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 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

3 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 64 85
Rank change year-on-year +47 +21 -25
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 2,424 1,235 794
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 7.93% 4.36% 3.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.56% 4.73% 3.75%
Number of salaries quoted 529 548 647
10th Percentile £30,500 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,684 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.85% -0.53% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £51,498
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.91% -10.44%

All Process and 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 25,359 26,093 21,201
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.00% 92.06% 93.40%
Number of salaries quoted 14,991 12,744 16,499
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -4.55%

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 1 December 2025.

Salary histogram for User Experience in the UK

User Experience
Top 18 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 1 December 2025. 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 +47 2,292 £55,000 -8.33% 696
UK excluding London +51 1,741 £52,500 +5.00% 615
North of England +45 745 £55,000 - 105
North West +44 637 £57,500 +4.55% 57
London +28 586 £70,000 -9.68% 248
South East +38 491 £52,500 +2.44% 252
Work from Home -21 315 £55,000 -16.67% 381
East of England +48 273 £55,000 +10.00% 42
Midlands +47 116 £40,000 +14.29% 102
Yorkshire +33 97 £51,000 +13.33% 35
East Midlands +21 72 £35,000 - 34
South West +9 58 £55,000 - 66
West Midlands +43 44 £42,039 -15.92% 68
Wales +11 30 £51,250 +86.36% 19
Scotland -37 21 £51,000 +13.33% 27
Northern Ireland -2 11 £95,000 - 4
North East -14 11 £50,000 +17.65% 14
Channel Islands +2 7 £90,000 +260.00% 4

