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 19 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

3 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 82 83
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -17
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 809 630 1,987
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.09% 3.51% 3.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.82% 3.74% 3.71%
Number of salaries quoted 527 415 1,427
10th Percentile £33,400 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,928 £42,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £92,750 £95,000 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £46,958
% change year-on-year +5.00% +6.48% -14.62%

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 28,704 16,859 53,521
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.17% 93.86% 84.88%
Number of salaries quoted 19,158 9,990 40,717
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +14.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,684 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.86% +7.37% -7.41%

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 19 March 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 19 March 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 -3 710 £55,000 -4.35% 787
UK excluding London -2 462 £52,500 +5.00% 564
Work from Home 0 304 £58,445 -2.59% 457
London -8 257 £60,000 -17.24% 336
North of England -9 133 £58,445 +21.76% 179
Midlands +15 99 £45,000 +4.99% 97
South East -20 81 £55,000 +10.00% 152
South West 0 69 £50,000 -9.09% 57
North West -12 65 £55,000 - 98
West Midlands +13 63 £45,000 -28.00% 65
Yorkshire +7 57 £58,445 +37.52% 39
East of England -8 48 £79,425 +144.38% 47
East Midlands -17 36 £45,000 +28.57% 32
Wales -4 15 £42,934 - 20
Scotland -21 15 £62,500 +8.70% 23
North East -20 11 £60,000 +7.62% 43
Northern Ireland - 3 £62,500 - 2

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
1 110 (1.93%) CMS
2 73 (1.28%) SharePoint
3 67 (1.18%) Confluence
4 36 (0.63%) WordPress
5 31 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
6 19 (0.33%) Drupal
7 11 (0.19%) Umbraco
8 8 (0.14%) nginx
9 5 (0.088%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.053%) Appian
10 3 (0.053%) IIS
10 3 (0.053%) Joomla!
11 2 (0.035%) Apache
11 2 (0.035%) CICS
11 2 (0.035%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.035%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.018%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.018%) Camunda
12 1 (0.018%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.018%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 52 (0.91%) Adobe XD
2 29 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 27 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
4 25 (0.44%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 24 (0.42%) Photoshop
5 24 (0.42%) Sketch
6 22 (0.39%) Adobe Illustrator
7 18 (0.32%) MS Visio
8 11 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 10 (0.18%) Chatbot
10 8 (0.14%) Adobe After Effects
10 8 (0.14%) InDesign
11 7 (0.12%) InVision
12 6 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
13 5 (0.088%) UserZoom
14 4 (0.070%) Adobe Premiere
15 3 (0.053%) AutoCAD
15 3 (0.053%) Trello
16 2 (0.035%) Adobe Captivate
16 2 (0.035%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 39 (0.68%) Shopify
2 18 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
3 17 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
4 14 (0.25%) Magento
5 9 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
6 7 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
7 6 (0.11%) Workday HCM
8 5 (0.088%) Payment Gateway
8 5 (0.088%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.070%) SAP BPC
10 2 (0.035%) Dynamics AX
10 2 (0.035%) Oracle Payables
10 2 (0.035%) Oracle Receivables
10 2 (0.035%) Remedy ITSM
10 2 (0.035%) Sage X3
10 2 (0.035%) SAP Business One
11 1 (0.018%) Oracle SCM
11 1 (0.018%) SAP EWM
11 1 (0.018%) SAP HR
11 1 (0.018%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 4,044 (71.01%) Cloud Computing
2 277 (4.86%) Azure
3 219 (3.85%) Figma
4 182 (3.20%) AWS
5 156 (2.74%) Microsoft 365
6 109 (1.91%) SaaS
7 100 (1.76%) Power Platform
8 75 (1.32%) Google Analytics
9 74 (1.30%) GitHub
10 67 (1.18%) GCP
11 64 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
