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

3 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 73 82
Rank change year-on-year -8 +9 0
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 965 832 1,652
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.00% 3.80% 3.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.70% 4.14% 3.71%
Number of salaries quoted 654 500 1,018
10th Percentile £31,490 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £39,813
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 £76,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,250 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,835 £52,713 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.23% +5.43% -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 35,678 20,110 44,582
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.93% 91.95% 85.33%
Number of salaries quoted 23,551 11,977 30,960
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £57,500 £54,150
Median % change year-on-year +2.17% +6.19% -9.75%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 27 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 27 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 -4 836 £59,063 +2.72% 932
UK excluding London +3 596 £52,835 +0.23% 731
Work from Home +7 372 £60,000 - 522
London -25 275 £68,000 -2.86% 293
North of England +2 218 £55,000 - 371
North West -5 120 £55,000 -0.08% 302
South East -22 94 £49,442 -1.12% 106
East of England +16 91 £85,000 +100.00% 51
Midlands -25 80 £45,000 -16.18% 114
Yorkshire 0 74 £55,000 +15.79% 51
South West -15 60 £50,000 -16.67% 51
West Midlands -32 44 £42,500 -20.84% 66
East Midlands -17 36 £61,750 +92.97% 48
Scotland -19 34 £53,000 -3.64% 22
North East -17 24 £55,000 -2.65% 19
Wales -16 18 £42,934 - 13
Northern Ireland - 3 £49,750 - 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
1 118 (2.03%) CMS
2 100 (1.72%) SharePoint
3 73 (1.26%) Confluence
4 35 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
5 27 (0.46%) WordPress
6 15 (0.26%) Drupal
7 10 (0.17%) Umbraco
8 8 (0.14%) nginx
9 3 (0.052%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.052%) IIS
9 3 (0.052%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.034%) CICS
10 2 (0.034%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.017%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.017%) Apache
11 1 (0.017%) Appian
11 1 (0.017%) Camunda
11 1 (0.017%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 42 (0.72%) Adobe XD
2 33 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
3 28 (0.48%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 28 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
4 20 (0.34%) Sketch
5 19 (0.33%) Photoshop
6 18 (0.31%) Adobe Illustrator
7 10 (0.17%) Chatbot
7 10 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 9 (0.15%) MS Visio
8 9 (0.15%) UserZoom
9 8 (0.14%) Adobe After Effects
9 8 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
10 7 (0.12%) InVision
11 5 (0.086%) InDesign
12 3 (0.052%) Adobe Premiere
12 3 (0.052%) AutoCAD
12 3 (0.052%) Microsoft Project
12 3 (0.052%) SPSS
12 3 (0.052%) Trello
Business Applications
1 35 (0.60%) Shopify
2 20 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (0.34%) Magento
3 9 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
4 6 (0.10%) Dynamics GP
5 5 (0.086%) SAP ERP
5 5 (0.086%) SAP S/4HANA
6 4 (0.069%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.052%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.034%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.034%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.034%) Sage X3
9 1 (0.017%) Elite 3E
9 1 (0.017%) Oracle General Ledger
9 1 (0.017%) Oracle Payables
9 1 (0.017%) Oracle Receivables
9 1 (0.017%) SAP Business One
9 1 (0.017%) SAP EWM
9 1 (0.017%) SAP HCM
9 1 (0.017%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 4,034 (69.36%) Cloud Computing
2 288 (4.95%) Azure
3 217 (3.73%) Figma
4 190 (3.27%) Microsoft 365
5 187 (3.22%) AWS
6 118 (2.03%) Power Platform
7 116 (1.99%) SaaS
8 82 (1.41%) Google Analytics
9 78 (1.34%) Entra ID
10 72 (1.24%) GCP
11 70 (1.20%) Adobe Analytics
12 69 (1.19%) GitHub
13 54 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
