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

3 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 56 90
Rank change year-on-year -25 +34 -6
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 1,029 1,223 1,303
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.97% 4.81% 2.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.71% 5.23% 3.41%
Number of salaries quoted 717 490 767
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,475 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,150 £57,500 £52,550
Median % change year-on-year -0.61% +9.42% -15.92%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,750 £53,688 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.12% +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 38,033 23,370 38,265
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.83% 92.00% 81.84%
Number of salaries quoted 26,021 11,945 25,766
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,000 £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% - -9.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,246 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £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 26 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 26 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 -17 910 £60,000 +1.44% 896
UK excluding London -9 665 £53,750 +0.12% 499
Work from Home -27 375 £57,500 -4.17% 462
London -30 292 £70,000 - 511
North of England -23 244 £52,250 -5.00% 139
North West -17 142 £55,000 -4.35% 90
East of England +37 117 £85,000 +70.00% 63
South East +29 116 £54,000 +8.00% 132
Midlands -30 71 £45,497 -15.26% 61
Yorkshire +9 61 £50,000 +25.00% 28
South West -21 53 £60,000 +12.68% 47
North East -3 41 £52,000 +66.40% 22
West Midlands -44 38 £45,497 -15.26% 39
Scotland -37 37 £50,000 +12.36% 28
East Midlands +11 33 £52,500 +64.06% 21
Wales - 24 £50,000 - 19
Northern Ireland -21 4 £39,500 - 17

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
1 118 (2.75%) CMS
2 116 (2.71%) SharePoint
3 73 (1.70%) Confluence
4 43 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
5 28 (0.65%) WordPress
6 9 (0.21%) Drupal
7 8 (0.19%) Umbraco
8 7 (0.16%) nginx
9 3 (0.070%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.070%) Moodle
9 3 (0.070%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.047%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.047%) IIS
10 2 (0.047%) Skype for Business
10 2 (0.047%) Totara
11 1 (0.023%) Apache
11 1 (0.023%) Camunda
11 1 (0.023%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 34 (0.79%) Adobe XD
2 32 (0.75%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 32 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (0.51%) Sketch
4 20 (0.47%) Photoshop
5 19 (0.44%) Adobe Illustrator
5 19 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
6 12 (0.28%) Adobe After Effects
7 9 (0.21%) Chatbot
7 9 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.21%) UserZoom
8 8 (0.19%) InDesign
8 8 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 7 (0.16%) InVision
10 4 (0.093%) Trello
11 3 (0.070%) Adobe Premiere
11 3 (0.070%) MS Visio
11 3 (0.070%) Productboard
11 3 (0.070%) SPSS
12 2 (0.047%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 31 (0.72%) Shopify
2 22 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.44%) Magento
4 10 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
5 9 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
6 5 (0.12%) SAP ERP
7 4 (0.093%) Dynamics AX
8 3 (0.070%) Dynamics GP
9 2 (0.047%) Oracle EBS
9 2 (0.047%) Oracle ERP
9 2 (0.047%) Payment Gateway
9 2 (0.047%) Remedy ITSM
9 2 (0.047%) Towers Watson Igloo
10 1 (0.023%) Elite 3E
10 1 (0.023%) Oracle Payables
10 1 (0.023%) Oracle Receivables
10 1 (0.023%) PeopleSoft HCM
10 1 (0.023%) SAP EWM
10 1 (0.023%) SAP Payroll
10 1 (0.023%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 2,447 (57.07%) Cloud Computing
2 321 (7.49%) Azure
3 225 (5.25%) Microsoft 365
4 220 (5.13%) Figma
5 162 (3.78%) AWS
6 139 (3.24%) SaaS
