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

3 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 57 92
Rank change year-on-year -21 +35 -7
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 1,028 1,234 1,305
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.96% 4.79% 2.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.69% 5.20% 3.45%
Number of salaries quoted 715 498 765
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,813 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £58,000 £52,550
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% +10.37% -15.92%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £53,688 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.58% +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 38,145 23,730 37,848
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.68% 92.13% 82.36%
Number of salaries quoted 26,097 12,199 25,386
10th Percentile £30,250 £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 £76,250 £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 24 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 24 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 -16 907 £60,000 - 800
UK excluding London -11 662 £54,000 +0.58% 490
Work from Home -26 373 £57,500 -6.12% 429
London -31 292 £70,000 - 433
North of England -23 241 £52,000 -5.45% 142
North West -22 140 £55,000 -4.35% 93
South East +32 118 £54,000 +8.00% 134
East of England +39 114 £85,000 +83.78% 53
Midlands -21 72 £45,497 -15.26% 56
Yorkshire +3 61 £50,000 +21.21% 28
South West -27 53 £60,000 +7.35% 43
North East -4 40 £52,000 +66.40% 22
West Midlands -41 39 £45,497 -15.26% 35
Scotland -27 37 £50,000 +12.36% 27
East Midlands +11 33 £52,500 +64.06% 19
Wales - 24 £50,000 - 16
Northern Ireland -21 4 £39,500 - 25

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 (2.74%) CMS
1 118 (2.74%) SharePoint
2 73 (1.70%) Confluence
3 43 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 28 (0.65%) WordPress
5 9 (0.21%) Drupal
6 8 (0.19%) Umbraco
7 7 (0.16%) nginx
8 3 (0.070%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.070%) Moodle
8 3 (0.070%) Sitecore CMS
9 2 (0.047%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.047%) IIS
9 2 (0.047%) Skype for Business
9 2 (0.047%) Totara
10 1 (0.023%) Apache
10 1 (0.023%) Camunda
10 1 (0.023%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 34 (0.79%) Adobe XD
2 33 (0.77%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 33 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (0.49%) Photoshop
3 21 (0.49%) Sketch
4 20 (0.47%) Adobe Illustrator
5 18 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
6 12 (0.28%) Adobe After Effects
7 9 (0.21%) Chatbot
7 9 (0.21%) InDesign
7 9 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.21%) UserZoom
8 7 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 6 (0.14%) InVision
10 3 (0.070%) Adobe Premiere
10 3 (0.070%) MS Visio
10 3 (0.070%) Productboard
10 3 (0.070%) SPSS
10 3 (0.070%) Trello
11 2 (0.047%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 32 (0.74%) Shopify
2 22 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.44%) Magento
4 11 (0.26%) 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
8 3 (0.070%) Workday HCM
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%) Oracle General Ledger
10 1 (0.023%) Oracle Payables
10 1 (0.023%) PeopleSoft HCM
10 1 (0.023%) SAP EWM
10 1 (0.023%) SAP HCM
10 1 (0.023%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 2,447 (56.89%) Cloud Computing
2 329 (7.65%) Azure
3 229 (5.32%) Microsoft 365
4 220 (5.12%) Figma
5 167 (3.88%) AWS
6 137 (3.19%) SaaS
7 135 (3.14%) Power Platform
8 98 (2.28%) Entra ID
9 71 (1.65%) Azure DevOps
10 69 (1.60%) Adobe Analytics
11 68 (1.58%) GCP
12 65 (1.51%) GitHub
12 65 (1.51%) Google Analytics
13 54 (1.26%) PowerApps
14 51 (1.19%) Power Automate
15 43 (1.00%) Azure Logic Apps