14 50 (0.86%) PowerApps
15 43 (0.74%) Contentsquare
16 42 (0.72%) Power Automate
17 38 (0.65%) OneDrive
18 36 (0.62%) Serverless
19 34 (0.58%) Dynamics 365
19 34 (0.58%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4,043 (69.52%) Internet
2 79 (1.36%) Broadband
3 24 (0.41%) Firewall
3 24 (0.41%) HTTP
4 22 (0.38%) VPN
5 21 (0.36%) DNS
6 17 (0.29%) DHCP
7 15 (0.26%) TCP/IP
7 15 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (0.086%) Kerberos
8 5 (0.086%) LAN
9 4 (0.069%) Intranet
9 4 (0.069%) NAS
9 4 (0.069%) Network Security
9 4 (0.069%) SAN
9 4 (0.069%) VoIP
10 3 (0.052%) Bluetooth
10 3 (0.052%) WebEx
11 2 (0.034%) WAN
11 2 (0.034%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (1.05%) Power BI
2 52 (0.89%) SQL Server
3 35 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
4 30 (0.52%) Looker
5 25 (0.43%) NoSQL
6 20 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
6 20 (0.34%) MySQL
7 18 (0.31%) Metadata
7 18 (0.31%) MongoDB
8 16 (0.28%) BigQuery
9 12 (0.21%) DB2
10 11 (0.19%) Tableau
11 9 (0.15%) Relational Database
12 7 (0.12%) Redis
13 6 (0.10%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (0.10%) SAP BW
14 5 (0.086%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (0.086%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 4 (0.069%) Oracle Reports
15 4 (0.069%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 119 (2.05%) JIRA
2 70 (1.20%) Git
3 31 (0.53%) Balsamiq
4 29 (0.50%) Axure RP
5 21 (0.36%) Selenium
6 20 (0.34%) Jenkins
7 16 (0.28%) webpack
8 15 (0.26%) Bitbucket
8 15 (0.26%) Vite
9 14 (0.24%) Crashlytics
9 14 (0.24%) Cucumber
10 13 (0.22%) Cypress.io
11 12 (0.21%) XCTest
12 10 (0.17%) Visual Studio
13 9 (0.15%) TeamCity
14 8 (0.14%) Postman
14 8 (0.14%) Storybook
15 6 (0.10%) Claude Code
15 6 (0.10%) fastlane
15 6 (0.10%) JUnit
General
1 4,549 (78.22%) Social Skills
2 4,152 (71.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4,105 (70.58%) Banking
4 294 (5.06%) Finance
5 229 (3.94%) Marketing
6 185 (3.18%) Analytical Skills
7 137 (2.36%) Public Sector
8 115 (1.98%) Legal
9 82 (1.41%) Law
10 81 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
11 79 (1.36%) Retail
12 65 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
13 61 (1.05%) Games
14 48 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
15 33 (0.57%) Manufacturing
16 31 (0.53%) Advertising
16 31 (0.53%) Telecoms
17 19 (0.33%) Back Office
18 18 (0.31%) Documentation Skills
19 13 (0.22%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 3,129 (53.80%) Lecturer
2 383 (6.59%) Senior
3 283 (4.87%) Designer
4 240 (4.13%) Developer
5 200 (3.44%) UX Designer
6 192 (3.30%) Lead
7 122 (2.10%) Analyst
8 89 (1.53%) Senior Developer
9 88 (1.51%) Software Engineer
10 86 (1.48%) Senior Designer
11 67 (1.15%) Product Manager
12 61 (1.05%) Senior UX Designer
13 60 (1.03%) UI Designer
14 56 (0.96%) Senior Manager
15 55 (0.95%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
16 51 (0.88%) Service Manager
17 49 (0.84%) IT Support
17 49 (0.84%) UI/UX Designer
18 47 (0.81%) Architect
19 46 (0.79%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 194 (3.34%) HTML
2 193 (3.32%) CSS
3 188 (3.23%) React
4 108 (1.86%) .NET
5 87 (1.50%) REST
6 85 (1.46%) RESTful
7 68 (1.17%) Node.js
8 67 (1.15%) AngularJS
9 54 (0.93%) Vue
10 36 (0.62%) HTML5
11 35 (0.60%) Web Services
12 34 (0.58%) JSON
13 31 (0.53%) .NET Core
14 27 (0.46%) CSS3
15 26 (0.45%) Next.js
16 25 (0.43%) Spring
16 25 (0.43%) WebSockets
17 24 (0.41%) Laravel
18 23 (0.40%) .NET Framework
18 23 (0.40%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4,042 (69.50%) IoT
2 182 (3.13%) Product Ownership
3 120 (2.06%) Mobile App
4 105 (1.81%) Onboarding
5 61 (1.05%) Social Media
6 54 (0.93%) Cloud Native
7 46 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
8 39 (0.67%) AI Agents
9 38 (0.65%) Enterprise Software
10 36 (0.62%) Management Information System
11 34 (0.58%) Greenfield Project
12 29 (0.50%) Self-Motivation
13 23 (0.40%) Public Cloud
14 21 (0.36%) CMDB
14 21 (0.36%) Low-Code
15 20 (0.34%) e-Learning
16 18 (0.31%) Life Science
17 17 (0.29%) Distributed Systems
18 15 (0.26%) Driving Licence
19 14 (0.24%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 77 (1.32%) Windows
