User-Centered Design (UCD) Jobs

User-Centered Design (UCD)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring User-Centered Design (UCD) skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited User-Centered Design (UCD) over the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 451 476 497
Rank change year-on-year +25 +21 -19
Permanent jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) 248 484 583
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.47% 0.49% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.57% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 120 255 330
10th Percentile £43,625 £40,988 £41,457
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,965 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.51% -3.39% -
75th Percentile £74,063 £65,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £73,410 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,750 £57,965 £55,500
% change year-on-year -7.27% +4.44% +5.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

User-Centered Design (UCD) 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 49,192 84,627 98,923
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.39% 85.89% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 26,577 59,744 58,120
10th Percentile £30,375 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £75,772 £72,500 £81,500
90th Percentile £98,474 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing User-Centered Design (UCD) as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for User-Centered Design (UCD) in the UK

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD).

Salary trend for User-Centered Design (UCD) in the UK

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Salary histogram for User-Centered Design (UCD) in the UK

User-Centered Design (UCD)
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-Centered Design (UCD) within the UK over the 6 months to 5 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 +17 189 £60,000 +3.51% 213
Work from Home +110 141 £55,000 -5.11% 164
UK excluding London -18 120 £53,750 -7.27% 124
London +133 110 £62,500 +8.70% 145
Scotland +121 42 £47,500 -12.68% 35
North of England -56 35 £52,500 -9.43% 30
South West +87 19 £68,525 +14.21% 7
Yorkshire +40 18 £53,750 -7.27% 5
North West -55 12 £52,500 -9.43% 18
Midlands +22 10 £62,500 +7.82% 15
West Midlands +37 8 £72,500 +22.05% 8
South East +77 6 £52,500 +65.35% 28
North East +30 5 £50,000 -13.74% 7
Isle of Man - 4 - -
East of England +38 3 £65,000 +40.97% 2
Northern Ireland +27 2 - -
East Midlands +25 2 £31,000 -34.74% 6
Wales +19 1 £68,500 +110.77% 9

