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

3 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 67 69
Rank change year-on-year -25 +2 +10
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 998 1,168 1,193
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.88% 4.15% 2.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.59% 4.62% 3.89%
Number of salaries quoted 687 471 523
10th Percentile £30,750 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £56,988
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.29% -8.82%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £91,750 £95,000 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £56,785 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.95% +3.25% -

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 38,507 25,272 30,672
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.71% 89.77% 76.85%
Number of salaries quoted 27,672 12,831 19,459
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £78,250 £75,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -4.55%

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 8 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 8 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 -21 893 £55,000 -8.33% 874
UK excluding London -17 615 £50,000 -11.95% 502
Work from Home -37 381 £55,000 -12.00% 673
London -29 301 £70,000 - 463
North of England -24 207 £47,500 -13.64% 145
South East +12 120 £52,500 -8.70% 156
North West -33 119 £47,500 -20.83% 79
East of England +41 93 £63,750 +6.25% 46
Midlands -7 83 £47,500 -13.64% 71
South West -37 59 £60,000 +9.09% 45
West Midlands -30 48 £47,500 -13.64% 39
Yorkshire +13 45 £45,000 +20.00% 32
North East -4 43 £51,619 +416.19% 34
East Midlands +22 35 £45,000 -18.18% 31
Scotland -21 29 £65,500 -15.48% 22
Wales -22 22 £50,000 -25.93% 9
Northern Ireland -38 2 £39,500 - 17

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
1 143 (7.46%) SharePoint
2 122 (6.36%) CMS
3 65 (3.39%) Confluence
4 51 (2.66%) Microsoft Exchange
5 28 (1.46%) WordPress
6 9 (0.47%) Drupal
7 7 (0.37%) Umbraco
8 4 (0.21%) Moodle
8 4 (0.21%) nginx
9 3 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.16%) Headless CMS
9 3 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.10%) IIS
10 2 (0.10%) Skype for Business
10 2 (0.10%) Totara
11 1 (0.052%) Apache
11 1 (0.052%) ExpressionEngine
11 1 (0.052%) NServiceBus
11 1 (0.052%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 35 (1.83%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 34 (1.77%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (1.41%) Adobe XD
4 25 (1.30%) Photoshop
5 24 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
6 23 (1.20%) Adobe Illustrator
7 21 (1.10%) Sketch
8 17 (0.89%) UserZoom
9 15 (0.78%) Adobe After Effects
10 14 (0.73%) Chatbot
10 14 (0.73%) InDesign
11 9 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
12 6 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
13 5 (0.26%) InVision
14 4 (0.21%) Trello
15 3 (0.16%) Adobe Premiere
15 3 (0.16%) Productboard
15 3 (0.16%) SPSS
16 2 (0.10%) Camtasia
17 1 (0.052%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 23 (1.20%) Shopify
2 20 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (0.68%) Magento
5 8 (0.42%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.26%) Dynamics GP
6 5 (0.26%) SAP ERP
7 4 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
7 4 (0.21%) Elite 3E
7 4 (0.21%) Workday HCM
8 3 (0.16%) Carpe Diem
8 3 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
8 3 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
9 2 (0.10%) Adobe Campaign
9 2 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
9 2 (0.10%) Towers Watson Igloo
9 2 (0.10%) Visualfiles
10 1 (0.052%) Oracle Payables
10 1 (0.052%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 362 (18.88%) Azure
2 281 (14.66%) Microsoft 365
3 207 (10.80%) Figma
4 160 (8.35%) AWS
5 151 (7.88%) Power Platform
6 136 (7.09%) SaaS
7 108 (5.63%) Entra ID
8 94 (4.90%) Azure DevOps
9 72 (3.76%) Power Automate
10 70 (3.65%) Adobe Analytics
11 68 (3.55%) PowerApps
