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 5 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

3 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 83 66
Rank change year-on-year -11 -17 +13
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 1,063 899 1,094
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.97% 3.43% 2.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.67% 3.93% 3.91%
Number of salaries quoted 717 461 485
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,800 £46,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £56,988
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.29% -8.82%
75th Percentile £72,500 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £100,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,277
% change year-on-year -9.09% +9.39% -8.59%

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 39,829 22,872 27,966
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.83% 87.24% 76.08%
Number of salaries quoted 28,250 13,322 17,443
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £32,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £44,738
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% -8.33% -0.41%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £53,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -11.21% -2.73%

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 5 August 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 5 August 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 0 959 £55,000 -8.33% 1,250
UK excluding London -23 620 £50,000 -9.09% 647
Work from Home -27 405 £55,000 -12.00% 606
London -10 362 £70,000 -6.67% 751
North of England -2 203 £50,000 - 182
South East -47 112 £50,000 -13.04% 159
Midlands +7 105 £45,000 -18.18% 90
North West -35 104 £42,500 -19.05% 105
South West -10 84 £60,000 +20.00% 79
West Midlands +1 65 £48,750 -11.36% 71
East of England -3 62 £47,500 -22.45% 55
Yorkshire +32 50 £55,000 +10.00% 48
North East 0 49 £47,000 +129.27% 29
East Midlands -4 40 £42,500 -6.37% 19
Wales -37 24 £48,961 -27.47% 20
Scotland -20 22 £55,000 -29.03% 38
Northern Ireland -53 8 £46,000 - 34

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
1 157 (7.61%) SharePoint
2 117 (5.67%) CMS
3 66 (3.20%) Confluence
4 52 (2.52%) Microsoft Exchange
5 33 (1.60%) WordPress
6 8 (0.39%) IIS
7 6 (0.29%) Drupal
7 6 (0.29%) Moodle
8 5 (0.24%) Skype for Business
8 5 (0.24%) Umbraco
9 4 (0.19%) Apache
10 3 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.15%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.15%) nginx
11 2 (0.097%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.097%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.097%) Totara
12 1 (0.048%) ExpressionEngine
12 1 (0.048%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.048%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 37 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (1.60%) Adobe XD
2 33 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
3 32 (1.55%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 23 (1.11%) Sketch
5 21 (1.02%) Photoshop
6 19 (0.92%) Adobe Illustrator
7 18 (0.87%) Chatbot
7 18 (0.87%) UserZoom
8 15 (0.73%) InDesign
9 12 (0.58%) Adobe After Effects
10 9 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
11 7 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
12 6 (0.29%) MS Visio
13 5 (0.24%) InVision
14 4 (0.19%) Trello
15 3 (0.15%) Productboard
15 3 (0.15%) SPSS
15 3 (0.15%) Zeplin
16 2 (0.097%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 21 (1.02%) Shopify
2 20 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
4 11 (0.53%) Magento
4 11 (0.53%) NetSuite
5 9 (0.44%) Workday HCM
6 5 (0.24%) Dynamics GP
7 3 (0.15%) Carpe Diem
7 3 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.15%) Elite 3E
7 3 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
7 3 (0.15%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.097%) Adobe Campaign
8 2 (0.097%) Dynamics NAV
8 2 (0.097%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.097%) Towers Watson Igloo
8 2 (0.097%) Visualfiles
9 1 (0.048%) Oracle Payables
9 1 (0.048%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 407 (19.72%) Azure
2 298 (14.44%) Microsoft 365
3 204 (9.88%) Figma
4 168 (8.14%) AWS
5 166 (8.04%) Power Platform
6 140 (6.78%) SaaS
7 121 (5.86%) Entra ID
