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

3 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 66 72
Rank change year-on-year -26 +6 +7
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 994 1,158 1,182
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.87% 4.08% 3.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.57% 4.57% 3.91%
Number of salaries quoted 689 466 522
10th Percentile £30,500 £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 £92,500 £95,000 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £56,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.50% +2.73% -

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 38,611 25,340 30,243
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.70% 89.37% 76.91%
Number of salaries quoted 27,672 12,923 19,190
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,625
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 £78,312 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,200 £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 9 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 9 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 -17 886 £55,000 -8.33% 945
UK excluding London -25 608 £50,000 -11.50% 533
Work from Home -38 378 £55,000 -12.00% 425
London -22 301 £70,000 - 526
North of England -23 205 £47,500 -13.64% 153
South East +2 116 £52,500 -8.70% 163
North West -38 115 £46,499 -22.50% 81
East of England +41 92 £62,500 +4.17% 51
Midlands +2 84 £47,500 -12.59% 66
South West -38 57 £60,000 +9.09% 57
West Midlands -33 48 £47,500 -12.59% 36
Yorkshire +18 47 £45,497 +21.33% 37
North East +3 43 £51,619 +416.19% 35
East Midlands +16 36 £45,000 -18.18% 29
Scotland -21 30 £61,000 -21.29% 26
Wales -23 22 £50,000 -25.93% 10
Northern Ireland -40 2 £39,500 - 15

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
1 142 (7.38%) SharePoint
2 122 (6.34%) CMS
3 65 (3.38%) Confluence
4 51 (2.65%) Microsoft Exchange
5 28 (1.46%) WordPress
6 9 (0.47%) Drupal
7 7 (0.36%) 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 34 (1.77%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 34 (1.77%) Microsoft Office
2 27 (1.40%) Adobe XD
3 25 (1.30%) Photoshop
4 24 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
5 23 (1.20%) Adobe Illustrator
6 21 (1.09%) Sketch
7 17 (0.88%) Chatbot
7 17 (0.88%) UserZoom
8 15 (0.78%) Adobe After Effects
9 14 (0.73%) InDesign
10 9 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
11 6 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
12 5 (0.26%) InVision
13 4 (0.21%) Trello
14 3 (0.16%) Adobe Premiere
14 3 (0.16%) Productboard
14 3 (0.16%) SPSS
15 2 (0.10%) Camtasia
16 1 (0.052%) Blender
Business Applications
1 23 (1.20%) Shopify
2 21 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (0.68%) Magento
5 8 (0.42%) NetSuite
6 6 (0.31%) Dynamics GP
7 5 (0.26%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
8 4 (0.21%) Elite 3E
8 4 (0.21%) Workday HCM
9 3 (0.16%) Carpe Diem
9 3 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
9 3 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
10 2 (0.10%) Adobe Campaign
10 2 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
10 2 (0.10%) Towers Watson Igloo
10 2 (0.10%) Visualfiles
11 1 (0.052%) Integrated Workplace Management System
11 1 (0.052%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 365 (18.97%) Azure
2 281 (14.60%) Microsoft 365
3 206 (10.71%) Figma
4 160 (8.32%) AWS
5 152 (7.90%) Power Platform
6 136 (7.07%) SaaS
7 109 (5.67%) Entra ID
8 96 (4.99%) Azure DevOps
9 72 (3.74%) Power Automate
10 70 (3.64%) Adobe Analytics
11 68 (3.53%) PowerApps
