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 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 475 505 432
Rank change year-on-year +30 -73 +149
Permanent jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) 508 517 1,440
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.48% 0.55% 0.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 0.57% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 268 305 373
10th Percentile £40,988 £41,250 £38,037
25th Percentile £47,188 £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 £65,000 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £73,410 £85,750 £81,386
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,965 £55,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.91% +0.45% +10.00%

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 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-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 1 June 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 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 +30 409 £57,965 -7.26% 93
UK excluding London +125 408 £57,965 +4.91% 49
Work from Home +47 219 £57,965 -3.39% 44
North of England +140 175 £57,965 -1.34% 20
North West +53 88 £57,965 -7.26% 14
London +20 88 £55,000 -15.38% 43
Yorkshire +99 60 £57,965 +5.39% 5
Scotland -15 57 £54,400 +3.62% 6
South West 0 50 £60,000 +9.09% 7
Midlands +1 47 £57,965 +15.93% 9
South East -8 34 £43,000 -36.30% 6
West Midlands -13 29 £58,800 +17.60% 7
North East +10 27 £57,965 +30.01% 1
Wales +25 19 £36,250 -34.09% 2
East Midlands -5 18 £38,750 - 2
Northern Ireland - 14 £58,800 -
East of England -38 13 £46,110 -26.22%

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 (6.89%) Confluence
2 7 (1.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (1.38%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.59%) WordPress
Applications
1 83 (16.34%) Sketch
2 41 (8.07%) Adobe XD
3 23 (4.53%) MS Visio
4 16 (3.15%) Microsoft Office
5 15 (2.95%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 15 (2.95%) Trello
6 11 (2.17%) Photoshop
7 10 (1.97%) Adobe Illustrator
8 9 (1.77%) InVision
9 8 (1.57%) InDesign
10 3 (0.59%) Zeplin
11 2 (0.39%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.39%) Final Cut Pro
12 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (1.97%) NEC Housing
2 3 (0.59%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 97 (19.09%) Figma
2 76 (14.96%) Miro
3 51 (10.04%) Heroku
4 37 (7.28%) Azure
5 30 (5.91%) AWS
6 16 (3.15%) SaaS
7 13 (2.56%) Power Platform
8 11 (2.17%) GCP
9 10 (1.97%) PaaS
10 8 (1.57%) Azure Stack
10 8 (1.57%) IaaS
11 7 (1.38%) dbt
11 7 (1.38%) Google Analytics
11 7 (1.38%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (1.38%) PowerApps
12 6 (1.18%) SurveyMonkey
13 5 (0.98%) Stripe
14 4 (0.79%) ChatGPT
14 4 (0.79%) WhatsApp
15 2 (0.39%) Adobe Creative Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.57%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (2.56%) SQL Server
2 12 (2.36%) Big Data
3 8 (1.57%) Tableau
4 7 (1.38%) Relational Database
5 6 (1.18%) Power BI
5 6 (1.18%) Snowflake Schema
5 6 (1.18%) Star Schema
6 2 (0.39%) Metadata
6 2 (0.39%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.20%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 47 (9.25%) JIRA
2 20 (3.94%) Axure RP
3 18 (3.54%) Git
4 13 (2.56%) Balsamiq
4 13 (2.56%) Jasmine
4 13 (2.56%) Karma Test Runner
4 13 (2.56%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio
General
1 114 (22.44%) Social Skills
2 113 (22.24%) Public Sector
3 72 (14.17%) Finance
4 64 (12.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 58 (11.42%) Marketing
6 37 (7.28%) Presentation Skills
7 29 (5.71%) Legal
8 28 (5.51%) Analytical Skills
9 27 (5.31%) Law
10 25 (4.92%) Banking
11 19 (3.74%) Retail
12 13 (2.56%) Private Banking
13 10 (1.97%) Local Government
13 10 (1.97%) Police
