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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 75 62 71
Rank change year-on-year -13 +9 -16
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 317 197 263
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 4.60% 4.57% 4.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.13% 4.83% 4.59%
Number of salaries quoted 95 73 130
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,750 £40,950
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £45,000
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 £82,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% +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 6,184 4,076 5,728
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 89.82% 94.61% 91.18%
Number of salaries quoted 2,548 2,038 2,896
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,569 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,313 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £83,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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 9 June 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 9 June 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 -52 212 £49,000 -10.91% 12
Edinburgh +29 64 £57,500 -2.39% 15
Dundee - 16 £47,500 -
Aberdeen - 10 £35,000 - 1
Midlothian - 5 - - 1
South Lanarkshire - 2 £34,500 -
East Lothian - 2 - -
Stirling - 2 £50,000 - 2
Aberdeenshire - 2 £37,500 -
Dunbartonshire - 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 26 (8.20%) Apache Spark
2 6 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.58%) WordPress
4 3 (0.95%) CMS
5 2 (0.63%) Apache
Applications
1 28 (8.83%) Sketch
2 26 (8.20%) UserZoom
3 10 (3.15%) InVision
4 6 (1.89%) Adobe Illustrator
4 6 (1.89%) Photoshop
5 4 (1.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.63%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.32%) Adobe Captivate
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 104 (32.81%) Figma
2 69 (21.77%) SurveyMonkey
3 48 (15.14%) AWS
4 29 (9.15%) SaaS
5 25 (7.89%) Miro
6 16 (5.05%) GCP
7 13 (4.10%) Amazon S3
7 13 (4.10%) Amazon SQS
7 13 (4.10%) Azure
7 13 (4.10%) Google Docs
7 13 (4.10%) Lucidchart
7 13 (4.10%) Slack
8 9 (2.84%) Power Platform
9 8 (2.52%) Heroku
10 7 (2.21%) Cloud Computing
10 7 (2.21%) Serverless
11 3 (0.95%) ChatGPT
11 3 (0.95%) Google Play
12 2 (0.63%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 2 (0.63%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.10%) DSL
2 6 (1.89%) HTTP
2 6 (1.89%) MQTT
3 1 (0.32%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (0.32%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.32%) VLAN
3 1 (0.32%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (8.20%) Big Data
2 21 (6.62%) Tableau
3 19 (5.99%) Elasticsearch
3 19 (5.99%) Redis
4 16 (5.05%) MongoDB
5 15 (4.73%) MySQL
6 14 (4.42%) SQL Server
7 13 (4.10%) Data Lake
7 13 (4.10%) DB2
7 13 (4.10%) Hadoop
7 13 (4.10%) Scylla
8 9 (2.84%) Power BI
9 6 (1.89%) Data Vault
9 6 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.32%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 26 (8.20%) Jenkins
2 23 (7.26%) Git
2 23 (7.26%) JIRA
3 6 (1.89%) Moq
4 3 (0.95%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.63%) Jasmine
5 2 (0.63%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 184 (58.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 181 (57.10%) Finance
3 158 (49.84%) Marketing
4 154 (48.58%) Law
5 112 (35.33%) Social Skills
6 35 (11.04%) Banking
7 32 (10.09%) Social Science
8 26 (8.20%) Investment Banking
9 20 (6.31%) Public Sector
10 19 (5.99%) Analytical Skills
10 19 (5.99%) Presentation Skills
11 15 (4.73%) Financial Institution
12 12 (3.79%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (2.84%) Manufacturing
14 7 (2.21%) Private Banking
14 7 (2.21%) Tech for Good
15 6 (1.89%) Electronics
15 6 (1.89%) Telecoms
16 3 (0.95%) Polish Language
