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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 77 58 73
Rank change year-on-year -19 +15 -19
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 324 202 259
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 4.73% 4.65% 4.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.22% 4.92% 4.67%
Number of salaries quoted 93 75 131
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,750 £41,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £44,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £57,810 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.24% -3.65% +33.33%
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 6,209 4,103 5,548
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 90.71% 94.39% 91.07%
Number of salaries quoted 2,483 2,060 2,859
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +14.58%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £83,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +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 2 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 2 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 -53 220 £49,000 -10.91% 17
Edinburgh +35 63 £55,000 -8.33% 21
Dundee - 17 £47,500 -
Aberdeen - 10 £35,000 -
Midlothian - 5 - - 3
South Lanarkshire - 2 £34,500 -
East Lothian - 2 - -
Aberdeenshire - 2 £37,500 -
Dunbartonshire - 1 - -
Stirling - 1 £50,000 - 2
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 30 (9.26%) Apache Spark
2 6 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.54%) WordPress
4 3 (0.93%) CMS
Applications
1 30 (9.26%) UserZoom
2 28 (8.64%) Sketch
3 10 (3.09%) InVision
4 6 (1.85%) Adobe Illustrator
4 6 (1.85%) Photoshop
5 4 (1.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.62%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.31%) Adobe Captivate
Business Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 108 (33.33%) Figma
2 73 (22.53%) SurveyMonkey
3 52 (16.05%) AWS
4 29 (8.95%) SaaS
5 26 (8.02%) Miro
6 18 (5.56%) GCP
7 14 (4.32%) Amazon S3
7 14 (4.32%) Amazon SQS
7 14 (4.32%) Google Docs
7 14 (4.32%) Lucidchart
7 14 (4.32%) Slack
8 12 (3.70%) Azure
9 9 (2.78%) Power Platform
10 8 (2.47%) Heroku
11 7 (2.16%) Cloud Computing
11 7 (2.16%) Serverless
12 4 (1.23%) ChatGPT
13 3 (0.93%) Google Play
14 2 (0.62%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 2 (0.62%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.94%) DSL
2 7 (2.16%) HTTP
2 7 (2.16%) MQTT
3 1 (0.31%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (0.31%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.31%) VLAN
3 1 (0.31%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (9.26%) Big Data
2 24 (7.41%) Tableau
3 20 (6.17%) Elasticsearch
3 20 (6.17%) Redis
4 16 (4.94%) Data Lake
4 16 (4.94%) DB2
4 16 (4.94%) MongoDB
5 14 (4.32%) Hadoop
5 14 (4.32%) Scylla
6 13 (4.01%) SQL Server
7 12 (3.70%) MySQL
8 9 (2.78%) Power BI
9 6 (1.85%) Data Vault
9 6 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.31%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 30 (9.26%) Jenkins
2 24 (7.41%) Git
3 23 (7.10%) JIRA
4 6 (1.85%) Moq
5 3 (0.93%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.62%) Jasmine
6 2 (0.62%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 197 (60.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 193 (59.57%) Finance
3 170 (52.47%) Marketing
4 165 (50.93%) Law
5 120 (37.04%) Social Skills
6 36 (11.11%) Banking
7 32 (9.88%) Social Science
8 29 (8.95%) Investment Banking
9 23 (7.10%) Presentation Skills
10 21 (6.48%) Public Sector
11 19 (5.86%) Analytical Skills
12 18 (5.56%) Financial Institution
13 16 (4.94%) Influencing Skills
14 9 (2.78%) Manufacturing
15 7 (2.16%) Electronics
15 7 (2.16%) Private Banking
15 7 (2.16%) Tech for Good
15 7 (2.16%) Telecoms
16 3 (0.93%) Polish Language
16 3 (0.93%) Retail
Job Titles
1 89 (27.47%) Lead
