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

3 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 54 78
Rank change year-on-year -27 +24 +10
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 1,044 1,280 1,361
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.00% 4.91% 2.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.75% 5.34% 3.69%
Number of salaries quoted 724 524 691
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,076
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,750 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.30% +4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £54,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.67% +9.00% -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 38,013 23,971 36,856
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.75% 91.86% 80.25%
Number of salaries quoted 26,285 12,352 24,378
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -11.29%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £72,761
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -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 3 June 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 3 June 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 -18 929 £57,500 -1.71% 1,072
UK excluding London -15 673 £52,500 -3.67% 616
Work from Home -28 385 £57,500 -6.12% 1,037
London -31 301 £70,000 - 594
North of England -28 249 £51,310 -6.71% 181
North West -22 143 £53,000 -7.83% 121
East of England +40 119 £78,325 +56.65% 69
South East +31 113 £53,250 +6.50% 169
Midlands -24 74 £45,497 -15.26% 78
Yorkshire -1 62 £50,000 +25.00% 39
South West -39 55 £60,000 +16.50% 47
North East -2 44 £47,000 +370.00% 23
Scotland -29 39 £50,000 +8.70% 25
East Midlands +11 37 £45,000 +40.63% 20
West Midlands -54 37 £46,499 -15.46% 57
Wales -14 21 £50,000 -25.93% 25
Northern Ireland -20 4 £39,500 - 28

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
1 120 (2.82%) CMS
2 119 (2.80%) SharePoint
3 71 (1.67%) Confluence
4 45 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
5 26 (0.61%) WordPress
6 9 (0.21%) Drupal
7 8 (0.19%) Umbraco
8 7 (0.16%) nginx
9 4 (0.094%) Moodle
10 3 (0.071%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.071%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.071%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.047%) IIS
11 2 (0.047%) Skype for Business
11 2 (0.047%) Totara
12 1 (0.024%) Apache
12 1 (0.024%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 34 (0.80%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 32 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
3 31 (0.73%) Adobe XD
4 23 (0.54%) Photoshop
5 21 (0.49%) Adobe Illustrator
6 20 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
6 20 (0.47%) Sketch
7 14 (0.33%) Adobe After Effects
8 13 (0.31%) UserZoom
9 10 (0.24%) InDesign
10 9 (0.21%) Chatbot
10 9 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
11 8 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
12 6 (0.14%) InVision
13 4 (0.094%) Trello
14 3 (0.071%) Adobe Premiere
14 3 (0.071%) Productboard
14 3 (0.071%) SPSS
15 2 (0.047%) MS Visio
15 2 (0.047%) Pro Tools
Business Applications
1 29 (0.68%) Shopify
2 21 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.40%) Magento
4 10 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
5 7 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
6 5 (0.12%) SAP ERP
7 4 (0.094%) Dynamics AX
7 4 (0.094%) Dynamics GP
8 2 (0.047%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.047%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.047%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.047%) Towers Watson Igloo
9 1 (0.024%) Elite 3E
9 1 (0.024%) Oracle General Ledger
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%) SAP Payroll
9 1 (0.024%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 2,420 (56.95%) Cloud Computing
2 326 (7.67%) Azure
3 237 (5.58%) Microsoft 365
4 214 (5.04%) Figma
5 159 (3.74%) AWS
6 140 (3.29%) SaaS
7 135 (3.18%) Power Platform
8 100 (2.35%) Entra ID
9 75 (1.77%) Azure DevOps
10 71 (1.67%) Adobe Analytics
11 64 (1.51%) GCP
11 64 (1.51%) GitHub
