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

3 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 66 79
Rank change year-on-year -14 +13 +5
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 1,001 1,046 1,514
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.99% 4.47% 3.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.71% 4.86% 3.79%
Number of salaries quoted 688 493 885
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year - +12.75% -18.40%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -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 36,934 21,502 39,986
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.32% 91.92% 84.96%
Number of salaries quoted 24,630 11,922 27,013
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.84%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 6 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 6 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 -14 865 £60,000 +4.35% 1,637
UK excluding London -7 624 £52,500 - 1,093
Work from Home -22 367 £60,891 +4.09% 399
London -26 283 £70,000 - 650
North of England -20 227 £55,000 - 377
North West -24 126 £57,500 +4.46% 285
South East +12 102 £48,885 -2.23% 288
East of England +41 101 £85,000 +100.00% 163
Midlands -18 78 £43,750 -18.51% 137
Yorkshire -3 73 £50,000 +17.65% 64
South West -15 55 £51,250 -14.58% 87
West Midlands -42 42 £40,000 -25.50% 78
Scotland -22 38 £55,500 +12.82% 34
East Midlands -1 36 £61,750 +92.97% 59
North East -17 28 £55,000 -6.38% 29
Wales -11 21 £42,934 - 15
Northern Ireland - 4 £39,500 - 12

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
1 116 (2.00%) CMS
2 105 (1.81%) SharePoint
3 72 (1.24%) Confluence
4 35 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
5 27 (0.47%) WordPress
6 12 (0.21%) 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%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.017%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.017%) Apache
11 1 (0.017%) Camunda
11 1 (0.017%) CICS
11 1 (0.017%) Moodle
11 1 (0.017%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 40 (0.69%) Adobe XD
2 28 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (0.47%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 22 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
5 19 (0.33%) Sketch
6 18 (0.31%) Photoshop
7 17 (0.29%) Adobe Illustrator
8 9 (0.16%) Chatbot
8 9 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 9 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
8 9 (0.16%) UserZoom
9 7 (0.12%) Adobe After Effects
9 7 (0.12%) InVision
9 7 (0.12%) MS Visio
10 5 (0.086%) InDesign
11 3 (0.052%) Adobe Premiere
11 3 (0.052%) Microsoft Project
11 3 (0.052%) SPSS
11 3 (0.052%) Trello
12 2 (0.034%) Avid Media Composer
Business Applications
1 33 (0.57%) Shopify
2 21 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.33%) Magento
4 9 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
5 7 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
6 5 (0.086%) Dynamics AX
6 5 (0.086%) Dynamics GP
6 5 (0.086%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.052%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.034%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.034%) Remedy ITSM
9 1 (0.017%) Elite 3E
9 1 (0.017%) Oracle General Ledger
9 1 (0.017%) Oracle Payables
9 1 (0.017%) Oracle Receivables
9 1 (0.017%) SAP Business One
9 1 (0.017%) SAP EWM
9 1 (0.017%) SAP HCM
9 1 (0.017%) SAP HR
9 1 (0.017%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 4,034 (69.49%) Cloud Computing
2 296 (5.10%) Azure
3 213 (3.67%) Figma
4 198 (3.41%) Microsoft 365
5 178 (3.07%) AWS
6 123 (2.12%) Power Platform
7 122 (2.10%) SaaS
8 82 (1.41%) Entra ID
9 71 (1.22%) Google Analytics
10 70 (1.21%) Adobe Analytics
10 70 (1.21%) GCP
11 66 (1.14%) GitHub
12 58 (1.00%) Azure DevOps
13 55 (0.95%) PowerApps
14 48 (0.83%) Power Automate
15 41 (0.71%) Contentsquare
15 41 (0.71%) OneDrive
16 40 (0.69%) Azure Logic Apps
17 39 (0.67%) Serverless
18 34 (0.59%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 4,042 (69.63%) Internet
2 78 (1.34%) Broadband
3 23 (0.40%) HTTP
4 21 (0.36%) Firewall
4 21 (0.36%) VPN
5 19 (0.33%) DNS