12 61 (1.07%) Adobe Analytics
13 58 (1.02%) Entra ID
14 44 (0.77%) Serverless
15 37 (0.65%) Miro
16 33 (0.58%) PowerApps
17 32 (0.56%) Dynamics 365
18 27 (0.47%) Azure Logic Apps
18 27 (0.47%) OneDrive
19 26 (0.46%) Contentsquare
Communications & Networking
1 4,050 (71.12%) Internet
2 53 (0.93%) Broadband
3 26 (0.46%) VPN
4 18 (0.32%) DNS
4 18 (0.32%) Firewall
5 17 (0.30%) HTTP
6 14 (0.25%) DHCP
7 12 (0.21%) TCP/IP
8 11 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
9 8 (0.14%) LAN
10 6 (0.11%) Intranet
11 5 (0.088%) VoIP
11 5 (0.088%) WAN
12 3 (0.053%) Bluetooth
12 3 (0.053%) Kerberos
12 3 (0.053%) WebEx
13 2 (0.035%) HTTPS
13 2 (0.035%) Network Security
13 2 (0.035%) Unified Communications
13 2 (0.035%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (0.95%) SQL Server
2 50 (0.88%) Power BI
3 35 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
4 29 (0.51%) Looker
5 26 (0.46%) MySQL
5 26 (0.46%) NoSQL
6 20 (0.35%) MongoDB
7 18 (0.32%) Relational Database
8 13 (0.23%) BigQuery
8 13 (0.23%) Metadata
8 13 (0.23%) Tableau
9 12 (0.21%) DB2
10 7 (0.12%) Oracle Reports
10 7 (0.12%) Redis
11 6 (0.11%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (0.11%) SAP BW
12 5 (0.088%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (0.053%) Power Query
14 2 (0.035%) Oracle Database
14 2 (0.035%) PostHog
Development Applications
1 135 (2.37%) JIRA
2 93 (1.63%) Git
3 38 (0.67%) Axure RP
4 33 (0.58%) Balsamiq
5 27 (0.47%) Jenkins
6 21 (0.37%) webpack
7 20 (0.35%) Selenium
8 19 (0.33%) Cypress.io
9 17 (0.30%) Vite
10 13 (0.23%) Cucumber
10 13 (0.23%) NeoLoad
10 13 (0.23%) Visual Studio
11 12 (0.21%) Bitbucket
11 12 (0.21%) eCATT
12 11 (0.19%) Crashlytics
13 10 (0.18%) Postman
13 10 (0.18%) Storybook
13 10 (0.18%) TeamCity
14 9 (0.16%) XCTest
15 8 (0.14%) GitLab
General
1 4,521 (79.39%) Social Skills
2 4,173 (73.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4,121 (72.36%) Banking
4 295 (5.18%) Finance
5 214 (3.76%) Marketing
6 174 (3.06%) Analytical Skills
7 136 (2.39%) Public Sector
8 112 (1.97%) Law
9 105 (1.84%) Legal
10 76 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
11 71 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
12 66 (1.16%) Retail
13 64 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
14 40 (0.70%) Manufacturing
15 37 (0.65%) Games
15 37 (0.65%) Telecoms
16 27 (0.47%) Advertising
17 19 (0.33%) Back Office
18 13 (0.23%) Digital Health
19 12 (0.21%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 3,139 (55.12%) Lecturer
2 341 (5.99%) Senior
3 267 (4.69%) Developer
4 217 (3.81%) Designer
5 165 (2.90%) Lead
6 149 (2.62%) Analyst
7 144 (2.53%) UX Designer
8 83 (1.46%) Senior Developer
9 75 (1.32%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 72 (1.26%) Software Engineer
11 58 (1.02%) Full-Stack Developer
11 58 (1.02%) Senior Manager
12 57 (1.00%) Product Manager
13 54 (0.95%) Senior Designer
14 49 (0.86%) UI Designer
15 47 (0.83%) IT Support
16 46 (0.81%) Business Analyst
16 46 (0.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 41 (0.72%) UI/UX Designer
18 37 (0.65%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 236 (4.14%) HTML
2 229 (4.02%) CSS
3 217 (3.81%) React
4 117 (2.05%) .NET
5 94 (1.65%) REST
5 94 (1.65%) RESTful
6 82 (1.44%) Node.js
7 77 (1.35%) AngularJS
8 70 (1.23%) Vue
9 46 (0.81%) HTML5
10 36 (0.63%) CSS3
11 32 (0.56%) Next.js
11 32 (0.56%) Spring
12 28 (0.49%) Spring Boot
13 27 (0.47%) .NET Framework
13 27 (0.47%) JSON
14 26 (0.46%) WebSockets
15 25 (0.44%) ASP.NET
15 25 (0.44%) Web Services
16 24 (0.42%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4,053 (71.17%) IoT
2 175 (3.07%) Product Ownership
3 111 (1.95%) Mobile App
4 86 (1.51%) Onboarding
5 59 (1.04%) Cloud Native
6 51 (0.90%) Social Media
7 42 (0.74%) Management Information System
8 40 (0.70%) Self-Motivation
9 39 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
10 33 (0.58%) Enterprise Software
11 32 (0.56%) AI Agents
12 31 (0.54%) Greenfield Project
13 18 (0.32%) Low-Code
14 17 (0.30%) Analytical Mindset
14 17 (0.30%) Driving Licence
15 16 (0.28%) Distributed Systems
15 16 (0.28%) Life Science
16 15 (0.26%) CMDB
16 15 (0.26%) e-Learning
17 14 (0.25%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 63 (1.11%) Apple iOS
1 63 (1.11%) Windows
2 60 (1.05%) Android
3 21 (0.37%) Windows 10
4 19 (0.33%) Linux
5 15 (0.26%) Mac OS