2 63 (1.08%) Apple iOS
3 55 (0.95%) Android
4 26 (0.45%) Windows 10
5 23 (0.40%) Linux
6 21 (0.36%) Windows Server
7 18 (0.31%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.12%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.069%) Mac OS X
9 4 (0.069%) Unix
10 3 (0.052%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.052%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.034%) zOS
12 1 (0.017%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.017%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,353 (74.85%) AI
2 4,116 (70.77%) Machine Learning
3 4,102 (70.53%) Cybersecurity
4 4,085 (70.24%) Web Development
5 532 (9.15%) Agile
6 511 (8.79%) UX Design
7 365 (6.28%) Continuous Improvement
8 349 (6.00%) Problem-Solving
9 343 (5.90%) Analytics
10 283 (4.87%) Roadmaps
11 244 (4.20%) Mentoring
12 189 (3.25%) Decision-Making
13 180 (3.09%) Software Engineering
14 173 (2.97%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 168 (2.89%) Full-Stack Development
15 168 (2.89%) User Research
16 167 (2.87%) DevOps
17 148 (2.54%) CI/CD
18 140 (2.41%) ITIL
18 140 (2.41%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 260 (4.47%) JavaScript
2 160 (2.75%) TypeScript
3 139 (2.39%) SQL
4 121 (2.08%) Java
5 111 (1.91%) Python
6 94 (1.62%) C#
7 50 (0.86%) PowerShell
8 41 (0.70%) PHP
9 26 (0.45%) Kotlin
10 23 (0.40%) Go
10 23 (0.40%) Swift
11 14 (0.24%) Bash
12 13 (0.22%) C++
13 11 (0.19%) Bicep
14 10 (0.17%) T-SQL
15 7 (0.12%) Rust
16 5 (0.086%) ABAP
16 5 (0.086%) Apex Code
17 4 (0.069%) Scala
18 3 (0.052%) R
Qualifications
1 4,249 (73.06%) Degree
2 4,056 (69.74%) Master's Degree
3 4,038 (69.43%) PhD
4 4,035 (69.38%) Postgraduate
5 152 (2.61%) Security Cleared
6 109 (1.87%) SC Cleared
7 42 (0.72%) DBS Check
8 35 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
9 29 (0.50%) DV Cleared
10 18 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
11 16 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
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 (0.086%) CISSP
15 5 (0.086%) SAP Certification
16 4 (0.069%) A+ Certification
16 4 (0.069%) ISTQB
16 4 (0.069%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 289 (4.97%) Accessibility
2 116 (1.99%) QA
3 99 (1.70%) WCAG
4 56 (0.96%) GDPR
5 24 (0.41%) Data Quality
6 14 (0.24%) SLA
7 13 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
8 12 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
8 12 (0.21%) PCI DSS
9 10 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 19770
10 8 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 6 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 5 (0.086%) HIPAA
13 4 (0.069%) NEBOSH
13 4 (0.069%) PMO
14 3 (0.052%) SOC 2
15 2 (0.034%) GRC
15 2 (0.034%) GxP
15 2 (0.034%) PERC
16 1 (0.017%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 83 (1.43%) Active Directory
2 69 (1.19%) Docker
3 16 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.10%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.069%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.052%) vSphere
8 2 (0.034%) RACF
Systems Management
1 62 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
2 51 (0.88%) Kubernetes
3 35 (0.60%) Terraform
4 21 (0.36%) 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 5 (0.086%) SCCM
8 2 (0.034%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.034%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 2 (0.034%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 2 (0.034%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.034%) Packer
8 2 (0.034%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.034%) SmoothWall
9 1 (0.017%) Argo
9 1 (0.017%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.017%) MOM
9 1 (0.017%) Nessus
Vendors
1 294 (5.06%) Microsoft
2 191 (3.28%) Adobe
3 119 (2.05%) Google
4 78 (1.34%) ServiceNow
5 48 (0.83%) Salesforce
6 39 (0.67%) HubSpot
7 29 (0.50%) Nexthink
8 25 (0.43%) Apple
9 22 (0.38%) SAP
10 19 (0.33%) BMC
10 19 (0.33%) Hotjar
10 19 (0.33%) Oracle
11 16 (0.28%) Braze
12 13 (0.22%) Amplitude
12 13 (0.22%) Atlassian
13 12 (0.21%) iManage
14 11 (0.19%) VMware
15 10 (0.17%) New Relic
15 10 (0.17%) Splunk
15 10 (0.17%) WooCommerce