8 105 (5.09%) Azure DevOps
9 84 (4.07%) Power Automate
10 80 (3.88%) PowerApps
11 68 (3.29%) GitHub
12 67 (3.25%) Google Analytics
13 65 (3.15%) Adobe Analytics
14 63 (3.05%) GCP
15 58 (2.81%) Microsoft Copilot
16 48 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
16 48 (2.33%) Serverless
17 47 (2.28%) Azure Logic Apps
18 45 (2.18%) OneDrive
19 44 (2.13%) Contentsquare
Communications & Networking
1 62 (3.00%) Broadband
2 36 (1.74%) Firewall
3 29 (1.41%) DNS
4 24 (1.16%) DHCP
5 22 (1.07%) VPN
6 20 (0.97%) VoIP
7 14 (0.68%) TCP/IP
7 14 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
8 13 (0.63%) Network Security
9 12 (0.58%) CTI
9 12 (0.58%) Kerberos
10 10 (0.48%) HTTP
11 9 (0.44%) Wireless
12 8 (0.39%) Internet
13 7 (0.34%) Intranet
13 7 (0.34%) VLAN
14 6 (0.29%) Unified Communications
15 5 (0.24%) SAN
15 5 (0.24%) Skype
15 5 (0.24%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (4.36%) Power BI
2 64 (3.10%) SQL Server
3 27 (1.31%) PostgreSQL
4 26 (1.26%) Relational Database
5 23 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
6 20 (0.97%) MySQL
7 19 (0.92%) Looker
8 16 (0.78%) Metadata
9 15 (0.73%) NoSQL
10 12 (0.58%) MongoDB
11 11 (0.53%) BigQuery
12 9 (0.44%) Redis
12 9 (0.44%) Tableau
13 7 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
14 6 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
14 6 (0.29%) GIS
14 6 (0.29%) Power Query
15 5 (0.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 5 (0.24%) Star Schema
16 4 (0.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 103 (4.99%) JIRA
2 97 (4.70%) Git
3 29 (1.41%) Claude Code
4 24 (1.16%) Jenkins
5 21 (1.02%) fastlane
6 20 (0.97%) Crashlytics
7 16 (0.78%) Cypress.io
8 15 (0.73%) XCTest
9 12 (0.58%) Axure RP
10 11 (0.53%) Balsamiq
10 11 (0.53%) Selenium
10 11 (0.53%) webpack
11 9 (0.44%) Vite
11 9 (0.44%) Xcode
12 8 (0.39%) Postman
13 7 (0.34%) Bitbucket
14 6 (0.29%) Android Studio
14 6 (0.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 6 (0.29%) Gradle
14 6 (0.29%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 665 (32.22%) Social Skills
2 350 (16.96%) Finance
3 264 (12.79%) Marketing
4 254 (12.31%) Analytical Skills
5 179 (8.67%) Public Sector
6 176 (8.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 131 (6.35%) Retail
8 117 (5.67%) Law
9 111 (5.38%) Legal
10 99 (4.80%) Organisational Skills
11 73 (3.54%) Games
12 63 (3.05%) Influencing Skills
13 48 (2.33%) Banking
14 39 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
15 37 (1.79%) Advertising
16 31 (1.50%) Manufacturing
17 25 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
18 20 (0.97%) Multimedia
19 18 (0.87%) Financial Institution
19 18 (0.87%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 366 (17.73%) Senior
2 341 (16.52%) Designer
3 298 (14.44%) Developer
4 245 (11.87%) Lead
4 245 (11.87%) UX Designer
5 156 (7.56%) Analyst
6 103 (4.99%) Senior Developer
7 94 (4.55%) Software Engineer
7 94 (4.55%) UI Designer
8 90 (4.36%) IT Support
8 90 (4.36%) Senior Designer
9 89 (4.31%) UI/UX Designer
10 70 (3.39%) Architect
11 67 (3.25%) Product Manager
12 64 (3.10%) Senior UX Designer
12 64 (3.10%) Support Engineer
13 62 (3.00%) IT Manager
14 57 (2.76%) Business Analyst
15 54 (2.62%) Full-Stack Developer
16 49 (2.37%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 207 (10.03%) HTML
2 205 (9.93%) CSS
3 156 (7.56%) React
4 155 (7.51%) .NET
5 104 (5.04%) REST
6 78 (3.78%) RESTful
7 63 (3.05%) .NET Core
8 58 (2.81%) Node.js
9 51 (2.47%) JSON
10 45 (2.18%) AngularJS
11 42 (2.03%) ASP.NET
12 40 (1.94%) HTML5
13 37 (1.79%) Next.js
14 33 (1.60%) CSS3
15 30 (1.45%) jQuery
15 30 (1.45%) Vue
16 27 (1.31%) Blazor
17 26 (1.26%) SPFx
17 26 (1.26%) SwiftUI
18 25 (1.21%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 199 (9.64%) Product Ownership
2 110 (5.33%) Mobile App
3 104 (5.04%) Onboarding
4 73 (3.54%) Enterprise Software
4 73 (3.54%) Social Media
5 56 (2.71%) Self-Motivation
6 49 (2.37%) Cloud Native
7 32 (1.55%) Management Information System
8 29 (1.41%) AI Agents
8 29 (1.41%) Driving Licence
9 25 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
10 24 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
11 23 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
12 21 (1.02%) Algorithms
13 20 (0.97%) Graphic Design
14 18 (0.87%) Low-Code
15 17 (0.82%) Security Posture
