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 9 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

3 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 84 89
Rank change year-on-year -21 +5 -13
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 1,048 659 954
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.80% 2.87% 2.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.44% 3.37% 3.35%
Number of salaries quoted 662 473 469
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,050 £32,084
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -12.52%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -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 42,943 19,575 28,499
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.63% 85.18% 83.45%
Number of salaries quoted 29,918 12,694 14,631
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,054 £36,565 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £53,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -10.38% +0.95%

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 9 September 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 9 September 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 -23 912 £57,000 -0.87% 1,958
UK excluding London -13 592 £52,500 - 885
Work from Home -27 389 £55,000 -4.35% 852
London -9 356 £64,000 -14.67% 1,298
North of England 0 178 £55,000 +15.79% 234
South East -56 107 £50,000 -9.09% 184
Midlands -3 100 £42,500 -19.05% 110
South West -1 97 £60,000 +17.07% 118
North West -25 84 £49,625 -0.75% 140
West Midlands -4 65 £43,000 -28.63% 77
Yorkshire +9 57 £60,000 +71.43% 71
East of England -47 38 £46,250 -15.91% 89
North East -21 37 £50,000 +61.29% 26
East Midlands -28 35 £42,500 +6.25% 33
Northern Ireland -51 28 £60,500 - 56
Scotland -9 25 £55,000 - 75
Wales -56 19 £43,730 -35.21% 23

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
1 155 (7.32%) SharePoint
2 94 (4.44%) CMS
3 68 (3.21%) Confluence
4 49 (2.31%) Microsoft Exchange
5 37 (1.75%) WordPress
6 11 (0.52%) IIS
7 9 (0.42%) Moodle
8 5 (0.24%) Skype for Business
9 4 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.19%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.14%) Apache
10 3 (0.14%) Umbraco
11 2 (0.094%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.094%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.094%) Drupal
11 2 (0.094%) nginx
11 2 (0.094%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.094%) Totara
12 1 (0.047%) ExpressionEngine
12 1 (0.047%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 43 (2.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 36 (1.70%) Microsoft Office
3 32 (1.51%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 31 (1.46%) Adobe XD
5 30 (1.42%) Chatbot
6 22 (1.04%) Photoshop
7 20 (0.94%) Adobe Illustrator
8 19 (0.90%) InDesign
8 19 (0.90%) UserZoom
9 17 (0.80%) Sketch
10 11 (0.52%) Adobe After Effects
11 9 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
12 8 (0.38%) MS Visio
13 7 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
14 3 (0.14%) InVision
14 3 (0.14%) Productboard
14 3 (0.14%) SPSS
14 3 (0.14%) Trello
14 3 (0.14%) Zeplin
15 2 (0.094%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 23 (1.09%) Shopify
2 18 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
4 12 (0.57%) Workday HCM
5 11 (0.52%) NetSuite
6 10 (0.47%) Magento
7 3 (0.14%) Adobe Campaign
7 3 (0.14%) Carpe Diem
7 3 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
7 3 (0.14%) Elite 3E
7 3 (0.14%) iTrent
7 3 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.094%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.094%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.094%) Towers Watson Igloo
8 2 (0.094%) Visualfiles
9 1 (0.047%) Bloomberg TOMS
9 1 (0.047%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 1 (0.047%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 406 (19.17%) Azure
2 287 (13.55%) Microsoft 365
3 195 (9.21%) Figma
4 176 (8.31%) AWS
4 176 (8.31%) Power Platform
5 151 (7.13%) SaaS
6 125 (5.90%) Entra ID
7 106 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
8 90 (4.25%) Power Automate
9 82 (3.87%) PowerApps
10 72 (3.40%) Google Analytics
11 69 (3.26%) GCP
