User Experience Jobs

UX
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring User Experience skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited User Experience over the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 85 72
Rank change year-on-year +7 -13 -33
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 1,896 3,107 4,304
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.44% 3.14% 4.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.66% 3.67% 4.49%
Number of salaries quoted 956 1,971 2,359
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £38,950
25th Percentile £43,750 £38,875 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £51,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.75% -18.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £49,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.04% -10.91% +4.76%

All Process and 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 51,770 84,704 95,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.86% 85.53% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 26,375 59,701 56,503
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -9.09% +4.76%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing User Experience as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for User Experience in the UK

User Experience
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing User Experience.

Salary trend for User Experience in the UK

User Experience
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing User Experience over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for User Experience in the UK

User Experience
Top 19 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 6 months to 15 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +2 1,650 £57,500 +12.75% 3,135
UK excluding London -25 1,154 £50,000 +2.04% 1,743
Work from Home +29 1,018 £62,500 +25.00% 1,804
London +51 605 £70,000 +7.69% 1,787
North of England -6 502 £52,500 +10.53% 525
North West -14 415 £55,000 +22.22% 338
South East -47 175 £52,713 +5.43% 540
Scotland +22 143 £57,500 +17.35% 100
Midlands -65 135 £47,500 - 224
South West -14 102 £46,500 -15.45% 166
West Midlands -40 91 £53,688 +7.38% 163
East of England +5 85 £42,500 +6.25% 170
Yorkshire -8 65 £42,500 -15.00% 121
East Midlands -53 44 £35,000 - 53
North East +1 22 £48,000 +9.71% 73
Isle of Man +18 4 - -
Wales +9 4 £52,500 +41.89% 32
Northern Ireland +27 3 - - 32
Channel Islands - 1 £87,500 -

