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

3 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 73 81
Rank change year-on-year -6 +8 -7
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 874 729 2,057
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.06% 3.73% 3.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.74% 4.04% 3.76%
Number of salaries quoted 584 459 1,413
10th Percentile £32,000 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,150 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.61% +15.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £93,875 £100,500 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% +5.26% -13.64%

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 31,900 18,042 54,744
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 75.01% 92.39% 85.20%
Number of salaries quoted 21,142 11,124 40,906
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +14.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -6.24%

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 3 April 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 3 April 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 -6 758 £57,985 -0.88% 728
UK excluding London -17 514 £55,000 +10.00% 522
Work from Home -6 326 £60,000 - 357
London -18 266 £67,500 -5.26% 296
North of England -8 174 £58,445 +16.89% 176
North West -13 92 £58,446 +6.27% 94
Midlands +3 89 £45,000 -3.46% 93
South East -40 76 £52,500 +5.00% 122
South West -9 71 £50,000 -2.44% 59
Yorkshire +3 65 £57,150 +38.55% 45
East of England -7 61 £82,500 +100.00% 33
West Midlands 0 55 £44,000 -26.67% 62
East Midlands -26 34 £51,250 +46.43% 31
Scotland -29 23 £62,500 +11.11% 23
Wales -5 19 £42,934 - 19
North East -25 17 £60,000 +14.83% 39
Northern Ireland - 3 £62,500 - 5

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
1 115 (2.01%) CMS
2 79 (1.38%) SharePoint
3 69 (1.20%) Confluence
4 34 (0.59%) WordPress
5 32 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
6 16 (0.28%) Drupal
7 10 (0.17%) Umbraco
8 8 (0.14%) nginx
9 5 (0.087%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.052%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.052%) IIS
11 2 (0.035%) Appian
11 2 (0.035%) CICS
11 2 (0.035%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.035%) Joomla!
11 2 (0.035%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.017%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.017%) Apache
12 1 (0.017%) Camunda
Applications
1 52 (0.91%) Adobe XD
2 31 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 30 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
4 28 (0.49%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 25 (0.44%) Sketch
6 23 (0.40%) Photoshop
7 21 (0.37%) Adobe Illustrator
8 12 (0.21%) MS Visio
9 10 (0.17%) Chatbot
9 10 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 9 (0.16%) UserZoom
11 8 (0.14%) Adobe After Effects
11 8 (0.14%) InDesign
11 8 (0.14%) InVision
12 7 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
13 4 (0.070%) Adobe Premiere
14 3 (0.052%) AutoCAD
14 3 (0.052%) SPSS
14 3 (0.052%) Trello
15 2 (0.035%) Adobe Captivate
Business Applications
1 37 (0.65%) Shopify
2 19 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.31%) Magento
4 9 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
5 8 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
6 6 (0.10%) Dynamics GP
6 6 (0.10%) Workday HCM
7 5 (0.087%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.070%) SAP BPC
9 2 (0.035%) Dynamics AX
9 2 (0.035%) Payment Gateway
9 2 (0.035%) Remedy ITSM
9 2 (0.035%) Sage X3
10 1 (0.017%) Oracle General Ledger
10 1 (0.017%) Oracle Payables
10 1 (0.017%) Oracle SCM
10 1 (0.017%) SAP Business One
10 1 (0.017%) SAP HCM
10 1 (0.017%) SAP HR
10 1 (0.017%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 4,044 (70.55%) Cloud Computing
2 278 (4.85%) Azure
3 217 (3.79%) Figma
4 180 (3.14%) AWS
5 167 (2.91%) Microsoft 365
6 117 (2.04%) SaaS
7 108 (1.88%) Power Platform
8 78 (1.36%) Google Analytics
9 70 (1.22%) GCP
10 69 (1.20%) GitHub
11 65 (1.13%) Adobe Analytics
12 64 (1.12%) Entra ID
13 56 (0.98%) Azure DevOps
14 41 (0.72%) PowerApps
15 39 (0.68%) Serverless
16 35 (0.61%) Contentsquare
17 33 (0.58%) Dynamics 365
18 31 (0.54%) Azure Logic Apps
