User Research Job Trends in West Wales

User Research
Wales > West Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Wales requiring User Research skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 - 35
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing User Research 6 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in West Wales 1.47% - 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.17% - 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 - £40,000
75th Percentile - - £42,500
90th Percentile £51,000 - -
Wales median annual salary £53,000 - £50,000
% change year-on-year - - +3.09%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Wales

User 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 in West Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 277 43 185
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Wales 67.89% 81.13% 73.71%
Number of salaries quoted 201 27 165
10th Percentile £30,000 £21,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,000 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £37,733 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year +32.51% -22.20% +15.88%
75th Percentile £65,000 £53,762 £55,000
90th Percentile £76,201 £59,857 £70,000
Wales median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +15.56% -

User Research
Job Vacancy Trend in West Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing User Research relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West Wales.

User Research job vacancy trend in West Wales

User Research
Salary Trend in West Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Wales citing User Research.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Wales citing User Research

User Research
Salary Histogram in West Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing User Research in West Wales over the 6 months to 3 July 2026.

Salary histogram for User Research in West Wales

User Research
Job Locations in West Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing User Research within the West Wales region over the 6 months to 3 July 2026. 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
Swansea - 6 £30,000 - 1
User Research
Wales

User Research
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Adobe XD
1 3 (50.00%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Figma
2 4 (66.67%) Miro
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) Lucidchart
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 5 (83.33%) Public Sector
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (66.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (16.67%) Legal
3 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Designer
2 3 (50.00%) UX Designer
3 1 (16.67%) Interaction Designer
3 1 (16.67%) Product Owner
3 1 (16.67%) Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) CSS
1 3 (50.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (16.67%) Digital Wallet
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
1 6 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 5 (83.33%) Interaction Design
2 5 (83.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (66.67%) Analytics
3 4 (66.67%) Collaborative Working
3 4 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (66.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 4 (66.67%) Inclusive Design
3 4 (66.67%) Journey Map
3 4 (66.67%) Service Design
3 4 (66.67%) Usability Testing
3 4 (66.67%) User Experience
3 4 (66.67%) UX Design
3 4 (66.67%) Wireframes
3 4 (66.67%) Workshop Facilitation
4 3 (50.00%) Front End Development
4 3 (50.00%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
4 3 (50.00%) Information Architecture
4 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) CSPO
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (83.33%) Accessibility
2 2 (33.33%) WCAG
3 1 (16.67%) GDPR
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Adobe