6 15 (0.26%) DHCP
6 15 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
7 12 (0.21%) TCP/IP
8 6 (0.10%) Kerberos
9 5 (0.086%) VoIP
10 4 (0.069%) Intranet
10 4 (0.069%) NAS
10 4 (0.069%) SAN
11 3 (0.052%) LAN
11 3 (0.052%) Network Security
12 2 (0.034%) Bluetooth
12 2 (0.034%) VLAN
13 1 (0.017%) Structured Cabling
13 1 (0.017%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (1.07%) Power BI
2 54 (0.93%) SQL Server
3 34 (0.59%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (0.43%) Looker
5 23 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
5 23 (0.40%) NoSQL
6 19 (0.33%) MySQL
7 18 (0.31%) MongoDB
8 17 (0.29%) Metadata
9 15 (0.26%) BigQuery
10 10 (0.17%) DB2
10 10 (0.17%) Tableau
11 9 (0.16%) Relational Database
12 7 (0.12%) Redis
13 6 (0.10%) SAP BW
13 6 (0.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 5 (0.086%) Data Warehouse
14 5 (0.086%) Elasticsearch
15 4 (0.069%) QGIS
16 3 (0.052%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 116 (2.00%) JIRA
2 67 (1.15%) Git
3 27 (0.47%) Balsamiq
4 26 (0.45%) Axure RP
5 20 (0.34%) Selenium
6 19 (0.33%) Jenkins
7 16 (0.28%) webpack
8 15 (0.26%) Crashlytics
8 15 (0.26%) Vite
9 14 (0.24%) Bitbucket
10 13 (0.22%) Cucumber
10 13 (0.22%) XCTest
11 10 (0.17%) Cypress.io
12 9 (0.16%) Visual Studio
13 8 (0.14%) Claude Code
13 8 (0.14%) Postman
13 8 (0.14%) Storybook
13 8 (0.14%) TeamCity
14 6 (0.10%) fastlane
14 6 (0.10%) JUnit
General
1 4,544 (78.28%) Social Skills
2 4,148 (71.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4,091 (70.47%) Banking
4 285 (4.91%) Finance
5 225 (3.88%) Marketing
6 178 (3.07%) Analytical Skills
7 134 (2.31%) Public Sector
8 100 (1.72%) Legal
9 85 (1.46%) Law
10 78 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
11 75 (1.29%) Retail
12 63 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
13 61 (1.05%) Games
14 47 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
15 32 (0.55%) Manufacturing
16 31 (0.53%) Advertising
17 25 (0.43%) Telecoms
18 20 (0.34%) Back Office
19 16 (0.28%) Documentation Skills
20 12 (0.21%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 3,129 (53.90%) Lecturer
2 374 (6.44%) Senior
3 294 (5.06%) Designer
4 241 (4.15%) Developer
5 215 (3.70%) UX Designer
6 187 (3.22%) Lead
7 121 (2.08%) Analyst
8 86 (1.48%) Senior Designer
9 85 (1.46%) Senior Developer
10 84 (1.45%) Software Engineer
11 66 (1.14%) Product Manager
12 63 (1.09%) Senior UX Designer
13 62 (1.07%) UI Designer
14 54 (0.93%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 53 (0.91%) Senior Manager
15 53 (0.91%) UI/UX Designer
16 52 (0.90%) Architect
17 48 (0.83%) Full-Stack Developer
18 47 (0.81%) IT Support
19 44 (0.76%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 194 (3.34%) HTML
2 193 (3.32%) CSS
3 181 (3.12%) React
4 112 (1.93%) .NET
5 88 (1.52%) REST
6 83 (1.43%) RESTful
7 65 (1.12%) AngularJS
7 65 (1.12%) Node.js
8 52 (0.90%) Vue
9 39 (0.67%) .NET Core
9 39 (0.67%) HTML5
9 39 (0.67%) JSON
10 33 (0.57%) Web Services
11 30 (0.52%) CSS3
12 25 (0.43%) ASP.NET
12 25 (0.43%) Next.js
13 24 (0.41%) Laravel
13 24 (0.41%) Microsoft Graph
13 24 (0.41%) SPFx
14 23 (0.40%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 4,039 (69.58%) IoT
2 182 (3.14%) Product Ownership
3 114 (1.96%) Mobile App
4 108 (1.86%) Onboarding
5 56 (0.96%) Social Media
6 53 (0.91%) Cloud Native
7 47 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
8 40 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
9 35 (0.60%) AI Agents
10 33 (0.57%) Management Information System
11 32 (0.55%) Greenfield Project
12 28 (0.48%) Self-Motivation
13 22 (0.38%) Public Cloud
14 21 (0.36%) Low-Code
15 19 (0.33%) e-Learning
16 18 (0.31%) Life Science
17 16 (0.28%) Distributed Systems
18 15 (0.26%) Driving Licence
19 12 (0.21%) Algorithms
19 12 (0.21%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 80 (1.38%) Windows
2 62 (1.07%) Apple iOS
3 49 (0.84%) Android
4 28 (0.48%) Windows 10
5 23 (0.40%) Windows Server
6 22 (0.38%) Linux
7 19 (0.33%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.10%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.069%) Mac OS X
9 4 (0.069%) Unix
