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

3 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 51 84
Rank change year-on-year -28 +33 +1
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 1,006 1,206 1,441
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.98% 4.97% 3.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.72% 5.40% 3.66%
Number of salaries quoted 691 497 835
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,000
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 £81,250
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 36,986 22,323 39,391
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.94% 91.94% 84.57%
Number of salaries quoted 24,937 11,867 26,484
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,750 £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 £49,150 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.82% -1.70% -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 12 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 12 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 -23 874 £60,000 +2.56% 777
UK excluding London -32 633 £53,171 -0.96% 541
Work from Home -33 368 £60,000 - 403
London -31 285 £70,000 - 331
North of England -30 233 £55,000 - 141
North West -22 130 £55,550 -3.39% 85
South East +20 109 £48,885 -2.23% 144
East of England +34 103 £85,000 +100.00% 69
Midlands -21 74 £42,500 -20.84% 81
Yorkshire -7 67 £50,000 +17.65% 31
South West -19 54 £54,750 -3.58% 60
West Midlands -48 42 £41,250 -23.17% 53
Scotland -34 37 £50,000 +5.26% 39
North East -7 36 £53,500 -8.94% 25
East Midlands +2 32 £60,000 +87.50% 26
Wales -11 21 £42,934 - 11
Northern Ireland -24 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
1 119 (2.81%) CMS
2 110 (2.60%) SharePoint
3 72 (1.70%) Confluence
4 37 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
5 30 (0.71%) WordPress
6 11 (0.26%) Drupal
7 10 (0.24%) Umbraco
8 8 (0.19%) nginx
9 3 (0.071%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.071%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.047%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.047%) IIS
10 2 (0.047%) Moodle
11 1 (0.024%) Apache
11 1 (0.024%) Camunda
11 1 (0.024%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.024%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.024%) Totara
Applications
1 39 (0.92%) Adobe XD
2 28 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (0.61%) 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
9 8 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 7 (0.17%) Adobe After Effects
11 6 (0.14%) InVision
12 5 (0.12%) MS Visio
13 4 (0.095%) InDesign
14 3 (0.071%) Adobe Premiere
14 3 (0.071%) SPSS
14 3 (0.071%) Trello
15 2 (0.047%) Pro Tools
15 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 4 (0.095%) Dynamics GP
8 3 (0.071%) Workday HCM
9 2 (0.047%) Remedy ITSM
10 1 (0.024%) Elite 3E
10 1 (0.024%) Oracle General Ledger
10 1 (0.024%) Oracle Payables
10 1 (0.024%) Oracle Receivables
10 1 (0.024%) Payment Gateway
10 1 (0.024%) SAP Business One
10 1 (0.024%) SAP EWM
10 1 (0.024%) SAP HCM
10 1 (0.024%) SAP HR
10 1 (0.024%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 2,446 (57.84%) Cloud Computing
2 308 (7.28%) Azure
3 210 (4.97%) Microsoft 365
4 208 (4.92%) Figma
5 172 (4.07%) AWS
6 131 (3.10%) Power Platform
7 121 (2.86%) SaaS
8 90 (2.13%) Entra ID
9 73 (1.73%) GCP
10 70 (1.66%) Google Analytics
11 69 (1.63%) Adobe Analytics
12 62 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
12 62 (1.47%) GitHub
13 55 (1.30%) PowerApps
14 49 (1.16%) Power Automate
15 43 (1.02%) OneDrive
16 41 (0.97%) Azure Logic Apps
16 41 (0.97%) Contentsquare
17 40 (0.95%) Serverless
18 36 (0.85%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2,453 (58.00%) Internet
2 77 (1.82%) Broadband
3 23 (0.54%) VPN
4 22 (0.52%) HTTP
5 20 (0.47%) DNS
6 19 (0.45%) Firewall
7 16 (0.38%) DHCP
7 16 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
8 12 (0.28%) TCP/IP
9 6 (0.14%) Kerberos
10 5 (0.12%) VoIP
11 4 (0.095%) Intranet
11 4 (0.095%) NAS
11 4 (0.095%) SAN
12 3 (0.071%) LAN
12 3 (0.071%) Network Security
12 3 (0.071%) VLAN
13 2 (0.047%) Bluetooth
13 2 (0.047%) SMS
13 2 (0.047%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (1.54%) Power BI
2 56 (1.32%) SQL Server
3 33 (0.78%) 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%) DB2
12 8 (0.19%) Redis
13 6 (0.14%) SAP BW
13 6 (0.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 5 (0.12%) Data Warehouse
14 5 (0.12%) Elasticsearch
15 4 (0.095%) GIS
15 4 (0.095%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 111 (2.62%) JIRA
2 67 (1.58%) Git
3 25 (0.59%) Balsamiq
4 24 (0.57%) Axure RP
5 21 (0.50%) Jenkins
6 20 (0.47%) Selenium
7 16 (0.38%) webpack
8 15 (0.35%) Crashlytics
8 15 (0.35%) Vite
9 13 (0.31%) Bitbucket
9 13 (0.31%) Cucumber
9 13 (0.31%) XCTest
10 10 (0.24%) fastlane
11 9 (0.21%) Cypress.io
12 8 (0.19%) Claude Code
12 8 (0.19%) Postman
12 8 (0.19%) Storybook
12 8 (0.19%) Visual Studio
13 7 (0.17%) TeamCity
14 6 (0.14%) JUnit
General
1 2,941 (69.54%) Social Skills
