User-Centered Design (UCD) Job Trends in West Wales

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Wales > West Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Wales requiring User-Centered Design (UCD) skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 - 30
Rank change year-on-year - - +12
Permanent jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) 9 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in West Wales 2.74% - 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.95% - 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 9 0 1
10th Percentile £39,100 - -
25th Percentile £46,250 - £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 - £40,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -25.58%
75th Percentile £75,000 - £42,500
90th Percentile £76,000 - -
Wales median annual salary £51,500 £68,500 £36,250
% change year-on-year -24.82% +88.97% -34.09%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Wales

User-Centered Design (UCD) 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 228 53 172
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Wales 69.51% 85.48% 74.46%
Number of salaries quoted 153 26 152
10th Percentile £35,000 £21,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,000 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £37,733 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.26% -16.15% +10.42%
75th Percentile £65,000 £53,762 £53,988
90th Percentile £76,201 £59,857 £65,000
Wales median annual salary £45,000 £52,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -13.46% +15.56% -

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Job Vacancy Trend in West Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing User-Centered Design (UCD) relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West Wales.

User-Centered Design (UCD) job vacancy trend in West Wales

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Salary Trend in West Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Wales citing User-Centered Design (UCD).

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Wales citing User-Centered Design (UCD)

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Salary Histogram in West Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) in West Wales over the 6 months to 5 June 2026.

Salary histogram for User-Centered Design (UCD) in West Wales

User-Centered Design (UCD)
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-Centered Design (UCD) within the West Wales region over the 6 months to 5 June 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 - 9 £72,500 - 12
User-Centered Design (UCD)
Wales

User-Centered Design (UCD)
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 2 (22.22%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 8 (88.89%) AWS
1 8 (88.89%) Serverless
2 7 (77.78%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (44.44%) GitHub
3 4 (44.44%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (22.22%) Amazon S3
6 1 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (11.11%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (11.11%) Azure
6 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (11.11%) CloudFront
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Adabas
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (11.11%) DynamoDB
1 1 (11.11%) MySQL
1 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Jenkins
1 4 (44.44%) JIRA
2 3 (33.33%) Selenium
3 2 (22.22%) Cypress.io
3 2 (22.22%) Git
3 2 (22.22%) JUnit
3 2 (22.22%) Postman
3 2 (22.22%) REST Assured
3 2 (22.22%) Zephyr
4 1 (11.11%) Burp Suite
4 1 (11.11%) Cucumber
4 1 (11.11%) Gatling
4 1 (11.11%) GitLab
4 1 (11.11%) JMeter
4 1 (11.11%) Mocha
4 1 (11.11%) Newman
4 1 (11.11%) Pa11y
4 1 (11.11%) RSpec
4 1 (11.11%) TestRail
General
1 9 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Developer
1 2 (22.22%) Lead
1 2 (22.22%) Senior
1 2 (22.22%) Software Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Development Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Product Owner
2 1 (11.11%) React Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Ruby on Rails Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Software Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Software Development Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Software Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Test Development Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (77.78%) Node.js
1 7 (77.78%) Ruby on Rails
1 7 (77.78%) Spring Boot
2 5 (55.56%) React
2 5 (55.56%) Spring
3 3 (33.33%) REST
4 2 (22.22%) AWS CDK
4 2 (22.22%) CSS
4 2 (22.22%) CSS3
4 2 (22.22%) GraphQL
4 2 (22.22%) HTML
4 2 (22.22%) HTML5
4 2 (22.22%) Jest
4 2 (22.22%) Playwright
4 2 (22.22%) Serverless Framework
5 1 (11.11%) AWS SAM
5 1 (11.11%) Kafka
5 1 (11.11%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (77.78%) Cloud Native
2 6 (66.67%) Mainframe
3 5 (55.56%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (55.56%) Product Ownership
4 2 (22.22%) Digital Wallet
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Agile
2 7 (77.78%) CI/CD
2 7 (77.78%) Microservices
3 6 (66.67%) Scrum
4 5 (55.56%) Kanban
4 5 (55.56%) Migration
5 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (44.44%) Observability
5 4 (44.44%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 4 (44.44%) Software Engineering
5 4 (44.44%) Test Automation
6 3 (33.33%) AI
6 3 (33.33%) BDD
6 3 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
6 3 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (33.33%) DevOps
6 3 (33.33%) Event-Driven
6 3 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (33.33%) OWASP
6 3 (33.33%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) Java
1 7 (77.78%) Ruby
2 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) COBOL
3 1 (11.11%) Natural
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Certification
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (22.22%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (22.22%) ISTQB
2 2 (22.22%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
3 1 (11.11%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (11.11%) CSPO
3 1 (11.11%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (55.56%) WCAG
2 4 (44.44%) Accessibility
3 1 (11.11%) GDPR
3 1 (11.11%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (11.11%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) OneLogin
2 2 (22.22%) Oracle