User-Centered Design (UCD)
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 10 (4.03%) CMS
1 10 (4.03%) WordPress
2 5 (2.02%) CICS
2 5 (2.02%) Confluence
3 3 (1.21%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.81%) Drupal
Applications
1 28 (11.29%) Adobe XD
2 20 (8.06%) Sketch
3 7 (2.82%) InVision
4 6 (2.42%) Trello
5 4 (1.61%) Adobe After Effects
5 4 (1.61%) Adobe Illustrator
5 4 (1.61%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.81%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.81%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.81%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 48 (19.35%) Figma
2 20 (8.06%) AWS
3 15 (6.05%) Azure
4 12 (4.84%) Power Platform
5 10 (4.03%) Google Analytics
6 7 (2.82%) Stripe
7 6 (2.42%) GCP
7 6 (2.42%) SaaS
8 5 (2.02%) Adobe Creative Cloud
8 5 (2.02%) ChatGPT
9 4 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (1.61%) GitHub
9 4 (1.61%) Miro
10 3 (1.21%) Anthropic Claude
10 3 (1.21%) Google Workspace
10 3 (1.21%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (1.21%) Microsoft Copilot
10 3 (1.21%) Slack
11 2 (0.81%) Google Tag Manager
11 2 (0.81%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.81%) Intranet
2 1 (0.40%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.84%) Power BI
2 8 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (2.82%) Relational Database
4 6 (2.42%) Tableau
5 5 (2.02%) DB2
6 4 (1.61%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.21%) Metadata
7 3 (1.21%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.21%) SQLite
8 2 (0.81%) Looker
9 1 (0.40%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.40%) Big Data
9 1 (0.40%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.40%) MySQL
9 1 (0.40%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.40%) Spark SQL
9 1 (0.40%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (4.84%) JIRA
2 11 (4.44%) Axure RP
2 11 (4.44%) Git
3 9 (3.63%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.42%) Balsamiq
4 6 (2.42%) GitLab
5 5 (2.02%) Postman
6 3 (1.21%) JUnit
6 3 (1.21%) Mockito
6 3 (1.21%) SoapUI
6 3 (1.21%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.81%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.81%) IntelliJ
7 2 (0.81%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (0.81%) Visual Website Optimizer
8 1 (0.40%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.40%) Gatling
8 1 (0.40%) Locust
8 1 (0.40%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.40%) Vite
General
1 73 (29.44%) Social Skills
2 62 (25.00%) Finance
3 46 (18.55%) Banking
4 42 (16.94%) Public Sector
5 39 (15.73%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (9.68%) Marketing
7 20 (8.06%) Law
8 19 (7.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (5.65%) Legal
10 11 (4.44%) Publishing
11 10 (4.03%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (3.23%) Manufacturing
12 8 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (2.82%) Advertising
13 7 (2.82%) Electronics
14 6 (2.42%) Automotive
14 6 (2.42%) Tech for Good
15 4 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (1.61%) Telecoms
16 1 (0.40%) Games
Job Titles
1 78 (31.45%) Designer
2 51 (20.56%) Developer
2 51 (20.56%) Senior
3 45 (18.15%) Product Manager
4 42 (16.94%) UX Designer
5 30 (12.10%) UX Developer
6 29 (11.69%) Senior Designer
7 26 (10.48%) Lead
8 25 (10.08%) Senior UX Designer
9 18 (7.26%) Digital Product Manager
9 18 (7.26%) Service Designer
10 15 (6.05%) User Researcher
11 14 (5.65%) Consultant
12 12 (4.84%) Senior Developer
13 11 (4.44%) Senior UX Developer
14 10 (4.03%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 10 (4.03%) Junior
15 9 (3.63%) Junior Designer
15 9 (3.63%) Software Engineer
15 9 (3.63%) UI Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (15.73%) CSS
2 38 (15.32%) HTML
3 14 (5.65%) RESTful
4 12 (4.84%) React
5 8 (3.23%) JSON
5 8 (3.23%) Node.js
6 7 (2.82%) Next.js
7 6 (2.42%) AngularJS
8 5 (2.02%) Tailwind CSS
9 4 (1.61%) .NET
9 4 (1.61%) Express.js
9 4 (1.61%) OAuth
9 4 (1.61%) OAuth2
9 4 (1.61%) SOAP
9 4 (1.61%) Spring
9 4 (1.61%) Spring Boot
9 4 (1.61%) Web Services
10 3 (1.21%) Hibernate
10 3 (1.21%) LINQ
10 3 (1.21%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 31 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 11 (4.44%) NHS
3 8 (3.23%) Housing Association
3 8 (3.23%) Mobile App
4 7 (2.82%) Learning Management System
4 7 (2.82%) Social Media
5 6 (2.42%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.61%) Digital Media
6 4 (1.61%) N-Tier
7 3 (1.21%) Animation
7 3 (1.21%) Graphic Design
7 3 (1.21%) IBM Mainframe
7 3 (1.21%) Mainframe
7 3 (1.21%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.21%) Video Editing
8 2 (0.81%) Client/Server
8 2 (0.81%) Cloud Native
8 2 (0.81%) Educational Technology
8 2 (0.81%) Hackathon
8 2 (0.81%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.02%) zOS
2 4 (1.61%) Windows
3 2 (0.81%) Android
3 2 (0.81%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.81%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (63.31%) Agile
2 144 (58.06%) User Experience
3 122 (49.19%) User Research
4 102 (41.13%) UX Design
5 83 (33.47%) Usability Testing
5 83 (33.47%) Wireframes
6 75 (30.24%) Prototyping
7 70 (28.23%) Stakeholder Management
8 68 (27.42%) Project Management
9 64 (25.81%) UX Research
10 62 (25.00%) Journey Map
11 60 (24.19%) Design Thinking
12 52 (20.97%) Roadmaps
13 50 (20.16%) Problem-Solving
14 42 (16.94%) Continuous Improvement
15 34 (13.71%) Analytics
16 33 (13.31%) Decision-Making
17 32 (12.90%) Scrum
18 30 (12.10%) Business Analysis
18 30 (12.10%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 31 (12.50%) JavaScript
2 13 (5.24%) SQL
3 7 (2.82%) Java
3 7 (2.82%) PHP
3 7 (2.82%) TypeScript
4 5 (2.02%) COBOL
5 3 (1.21%) C#
5 3 (1.21%) Python
6 2 (0.81%) Bash
6 2 (0.81%) JCL
Qualifications
1 35 (14.11%) Security Cleared
2 32 (12.90%) Degree
3 24 (9.68%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.63%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (2.42%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.02%) CSPO
6 5 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.61%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.21%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.21%) HND
8 3 (1.21%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.21%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 3 (1.21%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.40%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.40%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.40%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (44.35%) Accessibility
2 20 (8.06%) WCAG
3 9 (3.63%) QA
4 2 (0.81%) GDPR
5 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.40%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.40%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.40%) NCSC
5 1 (0.40%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (1.61%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (1.61%) CA Endevor
1 4 (1.61%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.81%) MAINVIEW
3 1 (0.40%) Nessus
Vendors
1 37 (14.92%) Adobe
2 17 (6.85%) Microsoft
3 15 (6.05%) Google
4 8 (3.23%) Mercator
5 5 (2.02%) IBM
5 5 (2.02%) SAP
6 3 (1.21%) EMC
7 2 (0.81%) BMC
7 2 (0.81%) Optimizely
7 2 (0.81%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.81%) Splunk
8 1 (0.40%) Databricks
8 1 (0.40%) dotdigital
8 1 (0.40%) Hotjar
8 1 (0.40%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (0.40%) TippingPoint