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

3 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 56 92
Rank change year-on-year -26 +36 -7
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 1,026 1,219 1,318
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.97% 4.84% 2.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.71% 5.25% 3.50%
Number of salaries quoted 713 491 776
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £58,500 £52,550
Median % change year-on-year -1.71% +11.32% -15.92%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.82% +10.00% -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 37,860 23,209 37,651
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.66% 92.14% 83.20%
Number of salaries quoted 25,774 11,840 25,239
10th Percentile £30,330 £28,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -9.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £93,750
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 22 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 22 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 -16 907 £60,000 - 683
UK excluding London -15 656 £54,000 -1.82% 457
Work from Home -25 375 £57,500 -6.12% 357
London -34 296 £70,000 - 346
North of England -21 244 £52,250 -5.00% 133
North West -21 142 £55,000 -4.35% 92
South East +44 116 £54,000 +2.86% 131
East of England +35 111 £85,000 +83.78% 47
Midlands -23 70 £45,497 -15.26% 52
Yorkshire 0 62 £50,000 +25.00% 23
South West -27 53 £60,000 +7.35% 38
North East -3 40 £52,000 +66.40% 19
West Midlands -45 39 £45,497 -15.26% 36
Scotland -32 37 £50,000 +12.36% 26
East Midlands +6 31 £60,000 +87.50% 14
Wales - 22 £50,000 - 13
Northern Ireland -27 4 £39,500 - 22

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
1 118 (2.75%) CMS
2 117 (2.73%) SharePoint
3 73 (1.70%) Confluence
4 43 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
5 28 (0.65%) WordPress
6 9 (0.21%) Drupal
7 8 (0.19%) Umbraco
8 7 (0.16%) nginx
9 3 (0.070%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.070%) Moodle
9 3 (0.070%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.047%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.047%) IIS
10 2 (0.047%) Skype for Business
10 2 (0.047%) Totara
11 1 (0.023%) Apache
11 1 (0.023%) Camunda
11 1 (0.023%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 34 (0.79%) Adobe XD
2 33 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
3 31 (0.72%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 21 (0.49%) Sketch
5 19 (0.44%) Photoshop
6 18 (0.42%) Adobe Illustrator
7 17 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
8 10 (0.23%) Adobe After Effects
9 9 (0.21%) Chatbot
9 9 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
9 9 (0.21%) UserZoom
10 7 (0.16%) InDesign
11 6 (0.14%) InVision
11 6 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
12 3 (0.070%) Adobe Premiere
12 3 (0.070%) MS Visio
12 3 (0.070%) Productboard
12 3 (0.070%) SPSS
12 3 (0.070%) Trello
13 2 (0.047%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 31 (0.72%) Shopify
2 22 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.44%) Magento
4 9 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
4 9 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.12%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.093%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.070%) Dynamics GP
7 3 (0.070%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.047%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.047%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.047%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.047%) Towers Watson Igloo
9 1 (0.023%) Oracle General Ledger
9 1 (0.023%) Oracle Payables
9 1 (0.023%) SAP Business One
9 1 (0.023%) SAP EWM
9 1 (0.023%) SAP HCM
9 1 (0.023%) SAP HR
9 1 (0.023%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 2,447 (57.08%) Cloud Computing
2 326 (7.60%) Azure
3 226 (5.27%) Microsoft 365
4 215 (5.02%) Figma
5 166 (3.87%) AWS
6 136 (3.17%) SaaS
7 132 (3.08%) Power Platform
8 98 (2.29%) Entra ID
9 71 (1.66%) Azure DevOps
10 69 (1.61%) Adobe Analytics
11 68 (1.59%) GCP
12 65 (1.52%) Google Analytics