18 31 (0.54%) OneDrive
18 31 (0.54%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4,052 (70.69%) Internet
2 64 (1.12%) Broadband
3 24 (0.42%) VPN
4 20 (0.35%) Firewall
4 20 (0.35%) HTTP
5 19 (0.33%) DNS
6 14 (0.24%) DHCP
7 13 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
8 12 (0.21%) TCP/IP
9 8 (0.14%) LAN
10 5 (0.087%) Intranet
10 5 (0.087%) WAN
11 4 (0.070%) Kerberos
11 4 (0.070%) VoIP
12 3 (0.052%) Bluetooth
12 3 (0.052%) Network Security
12 3 (0.052%) WebEx
13 2 (0.035%) HTTPS
13 2 (0.035%) VLAN
13 2 (0.035%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (0.98%) Power BI
2 49 (0.85%) SQL Server
3 33 (0.58%) Looker
3 33 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (0.40%) MySQL
4 23 (0.40%) NoSQL
5 17 (0.30%) BigQuery
5 17 (0.30%) MongoDB
6 15 (0.26%) Tableau
7 14 (0.24%) Metadata
7 14 (0.24%) Relational Database
8 12 (0.21%) Azure SQL Database
8 12 (0.21%) DB2
9 7 (0.12%) Redis
10 6 (0.10%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (0.10%) Oracle Reports
10 6 (0.10%) SAP BW
11 5 (0.087%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (0.052%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.052%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 126 (2.20%) JIRA
2 83 (1.45%) Git
3 32 (0.56%) Axure RP
3 32 (0.56%) Balsamiq
4 21 (0.37%) Jenkins
5 20 (0.35%) Selenium
6 19 (0.33%) webpack
7 18 (0.31%) Cypress.io
8 17 (0.30%) Vite
9 15 (0.26%) Bitbucket
10 14 (0.24%) Cucumber
11 13 (0.23%) Visual Studio
12 12 (0.21%) Crashlytics
13 10 (0.17%) Postman
13 10 (0.17%) XCTest
14 9 (0.16%) Storybook
14 9 (0.16%) TeamCity
15 7 (0.12%) Babel
16 6 (0.10%) Claude Code
16 6 (0.10%) fastlane
General
1 4,524 (78.93%) Social Skills
2 4,172 (72.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4,116 (71.81%) Banking
4 298 (5.20%) Finance
5 225 (3.93%) Marketing
6 184 (3.21%) Analytical Skills
7 136 (2.37%) Public Sector
8 103 (1.80%) Legal
9 90 (1.57%) Law
10 74 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
11 68 (1.19%) Retail
12 67 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
13 51 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
14 47 (0.82%) Games
15 35 (0.61%) Manufacturing
15 35 (0.61%) Telecoms
16 26 (0.45%) Advertising
17 19 (0.33%) Back Office
18 12 (0.21%) Documentation Skills
18 12 (0.21%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 3,139 (54.76%) Lecturer
2 355 (6.19%) Senior
3 251 (4.38%) Developer
4 242 (4.22%) Designer
5 181 (3.16%) Lead
6 169 (2.95%) UX Designer
7 136 (2.37%) Analyst
8 87 (1.52%) Senior Developer
9 78 (1.36%) Software Engineer
10 66 (1.15%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 63 (1.10%) Senior Designer
12 59 (1.03%) Product Manager
12 59 (1.03%) Senior Manager
13 53 (0.92%) UI Designer
14 50 (0.87%) Full-Stack Developer
15 46 (0.80%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 46 (0.80%) IT Support
16 45 (0.79%) Senior UX Designer
17 44 (0.77%) UI/UX Designer
18 42 (0.73%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 219 (3.82%) HTML
2 213 (3.72%) CSS
3 203 (3.54%) React
4 116 (2.02%) .NET
5 92 (1.61%) RESTful
6 87 (1.52%) REST
7 75 (1.31%) Node.js
8 71 (1.24%) AngularJS
9 64 (1.12%) Vue
10 40 (0.70%) HTML5
11 31 (0.54%) Next.js
12 30 (0.52%) CSS3
12 30 (0.52%) JSON
13 29 (0.51%) Web Services
14 27 (0.47%) .NET Framework
14 27 (0.47%) Spring
15 25 (0.44%) .NET Core
15 25 (0.44%) WebSockets
16 24 (0.42%) ASP.NET
17 23 (0.40%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4,053 (70.71%) IoT
2 178 (3.11%) Product Ownership
3 114 (1.99%) Mobile App
4 91 (1.59%) Onboarding
5 59 (1.03%) Social Media
6 55 (0.96%) Cloud Native
7 47 (0.82%) Management Information System
8 41 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
9 37 (0.65%) Enterprise Software
10 32 (0.56%) AI Agents
10 32 (0.56%) Greenfield Project
11 30 (0.52%) Self-Motivation
12 19 (0.33%) Analytical Mindset
13 18 (0.31%) Driving Licence
13 18 (0.31%) Low-Code
13 18 (0.31%) Public Cloud
14 17 (0.30%) e-Learning
14 17 (0.30%) Life Science
15 16 (0.28%) CMDB
15 16 (0.28%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 61 (1.06%) Apple iOS
2 60 (1.05%) Windows
3 55 (0.96%) Android
4 22 (0.38%) Linux
5 18 (0.31%) Mac OS
6 16 (0.28%) Windows 10
6 16 (0.28%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.10%) Unix