16 15 (0.73%) Virtual Team
17 14 (0.68%) Distributed Systems
17 14 (0.68%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 148 (7.17%) Windows
2 73 (3.54%) Apple iOS
3 45 (2.18%) Windows Server
4 43 (2.08%) Android
5 39 (1.89%) Windows 10
6 35 (1.70%) Mac OS
7 27 (1.31%) Linux
8 8 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (0.24%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.19%) Mac OS X
10 4 (0.19%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.048%) AIX
11 1 (0.048%) CentOS
11 1 (0.048%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 578 (28.00%) Agile
2 550 (26.65%) UX Design
3 502 (24.32%) Continuous Improvement
4 458 (22.19%) Problem-Solving
5 426 (20.64%) AI
6 373 (18.07%) Analytics
7 334 (16.18%) Roadmaps
8 261 (12.65%) Mentoring
9 223 (10.80%) Decision-Making
10 221 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
11 214 (10.37%) DevOps
12 196 (9.50%) CI/CD
13 177 (8.58%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 167 (8.09%) User Research
15 166 (8.04%) Software Engineering
16 160 (7.75%) ITIL
17 157 (7.61%) Customer Experience
17 157 (7.61%) Workflow
18 147 (7.12%) Product Roadmap
19 144 (6.98%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 249 (12.06%) JavaScript
2 157 (7.61%) C#
3 156 (7.56%) SQL
3 156 (7.56%) TypeScript
4 118 (5.72%) Python
5 91 (4.41%) Java
6 73 (3.54%) PowerShell
7 32 (1.55%) Swift
8 31 (1.50%) PHP
9 27 (1.31%) Kotlin
10 14 (0.68%) VB.NET
11 12 (0.58%) ABAP
11 12 (0.58%) C++
12 11 (0.53%) C
13 9 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 8 (0.39%) Go
14 8 (0.39%) VBScript
15 7 (0.34%) VB
16 6 (0.29%) Bash
16 6 (0.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 196 (9.50%) Degree
2 144 (6.98%) Security Cleared
3 86 (4.17%) SC Cleared
4 38 (1.84%) DV Cleared
5 32 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
6 28 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
7 27 (1.31%) DBS Check
8 12 (0.58%) CISSP
8 12 (0.58%) Master's Degree
9 11 (0.53%) ICAEW
9 11 (0.53%) Postgraduate
10 10 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
11 9 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
12 7 (0.34%) ISTQB
12 7 (0.34%) PMI Certification
13 5 (0.24%) SAP Certification
14 4 (0.19%) AWS Certification
14 4 (0.19%) CBAP
14 4 (0.19%) IIBA
14 4 (0.19%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 329 (15.94%) Accessibility
2 121 (5.86%) QA
3 108 (5.23%) WCAG
4 68 (3.29%) GDPR
5 64 (3.10%) Data Quality
6 27 (1.31%) SLA
7 20 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
8 15 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
9 12 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 11 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 8 (0.39%) PCI DSS
12 5 (0.24%) NEBOSH
12 5 (0.24%) PMO
13 4 (0.19%) PERC
13 4 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
14 3 (0.15%) GxP
14 3 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 2 (0.097%) GRC
15 2 (0.097%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 116 (5.62%) Active Directory
2 58 (2.81%) Docker
3 9 (0.44%) BitLocker
3 9 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.097%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.048%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 88 (4.26%) Microsoft Intune
2 35 (1.70%) Kubernetes
3 19 (0.92%) Terraform
4 14 (0.68%) SCCM
5 13 (0.63%) Jamf Pro
6 10 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.24%) Ansible
8 4 (0.19%) Grafana
9 3 (0.15%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.097%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.097%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 2 (0.097%) Oracle RMAN
11 1 (0.048%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.048%) Forefront Identity Manager
11 1 (0.048%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.048%) Kibana
11 1 (0.048%) Packer
11 1 (0.048%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 449 (21.75%) Microsoft
2 173 (8.38%) Adobe
3 103 (4.99%) Google
4 59 (2.86%) ServiceNow
5 51 (2.47%) Salesforce
6 37 (1.79%) Apple
7 36 (1.74%) Oracle
8 33 (1.60%) SAP
9 21 (1.02%) iManage
10 19 (0.92%) OpenAI
11 18 (0.87%) Braze
11 18 (0.87%) Cisco
12 17 (0.82%) HubSpot
13 16 (0.78%) Amplitude
13 16 (0.78%) Hotjar
14 15 (0.73%) Dynatrace
15 14 (0.68%) Meraki
16 12 (0.58%) Genesys
17 11 (0.53%) Avaya
17 11 (0.53%) VMware