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

3 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 54 86
Rank change year-on-year -24 +32 0
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 991 1,200 1,401
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.98% 4.95% 3.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.71% 5.39% 3.62%
Number of salaries quoted 677 490 809
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,475 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% -16.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £81,420
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,171 £53,688 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.96% +7.38% -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 36,537 22,284 38,687
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.85% 91.93% 84.42%
Number of salaries quoted 24,582 11,755 25,910
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -9.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £49,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -2.00% -9.09%

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 13 May 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 13 May 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 -18 870 £60,000 +1.44% 749
UK excluding London -30 632 £53,171 -0.96% 521
Work from Home -28 364 £60,000 - 410
London -29 281 £70,000 - 333
North of England -28 235 £53,750 -2.27% 132
North West -19 131 £55,000 -4.35% 83
South East +16 110 £48,885 -2.23% 147
East of England +36 103 £85,000 +100.00% 59
Midlands -19 74 £42,500 -20.84% 80
Yorkshire -1 68 £50,000 +17.65% 25
South West -18 52 £54,750 -3.58% 54
West Midlands -46 41 £40,000 -25.50% 58
Scotland -32 37 £50,000 +8.70% 43
North East -7 36 £53,500 +1.90% 24
East Midlands +2 33 £60,000 +87.50% 20
Wales -14 19 £50,000 - 8
Northern Ireland -28 4 £39,500 - 9

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
1 117 (2.77%) CMS
2 109 (2.58%) SharePoint
3 71 (1.68%) Confluence
4 37 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
5 30 (0.71%) WordPress
6 10 (0.24%) Drupal
6 10 (0.24%) Umbraco
7 8 (0.19%) nginx
8 3 (0.071%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.071%) Sitecore CMS
9 2 (0.047%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.047%) IIS
9 2 (0.047%) Moodle
10 1 (0.024%) Apache
10 1 (0.024%) Camunda
10 1 (0.024%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.024%) Skype for Business
10 1 (0.024%) Totara
Applications
1 37 (0.88%) Adobe XD
2 28 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (0.62%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 20 (0.47%) Sketch
5 19 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
6 17 (0.40%) Photoshop
7 16 (0.38%) Adobe Illustrator
8 9 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
8 9 (0.21%) UserZoom
9 8 (0.19%) Chatbot
10 7 (0.17%) Adobe After Effects
10 7 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
11 6 (0.14%) InVision
12 4 (0.095%) InDesign
12 4 (0.095%) MS Visio
13 3 (0.071%) Adobe Premiere
13 3 (0.071%) SPSS
13 3 (0.071%) Trello
14 2 (0.047%) Avid Media Composer
14 2 (0.047%) Productboard
Business Applications
1 32 (0.76%) Shopify
2 21 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.45%) Magento
4 9 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
5 7 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
6 5 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
6 5 (0.12%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.071%) Dynamics GP
7 3 (0.071%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.047%) Remedy ITSM
9 1 (0.024%) Elite 3E
9 1 (0.024%) Oracle General Ledger
9 1 (0.024%) Oracle Payables
9 1 (0.024%) Oracle Receivables
9 1 (0.024%) Payment Gateway
9 1 (0.024%) SAP Business One
9 1 (0.024%) SAP EWM
9 1 (0.024%) SAP HCM
9 1 (0.024%) SAP HR
9 1 (0.024%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 2,446 (57.88%) Cloud Computing
2 307 (7.26%) Azure
3 210 (4.97%) Microsoft 365
4 208 (4.92%) Figma
5 170 (4.02%) AWS
6 129 (3.05%) Power Platform
7 124 (2.93%) SaaS
8 91 (2.15%) Entra ID
9 70 (1.66%) GCP
10 69 (1.63%) Adobe Analytics
10 69 (1.63%) Google Analytics
11 64 (1.51%) GitHub
12 63 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
