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

3 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 62 70
Rank change year-on-year -31 +8 +9
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 1,064 1,044 1,070
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.97% 3.88% 2.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.67% 4.43% 3.89%
Number of salaries quoted 721 466 484
10th Percentile £30,750 £33,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £44,688
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 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £100,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,652
% change year-on-year -9.09% +8.59% -7.91%

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 39,839 23,588 27,479
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.84% 87.57% 75.89%
Number of salaries quoted 28,362 13,298 17,436
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £32,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £44,598
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.18% -8.33% -
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 £53,325
% change year-on-year +15.79% -10.92% -3.05%

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 3 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 3 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 -16 958 £55,000 -8.33% 1,026
UK excluding London -37 622 £50,000 -9.09% 567
Work from Home -43 403 £55,000 -12.00% 510
London -15 359 £70,000 -6.67% 603
North of England -33 205 £50,000 - 155
South East -33 112 £50,000 -13.04% 134
North West -45 106 £42,500 -19.05% 82
Midlands +11 103 £45,000 -18.18% 80
South West -8 82 £60,000 +20.00% 79
West Midlands -1 65 £47,500 -13.64% 61
East of England +10 64 £47,500 -22.45% 46
Yorkshire +25 50 £55,000 +10.00% 51
North East -2 49 £47,000 +129.27% 22
East Midlands -1 38 £42,500 -6.37% 19
Wales -31 25 £49,480 -26.70% 11
Scotland -20 23 £57,500 -25.81% 43
Northern Ireland -57 8 £46,000 - 32

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 (7.65%) SharePoint
2 120 (5.85%) CMS
3 66 (3.21%) Confluence
4 51 (2.48%) Microsoft Exchange
5 34 (1.66%) 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 (0.049%) ExpressionEngine
12 1 (0.049%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.049%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 36 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (1.61%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 33 (1.61%) Adobe XD
2 33 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (1.12%) Sketch
4 22 (1.07%) Photoshop
5 20 (0.97%) Adobe Illustrator
6 18 (0.88%) Chatbot
6 18 (0.88%) UserZoom
7 15 (0.73%) InDesign
8 13 (0.63%) Adobe After Effects
9 9 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
10 7 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
11 6 (0.29%) MS Visio
12 5 (0.24%) InVision
13 4 (0.19%) Trello
14 3 (0.15%) Productboard
14 3 (0.15%) SPSS
14 3 (0.15%) Zeplin
15 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 (0.54%) Magento
4 11 (0.54%) 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 (0.049%) Oracle General Ledger
9 1 (0.049%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 403 (19.63%) Azure
2 299 (14.56%) Microsoft 365
3 202 (9.84%) Figma
4 167 (8.13%) AWS
5 165 (8.04%) Power Platform
6 141 (6.87%) SaaS
7 121 (5.89%) Entra ID
8 103 (5.02%) Azure DevOps
9 84 (4.09%) Power Automate
10 80 (3.90%) PowerApps
11 68 (3.31%) GitHub
12 67 (3.26%) Google Analytics
13 64 (3.12%) Adobe Analytics
14 61 (2.97%) GCP
15 58 (2.83%) Microsoft Copilot
16 48 (2.34%) Dynamics 365
16 48 (2.34%) Serverless
