{"id":21297,"date":"2025-01-10T15:15:54","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T15:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/analytics\/how-does-the-ux-job-market-look-for-2025-measuringu\/"},"modified":"2025-01-10T15:15:54","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T15:15:54","slug":"how-does-the-ux-job-market-look-for-2025-measuringu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=21297","title":{"rendered":"How Does the UX Job Market Look for 2025? \u2013 MeasuringU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/measuringu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/010725-Feat.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-43217 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/measuringu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/010725-Feat-300x169.png\" alt=\"feature image of shaking hands\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/measuringu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/010725-Feat-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/measuringu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/010725-Feat-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/measuringu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/010725-Feat-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/measuringu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/010725-Feat-600x338.png 600w, https:\/\/measuringu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/010725-Feat.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"\/><\/a>It seems like 2024 was filled with nonstop bad news about UX job losses and difficult job searches.<\/p>\n<p>Layoffs in tech are nothing new. What seems to have been different in the past two years has been the volume of layoffs across so many companies and how few new jobs were posted.<\/p>\n<p>Having been in the industry for 27 and 45 years respectively, we\u2019ve experienced the ups and downs from the dotcom crash of 2001\u20132003 and the great recession of 2008\u20132009.<\/p>\n<p>In our experience helping many talented UX professionals find jobs, the last two years (2023\u20132024) somewhat resembled the dotcom contraction. That event affected mostly tech companies, but the 2008\u20132009 recession <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/opub\/mlr\/2011\/04\/art1full.pdf\">devastated real estate, financial institutions, construction, and manufacturing<\/a>. That said, many UX practitioners work across all industries and were not completely spared.<\/p>\n<p>But we also know the availability of information via social media channels like LinkedIn can distort our perceptions and reinforce our biases.<\/p>\n<p>Although we don\u2019t know exactly how 2025 will differ from the last two years and whether the job market will be better, we can investigate how UX professionals feel about the upcoming year and compare that to some historical data. To do so, we\u2019ll look into the results of the recent <a href=\"https:\/\/uxpa.org\/salary-surveys\/\">2024 UXPA Salary survey<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The first question we looked at in the survey asked all respondents whether their organization added staff, lost staff, or stayed the same. In 2024, about the same percentages reported losing staff as adding staff (35%; Table 1). By themselves, those numbers can be hard to interpret. Is that a lot?<\/p>\n<table id=\"tablepress-956\" class=\"tablepress tablepress-id-956\">\n<thead>\n<tr class=\"row-1\">\n<th class=\"column-1\"\/>\n<th class=\"column-2\">2024<\/th>\n<th class=\"column-3\">2022<\/th>\n<th class=\"column-4\">2018<\/th>\n<th class=\"column-5\">2016<\/th>\n<th class=\"column-6\">2014<\/th>\n<th class=\"column-7\">2011<\/th>\n<th class=\"column-8\">2009<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr class=\"row-2\">\n<td class=\"column-1\"><strong>Added staff<\/strong><\/td>\n<td class=\"column-2\">35%<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-3\">55%<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-4\">\u200753%<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-5\">\u200751%<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-6\">\u200748%<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-7\">53%<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-8\">26%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-3\">\n<td class=\"column-1\"><strong>Stayed the same<\/strong><\/td>\n<td class=\"column-2\"><strong>24%<\/strong><\/td>\n<td class=\"column-3\">19%<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-4\">\u200723%<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-5\">\u200725%<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-6\">\u200723%<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-7\">43%<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-8\"><strong>56%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-4\">\n<td class=\"column-1\"><strong>Lost staff<\/strong><\/td>\n<td class=\"column-2\"><strong>35%<\/strong><\/td>\n<td class=\"column-3\">17%<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-4\">\u200718%<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-5\">\u200718%<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-6\">\u200714%<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-7\">\u20074%<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-8\"><strong>18%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-5\">\n<td class=\"column-1\"><strong>I don&#8217;t know<\/strong><\/td>\n<td class=\"column-2\">\u20077%<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-3\">\u20078%<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-4\">\u2007\u20075%<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-5\">\u2007\u20076%<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-6\">\u200715%<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-7\">N\/A<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-8\">N\/A<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-6\">\n<td class=\"column-1\"><strong>Sample Size<\/strong><\/td>\n<td class=\"column-2\">408<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-3\">625<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-4\">1351<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-5\">1357<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-6\">1669<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-7\">\u200789<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-8\">117<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><!