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 8 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

3 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 72 82
Rank change year-on-year -12 +10 -8
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 919 752 2,042
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.06% 3.76% 3.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.75% 4.07% 3.78%
Number of salaries quoted 617 472 1,408
10th Percentile £31,500 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,250 £43,438 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.87% +15.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,250 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,835 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.67% +5.26% -13.64%

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 33,428 18,464 53,971
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 75.08% 92.39% 86.05%
Number of salaries quoted 22,038 11,471 40,182
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,625 £28,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +14.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £79,250 £78,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -5.66%

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 8 April 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 8 April 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 -9 794 £57,985 +0.84% 728
UK excluding London -18 546 £52,835 +5.67% 522
Work from Home -11 337 £60,000 +2.56% 357
London -18 275 £69,559 -4.06% 296
North of England -17 191 £55,550 +11.10% 176
North West -14 101 £55,000 - 94
Midlands -13 88 £45,000 -3.46% 93
South East -46 82 £52,500 +5.00% 122
South West -3 70 £50,000 -2.44% 59
Yorkshire -5 70 £55,000 +29.41% 45
East of England -2 67 £83,750 +103.03% 33
West Midlands -2 54 £44,000 -26.67% 62
East Midlands -25 34 £52,500 +50.00% 31
Scotland -24 28 £62,500 +11.11% 23
North East -28 20 £60,000 +14.83% 39
Wales -9 18 £42,934 - 19
Northern Ireland - 4 £62,500 - 5

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
1 116 (2.01%) CMS
2 84 (1.46%) SharePoint
3 72 (1.25%) Confluence
4 36 (0.62%) WordPress
5 33 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
6 16 (0.28%) Drupal
7 11 (0.19%) Umbraco
8 8 (0.14%) nginx
9 5 (0.087%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.052%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.052%) IIS
11 2 (0.035%) Appian
11 2 (0.035%) CICS
11 2 (0.035%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.035%) Joomla!
11 2 (0.035%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.017%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.017%) Apache
12 1 (0.017%) Camunda
Applications
1 52 (0.90%) Adobe XD
2 32 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 31 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
4 30 (0.52%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 25 (0.43%) Sketch
6 23 (0.40%) Photoshop
7 21 (0.36%) Adobe Illustrator
8 12 (0.21%) MS Visio
9 10 (0.17%) Chatbot
9 10 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 9 (0.16%) UserZoom
11 8 (0.14%) Adobe After Effects
11 8 (0.14%) InDesign
11 8 (0.14%) InVision
12 7 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
13 4 (0.069%) Adobe Premiere
14 3 (0.052%) AutoCAD
14 3 (0.052%) Microsoft Project
14 3 (0.052%) SPSS
14 3 (0.052%) Trello
Business Applications
1 39 (0.68%) Shopify
2 20 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (0.35%) Magento
3 9 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
4 6 (0.10%) Dynamics GP
5 5 (0.087%) SAP ERP
5 5 (0.087%) SAP S/4HANA
6 4 (0.069%) Workday HCM
7 3 (0.052%) SAP BPC
8 2 (0.035%) Dynamics AX
8 2 (0.035%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.035%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.035%) Sage X3
9 1 (0.017%) Elite 3E
9 1 (0.017%) Oracle Payables
9 1 (0.017%) Oracle SCM
9 1 (0.017%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.017%) SAP Business One
9 1 (0.017%) SAP HR
9 1 (0.017%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 4,040 (70.04%) Cloud Computing
2 284 (4.92%) Azure
3 220 (3.81%) Figma
4 183 (3.17%) AWS
5 178 (3.09%) Microsoft 365
6 119 (2.06%) SaaS
7 112 (1.94%) Power Platform
8 83 (1.44%) Google Analytics
9 69 (1.20%) GCP
10 68 (1.18%) Entra ID
10 68 (1.18%) GitHub
11 65 (1.13%) Adobe Analytics
