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 22 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

3 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 61 75
Rank change year-on-year -36 +14 +7
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 965 1,134 1,058
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.83% 4.10% 2.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.51% 4.64% 3.81%
Number of salaries quoted 684 459 476
10th Percentile £30,575 £33,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,819 £45,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,875 £100,000 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

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 38,487 24,444 27,746
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.90% 88.38% 76.00%
Number of salaries quoted 27,952 12,953 17,813
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £43,911
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.64%
75th Percentile £78,312 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £53,312
% change year-on-year +15.79% -10.90% -3.07%

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 22 July 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 22 July 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 -23 877 £55,000 -8.33% 921
UK excluding London -39 577 £50,000 -9.09% 493
Work from Home -48 355 £55,000 -12.00% 433
London -23 311 £70,000 -6.67% 533
North of England -37 198 £52,000 +4.00% 140
South East -15 110 £52,500 -8.70% 148
North West -53 110 £49,250 -10.45% 71
Midlands +10 86 £46,250 -15.91% 58
East of England +17 71 £45,000 -25.00% 52
South West -25 66 £60,000 +11.63% 60
West Midlands -20 51 £50,000 -9.09% 42
Yorkshire +22 44 £52,786 +5.57% 47
North East 0 44 £51,619 +416.19% 22
East Midlands +17 35 £42,500 -19.05% 16
Wales -28 23 £49,480 -26.70% 5
Scotland -26 22 £60,000 -22.58% 30
Northern Ireland -54 1 £39,500 - 13

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
1 149 (7.70%) SharePoint
2 120 (6.20%) CMS
3 63 (3.25%) Confluence
4 50 (2.58%) Microsoft Exchange
5 29 (1.50%) WordPress
6 8 (0.41%) Drupal
7 6 (0.31%) Umbraco
8 5 (0.26%) Moodle
9 4 (0.21%) IIS
10 3 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.15%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.15%) nginx
10 3 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.15%) Skype for Business
11 2 (0.10%) Apache
11 2 (0.10%) Totara
12 1 (0.052%) ExpressionEngine
12 1 (0.052%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.052%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 33 (1.70%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 32 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (1.50%) Adobe XD
4 26 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
5 23 (1.19%) Photoshop
6 22 (1.14%) Sketch
7 21 (1.08%) Adobe Illustrator
8 17 (0.88%) UserZoom
9 16 (0.83%) Chatbot
10 14 (0.72%) Adobe After Effects
10 14 (0.72%) InDesign
11 9 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
12 6 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
13 5 (0.26%) InVision
14 4 (0.21%) Trello
15 3 (0.15%) Productboard
15 3 (0.15%) SPSS
16 2 (0.10%) Adobe Premiere
16 2 (0.10%) Camtasia
16 2 (0.10%) Final Cut Pro
Business Applications
1 21 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
1 21 (1.08%) Shopify
2 16 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.62%) Magento
4 9 (0.46%) NetSuite
5 6 (0.31%) Dynamics GP
6 4 (0.21%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.21%) Workday HCM
7 3 (0.15%) Carpe Diem
7 3 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.15%) Elite 3E
7 3 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.10%) Adobe Campaign
8 2 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.10%) Towers Watson Igloo
8 2 (0.10%) Visualfiles
9 1 (0.052%) Oracle General Ledger
9 1 (0.052%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 378 (19.52%) Azure
2 287 (14.82%) Microsoft 365
3 199 (10.28%) Figma
4 159 (8.21%) Power Platform
5 151 (7.80%) AWS
6 140 (7.23%) SaaS
7 117 (6.04%) Entra ID
8 99 (5.11%) Azure DevOps
9 78 (4.03%) Power Automate
10 74 (3.82%) PowerApps
11 68 (3.51%) Adobe Analytics
12 65 (3.36%) GitHub
13 63 (3.25%) Google Analytics
14 58 (3.00%) GCP