11 64 (1.51%) Google Analytics
12 52 (1.22%) Power Automate
12 52 (1.22%) PowerApps
13 45 (1.06%) Contentsquare
13 45 (1.06%) Serverless
14 41 (0.96%) Azure Logic Apps
15 40 (0.94%) OneDrive
16 33 (0.78%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2,427 (57.12%) Internet
2 82 (1.93%) Broadband
3 27 (0.64%) VPN
4 26 (0.61%) DNS
5 23 (0.54%) Firewall
6 22 (0.52%) DHCP
7 19 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
8 14 (0.33%) HTTP
9 12 (0.28%) TCP/IP
10 9 (0.21%) VoIP
11 8 (0.19%) Kerberos
12 5 (0.12%) SAN
13 4 (0.094%) NAS
13 4 (0.094%) Network Security
13 4 (0.094%) SMS
13 4 (0.094%) Structured Cabling
13 4 (0.094%) Unified Communications
13 4 (0.094%) VLAN
14 3 (0.071%) LAN
14 3 (0.071%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (1.62%) Power BI
2 47 (1.11%) SQL Server
3 31 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (0.59%) Looker
5 23 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
6 18 (0.42%) Metadata
6 18 (0.42%) MongoDB
6 18 (0.42%) MySQL
7 15 (0.35%) BigQuery
8 13 (0.31%) NoSQL
9 11 (0.26%) Tableau
10 10 (0.24%) Relational Database
11 9 (0.21%) Redis
12 6 (0.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 5 (0.12%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (0.12%) Data Warehouse
13 5 (0.12%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (0.12%) GIS
13 5 (0.12%) SAP BW
14 4 (0.094%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 107 (2.52%) JIRA
2 73 (1.72%) Git
3 19 (0.45%) Crashlytics
3 19 (0.45%) Jenkins
4 18 (0.42%) Balsamiq
5 17 (0.40%) Axure RP
6 15 (0.35%) fastlane
6 15 (0.35%) XCTest
7 14 (0.33%) Claude Code
7 14 (0.33%) Vite
7 14 (0.33%) webpack
8 13 (0.31%) Selenium
9 12 (0.28%) Cypress.io
10 9 (0.21%) Bitbucket
11 8 (0.19%) Cucumber
11 8 (0.19%) Postman
11 8 (0.19%) Storybook
12 7 (0.16%) Visual Studio
12 7 (0.16%) Xcode
13 6 (0.14%) Android Studio
General
1 2,928 (68.91%) Social Skills
2 2,541 (59.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2,459 (57.87%) Banking
4 281 (6.61%) Finance
5 239 (5.62%) Marketing
6 190 (4.47%) Analytical Skills
7 143 (3.37%) Public Sector
8 104 (2.45%) Legal
9 92 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
10 91 (2.14%) Retail
11 80 (1.88%) Law
12 67 (1.58%) Games
13 57 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
14 43 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
15 34 (0.80%) Advertising
16 32 (0.75%) Manufacturing
17 22 (0.52%) Back Office
18 19 (0.45%) Telecoms
19 17 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
20 15 (0.35%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 1,847 (43.47%) Lecturer
2 358 (8.43%) Senior
3 310 (7.30%) Designer
4 263 (6.19%) Developer
5 226 (5.32%) UX Designer
6 193 (4.54%) Lead
7 128 (3.01%) Analyst
8 99 (2.33%) Senior Developer
9 89 (2.09%) Senior Designer
10 78 (1.84%) Software Engineer
11 74 (1.74%) UI Designer
12 66 (1.55%) Senior UX Designer
12 66 (1.55%) UI/UX Designer
13 64 (1.51%) IT Support
14 60 (1.41%) Architect
14 60 (1.41%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 60 (1.41%) Product Manager
15 58 (1.37%) IT Manager
16 54 (1.27%) Support Engineer
17 50 (1.18%) Product Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 199 (4.68%) CSS
1 199 (4.68%) HTML
2 172 (4.05%) React
3 110 (2.59%) .NET
4 85 (2.00%) REST
5 73 (1.72%) RESTful
6 60 (1.41%) AngularJS
7 52 (1.22%) Node.js
8 48 (1.13%) Vue
9 44 (1.04%) .NET Core
10 43 (1.01%) JSON
11 38 (0.89%) HTML5
12 32 (0.75%) CSS3
13 28 (0.66%) Sass
14 26 (0.61%) SwiftUI
14 26 (0.61%) Web Services
15 25 (0.59%) Next.js
16 24 (0.56%) Blazor
16 24 (0.56%) SOAP
16 24 (0.56%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2,424 (57.05%) IoT
2 192 (4.52%) Product Ownership
3 119 (2.80%) Mobile App
4 108 (2.54%) Onboarding
5 65 (1.53%) Social Media
6 46 (1.08%) Cloud Native
7 44 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
8 40 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
9 34 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
10 29 (0.68%) AI Agents
11 28 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
11 28 (0.66%) Management Information System