5 15 (0.26%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.11%) Unix
7 3 (0.053%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.053%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.053%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.035%) zOS
9 1 (0.018%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.018%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,323 (75.91%) AI
2 4,110 (72.17%) Machine Learning
3 4,099 (71.98%) Cybersecurity
4 4,086 (71.75%) Web Development
5 563 (9.89%) Agile
6 468 (8.22%) UX Design
7 379 (6.65%) Problem-Solving
8 351 (6.16%) Continuous Improvement
9 340 (5.97%) Analytics
10 255 (4.48%) Roadmaps
11 219 (3.85%) Mentoring
12 191 (3.35%) Full-Stack Development
13 179 (3.14%) DevOps
14 170 (2.99%) Decision-Making
14 170 (2.99%) User Research
15 168 (2.95%) CI/CD
16 166 (2.91%) Software Engineering
16 166 (2.91%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
17 146 (2.56%) Front End Development
18 145 (2.55%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 293 (5.14%) JavaScript
2 166 (2.91%) TypeScript
3 122 (2.14%) SQL
4 121 (2.12%) Java
5 105 (1.84%) Python
6 99 (1.74%) C#
7 45 (0.79%) PHP
8 39 (0.68%) PowerShell
9 26 (0.46%) Kotlin
10 21 (0.37%) Go
11 20 (0.35%) Swift
12 16 (0.28%) Bash
13 14 (0.25%) C++
14 10 (0.18%) T-SQL
15 9 (0.16%) Bicep
16 7 (0.12%) ABAP
17 6 (0.11%) Ruby
17 6 (0.11%) Rust
18 5 (0.088%) R
19 4 (0.070%) XAML
Qualifications
1 4,280 (75.15%) Degree
2 4,072 (71.50%) Master's Degree
3 4,048 (71.08%) PhD
4 4,045 (71.03%) Postgraduate
5 158 (2.77%) Security Cleared
6 111 (1.95%) SC Cleared
7 44 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
8 35 (0.61%) DBS Check
9 25 (0.44%) DV Cleared
10 22 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
11 11 (0.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 11 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (0.18%) PMI Certification
13 8 (0.14%) PMP
14 7 (0.12%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 6 (0.11%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 5 (0.088%) ISTQB
16 5 (0.088%) SAP Certification
17 4 (0.070%) ACCA
17 4 (0.070%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 320 (5.62%) Accessibility
2 116 (2.04%) QA
3 97 (1.70%) WCAG
4 62 (1.09%) GDPR
5 18 (0.32%) Data Quality
6 17 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
7 13 (0.23%) PCI DSS
8 10 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 19770
9 9 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
9 9 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 7 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 6 (0.11%) PERC
12 5 (0.088%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.088%) SLA
13 3 (0.053%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.035%) GRC
14 2 (0.035%) HL7
14 2 (0.035%) SOC 2
15 1 (0.018%) NIST
15 1 (0.018%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 78 (1.37%) Active Directory
2 72 (1.26%) Docker
3 18 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.053%) Firmware
5 3 (0.053%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.053%) vSphere
6 2 (0.035%) RACF
7 1 (0.018%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 54 (0.95%) Kubernetes
2 48 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
3 39 (0.68%) Terraform
4 21 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
5 13 (0.23%) HP ALM
6 10 (0.18%) Grafana
7 8 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
8 7 (0.12%) Ansible
9 6 (0.11%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.070%) SCCM
11 2 (0.035%) Data Guard
11 2 (0.035%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 2 (0.035%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (0.035%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.035%) Packer
11 2 (0.035%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.035%) SmoothWall
12 1 (0.018%) Argo
12 1 (0.018%) MOM
12 1 (0.018%) Nmap
Vendors
1 246 (4.32%) Microsoft
2 171 (3.00%) Adobe
3 116 (2.04%) Google
4 75 (1.32%) ServiceNow
5 47 (0.83%) Salesforce
6 40 (0.70%) SAP
7 34 (0.60%) HubSpot
8 28 (0.49%) Oracle
9 27 (0.47%) Nexthink
10 23 (0.40%) Apple
11 21 (0.37%) Hotjar
12 20 (0.35%) Qualtrics
13 18 (0.32%) Atlassian
13 18 (0.32%) BMC
14 14 (0.25%) HP
15 13 (0.23%) Cisco
16 12 (0.21%) iManage
16 12 (0.21%) Sitecore
17 11 (0.19%) Splunk
18 10 (0.18%) New Relic