9 4 (0.069%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.052%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.017%) VMS
11 1 (0.017%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,352 (74.97%) AI
2 4,115 (70.89%) Machine Learning
3 4,085 (70.37%) Cybersecurity
4 4,082 (70.32%) Web Development
5 526 (9.06%) Agile
6 517 (8.91%) UX Design
7 345 (5.94%) Continuous Improvement
8 339 (5.84%) Problem-Solving
9 329 (5.67%) Analytics
10 284 (4.89%) Roadmaps
11 246 (4.24%) Mentoring
12 182 (3.14%) Decision-Making
13 179 (3.08%) Software Engineering
14 175 (3.01%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 170 (2.93%) Full-Stack Development
16 168 (2.89%) User Research
17 164 (2.83%) DevOps
18 147 (2.53%) CI/CD
19 138 (2.38%) Product Roadmap
20 132 (2.27%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 255 (4.39%) JavaScript
2 155 (2.67%) TypeScript
3 136 (2.34%) SQL
4 112 (1.93%) Java
4 112 (1.93%) Python
5 104 (1.79%) C#
6 52 (0.90%) PowerShell
7 42 (0.72%) PHP
8 23 (0.40%) Kotlin
9 22 (0.38%) Go
9 22 (0.38%) Swift
10 12 (0.21%) Bash
11 11 (0.19%) Bicep
11 11 (0.19%) C++
12 10 (0.17%) T-SQL
13 7 (0.12%) Rust
14 5 (0.086%) ABAP
15 4 (0.069%) Apex Code
15 4 (0.069%) Scala
16 3 (0.052%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4,233 (72.92%) Degree
2 4,053 (69.82%) Master's Degree
3 4,037 (69.54%) PhD
4 4,034 (69.49%) Postgraduate
5 154 (2.65%) Security Cleared
6 99 (1.71%) SC Cleared
7 39 (0.67%) DBS Check
8 37 (0.64%) DV Cleared
9 30 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
10 19 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
11 15 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
12 7 (0.12%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 7 (0.12%) PMI Certification
12 7 (0.12%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 6 (0.10%) CISSP
14 5 (0.086%) ITIL Certification
14 5 (0.086%) PMP
14 5 (0.086%) SAP Certification
15 4 (0.069%) A+ Certification
15 4 (0.069%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 284 (4.89%) Accessibility
2 109 (1.88%) QA
3 96 (1.65%) WCAG
4 54 (0.93%) GDPR
5 24 (0.41%) Data Quality
6 14 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
6 14 (0.24%) SLA
7 12 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
7 12 (0.21%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 7 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 5 (0.086%) HIPAA
10 5 (0.086%) NEBOSH
11 4 (0.069%) PMO
12 3 (0.052%) GRC
12 3 (0.052%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.034%) GxP
14 1 (0.017%) NCSC
14 1 (0.017%) SEPA
14 1 (0.017%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 89 (1.53%) Active Directory
2 65 (1.12%) Docker
3 7 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
3 7 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.086%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.069%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.052%) vSphere
7 1 (0.017%) RACF
Systems Management
1 64 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
2 48 (0.83%) Kubernetes
3 32 (0.55%) Terraform
4 22 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
5 10 (0.17%) Grafana
5 10 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
6 6 (0.10%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.086%) Ansible
7 5 (0.086%) SCCM
8 2 (0.034%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.034%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 2 (0.034%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.034%) Packer
8 2 (0.034%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.017%) Argo
9 1 (0.017%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.017%) Kibana
9 1 (0.017%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 1 (0.017%) MOM
Vendors
1 303 (5.22%) Microsoft
2 192 (3.31%) Adobe
3 101 (1.74%) Google
4 68 (1.17%) ServiceNow
5 46 (0.79%) Salesforce
6 36 (0.62%) HubSpot
7 28 (0.48%) Nexthink
8 24 (0.41%) Apple
9 23 (0.40%) SAP
10 18 (0.31%) BMC
10 18 (0.31%) Oracle
11 17 (0.29%) Braze
12 16 (0.28%) Hotjar
13 14 (0.24%) Amplitude
14 12 (0.21%) Atlassian
14 12 (0.21%) OpenAI
14 12 (0.21%) VMware
15 11 (0.19%) iManage
16 10 (0.17%) New Relic
16 10 (0.17%) WooCommerce