User Experience Jobs in Scotland

UX
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for User Experience skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited User Experience over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 76 61 66
Rank change year-on-year -15 +5 -13
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 339 202 259
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 5.05% 4.42% 4.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.47% 4.69% 4.82%
Number of salaries quoted 96 76 135
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,125 £40,700
25th Percentile £40,000 £44,688 £43,325
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £57,810 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.24% -1.18% +30.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £50,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -19.20% +4.17% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

User Experience is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,192 4,310 5,369
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.23% 94.31% 91.02%
Number of salaries quoted 2,403 2,153 2,812
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,297 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,250 £42,000 £40,606
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +12.24%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £68,275
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing User Experience as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for User Experience in Scotland

User Experience
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing User Experience in Scotland.

Salary trend for User Experience in Scotland

User Experience
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing User Experience in Scotland over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for User Experience in Scotland

User Experience
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing User Experience within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 18 May 2024. 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
Glasgow -52 226 £49,000 -10.91% 15
Edinburgh +41 73 £55,000 -8.33% 14
Dundee - 17 £47,500 -
Aberdeen - 11 £35,000 -
Midlothian - 5 - - 1
South Lanarkshire - 2 £34,500 -
Aberdeenshire - 2 £37,500 -
Highlands - 1 - -
User Experience
UK

