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

3 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 77 85
Rank change year-on-year -6 +8 -5
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 968 804 1,782
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.04% 3.76% 3.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.74% 4.08% 3.64%
Number of salaries quoted 656 490 1,147
10th Percentile £31,493 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £44,813 £39,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,075 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.74% +15.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,171 £50,000 £49,990
% change year-on-year +6.34% +0.02% -9.11%

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 35,293 19,703 48,915
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.36% 92.15% 85.59%
Number of salaries quoted 23,102 11,865 34,772
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £52,550
Median % change year-on-year - +9.42% -12.42%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,124 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.25% +0.25% -8.90%

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 21 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 21 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 -5 842 £58,446 +1.65% 1,564
UK excluding London +4 591 £53,171 +6.34% 1,100
Work from Home +4 372 £60,000 +4.35% 394
London -23 280 £68,000 -2.86% 573
North of England +5 220 £55,000 - 420
North West -5 120 £55,000 - 331
South East -23 89 £48,885 -2.23% 280
East of England +14 84 £85,000 +126.67% 158
Midlands -28 84 £45,000 -16.18% 136
Yorkshire +1 77 £55,000 +15.79% 66
South West -20 64 £50,000 -16.67% 76
West Midlands -26 47 £42,500 -20.84% 78
East Midlands -20 37 £56,250 +75.78% 58
Scotland -25 33 £45,000 -15.01% 20
North East -21 23 £60,000 +14.29% 25
Wales -16 16 £42,934 - 9
Northern Ireland - 3 £49,750 - 18

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
1 122 (2.10%) CMS
2 101 (1.74%) SharePoint
3 75 (1.29%) Confluence
4 36 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
5 29 (0.50%) WordPress
6 15 (0.26%) Drupal
7 10 (0.17%) Umbraco
8 8 (0.14%) nginx
9 3 (0.052%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.052%) IIS
9 3 (0.052%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.034%) Appian
10 2 (0.034%) CICS
10 2 (0.034%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.034%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.017%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.017%) Apache
11 1 (0.017%) Camunda
Applications
1 45 (0.77%) Adobe XD
2 32 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
3 30 (0.52%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 27 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
5 23 (0.40%) Sketch
6 22 (0.38%) Photoshop
7 21 (0.36%) Adobe Illustrator
8 10 (0.17%) Chatbot
8 10 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 9 (0.15%) Adobe After Effects
9 9 (0.15%) MS Visio
9 9 (0.15%) UserZoom
10 8 (0.14%) InVision
11 7 (0.12%) InDesign
11 7 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
12 4 (0.069%) Adobe Premiere
13 3 (0.052%) AutoCAD
13 3 (0.052%) Microsoft Project
13 3 (0.052%) SPSS
13 3 (0.052%) Trello
Business Applications
1 35 (0.60%) Shopify
2 20 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (0.34%) Magento
3 9 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
4 6 (0.10%) Dynamics GP
5 5 (0.086%) SAP ERP
5 5 (0.086%) SAP S/4HANA
6 4 (0.069%) Workday HCM
7 3 (0.052%) Dynamics AX
8 2 (0.034%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.034%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.034%) Sage X3
9 1 (0.017%) Elite 3E
9 1 (0.017%) Oracle General Ledger
9 1 (0.017%) Oracle Payables
9 1 (0.017%) Oracle Receivables
9 1 (0.017%) SAP Business One
9 1 (0.017%) SAP EWM
9 1 (0.017%) SAP HCM
9 1 (0.017%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 4,034 (69.35%) Cloud Computing
2 287 (4.93%) Azure
3 226 (3.89%) Figma
4 188 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
5 186 (3.20%) AWS
6 119 (2.05%) SaaS
7 115 (1.98%) Power Platform
8 85 (1.46%) Google Analytics
9 76 (1.31%) Entra ID
10 73 (1.25%) Adobe Analytics
11 71 (1.22%) GitHub
12 69 (1.19%) GCP
13 57 (0.98%) Azure DevOps
14 49 (0.84%) PowerApps