12 66 (3.43%) GitHub
13 63 (3.27%) GCP
13 63 (3.27%) Google Analytics
14 49 (2.55%) Microsoft Copilot
15 48 (2.49%) Serverless
16 47 (2.44%) Contentsquare
17 46 (2.39%) Azure Logic Apps
18 41 (2.13%) OneDrive
19 36 (1.87%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 78 (4.05%) Broadband
2 32 (1.66%) Firewall
3 26 (1.35%) DNS
4 25 (1.30%) VPN
5 22 (1.14%) DHCP
6 19 (0.99%) VoIP
7 18 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
8 11 (0.57%) CTI
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 7 (0.36%) VLAN
12 6 (0.31%) Network Security
13 5 (0.26%) Intranet
13 5 (0.26%) SAN
13 5 (0.26%) Unified Communications
14 4 (0.21%) SMS
14 4 (0.21%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (4.21%) Power BI
2 52 (2.70%) SQL Server
3 26 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
5 22 (1.14%) Looker
6 18 (0.94%) Metadata
7 17 (0.88%) 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 (0.36%) 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%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 101 (5.25%) JIRA
2 78 (4.05%) Git
3 22 (1.14%) Jenkins
4 21 (1.09%) fastlane
5 20 (1.04%) Claude Code
5 20 (1.04%) Crashlytics
6 15 (0.78%) XCTest
7 11 (0.57%) Vite
7 11 (0.57%) webpack
8 10 (0.52%) Cypress.io
9 9 (0.47%) Axure RP
9 9 (0.47%) Balsamiq
9 9 (0.47%) Selenium
9 9 (0.47%) Xcode
10 7 (0.36%) Bitbucket
10 7 (0.36%) Postman
10 7 (0.36%) Storybook
11 6 (0.31%) Android Studio
11 6 (0.31%) Gradle
11 6 (0.31%) NUnit
General
1 574 (29.83%) Social Skills
2 301 (15.64%) Finance
3 240 (12.47%) Marketing
4 204 (10.60%) Analytical Skills
5 163 (8.47%) Public Sector
6 133 (6.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 113 (5.87%) Legal
8 109 (5.67%) Retail
9 96 (4.99%) Organisational Skills
10 89 (4.63%) Law
11 74 (3.85%) Games
12 58 (3.01%) Influencing Skills
13 48 (2.49%) Presentation Skills
14 41 (2.13%) Advertising
15 34 (1.77%) Banking
16 33 (1.72%) Manufacturing
17 21 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
18 20 (1.04%) Multimedia
19 18 (0.94%) Back Office
20 14 (0.73%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 355 (18.45%) Senior
2 313 (16.27%) Designer
3 273 (14.19%) Developer
4 225 (11.69%) UX Designer
5 221 (11.49%) Lead
6 143 (7.43%) Analyst
7 99 (5.15%) Senior Developer
8 87 (4.52%) Senior Designer
9 84 (4.37%) Software Engineer
9 84 (4.37%) UI Designer
10 83 (4.31%) IT Support
11 78 (4.05%) UI/UX Designer
12 65 (3.38%) Product Manager
12 65 (3.38%) Senior UX Designer
13 64 (3.33%) Architect
14 63 (3.27%) IT Manager
14 63 (3.27%) Support Engineer
15 52 (2.70%) Business Analyst
15 52 (2.70%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
16 48 (2.49%) Product Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 191 (9.93%) HTML
2 189 (9.82%) CSS
3 165 (8.58%) React
4 135 (7.02%) .NET
5 89 (4.63%) REST
6 75 (3.90%) RESTful
7 54 (2.81%) Node.js
8 53 (2.75%) .NET Core
9 52 (2.70%) AngularJS
10 46 (2.39%) JSON
11 40 (2.08%) Vue
12 35 (1.82%) HTML5
13 31 (1.61%) ASP.NET
14 29 (1.51%) CSS3
14 29 (1.51%) Next.js
15 27 (1.40%) Sass
15 27 (1.40%) SwiftUI
16 26 (1.35%) SPFx
17 25 (1.30%) SOAP
17 25 (1.30%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 189 (9.82%) Product Ownership
2 116 (6.03%) Mobile App
3 107 (5.56%) Onboarding
4 73 (3.79%) Social Media
5 50 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
6 45 (2.34%) Cloud Native
7 42 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
8 34 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
9 29 (1.51%) Management Information System
10 27 (1.40%) AI Agents
11 23 (1.20%) Driving Licence
11 23 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