13 64 (1.49%) GitHub
14 54 (1.26%) PowerApps
15 51 (1.19%) Power Automate
16 43 (1.00%) Azure Logic Apps
16 43 (1.00%) OneDrive
17 42 (0.98%) Serverless
18 41 (0.96%) Contentsquare
19 35 (0.82%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2,454 (57.24%) Internet
2 78 (1.82%) Broadband
3 26 (0.61%) VPN
4 23 (0.54%) DNS
5 20 (0.47%) Firewall
5 20 (0.47%) HTTP
6 19 (0.44%) DHCP
6 19 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
7 12 (0.28%) TCP/IP
8 8 (0.19%) Kerberos
9 7 (0.16%) VoIP
10 4 (0.093%) NAS
10 4 (0.093%) Network Security
10 4 (0.093%) SAN
10 4 (0.093%) VLAN
11 3 (0.070%) LAN
11 3 (0.070%) SMS
11 3 (0.070%) Unified Communications
11 3 (0.070%) WPA
12 2 (0.047%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (1.54%) Power BI
2 54 (1.26%) SQL Server
3 32 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (0.58%) Looker
5 23 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
6 18 (0.42%) Metadata
7 17 (0.40%) MongoDB
8 16 (0.37%) MySQL
8 16 (0.37%) NoSQL
9 15 (0.35%) BigQuery
10 10 (0.23%) Redis
10 10 (0.23%) Tableau
11 8 (0.19%) Relational Database
12 6 (0.14%) DB2
12 6 (0.14%) GIS
12 6 (0.14%) SAP BW
12 6 (0.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 5 (0.12%) Data Warehouse
13 5 (0.12%) Elasticsearch
14 4 (0.093%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 112 (2.61%) JIRA
2 70 (1.63%) Git
3 20 (0.47%) Balsamiq
3 20 (0.47%) Jenkins
4 19 (0.44%) Axure RP
5 18 (0.42%) Selenium
6 17 (0.40%) Crashlytics
7 15 (0.35%) webpack
8 14 (0.33%) Vite
8 14 (0.33%) XCTest
9 13 (0.30%) Cypress.io
9 13 (0.30%) fastlane
10 11 (0.26%) Bitbucket
10 11 (0.26%) Cucumber
11 10 (0.23%) Claude Code
12 8 (0.19%) Postman
12 8 (0.19%) Storybook
12 8 (0.19%) Visual Studio
13 6 (0.14%) JUnit
13 6 (0.14%) Xcode
General
1 2,955 (68.93%) Social Skills
2 2,567 (59.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2,494 (58.18%) Banking
4 295 (6.88%) Finance
5 239 (5.57%) Marketing
6 185 (4.32%) Analytical Skills
7 142 (3.31%) Public Sector
8 103 (2.40%) Legal
9 91 (2.12%) Retail
10 88 (2.05%) Organisational Skills
11 82 (1.91%) Law
12 62 (1.45%) Games
13 60 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
14 48 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
15 33 (0.77%) Advertising
16 31 (0.72%) Manufacturing
17 25 (0.58%) Back Office
18 24 (0.56%) Telecoms
19 16 (0.37%) Documentation Skills
20 15 (0.35%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,847 (43.08%) Lecturer
2 373 (8.70%) Senior
3 304 (7.09%) Designer
4 261 (6.09%) Developer
5 224 (5.23%) UX Designer
6 191 (4.46%) Lead
7 126 (2.94%) Analyst
8 92 (2.15%) Senior Developer
9 86 (2.01%) Senior Designer
10 77 (1.80%) Software Engineer
11 71 (1.66%) UI Designer
12 65 (1.52%) Senior UX Designer
13 63 (1.47%) UI/UX Designer
14 62 (1.45%) Product Manager
15 61 (1.42%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
16 60 (1.40%) Architect
17 57 (1.33%) IT Manager
17 57 (1.33%) IT Support
18 52 (1.21%) Senior Manager
19 50 (1.17%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 198 (4.62%) HTML
2 196 (4.57%) CSS
3 179 (4.18%) React
4 115 (2.68%) .NET
5 93 (2.17%) REST
6 78 (1.82%) RESTful
7 66 (1.54%) AngularJS
8 56 (1.31%) Node.js
9 50 (1.17%) Vue
10 44 (1.03%) .NET Core
11 43 (1.00%) JSON
12 40 (0.93%) HTML5
13 31 (0.72%) CSS3
14 30 (0.70%) Web Services
15 27 (0.63%) ASP.NET
16 26 (0.61%) Sass
17 25 (0.58%) Blazor
17 25 (0.58%) Next.js
17 25 (0.58%) SOAP
17 25 (0.58%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2,451 (57.17%) IoT
2 194 (4.53%) Product Ownership
3 120 (2.80%) Mobile App
4 110 (2.57%) Onboarding
5 59 (1.38%) Social Media
6 49 (1.14%) Cloud Native
7 44 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
8 41 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
9 33 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
10 31 (0.72%) AI Agents
10 31 (0.72%) Management Information System
11 29 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
12 21 (0.49%) Low-Code
13 19 (0.44%) e-Learning
13 19 (0.44%) Public Cloud
14 18 (0.42%) Life Science
15 17 (0.40%) Driving Licence
16 14 (0.33%) Analytical Mindset
16 14 (0.33%) CMDB
