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

3 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 79 66
Rank change year-on-year -15 -13 +15
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 1,062 885 1,101
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.96% 3.41% 3.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.66% 3.91% 3.94%
Number of salaries quoted 717 452 491
10th Percentile £31,400 £33,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,800 £45,375 £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 £71,250 £76,563 £72,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £100,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,027
% change year-on-year -9.09% +9.94% -9.04%

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 39,938 22,659 27,953
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.86% 87.21% 76.07%
Number of salaries quoted 28,315 13,284 17,461
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £32,750
25th Percentile £42,215 £36,250 £44,598
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% -8.33% -0.39%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £53,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -10.38% -3.64%

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 August 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 August 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 -5 958 £55,000 -8.33% 1,159
UK excluding London -18 622 £50,000 -9.09% 588
Work from Home -22 407 £55,000 -12.00% 530
London -10 359 £70,000 -6.67% 694
North of England -10 203 £50,000 - 160
South East -44 114 £50,000 -13.04% 159
Midlands +8 104 £45,000 -18.18% 82
North West -37 103 £42,500 -17.07% 86
South West -16 84 £60,000 +20.00% 73
West Midlands +2 66 £48,750 -11.36% 66
East of England +6 63 £47,500 -20.83% 54
Yorkshire +34 51 £55,000 +10.00% 47
North East -2 49 £47,000 +129.27% 27
East Midlands -5 38 £42,500 -6.37% 16
Wales -36 24 £48,961 -27.47% 20
Scotland -14 22 £55,000 -29.03% 32
Northern Ireland -54 8 £46,000 - 19

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
1 158 (7.61%) SharePoint
2 117 (5.64%) CMS
3 66 (3.18%) Confluence
4 53 (2.55%) Microsoft Exchange
5 34 (1.64%) WordPress
6 8 (0.39%) IIS
7 6 (0.29%) Drupal
7 6 (0.29%) Moodle
8 5 (0.24%) Skype for Business
8 5 (0.24%) Umbraco
9 4 (0.19%) Apache
10 3 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.14%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.14%) nginx
11 2 (0.096%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.096%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.096%) Totara
12 1 (0.048%) ExpressionEngine
12 1 (0.048%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.048%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 38 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 34 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
3 33 (1.59%) Adobe XD
4 32 (1.54%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 23 (1.11%) Sketch
6 21 (1.01%) Photoshop
7 19 (0.92%) Adobe Illustrator
8 18 (0.87%) Chatbot
8 18 (0.87%) UserZoom
9 15 (0.72%) InDesign
10 12 (0.58%) Adobe After Effects
11 9 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
12 8 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
13 6 (0.29%) MS Visio
14 5 (0.24%) InVision
15 4 (0.19%) Trello
16 3 (0.14%) Productboard
16 3 (0.14%) SPSS
16 3 (0.14%) Zeplin
17 2 (0.096%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 21 (1.01%) Shopify
2 20 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
4 12 (0.58%) Magento
5 11 (0.53%) NetSuite
6 9 (0.43%) Workday HCM
7 5 (0.24%) Dynamics GP
8 3 (0.14%) Carpe Diem
8 3 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
8 3 (0.14%) Elite 3E
8 3 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
9 2 (0.096%) Adobe Campaign
9 2 (0.096%) Dynamics NAV
9 2 (0.096%) Oracle ERP
9 2 (0.096%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.096%) Towers Watson Igloo
9 2 (0.096%) Visualfiles
10 1 (0.048%) Oracle Payables
10 1 (0.048%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 410 (19.75%) Azure
2 301 (14.50%) Microsoft 365
3 204 (9.83%) Figma
4 169 (8.14%) AWS
5 166 (8.00%) Power Platform
6 140 (6.74%) SaaS
7 124 (5.97%) Entra ID
8 105 (5.06%) Azure DevOps
9 84 (4.05%) Power Automate
10 80 (3.85%) PowerApps
11 68 (3.28%) GitHub
