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 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

3 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 67 73
Rank change year-on-year -28 +6 +7
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 980 1,154 1,177
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.85% 4.08% 3.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.55% 4.57% 3.90%
Number of salaries quoted 680 470 519
10th Percentile £30,500 £35,675 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,600 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £56,988
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.29% -8.82%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.31% +1.36% -

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 38,506 25,247 30,197
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.63% 89.18% 76.87%
Number of salaries quoted 27,580 12,938 19,120
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,625
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £78,312 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -4.55%

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 10 July 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 10 July 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 -21 876 £55,000 -8.33% 861
UK excluding London -16 603 £50,000 -10.31% 496
Work from Home -43 373 £55,000 -12.00% 407
London -20 298 £70,000 - 470
North of England -22 204 £48,750 -7.14% 144
North West -35 115 £47,500 -15.56% 76
South East +3 114 £52,500 -8.70% 162
East of England +39 90 £62,500 - 48
Midlands +9 85 £47,500 -13.64% 62
South West -40 56 £60,000 +9.09% 51
West Midlands -30 50 £47,500 -13.64% 34
Yorkshire +18 45 £47,749 +27.33% 37
North East +2 44 £51,619 +416.19% 31
East Midlands +21 35 £45,000 -18.18% 28
Scotland -11 30 £61,000 -21.29% 15
Wales -21 22 £50,000 -25.93% 7
Northern Ireland -41 2 £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
1 142 (7.38%) SharePoint
2 122 (6.34%) CMS
3 66 (3.43%) Confluence
4 51 (2.65%) Microsoft Exchange
5 28 (1.45%) WordPress
6 9 (0.47%) Drupal
7 7 (0.36%) Umbraco
8 4 (0.21%) Moodle
8 4 (0.21%) nginx
9 3 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.16%) Headless CMS
9 3 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.10%) IIS
10 2 (0.10%) Skype for Business
10 2 (0.10%) Totara
11 1 (0.052%) Apache
11 1 (0.052%) ExpressionEngine
11 1 (0.052%) NServiceBus
11 1 (0.052%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 34 (1.77%) Microsoft Office
2 33 (1.71%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 27 (1.40%) Adobe XD
4 25 (1.30%) Photoshop
5 24 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
6 23 (1.19%) Adobe Illustrator
7 21 (1.09%) Sketch
8 18 (0.94%) Chatbot
9 17 (0.88%) UserZoom
10 15 (0.78%) Adobe After Effects
11 14 (0.73%) InDesign
12 9 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
13 6 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
14 5 (0.26%) InVision
15 4 (0.21%) Trello
16 3 (0.16%) Adobe Premiere
16 3 (0.16%) Productboard
16 3 (0.16%) SPSS
17 2 (0.10%) Camtasia
18 1 (0.052%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 23 (1.19%) Shopify
2 21 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (0.68%) Magento
5 8 (0.42%) NetSuite
6 6 (0.31%) Dynamics GP
7 5 (0.26%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
8 4 (0.21%) Elite 3E
8 4 (0.21%) Workday HCM
9 3 (0.16%) Carpe Diem
9 3 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
9 3 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
10 2 (0.10%) Adobe Campaign
10 2 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
10 2 (0.10%) Towers Watson Igloo
10 2 (0.10%) Visualfiles
11 1 (0.052%) Oracle Payables
11 1 (0.052%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 364 (18.91%) Azure
2 281 (14.60%) Microsoft 365
3 206 (10.70%) Figma
4 156 (8.10%) AWS
5 152 (7.90%) Power Platform
6 136 (7.06%) SaaS
7 109 (5.66%) Entra ID
8 96 (4.99%) Azure DevOps
9 72 (3.74%) Power Automate
10 69 (3.58%) Adobe Analytics
11 68 (3.53%) PowerApps
12 67 (3.48%) GitHub
