UX
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for User Experience skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited User Experience over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 84 71 39
Rank change year-on-year -13 -32 +10
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 3,139 4,512 12,256
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.19% 4.36% 7.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.71% 4.56% 8.18%
Number of salaries quoted 1,990 2,442 4,341
10th Percentile £31,250 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £39,720 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.40% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £68,750 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -11.82% +4.76% +6.06%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

User Experience is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,624 98,922 149,770
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.89% 95.62% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 59,744 58,119 83,346
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for User Experience in the UK

User Experience
Top 18 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 5 May 2024. 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 -15 2,635 £51,000 -21.54% 1,022
UK excluding London +12 2,357 £48,500 -11.82% 582
Work from Home -17 1,256 £51,000 -21.54% 535
London -56 663 £65,000 -7.14% 476
North of England +44 622 £47,500 -17.39% 203
South East -39 452 £50,000 -9.09% 107
Midlands +83 429 £47,500 -9.52% 94
North West +58 402 £45,000 -21.74% 132
Scotland -16 345 £49,000 -14.78% 42
South West +31 326 £55,000 +4.76% 72
West Midlands +62 252 £50,000 -4.76% 60
East Midlands +70 169 £36,000 -40.00% 34
Yorkshire +13 158 £50,000 -9.09% 53
East of England -55 129 £40,000 -33.33% 50
North East +18 62 £42,500 +6.50% 19
Wales -17 36 £37,000 -22.11% 9
Northern Ireland +24 21 £45,000 +20.00% 6
Isle of Man - 1 £36,000 - 1

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 93 (2.96%) WordPress
2 90 (2.87%) CMS
3 59 (1.88%) Confluence
4 46 (1.47%) Apache Spark
5 42 (1.34%) SharePoint
6 28 (0.89%) JBoss
6 28 (0.89%) Red Hat Fuse
7 20 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
8 17 (0.54%) Apache
9 13 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
9 13 (0.41%) Drupal
10 10 (0.32%) Umbraco
11 8 (0.25%) EPiServer
12 7 (0.22%) nginx
13 6 (0.19%) Ethereum
14 5 (0.16%) Joomla!
14 5 (0.16%) Kentico
14 5 (0.16%) Solana
15 4 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 4 (0.13%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 150 (4.78%) Sketch
2 85 (2.71%) Adobe XD
3 80 (2.55%) Microsoft Excel
4 70 (2.23%) Photoshop
5 69 (2.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 63 (2.01%) Microsoft Office
7 58 (1.85%) Adobe Illustrator
8 38 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 38 (1.21%) UserZoom
9 35 (1.12%) InVision
10 25 (0.80%) InDesign
11 24 (0.76%) Adobe After Effects
12 15 (0.48%) MS Visio
12 15 (0.48%) Trello
13 14 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
14 11 (0.35%) Blender
14 11 (0.35%) Chatbot
15 9 (0.29%) Adobe Captivate
16 7 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
17 5 (0.16%) CANalyzer
Business Applications
1 40 (1.27%) Magento
2 39 (1.24%) Shopify
3 19 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
4 14 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
5 11 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
6 9 (0.29%) SAP CO
6 9 (0.29%) SAP FI
6 9 (0.29%) SAP FI/CO
7 7 (0.22%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.16%) Distributed Ledger
8 5 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (0.064%) CiviCRM
9 2 (0.064%) Dynamics NAV
9 2 (0.064%) Endur
9 2 (0.064%) Infor SunSystems
9 2 (0.064%) Oracle EBS
9 2 (0.064%) Remedy ITSM
10 1 (0.032%) Data Workbench
10 1 (0.032%) SAP CRM
10 1 (0.032%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 532 (16.95%) Azure
2 370 (11.79%) AWS
3 334 (10.64%) Figma
4 238 (7.58%) IBM Cloud
5 208 (6.63%) Power Platform
6 203 (6.47%) Azure DevOps
7 194 (6.18%) SaaS
8 159 (5.07%) Serverless
9 134 (4.27%) Azure Logic Apps
10 129 (4.11%) Azure Functions
11 125 (3.98%) Azure API Management
