User Experience Design (UXD)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for UX Design skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited UX Design over the 6 months to 28 November 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 232 128 141
Rank change year-on-year -104 +13 +41
Permanent jobs citing UX Design 806 3,456 3,437
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.48% 2.75% 2.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.58% 2.88% 2.81%
Number of salaries quoted 626 1,451 1,877
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +8.70% +7.97%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

UX Design 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 51,121 120,104 122,523
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 94.09% 95.72% 95.43%
Number of salaries quoted 36,956 73,203 81,032
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,313 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year - +1.69% +7.27%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.94% +6.00% +4.17%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing UX Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for UX Design in the UK

UX Design
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing UX Design.

Salary trend for UX Design in the UK

UX Design
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing UX Design over the 6 months to 28 November 2023.

Salary histogram for UX Design in the UK

UX Design
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing UX Design within the UK over the 6 months to 28 November 2023. 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 -93 698 £65,000 +4.00% 403
UK excluding London -82 420 £55,000 -4.35% 194
London -83 332 £77,500 +10.71% 238
Work from Home -100 313 £65,000 +4.00% 205
North of England -41 125 £47,500 -13.64% 35
South East -38 108 £60,000 -11.11% 68
North West +18 77 £41,250 -26.34% 22
Midlands +47 70 £55,000 +4.76% 25
West Midlands +50 46 £55,000 +2.80% 21
Yorkshire -24 46 £67,500 +31.07% 9
Scotland -42 41 £42,500 -26.09% 12
South West -54 32 £50,000 -9.09% 28
East Midlands +20 24 £50,000 - 4
East of England +8 16 £57,500 -2.13% 21
Northern Ireland +21 14 - - 4
Wales -38 14 £50,000 +11.11% 5
North East -2 2 £47,500 -18.80% 4