8 4 (0.070%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.052%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.052%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.035%) zOS
11 1 (0.017%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.017%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,332 (75.58%) AI
2 4,110 (71.70%) Machine Learning
3 4,109 (71.69%) Cybersecurity
4 4,088 (71.32%) Web Development
5 536 (9.35%) Agile
6 476 (8.30%) UX Design
7 357 (6.23%) Problem-Solving
8 343 (5.98%) Analytics
9 341 (5.95%) Continuous Improvement
10 266 (4.64%) Roadmaps
11 221 (3.86%) Mentoring
12 182 (3.18%) Full-Stack Development
13 173 (3.02%) DevOps
14 171 (2.98%) Decision-Making
15 170 (2.97%) Software Engineering
16 168 (2.93%) User Research
17 167 (2.91%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
18 157 (2.74%) CI/CD
19 136 (2.37%) Customer Experience
20 133 (2.32%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 278 (4.85%) JavaScript
2 162 (2.83%) TypeScript
3 127 (2.22%) SQL
4 116 (2.02%) Java
5 102 (1.78%) Python
6 96 (1.67%) C#
7 42 (0.73%) PowerShell
8 40 (0.70%) PHP
9 26 (0.45%) Kotlin
10 22 (0.38%) Swift
11 21 (0.37%) Go
12 15 (0.26%) Bash
13 14 (0.24%) C++
14 11 (0.19%) Bicep
15 10 (0.17%) T-SQL
16 6 (0.10%) ABAP
17 5 (0.087%) Rust
18 4 (0.070%) Apex Code
18 4 (0.070%) R
19 3 (0.052%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 4,280 (74.67%) Degree
2 4,070 (71.00%) Master's Degree
3 4,048 (70.62%) PhD
4 4,045 (70.57%) Postgraduate
5 147 (2.56%) Security Cleared
6 107 (1.87%) SC Cleared
7 41 (0.72%) Computer Science Degree
8 36 (0.63%) DBS Check
9 22 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
10 21 (0.37%) DV Cleared
11 15 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (0.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 10 (0.17%) PMI Certification
13 8 (0.14%) PMP
14 7 (0.12%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 7 (0.12%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 5 (0.087%) ISTQB
15 5 (0.087%) SAP Certification
16 4 (0.070%) ACCA
16 4 (0.070%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 307 (5.36%) Accessibility
2 116 (2.02%) QA
3 94 (1.64%) WCAG
4 61 (1.06%) GDPR
5 22 (0.38%) Data Quality
6 15 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
7 12 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
7 12 (0.21%) PCI DSS
8 10 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 19770
9 8 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 7 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 6 (0.10%) PERC
11 6 (0.10%) SLA
12 5 (0.087%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.070%) HIPAA
14 3 (0.052%) SOC 2
15 2 (0.035%) GRC
15 2 (0.035%) HL7
16 1 (0.017%) COBIT
16 1 (0.017%) PMO
System Software
1 76 (1.33%) Active Directory
2 71 (1.24%) Docker
3 17 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.052%) Firmware
5 3 (0.052%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.052%) vSphere
6 2 (0.035%) RACF
7 1 (0.017%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 51 (0.89%) Kubernetes
2 49 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
3 38 (0.66%) Terraform
4 21 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
5 10 (0.17%) Grafana
5 10 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
6 6 (0.10%) Ansible
6 6 (0.10%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.070%) HP ALM
7 4 (0.070%) SCCM
8 2 (0.035%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.035%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 2 (0.035%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 2 (0.035%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.035%) Packer
8 2 (0.035%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.035%) SmoothWall
9 1 (0.017%) MOM
9 1 (0.017%) Nessus
9 1 (0.017%) Nmap
Vendors
1 263 (4.59%) Microsoft
2 185 (3.23%) Adobe
3 117 (2.04%) Google
4 76 (1.33%) ServiceNow
5 51 (0.89%) Salesforce
6 39 (0.68%) HubSpot
7 30 (0.52%) SAP
8 28 (0.49%) Nexthink
9 26 (0.45%) Apple
10 24 (0.42%) Oracle
11 20 (0.35%) Hotjar
12 19 (0.33%) BMC
13 14 (0.24%) Atlassian
14 13 (0.23%) Sitecore
15 12 (0.21%) Qualtrics
16 11 (0.19%) Cisco
16 11 (0.19%) iManage
16 11 (0.19%) Splunk
17 10 (0.17%) New Relic
17 10 (0.17%) WooCommerce