12 65 (3.39%) GitHub
13 64 (3.34%) GCP
14 62 (3.23%) Google Analytics
15 49 (2.56%) Microsoft Copilot
16 48 (2.50%) Serverless
17 47 (2.45%) Contentsquare
18 45 (2.35%) Azure Logic Apps
19 41 (2.14%) OneDrive
20 35 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 78 (4.07%) Broadband
2 32 (1.67%) Firewall
3 26 (1.36%) DNS
4 25 (1.30%) VPN
5 22 (1.15%) DHCP
6 18 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
7 16 (0.83%) VoIP
8 11 (0.57%) TCP/IP
9 10 (0.52%) HTTP
9 10 (0.52%) Kerberos
10 9 (0.47%) Internet
10 9 (0.47%) Wireless
11 8 (0.42%) CTI
12 7 (0.37%) VLAN
13 6 (0.31%) Network Security
14 5 (0.26%) Intranet
14 5 (0.26%) SAN
15 4 (0.21%) NAS
15 4 (0.21%) SMS
15 4 (0.21%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (4.23%) Power BI
2 52 (2.71%) SQL Server
3 26 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
5 22 (1.15%) Looker
6 18 (0.94%) Metadata
7 17 (0.89%) MySQL
8 16 (0.83%) MongoDB
9 14 (0.73%) BigQuery
9 14 (0.73%) NoSQL
10 13 (0.68%) Relational Database
11 8 (0.42%) Redis
12 7 (0.37%) Tableau
13 5 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (0.26%) Data Warehouse
13 5 (0.26%) GIS
13 5 (0.26%) Power Query
13 5 (0.26%) SAP BW
13 5 (0.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 4 (0.21%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 101 (5.27%) JIRA
2 77 (4.02%) Git
3 22 (1.15%) Jenkins
4 21 (1.10%) fastlane
5 20 (1.04%) Crashlytics
6 19 (0.99%) Claude Code
7 15 (0.78%) XCTest
8 11 (0.57%) Vite
8 11 (0.57%) webpack
9 10 (0.52%) Cypress.io
10 9 (0.47%) Axure RP
10 9 (0.47%) Balsamiq
10 9 (0.47%) Selenium
10 9 (0.47%) Xcode
11 8 (0.42%) Postman
12 7 (0.37%) Bitbucket
12 7 (0.37%) Storybook
13 6 (0.31%) Android Studio
13 6 (0.31%) Cucumber
13 6 (0.31%) Gradle
General
1 568 (29.63%) Social Skills
2 298 (15.55%) Finance
3 239 (12.47%) Marketing
4 202 (10.54%) Analytical Skills
5 158 (8.24%) Public Sector
6 132 (6.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 113 (5.89%) Legal
8 107 (5.58%) Retail
9 95 (4.96%) Organisational Skills
10 89 (4.64%) Law
11 74 (3.86%) Games
12 54 (2.82%) Influencing Skills
13 48 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
14 40 (2.09%) Advertising
15 34 (1.77%) Banking
15 34 (1.77%) Manufacturing
16 21 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
17 20 (1.04%) Multimedia
18 18 (0.94%) Back Office
19 14 (0.73%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 352 (18.36%) Senior
2 315 (16.43%) Designer
3 272 (14.19%) Developer
4 227 (11.84%) UX Designer
5 216 (11.27%) Lead
6 141 (7.36%) Analyst
7 99 (5.16%) Senior Developer
8 87 (4.54%) Senior Designer
9 84 (4.38%) UI Designer
10 83 (4.33%) IT Support
10 83 (4.33%) Software Engineer
11 78 (4.07%) UI/UX Designer
12 65 (3.39%) Product Manager
12 65 (3.39%) Senior UX Designer
13 64 (3.34%) Support Engineer
14 62 (3.23%) IT Manager
15 61 (3.18%) Architect
16 52 (2.71%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
17 51 (2.66%) Business Analyst
18 48 (2.50%) Product Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 192 (10.02%) HTML
2 190 (9.91%) CSS
3 165 (8.61%) React
4 133 (6.94%) .NET
5 89 (4.64%) REST
6 74 (3.86%) RESTful
7 54 (2.82%) Node.js
8 52 (2.71%) .NET Core
8 52 (2.71%) AngularJS
9 46 (2.40%) JSON
10 40 (2.09%) Vue
11 35 (1.83%) HTML5
12 30 (1.56%) ASP.NET
13 29 (1.51%) CSS3
13 29 (1.51%) Next.js
14 27 (1.41%) Sass
14 27 (1.41%) SwiftUI
15 26 (1.36%) SPFx
16 25 (1.30%) SOAP
16 25 (1.30%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 187 (9.75%) Product Ownership
2 116 (6.05%) Mobile App
3 107 (5.58%) Onboarding
4 73 (3.81%) Social Media
5 48 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
6 44 (2.30%) Cloud Native
7 41 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
8 34 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
9 29 (1.51%) Management Information System
10 27 (1.41%) AI Agents
11 23 (1.20%) Driving Licence
11 23 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
12 21 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
13 19 (0.99%) Low-Code
14 17 (0.89%) Life Science
14 17 (0.89%) Security Posture