15 43 (0.74%) Contentsquare
16 40 (0.69%) Power Automate
17 38 (0.65%) OneDrive
18 36 (0.62%) Serverless
19 34 (0.58%) Dynamics 365
19 34 (0.58%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4,043 (69.50%) Internet
2 79 (1.36%) Broadband
3 24 (0.41%) Firewall
4 23 (0.40%) HTTP
4 23 (0.40%) VPN
5 22 (0.38%) DNS
6 17 (0.29%) DHCP
7 15 (0.26%) TCP/IP
7 15 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (0.10%) LAN
9 5 (0.086%) Intranet
9 5 (0.086%) Kerberos
10 4 (0.069%) NAS
10 4 (0.069%) Network Security
10 4 (0.069%) SAN
10 4 (0.069%) VoIP
11 3 (0.052%) Bluetooth
11 3 (0.052%) WAN
11 3 (0.052%) WebEx
12 2 (0.034%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (1.01%) Power BI
2 52 (0.89%) SQL Server
3 35 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
4 30 (0.52%) Looker
5 24 (0.41%) NoSQL
6 20 (0.34%) MySQL
7 19 (0.33%) Metadata
8 18 (0.31%) Azure SQL Database
8 18 (0.31%) MongoDB
9 16 (0.28%) BigQuery
10 12 (0.21%) DB2
11 10 (0.17%) Tableau
12 9 (0.15%) Relational Database
13 7 (0.12%) Redis
14 6 (0.10%) Data Warehouse
14 6 (0.10%) SAP BW
15 5 (0.086%) Elasticsearch
15 5 (0.086%) Oracle Reports
16 4 (0.069%) QGIS
16 4 (0.069%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 120 (2.06%) JIRA
2 71 (1.22%) Git
3 33 (0.57%) Balsamiq
4 30 (0.52%) Axure RP
5 20 (0.34%) Jenkins
5 20 (0.34%) Selenium
6 16 (0.28%) webpack
7 15 (0.26%) Bitbucket
7 15 (0.26%) Cypress.io
7 15 (0.26%) Vite
8 14 (0.24%) Cucumber
9 13 (0.22%) Crashlytics
10 11 (0.19%) Visual Studio
10 11 (0.19%) XCTest
11 9 (0.15%) Postman
11 9 (0.15%) TeamCity
12 8 (0.14%) Storybook
13 6 (0.10%) Claude Code
13 6 (0.10%) fastlane
13 6 (0.10%) JUnit
General
1 4,553 (78.27%) Social Skills
2 4,157 (71.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4,106 (70.59%) Banking
4 301 (5.17%) Finance
5 234 (4.02%) Marketing
6 195 (3.35%) Analytical Skills
7 138 (2.37%) Public Sector
8 116 (1.99%) Legal
9 83 (1.43%) Law
10 82 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
11 77 (1.32%) Retail
12 66 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
13 61 (1.05%) Games
14 52 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
15 34 (0.58%) Manufacturing
16 33 (0.57%) Telecoms
17 31 (0.53%) Advertising
18 20 (0.34%) Back Office
19 18 (0.31%) Documentation Skills
20 13 (0.22%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 3,129 (53.79%) Lecturer
2 377 (6.48%) Senior
3 277 (4.76%) Designer
4 241 (4.14%) Developer
5 197 (3.39%) UX Designer
6 196 (3.37%) Lead
7 125 (2.15%) Analyst
8 89 (1.53%) Software Engineer
9 88 (1.51%) Senior Developer
10 81 (1.39%) Senior Designer
11 66 (1.13%) Product Manager
12 60 (1.03%) UI Designer
13 58 (1.00%) Senior UX Designer
14 57 (0.98%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 57 (0.98%) Senior Manager
15 49 (0.84%) UI/UX Designer
16 48 (0.83%) IT Support
17 47 (0.81%) Architect
17 47 (0.81%) Service Manager
18 45 (0.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 198 (3.40%) HTML
2 197 (3.39%) CSS
3 195 (3.35%) React
4 108 (1.86%) .NET
5 87 (1.50%) RESTful
6 86 (1.48%) REST
7 70 (1.20%) Node.js
8 68 (1.17%) AngularJS
9 56 (0.96%) Vue
10 36 (0.62%) HTML5
11 34 (0.58%) JSON
11 34 (0.58%) Web Services
12 30 (0.52%) Next.js
13 29 (0.50%) .NET Core
14 27 (0.46%) CSS3
15 26 (0.45%) Spring
16 25 (0.43%) WebSockets
17 24 (0.41%) Laravel
18 23 (0.40%) .NET Framework
19 22 (0.38%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4,043 (69.50%) IoT
2 188 (3.23%) Product Ownership
3 117 (2.01%) Mobile App
4 105 (1.81%) Onboarding
5 65 (1.12%) Social Media
6 56 (0.96%) Cloud Native
7 46 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
8 39 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
9 37 (0.64%) AI Agents
9 37 (0.64%) Management Information System
10 33 (0.57%) Greenfield Project
11 29 (0.50%) Self-Motivation
12 22 (0.38%) e-Learning
12 22 (0.38%) Public Cloud
13 21 (0.36%) Low-Code
14 20 (0.34%) CMDB
15 18 (0.31%) Life Science
16 17 (0.29%) Analytical Mindset
16 17 (0.29%) Distributed Systems
17 16 (0.28%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 74 (1.27%) Windows
2 60 (1.03%) Apple iOS
3 53 (0.91%) Android
4 24 (0.41%) Windows 10
5 23 (0.40%) Linux
6 21 (0.36%) Windows Server
7 17 (0.29%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.12%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.086%) Unix
