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

3 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 55 88
Rank change year-on-year -26 +33 -8
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 1,014 1,224 1,332
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.96% 4.90% 2.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.70% 5.32% 3.50%
Number of salaries quoted 701 501 780
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £41,101
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 37,611 23,001 38,079
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.54% 92.06% 83.43%
Number of salaries quoted 25,506 11,878 25,509
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £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 20 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 20 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 -19 892 £60,000 - 784
UK excluding London -20 650 £55,000 +2.44% 484
Work from Home -24 374 £57,000 -5.00% 410
London -34 288 £70,000 - 395
North of England -26 239 £53,500 -2.73% 142
North West -23 137 £55,000 -4.35% 94
South East +29 115 £54,000 +8.00% 145
East of England +33 109 £85,000 +83.78% 51
Midlands -16 72 £45,497 -15.26% 63
Yorkshire 0 64 £50,000 +17.65% 29
South West -28 52 £60,000 +5.66% 47
West Midlands -45 40 £43,999 -19.04% 45
North East -4 38 £53,500 +1.90% 19
Scotland -36 37 £50,000 +12.36% 26
East Midlands +6 32 £60,000 +87.50% 16
Wales -11 23 £50,000 - 7
Northern Ireland -23 4 £39,500 - 9

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
1 117 (2.74%) CMS
2 115 (2.69%) SharePoint
3 73 (1.71%) Confluence
4 42 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
5 29 (0.68%) WordPress
6 9 (0.21%) Drupal
7 8 (0.19%) Umbraco
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 36 (0.84%) Adobe XD
2 32 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
3 30 (0.70%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 21 (0.49%) Sketch
5 19 (0.44%) Photoshop
6 18 (0.42%) Adobe Illustrator
6 18 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
7 10 (0.23%) Adobe After Effects
8 9 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
8 9 (0.21%) UserZoom
9 8 (0.19%) Chatbot
10 7 (0.16%) InDesign
10 7 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
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%) SAP ERP
7 4 (0.094%) Dynamics AX
8 3 (0.070%) Dynamics GP
8 3 (0.070%) Workday HCM
9 2 (0.047%) Oracle EBS
9 2 (0.047%) Oracle ERP
9 2 (0.047%) Remedy ITSM
10 1 (0.023%) Oracle General Ledger
10 1 (0.023%) Oracle Payables
10 1 (0.023%) Oracle Receivables
10 1 (0.023%) Payment Gateway
10 1 (0.023%) SAP Business One
10 1 (0.023%) SAP HCM
10 1 (0.023%) SAP HR
10 1 (0.023%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 2,446 (57.22%) Cloud Computing
2 318 (7.44%) Azure
3 221 (5.17%) Microsoft 365
4 215 (5.03%) Figma
5 165 (3.86%) AWS
6 133 (3.11%) SaaS
7 129 (3.02%) Power Platform
8 96 (2.25%) Entra ID
9 69 (1.61%) Adobe Analytics
10 68 (1.59%) GCP
10 68 (1.59%) Google Analytics
11 67 (1.57%) Azure DevOps
12 64 (1.50%) GitHub
13 54 (1.26%) PowerApps
14 50 (1.17%) 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 33 (0.77%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2,454 (57.40%) Internet
2 78 (1.82%) Broadband
3 25 (0.58%) VPN
4 22 (0.51%) DNS
5 21 (0.49%) HTTP
6 19 (0.44%) Firewall
7 18 (0.42%) DHCP
7 18 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
8 12 (0.28%) TCP/IP
9 8 (0.19%) Kerberos
10 7 (0.16%) VoIP
11 4 (0.094%) NAS
11 4 (0.094%) Network Security
11 4 (0.094%) SAN
11 4 (0.094%) VLAN
12 3 (0.070%) LAN
12 3 (0.070%) SMS
12 3 (0.070%) Unified Communications
12 3 (0.070%) WPA
13 2 (0.047%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (1.52%) Power BI
2 56 (1.31%) SQL Server
3 32 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (0.58%) Looker
5 23 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
6 18 (0.42%) MongoDB
6 18 (0.42%) NoSQL
7 17 (0.40%) Metadata
7 17 (0.40%) MySQL
8 15 (0.35%) BigQuery
9 10 (0.23%) Tableau
10 9 (0.21%) Redis
10 9 (0.21%) Relational Database
11 7 (0.16%) DB2
12 6 (0.14%) SAP BW
12 6 (0.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 5 (0.12%) Data Warehouse
13 5 (0.12%) Elasticsearch
14 4 (0.094%) GIS
14 4 (0.094%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 111 (2.60%) JIRA
2 67 (1.57%) Git
3 22 (0.51%) Jenkins
4 21 (0.49%) Balsamiq
5 20 (0.47%) Axure RP
6 19 (0.44%) Selenium
7 17 (0.40%) Crashlytics
8 15 (0.35%) webpack
9 14 (0.33%) Vite
9 14 (0.33%) XCTest
10 12 (0.28%) Bitbucket
10 12 (0.28%) Cucumber
10 12 (0.28%) fastlane
11 11 (0.26%) Cypress.io
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 2,948 (68.96%) Social Skills
2 2,564 (59.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2,499 (58.46%) Banking
4 295 (6.90%) Finance
5 237 (5.54%) Marketing
6 179 (4.19%) Analytical Skills
7 142 (3.32%) Public Sector
8 102 (2.39%) Legal
9 90 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
9 90 (2.11%) Retail