13 54 (1.28%) PowerApps
14 50 (1.18%) Power Automate
15 42 (0.99%) OneDrive
16 41 (0.97%) Contentsquare
16 41 (0.97%) Serverless
17 40 (0.95%) Azure Logic Apps
18 35 (0.83%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2,454 (58.07%) Internet
2 78 (1.85%) Broadband
3 24 (0.57%) VPN
4 22 (0.52%) HTTP
5 21 (0.50%) DNS
6 19 (0.45%) Firewall
7 17 (0.40%) DHCP
7 17 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
8 12 (0.28%) TCP/IP
9 6 (0.14%) Kerberos
9 6 (0.14%) VoIP
10 4 (0.095%) Intranet
10 4 (0.095%) NAS
10 4 (0.095%) SAN
11 3 (0.071%) LAN
11 3 (0.071%) Network Security
11 3 (0.071%) VLAN
12 2 (0.047%) Bluetooth
12 2 (0.047%) SMS
12 2 (0.047%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (1.54%) Power BI
2 55 (1.30%) SQL Server
3 32 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (0.59%) Looker
5 23 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
6 20 (0.47%) NoSQL
7 18 (0.43%) MySQL
8 17 (0.40%) Metadata
8 17 (0.40%) MongoDB
9 15 (0.35%) BigQuery
10 10 (0.24%) Tableau
11 9 (0.21%) Relational Database
12 8 (0.19%) Redis
13 7 (0.17%) DB2
14 6 (0.14%) SAP BW
14 6 (0.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 5 (0.12%) Data Warehouse
15 5 (0.12%) Elasticsearch
16 4 (0.095%) GIS
16 4 (0.095%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 111 (2.63%) JIRA
2 68 (1.61%) Git
3 23 (0.54%) Balsamiq
4 22 (0.52%) Axure RP
5 20 (0.47%) Jenkins
6 19 (0.45%) Selenium
7 16 (0.38%) Crashlytics
7 16 (0.38%) webpack
8 15 (0.35%) Vite
9 14 (0.33%) XCTest
10 12 (0.28%) Bitbucket
10 12 (0.28%) Cucumber
11 10 (0.24%) Cypress.io
11 10 (0.24%) fastlane
12 8 (0.19%) Claude Code
12 8 (0.19%) Postman
12 8 (0.19%) Storybook
12 8 (0.19%) Visual Studio
13 6 (0.14%) JUnit
13 6 (0.14%) TeamCity
General
1 2,940 (69.57%) Social Skills
2 2,559 (60.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2,500 (59.16%) Banking
4 282 (6.67%) Finance
5 225 (5.32%) Marketing
6 174 (4.12%) Analytical Skills
7 139 (3.29%) Public Sector
8 102 (2.41%) Legal
9 85 (2.01%) Law
10 82 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
11 79 (1.87%) Retail
12 61 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
13 60 (1.42%) Games
14 49 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
15 32 (0.76%) Manufacturing
16 31 (0.73%) Advertising
17 25 (0.59%) Telecoms
18 23 (0.54%) Back Office
19 16 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
20 15 (0.35%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,847 (43.71%) Lecturer
2 373 (8.83%) Senior
3 293 (6.93%) Designer
4 251 (5.94%) Developer
5 216 (5.11%) UX Designer
6 181 (4.28%) Lead
7 119 (2.82%) Analyst
8 87 (2.06%) Senior Developer
9 86 (2.04%) Senior Designer
10 82 (1.94%) Software Engineer
11 65 (1.54%) Senior UX Designer
11 65 (1.54%) UI Designer
12 62 (1.47%) Product Manager
13 57 (1.35%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 57 (1.35%) UI/UX Designer
14 53 (1.25%) Architect
15 52 (1.23%) Senior Manager
16 50 (1.18%) IT Manager
17 49 (1.16%) Full-Stack Developer
17 49 (1.16%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 194 (4.59%) HTML
2 192 (4.54%) CSS
3 177 (4.19%) React
4 114 (2.70%) .NET
5 88 (2.08%) REST
6 77 (1.82%) RESTful
7 64 (1.51%) AngularJS
8 59 (1.40%) Node.js
9 50 (1.18%) Vue
10 41 (0.97%) HTML5
11 40 (0.95%) .NET Core
12 39 (0.92%) JSON
13 32 (0.76%) CSS3
14 31 (0.73%) Web Services
15 26 (0.62%) ASP.NET
16 25 (0.59%) Next.js
16 25 (0.59%) Sass
16 25 (0.59%) SOAP
17 24 (0.57%) SPFx
17 24 (0.57%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 2,451 (58.00%) IoT
2 185 (4.38%) Product Ownership
3 115 (2.72%) Mobile App
4 108 (2.56%) Onboarding
5 55 (1.30%) Social Media
6 50 (1.18%) Cloud Native
7 44 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
8 41 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
9 32 (0.76%) AI Agents
9 32 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
10 30 (0.71%) Management Information System
11 29 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
12 21 (0.50%) Low-Code
12 21 (0.50%) Public Cloud
13 19 (0.45%) e-Learning
14 18 (0.43%) Life Science
15 14 (0.33%) CMDB
16 13 (0.31%) Driving Licence
17 12 (0.28%) Distributed Systems
17 12 (0.28%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 90 (2.13%) Windows
