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

3 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 73 85
Rank change year-on-year -6 +12 -7
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 963 815 1,709
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.03% 3.81% 3.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.73% 4.14% 3.64%
Number of salaries quoted 658 491 1,076
10th Percentile £31,496 £32,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £44,729 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% +15.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.96% +4.00% -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 35,216 19,668 46,996
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.25% 91.93% 85.47%
Number of salaries quoted 23,133 11,954 33,139
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,975
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £57,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.87% +7.48% -10.83%
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 - - -8.41%

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 24 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 24 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 -3 835 £58,446 +1.65% 845
UK excluding London +3 594 £52,500 +0.96% 727
Work from Home -1 371 £60,000 +2.56% 290
London -26 274 £68,000 -2.86% 208
North of England +3 218 £55,000 - 376
North West -1 122 £55,000 - 307
East of England +13 90 £85,000 +100.00% 50
South East -22 90 £48,885 -2.23% 112
Midlands -28 83 £45,000 -16.18% 111
Yorkshire -4 74 £55,000 +15.79% 54
South West -9 61 £50,000 -16.67% 50
West Midlands -35 45 £43,750 -18.51% 62
East Midlands -19 38 £60,000 +87.50% 49
Scotland -22 33 £45,000 -18.18% 16
North East -19 22 £60,000 +6.19% 17
Wales -13 18 £42,934 - 11
Northern Ireland - 3 £49,750 - 16

