User Experience Jobs

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

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 82 72 36
Rank change year-on-year -10 -36 +11
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 3,281 4,028 14,338
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.13% 4.26% 8.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.74% 4.46% 8.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1,973 2,263 4,238
10th Percentile £31,250 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £39,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £68,750 £78,875 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £96,250 £92,500
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 87,829 90,354 161,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.68% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,251 54,292 82,971
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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 1 June 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 1 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
England -9 2,794 £51,000 -20.31% 866
UK excluding London +17 2,504 £49,000 -10.91% 483
Work from Home -18 1,232 £50,000 -23.08% 460
North of England +62 744 £47,500 -17.39% 162
London -60 652 £65,000 -7.14% 389
North West +78 513 £45,000 -21.74% 104
South East -46 454 £50,000 -9.09% 97
Midlands +85 444 £47,500 -9.52% 86
South West +47 345 £55,000 - 57
Scotland -16 324 £49,000 -15.24% 43
West Midlands +63 265 £50,000 -4.76% 52
East Midlands +64 171 £35,000 -41.67% 34
Yorkshire +15 164 £50,000 - 44
East of England -52 132 £40,000 -33.33% 34
North East +23 67 £43,750 +8.02% 14
Wales -17 39 £37,436 -26.75% 7
Northern Ireland +14 24 £47,500 +26.67% 5
Isle of Man - 2 £36,000 -

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 98 (2.99%) CMS
2 92 (2.80%) WordPress
3 61 (1.86%) Confluence
4 41 (1.25%) SharePoint
5 34 (1.04%) Apache Spark
6 26 (0.79%) Apache
7 20 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
8 19 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
9 14 (0.43%) Drupal
10 11 (0.34%) Umbraco
11 8 (0.24%) EPiServer
12 7 (0.21%) nginx
13 6 (0.18%) Ethereum
14 5 (0.15%) IIS
14 5 (0.15%) Joomla!
14 5 (0.15%) Kentico
14 5 (0.15%) Solana
15 4 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 4 (0.12%) Headless CMS
16 3 (0.091%) OpenZeppelin
Applications
1 148 (4.51%) Sketch
2 85 (2.59%) Adobe XD
3 80 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
4 72 (2.19%) Photoshop
5 71 (2.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 62 (1.89%) Adobe Illustrator
7 60 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
8 36 (1.10%) UserZoom
9 35 (1.07%) InVision
10 31 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
11 24 (0.73%) Adobe After Effects
11 24 (0.73%) InDesign
12 15 (0.46%) MS Visio
12 15 (0.46%) Trello
13 14 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
14 11 (0.34%) Blender
15 10 (0.30%) Chatbot
16 8 (0.24%) Adobe Captivate
17 7 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
18 4 (0.12%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 44 (1.34%) Magento
2 39 (1.19%) Shopify
3 16 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
4 14 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
5 13 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
6 9 (0.27%) SAP CO
6 9 (0.27%) SAP FI
6 9 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
7 7 (0.21%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.15%) Distributed Ledger
8 5 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (0.061%) CiviCRM
9 2 (0.061%) Dynamics NAV
9 2 (0.061%) Endur
9 2 (0.061%) Infor SunSystems
10 1 (0.030%) Data Workbench
10 1 (0.030%) Oracle EBS
10 1 (0.030%) Ripple
10 1 (0.030%) SAP CRM
10 1 (0.030%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 556 (16.95%) Azure
2 409 (12.47%) AWS
3 335 (10.21%) Figma
4 238 (7.25%) IBM Cloud
5 235 (7.16%) Power Platform
6 198 (6.03%) Azure DevOps
7 179 (5.46%) SaaS
8 161 (4.91%) Serverless
9 133 (4.05%) Azure Logic Apps
10 129 (3.93%) Azure Functions
11 127 (3.87%) Azure Service Bus
12 125 (3.81%) Azure API Management
13 119 (3.63%) Microsoft 365
