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

3 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 81 87
Rank change year-on-year -20 +6 -11
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 1,130 675 1,010
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.83% 3.03% 3.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.48% 3.53% 3.50%
Number of salaries quoted 658 490 458
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,188 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -11.65%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £93,634 £100,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -13.64%

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 45,556 19,112 28,884
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.82% 85.67% 87.34%
Number of salaries quoted 30,755 12,391 13,334
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £34,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £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 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
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 24 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 24 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 -27 949 £57,500 +4.55% 2,800
UK excluding London -22 640 £50,000 -4.76% 1,328
London -10 388 £65,000 -7.14% 1,712
Work from Home -28 383 £57,500 - 1,207
North of England -12 183 £57,500 +21.05% 371
South West +5 106 £60,000 +20.00% 149
South East -71 106 £46,250 -15.14% 288
Midlands -29 96 £34,500 -36.41% 207
North West -34 90 £55,000 +4.76% 217
Northern Ireland -22 75 £75,000 - 81
West Midlands -17 67 £35,000 -44.00% 145
Yorkshire -8 56 £63,076 +80.22% 112
North East -16 37 £50,000 +61.29% 45
East of England -61 34 £45,000 -18.18% 102
East Midlands -46 29 £30,000 -18.37% 62
Scotland -16 24 £55,000 +29.41% 94
Wales -55 16 £38,500 -42.96% 40

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
1 141 (6.37%) SharePoint
2 91 (4.11%) CMS
3 63 (2.85%) Confluence
4 48 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
5 35 (1.58%) WordPress
6 13 (0.59%) IIS
7 10 (0.45%) Moodle
8 7 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
9 6 (0.27%) Apache
10 5 (0.23%) Skype for Business
11 4 (0.18%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.14%) Umbraco
13 2 (0.090%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.090%) Apache Spark
13 2 (0.090%) Drupal
13 2 (0.090%) nginx
13 2 (0.090%) SharePoint Server
13 2 (0.090%) Sitecore CMS
13 2 (0.090%) Totara
14 1 (0.045%) ExpressionEngine
Applications
1 43 (1.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 36 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
3 32 (1.45%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 30 (1.36%) Chatbot
5 28 (1.27%) Adobe XD
6 22 (0.99%) Photoshop
7 20 (0.90%) Adobe Illustrator
8 19 (0.86%) InDesign
9 16 (0.72%) Sketch
10 15 (0.68%) UserZoom
11 11 (0.50%) Adobe After Effects
12 9 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
13 8 (0.36%) MS Visio
14 6 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
15 3 (0.14%) Adobe Premiere
15 3 (0.14%) InVision
15 3 (0.14%) Productboard
15 3 (0.14%) Trello
15 3 (0.14%) Zeplin
16 2 (0.090%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 22 (0.99%) Shopify
2 20 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
3 17 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
4 14 (0.63%) Workday HCM
5 11 (0.50%) NetSuite
6 6 (0.27%) 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
7 3 (0.14%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.090%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.090%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.090%) SAP GRC
8 2 (0.090%) Towers Watson Igloo
8 2 (0.090%) Visualfiles
9 1 (0.045%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 393 (17.76%) Azure
2 283 (12.79%) Microsoft 365
3 184 (8.31%) Figma
4 181 (8.18%) Power Platform
5 171 (7.73%) AWS
6 152 (6.87%) SaaS
7 122 (5.51%) Entra ID
8 96 (4.34%) Azure DevOps
9 85 (3.84%) Power Automate
10 77 (3.48%) PowerApps
11 67 (3.03%) GCP
12 64 (2.89%) Google Analytics
13 58 (2.62%) GitHub
14 57 (2.58%) Microsoft Copilot
15 50 (2.26%) Dynamics 365
16 42 (1.90%) Azure Logic Apps
17 39 (1.76%) OneDrive
18 38 (1.72%) Serverless
