User-Centered Design (UCD) Jobs

User-Centered Design (UCD)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for User-Centered Design (UCD) skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited User-Centered Design (UCD) over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 477 510 465
Rank change year-on-year +33 -45 +142
Permanent jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) 481 550 1,242
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.49% 0.55% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.57% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 254 318 369
10th Percentile £40,988 £41,250 £37,983
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,965 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.39% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £65,603 £75,000 £70,641
90th Percentile £73,648 £85,000 £81,386
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,965 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.39% +14.29% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

User-Centered Design (UCD) 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 84,701 95,929 153,018
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.52% 95.60% 95.73%
Number of salaries quoted 59,701 56,502 82,944
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,740
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +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-Centered Design (UCD)
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing User-Centered Design (UCD) as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for User-Centered Design (UCD) in the UK

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD).

Salary trend for User-Centered Design (UCD) in the UK

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for User-Centered Design (UCD) in the UK

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Top 17 Job Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 14 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
UK excluding London +129 389 £57,965 -3.39% 85
England +35 387 £57,965 -7.26% 123
Work from Home +51 200 £57,965 +0.81% 61
North of England +139 164 £57,965 -7.26% 46
North West +59 83 £57,965 -10.82% 28
London +3 83 £56,250 -13.46% 44
Scotland -4 57 £50,000 +1.36% 7
Yorkshire +124 56 £57,965 +5.39% 11
South West 0 49 £60,000 +9.09% 7
Midlands +22 46 £57,965 +0.81% 14
South East 0 31 £31,750 -52.96% 5
West Midlands +10 28 £59,400 +3.30% 11
North East +12 25 £57,965 +2.89% 8
East Midlands -4 18 £38,750 - 3
Wales +27 17 £32,500 -40.91% 4
East of England -41 13 £46,110 -26.22% 2
Northern Ireland - 13 £58,800 -

