UX Engineer Jobs

User Experience Engineer
UK

The median User Experience Engineer salary in the UK is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 702 856 965
Rank change year-on-year +154 +109 +199
Permanent jobs requiring a UX Engineer 10 22 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.018% 0.022% 0.008%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.020% 0.023% 0.009%
Number of salaries quoted 2 3 5
10th Percentile - - £37,300
25th Percentile £68,750 £31,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £32,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +123.08% -40.91% -21.43%
75th Percentile £76,250 £53,750 £57,500
90th Percentile - £65,750 -
UK excluding London median annual salary - £32,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -40.91% -24.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 49,912 93,707 92,673
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.61% 94.63% 91.55%
Number of salaries quoted 27,050 67,086 58,518
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.62% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £80,750
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +5.64%

UX Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured UX Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for UX Engineer in the UK

UX Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for UX Engineer in the UK

UX Engineer
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing UX Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 14 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 +145 8 £72,500 +123.08% 7
UK excluding London +170 7 - - 1
Work from Home +121 5 - - 4
South East - 5 - - 1
London +116 3 £72,500 - 7
Northern Ireland - 2 - -

UX Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 14 May 2025, UX Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring UX Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) User Experience
2 7 (70.00%) Agile
2 7 (70.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (60.00%) JavaScript
3 6 (60.00%) Software Engineering
3 6 (60.00%) DevOps
3 6 (60.00%) TypeScript
3 6 (60.00%) React
4 5 (50.00%) webpack
4 5 (50.00%) Machine Learning
4 5 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 5 (50.00%) UX Design
4 5 (50.00%) Law
4 5 (50.00%) Accessibility
4 5 (50.00%) Next.js
5 4 (40.00%) OpenAPI
5 4 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
5 4 (40.00%) Generative AI
5 4 (40.00%) LLM
5 4 (40.00%) Parceljs
5 4 (40.00%) WebAssembly
5 4 (40.00%) Jest
5 4 (40.00%) Enzyme
5 4 (40.00%) Svelte
5 4 (40.00%) Micro Frontends
5 4 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
5 4 (40.00%) Technology Strategy
5 4 (40.00%) Containerisation
5 4 (40.00%) Vite
5 4 (40.00%) Jamstack

UX Engineer Skill Set
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:

Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Adobe XD
1 2 (20.00%) Sketch
2 1 (10.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
1 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (20.00%) Figma
2 1 (10.00%) npm
2 1 (10.00%) Yarn
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) webpack
2 4 (40.00%) Cypress.io
2 4 (40.00%) Git
2 4 (40.00%) Vite
3 2 (20.00%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (10.00%) Ant
4 1 (10.00%) Babel
4 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (10.00%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (50.00%) Law
2 4 (40.00%) Games
3 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Agriculture
4 1 (10.00%) Banking
4 1 (10.00%) Finance
4 1 (10.00%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) React
2 5 (50.00%) Next.js
3 4 (40.00%) Enzyme
3 4 (40.00%) Jest
3 4 (40.00%) Node.js
3 4 (40.00%) OpenAPI
3 4 (40.00%) Parceljs
3 4 (40.00%) Svelte
3 4 (40.00%) Vue
3 4 (40.00%) WebAssembly
4 3 (30.00%) .NET
5 2 (20.00%) CSS
6 1 (10.00%) CSS3
6 1 (10.00%) HTML
6 1 (10.00%) HTML5
6 1 (10.00%) Redux
6 1 (10.00%) RESTful
6 1 (10.00%) Semantic UI
6 1 (10.00%) Web Services
6 1 (10.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (10.00%) Legacy Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) User Experience
2 7 (70.00%) Agile
2 7 (70.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (60.00%) DevOps
3 6 (60.00%) Software Engineering
4 5 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 5 (50.00%) Machine Learning
4 5 (50.00%) UX Design
5 4 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
5 4 (40.00%) Cloud Security
5 4 (40.00%) Containerisation
5 4 (40.00%) Generative AI
5 4 (40.00%) Jamstack
5 4 (40.00%) LLM
5 4 (40.00%) Micro Frontends
5 4 (40.00%) Open Source
5 4 (40.00%) Pair Programming
5 4 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
5 4 (40.00%) Technology Strategy
6 3 (30.00%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) JavaScript
1 6 (60.00%) TypeScript
2 4 (40.00%) Go
2 4 (40.00%) Python
3 3 (30.00%) C#
3 3 (30.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Adobe
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft