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 23 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

3 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 83 83
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 -17
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 812 650 2,059
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.05% 3.54% 3.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.75% 3.78% 3.72%
Number of salaries quoted 532 427 1,463
10th Percentile £32,000 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,000 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £46,958
% change year-on-year +5.00% +6.48% -14.62%

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 29,535 17,201 55,403
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.55% 93.75% 84.88%
Number of salaries quoted 19,665 10,305 41,804
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,239 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.60% +14.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £71,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -7.41%

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 23 March 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 23 March 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 -2 709 £55,000 -8.33% 851
UK excluding London -1 476 £52,500 +5.00% 613
Work from Home -4 309 £57,973 -3.38% 509
London -10 249 £60,000 -17.24% 352
North of England -2 143 £55,000 +15.18% 186
Midlands +14 100 £45,000 -1.58% 101
South East -31 78 £55,000 +10.00% 166
North West -1 70 £50,000 -9.09% 97
South West -6 69 £50,000 -9.09% 63
West Midlands +4 64 £45,000 -29.41% 66
Yorkshire -2 59 £56,075 +31.94% 49
East of England -5 51 £79,425 +144.38% 61
East Midlands -22 36 £45,000 +28.57% 35
Wales -3 18 £42,934 - 19
Scotland -22 16 £62,500 +11.11% 25
North East -16 14 £60,000 +6.19% 41
Northern Ireland - 3 £62,500 - 6

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
1 112 (1.96%) CMS
2 74 (1.30%) SharePoint
3 66 (1.16%) Confluence
4 38 (0.67%) WordPress
5 31 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
6 19 (0.33%) Drupal
7 11 (0.19%) Umbraco
8 8 (0.14%) nginx
9 5 (0.088%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.053%) Appian
10 3 (0.053%) IIS
10 3 (0.053%) Joomla!
11 2 (0.035%) Apache
11 2 (0.035%) CICS
11 2 (0.035%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.035%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.018%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.018%) Camunda
12 1 (0.018%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.018%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 52 (0.91%) Adobe XD
2 31 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 29 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
4 25 (0.44%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 24 (0.42%) Photoshop
6 23 (0.40%) Sketch
7 22 (0.39%) Adobe Illustrator
8 16 (0.28%) MS Visio
9 10 (0.18%) Chatbot
9 10 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 8 (0.14%) Adobe After Effects
10 8 (0.14%) InDesign
11 7 (0.12%) InVision
11 7 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
12 5 (0.088%) UserZoom
13 4 (0.070%) Adobe Premiere
14 3 (0.053%) AutoCAD
14 3 (0.053%) Trello
15 2 (0.035%) Adobe Captivate
15 2 (0.035%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 40 (0.70%) Shopify
2 18 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
4 16 (0.28%) Magento
5 9 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
6 7 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
7 6 (0.11%) Workday HCM
8 5 (0.088%) Payment Gateway
8 5 (0.088%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.070%) SAP BPC
10 2 (0.035%) Dynamics AX
10 2 (0.035%) Oracle Payables
10 2 (0.035%) Oracle Receivables
10 2 (0.035%) Remedy ITSM
10 2 (0.035%) Sage X3
10 2 (0.035%) SAP Business One
11 1 (0.018%) Oracle SCM
11 1 (0.018%) SAP EWM
11 1 (0.018%) SAP HR
11 1 (0.018%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 4,044 (70.87%) Cloud Computing
2 278 (4.87%) Azure
3 219 (3.84%) Figma
4 183 (3.21%) AWS
5 159 (2.79%) Microsoft 365
6 110 (1.93%) SaaS
7 105 (1.84%) Power Platform
8 80 (1.40%) Google Analytics
9 74 (1.30%) GitHub
10 69 (1.21%) GCP
11 64 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
12 63 (1.10%) Adobe Analytics
