User-Centered Design (UCD) Jobs

User-Centered Design (UCD)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for User-Centered Design (UCD) skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited User-Centered Design (UCD) over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 478 506 478
Rank change year-on-year +28 -28 +110
Permanent jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) 484 591 1,121
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.49% 0.57% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.60% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 255 332 371
10th Percentile £40,988 £41,480 £38,037
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,965 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.39% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £71,125
90th Percentile £73,410 £85,000 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,965 £55,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.44% +5.71% +6.06%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

User-Centered Design (UCD) 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 84,620 99,018 149,592
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.90% 95.62% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 59,724 58,165 83,321
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-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 4 May 2024.

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

User-Centered Design (UCD)
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-Centered Design (UCD) within the UK over the 6 months to 4 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
UK excluding London +116 393 £57,965 +4.44% 76
England +28 391 £57,965 -7.26% 129
Work from Home +39 203 £57,965 +0.81% 70
North of England +143 167 £57,965 -10.82% 37
North West +74 89 £57,965 -10.82% 23
London -20 82 £57,500 -11.54% 56
Scotland -19 55 £54,400 +17.86% 6
Yorkshire +124 54 £57,965 -7.26% 7
Midlands +38 49 £57,965 -3.39% 16
South West -3 48 £60,000 +9.09% 6
South East +6 31 £31,750 -52.96% 9
West Midlands +21 28 £59,400 -1.00% 11
North East +12 24 £57,965 -10.82% 10
East Midlands +4 21 £47,500 - 5
Wales +25 18 £32,500 -25.56% 3
East of England -27 13 £46,110 -26.22% 3
Northern Ireland - 13 £58,800 - 2

