User Experience Design (UXD)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for UX Design skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited UX Design 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 278 213 101
Rank change year-on-year -65 -112 +56
Permanent jobs citing UX Design 1,070 1,786 5,621
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.07% 1.80% 3.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.26% 1.88% 3.65%
Number of salaries quoted 731 938 1,836
10th Percentile £31,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +13.21%
75th Percentile £68,750 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £96,250 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,600
% change year-on-year -9.09% +8.70% +1.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

UX Design 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 85,135 94,784 153,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.22% 95.58% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 59,872 55,911 82,488
10th Percentile £29,089 £34,000 £33,635
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%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing UX Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for UX Design in the UK

UX Design
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing UX Design.

Salary trend for UX Design in the UK

UX Design
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing UX Design over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for UX Design in the UK

UX Design
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing UX Design within the UK 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
England -95 827 £55,000 -15.38% 340
UK excluding London 0 783 £50,000 -9.09% 208
Work from Home -63 470 £55,000 -17.36% 183
London -170 218 £65,000 -3.70% 152
North of England +52 187 £50,000 -6.98% 77
Scotland +20 151 £47,500 -13.64% 17
South East -59 137 £55,000 - 45
Midlands +38 122 £50,000 - 37
South West +44 112 £55,000 +10.00% 14
North West +5 109 £45,000 -30.77% 49
West Midlands +56 90 £53,750 +19.44% 22
Yorkshire +86 61 £51,000 +2.00% 19
East of England -81 46 £46,000 -26.98% 17
East Midlands -12 24 £30,000 -45.45% 15
North East -9 17 £50,000 +23.46% 9
Wales -12 17 £32,500 -38.10%
Northern Ireland +26 15 £45,000 -14.29% 2

