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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 431 471 521
Rank change year-on-year +40 +50 -56
Permanent jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) 307 488 554
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.56% 0.49% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.57% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 121 256 322
10th Percentile £43,750 £40,988 £41,480
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,965 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% -3.39% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,603 £75,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £73,410 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £57,965 £55,500
% change year-on-year -9.43% +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 51,728 84,924 96,446
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.83% 85.58% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 26,848 59,902 56,809
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,010 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,415 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £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 12 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 12 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
Work from Home +123 200 £55,000 -5.11% 179
England -25 189 £60,000 +3.51% 261
UK excluding London -9 178 £52,500 -9.43% 137
London +141 110 £62,500 +8.70% 167
Scotland +143 100 £47,500 -5.00% 14
North of England -66 34 £52,500 -9.43% 59
South West +77 19 £68,525 +14.21% 7
Yorkshire +31 17 £52,500 -9.43% 12
North West -76 12 £52,500 -9.43% 34
Midlands +33 10 £62,500 +7.82% 18
West Midlands +41 8 £72,500 +22.05% 10
South East +73 7 £52,500 +65.35% 36
North East +26 5 £50,000 -13.74% 13
Isle of Man - 4 - -
East of England +36 3 £65,000 +40.97% 2
Northern Ireland +28 2 - -
East Midlands +25 2 £31,000 -27.06% 6
Wales +25 1 £68,500 +110.77% 5

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 (3.26%) CMS
1 10 (3.26%) WordPress
2 5 (1.63%) Confluence
3 4 (1.30%) CICS
4 3 (0.98%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.65%) Drupal
Applications
1 29 (9.45%) Adobe XD
2 21 (6.84%) Sketch
3 7 (2.28%) InVision
4 5 (1.63%) Trello
5 4 (1.30%) Adobe After Effects
5 4 (1.30%) Adobe Illustrator
5 4 (1.30%) Photoshop
6 3 (0.98%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.65%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.65%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 50 (16.29%) Figma
2 19 (6.19%) AWS
3 14 (4.56%) Azure
4 11 (3.58%) Google Analytics
4 11 (3.58%) Power Platform
5 7 (2.28%) Stripe
6 6 (1.95%) GCP
6 6 (1.95%) SaaS
7 5 (1.63%) Adobe Creative Cloud
7 5 (1.63%) ChatGPT
8 4 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (1.30%) GitHub
8 4 (1.30%) Miro
9 3 (0.98%) Anthropic Claude
9 3 (0.98%) Google Workspace
9 3 (0.98%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (0.98%) Microsoft Copilot
9 3 (0.98%) Slack
10 2 (0.65%) Google Tag Manager
10 2 (0.65%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.33%) Intranet
1 1 (0.33%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.58%) Power BI
2 8 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (1.95%) Relational Database
4 5 (1.63%) Tableau
5 4 (1.30%) DB2
5 4 (1.30%) SQL Server
6 3 (0.98%) MongoDB
6 3 (0.98%) SQLite
7 2 (0.65%) Looker
7 2 (0.65%) Metadata
8 1 (0.33%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.33%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.33%) MySQL
8 1 (0.33%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 12 (3.91%) Axure RP
2 11 (3.58%) JIRA
3 10 (3.26%) Git
4 8 (2.61%) Jenkins
5 7 (2.28%) Balsamiq
6 6 (1.95%) GitLab
7 4 (1.30%) Postman
8 3 (0.98%) JUnit
8 3 (0.98%) Mockito
8 3 (0.98%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.65%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.65%) IntelliJ
9 2 (0.65%) SoapUI
9 2 (0.65%) Visual Website Optimizer
10 1 (0.33%) Burp Suite
10 1 (0.33%) Gatling
10 1 (0.33%) Locust
10 1 (0.33%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.33%) Vite
General
1 119 (38.76%) Finance
2 103 (33.55%) Banking
3 73 (23.78%) Social Skills
4 43 (14.01%) Public Sector
5 40 (13.03%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (7.82%) Marketing
7 21 (6.84%) Law
8 20 (6.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (4.56%) Legal
10 11 (3.58%) Publishing
11 10 (3.26%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (2.93%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (2.61%) Manufacturing