2 65 (1.54%) Apple iOS
3 47 (1.11%) Android
4 29 (0.69%) Windows 10
5 24 (0.57%) Windows Server
6 22 (0.52%) Linux
7 21 (0.50%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.14%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.095%) Mac OS X
9 4 (0.095%) Unix
10 3 (0.071%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.047%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.024%) VMS
12 1 (0.024%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,765 (65.43%) AI
2 2,527 (59.80%) Machine Learning
3 2,501 (59.18%) Cybersecurity
4 2,496 (59.06%) Web Development
5 518 (12.26%) Agile
5 518 (12.26%) UX Design
6 344 (8.14%) Continuous Improvement
7 342 (8.09%) Problem-Solving
8 326 (7.71%) Analytics
9 284 (6.72%) Roadmaps
10 254 (6.01%) Mentoring
11 174 (4.12%) Decision-Making
11 174 (4.12%) Software Engineering
11 174 (4.12%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 168 (3.98%) User Research
13 166 (3.93%) DevOps
14 165 (3.90%) Full-Stack Development
15 146 (3.45%) CI/CD
16 136 (3.22%) Product Roadmap
17 135 (3.19%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 252 (5.96%) JavaScript
2 153 (3.62%) TypeScript
3 133 (3.15%) SQL
4 111 (2.63%) Python
5 110 (2.60%) Java
6 109 (2.58%) C#
7 51 (1.21%) PowerShell
8 42 (0.99%) PHP
9 25 (0.59%) Kotlin
10 24 (0.57%) Swift
11 18 (0.43%) Go
12 11 (0.26%) Bash
12 11 (0.26%) Bicep
13 10 (0.24%) T-SQL
14 9 (0.21%) C++
15 8 (0.19%) Rust
16 5 (0.12%) ABAP
17 4 (0.095%) Apex Code
17 4 (0.095%) Scala
18 3 (0.071%) VB
Qualifications
1 2,642 (62.52%) Degree
2 2,464 (58.31%) Master's Degree
3 2,449 (57.95%) PhD
4 2,447 (57.90%) Postgraduate
5 157 (3.72%) Security Cleared
6 98 (2.32%) SC Cleared
7 41 (0.97%) DV Cleared
8 38 (0.90%) DBS Check
9 30 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
10 18 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
11 15 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
12 7 (0.17%) PMI Certification
12 7 (0.17%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 6 (0.14%) CISSP
13 6 (0.14%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 5 (0.12%) ICAEW
14 5 (0.12%) ITIL Certification
14 5 (0.12%) PMP
14 5 (0.12%) SAP Certification
15 4 (0.095%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 285 (6.74%) Accessibility
2 109 (2.58%) QA
3 95 (2.25%) WCAG
4 52 (1.23%) GDPR
5 24 (0.57%) Data Quality
6 18 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
7 14 (0.33%) SLA
8 12 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
9 11 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 10 (0.24%) PCI DSS
11 8 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 5 (0.12%) HIPAA
12 5 (0.12%) NEBOSH
13 4 (0.095%) PMO
14 3 (0.071%) GRC
14 3 (0.071%) SOC 2
15 2 (0.047%) GxP
16 1 (0.024%) COBIT
16 1 (0.024%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 1 (0.024%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 94 (2.22%) Active Directory
2 58 (1.37%) Docker
3 7 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.095%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.047%) vSphere
8 1 (0.024%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 71 (1.68%) Microsoft Intune
2 42 (0.99%) Kubernetes
3 28 (0.66%) Terraform
4 21 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
5 10 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
6 9 (0.21%) Grafana
7 6 (0.14%) SCCM
8 5 (0.12%) Ansible
8 5 (0.12%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.047%) Data Guard
9 2 (0.047%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 2 (0.047%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (0.047%) Packer
9 2 (0.047%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.024%) Argo
10 1 (0.024%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.024%) Kibana
10 1 (0.024%) MOM
Vendors
1 313 (7.41%) Microsoft
2 187 (4.42%) Adobe
3 101 (2.39%) Google
4 70 (1.66%) ServiceNow
5 51 (1.21%) Salesforce
6 34 (0.80%) HubSpot
7 27 (0.64%) Nexthink
8 26 (0.62%) Apple
9 22 (0.52%) SAP
10 18 (0.43%) Braze
11 17 (0.40%) BMC
12 16 (0.38%) Hotjar
12 16 (0.38%) Oracle
13 15 (0.35%) Amplitude
14 12 (0.28%) OpenAI
15 11 (0.26%) iManage
15 11 (0.26%) VMware
16 10 (0.24%) Atlassian
16 10 (0.24%) WooCommerce
17 9 (0.21%) ConnectWise