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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 471 519 443
Rank change year-on-year +48 -76 +164
Permanent jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) 484 540 1,331
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.48% 0.54% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.57% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 257 320 379
10th Percentile £40,988 £41,210 £38,030
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 £70,321
90th Percentile £73,410 £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 85,108 95,066 155,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.18% 95.58% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 59,794 56,135 83,138
10th Percentile £29,071 £34,000 £33,645
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% +10.53%

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 20 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 20 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 +135 391 £57,965 -3.39% 90
England +50 387 £57,965 -7.26% 124
Work from Home +61 201 £57,965 -3.39% 65
North of England +135 163 £57,965 -7.26% 46
London -5 83 £56,250 -13.46% 44
North West +53 82 £57,965 -10.82% 25
Scotland -13 59 £50,000 +1.36% 6
Yorkshire +116 56 £57,965 +5.39% 13
South West +3 49 £60,000 +9.09% 7
Midlands +9 46 £57,965 +5.39% 13
South East +4 31 £31,750 -52.96% 9
West Midlands +16 28 £59,400 +8.00% 9
North East +16 25 £57,965 +21.59% 9
Wales +24 18 £32,500 -40.91% 5
East Midlands -5 18 £38,750 - 4
East of England -31 13 £46,110 -26.22% 4
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 (7.23%) Confluence
2 8 (1.65%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.62%) WordPress
Applications
1 80 (16.53%) Sketch
2 40 (8.26%) Adobe XD
3 23 (4.75%) MS Visio
4 15 (3.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 15 (3.10%) Trello
5 14 (2.89%) Microsoft Office
6 10 (2.07%) Photoshop
7 9 (1.86%) Adobe Illustrator
8 8 (1.65%) InDesign
9 7 (1.45%) InVision
10 2 (0.41%) Adobe After Effects
10 2 (0.41%) Final Cut Pro
10 2 (0.41%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 8 (1.65%) NEC Housing
2 3 (0.62%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 97 (20.04%) Figma
2 75 (15.50%) Miro
3 51 (10.54%) Heroku
4 35 (7.23%) Azure
5 27 (5.58%) AWS
6 17 (3.51%) SaaS
7 15 (3.10%) Power Platform
8 10 (2.07%) PaaS
9 9 (1.86%) GCP
10 8 (1.65%) Azure Stack
10 8 (1.65%) IaaS
10 8 (1.65%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (1.65%) PowerApps
11 7 (1.45%) dbt
11 7 (1.45%) Google Analytics
12 6 (1.24%) SurveyMonkey
13 5 (1.03%) ChatGPT
13 5 (1.03%) Stripe
14 4 (0.83%) WhatsApp
15 2 (0.41%) Adobe Creative Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.65%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (3.10%) SQL Server
2 12 (2.48%) Big Data
3 9 (1.86%) Tableau
4 7 (1.45%) Power BI
4 7 (1.45%) Relational Database
5 6 (1.24%) Snowflake Schema
5 6 (1.24%) Star Schema
6 2 (0.41%) Metadata
6 2 (0.41%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (0.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.21%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 48 (9.92%) JIRA
2 24 (4.96%) Git
3 18 (3.72%) Axure RP
4 15 (3.10%) Jasmine
4 15 (3.10%) Karma Test Runner
4 15 (3.10%) Visual Studio Code
5 13 (2.69%) Balsamiq
6 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio
General
1 104 (21.49%) Public Sector
2 100 (20.66%) Social Skills
3 67 (13.84%) Finance
4 59 (12.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 55 (11.36%) Marketing
6 36 (7.44%) Presentation Skills
7 28 (5.79%) Analytical Skills
7 28 (5.79%) Law
8 27 (5.58%) Banking
8 27 (5.58%) Legal
9 19 (3.93%) Retail
10 15 (3.10%) Private Banking
11 9 (1.86%) Games
12 8 (1.65%) Investment Banking
12 8 (1.65%) Local Government
12 8 (1.65%) Manufacturing
12 8 (1.65%) Pharmaceutical
