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

3 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 80 87
Rank change year-on-year -27 +7 -9
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 1,033 659 946
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.74% 2.90% 2.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.38% 3.40% 3.41%
Number of salaries quoted 646 474 475
10th Percentile £31,750 £30,500 £31,752
25th Percentile £39,000 £41,554 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -12.52%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £52,500 £47,750
% change year-on-year -2.86% +9.95% -13.18%

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 43,483 19,378 27,715
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.43% 85.24% 84.59%
Number of salaries quoted 30,125 12,597 14,263
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £34,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,500 £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 £79,600
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 13 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 13 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 -22 899 £57,250 -0.43% 1,802
UK excluding London -15 577 £51,000 -2.86% 835
Work from Home -28 378 £55,000 -4.35% 1,517
London -11 356 £65,000 -10.34% 1,154
North of England -6 173 £55,000 +15.79% 220
South East -58 104 £48,750 -10.55% 199
South West -3 99 £60,000 +20.00% 112
Midlands -16 97 £38,250 -27.14% 104
North West -36 84 £55,000 +10.00% 123
West Midlands -1 65 £38,250 -38.80% 67
Yorkshire +13 55 £61,538 +75.82% 69
North East -20 34 £50,000 +61.29% 31
East of England -50 34 £45,000 -18.18% 83
East Midlands -33 32 £42,500 +13.33% 37
Northern Ireland -51 28 £60,500 - 43
Scotland -15 23 £55,000 +29.41% 56
Wales -63 19 £38,500 -42.96% 22

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
1 151 (7.19%) SharePoint
2 87 (4.14%) CMS
3 64 (3.05%) Confluence
4 49 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
5 37 (1.76%) WordPress
6 11 (0.52%) IIS
7 10 (0.48%) Moodle
8 5 (0.24%) Skype for Business
9 4 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.14%) Apache
10 3 (0.14%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.14%) Umbraco
11 2 (0.095%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.095%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.095%) Drupal
11 2 (0.095%) nginx
11 2 (0.095%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.095%) Totara
12 1 (0.048%) ExpressionEngine
12 1 (0.048%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 44 (2.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 36 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
3 32 (1.52%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 31 (1.48%) Chatbot
5 30 (1.43%) Adobe XD
6 22 (1.05%) Photoshop
7 20 (0.95%) Adobe Illustrator
8 19 (0.91%) InDesign
8 19 (0.91%) UserZoom
9 17 (0.81%) Sketch
10 11 (0.52%) Adobe After Effects
11 9 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
12 8 (0.38%) MS Visio
13 6 (0.29%) 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 (1.10%) Shopify
2 18 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (0.62%) Workday HCM
5 11 (0.52%) NetSuite
6 10 (0.48%) 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 (0.095%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.095%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.095%) Towers Watson Igloo
8 2 (0.095%) Visualfiles
9 1 (0.048%) Bloomberg TOMS
9 1 (0.048%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 1 (0.048%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 392 (18.68%) Azure
2 283 (13.48%) Microsoft 365
3 186 (8.86%) Figma
4 180 (8.58%) Power Platform
5 174 (8.29%) AWS
6 147 (7.00%) SaaS
7 122 (5.81%) Entra ID
8 98 (4.67%) Azure DevOps
9 89 (4.24%) Power Automate
10 81 (3.86%) PowerApps
11 70 (3.33%) Google Analytics
12 67 (3.19%) GCP
13 57 (2.72%) GitHub
13 57 (2.72%) Microsoft Copilot
14 49 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
15 45 (2.14%) Azure Logic Apps
16 43 (2.05%) OneDrive
17 42 (2.00%) Adobe Analytics
