 (18.77%) Senior
2 320 (16.87%) Designer
3 269 (14.18%) Developer
4 233 (12.28%) UX Designer
5 207 (10.91%) Lead
6 135 (7.12%) Analyst
7 98 (5.17%) Senior Developer
8 89 (4.69%) Senior Designer
9 81 (4.27%) Software Engineer
9 81 (4.27%) UI Designer
10 78 (4.11%) IT Support
11 74 (3.90%) UI/UX Designer
12 66 (3.48%) Senior UX Designer
13 63 (3.32%) Product Manager
14 62 (3.27%) Support Engineer
15 59 (3.11%) IT Manager
16 57 (3.00%) Architect
17 51 (2.69%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
18 50 (2.64%) Product Designer
19 49 (2.58%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 193 (10.17%) HTML
2 191 (10.07%) CSS
3 166 (8.75%) React
4 126 (6.64%) .NET
5 88 (4.64%) REST
6 72 (3.80%) RESTful
7 55 (2.90%) AngularJS
8 51 (2.69%) .NET Core
9 50 (2.64%) Node.js
10 46 (2.42%) JSON
11 44 (2.32%) Vue
12 35 (1.85%) HTML5
13 29 (1.53%) CSS3
14 28 (1.48%) ASP.NET
14 28 (1.48%) Next.js
14 28 (1.48%) SwiftUI
15 27 (1.42%) Sass
16 26 (1.37%) SPFx
16 26 (1.37%) Web Services
17 25 (1.32%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 189 (9.96%) Product Ownership
2 126 (6.64%) Mobile App
3 109 (5.75%) Onboarding
4 72 (3.80%) Social Media
5 45 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
6 42 (2.21%) Cloud Native
7 39 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
8 38 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
9 27 (1.42%) AI Agents
10 26 (1.37%) Management Information System
11 23 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
12 22 (1.16%) Driving Licence
13 19 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
13 19 (1.00%) Low-Code
14 18 (0.95%) Life Science
15 17 (0.90%) Security Posture
16 16 (0.84%) e-Learning
17 15 (0.79%) Algorithms
17 15 (0.79%) Graphic Design
18 12 (0.63%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 129 (6.80%) Windows
2 71 (3.74%) Apple iOS
3 41 (2.16%) Android
4 39 (2.06%) Windows Server
5 36 (1.90%) Windows 10
6 29 (1.53%) Linux
6 29 (1.53%) Mac OS
7 8 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.21%) Mac OS X
8 4 (0.21%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.11%) Unix
9 2 (0.11%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.053%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 543 (28.62%) UX Design
2 503 (26.52%) Agile
3 412 (21.72%) Continuous Improvement
4 400 (21.09%) Problem-Solving
5 351 (18.50%) AI
6 343 (18.08%) Analytics
7 306 (16.13%) Roadmaps
8 246 (12.97%) Mentoring
9 185 (9.75%) Decision-Making
10 182 (9.59%) DevOps
11 172 (9.07%) Software Engineering
12 169 (8.91%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
13 168 (8.86%) CI/CD
14 165 (8.70%) User Research
15 158 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
16 154 (8.12%) Full-Stack Development
17 145 (7.64%) Customer Experience
17 145 (7.64%) Workflow
18 143 (7.54%) Product Roadmap
19 142 (7.49%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 227 (11.97%) JavaScript
2 153 (8.07%) TypeScript
3 135 (7.12%) SQL
4 129 (6.80%) C#
5 115 (6.06%) Python
6 94 (4.96%) Java
7 67 (3.53%) PowerShell
8 39 (2.06%) PHP
9 31 (1.63%) Swift
10 24 (1.27%) Kotlin
11 11 (0.58%) ABAP
12 10 (0.53%) Go
13 8 (0.42%) Bash
13 8 (0.42%) C++
14 7 (0.37%) Apex Code
14 7 (0.37%) Rust
14 7 (0.37%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 6 (0.32%) VB.NET
15 6 (0.32%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 165 (8.70%) Degree
2 135 (7.12%) Security Cleared
3 81 (4.27%) SC Cleared
4 38 (2.00%) DV Cleared
5 33 (1.74%) DBS Check
6 21 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
7 20 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
9 13 (0.69%) Master's Degree
10 11 (0.58%) Postgraduate
11 10 (0.53%) CISSP
12 8 (0.42%) ICAEW
13 7 (0.37%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 6 (0.32%) ISTQB
14 6 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
14 6 (0.32%) PMI Certification
14 6 (0.32%) SAP Certification
15 5 (0.26%) PMP
16 4 (0.21%) A+ Certification
17 3 (0.16%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 295 (15.55%) Accessibility
2 118 (6.22%) QA
3 95 (5.01%) WCAG
4 66 (3.48%) GDPR
5 38 (2.00%) Data Quality
6 24 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials
7 18 (0.95%) SLA
8 13 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 8 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 8 (0.42%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.26%) HIPAA
11 5 (0.26%) NEBOSH
12 4 (0.21%) PMO
12 4 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.16%) PERC
13 3 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
14 2 (0.11%) GRC
14 2 (0.11%) GxP
15 1 (0.053%) COBIT
System Software
1 109 (5.75%) Active Directory
2 54 (2.85%) Docker
3 9 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (0.32%) BitLocker
4 6 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.053%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 70 (3.69%) Microsoft Intune
2 27 (1.42%) Kubernetes
3 19 (1.00%) Terraform
4 13 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
5 12 (0.63%) SCCM
6 7 (0.37%) Jamf Pro
7 6 (0.32%) Grafana
8 5 (0.26%) Ansible
8 5 (0.26%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.11%) Data Guard
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (0.11%) Packer
9 2 (0.11%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.053%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.053%) Kibana
Vendors
1 387 (20.40%) Microsoft
2 194 (10.23%) Adobe
3 96 (5.06%) Google
4 69 (3.64%) ServiceNow
5 55 (2.90%) Salesforce
6 29 (1.53%) Apple
7 28 (1.48%) SAP
8 26 (1.37%) Oracle
9 24 (1.27%) HubSpot
10 23 (1.21%) iManage
11 20 (1.05%) Nexthink
12 19 (1.00%) Braze
13 18 (0.95%) Hotjar
14 16 (0.84%) Amplitude
15 15 (0.79%) OpenAI
16 14 (0.74%) Dynatrace
17 12 (0.63%) BMC
18 11 (0.58%) Meraki
19 10 (0.53%) TikTok
19 10 (0.53%) VMware