10 83 (1.94%) Law
11 62 (1.45%) Games
12 60 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
13 49 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
14 33 (0.77%) Advertising
15 31 (0.73%) Manufacturing
16 24 (0.56%) Back Office
17 23 (0.54%) Telecoms
18 16 (0.37%) Documentation Skills
19 15 (0.35%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,847 (43.20%) Lecturer
2 374 (8.75%) Senior
3 305 (7.13%) Designer
4 255 (5.96%) Developer
5 225 (5.26%) UX Designer
6 192 (4.49%) Lead
7 125 (2.92%) Analyst
8 90 (2.11%) Senior Developer
9 85 (1.99%) Senior Designer
10 79 (1.85%) Software Engineer
11 69 (1.61%) UI Designer
12 64 (1.50%) Senior UX Designer
13 62 (1.45%) Product Manager
14 61 (1.43%) UI/UX Designer
15 59 (1.38%) Architect
15 59 (1.38%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
16 55 (1.29%) IT Manager
17 53 (1.24%) IT Support
18 52 (1.22%) Senior Manager
19 46 (1.08%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 194 (4.54%) HTML
2 193 (4.51%) CSS
3 176 (4.12%) React
4 114 (2.67%) .NET
5 91 (2.13%) REST
6 79 (1.85%) RESTful
7 63 (1.47%) AngularJS
8 55 (1.29%) Node.js
9 48 (1.12%) Vue
10 41 (0.96%) .NET Core
10 41 (0.96%) JSON
11 40 (0.94%) HTML5
12 31 (0.73%) CSS3
12 31 (0.73%) Web Services
13 26 (0.61%) Next.js
14 25 (0.58%) ASP.NET
14 25 (0.58%) Sass
14 25 (0.58%) SOAP
14 25 (0.58%) Spring
15 24 (0.56%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 2,451 (57.33%) IoT
2 192 (4.49%) Product Ownership
3 119 (2.78%) Mobile App
4 109 (2.55%) Onboarding
5 59 (1.38%) Social Media
6 49 (1.15%) Cloud Native
7 44 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
8 43 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
9 32 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
10 31 (0.73%) AI Agents
11 30 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
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%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 99 (2.32%) Windows
2 66 (1.54%) Apple iOS
3 47 (1.10%) Android
4 30 (0.70%) Windows 10
5 26 (0.61%) Windows Server
6 24 (0.56%) Mac OS
7 23 (0.54%) Linux
8 6 (0.14%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.094%) Mac OS X
10 3 (0.070%) Unix
10 3 (0.070%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.047%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.023%) VMS
12 1 (0.023%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,776 (64.94%) AI
2 2,529 (59.16%) Machine Learning
3 2,505 (58.60%) Cybersecurity
4 2,495 (58.36%) Web Development
5 530 (12.40%) UX Design
6 521 (12.19%) Agile
7 361 (8.44%) Continuous Improvement
8 352 (8.23%) Problem-Solving
9 331 (7.74%) Analytics
10 295 (6.90%) Roadmaps
11 255 (5.96%) Mentoring
12 176 (4.12%) Decision-Making
13 174 (4.07%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 172 (4.02%) Software Engineering
15 167 (3.91%) DevOps
16 164 (3.84%) User Research
17 161 (3.77%) Full-Stack Development
18 152 (3.56%) CI/CD
19 143 (3.35%) Product Roadmap
20 140 (3.27%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 249 (5.82%) JavaScript
2 152 (3.56%) TypeScript
3 130 (3.04%) SQL
4 114 (2.67%) Python
5 113 (2.64%) C#
6 107 (2.50%) Java
7 55 (1.29%) PowerShell
8 40 (0.94%) PHP
9 26 (0.61%) Kotlin
10 25 (0.58%) 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%) C
17 4 (0.094%) Scala
17 4 (0.094%) VB
Qualifications
1 2,639 (61.73%) Degree
2 2,464 (57.64%) Master's Degree
3 2,449 (57.29%) PhD
3 2,449 (57.29%) Postgraduate
4 152 (3.56%) Security Cleared
5 94 (2.20%) SC Cleared
6 40 (0.94%) DV Cleared
7 35 (0.82%) DBS Check
8 25 (0.58%) Computer Science Degree
9 18 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
10 15 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
11 8 (0.19%) CISSP
11 8 (0.19%) ICAEW
12 7 (0.16%) PMI Certification
12 7 (0.16%) PRINCE2 Certification
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
1 286 (6.69%) Accessibility
2 109 (2.55%) QA
3 96 (2.25%) WCAG
4 56 (1.31%) GDPR
5 27 (0.63%) Data Quality
6 19 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
7 14 (0.33%) SLA
8 12 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
8 12 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 10 (0.23%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 5 (0.12%) HIPAA
11 5 (0.12%) NEBOSH
12 4 (0.094%) PMO
13 3 (0.070%) GRC
14 2 (0.047%) GxP
14 2 (0.047%) PERC
14 2 (0.047%) SOC 2
15 1 (0.023%) NCSC
15 1 (0.023%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 96 (2.25%) 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 72 (1.68%) 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
1 328 (7.67%) Microsoft
2 190 (4.44%) Adobe
3 100 (2.34%) Google
4 69 (1.61%) ServiceNow
5 51 (1.19%) Salesforce
6 32 (0.75%) HubSpot
7 28 (0.65%) Apple
8 25 (0.58%) Nexthink
9 23 (0.54%) SAP
10 22 (0.51%) Oracle
11 18 (0.42%) Braze
12 16 (0.37%) BMC
12 16 (0.37%) Hotjar
13 15 (0.35%) Amplitude
14 12 (0.28%) OpenAI
15 11 (0.26%) iManage
16 10 (0.23%) Atlassian
16 10 (0.23%) VMware
16 10 (0.23%) WooCommerce
17 9 (0.21%) ConnectWise