17 42 (2.00%) Serverless
18 34 (1.62%) Adobe Creative Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 43 (2.05%) DNS
2 42 (2.00%) Broadband
3 36 (1.72%) DHCP
4 35 (1.67%) Firewall
5 21 (1.00%) TCP/IP
5 21 (1.00%) VPN
6 17 (0.81%) VoIP
7 15 (0.71%) Network Security
7 15 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
8 13 (0.62%) Internet
9 11 (0.52%) CTI
10 9 (0.43%) HTTP
10 9 (0.43%) Kerberos
11 8 (0.38%) Wireless
12 6 (0.29%) Intranet
12 6 (0.29%) VLAN
13 5 (0.24%) SAN
13 5 (0.24%) Skype
13 5 (0.24%) SMS
13 5 (0.24%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (4.53%) Power BI
2 64 (3.05%) SQL Server
3 37 (1.76%) Relational Database
4 27 (1.29%) NoSQL
4 27 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
5 25 (1.19%) MySQL
6 20 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
7 17 (0.81%) Looker
8 15 (0.71%) Metadata
9 11 (0.52%) MongoDB
10 10 (0.48%) Tableau
11 9 (0.43%) BigQuery
11 9 (0.43%) Redis
12 8 (0.38%) GIS
13 7 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
14 6 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
14 6 (0.29%) 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 97 (4.62%) JIRA
2 89 (4.24%) Git
3 31 (1.48%) Claude Code
4 24 (1.14%) Jenkins
5 19 (0.91%) Cypress.io
6 16 (0.76%) fastlane
7 13 (0.62%) Crashlytics
7 13 (0.62%) Selenium
8 11 (0.52%) Oracle Forms
8 11 (0.52%) Team Foundation Server
9 10 (0.48%) Balsamiq
10 9 (0.43%) Postman
11 8 (0.38%) Axure RP
11 8 (0.38%) GitLab
11 8 (0.38%) XCTest
12 7 (0.33%) Cucumber
12 7 (0.33%) Xcode
13 6 (0.29%) Bitbucket
13 6 (0.29%) JUnit
14 5 (0.24%) Gradle
General
1 718 (34.21%) Social Skills
2 387 (18.44%) Finance
3 294 (14.01%) Analytical Skills
4 265 (12.63%) Marketing
5 191 (9.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 190 (9.05%) Public Sector
7 135 (6.43%) Retail
8 127 (6.05%) Law
9 102 (4.86%) Organisational Skills
10 82 (3.91%) Legal
11 72 (3.43%) Influencing Skills
12 66 (3.14%) Banking
13 50 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
14 48 (2.29%) Games
15 29 (1.38%) Advertising
16 28 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
17 27 (1.29%) Manufacturing
18 25 (1.19%) Multimedia
19 22 (1.05%) Financial Institution
20 21 (1.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 383 (18.25%) Senior
2 332 (15.82%) Designer
3 300 (14.29%) Developer
4 244 (11.62%) Lead
5 236 (11.24%) UX Designer
6 179 (8.53%) Analyst
7 102 (4.86%) Software Engineer
8 97 (4.62%) Senior Developer
9 94 (4.48%) IT Support
10 86 (4.10%) UI Designer
11 79 (3.76%) UI/UX Designer
12 77 (3.67%) Senior Designer
13 66 (3.14%) Product Manager
14 64 (3.05%) IT Manager
15 63 (3.00%) Architect
16 62 (2.95%) Support Engineer
17 60 (2.86%) Business Analyst
18 57 (2.72%) Support Analyst
19 56 (2.67%) Full-Stack Developer
20 53 (2.53%) Product Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 210 (10.00%) HTML
2 209 (9.96%) CSS
3 158 (7.53%) .NET
4 140 (6.67%) React
5 97 (4.62%) REST
6 74 (3.53%) Node.js
7 70 (3.33%) RESTful
8 56 (2.67%) .NET Core
9 54 (2.57%) JSON
10 45 (2.14%) ASP.NET
11 44 (2.10%) Next.js
12 35 (1.67%) AngularJS
13 31 (1.48%) jQuery
13 31 (1.48%) Spring
14 30 (1.43%) HTML5
15 29 (1.38%) CSS3
16 27 (1.29%) Spring Boot
16 27 (1.29%) Terraform
17 26 (1.24%) Blazor
18 24 (1.14%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 202 (9.62%) Product Ownership
2 100 (4.76%) Mobile App
3 94 (4.48%) Onboarding
4 74 (3.53%) Enterprise Software
5 68 (3.24%) Social Media
6 61 (2.91%) Self-Motivation
7 58 (2.76%) Cloud Native
8 52 (2.48%) Management Information System
9 34 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
10 32 (1.52%) Driving Licence
11 29 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
12 25 (1.19%) AI Agents
13 23 (1.10%) Algorithms
13 23 (1.10%) Graphic Design
14 20 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
15 19 (0.91%) Blog
16 18 (0.86%) e-Learning
17 17 (0.81%) Learning Management System
17 17 (0.81%) Virtual Team
18 16 (0.76%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 158 (7.53%) Windows
2 66 (3.14%) Apple iOS
3 45 (2.14%) Windows 10
3 45 (2.14%) Windows Server