UX Design
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 33 (3.08%) WordPress
2 30 (2.80%) CMS
3 27 (2.52%) Confluence
4 12 (1.12%) JBoss
4 12 (1.12%) Red Hat Fuse
5 11 (1.03%) SharePoint
6 7 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.47%) Kentico
7 5 (0.47%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
8 3 (0.28%) IBM Domino
9 2 (0.19%) IIS
10 1 (0.093%) Apache
10 1 (0.093%) Drupal
10 1 (0.093%) SharePoint Server
10 1 (0.093%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 135 (12.62%) Sketch
2 60 (5.61%) Adobe XD
3 46 (4.30%) Photoshop
4 40 (3.74%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 36 (3.36%) Adobe Illustrator
6 35 (3.27%) InVision
7 25 (2.34%) Microsoft Office
8 18 (1.68%) Adobe After Effects
9 11 (1.03%) InDesign
10 10 (0.93%) Chatbot
11 9 (0.84%) Spreadsheet
12 7 (0.65%) Blender
12 7 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
13 6 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
13 6 (0.56%) UserZoom
14 5 (0.47%) CANalyzer
15 3 (0.28%) CINEMA 4D
15 3 (0.28%) Trello
16 2 (0.19%) Adobe Premiere
16 2 (0.19%) Final Cut Pro
Business Applications
1 20 (1.87%) Shopify
2 16 (1.50%) Magento
3 5 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.37%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.19%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.093%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.093%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.093%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 232 (21.68%) Figma
2 127 (11.87%) AWS
3 96 (8.97%) Azure
4 78 (7.29%) SaaS
5 58 (5.42%) Miro
6 47 (4.39%) Heroku
7 32 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
8 30 (2.80%) Power Platform
9 27 (2.52%) PowerApps
10 26 (2.43%) Power Automate
11 25 (2.34%) GitHub
12 24 (2.24%) GCP
13 21 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
14 20 (1.87%) Cloud Computing
15 19 (1.78%) Google Analytics
16 17 (1.59%) SurveyMonkey
17 15 (1.40%) Serverless
18 13 (1.21%) Adobe Creative Cloud
19 11 (1.03%) npm
20 10 (0.93%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.93%) HTTP
2 7 (0.65%) Intranet
3 5 (0.47%) Ethernet
3 5 (0.47%) Internet
3 5 (0.47%) SSH
4 3 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.093%) AMQP
5 1 (0.093%) MQTT
5 1 (0.093%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (5.89%) MySQL
2 55 (5.14%) SQL Server
3 27 (2.52%) Power BI
4 22 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
5 18 (1.68%) Relational Database
6 15 (1.40%) Redis
7 13 (1.21%) Elasticsearch
8 10 (0.93%) Geospatial Data
9 8 (0.75%) GIS
9 8 (0.75%) Spatial Data
10 7 (0.65%) Big Data
11 6 (0.56%) MariaDB
11 6 (0.56%) MongoDB
12 5 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (0.47%) NoSQL
13 3 (0.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (0.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 2 (0.19%) Apache Cassandra
14 2 (0.19%) Data Mining
15 1 (0.093%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 113 (10.56%) Git
2 81 (7.57%) JIRA
3 21 (1.96%) webpack
4 16 (1.50%) Postman
5 15 (1.40%) Jenkins
6 12 (1.12%) IntelliJ
7 11 (1.03%) Visual Studio
8 9 (0.84%) Cypress.io
8 9 (0.84%) Moq
9 8 (0.75%) Android Studio
9 8 (0.75%) Bitbucket
9 8 (0.75%) Cucumber
9 8 (0.75%) Maven
10 7 (0.65%) gulp
11 5 (0.47%) Babel
11 5 (0.47%) CANoe
12 4 (0.37%) Axure RP
12 4 (0.37%) GitLab
12 4 (0.37%) Octopus Deploy
12 4 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 373 (34.86%) Social Skills
2 229 (21.40%) Finance
3 206 (19.25%) Marketing
4 165 (15.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 108 (10.09%) Law
6 93 (8.69%) Analytical Skills
7 64 (5.98%) Banking
8 55 (5.14%) Retail
9 54 (5.05%) Public Sector
10 49 (4.58%) Presentation Skills
11 27 (2.52%) Legal
12 26 (2.43%) Automotive
13 25 (2.34%) Manufacturing
14 22 (2.06%) Games
15 20 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
16 19 (1.78%) Advertising
16 19 (1.78%) Electronics
17 15 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
18 14 (1.31%) Investment Banking
19 11 (1.03%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 379 (35.42%) Developer
2 302 (28.22%) Designer
3 244 (22.80%) Senior
4 241 (22.52%) UX Designer
5 156 (14.58%) Lead
6 153 (14.30%) UI Designer
7 142 (13.27%) UI/UX Designer
8 99 (9.25%) Software Engineer
9 90 (8.41%) Senior Designer
10 88 (8.22%) Senior Developer
11 83 (7.76%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 82 (7.66%) Senior UX Designer
13 57 (5.33%) Senior UI Designer
