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

3 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 62 70
Rank change year-on-year -29 +8 +12
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 1,045 1,127 1,079
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.94% 4.12% 2.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.64% 4.70% 3.92%
Number of salaries quoted 713 469 475
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,250 £46,250 £44,007
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £100,000 £84,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £51,652
% change year-on-year -9.09% +6.48% -6.09%

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 39,649 23,979 27,511
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.65% 87.76% 75.95%
Number of salaries quoted 28,374 13,248 17,497
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £44,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -0.41%
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 £53,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -11.21% -2.73%

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 31 July 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 31 July 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 -23 942 £55,000 -8.33% 795
UK excluding London -44 610 £50,000 -9.09% 469
Work from Home -49 396 £55,000 -12.00% 366
London -10 351 £70,000 -6.67% 436
North of England -41 202 £51,810 +3.62% 114
South East -27 112 £50,000 -13.04% 136
North West -52 108 £43,750 -16.67% 60
Midlands +10 97 £45,000 -18.18% 69
South West -20 82 £60,000 +15.38% 68
East of England +15 65 £46,250 -24.49% 54
West Midlands +1 60 £48,750 -12.56% 53
Yorkshire +26 48 £55,000 +10.00% 35
North East -5 46 £50,000 +143.90% 19
East Midlands +12 37 £42,500 -13.17% 16
Wales -32 26 £48,961 -27.47% 9
Scotland -32 23 £57,500 -25.81% 22
Northern Ireland -56 3 £39,500 - 12

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
1 158 (7.82%) SharePoint
2 117 (5.79%) CMS
3 65 (3.22%) Confluence
4 53 (2.62%) Microsoft Exchange
5 30 (1.49%) WordPress
6 7 (0.35%) Drupal
7 6 (0.30%) IIS
7 6 (0.30%) Moodle
8 5 (0.25%) Skype for Business
8 5 (0.25%) Umbraco
9 4 (0.20%) Apache
10 3 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.15%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.15%) nginx
11 2 (0.099%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.099%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.099%) Totara
12 1 (0.050%) ExpressionEngine
12 1 (0.050%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.050%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 33 (1.63%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 33 (1.63%) Adobe XD
1 33 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
2 32 (1.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 23 (1.14%) Sketch
4 22 (1.09%) Photoshop
5 20 (0.99%) Adobe Illustrator
6 18 (0.89%) Chatbot
6 18 (0.89%) UserZoom
7 15 (0.74%) InDesign
8 13 (0.64%) Adobe After Effects
9 8 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
10 6 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
11 5 (0.25%) InVision
12 4 (0.20%) MS Visio
12 4 (0.20%) Trello
13 3 (0.15%) Productboard
13 3 (0.15%) SPSS
14 2 (0.099%) Camtasia
14 2 (0.099%) Final Cut Pro
Business Applications
1 20 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
1 20 (0.99%) Shopify
2 16 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.54%) Magento
3 11 (0.54%) NetSuite
4 8 (0.40%) Workday HCM
5 6 (0.30%) Dynamics GP
6 3 (0.15%) Carpe Diem
6 3 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
6 3 (0.15%) Elite 3E
6 3 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.15%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.099%) Adobe Campaign
7 2 (0.099%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.099%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.099%) Towers Watson Igloo
7 2 (0.099%) Visualfiles
8 1 (0.050%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.050%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 405 (20.05%) Azure
2 305 (15.10%) Microsoft 365
3 201 (9.95%) Figma
4 168 (8.32%) Power Platform
5 162 (8.02%) AWS
6 140 (6.93%) SaaS
7 123 (6.09%) Entra ID
8 104 (5.15%) Azure DevOps
9 84 (4.16%) Power Automate