-- #tablepress-956 from cache --><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Table 1:<\/strong> Percent of respondents\u2019 answers to \u201c<em>Did the user experience\/user-centered design\/usability group in your company or organization add or lose staff in the past 12 months?<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, we\u2019ve been helping collect and analyze the same UXPA survey data for over a decade, so we dug into the archives to find some historical data. The same item was asked in the UXPA salary survey going back to 2009. The period covers both a long expansion in tech (2010 to 2022) as well as covering the time immediately after the deep <a href=\"https:\/\/www.federalreservehistory.org\/essays\/great-recession-and-its-aftermath\">global recession of 2008<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Table 1 shows that 35% of organizations losing staff is indeed high. It is roughly double what it was from 2022 all the way back to 2009. The percentage reporting their organization added staff is lower than most years but was at least a little higher than in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>The main difference between 2024 and 2009 is that more organizations reported staying at about the same headcount in 2009 (56%) compared to 24%, suggesting 2024 was a more turbulent time than 2009.<\/p>\n<p>We created a net new job metric by subtracting lost staff from added staff (shown in Figure 1) to display the trend. The contraction in 2024 can be seen as nominally worse than 2009.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/measuringu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/figure1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-43197 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/measuringu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/figure1.png\" alt=\"Figure 1: Net jobs added (% added minus % lost) by year.\" width=\"2878\" height=\"1388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/measuringu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/figure1.png 2878w, https:\/\/measuringu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/figure1-300x145.png 300w, https:\/\/measuringu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/figure1-1024x494.png 1024w, https:\/\/measuringu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/figure1-768x370.png 768w, https:\/\/measuringu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/figure1-1536x741.png 1536w, https:\/\/measuringu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/figure1-2048x988.png 2048w, https:\/\/measuringu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/figure1-600x289.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2878px) 100vw, 2878px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Figure 1:<\/strong> Net jobs added (% added minus % lost) by year.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, a new item was added to the UXPA survey that asked respondents whether their organization had layoffs. This item corroborates the reduced staffing item, as 37% reported that their company had layoffs (about the same as the percentage reporting reduced staff). Nine percent reported they were laid off themselves.<\/p>\n<p>A note on the historical data: In earlier versions of the survey (2009 and 2011), only business owners and directors were asked the staffing question. In 2014, the question was shown to all respondents, and an \u201cI don\u2019t know\u201d response option was added. Consequently, the sample sizes are much smaller in the earlier surveys.<\/p>\n<p>Job losses in UX don\u2019t happen in isolation. While UX professionals aren\u2019t software developers, developer job figures are likely a good proxy to understand what\u2019s happening in the broader tech industry, as UX designers and researchers often <a href=\"https:\/\/measuringu.com\/designer-ratio\/\">work with software developers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While there isn\u2019t a long history of tracking layoffs, evidence is strong that the broader tech industry has had a substantial <a href=\"https:\/\/layoffs.fyi\/\">number of layoffs<\/a>. There are also far <a href=\"https:\/\/fred.stlouisfed.org\/series\/IHLIDXUSTPSOFTDEVE\">fewer new job postings<\/a> for software developers on the large job website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indeed.com\/\">Indeed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>ADP, the payroll company that often provides payroll data to gauge unemployment, started tracking employment data specifically for software engineers in 2018. For tracking purposes, they set their initial 2018 benchmark to 100.<\/p>\n<p>Figure 2 shows that the employment index for software engineers peaked around 2020 and has fallen well below 2018 levels.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/measuringu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/figure2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-43198 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/measuringu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/figure2.png\" alt=\"Figure 2: Employment index for software engineer job titles from 2018 to 2024 (data derived from ADP as reported in the WSJ &lt;behind paywall&gt;).