15 43 (1.00%) OneDrive
16 42 (0.98%) Serverless
17 41 (0.95%) Contentsquare
18 35 (0.81%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2,454 (57.06%) Internet
2 78 (1.81%) Broadband
3 26 (0.60%) VPN
4 23 (0.53%) DNS
5 20 (0.47%) Firewall
5 20 (0.47%) HTTP
6 19 (0.44%) DHCP
6 19 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
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 68 (1.58%) Power BI
2 54 (1.26%) SQL Server
3 33 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (0.58%) Looker
5 23 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
6 18 (0.42%) Metadata
6 18 (0.42%) MongoDB
7 17 (0.40%) MySQL
8 16 (0.37%) NoSQL
9 15 (0.35%) BigQuery
10 10 (0.23%) Redis
10 10 (0.23%) Tableau
11 8 (0.19%) Relational Database
12 6 (0.14%) DB2
12 6 (0.14%) GIS
12 6 (0.14%) SAP BW
12 6 (0.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 5 (0.12%) Data Warehouse
13 5 (0.12%) Elasticsearch
14 4 (0.093%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 112 (2.60%) JIRA
2 71 (1.65%) Git
3 20 (0.47%) Balsamiq
3 20 (0.47%) Jenkins
4 19 (0.44%) Axure RP
5 18 (0.42%) Selenium
6 17 (0.40%) Crashlytics
7 15 (0.35%) webpack
8 14 (0.33%) Vite
8 14 (0.33%) XCTest
9 13 (0.30%) Cypress.io
9 13 (0.30%) fastlane
10 11 (0.26%) Bitbucket
10 11 (0.26%) Claude Code
10 11 (0.26%) Cucumber
11 8 (0.19%) Postman
11 8 (0.19%) Storybook
11 8 (0.19%) Visual Studio
12 6 (0.14%) JUnit
12 6 (0.14%) Xcode
General
1 2,959 (68.80%) Social Skills
2 2,568 (59.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2,492 (57.94%) Banking
4 295 (6.86%) Finance
5 243 (5.65%) Marketing
6 189 (4.39%) Analytical Skills
7 143 (3.32%) Public Sector
8 104 (2.42%) Legal
9 90 (2.09%) Organisational Skills
9 90 (2.09%) Retail
10 85 (1.98%) Law
11 62 (1.44%) Games
12 60 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
13 48 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
14 33 (0.77%) Advertising
15 32 (0.74%) Manufacturing
16 25 (0.58%) Back Office
17 24 (0.56%) Telecoms
18 17 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
19 15 (0.35%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,847 (42.94%) Lecturer
2 374 (8.70%) Senior
3 310 (7.21%) Designer
4 266 (6.18%) Developer
5 227 (5.28%) UX Designer
6 193 (4.49%) Lead
7 127 (2.95%) Analyst
8 94 (2.19%) Senior Developer
9 86 (2.00%) Senior Designer
10 77 (1.79%) Software Engineer
11 72 (1.67%) UI Designer
12 65 (1.51%) Senior UX Designer
13 64 (1.49%) UI/UX Designer
14 61 (1.42%) Architect
14 61 (1.42%) Product Manager
15 60 (1.40%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
16 58 (1.35%) IT Support
17 57 (1.33%) IT Manager
18 51 (1.19%) Senior Manager
19 50 (1.16%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 201 (4.67%) HTML
2 199 (4.63%) CSS
3 181 (4.21%) React
4 116 (2.70%) .NET
5 95 (2.21%) REST
6 79 (1.84%) RESTful
7 66 (1.53%) AngularJS
8 58 (1.35%) Node.js
9 51 (1.19%) Vue
10 45 (1.05%) .NET Core
11 44 (1.02%) JSON
12 40 (0.93%) HTML5
13 31 (0.72%) CSS3
14 30 (0.70%) Web Services
15 27 (0.63%) ASP.NET
15 27 (0.63%) SOAP
16 26 (0.60%) Next.js
16 26 (0.60%) Sass
16 26 (0.60%) Spring
17 24 (0.56%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 2,451 (56.99%) IoT
2 194 (4.51%) Product Ownership
3 120 (2.79%) Mobile App
4 110 (2.56%) Onboarding
5 61 (1.42%) Social Media
6 49 (1.14%) Cloud Native
7 45 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
8 41 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
9 34 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
10 31 (0.72%) AI Agents
10 31 (0.72%) Management Information System
11 29 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
12 21 (0.49%) Low-Code
13 19 (0.44%) e-Learning
13 19 (0.44%) Public Cloud
14 18 (0.42%) Life Science
15 17 (0.40%) Driving Licence
16 15 (0.35%) Analytical Mindset
17 14 (0.33%) CMDB
18 13 (0.30%) Graphic Design
Operating Systems
1 103 (2.39%) Windows
2 67 (1.56%) Apple iOS