17 46 (2.24%) Azure Logic Apps
18 44 (2.14%) Contentsquare
18 44 (2.14%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 62 (3.02%) Broadband
2 36 (1.75%) Firewall
3 30 (1.46%) DNS
4 25 (1.22%) DHCP
5 23 (1.12%) VPN
6 20 (0.97%) VoIP
7 15 (0.73%) TCP/IP
7 15 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
8 13 (0.63%) Network Security
9 12 (0.58%) CTI
9 12 (0.58%) Kerberos
10 10 (0.49%) 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 89 (4.34%) Power BI
2 64 (3.12%) SQL Server
3 27 (1.32%) Relational Database
4 26 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
6 21 (1.02%) MySQL
7 18 (0.88%) Looker
8 16 (0.78%) Metadata
8 16 (0.78%) NoSQL
9 13 (0.63%) MongoDB
10 11 (0.54%) BigQuery
11 9 (0.44%) Redis
12 8 (0.39%) 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
1 102 (4.97%) JIRA
2 96 (4.68%) Git
3 29 (1.41%) Claude Code
4 24 (1.17%) Jenkins
5 21 (1.02%) fastlane
6 20 (0.97%) Crashlytics
7 15 (0.73%) Cypress.io
7 15 (0.73%) XCTest
8 12 (0.58%) Axure RP
9 11 (0.54%) Balsamiq
9 11 (0.54%) Selenium
9 11 (0.54%) webpack
10 9 (0.44%) Vite
10 9 (0.44%) Xcode
11 8 (0.39%) Postman
12 7 (0.34%) Bitbucket
13 6 (0.29%) Android Studio
13 6 (0.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (0.29%) Gradle
13 6 (0.29%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 659 (32.10%) Social Skills
2 344 (16.76%) Finance
3 262 (12.76%) Marketing
4 254 (12.37%) Analytical Skills
5 176 (8.57%) Public Sector
6 175 (8.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 129 (6.28%) Retail
8 116 (5.65%) Law
9 109 (5.31%) Legal
10 98 (4.77%) Organisational Skills
11 74 (3.60%) Games
12 64 (3.12%) Influencing Skills
13 46 (2.24%) Banking
14 39 (1.90%) Advertising
15 38 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
16 31 (1.51%) Manufacturing
17 25 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
18 20 (0.97%) Multimedia
19 18 (0.88%) Publishing
20 17 (0.83%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 361 (17.58%) Senior
2 335 (16.32%) Designer
3 299 (14.56%) Developer
4 243 (11.84%) Lead
5 240 (11.69%) UX Designer
6 155 (7.55%) Analyst
7 104 (5.07%) Senior Developer
8 94 (4.58%) UI Designer
9 91 (4.43%) Software Engineer
10 89 (4.34%) IT Support
10 89 (4.34%) Senior Designer
10 89 (4.34%) UI/UX Designer
11 69 (3.36%) Architect
12 67 (3.26%) Product Manager
13 64 (3.12%) Support Engineer
14 63 (3.07%) Senior UX Designer
15 62 (3.02%) IT Manager
16 56 (2.73%) Business Analyst
17 54 (2.63%) Full-Stack Developer
18 49 (2.39%) Product Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 208 (10.13%) HTML
2 206 (10.03%) CSS
3 156 (7.60%) React
4 154 (7.50%) .NET
5 102 (4.97%) REST
6 80 (3.90%) RESTful
7 62 (3.02%) .NET Core
8 58 (2.83%) Node.js
9 50 (2.44%) JSON
10 45 (2.19%) AngularJS
11 41 (2.00%) ASP.NET
12 40 (1.95%) HTML5
13 37 (1.80%) Next.js
14 33 (1.61%) CSS3
15 31 (1.51%) Vue
16 30 (1.46%) jQuery
17 26 (1.27%) Blazor
17 26 (1.27%) SPFx
17 26 (1.27%) SwiftUI
18 25 (1.22%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 199 (9.69%) Product Ownership
2 110 (5.36%) Mobile App
3 104 (5.07%) Onboarding
4 73 (3.56%) Social Media
5 71 (3.46%) Enterprise Software
6 56 (2.73%) Self-Motivation
7 48 (2.34%) Cloud Native
8 32 (1.56%) Management Information System
9 30 (1.46%) Driving Licence
10 28 (1.36%) AI Agents
11 24 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
11 24 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
11 24 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
12 21 (1.02%) Algorithms
13 20 (0.97%) Graphic Design
14 18 (0.88%) Low-Code
15 16 (0.78%) Security Posture