12 62 (2.93%) GitHub
13 58 (2.74%) Microsoft Copilot
14 49 (2.31%) Dynamics 365
15 48 (2.27%) Adobe Analytics
16 46 (2.17%) Azure Logic Apps
17 44 (2.08%) OneDrive
18 42 (1.98%) Serverless
19 37 (1.75%) Contentsquare
Communications & Networking
1 47 (2.22%) Broadband
2 41 (1.94%) DNS
3 36 (1.70%) Firewall
4 34 (1.61%) DHCP
5 22 (1.04%) TCP/IP
6 20 (0.94%) VPN
7 17 (0.80%) VoIP
8 16 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
9 15 (0.71%) Network Security
10 13 (0.61%) Internet
11 11 (0.52%) CTI
12 9 (0.42%) HTTP
12 9 (0.42%) Kerberos
13 8 (0.38%) Wireless
14 7 (0.33%) VLAN
15 6 (0.28%) Intranet
16 5 (0.24%) SAN
16 5 (0.24%) Skype
16 5 (0.24%) SMS
16 5 (0.24%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (4.44%) Power BI
2 67 (3.16%) SQL Server
3 38 (1.79%) Relational Database
4 29 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
5 27 (1.27%) NoSQL
6 25 (1.18%) MySQL
7 22 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
8 17 (0.80%) Looker
9 15 (0.71%) Metadata
10 11 (0.52%) MongoDB
11 10 (0.47%) Tableau
12 9 (0.42%) BigQuery
12 9 (0.42%) Redis
13 7 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
13 7 (0.33%) GIS
14 6 (0.28%) Data Warehouse
14 6 (0.28%) 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
1 100 (4.72%) JIRA
2 92 (4.34%) Git
3 31 (1.46%) Claude Code
4 26 (1.23%) Jenkins
5 19 (0.90%) Cypress.io
5 19 (0.90%) fastlane
6 16 (0.76%) Crashlytics
7 14 (0.66%) Selenium
8 11 (0.52%) Balsamiq
8 11 (0.52%) Oracle Forms
8 11 (0.52%) Team Foundation Server
8 11 (0.52%) XCTest
9 10 (0.47%) Postman
10 9 (0.42%) Axure RP
10 9 (0.42%) Xcode
11 7 (0.33%) Bitbucket
11 7 (0.33%) GitLab
12 6 (0.28%) Android Studio
12 6 (0.28%) Cucumber
12 6 (0.28%) Gradle
General
1 729 (34.42%) Social Skills
2 385 (18.18%) Finance
3 296 (13.98%) Analytical Skills
4 273 (12.89%) Marketing
5 195 (9.21%) Public Sector
6 193 (9.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 139 (6.56%) Retail
8 129 (6.09%) Law
9 104 (4.91%) Organisational Skills
10 88 (4.15%) Legal
11 73 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
12 64 (3.02%) Banking
13 55 (2.60%) Games
14 52 (2.46%) Presentation Skills
15 29 (1.37%) Advertising
15 29 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
16 27 (1.27%) Manufacturing
17 24 (1.13%) Multimedia
18 21 (0.99%) Financial Institution
19 20 (0.94%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 394 (18.60%) Senior
2 331 (15.63%) Designer
3 306 (14.45%) Developer
4 247 (11.66%) Lead
5 235 (11.10%) UX Designer
6 180 (8.50%) Analyst
7 103 (4.86%) Senior Developer
8 102 (4.82%) Software Engineer
9 93 (4.39%) IT Support
10 87 (4.11%) UI Designer
11 80 (3.78%) UI/UX Designer
12 78 (3.68%) Senior Designer
13 72 (3.40%) Product Manager
14 65 (3.07%) Architect
15 64 (3.02%) IT Manager
15 64 (3.02%) Support Engineer
16 61 (2.88%) Business Analyst
17 57 (2.69%) Full-Stack Developer
18 56 (2.64%) Support Analyst
19 52 (2.46%) Product Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 213 (10.06%) HTML
2 212 (10.01%) CSS
3 163 (7.70%) .NET
4 143 (6.75%) React
5 102 (4.82%) REST
6 79 (3.73%) RESTful
7 75 (3.54%) Node.js
8 60 (2.83%) .NET Core
9 55 (2.60%) JSON
10 48 (2.27%) ASP.NET
11 44 (2.08%) Next.js
12 37 (1.75%) AngularJS
13 31 (1.46%) jQuery
14 30 (1.42%) HTML5
15 29 (1.37%) CSS3
15 29 (1.37%) Spring
16 27 (1.27%) Blazor
17 26 (1.23%) SwiftUI
17 26 (1.23%) Terraform
18 25 (1.18%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 213 (10.06%) Product Ownership
2 109 (5.15%) Mobile App
3 98 (4.63%) Onboarding
4 78 (3.68%) Enterprise Software
5 68 (3.21%) Social Media
6 61 (2.88%) Self-Motivation
7 58 (2.74%) Cloud Native
8 50 (2.36%) Management Information System
9 33 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
10 32 (1.51%) Driving Licence
11 28 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
12 25 (1.18%) AI Agents
13 23 (1.09%) Algorithms
14 22 (1.04%) Graphic Design
15 19 (0.90%) Blog
15 19 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
16 18 (0.85%) Virtual Team
17 17 (0.80%) e-Learning
17 17 (0.80%) Taxonomies
18 16 (0.76%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 157 (7.41%) Windows
2 75 (3.54%) Apple iOS
3 47 (2.22%) Windows Server
4 45 (2.12%) Android