4 39 (1.86%) Android
5 34 (1.62%) Linux
6 32 (1.52%) Mac OS
7 8 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
8 6 (0.29%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.29%) Unix
8 6 (0.29%) Windows 7
9 4 (0.19%) Mac OS X
10 2 (0.095%) AIX
10 2 (0.095%) CentOS
11 1 (0.048%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 572 (27.25%) Agile
2 555 (26.44%) UX Design
3 545 (25.96%) Continuous Improvement
4 471 (22.44%) Problem-Solving
5 449 (21.39%) AI
6 358 (17.06%) Analytics
7 331 (15.77%) Roadmaps
8 279 (13.29%) Mentoring
9 262 (12.48%) Stakeholder Management
10 224 (10.67%) Decision-Making
11 216 (10.29%) DevOps
12 200 (9.53%) CI/CD
13 175 (8.34%) ITIL
13 175 (8.34%) Software Engineering
14 166 (7.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 161 (7.67%) Workflow
16 160 (7.62%) Customer Experience
17 159 (7.58%) User Research
18 158 (7.53%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
19 149 (7.10%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 255 (12.15%) JavaScript
2 181 (8.62%) SQL
3 162 (7.72%) TypeScript
4 161 (7.67%) C#
5 128 (6.10%) Python
6 99 (4.72%) Java
7 79 (3.76%) PowerShell
8 27 (1.29%) PHP
8 27 (1.29%) Swift
9 21 (1.00%) Kotlin
9 21 (1.00%) VB.NET
10 17 (0.81%) C++
11 11 (0.52%) Bash
11 11 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 10 (0.48%) C
13 9 (0.43%) ABAP
13 9 (0.43%) VBScript
14 7 (0.33%) VB
15 6 (0.29%) Apex Code
15 6 (0.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 213 (10.15%) Degree
2 153 (7.29%) Security Cleared
3 90 (4.29%) SC Cleared
4 41 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
5 35 (1.67%) DV Cleared
6 30 (1.43%) DBS Check
7 28 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (0.86%) Postgraduate
9 13 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
10 12 (0.57%) ICAEW
11 11 (0.52%) A+ Certification
11 11 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
12 10 (0.48%) Master's Degree
12 10 (0.48%) PMI Certification
13 9 (0.43%) CISSP
14 8 (0.38%) Network+ Certification
14 8 (0.38%) PhD
15 7 (0.33%) ISTQB
16 6 (0.29%) IIBA
17 5 (0.24%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 291 (13.86%) Accessibility
2 133 (6.34%) QA
3 97 (4.62%) WCAG
4 67 (3.19%) Data Quality
5 60 (2.86%) GDPR
6 40 (1.91%) SLA
7 19 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
8 15 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
9 12 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 10 (0.48%) 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
14 2 (0.095%) HIPAA
System Software
1 119 (5.67%) Active Directory
2 64 (3.05%) Docker
3 11 (0.52%) BitLocker
4 9 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
5 8 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.14%) vSphere
8 2 (0.095%) Firmware
8 2 (0.095%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.095%) UAG
Systems Management
1 85 (4.05%) Microsoft Intune
2 43 (2.05%) Kubernetes
3 18 (0.86%) SCCM
4 14 (0.67%) Jamf Pro
5 8 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (0.33%) Ansible
7 4 (0.19%) Grafana
8 2 (0.095%) AirWatch
8 2 (0.095%) Packer
8 2 (0.095%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.095%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.048%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.048%) AppManager
9 1 (0.048%) Argo
9 1 (0.048%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.048%) Forefront Identity Manager
9 1 (0.048%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.048%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.048%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.048%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 463 (22.06%) Microsoft
2 160 (7.62%) Adobe
3 110 (5.24%) Google
4 46 (2.19%) Salesforce
5 45 (2.14%) ServiceNow
6 40 (1.91%) Oracle
7 33 (1.57%) SAP
8 30 (1.43%) Apple
9 27 (1.29%) OpenAI
10 22 (1.05%) Cisco
11 19 (0.91%) iManage
12 16 (0.76%) VMware
12 16 (0.76%) Workday
13 13 (0.62%) Dynatrace
14 12 (0.57%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
15 11 (0.52%) Avaya
15 11 (0.52%) Braze
15 11 (0.52%) Genesys
15 11 (0.52%) HubSpot
15 11 (0.52%) Meraki