12 55 (0.95%) Azure DevOps
13 45 (0.78%) PowerApps
14 38 (0.66%) Serverless
15 35 (0.61%) Contentsquare
15 35 (0.61%) Power Automate
16 34 (0.59%) Dynamics 365
16 34 (0.59%) OneDrive
17 33 (0.57%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 4,049 (70.20%) Internet
2 64 (1.11%) Broadband
3 23 (0.40%) VPN
4 21 (0.36%) HTTP
5 20 (0.35%) DNS
5 20 (0.35%) Firewall
6 14 (0.24%) DHCP
6 14 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
7 12 (0.21%) TCP/IP
8 8 (0.14%) LAN
9 5 (0.087%) Intranet
9 5 (0.087%) WAN
10 4 (0.069%) Kerberos
10 4 (0.069%) VoIP
11 3 (0.052%) Bluetooth
11 3 (0.052%) Network Security
11 3 (0.052%) WebEx
12 2 (0.035%) HTTPS
12 2 (0.035%) NAS
12 2 (0.035%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (1.01%) Power BI
2 48 (0.83%) SQL Server
3 34 (0.59%) PostgreSQL
4 33 (0.57%) Looker
5 23 (0.40%) MySQL
6 22 (0.38%) NoSQL
7 17 (0.29%) MongoDB
8 16 (0.28%) BigQuery
9 15 (0.26%) Metadata
9 15 (0.26%) Tableau
10 14 (0.24%) Azure SQL Database
11 13 (0.23%) Relational Database
12 12 (0.21%) DB2
13 7 (0.12%) Redis
14 6 (0.10%) Data Warehouse
14 6 (0.10%) Oracle Reports
14 6 (0.10%) SAP BW
15 5 (0.087%) Elasticsearch
16 4 (0.069%) QGIS
17 3 (0.052%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 126 (2.18%) JIRA
2 77 (1.33%) Git
3 32 (0.55%) Axure RP
3 32 (0.55%) Balsamiq
4 21 (0.36%) Jenkins
5 20 (0.35%) Selenium
6 17 (0.29%) webpack
7 16 (0.28%) Cypress.io
7 16 (0.28%) Vite
8 15 (0.26%) Bitbucket
9 14 (0.24%) Cucumber
10 12 (0.21%) Crashlytics
11 11 (0.19%) Visual Studio
12 10 (0.17%) Postman
12 10 (0.17%) XCTest
13 9 (0.16%) Storybook
13 9 (0.16%) TeamCity
14 7 (0.12%) Babel
15 6 (0.10%) Claude Code
15 6 (0.10%) fastlane
General
1 4,535 (78.62%) Social Skills
2 4,165 (72.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4,114 (71.32%) Banking
4 299 (5.18%) Finance
5 236 (4.09%) Marketing
6 192 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
7 135 (2.34%) Public Sector
8 100 (1.73%) Legal
9 89 (1.54%) Law
10 76 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
11 67 (1.16%) Retail
12 64 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
13 50 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
14 47 (0.81%) Games
15 34 (0.59%) Manufacturing
15 34 (0.59%) Telecoms
16 26 (0.45%) Advertising
17 19 (0.33%) Back Office
18 15 (0.26%) Documentation Skills
19 12 (0.21%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 3,135 (54.35%) Lecturer
2 361 (6.26%) Senior
3 252 (4.37%) Designer
4 250 (4.33%) Developer
5 186 (3.22%) Lead
6 178 (3.09%) UX Designer
7 130 (2.25%) Analyst
8 88 (1.53%) Senior Developer
9 80 (1.39%) Software Engineer
10 67 (1.16%) Senior Designer
11 62 (1.07%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 61 (1.06%) Product Manager
13 59 (1.02%) Senior Manager
14 57 (0.99%) UI Designer
15 49 (0.85%) Full-Stack Developer
15 49 (0.85%) IT Support
15 49 (0.85%) Senior UX Designer
16 48 (0.83%) UI/UX Designer
17 45 (0.78%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 42 (0.73%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 217 (3.76%) HTML
2 211 (3.66%) CSS
3 200 (3.47%) React
4 115 (1.99%) .NET
5 88 (1.53%) RESTful
6 86 (1.49%) REST
7 71 (1.23%) Node.js
8 67 (1.16%) AngularJS
9 58 (1.01%) Vue
10 38 (0.66%) HTML5
11 32 (0.55%) JSON
12 31 (0.54%) Next.js
13 30 (0.52%) Web Services
14 28 (0.49%) CSS3
15 27 (0.47%) Spring
16 26 (0.45%) .NET Core
17 25 (0.43%) .NET Framework
17 25 (0.43%) WebSockets
18 24 (0.42%) ASP.NET
18 24 (0.42%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 4,049 (70.20%) IoT
2 179 (3.10%) Product Ownership
3 117 (2.03%) Mobile App
4 94 (1.63%) Onboarding
5 60 (1.04%) Social Media
6 54 (0.94%) Cloud Native
7 47 (0.81%) Management Information System
8 42 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
9 37 (0.64%) Enterprise Software
10 34 (0.59%) AI Agents
11 33 (0.57%) Self-Motivation
12 32 (0.55%) Greenfield Project
13 19 (0.33%) Analytical Mindset
13 19 (0.33%) Low-Code
13 19 (0.33%) Public Cloud
14 18 (0.31%) Driving Licence
14 18 (0.31%) e-Learning
15 17 (0.29%) CMDB
15 17 (0.29%) Life Science
16 16 (0.28%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 64 (1.11%) Windows
2 63 (1.09%) Apple iOS
3 56 (0.97%) Android
4 23 (0.40%) Linux
5 19 (0.33%) Windows 10
6 18 (0.31%) Mac OS
6 18 (0.31%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.10%) Unix