UX Design
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 87 (10.79%) JBoss
1 87 (10.79%) Red Hat Fuse
2 37 (4.59%) CMS
2 37 (4.59%) WordPress
3 26 (3.23%) Confluence
4 7 (0.87%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.50%) Sitecore CMS
6 3 (0.37%) Drupal
7 2 (0.25%) IBM Domino
7 2 (0.25%) Liferay
7 2 (0.25%) Moodle
7 2 (0.25%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.12%) Mendix
Applications
1 73 (9.06%) Sketch
2 51 (6.33%) Adobe XD
3 31 (3.85%) Photoshop
4 30 (3.72%) Adobe Illustrator
5 23 (2.85%) InVision
6 17 (2.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 9 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
8 8 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
8 8 (0.99%) MS Visio
9 5 (0.62%) Marvel
10 3 (0.37%) Adobe After Effects
10 3 (0.37%) Adobe Captivate
10 3 (0.37%) InDesign
10 3 (0.37%) SPSS
10 3 (0.37%) Zeplin
11 2 (0.25%) OmniGraffle
12 1 (0.12%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.12%) Blender
12 1 (0.12%) CINEMA 4D
12 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (0.99%) Distributed Ledger
2 3 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.12%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.12%) Magento
3 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.12%) Sage X3
3 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 182 (22.58%) Figma
2 90 (11.17%) AWS
3 70 (8.68%) Azure
4 36 (4.47%) Google Analytics
5 32 (3.97%) SaaS
6 30 (3.72%) Power Platform
7 27 (3.35%) GitHub
8 25 (3.10%) npm
9 23 (2.85%) Azure DevOps
10 21 (2.61%) Canva
11 19 (2.36%) Bitrise
12 12 (1.49%) SurveyMonkey
13 9 (1.12%) GCP
13 9 (1.12%) Serverless
14 6 (0.74%) Azure Service Bus
15 5 (0.62%) Microsoft 365
15 5 (0.62%) Miro
15 5 (0.62%) PowerApps
16 3 (0.37%) Azure Storage
16 3 (0.37%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.99%) Internet
2 3 (0.37%) Unified Communications
3 2 (0.25%) Intranet
4 1 (0.12%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (3.10%) Power BI
1 25 (3.10%) SQL Server
2 15 (1.86%) MySQL
2 15 (1.86%) Tableau
3 13 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (0.74%) Relational Database
5 5 (0.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (0.50%) MS Access
6 4 (0.50%) QlikView
6 4 (0.50%) SQLite
7 3 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (0.37%) BigQuery
7 3 (0.37%) Redis
8 2 (0.25%) Big Data
8 2 (0.25%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.25%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.25%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.12%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.12%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.12%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 117 (14.52%) Git
2 87 (10.79%) IntelliJ
3 42 (5.21%) JIRA
4 9 (1.12%) Postman
5 8 (0.99%) Axure RP
5 8 (0.99%) Cypress.io
6 7 (0.87%) Cucumber
7 6 (0.74%) Jenkins
8 5 (0.62%) Android Studio
9 4 (0.50%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.50%) Jasmine
9 4 (0.50%) Xcode
10 3 (0.37%) Gradle
10 3 (0.37%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.37%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (0.25%) Code Climate
11 2 (0.25%) Crashlytics
11 2 (0.25%) Karma Test Runner
11 2 (0.25%) Maven
11 2 (0.25%) Selenium
General
1 255 (31.64%) Social Skills
2 185 (22.95%) Finance
3 98 (12.16%) Public Sector
4 87 (10.79%) Analytical Skills
5 75 (9.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 57 (7.07%) Marketing
7 47 (5.83%) Banking
7 47 (5.83%) Retail
8 28 (3.47%) Games
9 27 (3.35%) Presentation Skills
10 20 (2.48%) Law
11 18 (2.23%) Organisational Skills
12 13 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
13 12 (1.49%) Tech for Good
14 10 (1.24%) Telecoms
15 7 (0.87%) Advertising
15 7 (0.87%) Aerospace
16 6 (0.74%) Legal
17 5 (0.62%) Manufacturing
18 4 (0.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 289 (35.86%) Developer
2 255 (31.64%) Senior
3 213 (26.43%) Designer
4 149 (18.49%) UX Designer
5 106 (13.15%) Lead
6 94 (11.66%) Software Engineer
7 87 (10.79%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 74 (9.18%) Senior Developer
9 71 (8.81%) Senior Software Engineer
10 65 (8.06%) Java Engineer
10 65 (8.06%) Java Software Engineer
10 65 (8.06%) Senior Java Engineer
10 65 (8.06%) Senior Java Software Engineer
11 64 (7.94%) UI Designer
12 56 (6.95%) Senior Designer
13 50 (6.20%) UI/UX Designer
14 48 (5.96%) Lead Developer
15 44 (5.46%) Angular Developer
16 39 (4.84%) Senior UX Designer
17 35 (4.34%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 229 (28.41%) AngularJS
2 228 (28.29%) CSS
3 215 (26.67%) HTML
4 171 (21.22%) React
5 147 (18.24%) Web Services
6 141 (17.49%) RESTful
7 128 (15.88%) REST
8 108 (13.40%) JSON
9 104 (12.90%) XML
10 101 (12.53%) SOAP
11 89 (11.04%) Spring
12 87 (10.79%) Hibernate
12 87 (10.79%) JPA
12 87 (10.79%) XSD
13 78 (9.68%) .NET
14 76 (9.43%) Java EE
15 60 (7.44%) HTML5
16 54 (6.70%) CSS3
17 46 (5.71%) Vue
18 36 (4.47%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 94 (11.66%) Mobile App
2 58 (7.20%) Product Ownership
3 38 (4.71%) Greenfield Project
4 26 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
5 21 (2.61%) Graphic Design
6 13 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (1.36%) Blockchain
8 10 (1.24%) Onboarding
9 9 (1.12%) Cyberattack
10 8 (0.99%) Client/Server
10 8 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (0.99%) Management Information System
11 6 (0.74%) 3D Graphics
11 6 (0.74%) Algorithms
11 6 (0.74%) Photography
12 5 (0.62%) Cloud Native
12 5 (0.62%) Data Structures
12 5 (0.62%) PropTech
13 4 (0.50%) Hackathon
13 4 (0.50%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 53 (6.58%) Android
2 39 (4.84%) Apple iOS
3 4 (0.50%) Linux
4 3 (0.37%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 806 (100.00%) User Experience
2 366 (45.41%) Agile
3 249 (30.89%) Front End Development
4 209 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
5 178 (22.08%) Software Engineering
6 159 (19.73%) Mentoring
7 123 (15.26%) Wireframes
8 119 (14.76%) Collaborative Working
8 119 (14.76%) User Research
9 117 (14.52%) Actionable Insight
10 113 (14.02%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 111 (13.77%) DevOps
12 110 (13.65%) Prototyping
13 102 (12.66%) Analytics
14 87 (10.79%) Data Design
15 86 (10.67%) Full Stack Development
16 83 (10.30%) Scrum
17 79 (9.80%) Computer Science
18 75 (9.31%) Usability Testing
19 70 (8.68%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 266 (33.00%) JavaScript
2 116 (14.39%) Java
3 81 (10.05%) TypeScript
4 63 (7.82%) C#
5 57 (7.07%) SQL
6 40 (4.96%) PHP
7 30 (3.72%) Python
8 15 (1.86%) Kotlin
9 13 (1.61%) Objective-C
10 12 (1.49%) BrightScript
11 11 (1.36%) Clojure
11 11 (1.36%) F#
11 11 (1.36%) Haskell
11 11 (1.36%) Rust
12 9 (1.12%) Dart
13 6 (0.74%) VB.NET
14 5 (0.62%) R
15 4 (0.50%) PowerShell
16 3 (0.37%) Swift
16 3 (0.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 157 (19.48%) Degree
2 113 (14.02%) Security Cleared
3 97 (12.03%) SC Cleared
4 50 (6.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (1.61%) Master's Degree
6 7 (0.87%) DV Cleared
7 4 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.37%) Postgraduate
9 2 (0.25%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.25%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.25%) ISEB
9 2 (0.25%) Tableau Certification
10 1 (0.12%) IIBA
10 1 (0.12%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (10.30%) Accessibility
2 38 (4.71%) QA
3 19 (2.36%) WCAG
4 11 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.25%) GDPR
6 1 (0.12%) Data Quality
System Software
1 13 (1.61%) Docker
2 2 (0.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (0.99%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 88 (10.92%) Adobe
2 65 (8.06%) Google
3 50 (6.20%) Salesforce
4 28 (3.47%) Microsoft
5 21 (2.61%) Hotjar
6 8 (0.99%) Revolut
7 7 (0.87%) Spotify
8 6 (0.74%) Sitecore
9 5 (0.62%) SAP
10 3 (0.37%) Apple
10 3 (0.37%) Facebook
10 3 (0.37%) Mercator
10 3 (0.37%) MicroStrategy
11 2 (0.25%) IBM
11 2 (0.25%) Instagram
11 2 (0.25%) Optimizely
11 2 (0.25%) Oracle
11 2 (0.25%) Teradata
11 2 (0.25%) Xamarin
11 2 (0.25%) Zuora