14 107 (3.26%) PowerApps
15 104 (3.17%) Power Automate
16 89 (2.71%) Miro
17 84 (2.56%) GCP
18 80 (2.44%) SurveyMonkey
19 66 (2.01%) GitHub
20 59 (1.80%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 43 (1.31%) Firewall
2 35 (1.07%) Wi-Fi
3 32 (0.98%) HTTP
4 23 (0.70%) Wireless
5 22 (0.67%) MQTT
6 20 (0.61%) 4G
6 20 (0.61%) Internet
7 18 (0.55%) DNS
8 17 (0.52%) Intranet
9 16 (0.49%) DSL
10 13 (0.40%) 3G
10 13 (0.40%) RS-485
11 12 (0.37%) LAN
12 11 (0.34%) DHCP
13 10 (0.30%) SAN
13 10 (0.30%) VoIP
14 9 (0.27%) TCP/IP
14 9 (0.27%) VPN
15 8 (0.24%) Intrusion Detection
15 8 (0.24%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 321 (9.78%) MongoDB
2 312 (9.51%) PostgreSQL
3 256 (7.80%) NoSQL
4 254 (7.74%) DB2
5 199 (6.07%) Power BI
6 161 (4.91%) Relational Database
7 144 (4.39%) MySQL
8 106 (3.23%) SQL Server
9 87 (2.65%) Tableau
10 52 (1.58%) Data Warehouse
11 41 (1.25%) Big Data
12 36 (1.10%) Data Vault
13 33 (1.01%) Redis
14 29 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
15 22 (0.67%) Data Lake
16 18 (0.55%) Apache Ignite
16 18 (0.55%) Geospatial Data
17 15 (0.46%) Hadoop
18 14 (0.43%) GIS
18 14 (0.43%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 289 (8.81%) Git
2 183 (5.58%) JIRA
3 63 (1.92%) Jenkins
4 34 (1.04%) webpack
5 33 (1.01%) Visual Studio
6 31 (0.94%) Cypress.io
7 27 (0.82%) Selenium
8 26 (0.79%) Bitbucket
9 21 (0.64%) Axure RP
9 21 (0.64%) Cucumber
10 17 (0.52%) gulp
11 16 (0.49%) Balsamiq
12 15 (0.46%) PHPUnit
13 14 (0.43%) Postman
14 11 (0.34%) Maven
15 10 (0.30%) Android Studio
15 10 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
16 9 (0.27%) Moq
17 8 (0.24%) Jasmine
17 8 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 956 (29.14%) Social Skills
2 639 (19.48%) Finance
3 584 (17.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 559 (17.04%) Marketing
5 394 (12.01%) Public Sector
6 339 (10.33%) Analytical Skills
7 255 (7.77%) Law
8 151 (4.60%) Retail
9 122 (3.72%) Presentation Skills
10 121 (3.69%) Banking
11 91 (2.77%) Manufacturing
12 89 (2.71%) Organisational Skills
13 77 (2.35%) Legal
14 59 (1.80%) Games
15 47 (1.43%) Investment Banking
16 39 (1.19%) Advertising
16 39 (1.19%) Automotive
16 39 (1.19%) Social Science
17 35 (1.07%) Electronics
18 34 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1,032 (31.45%) Developer
2 510 (15.54%) Senior
3 375 (11.43%) Designer
4 364 (11.09%) Lead
5 263 (8.02%) Full Stack Developer
6 246 (7.50%) UX Designer
7 243 (7.41%) Software Engineer
8 204 (6.22%) Senior Developer
9 186 (5.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 184 (5.61%) Architect
11 159 (4.85%) UI Designer
12 141 (4.30%) UI/UX Designer
13 137 (4.18%) Azure Developer
14 134 (4.08%) Analyst
14 134 (4.08%) Full Stack Engineer
15 111 (3.38%) Azure Engineer
16 102 (3.11%) React Developer
17 100 (3.05%) Senior Designer
18 96 (2.93%) Product Manager
19 84 (2.56%) Senior UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 889 (27.10%) HTML
2 834 (25.42%) CSS
3 715 (21.79%) React
4 463 (14.11%) AngularJS
5 455 (13.87%) .NET
6 427 (13.01%) Vue
7 369 (11.25%) jQuery
8 357 (10.88%) REST
9 309 (9.42%) Node.js
10 305 (9.30%) ASP.NET
11 295 (8.99%) Web Services
12 285 (8.69%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 253 (7.71%) Backbone.js
14 242 (7.38%) ASP.NET Core
15 238 (7.25%) Ember.js
16 134 (4.08%) RESTful
17 118 (3.60%) Sass
18 114 (3.47%) HTML5
19 107 (3.26%) Laravel
20 72 (2.19%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 331 (10.09%) Algorithms
2 308 (9.39%) Data Structures
3 289 (8.81%) Blockchain
4 288 (8.78%) Product Ownership
5 241 (7.35%) Hybrid Cloud
6 173 (5.27%) Mobile App
7 126 (3.84%) e-Learning
8 116 (3.54%) Cyberattack
9 105 (3.20%) Management Information System
10 77 (2.35%) Onboarding
10 77 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
11 73 (2.22%) Social Media
12 69 (2.10%) Greenfield Project
13 61 (1.86%) Cloud Native
14 50 (1.52%) Graphic Design
15 42 (1.28%) Data Centre
16 38 (1.16%) Market Risk
17 35 (1.07%) Virtual Team
18 33 (1.01%) Animation
19 29 (0.88%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 403 (12.28%) Windows
2 360 (10.97%) Linux
3 332 (10.12%) Android
4 330 (10.06%) Apple iOS
