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

3 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 64 83
Rank change year-on-year +47 +19 -24
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 2,437 1,230 793
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 7.93% 4.37% 3.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.55% 4.75% 3.74%
Number of salaries quoted 538 548 641
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 £100,750 £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 25,517 25,906 21,182
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.05% 92.09% 93.43%
Number of salaries quoted 15,114 12,717 16,459
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £43,000
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 2 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 2 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 +44 2,304 £55,000 -8.33% 1,052
UK excluding London +53 1,745 £52,500 +5.00% 970
North of England +44 747 £55,000 - 243
North West +45 638 £57,500 +4.55% 125
London +30 593 £70,000 -9.68% 324
South East +33 492 £52,500 +2.44% 370
Work from Home -23 321 £55,000 -16.67% 667
East of England +48 274 £55,000 +10.00% 82
Midlands +46 116 £40,000 +14.29% 136
Yorkshire +41 98 £51,750 +15.00% 82
East Midlands +20 72 £35,000 - 47
South West -1 58 £55,000 - 90
West Midlands +37 44 £42,039 -15.92% 85
Wales +14 30 £51,250 +86.36% 18
Scotland -30 21 £51,000 +13.33% 31
Northern Ireland -4 11 £95,000 - 9
North East -12 11 £50,000 +17.65% 39
Channel Islands +2 7 £90,000 +260.00% 1

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 81 (2.61%) CMS
2 61 (1.96%) SharePoint
3 59 (1.90%) Confluence
4 42 (1.35%) WordPress
5 21 (0.68%) Drupal
6 15 (0.48%) 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 35 (1.13%) Sketch
6 31 (1.00%) Photoshop
7 24 (0.77%) MS Visio
8 23 (0.74%) Adobe Illustrator
9 20 (0.64%) InDesign
9 20 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 7 (0.23%) Chatbot
11 5 (0.16%) InVision
11 5 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
12 4 (0.13%) Adobe After Effects
12 4 (0.13%) Adobe Premiere
13 3 (0.097%) Adobe Captivate
13 3 (0.097%) AutoCAD
13 3 (0.097%) Trello
14 2 (0.064%) Elementor
14 2 (0.064%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 42 (1.35%) Shopify
2 25 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
4 5 (0.16%) Dynamics GP
4 5 (0.16%) Magento
4 5 (0.16%) Workday HCM
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 (51.46%) Cloud Computing
2 297 (9.56%) Azure
3 230 (7.40%) AWS
4 177 (5.70%) Figma
5 143 (4.60%) Microsoft 365
6 99 (3.19%) SaaS
7 96 (3.09%) Google Analytics
8 78 (2.51%) Power Platform
9 74 (2.38%) GCP
10 70 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
11 59 (1.90%) Serverless
12 57 (1.83%) GitHub
13 41 (1.32%) Entra ID
14 35 (1.13%) PowerApps
15 34 (1.09%) AWS Lambda
16 32 (1.03%) Miro
17 30 (0.97%) Azure Logic Apps
18 27 (0.87%) Power Automate
19 23 (0.74%) Google Tag Manager
19 23 (0.74%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1,602 (51.56%) 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 46 (1.48%) NoSQL
4 43 (1.38%) 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 11 (0.35%) Metadata
10 11 (0.35%) Tableau
11 9 (0.29%) DB2
11 9 (0.29%) Oracle Reports
12 7 (0.23%) BigQuery
13 6 (0.19%) MariaDB
13 6 (0.19%) Redis
14 5 (0.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 4 (0.13%) Amazon Aurora
15 4 (0.13%) Elasticsearch
16 3 (0.097%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 123 (3.96%) JIRA
2 120 (3.86%) 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 (0.51%) 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 2,171 (69.87%) Social Skills
2 1,707 (54.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,672 (53.81%) Banking
4 309 (9.95%) Finance
5 280 (9.01%) Marketing
6 200 (6.44%) Analytical Skills
7 177 (5.70%) Law
8 105 (3.38%) Legal
9 100 (3.22%) Public Sector
10 84 (2.70%) Retail
11 52 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
12 48 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
13 46 (1.48%) Manufacturing
13 46 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
14 39 (1.26%) 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 (41.58%) Lecturer
2 314 (10.11%) Developer
3 276 (8.88%) Senior
4 149 (4.80%) Designer
5 148 (4.76%) Analyst
6 138 (4.44%) Lead
7 101 (3.25%) Senior Developer