13 62 (3.22%) Google Analytics
14 61 (3.17%) GCP
15 49 (2.55%) Microsoft Copilot
16 47 (2.44%) Contentsquare
16 47 (2.44%) Serverless
17 46 (2.39%) Azure Logic Apps
18 41 (2.13%) OneDrive
19 36 (1.87%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 78 (4.05%) Broadband
2 32 (1.66%) Firewall
3 26 (1.35%) DNS
4 25 (1.30%) VPN
5 22 (1.14%) DHCP
6 20 (1.04%) VoIP
7 18 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
8 12 (0.62%) CTI
9 11 (0.57%) TCP/IP
10 10 (0.52%) HTTP
10 10 (0.52%) Kerberos
11 9 (0.47%) Internet
11 9 (0.47%) Wireless
12 7 (0.36%) VLAN
13 6 (0.31%) Network Security
14 5 (0.26%) Intranet
14 5 (0.26%) SAN
14 5 (0.26%) Unified Communications
15 4 (0.21%) NAS
15 4 (0.21%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (4.21%) Power BI
2 52 (2.70%) SQL Server
3 26 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
5 21 (1.09%) Looker
6 17 (0.88%) Metadata
6 17 (0.88%) MySQL
7 16 (0.83%) MongoDB
8 14 (0.73%) NoSQL
9 13 (0.68%) BigQuery
9 13 (0.68%) Relational Database
10 8 (0.42%) Redis
11 6 (0.31%) Tableau
12 5 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (0.26%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (0.26%) GIS
12 5 (0.26%) Power Query
12 5 (0.26%) SAP BW
12 5 (0.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (0.21%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 102 (5.30%) JIRA
2 78 (4.05%) Git
3 22 (1.14%) Jenkins
4 21 (1.09%) Claude Code
4 21 (1.09%) fastlane
5 20 (1.04%) Crashlytics
6 15 (0.78%) XCTest
7 11 (0.57%) Vite
7 11 (0.57%) webpack
8 10 (0.52%) Cypress.io
9 9 (0.47%) Axure RP
9 9 (0.47%) Balsamiq
9 9 (0.47%) Selenium
9 9 (0.47%) Xcode
10 7 (0.36%) Bitbucket
10 7 (0.36%) Postman
10 7 (0.36%) Storybook
11 6 (0.31%) Android Studio
11 6 (0.31%) Cucumber
11 6 (0.31%) Gradle
General
1 576 (29.92%) Social Skills
2 301 (15.64%) Finance
3 241 (12.52%) Marketing
4 204 (10.60%) Analytical Skills
5 166 (8.62%) Public Sector
6 132 (6.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 113 (5.87%) Legal
8 109 (5.66%) Retail
9 95 (4.94%) Organisational Skills
10 89 (4.62%) Law
11 74 (3.84%) Games
12 60 (3.12%) Influencing Skills
13 48 (2.49%) Presentation Skills
14 41 (2.13%) Advertising
15 34 (1.77%) Banking
16 33 (1.71%) Manufacturing
17 21 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
18 20 (1.04%) Multimedia
19 18 (0.94%) Back Office
20 14 (0.73%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 356 (18.49%) Senior
2 313 (16.26%) Designer
3 272 (14.13%) Developer
4 225 (11.69%) UX Designer
5 221 (11.48%) Lead
6 141 (7.32%) Analyst
7 99 (5.14%) Senior Developer
8 87 (4.52%) Senior Designer
9 85 (4.42%) UI Designer
10 84 (4.36%) IT Support
10 84 (4.36%) Software Engineer
11 79 (4.10%) UI/UX Designer
12 66 (3.43%) IT Manager
12 66 (3.43%) Product Manager
13 65 (3.38%) Senior UX Designer
14 64 (3.32%) Architect
15 63 (3.27%) Support Engineer
16 52 (2.70%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
17 51 (2.65%) Business Analyst
18 48 (2.49%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 190 (9.87%) HTML
2 188 (9.77%) CSS
3 162 (8.42%) React
4 135 (7.01%) .NET
5 89 (4.62%) REST
6 75 (3.90%) RESTful
7 53 (2.75%) .NET Core
8 52 (2.70%) Node.js
9 51 (2.65%) AngularJS
10 46 (2.39%) JSON
11 39 (2.03%) Vue
12 35 (1.82%) HTML5
13 31 (1.61%) ASP.NET
14 29 (1.51%) CSS3
15 27 (1.40%) Next.js
15 27 (1.40%) Sass
15 27 (1.40%) SwiftUI
16 26 (1.35%) SPFx
17 25 (1.30%) SOAP
18 24 (1.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 188 (9.77%) Product Ownership
2 115 (5.97%) Mobile App
3 106 (5.51%) Onboarding
4 73 (3.79%) Social Media
5 51 (2.65%) Enterprise Software
6 44 (2.29%) Cloud Native
7 42 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
8 33 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
9 29 (1.51%) Management Information System
10 27 (1.40%) AI Agents
11 23 (1.19%) Driving Licence
11 23 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
12 22 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
13 19 (0.99%) Low-Code
14 16 (0.83%) Algorithms
14 16 (0.83%) Graphic Design
14 16 (0.83%) Life Science