7 132 (3.08%) Power Platform
8 98 (2.29%) Entra ID
9 70 (1.63%) Azure DevOps
10 69 (1.61%) Adobe Analytics
11 66 (1.54%) GCP
12 64 (1.49%) Google Analytics
13 63 (1.47%) GitHub
14 52 (1.21%) PowerApps
15 50 (1.17%) Power Automate
16 42 (0.98%) Azure Logic Apps
16 42 (0.98%) Serverless
17 41 (0.96%) Contentsquare
17 41 (0.96%) OneDrive
18 34 (0.79%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2,454 (57.23%) Internet
2 78 (1.82%) Broadband
3 27 (0.63%) VPN
4 24 (0.56%) DNS
5 20 (0.47%) DHCP
5 20 (0.47%) Firewall
5 20 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
6 18 (0.42%) HTTP
7 12 (0.28%) TCP/IP
8 8 (0.19%) Kerberos
8 8 (0.19%) VoIP
9 4 (0.093%) NAS
9 4 (0.093%) Network Security
9 4 (0.093%) SAN
9 4 (0.093%) SMS
9 4 (0.093%) Unified Communications
9 4 (0.093%) VLAN
10 3 (0.070%) LAN
10 3 (0.070%) Structured Cabling
10 3 (0.070%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (1.56%) Power BI
2 52 (1.21%) SQL Server
3 33 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (0.58%) Looker
5 23 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
6 18 (0.42%) Metadata
6 18 (0.42%) MongoDB
7 17 (0.40%) MySQL
8 15 (0.35%) BigQuery
8 15 (0.35%) NoSQL
9 10 (0.23%) Redis
9 10 (0.23%) Relational Database
9 10 (0.23%) Tableau
10 6 (0.14%) DB2
10 6 (0.14%) GIS
11 5 (0.12%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (0.12%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (0.12%) SAP BW
11 5 (0.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (0.093%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 113 (2.64%) JIRA
2 71 (1.66%) Git
3 20 (0.47%) Axure RP
3 20 (0.47%) Balsamiq
3 20 (0.47%) Jenkins
4 17 (0.40%) Crashlytics
4 17 (0.40%) Selenium
5 14 (0.33%) Vite
5 14 (0.33%) webpack
5 14 (0.33%) XCTest
6 13 (0.30%) Cypress.io
6 13 (0.30%) fastlane
7 11 (0.26%) Bitbucket
7 11 (0.26%) Claude Code
7 11 (0.26%) Cucumber
8 8 (0.19%) Postman
8 8 (0.19%) Storybook
8 8 (0.19%) Visual Studio
9 6 (0.14%) Xcode
10 5 (0.12%) JMeter
General
1 2,952 (68.84%) Social Skills
2 2,572 (59.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2,491 (58.09%) Banking
4 287 (6.69%) Finance
5 245 (5.71%) Marketing
6 185 (4.31%) Analytical Skills
7 143 (3.33%) Public Sector
8 103 (2.40%) Legal
9 90 (2.10%) Organisational Skills
9 90 (2.10%) Retail
10 84 (1.96%) Law
11 62 (1.45%) Games
12 59 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
13 47 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
14 33 (0.77%) Advertising
15 32 (0.75%) Manufacturing
16 25 (0.58%) Back Office
17 22 (0.51%) Telecoms
18 17 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
19 15 (0.35%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,847 (43.07%) Lecturer
2 373 (8.70%) Senior
3 312 (7.28%) Designer
4 266 (6.20%) Developer
5 229 (5.34%) UX Designer
6 187 (4.36%) Lead
7 126 (2.94%) Analyst
8 96 (2.24%) Senior Developer
9 86 (2.01%) Senior Designer
10 78 (1.82%) Software Engineer
11 73 (1.70%) UI Designer
12 65 (1.52%) Senior UX Designer
12 65 (1.52%) UI/UX Designer
13 61 (1.42%) Architect
13 61 (1.42%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 61 (1.42%) Product Manager
14 58 (1.35%) IT Support
15 56 (1.31%) IT Manager
16 51 (1.19%) Senior Manager
17 50 (1.17%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 203 (4.73%) HTML
2 201 (4.69%) CSS
3 175 (4.08%) React
4 114 (2.66%) .NET
5 90 (2.10%) REST
6 77 (1.80%) RESTful
7 65 (1.52%) AngularJS
8 56 (1.31%) Node.js
9 49 (1.14%) Vue
10 45 (1.05%) .NET Core
11 43 (1.00%) JSON
12 41 (0.96%) HTML5
13 32 (0.75%) CSS3
14 28 (0.65%) Web Services
15 27 (0.63%) ASP.NET
15 27 (0.63%) SOAP
16 26 (0.61%) Sass
16 26 (0.61%) Spring
17 25 (0.58%) Next.js
18 24 (0.56%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 2,451 (57.16%) IoT
2 193 (4.50%) Product Ownership
3 119 (2.78%) Mobile App
4 110 (2.57%) Onboarding
5 62 (1.45%) Social Media
6 46 (1.07%) Cloud Native
7 44 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
8 41 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