13 60 (1.05%) Entra ID
14 47 (0.82%) Serverless
15 36 (0.63%) PowerApps
16 35 (0.61%) Miro
17 34 (0.60%) Dynamics 365
18 29 (0.51%) Azure Logic Apps
19 27 (0.47%) OneDrive
20 26 (0.46%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4,051 (71.00%) Internet
2 55 (0.96%) Broadband
3 25 (0.44%) VPN
4 19 (0.33%) DNS
5 18 (0.32%) Firewall
6 17 (0.30%) HTTP
7 14 (0.25%) DHCP
8 12 (0.21%) TCP/IP
8 12 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
9 8 (0.14%) LAN
10 6 (0.11%) Intranet
11 5 (0.088%) WAN
12 4 (0.070%) VoIP
13 3 (0.053%) Bluetooth
13 3 (0.053%) Kerberos
13 3 (0.053%) WebEx
14 2 (0.035%) HTTPS
14 2 (0.035%) Network Security
14 2 (0.035%) VLAN
14 2 (0.035%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (0.95%) Power BI
2 53 (0.93%) SQL Server
3 34 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
4 32 (0.56%) Looker
5 26 (0.46%) MySQL
5 26 (0.46%) NoSQL
6 20 (0.35%) MongoDB
7 18 (0.32%) Relational Database
8 14 (0.25%) BigQuery
9 13 (0.23%) Metadata
9 13 (0.23%) Tableau
10 11 (0.19%) DB2
11 7 (0.12%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (0.12%) Oracle Reports
11 7 (0.12%) Redis
12 6 (0.11%) SAP BW
13 5 (0.088%) Elasticsearch
14 3 (0.053%) Power Query
15 2 (0.035%) DynamoDB
15 2 (0.035%) PostHog
Development Applications
1 134 (2.35%) JIRA
2 93 (1.63%) Git
3 37 (0.65%) Axure RP
4 33 (0.58%) Balsamiq
5 26 (0.46%) Jenkins
6 21 (0.37%) webpack
7 19 (0.33%) Cypress.io
7 19 (0.33%) Selenium
8 17 (0.30%) Vite
9 13 (0.23%) NeoLoad
9 13 (0.23%) Visual Studio
10 12 (0.21%) Crashlytics
10 12 (0.21%) Cucumber
10 12 (0.21%) eCATT
11 11 (0.19%) Bitbucket
12 10 (0.18%) Postman
12 10 (0.18%) XCTest
13 9 (0.16%) Storybook
13 9 (0.16%) TeamCity
14 8 (0.14%) GitLab
General
1 4,523 (79.27%) Social Skills
2 4,174 (73.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4,120 (72.20%) Banking
4 297 (5.21%) Finance
5 225 (3.94%) Marketing
6 177 (3.10%) Analytical Skills
7 136 (2.38%) Public Sector
8 108 (1.89%) Law
9 104 (1.82%) Legal
10 76 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
11 73 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
12 66 (1.16%) Retail
13 64 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
14 41 (0.72%) Manufacturing
15 39 (0.68%) Games
16 36 (0.63%) Telecoms
17 26 (0.46%) Advertising
18 19 (0.33%) Back Office
19 13 (0.23%) Digital Health
20 12 (0.21%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 3,139 (55.01%) Lecturer
2 338 (5.92%) Senior
3 265 (4.64%) Developer
4 215 (3.77%) Designer
5 167 (2.93%) Lead
6 147 (2.58%) Analyst
7 146 (2.56%) UX Designer
8 84 (1.47%) Senior Developer
9 73 (1.28%) Software Engineer
10 72 (1.26%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 58 (1.02%) Product Manager
12 57 (1.00%) Full-Stack Developer
12 57 (1.00%) Senior Manager
13 51 (0.89%) Senior Designer
14 50 (0.88%) UI Designer
15 47 (0.82%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 47 (0.82%) IT Support
16 45 (0.79%) Business Analyst
17 42 (0.74%) UI/UX Designer
18 37 (0.65%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 235 (4.12%) HTML
2 228 (4.00%) CSS
3 215 (3.77%) React
4 119 (2.09%) .NET
5 94 (1.65%) REST
5 94 (1.65%) RESTful
6 81 (1.42%) Node.js
7 77 (1.35%) AngularJS
8 70 (1.23%) Vue
9 46 (0.81%) HTML5
10 36 (0.63%) CSS3
11 32 (0.56%) Spring
12 31 (0.54%) Next.js
13 28 (0.49%) Spring Boot
14 27 (0.47%) .NET Framework
14 27 (0.47%) JSON
15 26 (0.46%) Web Services
15 26 (0.46%) WebSockets
16 25 (0.44%) ASP.NET
17 24 (0.42%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4,053 (71.03%) IoT
2 178 (3.12%) Product Ownership
3 112 (1.96%) Mobile App
4 89 (1.56%) Onboarding
5 58 (1.02%) Cloud Native
6 54 (0.95%) Social Media
7 43 (0.75%) Management Information System
8 42 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
9 38 (0.67%) Legacy Systems
10 34 (0.60%) Enterprise Software
11 32 (0.56%) AI Agents
12 31 (0.54%) Greenfield Project
13 19 (0.33%) Low-Code
14 18 (0.32%) Driving Licence
15 17 (0.30%) Analytical Mindset
15 17 (0.30%) Life Science
16 16 (0.28%) Distributed Systems
17 15 (0.26%) CMDB
17 15 (0.26%) e-Learning
18 14 (0.25%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 64 (1.12%) Apple iOS
2 62 (1.09%) Windows
3 58 (1.02%) Android
4 21 (0.37%) Windows 10
5 20 (0.35%) Linux
6 16 (0.28%) Mac OS
