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

3 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 54 87
Rank change year-on-year -27 +33 -5
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 1,010 1,220 1,364
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.95% 4.87% 2.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.69% 5.29% 3.55%
Number of salaries quoted 701 500 798
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £58,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.71% +11.43% -16.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,688 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.44% +7.38% -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 37,561 23,054 38,463
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.54% 92.04% 83.55%
Number of salaries quoted 25,473 11,908 25,825
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -9.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £93,750
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 19 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 19 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 -23 888 £60,000 - 751
UK excluding London -16 646 £55,000 +2.44% 502
Work from Home -22 370 £56,500 -5.83% 399
London -28 287 £70,000 - 356
North of England -24 237 £53,750 -2.27% 143
North West -22 135 £55,000 -4.35% 93
South East +37 111 £48,885 -2.23% 133
East of England +39 110 £85,000 +83.78% 61
Midlands -17 73 £45,497 -15.26% 66
Yorkshire -2 66 £50,000 +17.65% 31
South West -32 53 £60,000 +5.66% 55
West Midlands -41 41 £45,497 -15.26% 46
Scotland -36 37 £50,000 +12.36% 31
North East -8 36 £55,000 +4.76% 19
East Midlands +3 32 £60,000 +87.50% 18
Wales -9 22 £50,000 - 10
Northern Ireland -24 4 £39,500 - 10

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
1 119 (2.78%) CMS
2 117 (2.74%) SharePoint
3 73 (1.71%) Confluence
4 42 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
5 29 (0.68%) WordPress
6 10 (0.23%) Umbraco
7 9 (0.21%) Drupal
8 7 (0.16%) nginx
9 3 (0.070%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.070%) Moodle
9 3 (0.070%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.047%) Headless 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%) Camunda
11 1 (0.023%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 37 (0.87%) Adobe XD
2 32 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (0.68%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 21 (0.49%) Sketch
5 19 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
6 18 (0.42%) Photoshop
7 17 (0.40%) Adobe Illustrator
8 9 (0.21%) Adobe After Effects
8 9 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
8 9 (0.21%) UserZoom
9 8 (0.19%) Chatbot
10 7 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
11 6 (0.14%) InDesign
11 6 (0.14%) InVision
12 4 (0.094%) MS Visio
13 3 (0.070%) Adobe Premiere
13 3 (0.070%) Productboard
13 3 (0.070%) SPSS
13 3 (0.070%) Trello
14 2 (0.047%) Pro Tools
Business Applications
1 31 (0.73%) Shopify
2 21 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.44%) Magento
4 9 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
5 8 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
6 5 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
6 5 (0.12%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.070%) Dynamics GP
7 3 (0.070%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.047%) Remedy ITSM
9 1 (0.023%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.023%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.023%) Oracle General Ledger
9 1 (0.023%) Oracle Payables
9 1 (0.023%) Oracle Receivables
9 1 (0.023%) Payment Gateway
9 1 (0.023%) PeopleSoft HCM
9 1 (0.023%) SAP Business One
9 1 (0.023%) SAP HCM
9 1 (0.023%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 2,446 (57.24%) Cloud Computing
2 317 (7.42%) Azure
3 219 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
4 215 (5.03%) Figma
5 166 (3.88%) AWS
6 132 (3.09%) Power Platform
7 130 (3.04%) SaaS
8 94 (2.20%) Entra ID
9 69 (1.61%) Adobe Analytics
9 69 (1.61%) GCP
10 68 (1.59%) Google Analytics
