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 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

3 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 82 84
Rank change year-on-year -23 +2 -8
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 1,049 662 965
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.77% 2.88% 2.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.40% 3.39% 3.41%
Number of salaries quoted 662 473 476
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,500 £32,375
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,750 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.30% +4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £91,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -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 43,661 19,548 28,278
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.56% 85.17% 84.13%
Number of salaries quoted 30,283 12,665 14,580
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £34,745
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £79,296
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £53,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -10.38% +0.95%

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 11 September 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 11 September 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 -17 911 £57,500 - 1,150
UK excluding London -19 585 £52,500 - 583
Work from Home -31 384 £55,000 -4.35% 485
London -9 361 £65,000 -13.33% 702
North of England +1 177 £55,000 +18.92% 162
South East -59 106 £47,500 -13.24% 147
South West +2 99 £60,000 +20.00% 80
Midlands -21 94 £40,375 -23.10% 75
North West -26 84 £55,000 +10.00% 89
West Midlands -13 62 £38,250 -36.51% 53
Yorkshire +14 56 £60,000 +71.43% 56
North East -18 37 £50,000 +61.29% 20
East of England -43 37 £45,000 -18.18% 58
East Midlands -40 32 £42,500 +9.68% 22
Northern Ireland -51 28 £60,500 - 24
Scotland -10 24 £55,000 +29.41% 28
Wales -57 20 £43,730 -35.21% 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
1 154 (7.27%) SharePoint
2 89 (4.20%) CMS
3 63 (2.97%) Confluence
4 50 (2.36%) Microsoft Exchange
5 38 (1.79%) WordPress
6 11 (0.52%) IIS
7 10 (0.47%) Moodle
8 5 (0.24%) Skype for Business
9 4 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.19%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.14%) Apache
10 3 (0.14%) Umbraco
11 2 (0.094%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.094%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.094%) Drupal
11 2 (0.094%) nginx
11 2 (0.094%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.094%) Totara
12 1 (0.047%) ExpressionEngine
12 1 (0.047%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 44 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 36 (1.70%) Microsoft Office
3 32 (1.51%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 31 (1.46%) Adobe XD
5 30 (1.42%) Chatbot
6 22 (1.04%) Photoshop
7 20 (0.94%) Adobe Illustrator
8 19 (0.90%) InDesign
8 19 (0.90%) UserZoom
9 17 (0.80%) Sketch
10 11 (0.52%) Adobe After Effects
11 9 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
12 8 (0.38%) MS Visio
13 7 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
14 3 (0.14%) Adobe Premiere
14 3 (0.14%) InVision
14 3 (0.14%) Productboard
14 3 (0.14%) SPSS
14 3 (0.14%) Trello
14 3 (0.14%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 23 (1.09%) Shopify
2 18 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (0.61%) Workday HCM
5 11 (0.52%) NetSuite
6 10 (0.47%) Magento
7 3 (0.14%) Adobe Campaign
7 3 (0.14%) Carpe Diem
7 3 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
7 3 (0.14%) Elite 3E
7 3 (0.14%) iTrent
7 3 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.094%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.094%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.094%) Towers Watson Igloo
8 2 (0.094%) Visualfiles
9 1 (0.047%) Bloomberg TOMS
9 1 (0.047%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 1 (0.047%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 401 (18.92%) Azure
2 288 (13.59%) Microsoft 365
3 188 (8.87%) Figma
4 176 (8.31%) Power Platform
5 175 (8.26%) AWS
6 151 (7.13%) SaaS
7 125 (5.90%) Entra ID
8 103 (4.86%) Azure DevOps
9 89 (4.20%) Power Automate
10 81 (3.82%) PowerApps
11 72 (3.40%) Google Analytics
12 68 (3.21%) GCP
13 60 (2.83%) GitHub