10 4 (0.069%) Mac OS X
11 3 (0.052%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.052%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.034%) zOS
13 1 (0.017%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.017%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,353 (74.83%) AI
2 4,114 (70.72%) Machine Learning
3 4,105 (70.57%) Cybersecurity
4 4,084 (70.21%) Web Development
5 550 (9.46%) Agile
6 509 (8.75%) UX Design
7 369 (6.34%) Continuous Improvement
8 357 (6.14%) Problem-Solving
9 352 (6.05%) Analytics
10 289 (4.97%) Roadmaps
11 239 (4.11%) Mentoring
12 185 (3.18%) Decision-Making
13 182 (3.13%) Software Engineering
14 175 (3.01%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 172 (2.96%) Full-Stack Development
16 171 (2.94%) DevOps
17 170 (2.92%) User Research
18 150 (2.58%) CI/CD
19 141 (2.42%) Product Roadmap
20 140 (2.41%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 268 (4.61%) JavaScript
2 165 (2.84%) TypeScript
3 136 (2.34%) SQL
4 121 (2.08%) Java
5 110 (1.89%) Python
6 94 (1.62%) C#
7 52 (0.89%) PowerShell
8 41 (0.70%) PHP
9 25 (0.43%) Kotlin
10 23 (0.40%) Go
11 22 (0.38%) Swift
12 16 (0.28%) Bash
13 13 (0.22%) C++
14 11 (0.19%) Bicep
15 10 (0.17%) T-SQL
16 6 (0.10%) ABAP
16 6 (0.10%) Rust
17 4 (0.069%) Apex Code
17 4 (0.069%) Scala
18 3 (0.052%) R
Qualifications
1 4,253 (73.11%) Degree
2 4,056 (69.73%) Master's Degree
3 4,038 (69.42%) PhD
4 4,035 (69.37%) Postgraduate
5 151 (2.60%) Security Cleared
6 110 (1.89%) SC Cleared
7 42 (0.72%) DBS Check
8 34 (0.58%) Computer Science Degree
9 26 (0.45%) DV Cleared
10 20 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
11 16 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
12 10 (0.17%) PMI Certification
13 8 (0.14%) PMP
14 7 (0.12%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 7 (0.12%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 5 (0.086%) CISSP
15 5 (0.086%) ISTQB
15 5 (0.086%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 5 (0.086%) SAP Certification
16 4 (0.069%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 299 (5.14%) Accessibility
2 119 (2.05%) QA
3 101 (1.74%) WCAG
4 58 (1.00%) GDPR
5 25 (0.43%) Data Quality
6 13 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
6 13 (0.22%) SLA
7 12 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
7 12 (0.21%) PCI DSS
8 10 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 19770
9 8 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 6 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 5 (0.086%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.052%) NEBOSH
12 3 (0.052%) PERC
12 3 (0.052%) PMO
12 3 (0.052%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.034%) GRC
13 2 (0.034%) GxP
14 1 (0.017%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 82 (1.41%) Active Directory
2 70 (1.20%) Docker
3 17 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.086%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.069%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.052%) vSphere
8 2 (0.034%) RACF
9 1 (0.017%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 60 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
2 52 (0.89%) Kubernetes
3 39 (0.67%) Terraform
4 22 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
5 10 (0.17%) Grafana
5 10 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
6 7 (0.12%) Ansible
7 6 (0.10%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.086%) SCCM
9 2 (0.034%) Data Guard
9 2 (0.034%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 2 (0.034%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 2 (0.034%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (0.034%) Packer
9 2 (0.034%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.034%) SmoothWall
10 1 (0.017%) Argo
10 1 (0.017%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.017%) MOM
10 1 (0.017%) Nessus
Vendors
1 291 (5.00%) Microsoft
2 196 (3.37%) Adobe
3 123 (2.11%) Google
4 78 (1.34%) ServiceNow
5 47 (0.81%) Salesforce
6 40 (0.69%) HubSpot
7 29 (0.50%) Nexthink
8 28 (0.48%) Apple
9 24 (0.41%) SAP
10 22 (0.38%) Oracle
11 20 (0.34%) Hotjar
12 19 (0.33%) BMC
13 15 (0.26%) Braze
14 13 (0.22%) Atlassian
15 12 (0.21%) iManage
16 11 (0.19%) Amplitude
17 10 (0.17%) New Relic
17 10 (0.17%) Splunk
17 10 (0.17%) VMware
17 10 (0.17%) WooCommerce