3 47 (1.09%) Android
4 30 (0.70%) Windows 10
5 27 (0.63%) Windows Server
6 25 (0.58%) Mac OS
7 23 (0.53%) Linux
8 6 (0.14%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.093%) Mac OS X
10 3 (0.070%) Unix
10 3 (0.070%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.047%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.023%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,782 (64.68%) AI
2 2,529 (58.80%) Machine Learning
3 2,508 (58.31%) Cybersecurity
4 2,497 (58.06%) Web Development
5 545 (12.67%) UX Design
6 523 (12.16%) Agile
7 372 (8.65%) Continuous Improvement
8 365 (8.49%) Problem-Solving
9 331 (7.70%) Analytics
10 294 (6.84%) Roadmaps
11 258 (6.00%) Mentoring
12 177 (4.12%) Decision-Making
13 174 (4.05%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 170 (3.95%) DevOps
15 169 (3.93%) Software Engineering
16 164 (3.81%) Full-Stack Development
17 161 (3.74%) User Research
18 158 (3.67%) CI/CD
19 143 (3.32%) CRM
19 143 (3.32%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 253 (5.88%) JavaScript
2 155 (3.60%) TypeScript
3 129 (3.00%) SQL
4 116 (2.70%) C#
5 114 (2.65%) Python
6 108 (2.51%) Java
7 56 (1.30%) PowerShell
8 41 (0.95%) PHP
9 26 (0.60%) Kotlin
10 25 (0.58%) Swift
11 16 (0.37%) Go
12 11 (0.26%) C++
13 10 (0.23%) Bicep
14 9 (0.21%) Bash
14 9 (0.21%) T-SQL
15 8 (0.19%) Rust
16 7 (0.16%) ABAP
17 4 (0.093%) Apex Code
17 4 (0.093%) Scala
17 4 (0.093%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2,643 (61.45%) Degree
2 2,464 (57.29%) Master's Degree
3 2,449 (56.94%) PhD
3 2,449 (56.94%) Postgraduate
4 154 (3.58%) Security Cleared
5 96 (2.23%) SC Cleared
6 41 (0.95%) DV Cleared
7 35 (0.81%) DBS Check
8 26 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
9 18 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
10 15 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
11 8 (0.19%) CISSP
11 8 (0.19%) ICAEW
12 7 (0.16%) ITIL Certification
12 7 (0.16%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 6 (0.14%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 6 (0.14%) PMI Certification
13 6 (0.14%) SAP Certification
14 5 (0.12%) PMP
15 4 (0.093%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 295 (6.86%) Accessibility
2 112 (2.60%) QA
3 97 (2.26%) WCAG
4 59 (1.37%) GDPR
5 29 (0.67%) Data Quality
6 19 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
7 14 (0.33%) SLA
8 12 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
8 12 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 10 (0.23%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 5 (0.12%) HIPAA
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%) HL7
15 1 (0.023%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 99 (2.30%) Active Directory
2 56 (1.30%) 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 73 (1.70%) Microsoft Intune
2 38 (0.88%) Kubernetes
3 28 (0.65%) Terraform
4 22 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
5 11 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
6 9 (0.21%) Grafana
6 9 (0.21%) SCCM
7 5 (0.12%) Ansible
7 5 (0.12%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.047%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.047%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 2 (0.047%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.047%) Packer
8 2 (0.047%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.023%) Argo
9 1 (0.023%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.023%) Kibana
9 1 (0.023%) MOM
Vendors
1 338 (7.86%) Microsoft
2 190 (4.42%) Adobe
3 97 (2.26%) Google
4 72 (1.67%) ServiceNow
5 52 (1.21%) Salesforce
6 31 (0.72%) HubSpot
7 28 (0.65%) Apple
8 26 (0.60%) SAP
9 24 (0.56%) Nexthink
10 23 (0.53%) Oracle
11 18 (0.42%) Braze
12 16 (0.37%) BMC
12 16 (0.37%) Hotjar
13 15 (0.35%) Amplitude
14 13 (0.30%) iManage
15 12 (0.28%) OpenAI
16 10 (0.23%) WooCommerce
17 9 (0.21%) ConnectWise
17 9 (0.21%) Dynatrace
17 9 (0.21%) Sitecore