9 34 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
10 30 (0.70%) AI Agents
11 29 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
11 29 (0.68%) Management Information System
12 19 (0.44%) e-Learning
12 19 (0.44%) Low-Code
13 18 (0.42%) Life Science
13 18 (0.42%) Public Cloud
14 17 (0.40%) Driving Licence
15 15 (0.35%) Analytical Mindset
16 14 (0.33%) CMDB
17 13 (0.30%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 104 (2.43%) Windows
2 66 (1.54%) Apple iOS
3 44 (1.03%) Android
4 30 (0.70%) Windows 10
5 27 (0.63%) Windows Server
6 26 (0.61%) Mac OS
7 22 (0.51%) Linux
8 5 (0.12%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.093%) Mac OS X
10 3 (0.070%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.047%) Unix
11 2 (0.047%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.023%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,775 (64.72%) AI
2 2,528 (58.96%) Machine Learning
3 2,509 (58.51%) Cybersecurity
4 2,498 (58.26%) Web Development
5 544 (12.69%) UX Design
6 516 (12.03%) Agile
7 375 (8.75%) Continuous Improvement
8 361 (8.42%) Problem-Solving
9 328 (7.65%) Analytics
10 292 (6.81%) Roadmaps
11 257 (5.99%) Mentoring
12 177 (4.13%) Decision-Making
13 175 (4.08%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 167 (3.89%) Software Engineering
15 165 (3.85%) DevOps
16 163 (3.80%) User Research
17 160 (3.73%) Full-Stack Development
18 154 (3.59%) CI/CD
19 143 (3.33%) CRM
20 141 (3.29%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 251 (5.85%) JavaScript
2 152 (3.54%) TypeScript
3 127 (2.96%) SQL
4 114 (2.66%) C#
4 114 (2.66%) Python
5 105 (2.45%) Java
6 55 (1.28%) PowerShell
7 41 (0.96%) PHP
8 25 (0.58%) Kotlin
8 25 (0.58%) Swift
9 15 (0.35%) Go
10 9 (0.21%) Bash
10 9 (0.21%) Bicep
10 9 (0.21%) C++
10 9 (0.21%) T-SQL
11 8 (0.19%) Rust
12 7 (0.16%) ABAP
13 5 (0.12%) Apex Code
13 5 (0.12%) VB
14 4 (0.093%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2,637 (61.50%) Degree
2 2,463 (57.44%) Master's Degree
3 2,450 (57.14%) Postgraduate
4 2,449 (57.11%) PhD
5 152 (3.54%) Security Cleared
6 93 (2.17%) SC Cleared
7 41 (0.96%) DV Cleared
8 35 (0.82%) DBS Check
9 24 (0.56%) 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 (0.093%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 294 (6.86%) Accessibility
2 111 (2.59%) QA
3 99 (2.31%) WCAG
4 57 (1.33%) GDPR
5 29 (0.68%) Data Quality
6 18 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
7 14 (0.33%) SLA
8 12 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
9 11 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 10 (0.23%) PCI DSS
11 5 (0.12%) HIPAA
11 5 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 5 (0.12%) NEBOSH
12 4 (0.093%) PMO
13 3 (0.070%) GRC
13 3 (0.070%) PERC
14 2 (0.047%) GxP
14 2 (0.047%) SOC 2
15 1 (0.023%) NCSC
15 1 (0.023%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 99 (2.31%) Active Directory
2 56 (1.31%) Docker
3 6 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.093%) BitLocker
5 4 (0.093%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (0.093%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 71 (1.66%) Microsoft Intune
2 38 (0.89%) Kubernetes
3 26 (0.61%) Terraform
4 21 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
5 11 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
6 9 (0.21%) Grafana
6 9 (0.21%) SCCM
7 5 (0.12%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.093%) Ansible
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 (0.023%) Argo
10 1 (0.023%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.023%) Kibana
10 1 (0.023%) MOM
Vendors
1 333 (7.77%) Microsoft
2 189 (4.41%) Adobe
3 95 (2.22%) Google
4 73 (1.70%) ServiceNow
5 53 (1.24%) Salesforce
6 31 (0.72%) HubSpot
7 27 (0.63%) Apple
8 24 (0.56%) Nexthink
8 24 (0.56%) SAP
9 23 (0.54%) Oracle
10 18 (0.42%) Braze
11 16 (0.37%) BMC
11 16 (0.37%) Hotjar
12 15 (0.35%) Amplitude
13 12 (0.28%) iManage
13 12 (0.28%) OpenAI
14 10 (0.23%) WooCommerce
15 9 (0.21%) ConnectWise
15 9 (0.21%) Pinterest
15 9 (0.21%) TikTok