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

3 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 60 81
Rank change year-on-year -18 +21 +1
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 1,014 1,053 1,499
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.01% 4.46% 3.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.74% 4.85% 3.76%
Number of salaries quoted 698 496 876
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,375 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,325 £57,500 £51,750
Median % change year-on-year -0.30% +11.11% -17.20%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £81,676
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -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 37,027 21,692 39,882
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.23% 91.92% 84.92%
Number of salaries quoted 24,786 11,921 26,911
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,443 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.45% +4.44% -8.71%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 7 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 7 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 -11 879 £60,000 +4.35% 857
UK excluding London -15 630 £52,500 - 623
Work from Home -23 372 £60,891 +2.77% 421
London -27 291 £70,000 - 343
North of England -23 229 £55,000 - 160
North West -21 128 £56,800 +3.19% 92
East of England +34 103 £85,000 +100.00% 71
South East +11 102 £48,885 -2.23% 158
Midlands -25 78 £42,500 -20.84% 104
Yorkshire +2 73 £50,000 +17.65% 38
South West -18 57 £51,250 -12.23% 71
West Midlands -43 42 £40,000 -25.50% 70
Scotland -24 38 £55,500 +12.82% 38
East Midlands 0 36 £51,250 +60.16% 34
North East -14 28 £55,000 -6.38% 31
Wales -10 21 £42,934 - 21
Northern Ireland - 4 £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
1 116 (2.00%) CMS
2 107 (1.84%) SharePoint
3 73 (1.26%) Confluence
4 35 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
5 29 (0.50%) WordPress
6 11 (0.19%) Drupal
7 10 (0.17%) Umbraco
8 8 (0.14%) nginx
9 3 (0.052%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.052%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.034%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.034%) IIS
11 1 (0.017%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.017%) Apache
11 1 (0.017%) Camunda
11 1 (0.017%) CICS
11 1 (0.017%) Moodle
11 1 (0.017%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 40 (0.69%) Adobe XD
2 29 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (0.46%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 22 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
5 19 (0.33%) Sketch
6 18 (0.31%) Photoshop
7 17 (0.29%) Adobe Illustrator
8 9 (0.15%) Chatbot
8 9 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 9 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
8 9 (0.15%) UserZoom
9 7 (0.12%) Adobe After Effects
9 7 (0.12%) InVision
9 7 (0.12%) MS Visio
10 5 (0.086%) InDesign
11 3 (0.052%) Adobe Premiere
11 3 (0.052%) Microsoft Project
11 3 (0.052%) SPSS
11 3 (0.052%) Trello
12 2 (0.034%) Avid Media Composer
Business Applications
1 33 (0.57%) Shopify
2 21 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.33%) Magento
4 9 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
5 7 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
6 5 (0.086%) Dynamics AX
6 5 (0.086%) SAP ERP
7 4 (0.069%) Dynamics GP
8 3 (0.052%) Workday HCM
9 2 (0.034%) Remedy ITSM
10 1 (0.017%) Elite 3E
10 1 (0.017%) Oracle General Ledger
10 1 (0.017%) Oracle Payables
10 1 (0.017%) Oracle Receivables
10 1 (0.017%) Payment Gateway
10 1 (0.017%) SAP Business One
10 1 (0.017%) SAP EWM
10 1 (0.017%) SAP HCM
10 1 (0.017%) SAP HR
10 1 (0.017%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 4,034 (69.41%) Cloud Computing
2 297 (5.11%) Azure
3 214 (3.68%) Figma
4 201 (3.46%) Microsoft 365
5 174 (2.99%) AWS
6 127 (2.19%) Power Platform
7 122 (2.10%) SaaS
8 84 (1.45%) Entra ID
9 72 (1.24%) Google Analytics
10 70 (1.20%) Adobe Analytics
10 70 (1.20%) GCP
11 65 (1.12%) GitHub
12 59 (1.02%) Azure DevOps
13 56 (0.96%) PowerApps
14 48 (0.83%) Power Automate
15 42 (0.72%) OneDrive
16 41 (0.71%) Azure Logic Apps
16 41 (0.71%) Contentsquare