15 55 (2.84%) Microsoft Copilot
16 48 (2.48%) Serverless
17 46 (2.38%) Azure Logic Apps
18 45 (2.32%) Contentsquare
18 45 (2.32%) Dynamics 365
19 43 (2.22%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 71 (3.67%) Broadband
2 33 (1.70%) Firewall
3 28 (1.45%) DNS
4 24 (1.24%) DHCP
4 24 (1.24%) VPN
5 21 (1.08%) VoIP
6 16 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
7 12 (0.62%) CTI
7 12 (0.62%) TCP/IP
8 11 (0.57%) Kerberos
9 10 (0.52%) HTTP
10 9 (0.46%) Internet
10 9 (0.46%) Wireless
11 7 (0.36%) VLAN
12 6 (0.31%) Intranet
12 6 (0.31%) Network Security
12 6 (0.31%) Unified Communications
13 5 (0.26%) SAN
14 4 (0.21%) SMS
14 4 (0.21%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (4.44%) Power BI
2 58 (3.00%) SQL Server
3 24 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
5 19 (0.98%) Looker
6 17 (0.88%) Metadata
6 17 (0.88%) MySQL
7 16 (0.83%) Relational Database
8 15 (0.77%) NoSQL
9 13 (0.67%) MongoDB
10 12 (0.62%) BigQuery
11 8 (0.41%) Redis
12 7 (0.36%) Tableau
13 6 (0.31%) Power Query
14 5 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
14 5 (0.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 4 (0.21%) Data Warehouse
15 4 (0.21%) SAP BW
15 4 (0.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 4 (0.21%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 97 (5.01%) JIRA
2 82 (4.24%) Git
3 22 (1.14%) Claude Code
3 22 (1.14%) Jenkins
4 21 (1.08%) fastlane
5 20 (1.03%) Crashlytics
6 15 (0.77%) XCTest
7 12 (0.62%) Cypress.io
8 11 (0.57%) webpack
9 10 (0.52%) Axure RP
9 10 (0.52%) Balsamiq
10 9 (0.46%) Vite
10 9 (0.46%) Xcode
11 8 (0.41%) Selenium
12 7 (0.36%) Bitbucket
13 6 (0.31%) Android Studio
13 6 (0.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (0.31%) Gradle
13 6 (0.31%) NUnit
13 6 (0.31%) Postman
General
1 586 (30.27%) Social Skills
2 302 (15.60%) Finance
3 244 (12.60%) Marketing
4 217 (11.21%) Analytical Skills
5 174 (8.99%) Public Sector
6 139 (7.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 114 (5.89%) Retail
8 111 (5.73%) Legal
9 98 (5.06%) Law
10 92 (4.75%) Organisational Skills
11 74 (3.82%) Games
12 60 (3.10%) Influencing Skills
13 42 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
14 38 (1.96%) Advertising
15 35 (1.81%) Banking
16 30 (1.55%) Manufacturing
17 20 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
17 20 (1.03%) Multimedia
18 16 (0.83%) Back Office
18 16 (0.83%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 341 (17.61%) Senior
2 315 (16.27%) Designer
3 282 (14.57%) Developer
4 229 (11.83%) UX Designer
5 221 (11.42%) Lead
6 136 (7.02%) Analyst
7 101 (5.22%) Senior Developer
8 85 (4.39%) Senior Designer
8 85 (4.39%) UI Designer
9 84 (4.34%) Software Engineer
10 83 (4.29%) IT Support
11 82 (4.24%) UI/UX Designer
12 67 (3.46%) IT Manager
13 65 (3.36%) Product Manager
14 64 (3.31%) Architect
15 63 (3.25%) Senior UX Designer
15 63 (3.25%) Support Engineer
16 51 (2.63%) Business Analyst
16 51 (2.63%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
17 50 (2.58%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 195 (10.07%) HTML
2 194 (10.02%) CSS
3 157 (8.11%) React
4 143 (7.39%) .NET
5 95 (4.91%) REST
6 77 (3.98%) RESTful
7 56 (2.89%) .NET Core
8 54 (2.79%) Node.js
9 47 (2.43%) JSON
10 44 (2.27%) AngularJS
11 36 (1.86%) HTML5
12 35 (1.81%) ASP.NET
13 33 (1.70%) Next.js
13 33 (1.70%) Vue
14 30 (1.55%) CSS3
15 27 (1.39%) Sass
16 26 (1.34%) SPFx
16 26 (1.34%) SwiftUI
17 24 (1.24%) Blazor
17 24 (1.24%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 185 (9.56%) Product Ownership
2 107 (5.53%) Mobile App
3 99 (5.11%) Onboarding
4 72 (3.72%) Social Media
5 58 (3.00%) Enterprise Software
6 48 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
7 46 (2.38%) Cloud Native
8 31 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
8 31 (1.60%) Management Information System
9 25 (1.29%) AI Agents
9 25 (1.29%) Driving Licence
10 24 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
11 23 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
12 17 (0.88%) Graphic Design
12 17 (0.88%) Low-Code
13 16 (0.83%) Algorithms
13 16 (0.83%) Life Science
14 14 (0.72%) Security Posture
15 13 (0.67%) Animation
15 13 (0.67%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 138 (7.13%) Windows
