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

3 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 58 73
Rank change year-on-year -24 +15 +13
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 1,082 1,239 1,377
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.96% 4.62% 3.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.71% 5.05% 3.90%
Number of salaries quoted 734 477 603
10th Percentile £31,250 £34,453 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,195 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.01% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -

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 39,901 24,543 35,335
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.17% 91.49% 77.38%
Number of salaries quoted 28,034 12,207 22,333
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,031 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -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 20 June 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 20 June 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 -16 956 £57,500 -4.17% 507
UK excluding London -16 685 £52,000 -5.45% 401
Work from Home -28 403 £57,500 -8.00% 263
London -29 317 £71,000 +1.43% 234
North of England -25 244 £50,000 -9.09% 112
North West -23 143 £52,500 -12.50% 70
South East +19 125 £54,000 -1.82% 131
East of England +52 115 £73,750 +28.26% 36
Midlands -22 75 £47,500 -11.53% 44
South West -35 58 £60,000 +9.09% 35
Yorkshire -1 53 £45,000 -10.00% 19
North East -4 48 £51,619 +416.19% 24
Scotland -13 41 £60,000 -22.58% 16
West Midlands -46 41 £47,500 -12.59% 29
East Midlands +14 34 £45,000 +25.00% 15
Wales -23 24 £50,000 -25.93% 3
Northern Ireland -17 3 £39,500 - 31

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
1 127 (6.73%) SharePoint
2 120 (6.36%) CMS
3 67 (3.55%) Confluence
4 49 (2.60%) Microsoft Exchange
5 27 (1.43%) WordPress
6 9 (0.48%) Drupal
7 8 (0.42%) Umbraco
8 6 (0.32%) nginx
9 4 (0.21%) Moodle
10 3 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.16%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.11%) IIS
11 2 (0.11%) Skype for Business
11 2 (0.11%) Totara
12 1 (0.053%) Apache
12 1 (0.053%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 37 (1.96%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 34 (1.80%) Microsoft Office
3 28 (1.48%) Adobe XD
4 27 (1.43%) Photoshop
5 25 (1.32%) Adobe Illustrator
6 24 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
7 20 (1.06%) Sketch
8 17 (0.90%) UserZoom
9 15 (0.79%) Adobe After Effects
10 14 (0.74%) InDesign
11 9 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
12 8 (0.42%) Chatbot
13 6 (0.32%) InVision
13 6 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
14 4 (0.21%) Trello
15 3 (0.16%) Adobe Premiere
15 3 (0.16%) Productboard
15 3 (0.16%) SPSS
16 2 (0.11%) Camtasia
17 1 (0.053%) Avid Media Composer
Business Applications
1 26 (1.38%) Shopify
2 20 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.74%) Magento
4 13 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.26%) Dynamics GP
5 5 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (0.26%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.21%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.21%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.16%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.11%) Towers Watson Igloo
8 2 (0.11%) Visualfiles
9 1 (0.053%) Oracle General Ledger
9 1 (0.053%) Oracle Payables
9 1 (0.053%) Oracle Receivables
9 1 (0.053%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.053%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 338 (17.91%) Azure
2 262 (13.88%) Microsoft 365
3 219 (11.61%) Figma
4 160 (8.48%) AWS
5 137 (7.26%) Power Platform
6 136 (7.21%) SaaS
7 100 (5.30%) Entra ID
8 87 (4.61%) Azure DevOps
9 72 (3.82%) Adobe Analytics
10 70 (3.71%) GitHub
11 65 (3.44%) Google Analytics
12 63 (3.34%) GCP
13 59 (3.13%) Power Automate
14 56 (2.97%) PowerApps
15 47 (2.49%) Contentsquare
15 47 (2.49%) Serverless
16 41 (2.17%) Azure Logic Apps
17 40 (2.12%) OneDrive
18 38 (2.01%) Microsoft Copilot