10 80 (3.96%) PowerApps
11 68 (3.37%) GitHub
12 66 (3.27%) Google Analytics
13 64 (3.17%) Adobe Analytics
14 61 (3.02%) GCP
15 59 (2.92%) Microsoft Copilot
16 49 (2.43%) Dynamics 365
17 48 (2.38%) Serverless
18 46 (2.28%) Azure Logic Apps
19 45 (2.23%) OneDrive
20 44 (2.18%) Contentsquare
Communications & Networking
1 62 (3.07%) Broadband
2 37 (1.83%) Firewall
3 30 (1.49%) DNS
4 25 (1.24%) DHCP
5 24 (1.19%) VPN
6 21 (1.04%) VoIP
7 15 (0.74%) TCP/IP
7 15 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
8 12 (0.59%) CTI
8 12 (0.59%) Kerberos
9 10 (0.50%) HTTP
10 9 (0.45%) Internet
10 9 (0.45%) Wireless
11 7 (0.35%) Intranet
11 7 (0.35%) Network Security
11 7 (0.35%) VLAN
12 6 (0.30%) Unified Communications
13 5 (0.25%) SAN
13 5 (0.25%) Skype
13 5 (0.25%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (4.41%) Power BI
2 62 (3.07%) SQL Server
3 25 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (1.24%) Relational Database
4 23 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
5 18 (0.89%) Looker
5 18 (0.89%) MySQL
6 16 (0.79%) Metadata
6 16 (0.79%) NoSQL
7 13 (0.64%) MongoDB
8 11 (0.54%) BigQuery
9 9 (0.45%) Redis
10 8 (0.40%) Tableau
11 6 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (0.30%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (0.30%) Power Query
12 5 (0.25%) GIS
12 5 (0.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 5 (0.25%) Star Schema
13 4 (0.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 101 (5.00%) JIRA
2 95 (4.70%) Git
3 27 (1.34%) Claude Code
4 24 (1.19%) Jenkins
5 21 (1.04%) fastlane
6 20 (0.99%) Crashlytics
7 15 (0.74%) Cypress.io
7 15 (0.74%) XCTest
8 13 (0.64%) Balsamiq
9 12 (0.59%) Axure RP
10 11 (0.54%) Selenium
10 11 (0.54%) webpack
11 9 (0.45%) Vite
11 9 (0.45%) Xcode
12 8 (0.40%) Postman
13 7 (0.35%) Bitbucket
14 6 (0.30%) Android Studio
14 6 (0.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 6 (0.30%) Gradle
14 6 (0.30%) NUnit
General
1 638 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 342 (16.93%) Finance
3 258 (12.77%) Marketing
4 238 (11.78%) Analytical Skills
5 175 (8.66%) Public Sector
6 166 (8.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 125 (6.19%) Retail
8 113 (5.59%) Law
9 111 (5.50%) Legal
10 96 (4.75%) Organisational Skills
11 74 (3.66%) Games
12 63 (3.12%) Influencing Skills
13 45 (2.23%) Banking
14 39 (1.93%) Advertising
15 38 (1.88%) Presentation Skills
16 31 (1.53%) Manufacturing
17 24 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
18 20 (0.99%) Multimedia
19 17 (0.84%) Publishing
20 15 (0.74%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 354 (17.52%) Senior
2 327 (16.19%) Designer
3 296 (14.65%) Developer
4 237 (11.73%) Lead
5 235 (11.63%) UX Designer
6 146 (7.23%) Analyst
7 104 (5.15%) Senior Developer
8 92 (4.55%) UI Designer
9 91 (4.50%) Software Engineer
10 89 (4.41%) IT Support
11 87 (4.31%) Senior Designer
11 87 (4.31%) UI/UX Designer
12 71 (3.51%) Architect
13 65 (3.22%) Product Manager
14 64 (3.17%) Support Engineer
15 63 (3.12%) Senior UX Designer
16 62 (3.07%) IT Manager
17 53 (2.62%) Business Analyst
17 53 (2.62%) Full-Stack Developer
18 50 (2.48%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 203 (10.05%) HTML
2 201 (9.95%) CSS
3 158 (7.82%) React
4 153 (7.57%) .NET
5 102 (5.05%) REST
6 80 (3.96%) RESTful
7 61 (3.02%) .NET Core
8 56 (2.77%) Node.js
9 50 (2.48%) JSON
10 45 (2.23%) AngularJS
11 39 (1.93%) ASP.NET
12 38 (1.88%) HTML5
13 37 (1.83%) Next.js
14 31 (1.53%) CSS3
14 31 (1.53%) Vue
15 27 (1.34%) jQuery
16 26 (1.29%) Blazor
16 26 (1.29%) SPFx
16 26 (1.29%) SwiftUI
17 25 (1.24%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 193 (9.55%) Product Ownership
2 106 (5.25%) Mobile App
3 104 (5.15%) Onboarding
4 72 (3.56%) Social Media
5 70 (3.47%) Enterprise Software
6 54 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
7 47 (2.33%) Cloud Native
8 33 (1.63%) Management Information System
9 30 (1.49%) Driving Licence
10 28 (1.39%) AI Agents
11 24 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
11 24 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
11 24 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
12 20 (0.99%) Algorithms
12 20 (0.99%) Graphic Design
13 19 (0.94%) Low-Code
14 16 (0.79%) Security Posture
15 15 (0.74%) Animation