17 39 (0.67%) Serverless
18 34 (0.58%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 4,041 (69.53%) Internet
2 78 (1.34%) Broadband
3 22 (0.38%) HTTP
3 22 (0.38%) VPN
4 20 (0.34%) DNS
4 20 (0.34%) Firewall
5 16 (0.28%) DHCP
5 16 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
6 12 (0.21%) TCP/IP
7 6 (0.10%) Kerberos
8 5 (0.086%) VoIP
9 4 (0.069%) Intranet
9 4 (0.069%) NAS
9 4 (0.069%) SAN
10 3 (0.052%) LAN
10 3 (0.052%) Network Security
11 2 (0.034%) Bluetooth
11 2 (0.034%) VLAN
12 1 (0.017%) RFID
12 1 (0.017%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (1.08%) Power BI
2 54 (0.93%) SQL Server
3 34 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (0.43%) Looker
5 23 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
5 23 (0.40%) NoSQL
6 19 (0.33%) MySQL
7 18 (0.31%) MongoDB
8 17 (0.29%) Metadata
9 15 (0.26%) BigQuery
10 10 (0.17%) DB2
10 10 (0.17%) Tableau
11 9 (0.15%) Relational Database
12 8 (0.14%) Redis
13 6 (0.10%) SAP BW
13 6 (0.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 5 (0.086%) Data Warehouse
14 5 (0.086%) Elasticsearch
15 4 (0.069%) QGIS
16 3 (0.052%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 117 (2.01%) JIRA
2 67 (1.15%) Git
3 27 (0.46%) Balsamiq
4 26 (0.45%) Axure RP
5 20 (0.34%) Selenium
6 19 (0.33%) Jenkins
7 16 (0.28%) webpack
8 15 (0.26%) Crashlytics
8 15 (0.26%) Vite
9 14 (0.24%) Bitbucket
10 13 (0.22%) Cucumber
10 13 (0.22%) XCTest
11 10 (0.17%) Cypress.io
12 9 (0.15%) Visual Studio
13 8 (0.14%) Claude Code
13 8 (0.14%) Postman
13 8 (0.14%) Storybook
13 8 (0.14%) TeamCity
14 6 (0.10%) fastlane
14 6 (0.10%) JUnit
General
1 4,545 (78.20%) Social Skills
2 4,148 (71.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4,089 (70.35%) Banking
4 283 (4.87%) Finance
5 228 (3.92%) Marketing
6 180 (3.10%) Analytical Skills
7 135 (2.32%) Public Sector
8 102 (1.75%) Legal
9 86 (1.48%) Law
10 81 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
11 77 (1.32%) Retail
12 63 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
13 61 (1.05%) Games
14 46 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
15 32 (0.55%) Manufacturing
16 31 (0.53%) Advertising
17 27 (0.46%) Telecoms
18 21 (0.36%) Back Office
19 16 (0.28%) Documentation Skills
20 12 (0.21%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 3,129 (53.84%) Lecturer
2 375 (6.45%) Senior
3 295 (5.08%) Designer
4 242 (4.16%) Developer
5 216 (3.72%) UX Designer
6 184 (3.17%) Lead
7 123 (2.12%) Analyst
8 87 (1.50%) Senior Designer
9 85 (1.46%) Senior Developer
10 83 (1.43%) Software Engineer
11 66 (1.14%) Product Manager
12 64 (1.10%) Senior UX Designer
13 63 (1.08%) UI Designer
14 54 (0.93%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 54 (0.93%) UI/UX Designer
15 53 (0.91%) Senior Manager
16 52 (0.89%) Architect
17 48 (0.83%) Full-Stack Developer
18 47 (0.81%) IT Support
19 44 (0.76%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 195 (3.36%) HTML
2 194 (3.34%) CSS
3 181 (3.11%) React
4 112 (1.93%) .NET
5 88 (1.51%) REST
6 82 (1.41%) RESTful
7 65 (1.12%) AngularJS
8 64 (1.10%) Node.js
9 52 (0.89%) Vue
10 40 (0.69%) .NET Core
10 40 (0.69%) JSON
11 39 (0.67%) HTML5
12 33 (0.57%) Web Services
13 30 (0.52%) CSS3
14 26 (0.45%) ASP.NET
15 25 (0.43%) Next.js
16 24 (0.41%) Laravel
16 24 (0.41%) Microsoft Graph
16 24 (0.41%) SPFx
17 23 (0.40%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 4,039 (69.49%) IoT
2 183 (3.15%) Product Ownership
3 114 (1.96%) Mobile App
4 108 (1.86%) Onboarding
5 56 (0.96%) Social Media
6 52 (0.89%) Cloud Native
7 47 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
8 41 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
9 35 (0.60%) AI Agents
10 32 (0.55%) Greenfield Project
10 32 (0.55%) Management Information System
11 29 (0.50%) Self-Motivation
12 21 (0.36%) Low-Code
12 21 (0.36%) Public Cloud
13 19 (0.33%) e-Learning
14 18 (0.31%) Life Science
15 16 (0.28%) Distributed Systems
16 14 (0.24%) Driving Licence
17 13 (0.22%) CMDB
18 12 (0.21%) Photography
Operating Systems
1 82 (1.41%) Windows
2 62 (1.07%) Apple iOS
3 49 (0.84%) Android
4 29 (0.50%) Windows 10
5 23 (0.40%) Windows Server
6 22 (0.38%) Linux
7 19 (0.33%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.10%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.069%) Mac OS X