5 42 (1.98%) Windows 10
6 34 (1.61%) Mac OS
7 31 (1.46%) Linux
8 8 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (0.24%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.24%) Unix
10 4 (0.19%) Mac OS X
10 4 (0.19%) Windows 7
11 2 (0.094%) AIX
12 1 (0.047%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 583 (27.53%) Agile
2 554 (26.16%) UX Design
3 546 (25.78%) Continuous Improvement
4 470 (22.19%) Problem-Solving
5 448 (21.15%) AI
6 370 (17.47%) Analytics
7 339 (16.01%) Roadmaps
8 281 (13.27%) Mentoring
9 257 (12.13%) Stakeholder Management
10 236 (11.14%) Decision-Making
11 225 (10.62%) DevOps
12 207 (9.77%) CI/CD
13 180 (8.50%) Software Engineering
14 173 (8.17%) ITIL
15 167 (7.88%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
16 166 (7.84%) Customer Experience
17 165 (7.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 164 (7.74%) Workflow
19 161 (7.60%) User Research
20 154 (7.27%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 259 (12.23%) JavaScript
2 181 (8.55%) SQL
3 165 (7.79%) C#
4 163 (7.70%) TypeScript
5 129 (6.09%) Python
6 98 (4.63%) Java
7 79 (3.73%) PowerShell
8 32 (1.51%) Swift
9 27 (1.27%) PHP
10 24 (1.13%) Kotlin
11 20 (0.94%) VB.NET
12 16 (0.76%) C++
13 11 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 10 (0.47%) Bash
14 10 (0.47%) C
15 9 (0.42%) ABAP
15 9 (0.42%) VBScript
16 8 (0.38%) Go
17 7 (0.33%) VB
18 6 (0.28%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 215 (10.15%) Degree
2 149 (7.03%) Security Cleared
3 88 (4.15%) SC Cleared
4 38 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
5 36 (1.70%) DV Cleared
6 29 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (1.23%) DBS Check
8 18 (0.85%) Postgraduate
9 13 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
10 12 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
10 12 (0.57%) ICAEW
11 10 (0.47%) Master's Degree
11 10 (0.47%) PMI Certification
12 9 (0.42%) A+ Certification
12 9 (0.42%) CISSP
13 8 (0.38%) PhD
14 7 (0.33%) ISTQB
14 7 (0.33%) Network+ Certification
15 6 (0.28%) IIBA
16 4 (0.19%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 302 (14.26%) Accessibility
2 141 (6.66%) QA
3 106 (5.00%) WCAG
4 68 (3.21%) Data Quality
5 61 (2.88%) GDPR
6 36 (1.70%) SLA
7 19 (0.90%) Actionable Recommendations
8 16 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
9 12 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 11 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 5 (0.24%) NEBOSH
11 5 (0.24%) PMO
11 5 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
12 4 (0.19%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.19%) PERC
12 4 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.14%) GRC
13 3 (0.14%) GxP
13 3 (0.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 3 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 118 (5.57%) Active Directory
2 63 (2.97%) Docker
3 11 (0.52%) BitLocker
4 9 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.094%) Firmware
8 2 (0.094%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.094%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 86 (4.06%) Microsoft Intune
2 42 (1.98%) Kubernetes
3 16 (0.76%) Jamf Pro
3 16 (0.76%) SCCM
4 8 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (0.33%) Ansible
6 4 (0.19%) Grafana
7 2 (0.094%) Data Guard
7 2 (0.094%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (0.094%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.047%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.047%) AppManager
8 1 (0.047%) Argo
8 1 (0.047%) Forefront Identity Manager
8 1 (0.047%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.047%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.047%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 466 (22.00%) Microsoft
2 168 (7.93%) Adobe
3 112 (5.29%) Google
4 48 (2.27%) Salesforce
5 46 (2.17%) ServiceNow
6 43 (2.03%) Oracle
7 33 (1.56%) Apple
8 32 (1.51%) SAP
9 27 (1.27%) OpenAI
10 21 (0.99%) Cisco
11 19 (0.90%) iManage
12 15 (0.71%) Dynatrace
12 15 (0.71%) Workday
13 14 (0.66%) HubSpot
14 13 (0.61%) Braze
14 13 (0.61%) VMware
15 12 (0.57%) Amplitude
15 12 (0.57%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
16 11 (0.52%) Avaya
16 11 (0.52%) Meraki