UX
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 86 71 39
Rank change year-on-year -15 -32 +10
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 3,119 4,390 12,585
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.14% 4.35% 8.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.67% 4.55% 8.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1,979 2,379 4,271
10th Percentile £31,250 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £39,610 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.40% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £68,750 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.91% +4.76% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,917 96,578 150,488
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.59% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,883 56,844 82,330
10th Percentile £29,008 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,190 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.12% +1.98% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for User Experience in the UK

User Experience
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for User Experience in the UK

User Experience
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing User Experience over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for User Experience in the UK

User Experience
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing User Experience within the UK over the 6 months to 10 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
England -15 2,623 £51,000 -21.54% 857
UK excluding London +9 2,346 £49,000 -10.91% 523
Work from Home -17 1,250 £50,000 -23.08% 481
London -55 655 £65,000 -7.14% 357
North of England +43 620 £47,500 -17.39% 202
South East -40 451 £50,000 -9.09% 89
Midlands +70 426 £47,500 -9.52% 89
North West +53 402 £45,000 -21.95% 134
Scotland -13 341 £49,000 -14.78% 40
South West +44 326 £55,000 +4.76% 53
West Midlands +55 252 £50,000 -4.76% 62
East Midlands +64 166 £35,000 -40.43% 27
Yorkshire +9 155 £50,000 -9.09% 50
East of England -49 130 £40,000 -33.33% 37
North East +21 63 £43,750 +9.63% 19
Wales -24 35 £37,000 -26.00% 9
Northern Ireland +21 20 £45,000 +20.00% 5
Isle of Man - 1 £36,000 - 1

User Experience
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 92 (2.95%) CMS
1 92 (2.95%) WordPress
2 60 (1.92%) Confluence
3 46 (1.47%) Apache Spark
4 41 (1.31%) SharePoint
5 20 (0.64%) Apache
5 20 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
6 15 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
7 13 (0.42%) Drupal
8 12 (0.38%) JBoss
8 12 (0.38%) Red Hat Fuse
9 10 (0.32%) Umbraco
10 8 (0.26%) EPiServer
11 7 (0.22%) nginx
12 6 (0.19%) Ethereum
13 5 (0.16%) IIS
13 5 (0.16%) Joomla!
13 5 (0.16%) Kentico
13 5 (0.16%) Solana
14 4 (0.13%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 148 (4.75%) Sketch
2 84 (2.69%) Adobe XD
3 79 (2.53%) Microsoft Excel
4 70 (2.24%) Photoshop
5 69 (2.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 63 (2.02%) Microsoft Office
7 58 (1.86%) Adobe Illustrator
8 38 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 38 (1.22%) UserZoom
9 35 (1.12%) InVision
10 25 (0.80%) InDesign
11 24 (0.77%) Adobe After Effects
12 15 (0.48%) MS Visio
12 15 (0.48%) Trello
13 14 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
14 11 (0.35%) Blender
14 11 (0.35%) Chatbot
15 9 (0.29%) Adobe Captivate
16 7 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
17 5 (0.16%) CANalyzer
Business Applications
1 40 (1.28%) Magento
2 39 (1.25%) Shopify
3 18 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
4 14 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
5 12 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
6 9 (0.29%) SAP CO
6 9 (0.29%) SAP FI
6 9 (0.29%) SAP FI/CO
7 7 (0.22%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.16%) Distributed Ledger
8 5 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (0.064%) CiviCRM
9 2 (0.064%) Dynamics NAV
9 2 (0.064%) Endur
9 2 (0.064%) Infor SunSystems
9 2 (0.064%) Oracle EBS
10 1 (0.032%) Data Workbench
10 1 (0.032%) Remedy ITSM
10 1 (0.032%) SAP CRM
10 1 (0.032%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 531 (17.02%) Azure
2 374 (11.99%) AWS
3 335 (10.74%) Figma
4 238 (7.63%) IBM Cloud
5 206 (6.60%) Power Platform
6 203 (6.51%) Azure DevOps
7 194 (6.22%) SaaS