11 66 (1.54%) Azure DevOps
12 63 (1.47%) GitHub
13 56 (1.31%) PowerApps
14 51 (1.19%) Power Automate
15 42 (0.98%) OneDrive
16 41 (0.96%) Azure Logic Apps
16 41 (0.96%) Contentsquare
16 41 (0.96%) Serverless
17 36 (0.84%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2,454 (57.43%) Internet
2 78 (1.83%) Broadband
3 24 (0.56%) VPN
4 21 (0.49%) DNS
4 21 (0.49%) HTTP
5 19 (0.44%) Firewall
6 17 (0.40%) DHCP
6 17 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
7 12 (0.28%) TCP/IP
8 8 (0.19%) Kerberos
9 7 (0.16%) VoIP
10 4 (0.094%) Intranet
10 4 (0.094%) NAS
10 4 (0.094%) Network Security
10 4 (0.094%) SAN
10 4 (0.094%) VLAN
11 3 (0.070%) LAN
11 3 (0.070%) SMS
11 3 (0.070%) Unified Communications
11 3 (0.070%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (1.57%) Power BI
2 56 (1.31%) SQL Server
3 32 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (0.59%) Looker
5 23 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
6 19 (0.44%) NoSQL
7 18 (0.42%) MongoDB
8 17 (0.40%) Metadata
8 17 (0.40%) MySQL
9 15 (0.35%) BigQuery
10 10 (0.23%) Tableau
11 9 (0.21%) Redis
11 9 (0.21%) Relational Database
12 7 (0.16%) DB2
13 6 (0.14%) SAP BW
13 6 (0.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 5 (0.12%) Data Warehouse
14 5 (0.12%) Elasticsearch
15 4 (0.094%) GIS
15 4 (0.094%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 112 (2.62%) JIRA
2 68 (1.59%) Git
3 22 (0.51%) Balsamiq
4 21 (0.49%) Axure RP
5 20 (0.47%) Jenkins
6 19 (0.44%) Selenium
7 16 (0.37%) Crashlytics
7 16 (0.37%) webpack
8 14 (0.33%) Vite
8 14 (0.33%) XCTest
9 12 (0.28%) Bitbucket
9 12 (0.28%) Cucumber
10 11 (0.26%) Cypress.io
11 10 (0.23%) fastlane
12 9 (0.21%) Claude Code
13 8 (0.19%) Postman
13 8 (0.19%) Storybook
13 8 (0.19%) Visual Studio
14 6 (0.14%) JUnit
14 6 (0.14%) TeamCity
General
1 2,952 (69.08%) Social Skills
2 2,563 (59.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2,499 (58.48%) Banking
4 294 (6.88%) Finance
5 236 (5.52%) Marketing
6 180 (4.21%) Analytical Skills
7 142 (3.32%) Public Sector
8 103 (2.41%) Legal
9 89 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
10 85 (1.99%) Retail
11 84 (1.97%) Law
12 62 (1.45%) Games
13 61 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
14 49 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
15 32 (0.75%) Advertising
15 32 (0.75%) Manufacturing
16 24 (0.56%) Back Office
16 24 (0.56%) Telecoms
17 16 (0.37%) Documentation Skills
18 15 (0.35%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,847 (43.22%) Lecturer
2 376 (8.80%) Senior
3 306 (7.16%) Designer
4 257 (6.01%) Developer
5 225 (5.27%) UX Designer
6 189 (4.42%) Lead
7 124 (2.90%) Analyst
8 91 (2.13%) Senior Developer
9 86 (2.01%) Senior Designer
10 80 (1.87%) Software Engineer
11 69 (1.61%) UI Designer
12 65 (1.52%) Senior UX Designer
13 62 (1.45%) Product Manager
14 61 (1.43%) UI/UX Designer
15 60 (1.40%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
16 59 (1.38%) Architect
17 54 (1.26%) IT Manager
18 53 (1.24%) IT Support
19 52 (1.22%) Senior Manager
20 47 (1.10%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 197 (4.61%) HTML
2 196 (4.59%) CSS
3 179 (4.19%) React
4 116 (2.71%) .NET
5 91 (2.13%) REST
6 78 (1.83%) RESTful
7 64 (1.50%) AngularJS
8 55 (1.29%) Node.js
9 49 (1.15%) Vue
10 42 (0.98%) HTML5
11 41 (0.96%) .NET Core
11 41 (0.96%) JSON
12 33 (0.77%) CSS3
13 31 (0.73%) Web Services
14 27 (0.63%) ASP.NET
15 26 (0.61%) Sass
16 25 (0.59%) Next.js
16 25 (0.59%) SOAP
16 25 (0.59%) Spring
17 24 (0.56%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 2,451 (57.36%) IoT
2 189 (4.42%) Product Ownership
3 116 (2.71%) Mobile App
4 110 (2.57%) Onboarding
5 58 (1.36%) Social Media
6 49 (1.15%) Cloud Native
7 44 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
8 43 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
9 32 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
9 32 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
10 31 (0.73%) AI Agents
11 30 (0.70%) Management Information System
12 20 (0.47%) Low-Code
12 20 (0.47%) Public Cloud