User-Centered Design (UCD)
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 35 (7.28%) Confluence
2 8 (1.66%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.46%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.62%) WordPress
Applications
1 78 (16.22%) Sketch
2 38 (7.90%) Adobe XD
3 23 (4.78%) MS Visio
4 15 (3.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 15 (3.12%) Trello
5 12 (2.49%) Microsoft Office
6 10 (2.08%) Photoshop
7 9 (1.87%) Adobe Illustrator
8 8 (1.66%) InDesign
9 6 (1.25%) InVision
10 2 (0.42%) Adobe After Effects
10 2 (0.42%) Final Cut Pro
10 2 (0.42%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 6 (1.25%) NEC Housing
2 3 (0.62%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 95 (19.75%) Figma
2 75 (15.59%) Miro
3 51 (10.60%) Heroku
4 35 (7.28%) Azure
5 26 (5.41%) AWS
6 17 (3.53%) SaaS
7 15 (3.12%) Power Platform
8 10 (2.08%) PaaS
9 9 (1.87%) GCP
10 8 (1.66%) Azure Stack
10 8 (1.66%) IaaS
10 8 (1.66%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (1.66%) PowerApps
11 7 (1.46%) dbt
11 7 (1.46%) Google Analytics
12 6 (1.25%) SurveyMonkey
13 5 (1.04%) ChatGPT
13 5 (1.04%) Stripe
14 4 (0.83%) WhatsApp
15 2 (0.42%) Adobe Creative Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.66%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (3.12%) SQL Server
2 12 (2.49%) Big Data
3 9 (1.87%) Tableau
4 7 (1.46%) Power BI
4 7 (1.46%) Relational Database
5 6 (1.25%) Snowflake Schema
5 6 (1.25%) Star Schema
6 2 (0.42%) Metadata
6 2 (0.42%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (0.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.21%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 48 (9.98%) JIRA
2 24 (4.99%) Git
3 17 (3.53%) Axure RP
4 15 (3.12%) Jasmine
4 15 (3.12%) Karma Test Runner
4 15 (3.12%) Visual Studio Code
5 13 (2.70%) Balsamiq
6 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio
General
1 101 (21.00%) Public Sector
2 96 (19.96%) Social Skills
3 67 (13.93%) Finance
4 59 (12.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 53 (11.02%) Marketing
6 36 (7.48%) Presentation Skills
7 28 (5.82%) Law
8 27 (5.61%) Analytical Skills
8 27 (5.61%) Banking
9 25 (5.20%) Legal
10 20 (4.16%) Retail
11 15 (3.12%) Private Banking
12 9 (1.87%) Games
13 8 (1.66%) Investment Banking
13 8 (1.66%) Manufacturing
13 8 (1.66%) Pharmaceutical
14 6 (1.25%) Local Government
14 6 (1.25%) Police
14 6 (1.25%) Social Science
15 4 (0.83%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 204 (42.41%) Senior
2 195 (40.54%) Designer
3 88 (18.30%) UX Designer
4 80 (16.63%) Senior Designer
5 69 (14.35%) UI Designer
6 65 (13.51%) UI/UX Designer
7 51 (10.60%) User Researcher
8 49 (10.19%) Interaction Designer
8 49 (10.19%) Senior UI Designer
8 49 (10.19%) Senior UX Designer
9 46 (9.56%) Senior UI/UX Designer
10 38 (7.90%) Senior User Researcher
11 33 (6.86%) Lead
12 32 (6.65%) Analyst
13 31 (6.44%) Business Analyst
14 30 (6.24%) Service Designer
15 27 (5.61%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
16 24 (4.99%) Senior Analyst
16 24 (4.99%) Senior Business Analyst
16 24 (4.99%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (21.41%) HTML
2 56 (11.64%) CSS
3 27 (5.61%) AngularJS
4 22 (4.57%) React
5 20 (4.16%) .NET
6 19 (3.95%) RESTful
7 18 (3.74%) ASP.NET
7 18 (3.74%) jQuery
7 18 (3.74%) LESS
7 18 (3.74%) Sass
8 16 (3.33%) ASP.NET Web API
8 16 (3.33%) OpenAPI
8 16 (3.33%) Swagger
9 15 (3.12%) ASP.NET MVC
9 15 (3.12%) ASP.NET MVC 3
9 15 (3.12%) OAuth
9 15 (3.12%) OAuth2
10 8 (1.66%) Vue
11 3 (0.62%) .NET Core
11 3 (0.62%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 85 (17.67%) Product Ownership
2 25 (5.20%) Cloud Native
3 24 (4.99%) Onboarding
4 10 (2.08%) Mobile App
5 9 (1.87%) Public Cloud
6 7 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (1.46%) Biopharmaceutical
6 7 (1.46%) Graphic Design
6 7 (1.46%) Social Media
7 6 (1.25%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.04%) Algorithms
9 4 (0.83%) Life Science
10 3 (0.62%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (0.62%) Robotics
10 3 (0.62%) Taxonomies
11 2 (0.42%) Animation
11 2 (0.42%) Digital Signage
11 2 (0.42%) Driving Licence
11 2 (0.42%) Photography
Processes & Methodologies
1 241 (50.10%) Agile
2 206 (42.83%) User Experience
3 199 (41.37%) User Research
4 154 (32.02%) Actionable Insight
5 151 (31.39%) Prototyping
6 146 (30.35%) UX Design
7 139 (28.90%) Coaching
8 121 (25.16%) Workshop Facilitation
9 117 (24.32%) Customer Experience
10 105 (21.83%) Mentoring
11 102 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
12 101 (21.00%) Digital Customer Experience
13 93 (19.33%) Design Patterns
14 90 (18.71%) Stakeholder Management
15 81 (16.84%) Interaction Design
15 81 (16.84%) Service Design
16 78 (16.22%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
17 71 (14.76%) Wireframes
18 68 (14.14%) Analytics
19 65 (13.51%) Low-Fidelity Prototypes
Programming Languages
1 63 (13.10%) JavaScript
2 23 (4.78%) C#
3 22 (4.57%) T-SQL
4 16 (3.33%) TypeScript
5 12 (2.49%) SQL
6 8 (1.66%) Python
7 6 (1.25%) R
8 3 (0.62%) Scala
9 2 (0.42%) Java
10 1 (0.21%) PHP
10 1 (0.21%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 163 (33.89%) Security Cleared
2 144 (29.94%) SC Cleared
3 85 (17.67%) Degree
4 21 (4.37%) Master's Degree
5 20 (4.16%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (1.66%) DBS Check
8 7 (1.46%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.25%) IIBA
10 5 (1.04%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.62%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.42%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (0.42%) MBA
13 1 (0.21%) APMG
13 1 (0.21%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 253 (52.60%) Accessibility
2 127 (26.40%) WCAG
3 19 (3.95%) QA
4 15 (3.12%) WAI
5 12 (2.49%) PMO
6 4 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.42%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 45 (9.36%) Adobe
2 44 (9.15%) Microsoft
3 12 (2.49%) Cadence
4 10 (2.08%) Google
5 6 (1.25%) NEC
5 6 (1.25%) Qualtrics
6 5 (1.04%) OpenAI
7 4 (0.83%) Salesforce
8 3 (0.62%) Mercator
9 1 (0.21%) Databricks
9 1 (0.21%) DevExpress
9 1 (0.21%) Hotjar
9 1 (0.21%) Xamarin