12 22 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
13 19 (0.99%) Low-Code
14 16 (0.83%) Algorithms
14 16 (0.83%) e-Learning
14 16 (0.83%) Graphic Design
14 16 (0.83%) Life Science
14 16 (0.83%) Security Posture
15 12 (0.62%) Animation
Operating Systems
1 133 (6.91%) Windows
2 73 (3.79%) Apple iOS
3 41 (2.13%) Android
3 41 (2.13%) Windows Server
4 36 (1.87%) Windows 10
5 30 (1.56%) Mac OS
6 27 (1.40%) Linux
7 8 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.21%) Mac OS X
8 4 (0.21%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.10%) Unix
9 2 (0.10%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.052%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 538 (27.96%) Agile
2 528 (27.44%) UX Design
3 444 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
4 416 (21.62%) Problem-Solving
5 368 (19.13%) AI
6 349 (18.14%) Analytics
7 319 (16.58%) Roadmaps
8 255 (13.25%) Mentoring
9 194 (10.08%) DevOps
10 188 (9.77%) Decision-Making
11 177 (9.20%) CI/CD
12 171 (8.89%) Software Engineering
13 169 (8.78%) Stakeholder Management
14 166 (8.63%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 160 (8.32%) User Research
16 149 (7.74%) ITIL
17 148 (7.69%) Full-Stack Development
18 146 (7.59%) Workflow
19 145 (7.54%) Customer Experience
19 145 (7.54%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 229 (11.90%) JavaScript
2 153 (7.95%) TypeScript
3 141 (7.33%) C#
3 141 (7.33%) SQL
4 118 (6.13%) Python
5 94 (4.89%) Java
6 66 (3.43%) PowerShell
7 34 (1.77%) PHP
8 31 (1.61%) Swift
9 25 (1.30%) Kotlin
10 13 (0.68%) ABAP
11 10 (0.52%) C++
11 10 (0.52%) Go
12 8 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 7 (0.36%) Apex Code
13 7 (0.36%) C
13 7 (0.36%) Rust
13 7 (0.36%) T-SQL
13 7 (0.36%) VB.NET
14 6 (0.31%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 165 (8.58%) Degree
2 136 (7.07%) Security Cleared
3 78 (4.05%) SC Cleared
4 38 (1.98%) DV Cleared
5 31 (1.61%) DBS Check
6 21 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (0.57%) Master's Degree
7 11 (0.57%) Postgraduate
8 10 (0.52%) CISSP
9 8 (0.42%) ICAEW
10 7 (0.36%) ISTQB
11 6 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
11 6 (0.31%) PMI Certification
11 6 (0.31%) SAP Certification
12 5 (0.26%) PMP
13 4 (0.21%) A+ Certification
13 4 (0.21%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 3 (0.16%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 307 (15.96%) Accessibility
2 123 (6.39%) QA
3 93 (4.83%) WCAG
4 69 (3.59%) GDPR
5 45 (2.34%) Data Quality
6 24 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
7 19 (0.99%) SLA
8 13 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 9 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 8 (0.42%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.36%) 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
1 115 (5.98%) Active Directory
2 52 (2.70%) 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 74 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 27 (1.40%) Kubernetes
3 21 (1.09%) Terraform
4 13 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
5 12 (0.62%) SCCM
6 9 (0.47%) 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
1 405 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 184 (9.56%) Adobe
3 94 (4.89%) Google
4 65 (3.38%) ServiceNow
5 52 (2.70%) Salesforce
6 31 (1.61%) Apple
6 31 (1.61%) SAP
7 30 (1.56%) Oracle
8 26 (1.35%) iManage
9 20 (1.04%) HubSpot
10 19 (0.99%) Braze
11 17 (0.88%) Hotjar
12 16 (0.83%) Amplitude
13 15 (0.78%) Cisco
13 15 (0.78%) OpenAI
14 14 (0.73%) Dynatrace
14 14 (0.73%) Nexthink
15 11 (0.57%) Genesys
15 11 (0.57%) Meraki
16 10 (0.52%) BMC