\" width=\"2879\" height=\"1375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/measuringu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/figure2.png 2879w, https:\/\/measuringu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/figure2-300x143.png 300w, https:\/\/measuringu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/figure2-1024x489.png 1024w, https:\/\/measuringu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/figure2-768x367.png 768w, https:\/\/measuringu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/figure2-1536x734.png 1536w, https:\/\/measuringu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/figure2-2048x978.png 2048w, https:\/\/measuringu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/figure2-600x287.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2879px) 100vw, 2879px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Figure 2:<\/strong> Employment index for software engineer job titles from 2018 to 2024 (data derived from ADP as reported in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/tech\/tech-jobs-artificial-intelligence-cce22393?utm_source=chatgpt.com\">WSJ<\/a> <behind paywall=\"\">).<\/behind><\/p>\n<p>The low-interest rate environment (often called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/91136178\/the-unseen-consequences-of-the-great-resignations-hiring-frenzy\">ZIRP for Zero Interest Rate Policy<\/a>) between 2020\u20132022 fueled startup growth and hiring in tech. With the rapid rise in interest rates to combat inflation, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/statistics\/277501\/venture-capital-amount-invested-in-the-united-states-since-1995\/\">venture funding dried up<\/a> as capital became more expensive, leading to a significant reduction in startup hiring (which often includes a lot of tech talent).<\/p>\n<p>But that\u2019s data about the past. What will happen in 2025?<\/p>\n<p>To gauge how UX professionals feel about the future, we looked at an item that has been presented in most UXPA surveys going back to 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Respondents were asked to describe the business climate for the next 12 months. Table 2 shows that about a third (35%) thought it was improving or strongly improving compared to 19%, who thought it was declining or strongly declining.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hard to interpret in isolation. Is the pattern in 2024 good or bad?<\/p>\n<table id=\"tablepress-957\" class=\"tablepress tablepress-id-957\">\n<thead>\n<tr class=\"row-1\">\n<th class=\"column-1\"\/>\n<th class=\"column-2\">2024<\/th>\n<th class=\"column-3\">2022<\/th>\n<th class=\"column-4\">2018<\/th>\n<th class=\"column-5\">2014<\/th>\n<th class=\"column-6\">2011<\/th>\n<th class=\"column-7\">2009<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody class=\"row-striping\">\n<tr class=\"row-2\">\n<td class=\"column-1\"><strong>Strongly Improving<\/strong><\/td>\n<td class=\"column-2\">\u2007<strong>4%<\/strong><\/td>\n<td class=\"column-3\">16%<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-4\">\u200715%<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-5\">\u200716%<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-6\">20%<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-7\">\u2007<strong>5%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-3\">\n<td class=\"column-1\"><strong>Improving<\/strong><\/td>\n<td class=\"column-2\">31%<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-3\">53%<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-4\">\u200747%<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-5\">\u200751%<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-6\">50%<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-7\">25%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-4\">\n<td class=\"column-1\"><strong>Same level<\/strong><\/td>\n<td class=\"column-2\">37%<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-3\">21%<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-4\">\u200726%<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-5\">\u200723%<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-6\">27%<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-7\">43%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-5\">\n<td class=\"column-1\"><strong>Not sure<\/strong><\/td>\n<td class=\"column-2\">\u20079%<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-3\">\u20075%<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-4\">\u2007\u20075%<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-5\">\u2007\u20074%<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-6\">N\/A<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-7\">N\/A<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-6\">\n<td class=\"column-1\"><strong>Declining<\/strong><\/td>\n<td class=\"column-2\"><strong>17%<\/strong><\/td>\n<td class=\"column-3\">\u20074%<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-4\">\u2007\u20076%<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-5\">\u2007\u20075%<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-6\">\u20073%<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-7\"><strong>24%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-7\">\n<td class=\"column-1\"><strong>Strongly declining<\/strong><\/td>\n<td class=\"column-2\">\u20072%<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-3\">\u20071%<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-4\">\u2007\u20071%<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-5\">\u2007\u20070%<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-6\">\u20070%<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-7\">\u20072%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-8\">\n<td class=\"column-1\"><strong>Net Improving<\/strong><\/td>\n<td class=\"column-2\">16%<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-3\">64%<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-4\">\u200754%<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-5\">\u200762%<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-6\">68%<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-7\">\u20075%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-9\">\n<td class=\"column-1\"><strong>Sample Size<\/strong><\/td>\n<td class=\"column-2\">408<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-3\">625<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-4\">1351<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-5\">1441<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-6\">111<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-7\">146<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><!