User Experience
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 95 (5.01%) CMS
2 57 (3.01%) SharePoint
3 55 (2.90%) WordPress
4 36 (1.90%) Microsoft Exchange
5 27 (1.42%) Confluence
6 19 (1.00%) IBM Domino
7 18 (0.95%) Skype for Business
8 17 (0.90%) Drupal
9 10 (0.53%) nginx
10 9 (0.47%) Apache
11 7 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
12 6 (0.32%) Headless CMS
12 6 (0.32%) Umbraco
13 5 (0.26%) Apache Spark
14 4 (0.21%) IIS
14 4 (0.21%) Liferay
14 4 (0.21%) SAP Portal
15 3 (0.16%) Apache Solr
15 3 (0.16%) Strapi
16 2 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 55 (2.90%) Adobe XD
2 46 (2.43%) Sketch
3 34 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
4 29 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
5 23 (1.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 15 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 14 (0.74%) Adobe Premiere
7 14 (0.74%) MS Visio
7 14 (0.74%) Photoshop
8 13 (0.69%) Trello
9 10 (0.53%) Adobe Illustrator
10 8 (0.42%) InDesign
10 8 (0.42%) InVision
11 5 (0.26%) Chatbot
12 3 (0.16%) Adobe After Effects
12 3 (0.16%) Blender
12 3 (0.16%) Notion
12 3 (0.16%) UserZoom
13 2 (0.11%) Adobe Captivate
13 2 (0.11%) Final Cut Pro
Business Applications
1 32 (1.69%) NetSuite
2 29 (1.53%) Shopify
3 19 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
4 14 (0.74%) Magento
5 13 (0.69%) Payment Gateway
6 11 (0.58%) JDE OneWorld
7 4 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.16%) Elite 3E
8 3 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle EBS R12
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
9 2 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
9 2 (0.11%) Workday HCM
10 1 (0.053%) Dynamics GP
10 1 (0.053%) iTrent
10 1 (0.053%) Lorenzo
10 1 (0.053%) SAP SD
10 1 (0.053%) Sprinklr
10 1 (0.053%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 516 (27.22%) AWS
2 512 (27.00%) Azure
3 233 (12.29%) GCP
4 153 (8.07%) Figma
5 112 (5.91%) SaaS
6 102 (5.38%) Microsoft 365
7 87 (4.59%) Power Platform
8 54 (2.85%) Google Analytics
9 52 (2.74%) GitHub
10 42 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
11 40 (2.11%) Serverless
12 34 (1.79%) Entra ID
12 34 (1.79%) PowerApps
13 28 (1.48%) Power Automate
14 25 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
15 24 (1.27%) AWS Lambda
16 23 (1.21%) Boomi
17 22 (1.16%) Slack
18 19 (1.00%) Microsoft Copilot
19 18 (0.95%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 25 (1.32%) Internet
2 20 (1.05%) Wireless
3 19 (1.00%) Unified Communications
4 18 (0.95%) Skype
5 11 (0.58%) DNS
6 10 (0.53%) VPN
7 9 (0.47%) HTTP
7 9 (0.47%) WAN
8 8 (0.42%) Firewall
9 7 (0.37%) Cisco IOS
9 7 (0.37%) LAN
9 7 (0.37%) TCP/IP
10 6 (0.32%) Remote Desktop
11 5 (0.26%) Intranet
11 5 (0.26%) SMS
12 4 (0.21%) DHCP
12 4 (0.21%) LoRaWAN
12 4 (0.21%) NetScaler
13 3 (0.16%) Broadband
14 2 (0.11%) GPRS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (8.07%) SQL Server
2 74 (3.90%) PostgreSQL
3 71 (3.74%) MySQL
4 49 (2.58%) Power BI
5 35 (1.85%) NoSQL
6 34 (1.79%) Tableau
7 31 (1.64%) Relational Database
8 29 (1.53%) MongoDB
9 13 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
10 12 (0.63%) DB2
11 9 (0.47%) Data Lake
11 9 (0.47%) SQLite
12 8 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
12 8 (0.42%) RDBMS
12 8 (0.42%) Redis
13 7 (0.37%) DynamoDB
13 7 (0.37%) Elasticsearch
13 7 (0.37%) Metadata
14 5 (0.26%) Looker
14 5 (0.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 211 (11.13%) JIRA
2 149 (7.86%) Git
3 113 (5.96%) GitLab
4 107 (5.64%) Selenium
5 101 (5.33%) Maven
6 97 (5.12%) Cucumber
7 96 (5.06%) Bitbucket
8 91 (4.80%) SonarQube
9 90 (4.75%) Sonatype Nexus
10 34 (1.79%) Visual Studio
11 33 (1.74%) Jenkins
12 25 (1.32%) webpack
13 20 (1.05%) Cypress.io
14 14 (0.74%) Axure RP
15 12 (0.63%) Jasmine
15 12 (0.63%) Vite
16 11 (0.58%) Appium
16 11 (0.58%) Babel
16 11 (0.58%) Balsamiq
17 10 (0.53%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 517 (27.27%) Finance
2 503 (26.53%) Social Skills
3 376 (19.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 268 (14.14%) Banking
5 241 (12.71%) Analytical Skills
6 198 (10.44%) Marketing
7 149 (7.86%) Law
8 139 (7.33%) Retail
9 104 (5.49%) Investment Banking
10 90 (4.75%) Corporate Banking
11 63 (3.32%) Public Sector
12 48 (2.53%) Games
13 43 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
14 38 (2.00%) Front Office
15 35 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
16 34 (1.79%) Advertising
17 30 (1.58%) Legal
18 27 (1.42%) Avionics
18 27 (1.42%) Manufacturing
18 27 (1.42%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 590 (31.12%) Senior
2 479 (25.26%) Developer
3 348 (18.35%) Software Engineer
4 195 (10.28%) Senior Software Engineer
5 191 (10.07%) Designer
6 146 (7.70%) UX Designer
7 137 (7.23%) Lead
8 128 (6.75%) Senior Developer
9 117 (6.17%) Analyst
10 111 (5.85%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 99 (5.22%) Senior Designer
12 95 (5.01%) Senior UX Designer
13 72 (3.80%) React Developer
14 65 (3.43%) Architect
15 64 (3.38%) Full-Stack Developer
15 64 (3.38%) Product Manager
16 45 (2.37%) .NET Developer
17 43 (2.27%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
18 41 (2.16%) Solutions Architect
19 39 (2.06%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 375 (19.78%) CSS
2 374 (19.73%) HTML
3 361 (19.04%) React
4 311 (16.40%) .NET
5 298 (15.72%) Node.js
6 208 (10.97%) RESTful