8 160 (5.13%) Serverless
9 133 (4.26%) Azure Logic Apps
10 129 (4.14%) Azure Functions
11 125 (4.01%) Azure API Management
11 125 (4.01%) Azure Service Bus
12 123 (3.94%) Microsoft 365
13 108 (3.46%) PowerApps
14 106 (3.40%) Power Automate
15 94 (3.01%) Miro
16 91 (2.92%) GCP
17 81 (2.60%) SurveyMonkey
18 64 (2.05%) GitHub
19 58 (1.86%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 41 (1.31%) Wi-Fi
2 38 (1.22%) Firewall
3 30 (0.96%) HTTP
4 24 (0.77%) Internet
5 22 (0.71%) Wireless
6 21 (0.67%) MQTT
7 19 (0.61%) 4G
8 18 (0.58%) DSL
9 16 (0.51%) Intranet
10 15 (0.48%) DNS
11 12 (0.38%) 3G
11 12 (0.38%) LAN
11 12 (0.38%) RS-485
12 10 (0.32%) DHCP
12 10 (0.32%) SAN
13 9 (0.29%) TCP/IP
13 9 (0.29%) VPN
14 8 (0.26%) WAN
15 7 (0.22%) Ethernet
15 7 (0.22%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 317 (10.16%) MongoDB
2 311 (9.97%) PostgreSQL
3 256 (8.21%) DB2
4 255 (8.18%) NoSQL
5 167 (5.35%) Power BI
6 160 (5.13%) Relational Database
7 135 (4.33%) MySQL
8 99 (3.17%) SQL Server
9 69 (2.21%) Tableau
10 52 (1.67%) Big Data
11 44 (1.41%) Redis
12 39 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
13 26 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
14 24 (0.77%) Hadoop
15 23 (0.74%) Scylla
16 22 (0.71%) Data Lake
17 16 (0.51%) Geospatial Data
18 15 (0.48%) GIS
19 13 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
20 12 (0.38%) Apache Ignite
Development Applications
1 294 (9.43%) Git
2 187 (6.00%) JIRA
3 64 (2.05%) Jenkins
4 36 (1.15%) Cypress.io
4 36 (1.15%) webpack
5 33 (1.06%) Visual Studio
6 27 (0.87%) Bitbucket
7 26 (0.83%) Cucumber
8 24 (0.77%) Selenium
9 18 (0.58%) Axure RP
9 18 (0.58%) Postman
10 16 (0.51%) gulp
10 16 (0.51%) IntelliJ
11 15 (0.48%) Balsamiq
11 15 (0.48%) PHPUnit
12 12 (0.38%) Jasmine
12 12 (0.38%) Maven
13 10 (0.32%) Android Studio
13 10 (0.32%) Moq
13 10 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 964 (30.91%) Social Skills
2 655 (21.00%) Finance
3 561 (17.99%) Marketing
4 491 (15.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 400 (12.82%) Public Sector
6 348 (11.16%) Analytical Skills
7 262 (8.40%) Law
8 150 (4.81%) Retail
9 132 (4.23%) Banking
10 100 (3.21%) Presentation Skills
11 91 (2.92%) Manufacturing
12 90 (2.89%) Organisational Skills
13 74 (2.37%) Legal
14 58 (1.86%) Games
15 49 (1.57%) Investment Banking
16 39 (1.25%) Advertising
16 39 (1.25%) Automotive
16 39 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
17 38 (1.22%) Social Science
18 35 (1.12%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 1,001 (32.09%) Developer
2 509 (16.32%) Senior
3 370 (11.86%) Designer
4 333 (10.68%) Lead
5 259 (8.30%) Full Stack Developer
6 249 (7.98%) UX Designer
7 226 (7.25%) Software Engineer
8 194 (6.22%) Senior Developer
9 173 (5.55%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 160 (5.13%) UI Designer
11 143 (4.58%) UI/UX Designer
12 137 (4.39%) Analyst
12 137 (4.39%) Azure Developer
13 134 (4.30%) Full Stack Engineer
14 120 (3.85%) Architect
15 110 (3.53%) Azure Engineer
16 99 (3.17%) Senior Designer
17 94 (3.01%) Product Manager
17 94 (3.01%) React Developer
18 86 (2.76%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 865 (27.73%) HTML
2 810 (25.97%) CSS
3 713 (22.86%) React
4 481 (15.42%) AngularJS
5 450 (14.43%) .NET
6 423 (13.56%) Vue
7 374 (11.99%) REST
8 360 (11.54%) jQuery
9 310 (9.94%) Web Services
10 305 (9.78%) ASP.NET
11 301 (9.65%) Node.js
12 282 (9.04%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 253 (8.11%) Backbone.js
14 242 (7.76%) ASP.NET Core
15 238 (7.63%) Ember.js
16 149 (4.78%) RESTful
17 116 (3.72%) Sass
18 110 (3.53%) HTML5
19 97 (3.11%) Laravel
20 82 (2.63%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 339 (10.87%) Algorithms
2 315 (10.10%) Data Structures
3 288 (9.23%) Blockchain
4 283 (9.07%) Product Ownership
5 240 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
6 164 (5.26%) Mobile App
7 125 (4.01%) e-Learning
8 104 (3.33%) Management Information System
9 74 (2.37%) Onboarding
10 70 (2.24%) Greenfield Project
11 69 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
11 69 (2.21%) Social Media
12 62 (1.99%) Cloud Native
13 50 (1.60%) Graphic Design
14 41 (1.31%) Data Centre
15 38 (1.22%) Market Risk
16 35 (1.12%) Virtual Team
17 33 (1.06%) Animation
18 32 (1.03%) IoT
19 27 (0.87%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 410 (13.15%) Windows
