User-Centered Design (UCD) Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

User-Centered Design (UCD)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring User-Centered Design (UCD) skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited User-Centered Design (UCD) over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 279 397 434
Rank change year-on-year +118 +37 -17
Permanent jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) 121 201 255
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.81% 0.59% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 0.65% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 58 158 185
10th Percentile £42,625 £40,988 £38,100
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,965 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.11% +0.81% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,772 £60,741 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,750 £71,978 £83,600
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,965 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.51% -3.39% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,930 31,014 41,082
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.15% 91.65% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 9,709 23,583 28,561
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,930 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing User-Centered Design (UCD) as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

User-Centered Design (UCD) trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing User-Centered Design (UCD).

User-Centered Design (UCD) salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing User-Centered Design (UCD) over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

User-Centered Design (UCD) salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 10 (8.26%) CMS
1 10 (8.26%) WordPress
2 2 (1.65%) CICS
2 2 (1.65%) Drupal
3 1 (0.83%) Confluence
Applications
1 12 (9.92%) Adobe XD
2 7 (5.79%) Sketch
3 6 (4.96%) Trello
4 2 (1.65%) InVision
5 1 (0.83%) Adobe Creative Suite
Cloud Services
1 17 (14.05%) Figma
2 10 (8.26%) AWS
3 8 (6.61%) Azure
4 7 (5.79%) Power Platform
4 7 (5.79%) Stripe
5 5 (4.13%) GCP
5 5 (4.13%) Google Analytics
6 4 (3.31%) Miro
7 3 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.65%) Google Tag Manager
8 2 (1.65%) Serverless
9 1 (0.83%) Adobe Creative Cloud
9 1 (0.83%) AWS IoT
9 1 (0.83%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.83%) GitHub
9 1 (0.83%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.83%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.83%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.79%) Power BI
2 6 (4.96%) Tableau
3 4 (3.31%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.48%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.65%) DB2
5 2 (1.65%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.83%) Big Data
6 1 (0.83%) MySQL
6 1 (0.83%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.83%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.83%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (7.44%) Git
2 7 (5.79%) JIRA
3 6 (4.96%) Axure RP
3 6 (4.96%) Balsamiq
3 6 (4.96%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.48%) GitLab
4 3 (2.48%) JUnit
4 3 (2.48%) Mockito
4 3 (2.48%) Postman
5 2 (1.65%) SoapUI
5 2 (1.65%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.83%) Gatling
6 1 (0.83%) JMeter
6 1 (0.83%) Locust
6 1 (0.83%) Vite
General
1 33 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 27 (22.31%) Finance
2 27 (22.31%) Public Sector
3 25 (20.66%) Banking
4 17 (14.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (11.57%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (10.74%) Marketing
7 11 (9.09%) Publishing
8 8 (6.61%) Law
8 8 (6.61%) Legal
8 8 (6.61%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (4.96%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (4.96%) Tech for Good
10 3 (2.48%) Games
10 3 (2.48%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (2.48%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.65%) Electronics
11 2 (1.65%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.83%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 36 (29.75%) Developer
2 27 (22.31%) Designer
2 27 (22.31%) Product Manager
3 21 (17.36%) Senior
3 21 (17.36%) UX Developer
4 19 (15.70%) Lead
5 11 (9.09%) Senior Developer
5 11 (9.09%) Senior UX Developer
6 10 (8.26%) Digital Product Manager
7 9 (7.44%) UX Designer
8 8 (6.61%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 8 (6.61%) Web Developer
9 7 (5.79%) Content Designer
9 7 (5.79%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
9 7 (5.79%) Lead Product Manager
9 7 (5.79%) Senior Designer
9 7 (5.79%) Website Developer
10 6 (4.96%) Service Designer
11 5 (4.13%) Junior Content Designer
11 5 (4.13%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (14.05%) CSS
1 17 (14.05%) HTML
2 6 (4.96%) RESTful
3 5 (4.13%) AngularJS
4 4 (3.31%) React
5 3 (2.48%) Hibernate
5 3 (2.48%) JSON
5 3 (2.48%) Kafka
5 3 (2.48%) OAuth
5 3 (2.48%) OAuth2
5 3 (2.48%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (2.48%) Spring
5 3 (2.48%) Spring Boot
5 3 (2.48%) Vue
6 2 (1.65%) ISPF
6 2 (1.65%) SOAP
6 2 (1.65%) Web Services
6 2 (1.65%) XML
7 1 (0.83%) .NET
7 1 (0.83%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.74%) Product Ownership
2 9 (7.44%) NHS
3 8 (6.61%) Housing Association
4 7 (5.79%) Learning Management System
5 3 (2.48%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.65%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.65%) Educational Technology
6 2 (1.65%) Graphic Design
6 2 (1.65%) IBM Mainframe
6 2 (1.65%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.65%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.65%) Social Gaming
7 1 (0.83%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.83%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.83%) IoT
7 1 (0.83%) Online Games
7 1 (0.83%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.65%) Windows
1 2 (1.65%) Windows Vista
1 2 (1.65%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (58.68%) User Experience
2 65 (53.72%) Agile
3 47 (38.84%) UX Design
4 44 (36.36%) User Research
5 39 (32.23%) Project Management
6 35 (28.93%) Usability Testing
7 34 (28.10%) Prototyping
8 31 (25.62%) Continuous Improvement
9 30 (24.79%) UX Research
9 30 (24.79%) Wireframes
10 29 (23.97%) Journey Map
11 25 (20.66%) Design Thinking
11 25 (20.66%) Stakeholder Management
12 24 (19.83%) Analytics
13 23 (19.01%) Roadmaps
14 20 (16.53%) Problem-Solving
15 17 (14.05%) Coaching
15 17 (14.05%) Mentoring
15 17 (14.05%) Product Vision
16 16 (13.22%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 15 (12.40%) JavaScript
2 7 (5.79%) PHP
3 4 (3.31%) SQL
4 3 (2.48%) Java
4 3 (2.48%) TypeScript
5 2 (1.65%) COBOL
5 2 (1.65%) JCL
Qualifications
1 27 (22.31%) Degree
2 21 (17.36%) Security Cleared
3 18 (14.88%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.13%) CSPO
4 5 (4.13%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (3.31%) DBS Check
6 3 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.48%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.65%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.83%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.83%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.83%) IIBA
8 1 (0.83%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.83%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (47.93%) Accessibility
2 14 (11.57%) WCAG
3 5 (4.13%) QA
4 1 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.83%) GDPR
4 1 (0.83%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.83%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (2.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.48%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.65%) CA Endevor
2 2 (1.65%) MAINVIEW
Vendors
1 14 (11.57%) Adobe
2 12 (9.92%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.79%) Google
4 3 (2.48%) SAP
5 2 (1.65%) BMC
5 2 (1.65%) IBM
5 2 (1.65%) Mercator
6 1 (0.83%) dotdigital
6 1 (0.83%) Hotjar
6 1 (0.83%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.83%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (0.83%) Splunk
6 1 (0.83%) TippingPoint