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 35 (7.23%) Confluence
2 8 (1.65%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.62%) WordPress
Applications
1 82 (16.94%) Sketch
2 41 (8.47%) Adobe XD
3 23 (4.75%) MS Visio
4 15 (3.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 15 (3.10%) Trello
5 10 (2.07%) Microsoft Office
5 10 (2.07%) Photoshop
6 9 (1.86%) Adobe Illustrator
7 8 (1.65%) InDesign
8 6 (1.24%) InVision
9 2 (0.41%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.41%) Final Cut Pro
9 2 (0.41%) Zeplin
10 1 (0.21%) Adobe Captivate
Business Applications
1 4 (0.83%) NEC Housing
2 3 (0.62%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 99 (20.45%) Figma
2 75 (15.50%) Miro
3 51 (10.54%) Heroku
4 32 (6.61%) Azure
5 23 (4.75%) AWS
6 18 (3.72%) SaaS
7 15 (3.10%) Power Platform
8 10 (2.07%) PaaS
9 8 (1.65%) Azure Stack
9 8 (1.65%) IaaS
9 8 (1.65%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (1.65%) PowerApps
10 7 (1.45%) dbt
10 7 (1.45%) Google Analytics
11 6 (1.24%) GCP
11 6 (1.24%) SurveyMonkey
12 5 (1.03%) ChatGPT
12 5 (1.03%) Stripe
13 4 (0.83%) WhatsApp
14 2 (0.41%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.65%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (3.10%) SQL Server
2 12 (2.48%) Big Data
3 9 (1.86%) Tableau
4 7 (1.45%) Power BI
5 6 (1.24%) Relational Database
5 6 (1.24%) Snowflake Schema
5 6 (1.24%) Star Schema
6 2 (0.41%) Metadata
6 2 (0.41%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (0.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.21%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 48 (9.92%) JIRA
2 24 (4.96%) Git
3 18 (3.72%) Axure RP
4 15 (3.10%) Jasmine
4 15 (3.10%) Karma Test Runner
4 15 (3.10%) Visual Studio Code
5 13 (2.69%) Balsamiq
6 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio
General
1 101 (20.87%) Social Skills
2 98 (20.25%) Public Sector
3 72 (14.88%) Finance
4 66 (13.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 51 (10.54%) Marketing
6 36 (7.44%) Presentation Skills
7 35 (7.23%) Law
8 29 (5.99%) Analytical Skills
9 27 (5.58%) Banking
10 23 (4.75%) Legal
11 19 (3.93%) Retail
12 15 (3.10%) Private Banking
13 9 (1.86%) Games
14 8 (1.65%) Investment Banking
15 7 (1.45%) Manufacturing
15 7 (1.45%) Pharmaceutical
16 6 (1.24%) Social Science
17 4 (0.83%) Local Government
17 4 (0.83%) Police
17 4 (0.83%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 207 (42.77%) Senior
2 203 (41.94%) Designer
3 99 (20.45%) UX Designer
4 84 (17.36%) Senior Designer
5 74 (15.29%) UI Designer
6 70 (14.46%) UI/UX Designer
7 53 (10.95%) Senior UX Designer
8 51 (10.54%) Senior UI Designer
9 49 (10.12%) Interaction Designer
9 49 (10.12%) User Researcher
10 48 (9.92%) Senior UI/UX Designer
11 38 (7.85%) Senior User Researcher
12 34 (7.02%) Lead
13 32 (6.61%) Analyst
14 31 (6.40%) Business Analyst
15 27 (5.58%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
15 27 (5.58%) Service Designer
16 24 (4.96%) Developer
16 24 (4.96%) Senior Analyst
16 24 (4.96%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (21.49%) HTML
2 57 (11.78%) CSS
3 27 (5.58%) AngularJS
4 23 (4.75%) React
5 20 (4.13%) .NET
6 18 (3.72%) ASP.NET
6 18 (3.72%) jQuery
6 18 (3.72%) LESS
6 18 (3.72%) RESTful
6 18 (3.72%) Sass
7 16 (3.31%) ASP.NET Web API
7 16 (3.31%) OpenAPI
7 16 (3.31%) Swagger
8 15 (3.10%) ASP.NET MVC
8 15 (3.10%) ASP.NET MVC 3
8 15 (3.10%) OAuth
8 15 (3.10%) OAuth2
9 7 (1.45%) Vue
10 3 (0.62%) .NET Core
10 3 (0.62%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 86 (17.77%) Product Ownership
2 25 (5.17%) Cloud Native
3 24 (4.96%) Onboarding
4 10 (2.07%) Mobile App
5 7 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
5 7 (1.45%) Biopharmaceutical
5 7 (1.45%) Cyberattack
5 7 (1.45%) Graphic Design
5 7 (1.45%) Social Media
6 6 (1.24%) Public Cloud
6 6 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.03%) Algorithms
8 4 (0.83%) Life Science
8 4 (0.83%) Management Information System
9 3 (0.62%) Animation
9 3 (0.62%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.62%) Robotics
9 3 (0.62%) Taxonomies
10 2 (0.41%) Photography
10 2 (0.41%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 245 (50.62%) Agile
2 214 (44.21%) User Experience
3 209 (43.18%) User Research
4 162 (33.47%) Actionable Insight
5 159 (32.85%) Prototyping
6 158 (32.64%) UX Design
7 137 (28.31%) Coaching
8 122 (25.21%) Workshop Facilitation
9 118 (24.38%) Customer Experience
10 109 (22.52%) Problem-Solving
11 104 (21.49%) Mentoring
12 101 (20.87%) Digital Customer Experience
13 91 (18.80%) Design Patterns
14 90 (18.60%) Stakeholder Management
15 84 (17.36%) Interaction Design
16 82 (16.94%) Wireframes
17 78 (16.12%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
17 78 (16.12%) Service Design
18 75 (15.50%) Usability Testing
19 67 (13.84%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 64 (13.22%) JavaScript
2 23 (4.75%) C#
3 22 (4.55%) T-SQL
4 15 (3.10%) TypeScript
5 12 (2.48%) SQL
6 7 (1.45%) Python
7 6 (1.24%) R
8 3 (0.62%) Scala
9 2 (0.41%) Java
10 1 (0.21%) PHP
10 1 (0.21%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 170 (35.12%) Security Cleared
2 144 (29.75%) SC Cleared
3 84 (17.36%) Degree
4 21 (4.34%) Master's Degree
5 20 (4.13%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (2.48%) DV Cleared
7 11 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (1.45%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.24%) DBS Check
9 6 (1.24%) IIBA
10 3 (0.62%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.41%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.41%) MBA
12 1 (0.21%) APMG
12 1 (0.21%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 260 (53.72%) Accessibility
2 128 (26.45%) WCAG
3 17 (3.51%) QA
4 15 (3.10%) WAI
5 12 (2.48%) PMO
6 4 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.41%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 48 (9.92%) Adobe
2 39 (8.06%) Microsoft
3 12 (2.48%) Cadence
4 7 (1.45%) Google
5 6 (1.24%) Qualtrics
6 5 (1.03%) OpenAI
7 4 (0.83%) NEC
7 4 (0.83%) Salesforce
8 3 (0.62%) Mercator
9 1 (0.21%) Databricks
9 1 (0.21%) DevExpress
9 1 (0.21%) Hotjar
9 1 (0.21%) Xamarin