5 42 (1.28%) Windows Server
6 40 (1.22%) Windows Server 2016
7 38 (1.16%) Windows Server 2019
8 37 (1.13%) Windows Server 2012
9 35 (1.07%) CentOS
10 22 (0.67%) Mac OS
11 13 (0.40%) Embedded Linux
12 12 (0.37%) Windows 10
13 8 (0.24%) Unix
14 7 (0.21%) VMS
15 6 (0.18%) Ubuntu
16 3 (0.091%) Windows Embedded Compact
17 2 (0.061%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 2 (0.061%) SUSE
17 2 (0.061%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,183 (36.06%) Agile
2 1,075 (32.76%) UX Design
3 932 (28.41%) Problem-Solving
4 536 (16.34%) Full Stack Development
5 525 (16.00%) Mentoring
6 499 (15.21%) Software Engineering
7 496 (15.12%) DevOps
8 462 (14.08%) Web Development
9 398 (12.13%) Analytics
10 383 (11.67%) Design Patterns
11 382 (11.64%) Artificial Intelligence
12 364 (11.09%) Front End Development
13 348 (10.61%) Roadmaps
14 323 (9.84%) Responsive Web Design
15 317 (9.66%) Design Thinking
16 304 (9.27%) MVC
17 297 (9.05%) OO
18 294 (8.96%) User Research
19 286 (8.72%) OOP
20 281 (8.56%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 992 (30.23%) JavaScript
2 606 (18.47%) SQL
3 451 (13.75%) C#
4 363 (11.06%) Python
5 307 (9.36%) Java
6 306 (9.33%) TypeScript
7 202 (6.16%) PHP
8 58 (1.77%) Bash
9 56 (1.71%) PowerShell
10 46 (1.40%) Kotlin
11 44 (1.34%) Go
12 42 (1.28%) R
13 41 (1.25%) C++
14 35 (1.07%) C
14 35 (1.07%) Scala
14 35 (1.07%) T-SQL
15 33 (1.01%) Swift
16 23 (0.70%) SystemVerilog
16 23 (0.70%) Tcl
17 16 (0.49%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 590 (17.98%) Degree
2 179 (5.46%) Security Cleared
3 120 (3.66%) Master's Degree
4 111 (3.38%) SC Cleared
5 110 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 46 (1.40%) PhD
7 39 (1.19%) DV Cleared
8 34 (1.04%) ITIL Certification
9 30 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
10 21 (0.64%) CIPD
11 20 (0.61%) CSPO
12 16 (0.49%) ISTQB
12 16 (0.49%) MBA
13 11 (0.34%) DBS Check
14 8 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
14 8 (0.24%) CISSP
14 8 (0.24%) HND
15 7 (0.21%) CISA
15 7 (0.21%) CISM
15 7 (0.21%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 242 (7.38%) Accessibility
2 159 (4.85%) QA
3 90 (2.74%) WCAG
4 51 (1.55%) GDPR
5 47 (1.43%) SLA
6 42 (1.28%) Actionable Recommendations
7 11 (0.34%) Data Quality
8 10 (0.30%) PMO
9 8 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 7 (0.21%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.12%) ISO 26262
12 3 (0.091%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.061%) GLP
13 2 (0.061%) HL7
13 2 (0.061%) IEC 62304
13 2 (0.061%) ISO 13485
13 2 (0.061%) ISO 14001
14 1 (0.030%) MiFID
14 1 (0.030%) NIST
14 1 (0.030%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 83 (2.53%) Docker
2 70 (2.13%) Active Directory
3 30 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (0.76%) Hyper-V
5 13 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (0.27%) Firmware
7 7 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.091%) XenDesktop
10 2 (0.061%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.061%) XenApp
11 1 (0.030%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 65 (1.98%) Kubernetes
2 31 (0.94%) Terraform
3 23 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
4 20 (0.61%) SCCM
5 7 (0.21%) Progress Chef
6 6 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 6 (0.18%) Ansible
6 6 (0.18%) ServiceCenter
7 5 (0.15%) Grafana
7 5 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (0.12%) vCenter Server
8 4 (0.12%) WSUS
9 3 (0.091%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.061%) Backup Exec
10 2 (0.061%) cPanel
10 2 (0.061%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 2 (0.061%) Plesk
10 2 (0.061%) SCDPM
10 2 (0.061%) Trend Micro Deep Security
10 2 (0.061%) WebSphere Cast Iron
Vendors
1 454 (13.84%) Microsoft
2 274 (8.35%) Red Hat
3 238 (7.25%) IBM
4 230 (7.01%) Adobe
5 167 (5.09%) Google
6 84 (2.56%) Oracle
7 74 (2.26%) Qualtrics
8 56 (1.71%) Apple
9 50 (1.52%) VMware
10 49 (1.49%) ServiceNow
11 47 (1.43%) Dell
11 47 (1.43%) Salesforce
12 38 (1.16%) HP
13 36 (1.10%) SAP
14 35 (1.07%) Samsung
15 25 (0.76%) Databricks
15 25 (0.76%) Facebook
16 23 (0.70%) WooCommerce
17 22 (0.67%) Intel
17 22 (0.67%) Xamarin