12 8 (1.65%) Police
13 6 (1.24%) Social Science
14 4 (0.83%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 206 (42.56%) Senior
2 196 (40.50%) Designer
3 89 (18.39%) UX Designer
4 80 (16.53%) Senior Designer
5 69 (14.26%) UI Designer
6 65 (13.43%) UI/UX Designer
7 51 (10.54%) User Researcher
8 50 (10.33%) Interaction Designer
9 49 (10.12%) Senior UI Designer
9 49 (10.12%) Senior UX Designer
10 46 (9.50%) Senior UI/UX Designer
11 38 (7.85%) Senior User Researcher
12 33 (6.82%) Analyst
12 33 (6.82%) Lead
13 32 (6.61%) Business Analyst
14 30 (6.20%) Service Designer
15 27 (5.58%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
16 24 (4.96%) Developer
16 24 (4.96%) Senior Business Analyst
16 24 (4.96%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (21.69%) HTML
2 58 (11.98%) CSS
3 27 (5.58%) AngularJS
4 22 (4.55%) React
5 20 (4.13%) .NET
6 19 (3.93%) RESTful
7 18 (3.72%) ASP.NET
7 18 (3.72%) jQuery
7 18 (3.72%) LESS
7 18 (3.72%) Sass
8 16 (3.31%) ASP.NET Web API
8 16 (3.31%) OpenAPI
8 16 (3.31%) Swagger
9 15 (3.10%) ASP.NET MVC
9 15 (3.10%) ASP.NET MVC 3
9 15 (3.10%) OAuth
9 15 (3.10%) OAuth2
10 8 (1.65%) Vue
11 3 (0.62%) .NET Core
11 3 (0.62%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 85 (17.56%) Product Ownership
2 25 (5.17%) Cloud Native
3 24 (4.96%) Onboarding
4 10 (2.07%) Mobile App
5 9 (1.86%) Public Cloud
6 8 (1.65%) Management Information System
7 7 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (1.45%) Biopharmaceutical
7 7 (1.45%) Graphic Design
7 7 (1.45%) Social Media
8 6 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.03%) Algorithms
10 4 (0.83%) Life Science
11 3 (0.62%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (0.62%) Robotics
11 3 (0.62%) Taxonomies
12 2 (0.41%) Animation
12 2 (0.41%) Digital Signage
12 2 (0.41%) Driving Licence
12 2 (0.41%) Photography
Processes & Methodologies
1 242 (50.00%) Agile
2 206 (42.56%) User Experience
3 199 (41.12%) User Research
4 154 (31.82%) Actionable Insight
5 151 (31.20%) Prototyping
6 148 (30.58%) UX Design
7 138 (28.51%) Coaching
8 121 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
9 116 (23.97%) Customer Experience
10 105 (21.69%) Mentoring
11 103 (21.28%) Problem-Solving
12 101 (20.87%) Digital Customer Experience
13 94 (19.42%) Design Patterns
14 90 (18.60%) Stakeholder Management
15 82 (16.94%) Service Design
16 81 (16.74%) Interaction Design
17 79 (16.32%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
18 73 (15.08%) Wireframes
19 68 (14.05%) Analytics
20 65 (13.43%) Usability Testing
Programming Languages
1 65 (13.43%) JavaScript
2 23 (4.75%) C#
3 22 (4.55%) T-SQL
4 16 (3.31%) TypeScript
5 12 (2.48%) SQL
6 8 (1.65%) Python
7 6 (1.24%) R
8 3 (0.62%) Scala
9 2 (0.41%) Java
10 1 (0.21%) PHP
10 1 (0.21%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 164 (33.88%) Security Cleared
2 144 (29.75%) SC Cleared
3 86 (17.77%) Degree
4 21 (4.34%) Master's Degree
5 20 (4.13%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (2.07%) DBS Check
8 7 (1.45%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.24%) IIBA
10 5 (1.03%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.62%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.41%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (0.41%) MBA
13 1 (0.21%) APMG
13 1 (0.21%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 255 (52.69%) Accessibility
2 127 (26.24%) WCAG
3 21 (4.34%) QA
4 15 (3.10%) WAI
5 12 (2.48%) PMO
6 4 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.41%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 47 (9.71%) Adobe
2 46 (9.50%) Microsoft
3 12 (2.48%) Cadence
4 10 (2.07%) Google
5 8 (1.65%) NEC
6 6 (1.24%) Qualtrics
7 5 (1.03%) OpenAI
8 4 (0.83%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.62%) Mercator
10 1 (0.21%) Databricks
10 1 (0.21%) DevExpress
10 1 (0.21%) Hotjar
10 1 (0.21%) Xamarin