11 125 (3.98%) Azure Service Bus
11 125 (3.98%) Microsoft 365
12 108 (3.44%) Power Automate
12 108 (3.44%) PowerApps
13 93 (2.96%) Miro
14 88 (2.80%) GCP
15 81 (2.58%) SurveyMonkey
16 64 (2.04%) GitHub
17 58 (1.85%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 41 (1.31%) Wi-Fi
2 39 (1.24%) Firewall
3 31 (0.99%) HTTP
4 24 (0.76%) Internet
5 23 (0.73%) Wireless
6 22 (0.70%) MQTT
7 19 (0.61%) 4G
8 18 (0.57%) DSL
9 16 (0.51%) Intranet
10 15 (0.48%) DNS
11 13 (0.41%) LAN
12 12 (0.38%) 3G
12 12 (0.38%) RS-485
13 11 (0.35%) VPN
14 10 (0.32%) DHCP
14 10 (0.32%) SAN
15 9 (0.29%) TCP/IP
15 9 (0.29%) WAN
16 7 (0.22%) 5G
16 7 (0.22%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 318 (10.13%) MongoDB
2 311 (9.91%) PostgreSQL
3 256 (8.16%) DB2
4 254 (8.09%) NoSQL
5 168 (5.35%) Power BI
6 160 (5.10%) Relational Database
7 133 (4.24%) MySQL
8 97 (3.09%) SQL Server
9 69 (2.20%) Tableau
10 52 (1.66%) Big Data
11 44 (1.40%) Redis
12 39 (1.24%) Elasticsearch
13 26 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
14 24 (0.76%) Hadoop
15 23 (0.73%) Scylla
16 22 (0.70%) Data Lake
17 16 (0.51%) Geospatial Data
18 15 (0.48%) GIS
19 13 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
20 12 (0.38%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 297 (9.46%) Git
2 188 (5.99%) JIRA
3 64 (2.04%) Jenkins
4 35 (1.12%) webpack
5 34 (1.08%) Visual Studio
6 33 (1.05%) Cypress.io
7 32 (1.02%) IntelliJ
8 27 (0.86%) Bitbucket
8 27 (0.86%) Cucumber
9 23 (0.73%) Selenium
10 19 (0.61%) Postman
11 18 (0.57%) Axure RP
12 17 (0.54%) gulp
13 15 (0.48%) Balsamiq
13 15 (0.48%) PHPUnit
14 12 (0.38%) Jasmine
14 12 (0.38%) Maven
15 10 (0.32%) Android Studio
15 10 (0.32%) Moq
15 10 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 967 (30.81%) Social Skills
2 658 (20.96%) Finance
3 564 (17.97%) Marketing
4 488 (15.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 416 (13.25%) Public Sector
6 349 (11.12%) Analytical Skills
7 254 (8.09%) Law
8 151 (4.81%) Retail
9 135 (4.30%) Banking
10 103 (3.28%) Presentation Skills
11 90 (2.87%) Manufacturing
12 89 (2.84%) Organisational Skills
13 75 (2.39%) Legal
14 59 (1.88%) Games
15 49 (1.56%) Investment Banking
16 41 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
17 39 (1.24%) Advertising
18 38 (1.21%) Automotive
18 38 (1.21%) Social Science
19 35 (1.12%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 1,004 (31.98%) Developer
2 532 (16.95%) Senior
3 372 (11.85%) Designer
4 331 (10.54%) Lead
5 260 (8.28%) Full Stack Developer
6 250 (7.96%) UX Designer
7 237 (7.55%) Software Engineer
8 195 (6.21%) Senior Developer
9 174 (5.54%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 161 (5.13%) UI Designer
11 144 (4.59%) UI/UX Designer
12 139 (4.43%) Analyst
13 137 (4.36%) Azure Developer
14 134 (4.27%) Full Stack Engineer
15 119 (3.79%) Architect
16 110 (3.50%) Azure Engineer
17 101 (3.22%) Senior Designer
18 94 (2.99%) Product Manager
19 92 (2.93%) React Developer
20 86 (2.74%) Senior UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 862 (27.46%) HTML
2 807 (25.71%) CSS
3 709 (22.59%) React
4 497 (15.83%) AngularJS
5 448 (14.27%) .NET
6 424 (13.51%) Vue
7 390 (12.42%) REST
8 359 (11.44%) jQuery
9 326 (10.39%) Web Services
10 305 (9.72%) ASP.NET
11 297 (9.46%) Node.js
12 282 (8.98%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 253 (8.06%) Backbone.js
14 242 (7.71%) ASP.NET Core
15 238 (7.58%) Ember.js
16 166 (5.29%) RESTful
17 116 (3.70%) Sass
18 109 (3.47%) HTML5
19 98 (3.12%) JSON
19 98 (3.12%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 340 (10.83%) Algorithms
2 316 (10.07%) Data Structures
3 288 (9.17%) Blockchain
4 283 (9.02%) Product Ownership
5 239 (7.61%) Hybrid Cloud
6 163 (5.19%) Mobile App
7 125 (3.98%) e-Learning
8 101 (3.22%) Management Information System
9 77 (2.45%) Onboarding
10 69 (2.20%) Social Media
11 68 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
11 68 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
12 61 (1.94%) Cloud Native
13 51 (1.62%) Graphic Design
14 40 (1.27%) Data Centre
15 38 (1.21%) Market Risk
16 35 (1.12%) Virtual Team
17 34 (1.08%) Animation
18 32 (1.02%) IoT
19 27 (0.86%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 413 (13.16%) Windows
2 350 (11.15%) Linux
