UX Research Jobs in the UK excluding London

User Experience Research (UXR)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring UX Research skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited UX Research over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 581 663 568
Rank change year-on-year +82 -95 -50
Permanent jobs citing UX Research 199 65 326
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.25% 0.12% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.12% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 47 37 121
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £33,250 £57,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £70,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +33.33% +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,200 - £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +13.04% +4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

UX Research falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 64,702 52,760 72,012
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 80.77% 95.48% 94.30%
Number of salaries quoted 43,767 28,367 41,386
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +8.81%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%

UX Research
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing UX Research as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for UX Research in the UK excluding London

UX Research
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing UX Research in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for UX Research in the UK excluding London

UX Research
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing UX Research in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for UX Research in the UK excluding London

UX Research
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing UX Research within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
Scotland +47 120 £42,500 -38.41%
South West -8 36 £57,500 +21.05% 2
South East -36 17 £34,500 -44.80% 6
North of England +7 16 £45,000 -35.71% 10
North West -29 10 £45,000 -35.71% 7
Northern Ireland - 7 - - 3
Yorkshire +67 5 - - 1
Midlands - 3 £58,700 - 1
West Midlands - 3 £58,700 - 1
North East - 1 - - 2
UX Research
UK

UX Research
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 12 (6.03%) Apache Spark
2 11 (5.53%) Confluence
Applications
1 33 (16.58%) Sketch
2 30 (15.08%) UserZoom
3 17 (8.54%) InVision
4 7 (3.52%) Adobe XD
5 5 (2.51%) Adobe Illustrator
5 5 (2.51%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.51%) Magento
2 1 (0.50%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 93 (46.73%) Figma
2 68 (34.17%) SurveyMonkey
3 20 (10.05%) Miro
4 14 (7.04%) SaaS
5 12 (6.03%) Amazon S3
5 12 (6.03%) Amazon SQS
5 12 (6.03%) AWS
5 12 (6.03%) GCP
5 12 (6.03%) Google Docs
5 12 (6.03%) Lucidchart
5 12 (6.03%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (6.03%) Slack
6 6 (3.02%) Azure
6 6 (3.02%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (3.02%) GitHub
7 5 (2.51%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.50%) Canva
8 1 (0.50%) Google Analytics
8 1 (0.50%) Pendo
8 1 (0.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.02%) Intranet
2 3 (1.51%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.03%) Big Data
1 12 (6.03%) Elasticsearch
1 12 (6.03%) Hadoop
1 12 (6.03%) Redis
1 12 (6.03%) Scylla
2 1 (0.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 34 (17.09%) JIRA
2 24 (12.06%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.50%) Axure RP
3 1 (0.50%) Git
General
1 129 (64.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 117 (58.79%) Law
3 115 (57.79%) Finance
4 100 (50.25%) Marketing
5 71 (35.68%) Social Skills
6 32 (16.08%) Social Science
7 16 (8.04%) Banking
8 12 (6.03%) Presentation Skills
8 12 (6.03%) Public Sector
9 10 (5.03%) Analytical Skills
9 10 (5.03%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.51%) Polish Language
11 2 (1.01%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.50%) Advertising
12 1 (0.50%) Electronics
12 1 (0.50%) Korean Language
12 1 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.50%) Retail
12 1 (0.50%) Social Housing
12 1 (0.50%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 63 (31.66%) User Experience Researcher
2 62 (31.16%) Lead
3 37 (18.59%) Designer
4 32 (16.08%) UX Designer
5 29 (14.57%) Senior
6 19 (9.55%) Senior Designer
6 19 (9.55%) Senior UX Designer
7 15 (7.54%) Software Engineer
8 13 (6.53%) User Researcher
9 12 (6.03%) Principal Engineer
9 12 (6.03%) Principal Software Engineer
10 11 (5.53%) Product Manager
11 6 (3.02%) Developer
11 6 (3.02%) Senior Manager
11 6 (3.02%) Senior Product Manager
11 6 (3.02%) UI Designer
12 5 (2.51%) Applications Developer
12 5 (2.51%) Digital Product Manager
13 4 (2.01%) Analyst
13 4 (2.01%) UX Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (16.08%) CSS
1 32 (16.08%) HTML
2 25 (12.56%) React
3 12 (6.03%) GraphQL
3 12 (6.03%) Kafka
4 6 (3.02%) AngularJS
5 5 (2.51%) .NET
6 4 (2.01%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 3 (1.51%) DOM
7 3 (1.51%) LESS
7 3 (1.51%) Sass
7 3 (1.51%) Spring
7 3 (1.51%) Spring Boot
7 3 (1.51%) Vue
7 3 (1.51%) Web Services
8 1 (0.50%) JSON
8 1 (0.50%) REST
8 1 (0.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (20.60%) Product Ownership
2 38 (19.10%) Market Risk
3 12 (6.03%) Algorithms
3 12 (6.03%) Data Structures
3 12 (6.03%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (6.03%) Management Information System
4 10 (5.03%) Mobile App
5 6 (3.02%) Graphic Design
5 6 (3.02%) NHS
6 5 (2.51%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.01%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.51%) Life Science
9 1 (0.50%) Blog
9 1 (0.50%) Housing Association
9 1 (0.50%) IoT
9 1 (0.50%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.51%) Android
1 5 (2.51%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (100.00%) User Experience
2 131 (65.83%) User Research
3 100 (50.25%) UX Design
4 78 (39.20%) Service Design
5 77 (38.69%) Product Management
6 75 (37.69%) Actionable Insight
6 75 (37.69%) Psychology
7 72 (36.18%) Agile
8 69 (34.67%) Anthropology
9 67 (33.67%) Roadmaps
10 62 (31.16%) Interaction Design
11 60 (30.15%) Fintech
12 59 (29.65%) Qualitative Research
13 58 (29.15%) Visualisation
14 57 (28.64%) Information Architecture
15 55 (27.64%) Data Visualisation
16 50 (25.13%) Mentoring
17 45 (22.61%) Cognitive Science
17 45 (22.61%) Strategic Thinking
18 44 (22.11%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 34 (17.09%) R
2 26 (13.07%) JavaScript
3 15 (7.54%) Java
4 12 (6.03%) Bash
4 12 (6.03%) Go
4 12 (6.03%) Python
4 12 (6.03%) Scala
5 5 (2.51%) C#
6 3 (1.51%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 109 (54.77%) Degree
2 54 (27.14%) Master's Degree
3 45 (22.61%) PhD
4 6 (3.02%) CSPO
4 6 (3.02%) IIBA
5 2 (1.01%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.50%) BC Cleared
6 1 (0.50%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (20.10%) Accessibility
2 30 (15.08%) Actionable Recommendations
3 9 (4.52%) QA
4 6 (3.02%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 12 (6.03%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 62 (31.16%) Qualtrics
2 18 (9.05%) ServiceNow
3 17 (8.54%) Microsoft
4 12 (6.03%) Dell
4 12 (6.03%) Google
5 10 (5.03%) Adobe
6 7 (3.52%) Hotjar
6 7 (3.52%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.51%) Apple
7 5 (2.51%) Xamarin