User Experience
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 41 (12.09%) Apache Spark
2 7 (2.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.47%) WordPress
4 3 (0.88%) CMS
5 2 (0.59%) JBoss
5 2 (0.59%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 32 (9.44%) UserZoom
2 28 (8.26%) Sketch
3 10 (2.95%) InVision
4 6 (1.77%) Adobe Illustrator
4 6 (1.77%) Photoshop
5 4 (1.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.59%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.29%) Adobe Captivate
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 108 (31.86%) Figma
2 75 (22.12%) SurveyMonkey
3 59 (17.40%) AWS
4 38 (11.21%) SaaS
5 35 (10.32%) Miro
6 28 (8.26%) GCP
7 23 (6.78%) Amazon S3
7 23 (6.78%) Amazon SQS
7 23 (6.78%) Google Docs
7 23 (6.78%) Lucidchart
7 23 (6.78%) Slack
8 8 (2.36%) Azure
8 8 (2.36%) Heroku
9 7 (2.06%) Cloud Computing
9 7 (2.06%) Serverless
10 5 (1.47%) ChatGPT
11 3 (0.88%) Google Play
11 3 (0.88%) Power Platform
12 2 (0.59%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 2 (0.59%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.31%) DSL
2 7 (2.06%) HTTP
2 7 (2.06%) MQTT
3 1 (0.29%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (0.29%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.29%) VLAN
3 1 (0.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (12.09%) Big Data
2 30 (8.85%) Elasticsearch
2 30 (8.85%) Redis
3 23 (6.78%) Hadoop
3 23 (6.78%) Scylla
4 20 (5.90%) Tableau
5 18 (5.31%) Data Lake
5 18 (5.31%) DB2
5 18 (5.31%) MongoDB
6 14 (4.13%) SQL Server
7 12 (3.54%) MySQL
8 3 (0.88%) Power BI
9 2 (0.59%) Data Vault
9 2 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.29%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 32 (9.44%) Jenkins
2 25 (7.37%) Git
3 23 (6.78%) JIRA
4 7 (2.06%) Moq
5 3 (0.88%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.59%) IntelliJ
6 2 (0.59%) Jasmine
6 2 (0.59%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (0.29%) MSI
General
1 212 (62.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 198 (58.41%) Finance
3 174 (51.33%) Marketing
4 172 (50.74%) Law
5 132 (38.94%) Social Skills
6 39 (11.50%) Banking
7 32 (9.44%) Social Science
8 31 (9.14%) Investment Banking
9 23 (6.78%) Public Sector
10 21 (6.19%) Analytical Skills
10 21 (6.19%) Presentation Skills
11 20 (5.90%) Financial Institution
12 18 (5.31%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (2.36%) Private Banking
14 7 (2.06%) Electronics
14 7 (2.06%) Manufacturing
14 7 (2.06%) Tech for Good
14 7 (2.06%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.88%) Polish Language
15 3 (0.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 91 (26.84%) Lead
2 76 (22.42%) Software Engineer
3 55 (16.22%) Designer
4 51 (15.04%) Developer
5 49 (14.45%) User Experience Researcher
6 45 (13.27%) UX Designer
7 41 (12.09%) Senior
8 33 (9.73%) Lead Software Engineer
9 31 (9.14%) UI Engineer
10 27 (7.96%) Senior Designer
10 27 (7.96%) Senior UX Designer
11 23 (6.78%) Principal Engineer
11 23 (6.78%) Principal Software Engineer
12 19 (5.60%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 18 (5.31%) Data Engineer
13 18 (5.31%) Software Engineering Director
14 17 (5.01%) UI Designer
14 17 (5.01%) UI/UX Designer
14 17 (5.01%) UX Engineer
15 12 (3.54%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (26.84%) React
2 65 (19.17%) HTML
3 55 (16.22%) CSS
4 46 (13.57%) AngularJS
5 41 (12.09%) Kafka
6 28 (8.26%) Vue
7 25 (7.37%) Node.js
8 23 (6.78%) GraphQL
9 16 (4.72%) .NET
9 16 (4.72%) Spring
9 16 (4.72%) Web Services
10 14 (4.13%) DOM
10 14 (4.13%) Spring Boot
11 12 (3.54%) .NET Framework
12 11 (3.24%) CSS3
12 11 (3.24%) HTML5
13 10 (2.95%) Ajax
13 10 (2.95%) jQuery
14 9 (2.65%) ASP.NET
15 8 (2.36%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 47 (13.86%) Algorithms
2 38 (11.21%) Market Risk
3 36 (10.62%) Cloud Native
3 36 (10.62%) Product Ownership
4 34 (10.03%) Management Information System
5 23 (6.78%) Data Structures
6 18 (5.31%) Public Cloud
7 13 (3.83%) Greenfield Project
7 13 (3.83%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (3.24%) Graphic Design
9 10 (2.95%) Mobile App
10 7 (2.06%) Arduino
10 7 (2.06%) IoT
10 7 (2.06%) Raspberry Pi
11 5 (1.47%) Onboarding
12 4 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (1.18%) iPhone
12 4 (1.18%) Marketing Technology
13 2 (0.59%) W3C
14 1 (0.29%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.36%) Android
2 4 (1.18%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.88%) Windows
4 1 (0.29%) Linux
4 1 (0.29%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (46.31%) Agile
2 151 (44.54%) UX Design
3 139 (41.00%) UX Research
4 109 (32.15%) Software Engineering
5 106 (31.27%) SDLC
5 106 (31.27%) User Research
6 94 (27.73%) Actionable Insight
7 89 (26.25%) Product Management
8 85 (25.07%) Service Design
9 80 (23.60%) Analytics
9 80 (23.60%) Visualisation
10 79 (23.30%) Information Architecture
11 77 (22.71%) Anthropology
11 77 (22.71%) Psychology
12 72 (21.24%) Mentoring
13 67 (19.76%) Operational Stability
14 66 (19.47%) Roadmaps
15 64 (18.88%) Problem-Solving
16 60 (17.70%) CI/CD
16 60 (17.70%) Community of Practice
Programming Languages
1 81 (23.89%) JavaScript
2 77 (22.71%) Java
3 69 (20.35%) Python
4 63 (18.58%) TypeScript
5 41 (12.09%) Scala
6 34 (10.03%) R
7 32 (9.44%) SQL
8 23 (6.78%) Bash
8 23 (6.78%) Go
9 18 (5.31%) PL/SQL
10 15 (4.42%) C#
10 15 (4.42%) PHP
11 8 (2.36%) T-SQL
12 6 (1.77%) C
13 4 (1.18%) Kotlin
13 4 (1.18%) Swift
14 1 (0.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 118 (34.81%) Degree
2 49 (14.45%) Master's Degree
3 45 (13.27%) PhD
4 18 (5.31%) SC Cleared
4 18 (5.31%) Security Cleared
5 7 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.29%) CCDP
6 1 (0.29%) CCNP
6 1 (0.29%) CCSP
6 1 (0.29%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (14.16%) Accessibility
2 32 (9.44%) Actionable Recommendations
3 18 (5.31%) SLA
4 13 (3.83%) WCAG
5 8 (2.36%) QA
6 1 (0.29%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (2.36%) Docker
2 7 (2.06%) Firmware
3 1 (0.29%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.29%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 41 (12.09%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.59%) SCCM
3 1 (0.29%) WMI
Vendors
1 64 (18.88%) Qualtrics
2 27 (7.96%) Google
3 23 (6.78%) Dell
4 18 (5.31%) Alteryx
4 18 (5.31%) Cognos
4 18 (5.31%) Databricks
4 18 (5.31%) Oracle
4 18 (5.31%) Sybase
5 12 (3.54%) Microsoft
5 12 (3.54%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.06%) NVIDIA
6 7 (2.06%) SAP
7 5 (1.47%) Adobe
7 5 (1.47%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.29%) Nintex
8 1 (0.29%) Polycom