7 159 (8.39%) HTML5
8 157 (8.28%) CSS3
9 148 (7.81%) Redux
10 146 (7.70%) REST
11 131 (6.91%) Jest
12 115 (6.07%) Sass
13 109 (5.75%) AngularJS
14 103 (5.43%) Kafka
15 100 (5.27%) Spring
15 100 (5.27%) Spring Boot
16 91 (4.80%) JPA
17 57 (3.01%) Vue
18 48 (2.53%) Next.js
19 43 (2.27%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 227 (11.97%) Product Ownership
2 202 (10.65%) Self-Motivation
3 178 (9.39%) Cyberattack
3 178 (9.39%) Linux Command Line
4 112 (5.91%) Mobile App
5 108 (5.70%) Enterprise Software
6 56 (2.95%) Algorithms
7 51 (2.69%) Social Media
8 40 (2.11%) Onboarding
9 38 (2.00%) Data Structures
10 35 (1.85%) Virtual Team
11 33 (1.74%) Fixed Income
12 30 (1.58%) e-Learning
13 27 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
14 24 (1.27%) Management Information System
15 22 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
16 21 (1.11%) Video Conferencing
17 20 (1.05%) Educational Technology
18 19 (1.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
19 18 (0.95%) Digital Signage
Operating Systems
1 256 (13.50%) Linux
2 102 (5.38%) Android
2 102 (5.38%) Windows
3 95 (5.01%) Apple iOS
4 28 (1.48%) Windows Server
5 19 (1.00%) Windows 10
6 15 (0.79%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (0.21%) Windows Vista
8 3 (0.16%) Windows 7
8 3 (0.16%) Windows 8
8 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.11%) VMS
10 1 (0.053%) CentOS
10 1 (0.053%) Debian
10 1 (0.053%) Solaris
10 1 (0.053%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 898 (47.36%) Agile
2 540 (28.48%) UX Design
3 446 (23.52%) Software Engineering
4 439 (23.15%) Problem-Solving
5 419 (22.10%) Mentoring
6 341 (17.99%) Microservices
7 312 (16.46%) Front End Development
8 285 (15.03%) Scrum
9 281 (14.82%) Project Management
10 257 (13.55%) Full-Stack Development
11 250 (13.19%) DevOps
12 242 (12.76%) Machine Learning
13 240 (12.66%) Roadmaps
14 236 (12.45%) CI/CD
15 221 (11.66%) Analytics
16 212 (11.18%) User Research
17 211 (11.13%) Wireframes
18 207 (10.92%) Test Automation
18 207 (10.92%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
19 195 (10.28%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 684 (36.08%) JavaScript
2 376 (19.83%) Java
3 355 (18.72%) Python
4 321 (16.93%) TypeScript
5 276 (14.56%) SQL
6 199 (10.50%) Go
7 193 (10.18%) C++
8 180 (9.49%) Rust
9 143 (7.54%) C#
10 76 (4.01%) PHP
11 37 (1.95%) Kotlin
12 32 (1.69%) Swift
13 29 (1.53%) C
14 28 (1.48%) PowerShell
15 13 (0.69%) Objective-C
16 8 (0.42%) R
17 7 (0.37%) Bash
17 7 (0.37%) Bicep
18 6 (0.32%) Apex Code
18 6 (0.32%) Dart
Qualifications
1 317 (16.72%) Degree
2 245 (12.92%) Security Cleared
3 192 (10.13%) DV Cleared
4 178 (9.39%) AWS Certification
4 178 (9.39%) AWS Certified Developer
4 178 (9.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 104 (5.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 39 (2.06%) SC Cleared
7 33 (1.74%) DBS Check
8 28 (1.48%) Master's Degree
9 26 (1.37%) PMI Certification
9 26 (1.37%) PMP
10 20 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
11 14 (0.74%) Azure Certification
11 14 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
12 12 (0.63%) ISTQB
12 12 (0.63%) PhD
13 10 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
14 6 (0.32%) CSPO
15 5 (0.26%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 367 (19.36%) Accessibility
2 221 (11.66%) QA
3 32 (1.69%) WCAG
4 29 (1.53%) GDPR
5 16 (0.84%) Data Quality
6 12 (0.63%) SLA
7 11 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 9 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 8 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
10 5 (0.26%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.26%) Software Quality Assurance
11 3 (0.16%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 3 (0.16%) COBIT
11 3 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.16%) Good Clinical Practice
11 3 (0.16%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.11%) IEC 62304
12 2 (0.11%) ISO 13485
12 2 (0.11%) NCSC
12 2 (0.11%) NIST
System Software
1 172 (9.07%) Docker
2 64 (3.38%) Active Directory
3 13 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.11%) Firmware
6 2 (0.11%) HDFS
6 2 (0.11%) vSphere
7 1 (0.053%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.053%) KVM
7 1 (0.053%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.053%) Xen
Systems Management
1 159 (8.39%) Kubernetes
2 30 (1.58%) Microsoft Intune
3 24 (1.27%) Terraform
4 21 (1.11%) SCCM
5 15 (0.79%) Grafana
6 13 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.32%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.26%) Kibana
9 3 (0.16%) Ansible
9 3 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.16%) Puppet
9 3 (0.16%) WMI
10 2 (0.11%) Kubeflow
10 2 (0.11%) SCOM
10 2 (0.11%) SCSM
11 1 (0.053%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.053%) Argo
11 1 (0.053%) Autotask
11 1 (0.053%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.053%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 244 (12.87%) Microsoft
2 122 (6.43%) Adobe
3 110 (5.80%) Google
4 90 (4.75%) Solace
5 74 (3.90%) ServiceNow
6 64 (3.38%) Salesforce
7 54 (2.85%) SAP
8 33 (1.74%) Workday
9 32 (1.69%) Cisco
10 24 (1.27%) YouTube
11 22 (1.16%) Oracle
12 19 (1.00%) Concur
12 19 (1.00%) Polycom
12 19 (1.00%) VMware
13 18 (0.95%) Mitel
13 18 (0.95%) ShoreTel
14 17 (0.90%) WooCommerce
15 16 (0.84%) Citrix
16 15 (0.79%) Apple
16 15 (0.79%) IBM