14 7 (2.28%) Electronics
15 6 (1.95%) Advertising
15 6 (1.95%) Automotive
15 6 (1.95%) Tech for Good
16 4 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
16 4 (1.30%) Telecoms
17 1 (0.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 140 (45.60%) Designer
2 109 (35.50%) Senior
3 101 (32.90%) UX Designer
4 88 (28.66%) Senior Designer
5 83 (27.04%) Senior UX Designer
6 50 (16.29%) Developer
7 44 (14.33%) Product Manager
8 30 (9.77%) UX Developer
9 26 (8.47%) Lead
10 19 (6.19%) Service Designer
11 18 (5.86%) Digital Product Manager
12 16 (5.21%) User Researcher
13 14 (4.56%) Consultant
14 12 (3.91%) Senior Developer
15 11 (3.58%) Senior UX Developer
16 10 (3.26%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
16 10 (3.26%) Junior
17 9 (2.93%) Junior Designer
17 9 (2.93%) UI Designer
17 9 (2.93%) UI/UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (13.03%) CSS
2 39 (12.70%) HTML
3 14 (4.56%) RESTful
4 12 (3.91%) React
5 8 (2.61%) Node.js
6 7 (2.28%) JSON
6 7 (2.28%) Next.js
7 6 (1.95%) AngularJS
8 5 (1.63%) Tailwind CSS
9 4 (1.30%) .NET
9 4 (1.30%) Express.js
9 4 (1.30%) OAuth
9 4 (1.30%) OAuth2
9 4 (1.30%) Spring
9 4 (1.30%) Spring Boot
10 3 (0.98%) Hibernate
10 3 (0.98%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (0.98%) SOAP
10 3 (0.98%) Web Services
10 3 (0.98%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 30 (9.77%) Product Ownership
2 11 (3.58%) NHS
3 9 (2.93%) Mobile App
4 8 (2.61%) Housing Association
4 8 (2.61%) Social Media
5 7 (2.28%) Learning Management System
6 6 (1.95%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.30%) Digital Media
7 4 (1.30%) N-Tier
8 3 (0.98%) Animation
8 3 (0.98%) Graphic Design
8 3 (0.98%) Onboarding
8 3 (0.98%) Video Editing
9 2 (0.65%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.65%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.65%) Educational Technology
9 2 (0.65%) Hackathon
9 2 (0.65%) IBM Mainframe
9 2 (0.65%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.33%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.30%) Windows
1 4 (1.30%) zOS
2 2 (0.65%) Android
2 2 (0.65%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.65%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (70.03%) Agile
2 204 (66.45%) User Experience
3 182 (59.28%) User Research
4 162 (52.77%) UX Design
5 144 (46.91%) Usability Testing
6 142 (46.25%) Wireframes
7 136 (44.30%) Prototyping
8 127 (41.37%) Stakeholder Management
9 125 (40.72%) Project Management
10 122 (39.74%) UX Research
11 120 (39.09%) Journey Map
12 118 (38.44%) Design Thinking
13 51 (16.61%) Roadmaps
14 50 (16.29%) Problem-Solving
15 41 (13.36%) Continuous Improvement
16 34 (11.07%) Analytics
17 33 (10.75%) Decision-Making
17 33 (10.75%) Scrum
18 31 (10.10%) Mentoring
19 29 (9.45%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 32 (10.42%) JavaScript
2 13 (4.23%) SQL
3 7 (2.28%) PHP
3 7 (2.28%) TypeScript
4 6 (1.95%) Java
5 4 (1.30%) COBOL
6 3 (0.98%) C#
6 3 (0.98%) Python
7 2 (0.65%) Bash
8 1 (0.33%) JCL
Qualifications
1 35 (11.40%) Security Cleared
2 33 (10.75%) Degree
3 25 (8.14%) SC Cleared
4 9 (2.93%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (1.95%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.63%) CSPO
6 5 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.30%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (0.98%) HND
8 3 (0.98%) ISTQB
8 3 (0.98%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 3 (0.98%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.33%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.33%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 170 (55.37%) Accessibility
2 21 (6.84%) WCAG
3 9 (2.93%) QA
4 2 (0.65%) GDPR
5 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.33%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.33%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.33%) NCSC
5 1 (0.33%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (1.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (1.30%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.98%) CA Endevor
3 1 (0.33%) MAINVIEW
3 1 (0.33%) Nessus
Vendors
1 39 (12.70%) Adobe
2 18 (5.86%) Microsoft
3 16 (5.21%) Google
4 9 (2.93%) Mercator
5 5 (1.63%) SAP
6 4 (1.30%) IBM
7 3 (0.98%) EMC
8 2 (0.65%) Optimizely
8 2 (0.65%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.65%) Splunk
9 1 (0.33%) BMC
9 1 (0.33%) Databricks
9 1 (0.33%) dotdigital
9 1 (0.33%) Hotjar
9 1 (0.33%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.33%) TippingPoint