7 15 (0.26%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.11%) Unix
9 3 (0.053%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.053%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.053%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.035%) zOS
11 1 (0.018%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.018%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,325 (75.80%) AI
2 4,110 (72.03%) Machine Learning
3 4,101 (71.87%) Cybersecurity
4 4,087 (71.63%) Web Development
5 558 (9.78%) Agile
6 463 (8.11%) UX Design
7 379 (6.64%) Problem-Solving
8 355 (6.22%) Continuous Improvement
9 348 (6.10%) Analytics
10 258 (4.52%) Roadmaps
11 219 (3.84%) Mentoring
12 192 (3.36%) Full-Stack Development
13 179 (3.14%) DevOps
14 170 (2.98%) Decision-Making
15 168 (2.94%) CI/CD
15 168 (2.94%) User Research
16 166 (2.91%) Software Engineering
17 164 (2.87%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
18 142 (2.49%) Front End Development
18 142 (2.49%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 293 (5.13%) JavaScript
2 166 (2.91%) TypeScript
3 122 (2.14%) SQL
4 119 (2.09%) Java
5 105 (1.84%) Python
6 101 (1.77%) C#
7 45 (0.79%) PHP
8 40 (0.70%) PowerShell
9 27 (0.47%) Kotlin
10 22 (0.39%) Swift
11 21 (0.37%) Go
12 17 (0.30%) Bash
13 14 (0.25%) C++
14 10 (0.18%) T-SQL
15 9 (0.16%) Bicep
16 6 (0.11%) ABAP
16 6 (0.11%) Ruby
16 6 (0.11%) Rust
17 5 (0.088%) R
18 4 (0.070%) XAML
Qualifications
1 4,282 (75.04%) Degree
2 4,072 (71.36%) Master's Degree
3 4,048 (70.94%) PhD
4 4,045 (70.89%) Postgraduate
5 153 (2.68%) Security Cleared
6 107 (1.88%) SC Cleared
7 44 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
8 36 (0.63%) DBS Check
9 25 (0.44%) DV Cleared
10 22 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
11 13 (0.23%) Microsoft Certification
12 11 (0.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 10 (0.18%) PMI Certification
14 8 (0.14%) PMP
15 7 (0.12%) PRINCE2 Certification
16 6 (0.11%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 5 (0.088%) ISTQB
17 5 (0.088%) SAP Certification
18 4 (0.070%) ACCA
18 4 (0.070%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 319 (5.59%) Accessibility
2 120 (2.10%) QA
3 97 (1.70%) WCAG
4 63 (1.10%) GDPR
5 22 (0.39%) Data Quality
6 16 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
7 13 (0.23%) PCI DSS
8 10 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 19770
9 9 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
9 9 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 7 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 6 (0.11%) PERC
12 5 (0.088%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.088%) SLA
13 4 (0.070%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.035%) GRC
14 2 (0.035%) HL7
14 2 (0.035%) SOC 2
15 1 (0.018%) PMO
15 1 (0.018%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 78 (1.37%) Active Directory
2 73 (1.28%) Docker
3 19 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.053%) Firmware
5 3 (0.053%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.053%) vSphere
6 2 (0.035%) RACF
7 1 (0.018%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 53 (0.93%) Kubernetes
2 49 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
3 39 (0.68%) Terraform
4 21 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
5 13 (0.23%) HP ALM
6 10 (0.18%) Grafana
7 9 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
8 7 (0.12%) Ansible
9 6 (0.11%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.070%) SCCM
11 2 (0.035%) Data Guard
11 2 (0.035%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 2 (0.035%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (0.035%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.035%) Packer
11 2 (0.035%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.035%) SmoothWall
12 1 (0.018%) Argo
12 1 (0.018%) MOM
12 1 (0.018%) Nessus
Vendors
1 253 (4.43%) Microsoft
2 176 (3.08%) Adobe
3 122 (2.14%) Google
4 75 (1.31%) ServiceNow
5 47 (0.82%) Salesforce
6 39 (0.68%) SAP
7 36 (0.63%) HubSpot
8 28 (0.49%) Oracle
9 27 (0.47%) Nexthink
10 25 (0.44%) Apple
11 22 (0.39%) Hotjar
12 20 (0.35%) Qualtrics
13 18 (0.32%) BMC
14 17 (0.30%) Atlassian
15 14 (0.25%) HP
16 12 (0.21%) Cisco
16 12 (0.21%) Sitecore
17 11 (0.19%) iManage
17 11 (0.19%) Splunk
18 10 (0.18%) Screaming Frog