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 82 (2.64%) CMS
2 60 (1.93%) SharePoint
3 59 (1.90%) Confluence
4 43 (1.39%) WordPress
5 22 (0.71%) Drupal
6 14 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
7 11 (0.35%) Headless CMS
7 11 (0.35%) Umbraco
8 4 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.13%) Apache
8 4 (0.13%) Appian
8 4 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
9 3 (0.097%) Joomla!
9 3 (0.097%) nginx
9 3 (0.097%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.064%) CICS
10 2 (0.064%) EPiServer
11 1 (0.032%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.032%) IIS
11 1 (0.032%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 62 (2.00%) Adobe XD
2 46 (1.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 41 (1.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 36 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
5 34 (1.10%) Sketch
6 32 (1.03%) Photoshop
7 24 (0.77%) Adobe Illustrator
7 24 (0.77%) MS Visio
8 20 (0.64%) InDesign
8 20 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 6 (0.19%) Chatbot
10 5 (0.16%) InVision
10 5 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
11 4 (0.13%) Adobe After Effects
11 4 (0.13%) Adobe Premiere
12 3 (0.097%) Adobe Captivate
12 3 (0.097%) AutoCAD
12 3 (0.097%) Elementor
13 2 (0.064%) Microsoft Project
13 2 (0.064%) Trello
Business Applications
1 41 (1.32%) Shopify
2 26 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
3 25 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.16%) Dynamics GP
4 5 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
4 5 (0.16%) Workday HCM
5 4 (0.13%) Magento
5 4 (0.13%) SAP BPC
6 3 (0.097%) Infor SunSystems
6 3 (0.097%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.064%) Adobe Campaign
7 2 (0.064%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 2 (0.064%) OpenCart
7 2 (0.064%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.064%) Sage X3
7 2 (0.064%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.032%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.032%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.032%) SAP EWM
8 1 (0.032%) TRIRIGA
Cloud Services
1 1,599 (51.55%) Cloud Computing
2 296 (9.54%) Azure
3 228 (7.35%) AWS
4 177 (5.71%) Figma
5 142 (4.58%) Microsoft 365
6 97 (3.13%) SaaS
7 96 (3.09%) Google Analytics
8 77 (2.48%) Power Platform
9 73 (2.35%) GCP
10 70 (2.26%) Azure DevOps
11 59 (1.90%) Serverless
12 57 (1.84%) GitHub
13 41 (1.32%) Entra ID
14 35 (1.13%) PowerApps
15 34 (1.10%) AWS Lambda
16 33 (1.06%) Miro
17 29 (0.93%) Azure Logic Apps
18 27 (0.87%) Power Automate
19 23 (0.74%) Google Tag Manager
20 22 (0.71%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1,602 (51.64%) Internet
2 19 (0.61%) DNS
2 19 (0.61%) Firewall
3 15 (0.48%) TCP/IP
4 14 (0.45%) DHCP
5 13 (0.42%) HTTP
6 11 (0.35%) VLAN
7 8 (0.26%) Intranet
8 7 (0.23%) VPN
9 6 (0.19%) LAN
10 5 (0.16%) Broadband
10 5 (0.16%) WAN
11 4 (0.13%) Bluetooth
11 4 (0.13%) Intrusion Detection
11 4 (0.13%) Modbus
11 4 (0.13%) Network Security
11 4 (0.13%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (0.13%) Wireshark
11 4 (0.13%) ZigBee
12 3 (0.097%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (1.90%) SQL Server
2 50 (1.61%) Power BI
3 45 (1.45%) NoSQL
4 42 (1.35%) MySQL
5 35 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
6 28 (0.90%) Relational Database
7 22 (0.71%) MongoDB
8 14 (0.45%) Looker
9 13 (0.42%) DynamoDB
10 12 (0.39%) Tableau
11 11 (0.35%) Metadata
12 9 (0.29%) DB2
12 9 (0.29%) Oracle Reports
13 8 (0.26%) BigQuery
14 6 (0.19%) MariaDB
14 6 (0.19%) Redis
15 5 (0.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 4 (0.13%) Amazon Aurora
16 4 (0.13%) Elasticsearch
17 3 (0.097%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 123 (3.97%) JIRA
2 120 (3.87%) Git
3 33 (1.06%) Axure RP
4 30 (0.97%) Cypress.io
5 29 (0.93%) webpack
6 28 (0.90%) Jenkins
7 27 (0.87%) Balsamiq
8 16 (0.52%) Storybook
9 15 (0.48%) Bitbucket
10 14 (0.45%) NeoLoad
10 14 (0.45%) Vite
11 12 (0.39%) eCATT
11 12 (0.39%) GitLab
11 12 (0.39%) Selenium
11 12 (0.39%) TeamCity
12 10 (0.32%) Babel
12 10 (0.32%) Postman
13 9 (0.29%) gulp
13 9 (0.29%) JUnit
14 8 (0.26%) Cucumber
General
1 2,169 (69.92%) Social Skills
2 1,708 (55.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,672 (53.90%) Banking
4 310 (9.99%) Finance
5 279 (8.99%) Marketing
6 199 (6.42%) Analytical Skills
7 178 (5.74%) Law
8 105 (3.38%) Legal
9 100 (3.22%) Public Sector
10 84 (2.71%) Retail
11 52 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
12 48 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
13 46 (1.48%) Manufacturing
13 46 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
14 36 (1.16%) Telecoms
15 22 (0.71%) Advertising
16 17 (0.55%) Electronics
17 15 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
18 13 (0.42%) Games
18 13 (0.42%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 1,292 (41.65%) Lecturer
2 315 (10.15%) Developer
3 273 (8.80%) Senior
4 149 (4.80%) Analyst
4 149 (4.80%) Designer
5 138 (4.45%) Lead
6 102 (3.29%) Senior Developer
7 94 (3.03%) Full-Stack Developer
8 65 (2.10%) Product Manager
9 64 (2.06%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 62 (2.00%) UX Designer
11 61 (1.97%) IT Support
12 57 (1.84%) Software Engineer
13 54 (1.74%) Business Analyst
14 48 (1.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 42 (1.35%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
16 39 (1.26%) Senior Manager
17 36 (1.16%) Architect
18 35 (1.13%) Support Analyst
19 34 (1.10%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 300 (9.67%) React