19 34 (1.54%) Copilot Studio
20 33 (1.49%) Adobe Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 45 (2.03%) DNS
2 39 (1.76%) DHCP
3 36 (1.63%) Firewall
4 31 (1.40%) Broadband
5 23 (1.04%) VPN
6 21 (0.95%) TCP/IP
7 17 (0.77%) VoIP
8 16 (0.72%) Network Security
9 14 (0.63%) Internet
9 14 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
10 11 (0.50%) CTI
11 10 (0.45%) Kerberos
12 8 (0.36%) HTTP
12 8 (0.36%) Intranet
12 8 (0.36%) Wireless
13 6 (0.27%) VLAN
14 5 (0.23%) SAN
14 5 (0.23%) Skype
14 5 (0.23%) SMS
14 5 (0.23%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (4.11%) Power BI
2 64 (2.89%) SQL Server
3 38 (1.72%) Relational Database
4 29 (1.31%) PostgreSQL
5 28 (1.27%) MySQL
6 27 (1.22%) NoSQL
7 17 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
8 16 (0.72%) Metadata
9 15 (0.68%) Looker
10 13 (0.59%) MongoDB
11 12 (0.54%) BigQuery
12 10 (0.45%) Tableau
13 9 (0.41%) Redis
14 8 (0.36%) GIS
15 7 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
16 6 (0.27%) Data Warehouse
16 6 (0.27%) Power Query
17 5 (0.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 5 (0.23%) Star Schema
18 4 (0.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 98 (4.43%) JIRA
2 86 (3.89%) Git
3 35 (1.58%) Claude Code
4 23 (1.04%) Jenkins
5 18 (0.81%) Cypress.io
6 15 (0.68%) fastlane
7 12 (0.54%) Oracle Forms
7 12 (0.54%) Selenium
7 12 (0.54%) Team Foundation Server
8 10 (0.45%) Balsamiq
8 10 (0.45%) Crashlytics
8 10 (0.45%) GitLab
9 8 (0.36%) Axure RP
9 8 (0.36%) Postman
10 7 (0.32%) Storybook
10 7 (0.32%) Xcode
11 6 (0.27%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.23%) Android Studio
12 5 (0.23%) Appium
12 5 (0.23%) Gradle
General
1 806 (36.42%) Social Skills
2 405 (18.30%) Finance
3 353 (15.95%) Analytical Skills
4 271 (12.25%) Marketing
5 199 (8.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 197 (8.90%) Public Sector
7 136 (6.15%) Retail
8 134 (6.06%) Law
9 104 (4.70%) Organisational Skills
10 99 (4.47%) Presentation Skills
11 87 (3.93%) Legal
12 79 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
13 71 (3.21%) Banking
14 39 (1.76%) Games
15 34 (1.54%) Advertising
16 27 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
16 27 (1.22%) Publishing
17 25 (1.13%) Manufacturing
17 25 (1.13%) Multimedia
18 22 (0.99%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 432 (19.52%) Senior
2 341 (15.41%) Designer
3 303 (13.69%) Developer
4 243 (10.98%) Lead
5 241 (10.89%) UX Designer
6 232 (10.48%) Analyst
7 108 (4.88%) Software Engineer
8 96 (4.34%) IT Support
9 91 (4.11%) Senior Developer
10 88 (3.98%) Senior Analyst
11 87 (3.93%) UI Designer
12 80 (3.62%) Support Analyst
12 80 (3.62%) UI/UX Designer
13 79 (3.57%) Senior Designer
14 77 (3.48%) ITSM Analyst
15 67 (3.03%) Architect
16 63 (2.85%) IT Manager
17 62 (2.80%) Support Engineer
18 61 (2.76%) Product Manager
19 58 (2.62%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 210 (9.49%) HTML
2 208 (9.40%) CSS
3 155 (7.00%) .NET
4 147 (6.64%) React
5 100 (4.52%) REST
6 78 (3.52%) Node.js
7 70 (3.16%) RESTful
8 52 (2.35%) .NET Core
9 51 (2.30%) JSON
10 48 (2.17%) Next.js
11 45 (2.03%) ASP.NET
12 37 (1.67%) AngularJS
13 35 (1.58%) Terraform
14 34 (1.54%) Spring
15 32 (1.45%) jQuery
16 30 (1.36%) HTML5
16 30 (1.36%) Spring Boot
17 29 (1.31%) CSS3
18 26 (1.17%) Playwright
19 25 (1.13%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 198 (8.95%) Product Ownership
2 101 (4.56%) Mobile App
3 95 (4.29%) Onboarding
4 73 (3.30%) Enterprise Software
5 69 (3.12%) Social Media
6 64 (2.89%) Cloud Native
7 59 (2.67%) Management Information System
7 59 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
8 34 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
9 33 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
10 31 (1.40%) Driving Licence
11 26 (1.17%) AI Agents
12 24 (1.08%) Algorithms
13 23 (1.04%) Graphic Design
14 21 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
15 19 (0.86%) Blog
16 18 (0.81%) e-Learning
16 18 (0.81%) Virtual Team
17 16 (0.72%) Learning Management System
17 16 (0.72%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 171 (7.73%) Windows
2 61 (2.76%) Apple iOS
3 49 (2.21%) Windows 10
4 45 (2.03%) Windows Server
5 44 (1.99%) Android
6 37 (1.67%) Linux
7 31 (1.40%) Mac OS