19 30 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 85 (4.50%) Broadband
2 27 (1.43%) Firewall
3 26 (1.38%) VPN
4 25 (1.32%) DNS
5 21 (1.11%) DHCP
6 18 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
7 13 (0.69%) HTTP
8 10 (0.53%) TCP/IP
8 10 (0.53%) VoIP
9 9 (0.48%) Internet
9 9 (0.48%) Kerberos
10 6 (0.32%) Wireless
11 5 (0.26%) Network Security
11 5 (0.26%) SAN
11 5 (0.26%) VLAN
12 4 (0.21%) NAS
12 4 (0.21%) SMS
12 4 (0.21%) Structured Cabling
12 4 (0.21%) Unified Communications
13 3 (0.16%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (3.87%) Power BI
2 44 (2.33%) SQL Server
3 27 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
5 23 (1.22%) Looker
6 17 (0.90%) Metadata
6 17 (0.90%) MySQL
7 16 (0.85%) MongoDB
8 14 (0.74%) BigQuery
8 14 (0.74%) NoSQL
9 11 (0.58%) Relational Database
10 9 (0.48%) Tableau
11 8 (0.42%) Redis
12 5 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (0.26%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (0.26%) GIS
12 5 (0.26%) SAP BW
12 5 (0.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (0.21%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (0.21%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 104 (5.51%) JIRA
2 76 (4.03%) Git
3 21 (1.11%) Jenkins
4 20 (1.06%) Crashlytics
4 20 (1.06%) fastlane
5 18 (0.95%) Claude Code
6 15 (0.79%) XCTest
7 14 (0.74%) Vite
8 12 (0.64%) Axure RP
8 12 (0.64%) Balsamiq
8 12 (0.64%) Cypress.io
8 12 (0.64%) webpack
9 10 (0.53%) Postman
9 10 (0.53%) Selenium
10 9 (0.48%) Storybook
10 9 (0.48%) Xcode
11 7 (0.37%) Bitbucket
12 6 (0.32%) Android Studio
12 6 (0.32%) Cucumber
12 6 (0.32%) Gradle
General
1 530 (28.09%) Social Skills
2 290 (15.37%) Finance
3 240 (12.72%) Marketing
4 194 (10.28%) Analytical Skills
5 146 (7.74%) Public Sector
6 127 (6.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 108 (5.72%) Legal
8 98 (5.19%) Retail
9 92 (4.88%) Organisational Skills
10 79 (4.19%) Law
11 74 (3.92%) Games
12 54 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
13 48 (2.54%) Influencing Skills
14 40 (2.12%) Advertising
15 36 (1.91%) Banking
16 32 (1.70%) Manufacturing
17 19 (1.01%) Back Office
17 19 (1.01%) Multimedia
18 18 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
19 13 (0.69%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 355 (18.81%) Senior
2 320 (16.96%) Designer
3 275 (14.57%) Developer
4 233 (12.35%) UX Designer
5 204 (10.81%) Lead
6 131 (6.94%) Analyst
7 99 (5.25%) Senior Developer
8 90 (4.77%) Senior Designer
9 81 (4.29%) Software Engineer
10 79 (4.19%) UI Designer
11 76 (4.03%) IT Support
12 71 (3.76%) UI/UX Designer
13 67 (3.55%) Senior UX Designer
14 60 (3.18%) Support Engineer
15 59 (3.13%) Product Manager
16 58 (3.07%) Architect
16 58 (3.07%) IT Manager
17 55 (2.91%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
18 50 (2.65%) Product Designer
19 48 (2.54%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 197 (10.44%) HTML
2 195 (10.33%) CSS
3 173 (9.17%) React
4 124 (6.57%) .NET
5 89 (4.72%) REST
6 73 (3.87%) RESTful
7 57 (3.02%) AngularJS
8 53 (2.81%) Node.js
9 49 (2.60%) .NET Core
10 47 (2.49%) Vue
11 45 (2.38%) JSON
12 36 (1.91%) HTML5
13 30 (1.59%) CSS3
14 29 (1.54%) Next.js
15 28 (1.48%) SwiftUI
16 27 (1.43%) ASP.NET
16 27 (1.43%) Sass
16 27 (1.43%) Web Services
17 26 (1.38%) SOAP
17 26 (1.38%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 192 (10.17%) Product Ownership
2 125 (6.62%) Mobile App
3 108 (5.72%) Onboarding
4 72 (3.82%) Social Media
5 44 (2.33%) Cloud Native
5 44 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
6 40 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
7 38 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
8 27 (1.43%) AI Agents
9 26 (1.38%) Management Information System
10 23 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
11 22 (1.17%) Driving Licence
12 18 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
12 18 (0.95%) Life Science
12 18 (0.95%) Low-Code
13 17 (0.90%) e-Learning
14 16 (0.85%) Security Posture
15 15 (0.79%) Algorithms
15 15 (0.79%) Graphic Design