14 9 (1.77%) Games
15 8 (1.57%) Investment Banking
15 8 (1.57%) Manufacturing
15 8 (1.57%) Pharmaceutical
16 6 (1.18%) Social Science
17 4 (0.79%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 219 (43.11%) Senior
2 206 (40.55%) Designer
3 94 (18.50%) UX Designer
4 82 (16.14%) Senior Designer
5 69 (13.58%) UI Designer
6 65 (12.80%) UI/UX Designer
7 56 (11.02%) User Researcher
8 51 (10.04%) Senior UX Designer
9 50 (9.84%) Interaction Designer
10 49 (9.65%) Senior UI Designer
11 46 (9.06%) Senior UI/UX Designer
12 38 (7.48%) Senior User Researcher
13 35 (6.89%) Service Designer
14 33 (6.50%) Analyst
15 32 (6.30%) Business Analyst
15 32 (6.30%) Senior Manager
16 31 (6.10%) Lead
17 28 (5.51%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
18 24 (4.72%) Senior Analyst
18 24 (4.72%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (20.28%) HTML
2 56 (11.02%) CSS
3 23 (4.53%) AngularJS
4 21 (4.13%) React
5 18 (3.54%) .NET
6 17 (3.35%) RESTful
7 16 (3.15%) ASP.NET
7 16 (3.15%) jQuery
7 16 (3.15%) LESS
7 16 (3.15%) Sass
8 14 (2.76%) ASP.NET Web API
8 14 (2.76%) OpenAPI
8 14 (2.76%) Swagger
9 13 (2.56%) ASP.NET MVC
9 13 (2.56%) ASP.NET MVC 3
9 13 (2.56%) OAuth
9 13 (2.56%) OAuth2
10 7 (1.38%) Vue
11 3 (0.59%) .NET Core
11 3 (0.59%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 86 (16.93%) Product Ownership
2 24 (4.72%) Onboarding
3 23 (4.53%) Cloud Native
4 14 (2.76%) Public Cloud
5 10 (1.97%) Management Information System
5 10 (1.97%) Mobile App
6 7 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (1.38%) Biopharmaceutical
6 7 (1.38%) Graphic Design
6 7 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (1.38%) Social Media
7 5 (0.98%) Life Science
8 4 (0.79%) Algorithms
9 3 (0.59%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.59%) NHS
9 3 (0.59%) Robotics
10 2 (0.39%) Animation
10 2 (0.39%) Photography
10 2 (0.39%) PMI
10 2 (0.39%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 260 (51.18%) Agile
2 219 (43.11%) User Experience
3 205 (40.35%) User Research
4 155 (30.51%) Actionable Insight
5 153 (30.12%) Prototyping
6 152 (29.92%) UX Design
7 148 (29.13%) Coaching
8 122 (24.02%) Workshop Facilitation
9 116 (22.83%) Customer Experience
10 114 (22.44%) Mentoring
11 104 (20.47%) Problem-Solving
12 101 (19.88%) Digital Customer Experience
13 97 (19.09%) Design Patterns
13 97 (19.09%) Stakeholder Management
14 87 (17.13%) Service Design
15 80 (15.75%) Interaction Design
16 78 (15.35%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
17 75 (14.76%) Wireframes
18 68 (13.39%) Analytics
19 67 (13.19%) Usability Testing
Programming Languages
1 61 (12.01%) JavaScript
2 20 (3.94%) T-SQL
3 19 (3.74%) C#
4 14 (2.76%) TypeScript
5 11 (2.17%) SQL
6 7 (1.38%) Python
7 6 (1.18%) R
8 3 (0.59%) Scala
Qualifications
1 175 (34.45%) Security Cleared
2 154 (30.31%) SC Cleared
3 90 (17.72%) Degree
4 21 (4.13%) Master's Degree
5 20 (3.94%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (2.36%) DBS Check
7 11 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (1.38%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.18%) IIBA
10 5 (0.98%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.59%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.39%) MBA
13 1 (0.20%) APMG
13 1 (0.20%) BC Cleared
13 1 (0.20%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 254 (50.00%) Accessibility
2 127 (25.00%) WCAG
3 22 (4.33%) QA
4 13 (2.56%) WAI
5 12 (2.36%) PMO
6 4 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.20%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.20%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 51 (10.04%) Microsoft
2 49 (9.65%) Adobe
3 13 (2.56%) Google
4 12 (2.36%) Cadence
5 10 (1.97%) NEC
6 6 (1.18%) Qualtrics
7 4 (0.79%) OpenAI
7 4 (0.79%) Salesforce
8 3 (0.59%) Mercator
9 1 (0.20%) Databricks
9 1 (0.20%) DevExpress
9 1 (0.20%) Hotjar
9 1 (0.20%) SAP
9 1 (0.20%) Xamarin