16 14 (0.69%) e-Learning
16 14 (0.69%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 149 (7.38%) Windows
2 73 (3.61%) Apple iOS
3 45 (2.23%) Windows Server
4 43 (2.13%) Android
5 40 (1.98%) Windows 10
6 35 (1.73%) Mac OS
7 27 (1.34%) Linux
8 8 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (0.25%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.20%) Mac OS X
10 4 (0.20%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.050%) AIX
11 1 (0.050%) CentOS
11 1 (0.050%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 568 (28.12%) Agile
2 539 (26.68%) UX Design
3 489 (24.21%) Continuous Improvement
4 438 (21.68%) Problem-Solving
5 410 (20.30%) AI
6 366 (18.12%) Analytics
7 332 (16.44%) Roadmaps
8 256 (12.67%) Mentoring
9 214 (10.59%) Decision-Making
10 213 (10.54%) DevOps
11 210 (10.40%) Stakeholder Management
12 191 (9.46%) CI/CD
13 175 (8.66%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 165 (8.17%) User Research
15 162 (8.02%) Software Engineering
16 158 (7.82%) ITIL
17 154 (7.62%) Workflow
18 148 (7.33%) Customer Experience
19 146 (7.23%) Product Roadmap
20 142 (7.03%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 246 (12.18%) JavaScript
2 158 (7.82%) C#
3 156 (7.72%) SQL
4 151 (7.48%) TypeScript
5 116 (5.74%) Python
6 89 (4.41%) Java
7 72 (3.56%) PowerShell
8 32 (1.58%) Swift
9 30 (1.49%) PHP
10 27 (1.34%) Kotlin
11 12 (0.59%) ABAP
11 12 (0.59%) VB.NET
12 11 (0.54%) C
12 11 (0.54%) C++
13 9 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 8 (0.40%) Go
14 8 (0.40%) VBScript
15 7 (0.35%) VB
16 6 (0.30%) Bash
16 6 (0.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 185 (9.16%) Degree
2 140 (6.93%) Security Cleared
3 85 (4.21%) SC Cleared
4 39 (1.93%) DV Cleared
5 31 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
6 28 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (1.29%) DBS Check
8 13 (0.64%) Master's Degree
9 12 (0.59%) CISSP
10 11 (0.54%) ICAEW
10 11 (0.54%) Postgraduate
11 10 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
11 10 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
12 7 (0.35%) ISTQB
12 7 (0.35%) PMI Certification
13 5 (0.25%) PMP
13 5 (0.25%) SAP Certification
14 4 (0.20%) CBAP
15 3 (0.15%) IIBA
15 3 (0.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 325 (16.09%) Accessibility
2 119 (5.89%) QA
3 107 (5.30%) WCAG
4 69 (3.42%) GDPR
5 62 (3.07%) Data Quality
6 25 (1.24%) SLA
7 21 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials
8 12 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 11 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
9 11 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 8 (0.40%) PCI DSS
11 5 (0.25%) NEBOSH
12 4 (0.20%) PERC
12 4 (0.20%) PMO
12 4 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
13 3 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 2 (0.099%) GRC
14 2 (0.099%) GxP
14 2 (0.099%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 120 (5.94%) Active Directory
2 57 (2.82%) Docker
3 9 (0.45%) BitLocker
3 9 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.099%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.050%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 88 (4.36%) Microsoft Intune
2 33 (1.63%) Kubernetes
3 19 (0.94%) Terraform
4 15 (0.74%) SCCM
5 12 (0.59%) Jamf Pro
5 12 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (0.25%) Ansible
7 4 (0.20%) Grafana
8 3 (0.15%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.099%) Data Guard
9 2 (0.099%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 2 (0.099%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.050%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.050%) Forefront Identity Manager
10 1 (0.050%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.050%) Kibana
10 1 (0.050%) Packer
10 1 (0.050%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 451 (22.33%) Microsoft
2 172 (8.51%) Adobe
3 103 (5.10%) Google
4 62 (3.07%) ServiceNow
5 52 (2.57%) Salesforce
6 37 (1.83%) Apple
7 34 (1.68%) Oracle
8 32 (1.58%) SAP
9 22 (1.09%) iManage
10 18 (0.89%) Braze
10 18 (0.89%) Cisco
10 18 (0.89%) OpenAI
11 16 (0.79%) Amplitude
11 16 (0.79%) HubSpot
12 15 (0.74%) Dynatrace
13 14 (0.69%) Hotjar
13 14 (0.69%) Meraki
14 12 (0.59%) Genesys
15 11 (0.54%) Avaya
15 11 (0.54%) VMware