2 282 (9.09%) HTML
3 263 (8.48%) CSS
4 148 (4.77%) .NET
5 118 (3.80%) Node.js
6 111 (3.58%) RESTful
7 72 (2.32%) REST
8 67 (2.16%) AngularJS
9 65 (2.10%) Next.js
10 62 (2.00%) HTML5
11 53 (1.71%) Vue
12 46 (1.48%) CSS3
13 43 (1.39%) Jest
13 43 (1.39%) Spring
14 38 (1.23%) Spring Boot
15 36 (1.16%) GraphQL
16 35 (1.13%) .NET Framework
16 35 (1.13%) ASP.NET
17 29 (0.93%) Tailwind CSS
18 28 (0.90%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 1,609 (51.87%) IoT
2 126 (4.06%) Product Ownership
3 95 (3.06%) Onboarding
4 68 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
5 67 (2.16%) Cloud Native
6 58 (1.87%) Mobile App
7 48 (1.55%) Social Media
8 43 (1.39%) Management Information System
9 33 (1.06%) AI Agents
9 33 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
10 28 (0.90%) Driving Licence
11 25 (0.81%) e-Learning
12 22 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
13 21 (0.68%) Graphic Design
14 18 (0.58%) Data Structures
14 18 (0.58%) Legacy Systems
15 16 (0.52%) Algorithms
16 15 (0.48%) Animation
16 15 (0.48%) Blog
16 15 (0.48%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 69 (2.22%) Windows
2 67 (2.16%) Apple iOS
3 55 (1.77%) Android
4 41 (1.32%) Windows 10
5 24 (0.77%) Windows Server
6 16 (0.52%) Linux
7 7 (0.23%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.19%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.16%) Unix
9 5 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.13%) Kali Linux
11 3 (0.097%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.064%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,864 (60.09%) AI
2 1,688 (54.42%) Machine Learning
3 1,664 (53.64%) Web Development
4 1,661 (53.55%) Cybersecurity
5 612 (19.73%) Agile
6 414 (13.35%) UX Design
7 382 (12.31%) Problem-Solving
8 324 (10.44%) Continuous Improvement
9 302 (9.74%) Analytics
10 235 (7.58%) Roadmaps
11 220 (7.09%) DevOps
12 208 (6.71%) CI/CD
13 203 (6.54%) Full-Stack Development
14 160 (5.16%) Mentoring
15 153 (4.93%) Stakeholder Management
16 151 (4.87%) User Research
17 149 (4.80%) Front End Development
18 148 (4.77%) Prototyping
19 144 (4.64%) E-Commerce
20 138 (4.45%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 326 (10.51%) JavaScript
2 196 (6.32%) TypeScript
3 142 (4.58%) SQL
4 128 (4.13%) C#
5 125 (4.03%) Python
6 124 (4.00%) Java
7 54 (1.74%) PowerShell
8 30 (0.97%) PHP
9 17 (0.55%) Bash
10 16 (0.52%) Go
11 14 (0.45%) Swift
12 13 (0.42%) Bicep
12 13 (0.42%) Kotlin
13 12 (0.39%) C++
14 10 (0.32%) VBScript
15 8 (0.26%) R
15 8 (0.26%) Rust
16 7 (0.23%) Ruby
16 7 (0.23%) XAML
17 5 (0.16%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,835 (59.16%) Degree
2 1,628 (52.48%) Master's Degree
3 1,601 (51.61%) PhD
3 1,601 (51.61%) Postgraduate
4 139 (4.48%) Security Cleared
5 102 (3.29%) SC Cleared
6 54 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 25 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
8 24 (0.77%) DV Cleared
9 23 (0.74%) DBS Check
10 19 (0.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 17 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
12 12 (0.39%) MCSA
13 11 (0.35%) AWS Certification
14 8 (0.26%) Cisco Certification
15 7 (0.23%) Azure Certification
15 7 (0.23%) SAP Certification
16 6 (0.19%) A+ Certification
16 6 (0.19%) CCNA
16 6 (0.19%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 313 (10.09%) Accessibility
2 122 (3.93%) QA
3 76 (2.45%) WCAG
4 43 (1.39%) GDPR
5 25 (0.81%) SLA
6 17 (0.55%) Data Quality
7 11 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
8 10 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 19770
9 8 (0.26%) PERC
9 8 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.16%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 5 (0.16%) GxP
11 5 (0.16%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.097%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.097%) Section 508
13 2 (0.064%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.064%) HL7
13 2 (0.064%) NIST
System Software
1 79 (2.55%) Docker
2 77 (2.48%) Active Directory
3 20 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.16%) Firmware
6 4 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (0.097%) vSphere
8 2 (0.064%) RACF
8 2 (0.064%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.064%) XenDesktop
9 1 (0.032%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.032%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.032%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 76 (2.45%) Kubernetes
2 47 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
3 42 (1.35%) Terraform
4 12 (0.39%) HP ALM
5 7 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (0.19%) Grafana
7 5 (0.16%) SCCM
8 4 (0.13%) Ansible
8 4 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (0.13%) Nessus
8 4 (0.13%) Nmap
9 2 (0.064%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 2 (0.064%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.064%) SmoothWall
9 2 (0.064%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 2 (0.064%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.032%) AppManager
10 1 (0.032%) Backup Exec
10 1 (0.032%) BMC PATROL
10 1 (0.032%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 234 (7.54%) Microsoft
2 144 (4.64%) Google
3 138 (4.45%) Adobe
4 57 (1.84%) SAP
5 40 (1.29%) ServiceNow
6 34 (1.10%) Salesforce
7 30 (0.97%) Oracle
8 26 (0.84%) Cisco
9 24 (0.77%) HubSpot
10 22 (0.71%) Apple
11 21 (0.68%) Qualtrics
12 20 (0.64%) Hotjar
13 16 (0.52%) Atlassian
14 15 (0.48%) Foundry
14 15 (0.48%) HP
14 15 (0.48%) Screaming Frog
15 10 (0.32%) Ahrefs
15 10 (0.32%) Citrix
15 10 (0.32%) Splunk
16 9 (0.29%) Sitecore