2 350 (11.22%) Linux
3 327 (10.48%) Apple iOS
4 326 (10.45%) Android
5 44 (1.41%) Windows Server
6 37 (1.19%) Windows Server 2016
7 36 (1.15%) Windows Server 2019
8 32 (1.03%) Windows Server 2012
9 30 (0.96%) CentOS
10 29 (0.93%) Mac OS
11 19 (0.61%) Windows 10
12 12 (0.38%) Embedded Linux
13 9 (0.29%) Unix
14 7 (0.22%) VMS
15 6 (0.19%) Ubuntu
16 3 (0.096%) Mac OS X
16 3 (0.096%) Windows Embedded Compact
17 2 (0.064%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 2 (0.064%) SUSE
17 2 (0.064%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,085 (34.79%) UX Design
2 1,082 (34.69%) Agile
3 802 (25.71%) Problem-Solving
4 533 (17.09%) Full Stack Development
5 479 (15.36%) DevOps
6 452 (14.49%) Web Development
7 417 (13.37%) Mentoring
8 408 (13.08%) Software Engineering
9 395 (12.66%) Artificial Intelligence
10 387 (12.41%) Design Patterns
11 375 (12.02%) Analytics
12 362 (11.61%) Front End Development
13 348 (11.16%) Roadmaps
14 326 (10.45%) Responsive Web Design
15 319 (10.23%) Design Thinking
16 300 (9.62%) User Research
17 297 (9.52%) MVC
18 295 (9.46%) OO
19 288 (9.23%) Actionable Insight
20 285 (9.14%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 947 (30.36%) JavaScript
2 599 (19.20%) SQL
3 454 (14.56%) C#
4 367 (11.77%) Python
5 336 (10.77%) Java
6 295 (9.46%) TypeScript
7 194 (6.22%) PHP
8 63 (2.02%) Bash
9 55 (1.76%) Go
9 55 (1.76%) PowerShell
10 48 (1.54%) Kotlin
11 46 (1.47%) Scala
12 43 (1.38%) C++
13 41 (1.31%) R
14 35 (1.12%) C
14 35 (1.12%) Swift
15 34 (1.09%) T-SQL
16 23 (0.74%) SystemVerilog
16 23 (0.74%) Tcl
17 22 (0.71%) Rust
Qualifications
1 591 (18.95%) Degree
2 187 (6.00%) Security Cleared
3 119 (3.82%) Master's Degree
3 119 (3.82%) SC Cleared
4 105 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 45 (1.44%) PhD
6 41 (1.31%) DV Cleared
7 35 (1.12%) ITIL Certification
8 30 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
9 20 (0.64%) CIPD
9 20 (0.64%) CSPO
10 16 (0.51%) ISTQB
10 16 (0.51%) MBA
11 10 (0.32%) DBS Check
12 8 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
12 8 (0.26%) HND
13 7 (0.22%) Azure Certification
13 7 (0.22%) PMI Certification
14 6 (0.19%) IIBA
14 6 (0.19%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 258 (8.27%) Accessibility
2 167 (5.35%) QA
3 96 (3.08%) WCAG
4 51 (1.64%) GDPR
4 51 (1.64%) SLA
5 46 (1.47%) Actionable Recommendations
6 10 (0.32%) PMO
7 9 (0.29%) Data Quality
8 8 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 7 (0.22%) HIPAA
10 5 (0.16%) ISO 26262
11 3 (0.096%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.064%) HL7
12 2 (0.064%) IEC 62304
12 2 (0.064%) ISO 13485
12 2 (0.064%) ISO 14001
13 1 (0.032%) NIST
13 1 (0.032%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 84 (2.69%) Docker
2 70 (2.24%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 28 (0.90%) Hyper-V
5 12 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
6 11 (0.35%) Firmware
7 6 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.096%) XenDesktop
10 2 (0.064%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.064%) XenApp
11 1 (0.032%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.032%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 73 (2.34%) Kubernetes
2 23 (0.74%) Terraform
3 22 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
3 22 (0.71%) SCCM
4 6 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 6 (0.19%) Progress Chef
4 6 (0.19%) ServiceCenter
5 5 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
6 4 (0.13%) vCenter Server
7 3 (0.096%) Ansible
7 3 (0.096%) Grafana
7 3 (0.096%) WSUS
8 2 (0.064%) Backup Exec
8 2 (0.064%) cPanel
8 2 (0.064%) Plesk
8 2 (0.064%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.064%) Trend Micro Deep Security
8 2 (0.064%) WebSphere Cast Iron
8 2 (0.064%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.032%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 456 (14.62%) Microsoft
2 269 (8.62%) Red Hat
3 239 (7.66%) IBM
4 231 (7.41%) Adobe
5 179 (5.74%) Google
6 83 (2.66%) Oracle
7 76 (2.44%) Qualtrics
8 62 (1.99%) Apple
9 56 (1.80%) Dell
9 56 (1.80%) VMware
10 51 (1.64%) ServiceNow
11 44 (1.41%) Salesforce
12 38 (1.22%) HP
13 35 (1.12%) Samsung
13 35 (1.12%) SAP
14 27 (0.87%) Facebook
15 26 (0.83%) Databricks
16 24 (0.77%) Alteryx
17 23 (0.74%) Intel
18 22 (0.71%) Xamarin