8 5 (0.087%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.069%) Mac OS X
10 3 (0.052%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.052%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.035%) zOS
12 1 (0.017%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.017%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,332 (75.10%) AI
2 4,109 (71.24%) Cybersecurity
2 4,109 (71.24%) Machine Learning
3 4,086 (70.84%) Web Development
4 538 (9.33%) Agile
5 487 (8.44%) UX Design
6 368 (6.38%) Problem-Solving
7 352 (6.10%) Analytics
8 347 (6.02%) Continuous Improvement
9 268 (4.65%) Roadmaps
10 220 (3.81%) Mentoring
11 177 (3.07%) Full-Stack Development
12 175 (3.03%) DevOps
13 172 (2.98%) Software Engineering
14 171 (2.96%) Decision-Making
15 167 (2.90%) User Research
16 166 (2.88%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
17 153 (2.65%) CI/CD
18 137 (2.38%) Customer Experience
19 135 (2.34%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 276 (4.79%) JavaScript
2 160 (2.77%) TypeScript
3 128 (2.22%) SQL
4 115 (1.99%) Java
5 104 (1.80%) Python
6 98 (1.70%) C#
7 46 (0.80%) PowerShell
8 41 (0.71%) PHP
9 26 (0.45%) Kotlin
10 22 (0.38%) Swift
11 21 (0.36%) Go
12 15 (0.26%) Bash
13 14 (0.24%) C++
14 11 (0.19%) Bicep
15 10 (0.17%) T-SQL
16 6 (0.10%) ABAP
17 5 (0.087%) Rust
18 4 (0.069%) Apex Code
18 4 (0.069%) R
19 3 (0.052%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4,275 (74.12%) Degree
2 4,066 (70.49%) Master's Degree
3 4,044 (70.11%) PhD
4 4,041 (70.06%) Postgraduate
5 146 (2.53%) Security Cleared
6 107 (1.86%) SC Cleared
7 41 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
8 38 (0.66%) DBS Check
9 20 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
10 19 (0.33%) DV Cleared
11 16 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (0.17%) PMI Certification
13 9 (0.16%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 8 (0.14%) PMP
15 7 (0.12%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 7 (0.12%) PRINCE2 Certification
16 5 (0.087%) ISTQB
16 5 (0.087%) SAP Certification
17 4 (0.069%) CISSP
18 3 (0.052%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 306 (5.31%) Accessibility
2 115 (1.99%) QA
3 96 (1.66%) WCAG
4 60 (1.04%) GDPR
5 24 (0.42%) Data Quality
6 14 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
7 12 (0.21%) PCI DSS
8 11 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
9 10 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 19770
10 8 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 7 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 7 (0.12%) SLA
12 4 (0.069%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.069%) PERC
12 4 (0.069%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.052%) SOC 2
14 2 (0.035%) GRC
14 2 (0.035%) HL7
14 2 (0.035%) PMO
15 1 (0.017%) GxP
System Software
1 79 (1.37%) Active Directory
2 71 (1.23%) Docker
3 17 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.069%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.052%) Firmware
6 3 (0.052%) vSphere
7 2 (0.035%) RACF
7 2 (0.035%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 52 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
2 51 (0.88%) Kubernetes
3 38 (0.66%) Terraform
4 22 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
5 10 (0.17%) Grafana
5 10 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
6 6 (0.10%) Ansible
6 6 (0.10%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.087%) SCCM
8 2 (0.035%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.035%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 2 (0.035%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 2 (0.035%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.035%) Packer
8 2 (0.035%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.035%) SmoothWall
9 1 (0.017%) Argo
9 1 (0.017%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.017%) Nessus
9 1 (0.017%) Nmap
Vendors
1 275 (4.77%) Microsoft
2 191 (3.31%) Adobe
3 122 (2.12%) Google
4 76 (1.32%) ServiceNow
5 51 (0.88%) Salesforce
6 41 (0.71%) HubSpot
7 30 (0.52%) Apple
8 29 (0.50%) Nexthink
9 26 (0.45%) SAP
10 24 (0.42%) Oracle
11 22 (0.38%) Hotjar
12 19 (0.33%) BMC
13 14 (0.24%) Atlassian
14 13 (0.23%) Sitecore
15 12 (0.21%) Braze
15 12 (0.21%) iManage
15 12 (0.21%) Qualtrics
16 11 (0.19%) Cisco
16 11 (0.19%) Splunk
17 10 (0.17%) New Relic