14 55 (5.14%) Senior UI/UX Designer
15 47 (4.39%) Full Stack Developer
16 43 (4.02%) Software Developer
17 41 (3.83%) React Developer
18 38 (3.55%) Lead Software Engineer
19 36 (3.36%) Product Manager
20 33 (3.08%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 341 (31.87%) HTML
2 279 (26.07%) CSS
3 218 (20.37%) React
4 120 (11.21%) AngularJS
5 100 (9.35%) .NET
6 78 (7.29%) RESTful
7 71 (6.64%) Vue
8 69 (6.45%) Node.js
9 65 (6.07%) REST
10 53 (4.95%) HTML5
11 49 (4.58%) Web Services
12 44 (4.11%) Sass
13 40 (3.74%) JSON
13 40 (3.74%) Laravel
14 34 (3.18%) jQuery
15 33 (3.08%) ASP.NET
16 32 (2.99%) Spring
17 30 (2.80%) CSS3
18 29 (2.71%) .NET Core
18 29 (2.71%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 116 (10.84%) Product Ownership
2 80 (7.48%) Mobile App
3 36 (3.36%) Greenfield Project
4 33 (3.08%) Algorithms
4 33 (3.08%) Blockchain
5 29 (2.71%) Data Structures
6 23 (2.15%) Graphic Design
7 22 (2.06%) Market Risk
7 22 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
8 21 (1.96%) Cloud Native
8 21 (1.96%) Management Information System
9 20 (1.87%) Onboarding
10 17 (1.59%) SCADA
11 16 (1.50%) Operational Technology
12 15 (1.40%) Animation
13 12 (1.12%) BBC
13 12 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
13 12 (1.12%) Virtual Team
14 11 (1.03%) Client/Server
15 10 (0.93%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 42 (3.93%) Android
2 38 (3.55%) Apple iOS
3 35 (3.27%) Windows
4 20 (1.87%) Linux
5 19 (1.78%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.37%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.093%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,070 (100.00%) User Experience
2 378 (35.33%) Agile
3 344 (32.15%) Problem-Solving
4 203 (18.97%) Front End Development
5 178 (16.64%) Software Engineering
6 172 (16.07%) Wireframes
7 162 (15.14%) Prototyping
8 161 (15.05%) User Research
9 147 (13.74%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 143 (13.36%) DevOps
11 121 (11.31%) Full Stack Development
12 116 (10.84%) Mentoring
13 115 (10.75%) Design Patterns
13 115 (10.75%) UX Research
14 112 (10.47%) Collaborative Working
14 112 (10.47%) Customer Experience
15 110 (10.28%) Actionable Insight
16 109 (10.19%) Stakeholder Management
17 105 (9.81%) Visualisation
18 104 (9.72%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 337 (31.50%) JavaScript
2 124 (11.59%) TypeScript
3 101 (9.44%) C#
4 96 (8.97%) Java
5 94 (8.79%) PHP
6 89 (8.32%) SQL
7 84 (7.85%) Python
8 31 (2.90%) Kotlin
9 17 (1.59%) T-SQL
10 16 (1.50%) Go
11 15 (1.40%) Rust
12 14 (1.31%) Swift
12 14 (1.31%) VB.NET
13 12 (1.12%) C
14 10 (0.93%) Clojure
14 10 (0.93%) F#
14 10 (0.93%) Haskell
15 7 (0.65%) C++
15 7 (0.65%) Dart
16 6 (0.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 202 (18.88%) Degree
2 92 (8.60%) Security Cleared
3 79 (7.38%) SC Cleared
4 46 (4.30%) Master's Degree
5 21 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (1.12%) CSPO
6 12 (1.12%) MBA
7 11 (1.03%) PhD
8 7 (0.65%) HND
9 6 (0.56%) DV Cleared
9 6 (0.56%) IIBA
10 3 (0.28%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.19%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.093%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.093%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.093%) ISEB
12 1 (0.093%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 165 (15.42%) Accessibility
2 71 (6.64%) WCAG
3 50 (4.67%) QA
4 16 (1.50%) GDPR
5 8 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (0.47%) ISO 26262
7 4 (0.37%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.19%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.19%) IEC 62304
9 2 (0.19%) ISO 13485
10 1 (0.093%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 45 (4.21%) Docker
2 16 (1.50%) Hyper-V
2 16 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.19%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (0.19%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (1.78%) Kubernetes
2 14 (1.31%) Terraform
3 1 (0.093%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 121 (11.31%) Adobe
2 85 (7.94%) Microsoft
3 62 (5.79%) Google
4 25 (2.34%) Salesforce
5 21 (1.96%) ServiceNow
6 17 (1.59%) Xamarin
7 16 (1.50%) VMware
8 12 (1.12%) Facebook
8 12 (1.12%) Hotjar
8 12 (1.12%) Qualtrics
8 12 (1.12%) Sony
9 11 (1.03%) WooCommerce
10 9 (0.84%) SAP
11 8 (0.75%) DevExpress
12 7 (0.65%) Mapbox
13 4 (0.37%) Databricks
13 4 (0.37%) dotdigital
13 4 (0.37%) Oracle
14 3 (0.28%) Snapchat
14 3 (0.28%) YouTube