12 19 (0.45%) Driving Licence
13 18 (0.42%) e-Learning
14 17 (0.40%) Life Science
14 17 (0.40%) Low-Code
15 16 (0.38%) Public Cloud
16 15 (0.35%) Analytical Mindset
16 15 (0.35%) Graphic Design
16 15 (0.35%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 114 (2.68%) Windows
2 66 (1.55%) Apple iOS
3 41 (0.96%) Android
4 33 (0.78%) Windows 10
5 31 (0.73%) Windows Server
6 27 (0.64%) Mac OS
7 26 (0.61%) Linux
8 5 (0.12%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.094%) Mac OS X
10 2 (0.047%) Unix
10 2 (0.047%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.024%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,753 (64.79%) AI
2 2,499 (58.81%) Machine Learning
3 2,484 (58.46%) Cybersecurity
4 2,472 (58.18%) Web Development
5 533 (12.54%) UX Design
6 502 (11.81%) Agile
7 380 (8.94%) Continuous Improvement
8 368 (8.66%) Problem-Solving
9 330 (7.77%) Analytics
10 294 (6.92%) Roadmaps
11 251 (5.91%) Mentoring
12 180 (4.24%) Decision-Making
13 166 (3.91%) DevOps
14 165 (3.88%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 164 (3.86%) Software Engineering
16 155 (3.65%) CI/CD
16 155 (3.65%) User Research
17 154 (3.62%) Full-Stack Development
18 144 (3.39%) Product Roadmap
19 141 (3.32%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 246 (5.79%) JavaScript
2 151 (3.55%) TypeScript
3 123 (2.89%) SQL
4 116 (2.73%) Python
5 114 (2.68%) C#
6 99 (2.33%) Java
7 58 (1.37%) PowerShell
8 44 (1.04%) PHP
9 27 (0.64%) Swift
10 25 (0.59%) Kotlin
11 13 (0.31%) Go
12 9 (0.21%) Bash
13 8 (0.19%) Bicep
13 8 (0.19%) Rust
14 7 (0.16%) ABAP
14 7 (0.16%) C++
14 7 (0.16%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.14%) Apex Code
16 5 (0.12%) VB
16 5 (0.12%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2,602 (61.24%) Degree
2 2,434 (57.28%) Master's Degree
3 2,424 (57.05%) Postgraduate
4 2,422 (57.00%) PhD
5 143 (3.37%) Security Cleared
6 86 (2.02%) SC Cleared
7 41 (0.96%) DV Cleared
8 35 (0.82%) DBS Check
9 21 (0.49%) Computer Science Degree
10 17 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
11 14 (0.33%) BPSS Clearance
12 8 (0.19%) CISSP
12 8 (0.19%) ICAEW
13 7 (0.16%) ITIL Certification
13 7 (0.16%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 6 (0.14%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 6 (0.14%) PMI Certification
14 6 (0.14%) SAP Certification
15 5 (0.12%) PMP
16 4 (0.094%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 291 (6.85%) Accessibility
2 110 (2.59%) QA
3 98 (2.31%) WCAG
4 56 (1.32%) GDPR
5 30 (0.71%) Data Quality
6 19 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
7 15 (0.35%) SLA
8 11 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 8 (0.19%) PCI DSS
10 6 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.12%) HIPAA
11 5 (0.12%) NEBOSH
12 4 (0.094%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 4 (0.094%) PMO
13 3 (0.071%) PERC
14 2 (0.047%) GRC
14 2 (0.047%) GxP
14 2 (0.047%) SOC 2
15 1 (0.024%) HL7
15 1 (0.024%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 103 (2.42%) Active Directory
2 54 (1.27%) Docker
3 6 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.12%) BitLocker
4 5 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.094%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.024%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 71 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 33 (0.78%) Kubernetes
3 25 (0.59%) Terraform
4 19 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
5 10 (0.24%) SCCM
6 9 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
7 8 (0.19%) Grafana
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%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.024%) Kibana
10 1 (0.024%) MOM
Vendors
1 343 (8.07%) Microsoft
2 190 (4.47%) Adobe
3 95 (2.24%) Google
4 70 (1.65%) ServiceNow
5 51 (1.20%) Salesforce
6 30 (0.71%) HubSpot
7 26 (0.61%) Apple
8 24 (0.56%) SAP
9 23 (0.54%) Nexthink
9 23 (0.54%) Oracle
10 19 (0.45%) Braze
11 16 (0.38%) Amplitude
11 16 (0.38%) Hotjar
12 15 (0.35%) BMC
13 13 (0.31%) iManage
13 13 (0.31%) OpenAI
14 11 (0.26%) Dynatrace
15 10 (0.24%) TikTok
15 10 (0.24%) VMware
16 9 (0.21%) Pinterest