8 8 (0.36%) Unix
8 8 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (0.27%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.27%) Windows 7
10 4 (0.18%) Mac OS X
11 2 (0.090%) AIX
11 2 (0.090%) CentOS
12 1 (0.045%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 612 (27.65%) Continuous Improvement
2 573 (25.89%) Agile
2 573 (25.89%) UX Design
3 498 (22.50%) Problem-Solving
4 462 (20.88%) AI
5 353 (15.95%) Analytics
6 332 (15.00%) Roadmaps
7 289 (13.06%) Stakeholder Management
8 284 (12.83%) Mentoring
9 282 (12.74%) Decision-Making
10 237 (10.71%) ITIL
11 226 (10.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 217 (9.81%) DevOps
13 210 (9.49%) Service Management
14 204 (9.22%) CI/CD
15 200 (9.04%) ITSM
16 185 (8.36%) Software Engineering
17 167 (7.55%) User Research
18 166 (7.50%) Workflow
19 163 (7.37%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 251 (11.34%) JavaScript
2 189 (8.54%) SQL
3 168 (7.59%) TypeScript
4 160 (7.23%) C#
5 136 (6.15%) Python
6 103 (4.65%) Java
7 80 (3.62%) PowerShell
8 27 (1.22%) PHP
9 22 (0.99%) Swift
9 22 (0.99%) VB.NET
10 18 (0.81%) C++
10 18 (0.81%) Kotlin
11 11 (0.50%) Bash
11 11 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 10 (0.45%) C
13 9 (0.41%) ABAP
13 9 (0.41%) VBScript
14 6 (0.27%) Go
14 6 (0.27%) T-SQL
14 6 (0.27%) VB
Qualifications
1 267 (12.07%) Degree
2 168 (7.59%) Security Cleared
3 99 (4.47%) SC Cleared
4 44 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
5 34 (1.54%) DV Cleared
6 31 (1.40%) DBS Check
7 30 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
8 20 (0.90%) Postgraduate
9 19 (0.86%) A+ Certification
10 15 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
11 12 (0.54%) ICAEW
12 11 (0.50%) Master's Degree
12 11 (0.50%) PMI Certification
13 10 (0.45%) CISSP
14 9 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
14 9 (0.41%) Network+ Certification
15 8 (0.36%) PhD
16 7 (0.32%) ISTQB
17 6 (0.27%) IIBA
18 5 (0.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 295 (13.33%) Accessibility
2 131 (5.92%) QA
3 94 (4.25%) WCAG
4 70 (3.16%) Data Quality
5 60 (2.71%) GDPR
6 41 (1.85%) SLA
7 20 (0.90%) Actionable Recommendations
8 15 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
9 12 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 10 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 5 (0.23%) GRC
11 5 (0.23%) NEBOSH
11 5 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.18%) PERC
12 4 (0.18%) PMO
12 4 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
13 3 (0.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 3 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 2 (0.090%) GxP
14 2 (0.090%) PSD2
System Software
1 122 (5.51%) Active Directory
2 66 (2.98%) Docker
3 11 (0.50%) BitLocker
4 10 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
5 8 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.23%) vSphere
7 4 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.090%) Firmware
8 2 (0.090%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.090%) UAG
8 2 (0.090%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.045%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 82 (3.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 45 (2.03%) Kubernetes
3 20 (0.90%) SCCM
4 12 (0.54%) Jamf Pro
5 10 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.36%) Ansible
7 7 (0.32%) Grafana
8 4 (0.18%) Packer
8 4 (0.18%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.090%) AirWatch
9 2 (0.090%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.045%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.045%) AppManager
10 1 (0.045%) Argo
10 1 (0.045%) Forefront Identity Manager
10 1 (0.045%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.045%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 474 (21.42%) Microsoft
2 144 (6.51%) Adobe
3 111 (5.02%) Google
4 49 (2.21%) ServiceNow
5 46 (2.08%) Salesforce
6 41 (1.85%) Oracle
7 38 (1.72%) SAP
8 27 (1.22%) Apple
8 27 (1.22%) OpenAI
9 24 (1.08%) Cisco
10 19 (0.86%) iManage
10 19 (0.86%) Workday
11 17 (0.77%) VMware
12 14 (0.63%) Dynatrace
13 13 (0.59%) Meraki
14 12 (0.54%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 12 (0.54%) TikTok
15 11 (0.50%) Avaya
15 11 (0.50%) Okta
15 11 (0.50%) Pinterest