16 3 (0.95%) Retail
Job Titles
1 86 (27.13%) Lead
2 58 (18.30%) Designer
3 57 (17.98%) Software Engineer
4 52 (16.40%) Developer
5 46 (14.51%) UX Designer
6 43 (13.56%) User Experience Researcher
7 41 (12.93%) Senior
8 28 (8.83%) Senior Designer
8 28 (8.83%) Senior UX Designer
9 27 (8.52%) Lead Software Engineer
10 25 (7.89%) UI Engineer
11 20 (6.31%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 18 (5.68%) UI Designer
12 18 (5.68%) UI/UX Designer
13 15 (4.73%) Architect
14 13 (4.10%) Data Engineer
14 13 (4.10%) Principal Engineer
14 13 (4.10%) Principal Software Engineer
14 13 (4.10%) Software Developer
14 13 (4.10%) Software Engineering Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (26.18%) React
2 62 (19.56%) HTML
3 52 (16.40%) CSS
4 43 (13.56%) AngularJS
5 28 (8.83%) Node.js
6 27 (8.52%) Vue
7 26 (8.20%) Kafka
8 16 (5.05%) .NET
8 16 (5.05%) Spring
8 16 (5.05%) Spring Boot
9 14 (4.42%) DOM
9 14 (4.42%) Web Services
10 13 (4.10%) GraphQL
11 12 (3.79%) .NET Framework
12 11 (3.47%) jQuery
13 10 (3.15%) CSS3
13 10 (3.15%) HTML5
14 9 (2.84%) Ajax
15 8 (2.52%) ASP.NET
16 7 (2.21%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 38 (11.99%) Market Risk
2 34 (10.73%) Algorithms
3 31 (9.78%) Product Ownership
4 30 (9.46%) Cloud Native
5 29 (9.15%) Management Information System
6 13 (4.10%) Data Structures
6 13 (4.10%) Legacy Systems
6 13 (4.10%) Public Cloud
7 12 (3.79%) Greenfield Project
8 11 (3.47%) Graphic Design
9 10 (3.15%) Mobile App
10 6 (1.89%) Arduino
10 6 (1.89%) IoT
10 6 (1.89%) Raspberry Pi
11 5 (1.58%) Onboarding
12 4 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (1.26%) iPhone
12 4 (1.26%) Marketing Technology
13 2 (0.63%) Life Science
13 2 (0.63%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.52%) Android
2 4 (1.26%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.63%) Windows
4 1 (0.32%) Linux
4 1 (0.32%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (47.00%) UX Design
2 144 (45.43%) Agile
3 123 (38.80%) UX Research
4 102 (32.18%) User Research
5 87 (27.44%) SDLC
6 86 (27.13%) Actionable Insight
7 84 (26.50%) Software Engineering
8 79 (24.92%) Service Design
9 78 (24.61%) Product Management
10 74 (23.34%) Information Architecture
11 73 (23.03%) Analytics
12 71 (22.40%) Anthropology
12 71 (22.40%) Psychology
13 69 (21.77%) Visualisation
14 65 (20.50%) Mentoring
15 60 (18.93%) Roadmaps
16 55 (17.35%) DevOps
16 55 (17.35%) Operational Stability
16 55 (17.35%) Problem-Solving
17 54 (17.03%) Interaction Design
Programming Languages
1 81 (25.55%) JavaScript
2 56 (17.67%) TypeScript
3 55 (17.35%) Java
4 47 (14.83%) Python
5 34 (10.73%) R
6 27 (8.52%) SQL
7 26 (8.20%) Scala
8 16 (5.05%) PHP
9 15 (4.73%) C#
10 13 (4.10%) Bash
10 13 (4.10%) Go
10 13 (4.10%) PL/SQL
11 7 (2.21%) T-SQL
12 6 (1.89%) C
13 4 (1.26%) Kotlin
13 4 (1.26%) Swift
Qualifications
1 112 (35.33%) Degree
2 49 (15.46%) Master's Degree
3 45 (14.20%) PhD
4 16 (5.05%) SC Cleared
4 16 (5.05%) Security Cleared
5 7 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.32%) CCDP
6 1 (0.32%) CCNP
6 1 (0.32%) CCSP
6 1 (0.32%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.32%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (14.51%) Accessibility
2 26 (8.20%) Actionable Recommendations
3 13 (4.10%) SLA
3 13 (4.10%) WCAG
4 9 (2.84%) QA
5 2 (0.63%) GLP
6 1 (0.32%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (2.21%) Docker
2 6 (1.89%) Firmware
3 1 (0.32%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 26 (8.20%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 58 (18.30%) Qualtrics
2 17 (5.36%) Google
3 13 (4.10%) Alteryx
3 13 (4.10%) Cognos
3 13 (4.10%) Databricks
3 13 (4.10%) Dell
3 13 (4.10%) Oracle
3 13 (4.10%) Sybase
4 12 (3.79%) ServiceNow
5 11 (3.47%) Microsoft
6 6 (1.89%) NVIDIA
6 6 (1.89%) SAP
7 5 (1.58%) Adobe
8 3 (0.95%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.63%) Charles River
10 1 (0.32%) Nintex
10 1 (0.32%) Polycom