2 71 (3.67%) Apple iOS
3 43 (2.22%) Windows Server
4 40 (2.07%) Android
5 38 (1.96%) Windows 10
6 32 (1.65%) Mac OS
7 27 (1.39%) Linux
8 8 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (0.26%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.21%) Mac OS X
11 2 (0.10%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.052%) CentOS
12 1 (0.052%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 547 (28.25%) Agile
2 525 (27.12%) UX Design
3 463 (23.92%) Continuous Improvement
4 423 (21.85%) Problem-Solving
5 369 (19.06%) AI
6 351 (18.13%) Analytics
7 322 (16.63%) Roadmaps
8 255 (13.17%) Mentoring
9 200 (10.33%) DevOps
10 193 (9.97%) Decision-Making
11 187 (9.66%) Stakeholder Management
12 173 (8.94%) CI/CD
13 169 (8.73%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 161 (8.32%) Software Engineering
15 160 (8.26%) User Research
16 156 (8.06%) ITIL
17 146 (7.54%) Workflow
18 145 (7.49%) Product Roadmap
19 143 (7.39%) Customer Experience
20 137 (7.08%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 232 (11.98%) JavaScript
2 150 (7.75%) C#
3 147 (7.59%) TypeScript
4 143 (7.39%) SQL
5 112 (5.79%) Python
6 85 (4.39%) Java
7 68 (3.51%) PowerShell
8 31 (1.60%) Swift
9 29 (1.50%) PHP
10 25 (1.29%) Kotlin
11 13 (0.67%) ABAP
12 12 (0.62%) C++
13 10 (0.52%) VB.NET
14 9 (0.46%) C
14 9 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 9 (0.46%) Go
15 6 (0.31%) Bash
15 6 (0.31%) Bicep
15 6 (0.31%) Rust
15 6 (0.31%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 167 (8.63%) Degree
2 131 (6.77%) Security Cleared
3 79 (4.08%) SC Cleared
4 37 (1.91%) DV Cleared
5 24 (1.24%) DBS Check
6 23 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 23 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (0.57%) CISSP
7 11 (0.57%) Master's Degree
7 11 (0.57%) Postgraduate
8 9 (0.46%) ICAEW
9 8 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (0.41%) ISTQB
10 6 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (0.26%) PMI Certification
11 5 (0.26%) PMP
11 5 (0.26%) SAP Certification
12 3 (0.15%) A+ Certification
12 3 (0.15%) Network+ Certification
12 3 (0.15%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 314 (16.22%) Accessibility
2 112 (5.79%) QA
3 100 (5.17%) WCAG
4 69 (3.56%) GDPR
5 50 (2.58%) Data Quality
6 22 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials
6 22 (1.14%) SLA
7 11 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 10 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 8 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
9 8 (0.41%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.26%) NEBOSH
11 4 (0.21%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.21%) PMO
11 4 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.21%) Software Quality Assurance
12 3 (0.15%) PERC
13 2 (0.10%) GRC
13 2 (0.10%) GxP
13 2 (0.10%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 118 (6.10%) Active Directory
2 53 (2.74%) Docker
3 10 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (0.36%) BitLocker
5 6 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.052%) Firmware
7 1 (0.052%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 83 (4.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 29 (1.50%) Kubernetes
3 17 (0.88%) Terraform
4 12 (0.62%) SCCM
4 12 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
5 11 (0.57%) Jamf Pro
6 4 (0.21%) Ansible
6 4 (0.21%) Grafana
6 4 (0.21%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.10%) Data Guard
7 2 (0.10%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (0.10%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.10%) Packer
7 2 (0.10%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.052%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.052%) Forefront Identity Manager
8 1 (0.052%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.052%) Kibana
Vendors
1 422 (21.80%) Microsoft
2 177 (9.14%) Adobe
3 93 (4.80%) Google
4 63 (3.25%) ServiceNow
5 50 (2.58%) Salesforce
6 35 (1.81%) Apple
7 32 (1.65%) SAP
8 30 (1.55%) Oracle
9 24 (1.24%) iManage
10 18 (0.93%) Braze
10 18 (0.93%) OpenAI
11 17 (0.88%) Cisco
11 17 (0.88%) HubSpot
12 16 (0.83%) Amplitude
13 15 (0.77%) Dynatrace
13 15 (0.77%) Hotjar
14 12 (0.62%) Genesys
14 12 (0.62%) Meraki
14 12 (0.62%) Nexthink
15 11 (0.57%) Avaya