14 58 (2.74%) Microsoft Copilot
15 49 (2.31%) Dynamics 365
16 45 (2.12%) Azure Logic Apps
17 43 (2.03%) OneDrive
17 43 (2.03%) Serverless
18 42 (1.98%) Adobe Analytics
19 34 (1.60%) Adobe Creative Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 44 (2.08%) DNS
2 42 (1.98%) Broadband
3 37 (1.75%) DHCP
4 36 (1.70%) Firewall
5 23 (1.09%) TCP/IP
6 21 (0.99%) VPN
7 17 (0.80%) VoIP
8 16 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
9 15 (0.71%) Network Security
10 13 (0.61%) Internet
11 11 (0.52%) CTI
12 9 (0.42%) HTTP
12 9 (0.42%) Kerberos
13 8 (0.38%) Wireless
14 7 (0.33%) VLAN
15 6 (0.28%) Intranet
16 5 (0.24%) SAN
16 5 (0.24%) Skype
16 5 (0.24%) SMS
16 5 (0.24%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (4.39%) Power BI
2 66 (3.11%) SQL Server
3 38 (1.79%) Relational Database
4 29 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
5 27 (1.27%) NoSQL
6 25 (1.18%) MySQL
7 20 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
8 17 (0.80%) Looker
9 15 (0.71%) Metadata
10 11 (0.52%) MongoDB
11 10 (0.47%) Tableau
12 9 (0.42%) BigQuery
12 9 (0.42%) Redis
13 7 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
13 7 (0.33%) GIS
14 6 (0.28%) Data Warehouse
14 6 (0.28%) Power Query
15 5 (0.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 5 (0.24%) Star Schema
16 4 (0.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 98 (4.62%) JIRA
2 90 (4.25%) Git
3 31 (1.46%) Claude Code
4 26 (1.23%) Jenkins
5 19 (0.90%) Cypress.io
5 19 (0.90%) fastlane
6 15 (0.71%) Crashlytics
7 13 (0.61%) Selenium
8 11 (0.52%) Balsamiq
8 11 (0.52%) Oracle Forms
8 11 (0.52%) Team Foundation Server
9 10 (0.47%) Postman
9 10 (0.47%) XCTest
10 9 (0.42%) Axure RP
10 9 (0.42%) Xcode
11 8 (0.38%) GitLab
12 7 (0.33%) Bitbucket
12 7 (0.33%) Cucumber
13 6 (0.28%) Android Studio
13 6 (0.28%) Gradle
General
1 723 (34.12%) Social Skills
2 388 (18.31%) Finance
3 298 (14.06%) Analytical Skills
4 273 (12.88%) Marketing
5 196 (9.25%) Public Sector
6 195 (9.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 137 (6.47%) Retail
8 128 (6.04%) Law
9 104 (4.91%) Organisational Skills
10 82 (3.87%) Legal
11 74 (3.49%) Influencing Skills
12 66 (3.11%) Banking
13 51 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
14 48 (2.27%) Games
15 29 (1.37%) Advertising
15 29 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
16 27 (1.27%) Manufacturing
17 25 (1.18%) Multimedia
18 22 (1.04%) Financial Institution
19 21 (0.99%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 392 (18.50%) Senior
2 332 (15.67%) Designer
3 306 (14.44%) Developer
4 246 (11.61%) Lead
5 236 (11.14%) UX Designer
6 179 (8.45%) Analyst
7 103 (4.86%) Software Engineer
8 101 (4.77%) Senior Developer
9 94 (4.44%) IT Support
10 86 (4.06%) UI Designer
11 79 (3.73%) UI/UX Designer
12 77 (3.63%) Senior Designer
13 70 (3.30%) Product Manager
14 64 (3.02%) Architect
14 64 (3.02%) Support Engineer
15 63 (2.97%) IT Manager
16 60 (2.83%) Business Analyst
17 57 (2.69%) Full-Stack Developer
17 57 (2.69%) Support Analyst
18 53 (2.50%) Product Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 213 (10.05%) HTML
2 212 (10.00%) CSS
3 161 (7.60%) .NET
4 141 (6.65%) React
5 98 (4.62%) REST
6 76 (3.59%) RESTful
7 75 (3.54%) Node.js
8 58 (2.74%) .NET Core
9 54 (2.55%) JSON
10 47 (2.22%) ASP.NET
11 44 (2.08%) Next.js
12 37 (1.75%) AngularJS
13 31 (1.46%) HTML5
13 31 (1.46%) jQuery
13 31 (1.46%) Spring
14 29 (1.37%) CSS3
15 28 (1.32%) Terraform
16 27 (1.27%) Blazor
16 27 (1.27%) Spring Boot
17 24 (1.13%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 208 (9.82%) Product Ownership
2 105 (4.96%) Mobile App
3 98 (4.62%) Onboarding
4 78 (3.68%) Enterprise Software
5 68 (3.21%) Social Media
6 61 (2.88%) Self-Motivation
7 58 (2.74%) Cloud Native
8 52 (2.45%) Management Information System
9 34 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
10 33 (1.56%) Driving Licence
11 29 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
12 25 (1.18%) AI Agents
13 23 (1.09%) Algorithms
13 23 (1.09%) Graphic Design
14 20 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
15 19 (0.90%) Blog
16 18 (0.85%) e-Learning
16 18 (0.85%) Virtual Team
17 17 (0.80%) Learning Management System
18 16 (0.76%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 160 (7.55%) Windows
2 72 (3.40%) Apple iOS
3 47 (2.22%) Windows Server
4 45 (2.12%) Windows 10
5 44 (2.08%) Android