13 19 (0.44%) e-Learning
14 18 (0.42%) Life Science
15 15 (0.35%) Driving Licence
16 14 (0.33%) CMDB
17 13 (0.30%) Security Posture
18 12 (0.28%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 97 (2.27%) Windows
2 65 (1.52%) Apple iOS
3 46 (1.08%) Android
4 30 (0.70%) Windows 10
5 26 (0.61%) Windows Server
6 23 (0.54%) Linux
6 23 (0.54%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.14%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.094%) Mac OS X
9 3 (0.070%) Unix
9 3 (0.070%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.047%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.023%) VMS
11 1 (0.023%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,772 (64.87%) AI
2 2,528 (59.16%) Machine Learning
3 2,504 (58.60%) Cybersecurity
4 2,497 (58.44%) Web Development
5 529 (12.38%) UX Design
6 519 (12.15%) Agile
7 361 (8.45%) Continuous Improvement
8 351 (8.21%) Problem-Solving
9 328 (7.68%) Analytics
10 290 (6.79%) Roadmaps
11 257 (6.01%) Mentoring
12 177 (4.14%) Decision-Making
13 174 (4.07%) Software Engineering
13 174 (4.07%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 167 (3.91%) User Research
15 166 (3.88%) DevOps
16 162 (3.79%) Full-Stack Development
17 150 (3.51%) CI/CD
18 142 (3.32%) Product Roadmap
19 141 (3.30%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 253 (5.92%) JavaScript
2 155 (3.63%) TypeScript
3 133 (3.11%) SQL
4 115 (2.69%) C#
5 114 (2.67%) Python
6 107 (2.50%) Java
7 54 (1.26%) PowerShell
8 40 (0.94%) PHP
9 25 (0.59%) Kotlin
10 24 (0.56%) Swift
11 16 (0.37%) Go
12 11 (0.26%) C++
13 10 (0.23%) Bicep
13 10 (0.23%) T-SQL
14 9 (0.21%) Bash
15 8 (0.19%) Rust
16 5 (0.12%) ABAP
17 4 (0.094%) Apex Code
17 4 (0.094%) Scala
17 4 (0.094%) VB
Qualifications
1 2,642 (61.83%) Degree
2 2,464 (57.66%) Master's Degree
3 2,449 (57.31%) PhD
3 2,449 (57.31%) Postgraduate
4 156 (3.65%) Security Cleared
5 97 (2.27%) SC Cleared
6 41 (0.96%) DV Cleared
7 37 (0.87%) DBS Check
8 27 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
9 19 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
10 15 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
11 8 (0.19%) CISSP
12 7 (0.16%) PMI Certification
12 7 (0.16%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 6 (0.14%) ICAEW
13 6 (0.14%) ITIL Certification
13 6 (0.14%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 5 (0.12%) PMP
14 5 (0.12%) SAP Certification
15 4 (0.094%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 289 (6.76%) Accessibility
2 108 (2.53%) QA
3 97 (2.27%) WCAG
4 55 (1.29%) GDPR
5 26 (0.61%) Data Quality
6 18 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
7 14 (0.33%) SLA
8 12 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
9 11 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 10 (0.23%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 5 (0.12%) HIPAA
12 5 (0.12%) NEBOSH
13 4 (0.094%) PMO
14 3 (0.070%) GRC
15 2 (0.047%) GxP
15 2 (0.047%) PERC
15 2 (0.047%) SOC 2
16 1 (0.023%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 1 (0.023%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 95 (2.22%) Active Directory
2 56 (1.31%) Docker
3 7 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.094%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.070%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.023%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 71 (1.66%) Microsoft Intune
2 41 (0.96%) Kubernetes
3 27 (0.63%) Terraform
4 22 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
5 11 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
6 9 (0.21%) Grafana
7 8 (0.19%) SCCM
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
1 327 (7.65%) Microsoft
2 190 (4.45%) Adobe
3 99 (2.32%) Google
4 71 (1.66%) ServiceNow
5 53 (1.24%) Salesforce
6 33 (0.77%) HubSpot
7 27 (0.63%) Apple
8 26 (0.61%) Nexthink
9 24 (0.56%) SAP
10 20 (0.47%) Oracle
11 18 (0.42%) Braze
12 17 (0.40%) BMC
13 16 (0.37%) Hotjar
14 15 (0.35%) Amplitude
15 12 (0.28%) OpenAI
16 11 (0.26%) iManage
17 10 (0.23%) Atlassian
17 10 (0.23%) VMware
17 10 (0.23%) WooCommerce
18 9 (0.21%) ConnectWise