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 8 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 - 32
Rank change year-on-year - - +10
Permanent jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) 43 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in West Wales 10.19% - 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.09% - 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 41 0 1
10th Percentile £30,000 - -
25th Percentile £46,250 - £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - £40,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -25.58%
75th Percentile £75,000 - £42,500
90th Percentile £80,000 - -
Wales median annual salary £60,000 £68,500 £36,250
% change year-on-year -12.41% +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 285 43 181
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Wales 67.54% 79.63% 74.49%
Number of salaries quoted 207 27 161
10th Percentile £30,300 £21,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,000 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £37,733 £46,131
Median % change year-on-year +32.51% -18.20% +8.54%
75th Percentile £65,000 £53,762 £55,000
90th Percentile £76,201 £59,857 £69,736
Wales median annual salary £50,000 £51,398 £45,000
% change year-on-year -2.72% +14.22% -

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 8 July 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 8 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 - 43 £70,000 - 11
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 9 (20.93%) Confluence
2 2 (4.65%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (9.30%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (6.98%) Adobe XD
2 3 (6.98%) Sketch
3 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (4.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (2.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (13.95%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 28 (65.12%) AWS
2 20 (46.51%) Serverless
3 18 (41.86%) AWS Lambda
4 17 (39.53%) Azure
5 15 (34.88%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (23.26%) GitHub
6 10 (23.26%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (20.93%) GCP
8 8 (18.60%) Amazon S3
8 8 (18.60%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (13.95%) Figma
10 5 (11.63%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (11.63%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (11.63%) CloudFront
10 5 (11.63%) Miro
11 4 (9.30%) Amazon EventBridge
11 4 (9.30%) Amazon SQS
12 1 (2.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 1 (2.33%) Lucidchart
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.95%) NoSQL
2 5 (11.63%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (9.30%) MySQL
3 4 (9.30%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (6.98%) DynamoDB
4 3 (6.98%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.33%) Adabas
5 1 (2.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (30.23%) JIRA
2 10 (23.26%) Jenkins
3 7 (16.28%) Git
3 7 (16.28%) Selenium
4 6 (13.95%) JUnit
5 4 (9.30%) Cypress.io
5 4 (9.30%) Postman
5 4 (9.30%) REST Assured
5 4 (9.30%) Zephyr
6 3 (6.98%) GitLab
6 3 (6.98%) Newman
6 3 (6.98%) TestRail
7 1 (2.33%) Burp Suite
7 1 (2.33%) Cucumber
7 1 (2.33%) Gatling
7 1 (2.33%) JMeter
7 1 (2.33%) Mocha
7 1 (2.33%) Pa11y
7 1 (2.33%) RSpec
General
1 38 (88.37%) Public Sector
2 21 (48.84%) Social Skills
3 14 (32.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (13.95%) Finance
5 5 (11.63%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (9.30%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (9.30%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (6.98%) Banking
7 3 (6.98%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 10 (23.26%) Lead
2 9 (20.93%) Developer
3 6 (13.95%) Architect
3 6 (13.95%) Designer
3 6 (13.95%) Software Developer
4 5 (11.63%) Senior
4 5 (11.63%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (6.98%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (6.98%) Java Developer
5 3 (6.98%) Senior Developer
5 3 (6.98%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (6.98%) Senior Software Developer
5 3 (6.98%) Test Leader
5 3 (6.98%) UX Designer
6 2 (4.65%) Agile Delivery Manager
6 2 (4.65%) Interaction Designer
6 2 (4.65%) Principal Developer
6 2 (4.65%) Principal Software Developer
6 2 (4.65%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
6 2 (4.65%) Senior Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (55.81%) Spring Boot
2 20 (46.51%) Node.js
3 18 (41.86%) Ruby on Rails
3 18 (41.86%) Spring
4 12 (27.91%) React
5 10 (23.26%) Kafka
6 9 (20.93%) AWS CDK
6 9 (20.93%) REST
7 7 (16.28%) CSS
7 7 (16.28%) HTML
7 7 (16.28%) RESTful
8 6 (13.95%) GraphQL
8 6 (13.95%) Hibernate
8 6 (13.95%) JPA
8 6 (13.95%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (11.63%) Serverless Framework
10 4 (9.30%) CSS3
10 4 (9.30%) HTML5
10 4 (9.30%) Jest
10 4 (9.30%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 24 (55.81%) Cloud Native
2 18 (41.86%) Mainframe
3 14 (32.56%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (27.91%) Product Ownership
5 9 (20.93%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (13.95%) Digital Wallet
7 5 (11.63%) Onboarding
8 3 (6.98%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (6.98%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (6.98%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.30%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (100.00%) Agile
2 26 (60.47%) CI/CD
3 25 (58.14%) Microservices
4 22 (51.16%) Scrum
5 21 (48.84%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 21 (48.84%) Stakeholder Management
6 20 (46.51%) DevOps
7 19 (44.19%) Infrastructure as Code
8 17 (39.53%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (39.53%) Technical Leadership
9 16 (37.21%) Collaborative Working
9 16 (37.21%) Migration
9 16 (37.21%) Software Engineering
10 15 (34.88%) Continuous Improvement
10 15 (34.88%) Event-Driven
10 15 (34.88%) Observability
11 14 (32.56%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 13 (30.23%) Kanban
12 13 (30.23%) Roadmaps
13 12 (27.91%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 26 (60.47%) Java
2 18 (41.86%) Ruby
3 5 (11.63%) COBOL
4 4 (9.30%) JavaScript
5 3 (6.98%) SQL
6 2 (4.65%) Bicep
6 2 (4.65%) C#
6 2 (4.65%) Go
6 2 (4.65%) Python
6 2 (4.65%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.33%) Natural
Qualifications
1 6 (13.95%) AWS Certification
1 6 (13.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 5 (11.63%) SC Cleared
2 5 (11.63%) Security Cleared
2 5 (11.63%) TOGAF Certification
3 4 (9.30%) ISTQB
3 4 (9.30%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
3 4 (9.30%) PMI Certification
3 4 (9.30%) PMP
4 3 (6.98%) Degree
5 2 (4.65%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (4.65%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (2.33%) CBAP
6 1 (2.33%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (2.33%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (34.88%) Accessibility
2 13 (30.23%) WCAG
3 5 (11.63%) Government Security Classifications
3 5 (11.63%) NCSC
3 5 (11.63%) QA
4 1 (2.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 12 (27.91%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (48.84%) Terraform
2 11 (25.58%) Kubernetes
3 3 (6.98%) Grafana
3 3 (6.98%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (11.63%) OneLogin
2 4 (9.30%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.30%) Oracle
3 3 (6.98%) Adobe
3 3 (6.98%) Google
3 3 (6.98%) Splunk