15 16 (0.83%) Algorithms
15 16 (0.83%) e-Learning
15 16 (0.83%) Graphic Design
16 12 (0.63%) Animation
Operating Systems
1 133 (6.94%) Windows
2 72 (3.76%) Apple iOS
3 41 (2.14%) Windows Server
4 40 (2.09%) Android
5 36 (1.88%) Windows 10
6 29 (1.51%) Mac OS
7 27 (1.41%) Linux
8 8 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.21%) Mac OS X
9 4 (0.21%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.10%) Unix
10 2 (0.10%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.052%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 529 (27.60%) UX Design
2 526 (27.44%) Agile
3 436 (22.74%) Continuous Improvement
4 411 (21.44%) Problem-Solving
5 364 (18.99%) AI
6 347 (18.10%) Analytics
7 313 (16.33%) Roadmaps
8 252 (13.15%) Mentoring
9 193 (10.07%) DevOps
10 187 (9.75%) Decision-Making
11 177 (9.23%) CI/CD
12 169 (8.82%) Software Engineering
13 166 (8.66%) Stakeholder Management
14 165 (8.61%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 161 (8.40%) User Research
16 148 (7.72%) Full-Stack Development
17 146 (7.62%) Workflow
18 145 (7.56%) ITIL
19 144 (7.51%) Product Roadmap
20 143 (7.46%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 230 (12.00%) JavaScript
2 153 (7.98%) TypeScript
3 140 (7.30%) SQL
4 139 (7.25%) C#
5 117 (6.10%) Python
6 94 (4.90%) Java
7 66 (3.44%) PowerShell
8 35 (1.83%) PHP
9 31 (1.62%) Swift
10 24 (1.25%) Kotlin
11 13 (0.68%) ABAP
12 10 (0.52%) C++
12 10 (0.52%) Go
13 8 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 7 (0.37%) Apex Code
14 7 (0.37%) C
14 7 (0.37%) Rust
14 7 (0.37%) T-SQL
14 7 (0.37%) VB.NET
15 6 (0.31%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 166 (8.66%) Degree
2 136 (7.09%) Security Cleared
3 79 (4.12%) SC Cleared
4 38 (1.98%) DV Cleared
5 31 (1.62%) DBS Check
6 21 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (0.63%) Master's Degree
8 11 (0.57%) Postgraduate
9 10 (0.52%) CISSP
10 8 (0.42%) ICAEW
11 7 (0.37%) ISTQB
12 6 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
12 6 (0.31%) PMI Certification
12 6 (0.31%) SAP Certification
13 5 (0.26%) PMP
14 4 (0.21%) A+ Certification
14 4 (0.21%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 3 (0.16%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 304 (15.86%) Accessibility
2 122 (6.36%) QA
3 94 (4.90%) WCAG
4 69 (3.60%) GDPR
5 45 (2.35%) Data Quality
6 25 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials
7 19 (0.99%) SLA
8 14 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 9 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 8 (0.42%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.26%) HIPAA
12 5 (0.26%) NEBOSH
13 4 (0.21%) PMO
13 4 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.16%) PERC
14 3 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
15 2 (0.10%) GRC
15 2 (0.10%) GxP
16 1 (0.052%) COBIT
System Software
1 114 (5.95%) Active Directory
2 53 (2.76%) Docker
3 9 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (0.31%) BitLocker
4 6 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.052%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 73 (3.81%) Microsoft Intune
2 28 (1.46%) Kubernetes
3 21 (1.10%) Terraform
4 13 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
5 12 (0.63%) SCCM
6 8 (0.42%) Jamf Pro
7 6 (0.31%) Grafana
8 5 (0.26%) Ansible
8 5 (0.26%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.10%) Data Guard
9 2 (0.10%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 2 (0.10%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (0.10%) Packer
9 2 (0.10%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.052%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.052%) Kibana
Vendors
1 404 (21.07%) Microsoft
2 184 (9.60%) Adobe
3 93 (4.85%) Google
4 65 (3.39%) ServiceNow
5 52 (2.71%) Salesforce
6 31 (1.62%) SAP
7 30 (1.56%) Apple
7 30 (1.56%) Oracle
8 26 (1.36%) iManage
9 20 (1.04%) HubSpot
10 19 (0.99%) Braze
11 17 (0.89%) Hotjar
12 16 (0.83%) Amplitude
13 15 (0.78%) Nexthink
13 15 (0.78%) OpenAI
14 14 (0.73%) Dynatrace
15 12 (0.63%) Cisco
16 11 (0.57%) Meraki
17 10 (0.52%) BMC
17 10 (0.52%) VMware