12 67 (3.23%) Google Analytics
13 65 (3.13%) Adobe Analytics
14 63 (3.03%) GCP
15 58 (2.79%) Microsoft Copilot
16 48 (2.31%) Dynamics 365
16 48 (2.31%) Serverless
17 47 (2.26%) Azure Logic Apps
18 45 (2.17%) OneDrive
19 44 (2.12%) Contentsquare
Communications & Networking
1 62 (2.99%) Broadband
2 37 (1.78%) Firewall
3 31 (1.49%) DNS
4 26 (1.25%) DHCP
5 23 (1.11%) VPN
6 20 (0.96%) VoIP
7 15 (0.72%) TCP/IP
7 15 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
8 13 (0.63%) Network Security
9 12 (0.58%) CTI
9 12 (0.58%) Kerberos
10 10 (0.48%) HTTP
11 9 (0.43%) Wireless
12 8 (0.39%) Internet
13 7 (0.34%) Intranet
13 7 (0.34%) VLAN
14 6 (0.29%) Unified Communications
15 5 (0.24%) SAN
15 5 (0.24%) Skype
15 5 (0.24%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (4.34%) Power BI
2 66 (3.18%) SQL Server
3 28 (1.35%) Relational Database
4 27 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
6 20 (0.96%) MySQL
7 19 (0.92%) Looker
8 16 (0.77%) Metadata
9 15 (0.72%) NoSQL
10 12 (0.58%) MongoDB
11 11 (0.53%) BigQuery
12 9 (0.43%) Redis
12 9 (0.43%) Tableau
13 7 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
14 6 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
14 6 (0.29%) GIS
14 6 (0.29%) Power Query
15 5 (0.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 5 (0.24%) Star Schema
16 4 (0.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 104 (5.01%) JIRA
2 100 (4.82%) Git
3 29 (1.40%) Claude Code
4 24 (1.16%) Jenkins
5 21 (1.01%) fastlane
6 20 (0.96%) Crashlytics
7 17 (0.82%) Cypress.io
8 15 (0.72%) XCTest
9 12 (0.58%) Axure RP
10 11 (0.53%) Balsamiq
10 11 (0.53%) Selenium
10 11 (0.53%) webpack
11 9 (0.43%) Vite
11 9 (0.43%) Xcode
12 8 (0.39%) Postman
13 7 (0.34%) Bitbucket
14 6 (0.29%) Android Studio
14 6 (0.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 6 (0.29%) Gradle
14 6 (0.29%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 673 (32.42%) Social Skills
2 353 (17.00%) Finance
3 266 (12.81%) Marketing
4 255 (12.28%) Analytical Skills
5 179 (8.62%) Public Sector
6 177 (8.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 134 (6.45%) Retail
8 118 (5.68%) Law
9 111 (5.35%) Legal
10 98 (4.72%) Organisational Skills
11 73 (3.52%) Games
12 63 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
13 48 (2.31%) Banking
14 40 (1.93%) Presentation Skills
15 37 (1.78%) Advertising
16 30 (1.45%) Manufacturing
17 25 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
18 20 (0.96%) Multimedia
19 19 (0.92%) Financial Institution
20 18 (0.87%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 368 (17.73%) Senior
2 343 (16.52%) Designer
3 301 (14.50%) Developer
4 248 (11.95%) Lead
5 247 (11.90%) UX Designer
6 156 (7.51%) Analyst
7 104 (5.01%) Senior Developer
8 94 (4.53%) Software Engineer
8 94 (4.53%) UI Designer
9 90 (4.34%) IT Support
9 90 (4.34%) Senior Designer
10 89 (4.29%) UI/UX Designer
11 70 (3.37%) Architect
12 67 (3.23%) Product Manager
13 65 (3.13%) Support Engineer
14 64 (3.08%) Senior UX Designer
15 63 (3.03%) IT Manager
16 57 (2.75%) Business Analyst
17 55 (2.65%) Full-Stack Developer
18 50 (2.41%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 207 (9.97%) HTML
2 205 (9.87%) CSS
3 158 (7.61%) .NET
3 158 (7.61%) React
4 105 (5.06%) REST
5 77 (3.71%) RESTful
6 65 (3.13%) .NET Core
7 59 (2.84%) Node.js
8 51 (2.46%) JSON
9 43 (2.07%) AngularJS
9 43 (2.07%) ASP.NET
10 39 (1.88%) HTML5
11 37 (1.78%) Next.js
12 34 (1.64%) CSS3
13 31 (1.49%) Vue
14 30 (1.45%) jQuery
15 27 (1.30%) Blazor
16 26 (1.25%) SPFx
16 26 (1.25%) SwiftUI
17 25 (1.20%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 203 (9.78%) Product Ownership
2 110 (5.30%) Mobile App
3 104 (5.01%) Onboarding
4 73 (3.52%) Social Media
5 72 (3.47%) Enterprise Software
6 56 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
7 49 (2.36%) Cloud Native
8 32 (1.54%) Management Information System
9 30 (1.45%) Driving Licence
10 29 (1.40%) AI Agents
11 25 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
12 24 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
13 23 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
14 21 (1.01%) Algorithms
15 20 (0.96%) Graphic Design
16 18 (0.87%) Low-Code
17 17 (0.82%) Security Posture
18 15 (0.72%) Virtual Team
19 14 (0.67%) Distributed Systems
19 14 (0.67%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 153 (7.37%) Windows