-- #tablepress-957 from cache --><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Table 2:<\/strong> Percent of respondents\u2019 answers to \u201c<em>Please describe the business climate you foresee in the next 12 months.\u201d <\/em>(Item not included in 2016; only contractor\/freelance\/solo consultants saw this question in 2009 and 2011\u2014full sample responded from 2014 on with the option to select \u201cNot sure.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>Looking at the prior years, we see those declining numbers in 2024 are, unfortunately, very high. They are about four times what they have been for the last decade, with only 2009 having nominally worse numbers. (UXPA did not conduct a salary survey during the COVID pandemic in 2020.)<\/p>\n<p>We created a \u201cNet Improving\u201d metric, which takes the percent improving or strongly improving and subtracts the declining\/strongly declining, graphed in Figure 3. With this metric, negative values are possible (more declining than improving) but fortunately, things are still slightly positive despite all the bad news.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/measuringu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/figure3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-43199 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/measuringu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/figure3.png\" alt=\"Figure 3: Future business climate net improvement (Improving\/Strongly Improving minus Declining\/Strongly Declining) by year (2016 data not available).\" width=\"2878\" height=\"1452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/measuringu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/figure3.png 2878w, https:\/\/measuringu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/figure3-300x151.png 300w, https:\/\/measuringu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/figure3-1024x517.png 1024w, https:\/\/measuringu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/figure3-768x387.png 768w, https:\/\/measuringu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/figure3-1536x775.png 1536w, https:\/\/measuringu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/figure3-2048x1033.png 2048w, https:\/\/measuringu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/figure3-600x303.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2878px) 100vw, 2878px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Figure 3:<\/strong> Future business climate net improvement (Improving\/Strongly Improving minus Declining\/Strongly Declining) by year (2016 data not available).<\/p>\n<p>Figure 3 clearly shows that 2024 was a bad year, but it was about the same as 2009. Have we reached the bottom? It\u2019s hard to know for sure, especially with the potentially unknown effects of AI on jobs and lingering inflation. If the past is any indication, recovery could happen within two years as the low 2009 outlook numbers had more than recovered in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, a new item was added to the UXPA survey asking respondents whether they had the authority to hire, and if so, how many hires they expect to make in 2025. Of the 99 respondents with hiring authority, 70% reported planning to hire at least one person, and 20% reported plans to hire three or more positions.<\/p>\n<p>Across those 99 who plan to hire, the total adds up to 189 new positions planned for 2025. Whether that\u2019s enough to offset additional losses is yet to be known. Ideally, with the softening interest rate environment due to a reduction in inflation since 2021, investment in startups may begin again, which would likely improve UX job prospects.<\/p>\n<p>Our analysis of the UX job market using historical data from the UXPA salary survey revealed:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Significant UX job contraction:<\/strong> Roughly a third of respondents reported their organization lost staff (35%), most likely the result of layoffs (37% of organizations). The net staff reduction is the worst on the UXPA record, nominally worse than the 2009 data that happened immediately after the global financial crisis of 2008\u20132009.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tech jobs down:<\/strong> The drop in jobs isn\u2019t exclusive to the UX profession but is likely a function of a contracted technology sector. Software engineer new jobs and the number currently employed are at levels below 2018 (when records started).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Future business climate not rosy<\/strong>: Unfortunately, the sentiment of the future business climate is not positive either, with the lowest positive feelings about the future since 2009. Keep in mind these projections into the future may just be a reflection of the present.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Plans to hire in 2025:<\/strong> Of those in a position to hire, most (70%) reported planning to hire at least one UX position in 2025 with 20% planning three or more.<\/p>\n<p><strong>May be at the bottom (hopefully):<\/strong> While the net jobs added and net business outcome metrics are at the lowest point since 2009, the data suggests the worst might be over. It\u2019s hard to know what exactly will happen in tech, but if history is a guide, the subsequent two-year period after the nadir of 2009 had net jobs and business prospects at their highest. 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