16 14 (0.74%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 128 (6.78%) Windows
2 71 (3.76%) Apple iOS
3 41 (2.17%) Android
4 37 (1.96%) Windows Server
5 35 (1.85%) Windows 10
6 30 (1.59%) Linux
6 30 (1.59%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.21%) Mac OS X
8 4 (0.21%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.11%) Unix
9 2 (0.11%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.053%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 547 (28.99%) UX Design
2 502 (26.60%) Agile
3 405 (21.46%) Continuous Improvement
4 390 (20.67%) Problem-Solving
5 342 (18.12%) AI
6 337 (17.86%) Analytics
7 298 (15.79%) Roadmaps
8 250 (13.25%) Mentoring
9 180 (9.54%) Decision-Making
10 177 (9.38%) DevOps
11 169 (8.96%) Software Engineering
12 168 (8.90%) CI/CD
12 168 (8.90%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
13 163 (8.64%) User Research
14 158 (8.37%) Full-Stack Development
15 152 (8.06%) Stakeholder Management
16 143 (7.58%) Customer Experience
17 142 (7.53%) Product Roadmap
18 139 (7.37%) Workflow
19 138 (7.31%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 236 (12.51%) JavaScript
2 159 (8.43%) TypeScript
3 132 (7.00%) SQL
4 128 (6.78%) C#
5 117 (6.20%) Python
6 102 (5.41%) Java
7 66 (3.50%) PowerShell
8 40 (2.12%) PHP
9 31 (1.64%) Swift
10 24 (1.27%) Kotlin
11 11 (0.58%) ABAP
12 10 (0.53%) Go
13 8 (0.42%) Bash
13 8 (0.42%) C++
14 7 (0.37%) Apex Code
14 7 (0.37%) Bicep
14 7 (0.37%) Rust
14 7 (0.37%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 6 (0.32%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 168 (8.90%) Degree
2 136 (7.21%) Security Cleared
3 79 (4.19%) SC Cleared
4 41 (2.17%) DV Cleared
5 33 (1.75%) DBS Check
6 20 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 19 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
8 14 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
9 13 (0.69%) Master's Degree
10 9 (0.48%) CISSP
11 8 (0.42%) ICAEW
11 8 (0.42%) Postgraduate
12 7 (0.37%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 6 (0.32%) ISTQB
13 6 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
13 6 (0.32%) SAP Certification
14 5 (0.26%) PMI Certification
15 4 (0.21%) A+ Certification
15 4 (0.21%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 4 (0.21%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 298 (15.79%) Accessibility
2 118 (6.25%) QA
3 98 (5.19%) WCAG
4 62 (3.29%) GDPR
5 34 (1.80%) Data Quality
6 22 (1.17%) Cyber Essentials
7 18 (0.95%) SLA
8 12 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 8 (0.42%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.26%) HIPAA
11 5 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 5 (0.26%) NEBOSH
12 4 (0.21%) PMO
12 4 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.16%) PERC
13 3 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
14 2 (0.11%) GRC
14 2 (0.11%) GxP
15 1 (0.053%) COBIT
System Software
1 107 (5.67%) Active Directory
2 52 (2.76%) Docker
3 9 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (0.32%) BitLocker
4 6 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.053%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 70 (3.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 28 (1.48%) Kubernetes
3 20 (1.06%) Terraform
4 14 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
5 12 (0.64%) SCCM
6 7 (0.37%) Jamf Pro
7 6 (0.32%) Grafana
8 5 (0.26%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.21%) Ansible
10 2 (0.11%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle RMAN
10 2 (0.11%) Packer
10 2 (0.11%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.053%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.053%) Kibana
Vendors
1 374 (19.82%) Microsoft
2 194 (10.28%) Adobe
3 98 (5.19%) Google
4 71 (3.76%) ServiceNow
5 54 (2.86%) Salesforce
6 29 (1.54%) Apple
7 28 (1.48%) SAP
8 27 (1.43%) Oracle
9 25 (1.32%) HubSpot
10 22 (1.17%) Nexthink
11 20 (1.06%) iManage
12 19 (1.01%) Braze
13 18 (0.95%) Hotjar
14 16 (0.85%) Amplitude
15 15 (0.79%) OpenAI
16 14 (0.74%) Dynatrace
17 13 (0.69%) BMC
18 10 (0.53%) Meraki
18 10 (0.53%) TikTok
18 10 (0.53%) VMware