2 2,564 (60.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2,500 (59.12%) Banking
4 283 (6.69%) Finance
5 228 (5.39%) Marketing
6 176 (4.16%) Analytical Skills
7 138 (3.26%) Public Sector
8 101 (2.39%) Legal
9 86 (2.03%) Law
10 82 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
11 78 (1.84%) Retail
12 61 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
13 60 (1.42%) Games
14 47 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
15 32 (0.76%) Advertising
15 32 (0.76%) Manufacturing
16 27 (0.64%) Telecoms
17 21 (0.50%) Back Office
18 16 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
19 14 (0.33%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,847 (43.67%) Lecturer
2 375 (8.87%) Senior
3 295 (6.98%) Designer
4 249 (5.89%) Developer
5 217 (5.13%) UX Designer
6 182 (4.30%) Lead
7 118 (2.79%) Analyst
8 87 (2.06%) Senior Developer
9 85 (2.01%) Senior Designer
10 83 (1.96%) Software Engineer
11 65 (1.54%) Senior UX Designer
11 65 (1.54%) UI Designer
12 61 (1.44%) Product Manager
13 57 (1.35%) UI/UX Designer
14 55 (1.30%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 54 (1.28%) Architect
16 52 (1.23%) Senior Manager
17 49 (1.16%) Full-Stack Developer
17 49 (1.16%) IT Support
18 47 (1.11%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 194 (4.59%) HTML
2 193 (4.56%) CSS
3 179 (4.23%) React
4 114 (2.70%) .NET
5 90 (2.13%) REST
6 80 (1.89%) RESTful
7 63 (1.49%) AngularJS
8 61 (1.44%) Node.js
9 51 (1.21%) 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 (0.61%) ASP.NET
16 25 (0.59%) Next.js
16 25 (0.59%) SOAP
17 24 (0.57%) Microsoft Graph
17 24 (0.57%) SPFx
17 24 (0.57%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2,451 (57.96%) IoT
2 185 (4.37%) Product Ownership
3 114 (2.70%) Mobile App
4 107 (2.53%) Onboarding
5 55 (1.30%) Social Media
6 52 (1.23%) Cloud Native
7 44 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
8 42 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
9 34 (0.80%) AI Agents
10 32 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
11 31 (0.73%) Management Information System
12 29 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
13 21 (0.50%) Low-Code
13 21 (0.50%) Public Cloud
14 19 (0.45%) e-Learning
15 18 (0.43%) Life Science
16 14 (0.33%) CMDB
16 14 (0.33%) Distributed Systems
16 14 (0.33%) Driving Licence
17 12 (0.28%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 88 (2.08%) Windows
2 64 (1.51%) Apple iOS
3 49 (1.16%) Android
4 29 (0.69%) Windows 10
5 24 (0.57%) Windows Server
6 22 (0.52%) Linux
7 20 (0.47%) 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 2,766 (65.41%) AI
2 2,529 (59.80%) Machine Learning
3 2,500 (59.12%) Cybersecurity
4 2,494 (58.97%) Web Development
5 521 (12.32%) Agile
6 517 (12.23%) UX Design
7 344 (8.13%) Continuous Improvement
8 343 (8.11%) Problem-Solving
9 329 (7.78%) Analytics
10 284 (6.72%) Roadmaps
11 252 (5.96%) Mentoring
12 177 (4.19%) Software Engineering
13 176 (4.16%) Decision-Making
13 176 (4.16%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 170 (4.02%) User Research
15 169 (4.00%) DevOps
16 167 (3.95%) Full-Stack Development
17 148 (3.50%) CI/CD
18 136 (3.22%) CRM
18 136 (3.22%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 255 (6.03%) JavaScript
2 153 (3.62%) TypeScript
3 134 (3.17%) SQL
4 112 (2.65%) Python
5 111 (2.62%) Java
6 108 (2.55%) C#
7 50 (1.18%) PowerShell
8 42 (0.99%) PHP
9 24 (0.57%) Kotlin
10 23 (0.54%) Swift
11 21 (0.50%) Go
12 11 (0.26%) Bash
12 11 (0.26%) Bicep
12 11 (0.26%) C++
13 10 (0.24%) T-SQL
14 8 (0.19%) Rust
15 5 (0.12%) ABAP
16 4 (0.095%) Apex Code
16 4 (0.095%) Scala
17 3 (0.071%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2,643 (62.50%) Degree
2 2,464 (58.26%) Master's Degree
3 2,449 (57.91%) PhD
4 2,447 (57.86%) Postgraduate
5 158 (3.74%) Security Cleared
6 100 (2.36%) SC Cleared
7 41 (0.97%) DV Cleared
8 38 (0.90%) DBS Check
9 32 (0.76%) 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%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 287 (6.79%) Accessibility
2 111 (2.62%) QA
3 97 (2.29%) WCAG
4 53 (1.25%) GDPR
5 25 (0.59%) Data Quality
6 17 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
7 14 (0.33%) SLA
8 12 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
9 11 (0.26%) PCI DSS
10 10 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
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%) HL7
16 1 (0.024%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 94 (2.22%) Active Directory
2 61 (1.44%) 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 45 (1.06%) Kubernetes
3 30 (0.71%) Terraform
4 22 (0.52%) 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
1 315 (7.45%) Microsoft
2 189 (4.47%) Adobe
3 102 (2.41%) Google
4 70 (1.66%) ServiceNow
5 51 (1.21%) Salesforce
6 34 (0.80%) HubSpot
7 27 (0.64%) Nexthink
8 26 (0.61%) Apple
9 21 (0.50%) SAP
10 17 (0.40%) BMC
10 17 (0.40%) Braze
11 16 (0.38%) Hotjar
11 16 (0.38%) Oracle
12 14 (0.33%) Amplitude
13 12 (0.28%) OpenAI
14 11 (0.26%) Atlassian
14 11 (0.26%) iManage
14 11 (0.26%) VMware
15 10 (0.24%) New Relic
15 10 (0.24%) WooCommerce