14 16 (0.83%) Security Posture
15 15 (0.78%) e-Learning
16 12 (0.62%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 133 (6.91%) Windows
2 73 (3.79%) Apple iOS
3 41 (2.13%) Android
3 41 (2.13%) Windows Server
4 36 (1.87%) Windows 10
5 30 (1.56%) Mac OS
6 27 (1.40%) Linux
7 8 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.21%) Mac OS X
8 4 (0.21%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.10%) Unix
9 2 (0.10%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.052%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 541 (28.10%) Agile
2 526 (27.32%) UX Design
3 445 (23.12%) Continuous Improvement
4 415 (21.56%) Problem-Solving
5 366 (19.01%) AI
6 348 (18.08%) Analytics
7 321 (16.68%) Roadmaps
8 257 (13.35%) Mentoring
9 193 (10.03%) DevOps
10 189 (9.82%) Decision-Making
11 175 (9.09%) CI/CD
12 172 (8.94%) Stakeholder Management
13 170 (8.83%) Software Engineering
14 166 (8.62%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 160 (8.31%) User Research
16 151 (7.84%) ITIL
17 146 (7.58%) Customer Experience
17 146 (7.58%) Workflow
18 145 (7.53%) Product Roadmap
19 144 (7.48%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 226 (11.74%) JavaScript
2 148 (7.69%) TypeScript
3 141 (7.32%) C#
4 140 (7.27%) SQL
5 117 (6.08%) Python
6 91 (4.73%) Java
7 66 (3.43%) PowerShell
8 34 (1.77%) PHP
9 31 (1.61%) Swift
10 25 (1.30%) Kotlin
11 13 (0.68%) ABAP
12 10 (0.52%) C++
12 10 (0.52%) Go
13 8 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 7 (0.36%) Apex Code
14 7 (0.36%) C
14 7 (0.36%) Rust
14 7 (0.36%) T-SQL
14 7 (0.36%) VB.NET
15 6 (0.31%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 164 (8.52%) Degree
2 134 (6.96%) Security Cleared
3 77 (4.00%) SC Cleared
4 38 (1.97%) DV Cleared
5 30 (1.56%) DBS Check
6 21 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (0.57%) Master's Degree
7 11 (0.57%) Postgraduate
8 10 (0.52%) CISSP
9 8 (0.42%) ICAEW
10 7 (0.36%) ISTQB
11 6 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
11 6 (0.31%) PMI Certification
11 6 (0.31%) SAP Certification
12 5 (0.26%) PMP
13 4 (0.21%) A+ Certification
13 4 (0.21%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 3 (0.16%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 307 (15.95%) Accessibility
2 122 (6.34%) QA
3 92 (4.78%) WCAG
4 69 (3.58%) GDPR
5 45 (2.34%) Data Quality
6 24 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
7 19 (0.99%) SLA
8 13 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 9 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 8 (0.42%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.26%) HIPAA
12 5 (0.26%) NEBOSH
13 4 (0.21%) PMO
13 4 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.16%) PERC
14 3 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
15 2 (0.10%) GRC
15 2 (0.10%) GxP
16 1 (0.052%) COBIT
System Software
1 115 (5.97%) Active Directory
2 52 (2.70%) Docker
3 9 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (0.31%) BitLocker
4 6 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.052%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 74 (3.84%) Microsoft Intune
2 27 (1.40%) Kubernetes
3 19 (0.99%) Terraform
4 13 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
5 12 (0.62%) SCCM
6 10 (0.52%) Jamf Pro
7 6 (0.31%) Grafana
8 5 (0.26%) Ansible
8 5 (0.26%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.10%) Data Guard
9 2 (0.10%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 2 (0.10%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (0.10%) Packer
9 2 (0.10%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.052%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.052%) Kibana
Vendors
1 405 (21.04%) Microsoft
2 182 (9.45%) Adobe
3 93 (4.83%) Google
4 64 (3.32%) ServiceNow
5 52 (2.70%) Salesforce
6 32 (1.66%) Apple
7 31 (1.61%) SAP
8 30 (1.56%) Oracle
9 26 (1.35%) iManage
10 20 (1.04%) HubSpot
11 19 (0.99%) Braze
12 17 (0.88%) Hotjar
13 16 (0.83%) Amplitude
13 16 (0.83%) Cisco
14 15 (0.78%) OpenAI
15 14 (0.73%) Dynatrace
15 14 (0.73%) Nexthink
16 12 (0.62%) Genesys
17 11 (0.57%) Avaya
17 11 (0.57%) Meraki