17 13 (0.30%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 102 (2.38%) Windows
2 67 (1.56%) Apple iOS
3 47 (1.10%) Android
4 30 (0.70%) Windows 10
5 26 (0.61%) Windows Server
6 25 (0.58%) Mac OS
7 23 (0.54%) Linux
8 6 (0.14%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.093%) Mac OS X
10 3 (0.070%) Unix
11 2 (0.047%) Windows 7
11 2 (0.047%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.023%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,779 (64.82%) AI
2 2,529 (58.99%) Machine Learning
3 2,508 (58.50%) Cybersecurity
4 2,497 (58.25%) Web Development
5 537 (12.53%) UX Design
6 521 (12.15%) Agile
7 365 (8.51%) Continuous Improvement
8 359 (8.37%) Problem-Solving
9 329 (7.67%) Analytics
10 297 (6.93%) Roadmaps
11 256 (5.97%) Mentoring
12 176 (4.11%) Decision-Making
13 174 (4.06%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 170 (3.97%) DevOps
15 168 (3.92%) Software Engineering
16 163 (3.80%) User Research
17 162 (3.78%) Full-Stack Development
18 157 (3.66%) CI/CD
19 144 (3.36%) Product Roadmap
20 141 (3.29%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 251 (5.85%) JavaScript
2 154 (3.59%) TypeScript
3 126 (2.94%) SQL
4 115 (2.68%) C#
5 113 (2.64%) Python
6 106 (2.47%) Java
7 56 (1.31%) PowerShell
8 39 (0.91%) PHP
9 26 (0.61%) Kotlin
10 25 (0.58%) Swift
11 16 (0.37%) Go
12 11 (0.26%) C++
13 10 (0.23%) Bicep
14 9 (0.21%) Bash
14 9 (0.21%) T-SQL
15 8 (0.19%) Rust
16 5 (0.12%) ABAP
17 4 (0.093%) Scala
17 4 (0.093%) VB
17 4 (0.093%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2,642 (61.63%) Degree
2 2,464 (57.48%) Master's Degree
3 2,449 (57.13%) PhD
3 2,449 (57.13%) Postgraduate
4 154 (3.59%) Security Cleared
5 96 (2.24%) SC Cleared
6 41 (0.96%) DV Cleared
7 35 (0.82%) DBS Check
8 26 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
9 18 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
10 15 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
11 8 (0.19%) CISSP
11 8 (0.19%) ICAEW
12 7 (0.16%) ITIL Certification
12 7 (0.16%) PMI Certification
12 7 (0.16%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 6 (0.14%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 6 (0.14%) SAP Certification
14 5 (0.12%) PMP
15 4 (0.093%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 292 (6.81%) Accessibility
2 110 (2.57%) QA
3 98 (2.29%) WCAG
4 58 (1.35%) GDPR
5 28 (0.65%) Data Quality
6 19 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
7 14 (0.33%) SLA
8 12 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
8 12 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 10 (0.23%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 5 (0.12%) HIPAA
11 5 (0.12%) NEBOSH
12 4 (0.093%) PMO
13 3 (0.070%) GRC
14 2 (0.047%) GxP
14 2 (0.047%) PERC
14 2 (0.047%) SOC 2
15 1 (0.023%) COBIT
15 1 (0.023%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 98 (2.29%) Active Directory
2 55 (1.28%) Docker
3 6 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.093%) BitLocker
5 4 (0.093%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (0.093%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 73 (1.70%) Microsoft Intune
2 38 (0.89%) Kubernetes
3 27 (0.63%) Terraform
4 22 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
5 11 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
6 9 (0.21%) Grafana
6 9 (0.21%) SCCM
7 5 (0.12%) Ansible
7 5 (0.12%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.047%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.047%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 2 (0.047%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.047%) Packer
8 2 (0.047%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.023%) Argo
9 1 (0.023%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.023%) Kibana
9 1 (0.023%) MOM
Vendors
1 333 (7.77%) Microsoft
2 189 (4.41%) Adobe
3 97 (2.26%) Google
4 72 (1.68%) ServiceNow
5 51 (1.19%) Salesforce
6 31 (0.72%) HubSpot
7 28 (0.65%) Apple
8 24 (0.56%) Nexthink
8 24 (0.56%) SAP
9 23 (0.54%) Oracle
10 18 (0.42%) Braze
11 16 (0.37%) BMC
11 16 (0.37%) Hotjar
12 15 (0.35%) Amplitude
13 12 (0.28%) OpenAI
14 11 (0.26%) iManage
15 10 (0.23%) WooCommerce
16 9 (0.21%) ConnectWise
16 9 (0.21%) Dynatrace
16 9 (0.21%) Sitecore