3 325 (10.35%) Android
3 325 (10.35%) Apple iOS
4 45 (1.43%) Windows Server
5 38 (1.21%) Windows Server 2016
5 38 (1.21%) Windows Server 2019
6 33 (1.05%) Windows Server 2012
7 31 (0.99%) CentOS
8 29 (0.92%) Mac OS
9 20 (0.64%) Windows 10
10 12 (0.38%) Embedded Linux
11 9 (0.29%) Unix
12 6 (0.19%) VMS
13 5 (0.16%) Ubuntu
14 4 (0.13%) Mac OS X
15 2 (0.064%) SUSE
15 2 (0.064%) Windows 7
15 2 (0.064%) Windows Embedded Compact
15 2 (0.064%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,102 (35.11%) Agile
2 1,101 (35.07%) UX Design
3 823 (26.22%) Problem-Solving
4 531 (16.92%) Full Stack Development
5 480 (15.29%) DevOps
6 455 (14.50%) Web Development
7 437 (13.92%) Mentoring
8 419 (13.35%) Software Engineering
9 399 (12.71%) Artificial Intelligence
10 386 (12.30%) Design Patterns
11 382 (12.17%) Analytics
12 378 (12.04%) Front End Development
13 351 (11.18%) Roadmaps
14 327 (10.42%) Responsive Web Design
15 320 (10.19%) Design Thinking
16 308 (9.81%) Actionable Insight
17 302 (9.62%) User Research
18 296 (9.43%) MVC
19 295 (9.40%) OO
20 285 (9.08%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 945 (30.11%) JavaScript
2 602 (19.18%) SQL
3 452 (14.40%) C#
4 361 (11.50%) Python
5 351 (11.18%) Java
6 291 (9.27%) TypeScript
7 195 (6.21%) PHP
8 66 (2.10%) Bash
9 60 (1.91%) PowerShell
10 55 (1.75%) Go
11 48 (1.53%) Kotlin
12 46 (1.47%) Scala
13 41 (1.31%) C++
14 40 (1.27%) R
15 35 (1.12%) Swift
16 34 (1.08%) C
16 34 (1.08%) T-SQL
17 23 (0.73%) SystemVerilog
17 23 (0.73%) Tcl
18 21 (0.67%) Rust
Qualifications
1 594 (18.92%) Degree
2 206 (6.56%) Security Cleared
3 137 (4.36%) SC Cleared
4 121 (3.85%) Master's Degree
5 109 (3.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 45 (1.43%) PhD
7 43 (1.37%) DV Cleared
8 36 (1.15%) ITIL Certification
9 32 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
10 20 (0.64%) CIPD
10 20 (0.64%) CSPO
11 16 (0.51%) MBA
12 15 (0.48%) ISTQB
13 10 (0.32%) DBS Check
14 8 (0.25%) Azure Certification
14 8 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
14 8 (0.25%) HND
15 7 (0.22%) PMI Certification
16 6 (0.19%) IIBA
16 6 (0.19%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 257 (8.19%) Accessibility
2 167 (5.32%) QA
3 97 (3.09%) WCAG
4 52 (1.66%) GDPR
5 51 (1.62%) SLA
6 46 (1.47%) Actionable Recommendations
7 10 (0.32%) PMO
8 9 (0.29%) Data Quality
8 9 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 7 (0.22%) HIPAA
10 5 (0.16%) ISO 26262
11 3 (0.096%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.064%) HL7
12 2 (0.064%) IEC 62304
12 2 (0.064%) ISO 13485
12 2 (0.064%) ISO 14001
13 1 (0.032%) Disclosure Scotland
13 1 (0.032%) NIST
13 1 (0.032%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.032%) SOC 3
System Software
1 84 (2.68%) Docker
2 71 (2.26%) Active Directory
3 36 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (0.92%) Hyper-V
5 13 (0.41%) Firmware
6 11 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.096%) XenDesktop
10 2 (0.064%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.064%) XenApp
11 1 (0.032%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.032%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 73 (2.33%) Kubernetes
2 24 (0.76%) Terraform
3 23 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
3 23 (0.73%) SCCM
4 6 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 6 (0.19%) Progress Chef
4 6 (0.19%) ServiceCenter
5 4 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
5 4 (0.13%) vCenter Server
6 3 (0.096%) Ansible
6 3 (0.096%) Grafana
6 3 (0.096%) WSUS
7 2 (0.064%) Backup Exec
7 2 (0.064%) cPanel
7 2 (0.064%) Plesk
7 2 (0.064%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.064%) SysTrack
7 2 (0.064%) Trend Micro Deep Security
7 2 (0.064%) WebSphere Cast Iron
7 2 (0.064%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 463 (14.75%) Microsoft
2 270 (8.60%) Red Hat
3 239 (7.61%) IBM
4 232 (7.39%) Adobe
5 180 (5.73%) Google
6 85 (2.71%) Oracle
7 76 (2.42%) Qualtrics
8 61 (1.94%) Apple
9 58 (1.85%) VMware
10 56 (1.78%) Dell
11 53 (1.69%) ServiceNow
12 46 (1.47%) Salesforce
13 38 (1.21%) HP
14 37 (1.18%) SAP
15 34 (1.08%) Samsung
16 27 (0.86%) Facebook
17 26 (0.83%) Databricks
18 24 (0.76%) Alteryx
19 23 (0.73%) Intel
20 22 (0.70%) Xamarin