2 73 (3.52%) Apple iOS
3 46 (2.22%) Windows Server
4 43 (2.07%) Android
5 40 (1.93%) Windows 10
6 36 (1.73%) Mac OS
7 27 (1.30%) Linux
8 8 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (0.24%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.19%) Mac OS X
10 4 (0.19%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.048%) AIX
11 1 (0.048%) CentOS
11 1 (0.048%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 582 (28.03%) Agile
2 555 (26.73%) UX Design
3 506 (24.37%) Continuous Improvement
4 460 (22.16%) Problem-Solving
5 429 (20.66%) AI
6 372 (17.92%) Analytics
7 335 (16.14%) Roadmaps
8 263 (12.67%) Mentoring
9 225 (10.84%) Decision-Making
10 222 (10.69%) Stakeholder Management
11 215 (10.36%) DevOps
12 198 (9.54%) CI/CD
13 177 (8.53%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 167 (8.04%) User Research
15 165 (7.95%) Software Engineering
16 163 (7.85%) ITIL
17 159 (7.66%) Customer Experience
18 157 (7.56%) Workflow
19 149 (7.18%) Product Roadmap
20 146 (7.03%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 249 (11.99%) JavaScript
2 159 (7.66%) C#
3 157 (7.56%) SQL
4 154 (7.42%) TypeScript
5 118 (5.68%) Python
6 91 (4.38%) Java
7 74 (3.56%) PowerShell
8 32 (1.54%) Swift
9 31 (1.49%) PHP
10 27 (1.30%) Kotlin
11 14 (0.67%) VB.NET
12 12 (0.58%) C++
13 11 (0.53%) ABAP
13 11 (0.53%) C
14 9 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 8 (0.39%) Go
15 8 (0.39%) VBScript
16 7 (0.34%) VB
17 6 (0.29%) Bash
17 6 (0.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 199 (9.59%) Degree
2 145 (6.98%) Security Cleared
3 87 (4.19%) SC Cleared
4 38 (1.83%) DV Cleared
5 33 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
6 29 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
7 27 (1.30%) DBS Check
8 12 (0.58%) CISSP
8 12 (0.58%) ICAEW
8 12 (0.58%) Master's Degree
9 11 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
9 11 (0.53%) Postgraduate
10 9 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
11 8 (0.39%) PMI Certification
12 7 (0.34%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.19%) AWS Certification
13 4 (0.19%) CBAP
13 4 (0.19%) IIBA
13 4 (0.19%) PMP
13 4 (0.19%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 328 (15.80%) Accessibility
2 123 (5.92%) QA
3 109 (5.25%) WCAG
4 68 (3.28%) GDPR
5 64 (3.08%) Data Quality
6 27 (1.30%) SLA
7 20 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
8 15 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
9 12 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 11 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 8 (0.39%) PCI DSS
12 5 (0.24%) NEBOSH
12 5 (0.24%) PMO
13 4 (0.19%) PERC
13 4 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
14 3 (0.14%) GxP
14 3 (0.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 3 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 2 (0.096%) GRC
System Software
1 118 (5.68%) Active Directory
2 58 (2.79%) Docker
3 10 (0.48%) BitLocker
4 9 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
7 4 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.096%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.048%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 90 (4.34%) Microsoft Intune
2 35 (1.69%) Kubernetes
3 19 (0.92%) Terraform
4 15 (0.72%) SCCM
5 13 (0.63%) Jamf Pro
6 10 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.24%) Ansible
8 4 (0.19%) Grafana
9 3 (0.14%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.096%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.096%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 2 (0.096%) Oracle RMAN
11 1 (0.048%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.048%) Forefront Identity Manager
11 1 (0.048%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.048%) Kibana
11 1 (0.048%) Packer
11 1 (0.048%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 455 (21.92%) Microsoft
2 174 (8.38%) Adobe
3 104 (5.01%) Google
4 60 (2.89%) ServiceNow
5 51 (2.46%) Salesforce
6 37 (1.78%) Apple
7 36 (1.73%) Oracle
8 32 (1.54%) SAP
9 21 (1.01%) iManage
10 19 (0.92%) OpenAI
11 18 (0.87%) Braze
11 18 (0.87%) Cisco
12 17 (0.82%) HubSpot
13 16 (0.77%) Amplitude
13 16 (0.77%) Hotjar
14 15 (0.72%) Dynatrace
15 14 (0.67%) Meraki
16 12 (0.58%) Genesys
17 11 (0.53%) Avaya
17 11 (0.53%) VMware