9 4 (0.069%) Unix
9 4 (0.069%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.052%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.017%) VMS
11 1 (0.017%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,353 (74.90%) AI
2 4,115 (70.80%) Machine Learning
3 4,085 (70.29%) Cybersecurity
4 4,082 (70.23%) Web Development
5 527 (9.07%) Agile
6 520 (8.95%) UX Design
7 345 (5.94%) Continuous Improvement
8 340 (5.85%) Problem-Solving
9 332 (5.71%) Analytics
10 283 (4.87%) Roadmaps
11 247 (4.25%) Mentoring
12 182 (3.13%) Decision-Making
13 179 (3.08%) Software Engineering
14 177 (3.05%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 169 (2.91%) User Research
16 168 (2.89%) Full-Stack Development
17 165 (2.84%) DevOps
18 148 (2.55%) CI/CD
19 138 (2.37%) Product Roadmap
20 134 (2.31%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 256 (4.40%) JavaScript
2 154 (2.65%) TypeScript
3 137 (2.36%) SQL
4 113 (1.94%) Python
5 109 (1.88%) Java
6 106 (1.82%) C#
7 51 (0.88%) PowerShell
8 42 (0.72%) PHP
9 23 (0.40%) Kotlin
10 22 (0.38%) Go
10 22 (0.38%) Swift
11 12 (0.21%) Bash
12 11 (0.19%) Bicep
12 11 (0.19%) C++
13 10 (0.17%) T-SQL
14 7 (0.12%) Rust
15 5 (0.086%) ABAP
16 4 (0.069%) Apex Code
16 4 (0.069%) Scala
17 3 (0.052%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4,232 (72.81%) Degree
2 4,053 (69.74%) Master's Degree
3 4,037 (69.46%) PhD
4 4,034 (69.41%) Postgraduate
5 156 (2.68%) Security Cleared
6 100 (1.72%) SC Cleared
7 39 (0.67%) DBS Check
8 38 (0.65%) DV Cleared
9 30 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
10 19 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
11 15 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
12 7 (0.12%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 7 (0.12%) PMI Certification
12 7 (0.12%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 6 (0.10%) CISSP
14 5 (0.086%) ITIL Certification
14 5 (0.086%) PMP
14 5 (0.086%) SAP Certification
15 4 (0.069%) A+ Certification
15 4 (0.069%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 286 (4.92%) Accessibility
2 111 (1.91%) QA
3 95 (1.63%) WCAG
4 56 (0.96%) GDPR
5 24 (0.41%) Data Quality
6 14 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
6 14 (0.24%) SLA
7 12 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
8 11 (0.19%) PCI DSS
9 8 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 7 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 5 (0.086%) HIPAA
11 5 (0.086%) NEBOSH
12 4 (0.069%) PMO
13 3 (0.052%) GRC
13 3 (0.052%) SOC 2
14 2 (0.034%) GxP
14 2 (0.034%) PERC
15 1 (0.017%) NCSC
15 1 (0.017%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 91 (1.57%) Active Directory
2 65 (1.12%) Docker
3 7 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
3 7 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.086%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.069%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.052%) vSphere
7 1 (0.017%) RACF
Systems Management
1 65 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
2 48 (0.83%) Kubernetes
3 32 (0.55%) Terraform
4 22 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
5 10 (0.17%) Grafana
5 10 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
6 6 (0.10%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.086%) Ansible
7 5 (0.086%) SCCM
8 2 (0.034%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.034%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 2 (0.034%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.034%) Packer
8 2 (0.034%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.017%) Argo
9 1 (0.017%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.017%) Kibana
9 1 (0.017%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 1 (0.017%) MOM
Vendors
1 306 (5.26%) Microsoft
2 192 (3.30%) Adobe
3 102 (1.75%) Google
4 70 (1.20%) ServiceNow
5 48 (0.83%) Salesforce
6 36 (0.62%) HubSpot
7 28 (0.48%) Nexthink
8 24 (0.41%) Apple
9 23 (0.40%) SAP
10 18 (0.31%) BMC
10 18 (0.31%) Oracle
11 17 (0.29%) Braze
12 16 (0.28%) Hotjar
13 14 (0.24%) Amplitude
14 12 (0.21%) Atlassian
14 12 (0.21%) OpenAI
14 12 (0.21%) VMware
15 11 (0.19%) iManage
16 10 (0.17%) New Relic
16 10 (0.17%) WooCommerce