16 15 (0.73%) Animation
17 14 (0.68%) e-Learning
17 14 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 149 (7.26%) Windows
2 73 (3.56%) Apple iOS
3 45 (2.19%) Windows Server
4 43 (2.09%) Android
5 39 (1.90%) Windows 10
6 34 (1.66%) Mac OS
7 28 (1.36%) 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 (0.049%) AIX
11 1 (0.049%) CentOS
11 1 (0.049%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 574 (27.96%) Agile
2 548 (26.69%) UX Design
3 502 (24.45%) Continuous Improvement
4 455 (22.16%) Problem-Solving
5 420 (20.46%) AI
6 369 (17.97%) Analytics
7 334 (16.27%) Roadmaps
8 257 (12.52%) Mentoring
9 221 (10.76%) Decision-Making
10 215 (10.47%) Stakeholder Management
11 212 (10.33%) DevOps
12 194 (9.45%) CI/CD
13 176 (8.57%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 166 (8.09%) User Research
15 162 (7.89%) ITIL
15 162 (7.89%) Software Engineering
16 157 (7.65%) Customer Experience
17 156 (7.60%) Workflow
18 147 (7.16%) Product Roadmap
19 144 (7.01%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 249 (12.13%) JavaScript
2 156 (7.60%) C#
3 155 (7.55%) TypeScript
4 154 (7.50%) SQL
5 117 (5.70%) Python
6 90 (4.38%) Java
7 73 (3.56%) PowerShell
8 32 (1.56%) PHP
8 32 (1.56%) Swift
9 27 (1.32%) Kotlin
10 14 (0.68%) VB.NET
11 12 (0.58%) ABAP
12 11 (0.54%) C
12 11 (0.54%) 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
1 194 (9.45%) Degree
2 142 (6.92%) Security Cleared
3 84 (4.09%) SC Cleared
4 39 (1.90%) DV Cleared
5 31 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
6 28 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
7 27 (1.32%) DBS Check
8 12 (0.58%) CISSP
8 12 (0.58%) Master's Degree
9 11 (0.54%) ICAEW
9 11 (0.54%) Postgraduate
10 10 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
11 9 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
12 7 (0.34%) ISTQB
13 6 (0.29%) PMI Certification
14 5 (0.24%) SAP Certification
15 4 (0.19%) AWS Certification
15 4 (0.19%) PMP
16 3 (0.15%) A+ Certification
16 3 (0.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 328 (15.98%) Accessibility
2 121 (5.89%) QA
3 108 (5.26%) WCAG
4 69 (3.36%) GDPR
5 63 (3.07%) Data Quality
6 25 (1.22%) SLA
7 20 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
8 14 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
9 12 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 11 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 8 (0.39%) PCI DSS
12 5 (0.24%) NEBOSH
13 4 (0.19%) PERC
13 4 (0.19%) PMO
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%) HIPAA
System Software
1 116 (5.65%) Active Directory
2 59 (2.87%) 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 (0.049%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 87 (4.24%) Microsoft Intune
2 35 (1.70%) Kubernetes
3 19 (0.93%) Terraform
4 14 (0.68%) SCCM
5 13 (0.63%) Jamf Pro
6 11 (0.54%) 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 (0.049%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.049%) Forefront Identity Manager
11 1 (0.049%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.049%) Kibana
11 1 (0.049%) Packer
11 1 (0.049%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 448 (21.82%) Microsoft
2 172 (8.38%) Adobe
3 102 (4.97%) Google
4 60 (2.92%) ServiceNow
5 51 (2.48%) Salesforce
6 37 (1.80%) Apple
7 36 (1.75%) Oracle
8 33 (1.61%) SAP
9 21 (1.02%) iManage
10 18 (0.88%) Braze
10 18 (0.88%) Cisco
10 18 (0.88%) OpenAI
11 17 (0.83%) HubSpot
12 16 (0.78%) Amplitude
12 16 (0.78%) Hotjar
13 15 (0.73%) Dynatrace
14 14 (0.68%) Meraki
15 12 (0.58%) Genesys
16 11 (0.54%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
16 11 (0.54%) VMware