UX Research Jobs

User Experience Research (UXR)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring UX Research skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited UX Research over the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 546 668 639
Rank change year-on-year +122 -29 -139
Permanent jobs citing UX Research 160 236 359
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.24% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.28% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 36 56 159
10th Percentile £40,625 £31,125 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,125 £36,438 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -14.81% +17.39%
75th Percentile £77,500 £68,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £93,750 £71,183 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,123 £50,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +22.25% -28.57% +33.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

UX Research 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 51,302 84,920 96,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.76% 85.59% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 27,015 59,883 56,845
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,008 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
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%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for UX Research in the UK

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Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for UX Research in the UK

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Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing UX Research over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for UX Research in the UK

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Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing UX Research within the UK over the 6 months to 11 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 +207 129 £75,000 +50.00% 54
UK excluding London +99 110 £61,123 +22.25% 50
Scotland +74 97 - - 5
England +126 54 £65,000 +13.04% 124
London +122 45 £67,500 -3.57% 93
South West +86 5 £62,245 +8.25% 3
Isle of Man - 4 - -
North of England +58 3 £48,250 - 12
North West +2 2 £48,250 - 8
South East +87 1 £95,000 +175.36% 21
Yorkshire +63 1 - - 4

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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 6 (3.75%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.25%) Adobe XD
1 2 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.25%) Sketch
2 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.63%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 11 (6.88%) Figma
2 3 (1.88%) SaaS
3 2 (1.25%) ChatGPT
3 2 (1.25%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (1.25%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (0.63%) Adobe Creative Cloud
4 1 (0.63%) AWS
4 1 (0.63%) dbt
4 1 (0.63%) Miro
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.25%) MongoDB
1 2 (1.25%) Tableau
2 1 (0.63%) Looker
Development Applications
1 6 (3.75%) JIRA
General
1 111 (69.38%) Finance
2 100 (62.50%) Banking
3 24 (15.00%) Social Skills
4 9 (5.63%) Law
5 8 (5.00%) Publishing
6 6 (3.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.50%) Marketing
7 4 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.88%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.88%) Local Government
9 2 (1.25%) Advertising
9 2 (1.25%) Humanities
9 2 (1.25%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.25%) Social Science
10 1 (0.63%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.63%) Automotive
10 1 (0.63%) Legal
10 1 (0.63%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.63%) Retail
Job Titles
1 100 (62.50%) Senior
2 93 (58.13%) Designer
3 88 (55.00%) UX Designer
4 81 (50.63%) Senior Designer
4 81 (50.63%) Senior UX Designer
5 22 (13.75%) Developer
6 21 (13.13%) UX Developer
7 11 (6.88%) Senior Developer
7 11 (6.88%) Senior UX Developer
8 10 (6.25%) Lead
9 8 (5.00%) Head of Business Intelligence
10 7 (4.38%) Product Manager
11 6 (3.75%) Consultant
12 5 (3.13%) Analyst
12 5 (3.13%) Service Designer
13 4 (2.50%) User Experience Researcher
14 3 (1.88%) Business Analyst
14 3 (1.88%) Senior Manager
14 3 (1.88%) Senior Product Manager
15 2 (1.25%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.88%) React
2 2 (1.25%) Kafka
3 1 (0.63%) CSS
3 1 (0.63%) D3.js
3 1 (0.63%) EDI
3 1 (0.63%) NestJS
3 1 (0.63%) RESTful
3 1 (0.63%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.50%) Product Ownership
2 3 (1.88%) Social Media
3 2 (1.25%) Mobile App
4 1 (0.63%) Blog
4 1 (0.63%) Graphic Design
4 1 (0.63%) IoT
4 1 (0.63%) Low-Code
4 1 (0.63%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.63%) Photography
4 1 (0.63%) Reinsurance
4 1 (0.63%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (0.63%) Video Editing
4 1 (0.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.25%) Android
1 2 (1.25%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (100.00%) User Experience
2 141 (88.13%) Agile
3 132 (82.50%) User Research
4 129 (80.63%) UX Design
5 122 (76.25%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 119 (74.38%) Stakeholder Management
7 113 (70.63%) Usability Testing
8 110 (68.75%) Project Management
8 110 (68.75%) Prototyping
9 109 (68.13%) Wireframes
10 107 (66.88%) Design Thinking
11 100 (62.50%) Journey Map
12 22 (13.75%) User Stories
13 21 (13.13%) Problem-Solving
14 17 (10.63%) Roadmaps
15 11 (6.88%) Artificial Intelligence
15 11 (6.88%) Product Vision
15 11 (6.88%) Scrum
15 11 (6.88%) Workshop Facilitation
16 10 (6.25%) B2B
Programming Languages
1 3 (1.88%) TypeScript
2 2 (1.25%) JavaScript
2 2 (1.25%) SQL
3 1 (0.63%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (7.50%) Degree
2 9 (5.63%) Security Cleared
3 5 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (3.13%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.25%) CISSP
4 2 (1.25%) CITP
4 2 (1.25%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.25%) MPhil
4 2 (1.25%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (70.63%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.88%) QA
3 1 (0.63%) GDPR
3 1 (0.63%) HIPAA
System Software
1 2 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.63%) Docker
Vendors
1 5 (3.13%) Adobe
2 4 (2.50%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.88%) Mercator
4 2 (1.25%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.25%) ServiceNow
4 2 (1.25%) VMware