2 62 (19.14%) Software Engineer
3 57 (17.59%) Designer
4 51 (15.74%) Developer
5 47 (14.51%) User Experience Researcher
6 45 (13.89%) UX Designer
7 39 (12.04%) Senior
8 31 (9.57%) Lead Software Engineer
9 29 (8.95%) UI Engineer
10 27 (8.33%) Senior Designer
10 27 (8.33%) Senior UX Designer
11 20 (6.17%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 17 (5.25%) UI Designer
12 17 (5.25%) UI/UX Designer
13 16 (4.94%) Data Engineer
13 16 (4.94%) Software Engineering Director
14 15 (4.63%) Architect
14 15 (4.63%) UX Engineer
15 14 (4.32%) Principal Engineer
15 14 (4.32%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (27.16%) React
2 63 (19.44%) HTML
3 53 (16.36%) CSS
4 43 (13.27%) AngularJS
5 30 (9.26%) Kafka
6 28 (8.64%) Vue
7 26 (8.02%) Node.js
8 15 (4.63%) .NET
9 14 (4.32%) DOM
9 14 (4.32%) GraphQL
9 14 (4.32%) Spring
9 14 (4.32%) Spring Boot
9 14 (4.32%) Web Services
10 11 (3.40%) .NET Framework
11 10 (3.09%) CSS3
11 10 (3.09%) HTML5
11 10 (3.09%) jQuery
12 9 (2.78%) Ajax
13 8 (2.47%) ASP.NET
14 7 (2.16%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 38 (11.73%) Market Risk
2 36 (11.11%) Algorithms
3 34 (10.49%) Product Ownership
4 33 (10.19%) Cloud Native
5 32 (9.88%) Management Information System
6 16 (4.94%) Public Cloud
7 14 (4.32%) Data Structures
8 13 (4.01%) Legacy Systems
9 12 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
10 11 (3.40%) Graphic Design
11 10 (3.09%) Mobile App
12 7 (2.16%) Arduino
12 7 (2.16%) IoT
12 7 (2.16%) Raspberry Pi
13 5 (1.54%) Onboarding
14 4 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
14 4 (1.23%) iPhone
14 4 (1.23%) Marketing Technology
15 2 (0.62%) Life Science
15 2 (0.62%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.47%) Android
2 4 (1.23%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.62%) Windows
4 1 (0.31%) Linux
4 1 (0.31%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (46.60%) Agile
2 148 (45.68%) UX Design
3 128 (39.51%) UX Research
4 106 (32.72%) User Research
5 99 (30.56%) SDLC
6 93 (28.70%) Software Engineering
7 90 (27.78%) Actionable Insight
8 85 (26.23%) Product Management
9 83 (25.62%) Service Design
10 80 (24.69%) Analytics
11 77 (23.77%) Information Architecture
11 77 (23.77%) Visualisation
12 75 (23.15%) Anthropology
12 75 (23.15%) Psychology
13 68 (20.99%) Mentoring
14 64 (19.75%) Roadmaps
15 62 (19.14%) Operational Stability
16 59 (18.21%) Data Analytics
17 58 (17.90%) DevOps
18 56 (17.28%) Community of Practice
Programming Languages
1 79 (24.38%) JavaScript
2 61 (18.83%) Java
2 61 (18.83%) TypeScript
3 56 (17.28%) Python
4 34 (10.49%) R
5 30 (9.26%) Scala
5 30 (9.26%) SQL
6 16 (4.94%) PL/SQL
7 15 (4.63%) PHP
8 14 (4.32%) Bash
8 14 (4.32%) C#
8 14 (4.32%) Go
9 7 (2.16%) T-SQL
10 6 (1.85%) C
11 4 (1.23%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.23%) Swift
Qualifications
1 116 (35.80%) Degree
2 49 (15.12%) Master's Degree
3 45 (13.89%) PhD
4 16 (4.94%) SC Cleared
4 16 (4.94%) Security Cleared
5 7 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.31%) CCDP
6 1 (0.31%) CCNP
6 1 (0.31%) CCSP
6 1 (0.31%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.31%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (14.51%) Accessibility
2 30 (9.26%) Actionable Recommendations
3 16 (4.94%) SLA
4 13 (4.01%) WCAG
5 9 (2.78%) QA
6 2 (0.62%) GLP
7 1 (0.31%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (2.16%) Docker
1 7 (2.16%) Firmware
2 1 (0.31%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 30 (9.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 62 (19.14%) Qualtrics
2 18 (5.56%) Google
3 16 (4.94%) Alteryx
3 16 (4.94%) Cognos
3 16 (4.94%) Databricks
3 16 (4.94%) Oracle
3 16 (4.94%) Sybase
4 14 (4.32%) Dell
5 12 (3.70%) ServiceNow
6 11 (3.40%) Microsoft
7 7 (2.16%) NVIDIA
7 7 (2.16%) SAP
8 5 (1.54%) Adobe
9 4 (1.23%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.62%) Charles River
11 1 (0.31%) Nintex
11 1 (0.31%) Polycom