8 94 (3.03%) Full-Stack Developer
9 65 (2.09%) Product Manager
10 63 (2.03%) UX Designer
11 62 (2.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 60 (1.93%) IT Support
13 57 (1.83%) Software Engineer
14 54 (1.74%) Business Analyst
15 49 (1.58%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 42 (1.35%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
17 41 (1.32%) Senior Manager
18 35 (1.13%) Architect
18 35 (1.13%) Support Analyst
19 34 (1.09%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 298 (9.59%) React
2 280 (9.01%) HTML
3 261 (8.40%) CSS
4 148 (4.76%) .NET
5 118 (3.80%) Node.js
6 113 (3.64%) RESTful
7 75 (2.41%) REST
8 67 (2.16%) AngularJS
9 66 (2.12%) Next.js
10 61 (1.96%) HTML5
11 52 (1.67%) Vue
12 45 (1.45%) CSS3
13 43 (1.38%) Jest
13 43 (1.38%) Spring
14 38 (1.22%) Spring Boot
15 37 (1.19%) 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 (51.79%) IoT
2 127 (4.09%) Product Ownership
3 96 (3.09%) Onboarding
4 68 (2.19%) Cloud Native
4 68 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
5 60 (1.93%) Mobile App
6 48 (1.54%) Social Media
7 43 (1.38%) Management Information System
8 35 (1.13%) AI Agents
9 33 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
10 28 (0.90%) Driving Licence
11 25 (0.80%) 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 (0.51%) Algorithms
16 15 (0.48%) Blog
16 15 (0.48%) Distributed Systems
16 15 (0.48%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 68 (2.19%) Windows
2 67 (2.16%) Apple iOS
3 58 (1.87%) Android
4 41 (1.32%) Windows 10
5 23 (0.74%) Windows Server
6 16 (0.51%) 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 1,866 (60.06%) AI
2 1,689 (54.36%) Machine Learning
3 1,663 (53.52%) Cybersecurity
3 1,663 (53.52%) Web Development
4 612 (19.70%) Agile
5 416 (13.39%) UX Design
6 381 (12.26%) Problem-Solving
7 322 (10.36%) Continuous Improvement
8 300 (9.66%) Analytics
9 236 (7.60%) Roadmaps
10 220 (7.08%) DevOps
11 208 (6.69%) CI/CD
12 204 (6.57%) Full-Stack Development
13 159 (5.12%) Mentoring
14 152 (4.89%) Stakeholder Management
15 151 (4.86%) User Research
16 149 (4.80%) Prototyping
17 148 (4.76%) Front End Development
18 144 (4.63%) E-Commerce
19 137 (4.41%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 324 (10.43%) JavaScript
2 196 (6.31%) TypeScript
3 141 (4.54%) SQL
4 128 (4.12%) C#
5 125 (4.02%) Python
6 124 (3.99%) Java
7 54 (1.74%) PowerShell
8 30 (0.97%) PHP
9 17 (0.55%) Bash
9 17 (0.55%) Go
10 15 (0.48%) Kotlin
11 14 (0.45%) Bicep
11 14 (0.45%) C++
11 14 (0.45%) Swift
12 10 (0.32%) VBScript
13 8 (0.26%) R
13 8 (0.26%) Rust
14 7 (0.23%) Ruby
14 7 (0.23%) XAML
15 5 (0.16%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,836 (59.09%) Degree
2 1,629 (52.43%) Master's Degree
3 1,601 (51.53%) PhD
3 1,601 (51.53%) Postgraduate
4 139 (4.47%) Security Cleared
5 102 (3.28%) SC Cleared
6 56 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 25 (0.80%) 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 (10.07%) Accessibility
2 123 (3.96%) QA
3 76 (2.45%) WCAG
4 45 (1.45%) GDPR
5 25 (0.80%) SLA
6 17 (0.55%) Data Quality
7 13 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
8 10 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 19770
9 8 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
9 8 (0.26%) PERC
9 8 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.16%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 5 (0.16%) GxP
10 5 (0.16%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.097%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.097%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.097%) Section 508
12 2 (0.064%) HL7
12 2 (0.064%) NIST
System Software
1 80 (2.57%) 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%) XenDesktop
9 1 (0.032%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.032%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.032%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.032%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 78 (2.51%) Kubernetes
2 46 (1.48%) 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%) Argo
10 1 (0.032%) Backup Exec
10 1 (0.032%) BMC PATROL
Vendors
1 235 (7.56%) Microsoft
2 145 (4.67%) Google
3 139 (4.47%) Adobe
4 57 (1.83%) SAP
5 40 (1.29%) ServiceNow
6 34 (1.09%) 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 17 (0.55%) 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