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
1 121 (2.08%) CMS
2 101 (1.74%) SharePoint
3 74 (1.27%) Confluence
4 35 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
5 28 (0.48%) 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
10 2 (0.034%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.017%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.017%) Apache
11 1 (0.017%) Appian
11 1 (0.017%) Camunda
Applications
1 43 (0.74%) Adobe XD
2 33 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (0.50%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 27 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
5 20 (0.34%) Photoshop
5 20 (0.34%) Sketch
6 19 (0.33%) Adobe Illustrator
7 10 (0.17%) Chatbot
7 10 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 9 (0.15%) Adobe After Effects
8 9 (0.15%) MS Visio
8 9 (0.15%) UserZoom
9 7 (0.12%) InVision
9 7 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
10 5 (0.086%) InDesign
11 4 (0.069%) 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
6 4 (0.069%) SAP S/4HANA
7 3 (0.052%) 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 (69.32%) Cloud Computing
2 289 (4.97%) Azure
3 219 (3.76%) Figma
4 190 (3.27%) Microsoft 365
5 186 (3.20%) AWS
6 118 (2.03%) Power Platform
7 117 (2.01%) SaaS
8 84 (1.44%) Google Analytics
9 78 (1.34%) Entra ID
10 71 (1.22%) GCP
10 71 (1.22%) GitHub
11 70 (1.20%) Adobe Analytics
12 55 (0.95%) Azure DevOps
13 51 (0.88%) PowerApps
14 43 (0.74%) Contentsquare
15 42 (0.72%) Power Automate
16 39 (0.67%) OneDrive
17 35 (0.60%) GitHub Copilot
17 35 (0.60%) Serverless
18 34 (0.58%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 4,043 (69.48%) 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%) Intranet
8 5 (0.086%) Kerberos
8 5 (0.086%) LAN
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%) VLAN
11 2 (0.034%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (1.03%) Power BI
2 50 (0.86%) SQL Server
3 35 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
4 30 (0.52%) Looker
5 24 (0.41%) NoSQL
6 20 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
6 20 (0.34%) MySQL
7 19 (0.33%) Metadata
8 18 (0.31%) MongoDB
9 16 (0.27%) BigQuery
10 12 (0.21%) DB2
11 11 (0.19%) Tableau
12 9 (0.15%) Relational Database
13 7 (0.12%) Redis
14 6 (0.10%) Data Warehouse
14 6 (0.10%) SAP BW
15 5 (0.086%) Elasticsearch
16 4 (0.069%) Oracle Reports
16 4 (0.069%) QGIS
16 4 (0.069%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 120 (2.06%) JIRA
2 71 (1.22%) Git
3 32 (0.55%) Balsamiq
4 30 (0.52%) Axure RP
5 20 (0.34%) Jenkins
5 20 (0.34%) Selenium
6 16 (0.27%) webpack
7 15 (0.26%) Bitbucket
7 15 (0.26%) Vite
8 14 (0.24%) Crashlytics
8 14 (0.24%) Cucumber
8 14 (0.24%) Cypress.io
9 12 (0.21%) XCTest
10 11 (0.19%) Visual Studio
11 9 (0.15%) Postman
11 9 (0.15%) TeamCity
12 8 (0.14%) Storybook
13 6 (0.10%) Claude Code
13 6 (0.10%) fastlane
13 6 (0.10%) JUnit
General
1 4,555 (78.28%) Social Skills
2 4,155 (71.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4,105 (70.54%) Banking
4 297 (5.10%) Finance
5 231 (3.97%) Marketing
6 190 (3.27%) Analytical Skills
7 141 (2.42%) Public Sector
8 116 (1.99%) Legal
9 84 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
10 82 (1.41%) Law
11 78 (1.34%) Retail
12 67 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
13 61 (1.05%) Games
14 48 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
15 33 (0.57%) Manufacturing
16 32 (0.55%) Telecoms
17 31 (0.53%) Advertising
18 19 (0.33%) Back Office
19 18 (0.31%) Documentation Skills
20 13 (0.22%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 3,129 (53.77%) Lecturer
2 385 (6.62%) Senior
3 280 (4.81%) Designer
4 241 (4.14%) Developer
5 199 (3.42%) UX Designer
6 191 (3.28%) Lead
7 122 (2.10%) Analyst
8 90 (1.55%) Senior Developer
9 88 (1.51%) Software Engineer
10 86 (1.48%) Senior Designer
11 70 (1.20%) Product Manager
12 61 (1.05%) Senior UX Designer
13 58 (1.00%) UI Designer
14 57 (0.98%) Senior Manager
15 56 (0.96%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
16 50 (0.86%) Service Manager
17 49 (0.84%) IT Support
18 47 (0.81%) UI/UX Designer
19 46 (0.79%) Architect
19 46 (0.79%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 197 (3.39%) HTML
2 195 (3.35%) CSS
3 190 (3.27%) React
4 108 (1.86%) .NET
5 87 (1.50%) REST
6 86 (1.48%) RESTful
7 69 (1.19%) Node.js
8 68 (1.17%) AngularJS
9 56 (0.96%) Vue
10 35 (0.60%) HTML5
10 35 (0.60%) JSON
11 34 (0.58%) Web Services
12 31 (0.53%) .NET Core
13 27 (0.46%) Next.js
14 26 (0.45%) CSS3
15 25 (0.43%) Spring
15 25 (0.43%) WebSockets
16 24 (0.41%) Laravel
17 23 (0.40%) .NET Framework
17 23 (0.40%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4,043 (69.48%) IoT
2 186 (3.20%) Product Ownership
3 119 (2.05%) Mobile App
4 108 (1.86%) Onboarding
5 61 (1.05%) Social Media
6 53 (0.91%) Cloud Native
7 46 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
8 39 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
9 38 (0.65%) AI Agents
10 37 (0.64%) Management Information System
11 34 (0.58%) Greenfield Project
12 29 (0.50%) Self-Motivation
13 23 (0.40%) Public Cloud
14 22 (0.38%) e-Learning
15 21 (0.36%) CMDB
16 20 (0.34%) Low-Code
17 18 (0.31%) Life Science
18 17 (0.29%) Distributed Systems
19 15 (0.26%) Analytical Mindset
19 15 (0.26%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 76 (1.31%) Windows
2 62 (1.07%) Apple iOS
3 54 (0.93%) Android
4 25 (0.43%) Windows 10
5 23 (0.40%) Linux
6 22 (0.38%) 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 (74.81%) AI
2 4,115 (70.72%) Machine Learning
3 4,103 (70.51%) Cybersecurity
4 4,084 (70.18%) Web Development
5 538 (9.25%) Agile
6 507 (8.71%) UX Design
7 366 (6.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 349 (6.00%) Problem-Solving
9 346 (5.95%) Analytics
10 288 (4.95%) Roadmaps
11 244 (4.19%) Mentoring
12 186 (3.20%) Decision-Making
13 180 (3.09%) Software Engineering
14 176 (3.02%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 171 (2.94%) User Research
16 168 (2.89%) Full-Stack Development
17 167 (2.87%) DevOps
18 150 (2.58%) CI/CD
19 143 (2.46%) Product Roadmap
20 139 (2.39%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 264 (4.54%) JavaScript
2 163 (2.80%) TypeScript
3 139 (2.39%) SQL
4 121 (2.08%) Java
5 109 (1.87%) Python
6 93 (1.60%) C#
7 51 (0.88%) 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 4,251 (73.05%) Degree
2 4,056 (69.70%) Master's Degree
3 4,038 (69.39%) PhD
4 4,035 (69.34%) Postgraduate
5 152 (2.61%) Security Cleared
6 109 (1.87%) SC Cleared
7 42 (0.72%) DBS Check
8 34 (0.58%) Computer Science Degree
9 28 (0.48%) DV Cleared
10 18 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
11 16 (0.27%) 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%) ISTQB
15 5 (0.086%) SAP Certification
16 4 (0.069%) A+ Certification
16 4 (0.069%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 296 (5.09%) Accessibility
2 118 (2.03%) QA
3 101 (1.74%) WCAG
4 57 (0.98%) GDPR
5 24 (0.41%) Data Quality
6 13 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
7 12 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
7 12 (0.21%) PCI DSS
7 12 (0.21%) SLA
8 10 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 19770
9 8 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 6 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 5 (0.086%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.069%) NEBOSH
13 3 (0.052%) PERC
13 3 (0.052%) PMO
13 3 (0.052%) SOC 2
14 2 (0.034%) GRC
14 2 (0.034%) GxP
15 1 (0.017%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 83 (1.43%) Active Directory
2 69 (1.19%) Docker
3 16 (0.27%) 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 61 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
2 51 (0.88%) Kubernetes
3 36 (0.62%) 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%) Nessus
9 1 (0.017%) Nmap
Vendors
1 295 (5.07%) Microsoft
2 193 (3.32%) Adobe
3 122 (2.10%) Google
4 79 (1.36%) ServiceNow
5 48 (0.82%) Salesforce
6 39 (0.67%) HubSpot
7 29 (0.50%) Nexthink
8 25 (0.43%) Apple
9 23 (0.40%) SAP
10 21 (0.36%) Oracle
11 20 (0.34%) Hotjar
12 19 (0.33%) BMC
13 16 (0.27%) Braze
14 13 (0.22%) Amplitude
14 13 (0.22%) Atlassian
15 12 (0.21%) iManage
16 11 (0.19%) VMware
17 10 (0.17%) New Relic
17 10 (0.17%) Splunk
17 10 (0.17%) WooCommerce