6 33 (1.56%) Linux
6 33 (1.56%) Mac OS
7 8 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
8 6 (0.28%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.28%) Unix
9 5 (0.24%) Windows 7
10 4 (0.19%) Mac OS X
11 2 (0.094%) AIX
11 2 (0.094%) CentOS
12 1 (0.047%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 579 (27.32%) Agile
2 560 (26.43%) UX Design
3 548 (25.86%) Continuous Improvement
4 471 (22.23%) Problem-Solving
5 449 (21.19%) AI
6 365 (17.23%) Analytics
7 336 (15.86%) Roadmaps
8 280 (13.21%) Mentoring
9 260 (12.27%) Stakeholder Management
10 231 (10.90%) Decision-Making
11 223 (10.52%) DevOps
12 206 (9.72%) CI/CD
13 179 (8.45%) Software Engineering
14 175 (8.26%) ITIL
15 166 (7.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 163 (7.69%) Workflow
17 162 (7.65%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
18 161 (7.60%) User Research
19 160 (7.55%) Customer Experience
20 153 (7.22%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 256 (12.08%) JavaScript
2 181 (8.54%) SQL
3 164 (7.74%) C#
3 164 (7.74%) TypeScript
4 128 (6.04%) Python
5 100 (4.72%) Java
6 79 (3.73%) PowerShell
7 30 (1.42%) Swift
8 28 (1.32%) PHP
9 23 (1.09%) Kotlin
10 21 (0.99%) VB.NET
11 16 (0.76%) C++
12 11 (0.52%) Bash
12 11 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 10 (0.47%) C
14 9 (0.42%) ABAP
14 9 (0.42%) VBScript
15 7 (0.33%) Go
15 7 (0.33%) VB
16 6 (0.28%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 215 (10.15%) Degree
2 152 (7.17%) Security Cleared
3 89 (4.20%) SC Cleared
4 40 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
5 36 (1.70%) DV Cleared
6 29 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 28 (1.32%) DBS Check
8 18 (0.85%) Postgraduate
9 13 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
10 12 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
10 12 (0.57%) ICAEW
11 11 (0.52%) A+ Certification
12 10 (0.47%) Master's Degree
12 10 (0.47%) PMI Certification
13 9 (0.42%) CISSP
14 8 (0.38%) Network+ Certification
14 8 (0.38%) PhD
15 7 (0.33%) ISTQB
16 6 (0.28%) IIBA
17 4 (0.19%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 296 (13.97%) Accessibility
2 137 (6.47%) QA
3 101 (4.77%) WCAG
4 68 (3.21%) Data Quality
5 62 (2.93%) GDPR
6 38 (1.79%) SLA
7 19 (0.90%) Actionable Recommendations
8 16 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
9 12 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 11 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 5 (0.24%) NEBOSH
11 5 (0.24%) PMO
11 5 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.19%) PERC
12 4 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
13 3 (0.14%) GRC
13 3 (0.14%) GxP
13 3 (0.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 3 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 3 (0.14%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 121 (5.71%) Active Directory
2 64 (3.02%) Docker
3 11 (0.52%) BitLocker
4 9 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.14%) vSphere
8 2 (0.094%) Firmware
8 2 (0.094%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.047%) UAG
Systems Management
1 86 (4.06%) Microsoft Intune
2 43 (2.03%) Kubernetes
3 17 (0.80%) SCCM
4 15 (0.71%) Jamf Pro
5 8 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (0.33%) Ansible
7 4 (0.19%) Grafana
8 2 (0.094%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.094%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 2 (0.094%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.094%) Packer
8 2 (0.094%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.047%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.047%) AirWatch
9 1 (0.047%) AppManager
9 1 (0.047%) Argo
9 1 (0.047%) Forefront Identity Manager
9 1 (0.047%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.047%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.047%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 468 (22.09%) Microsoft
2 161 (7.60%) Adobe
3 113 (5.33%) Google
4 47 (2.22%) Salesforce
5 45 (2.12%) ServiceNow
6 43 (2.03%) Oracle
7 33 (1.56%) SAP
8 32 (1.51%) Apple
9 27 (1.27%) OpenAI
10 22 (1.04%) Cisco
11 19 (0.90%) iManage
12 16 (0.76%) Workday
13 15 (0.71%) Dynatrace
13 15 (0.71%) VMware
14 13 (0.61%) HubSpot
15 12 (0.57%) Braze
15 12 (0.57%) Meraki
15 12 (0.57%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
16 11 (0.52%) Amplitude
16 11 (0.52%) Avaya