UX Designer Jobs in the North West

User Experience Designer
England > North West

The median User Experience Designer salary in the North West is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 268 274 294
Rank change year-on-year +6 +20 -81
Permanent jobs requiring a UX Designer 23 29 46
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.24% 0.36% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.41% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 7 26 21
10th Percentile £33,500 £38,125 £37,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% +18.18% +12.82%
75th Percentile £47,500 £85,000 -
90th Percentile - £96,250 £70,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% +4.76%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the North West with a recognized job title 9,193 7,147 9,027
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.83% 89.24% 96.00%
Number of salaries quoted 7,071 4,129 5,469
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,000 £28,996
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% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £81,600 £82,500
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.84% +0.95% +9.09%

UX Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings that featured UX Designer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for UX Designer in the North West

UX Designer
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing UX Designer in the North West.

Salary trend for UX Designer in the North West

UX Designer
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing UX Designer in the North West over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for UX Designer in the North West

UX Designer
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing UX Designer within the North West region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
Manchester +20 12 £45,000 -25.00% 7
Merseyside - 6 £45,000 -
Cheshire -17 3 £45,000 -51.35%
Lancashire - 2 £40,000 -
UX Designer
England

UX Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, UX Designer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North West region featuring UX Designer in the job title.

1 23 (100.00%) UX Design
1 23 (100.00%) User Experience
2 17 (73.91%) Prototyping
3 16 (69.57%) Actionable Insight
3 16 (69.57%) Accessibility
3 16 (69.57%) Security Cleared
4 15 (65.22%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 14 (60.87%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (52.17%) Figma
6 12 (52.17%) HTML
7 10 (43.48%) Workshop Facilitation
7 10 (43.48%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
7 10 (43.48%) Low-Fidelity Prototypes
7 10 (43.48%) SC Cleared
7 10 (43.48%) WCAG
8 9 (39.13%) Agile
8 9 (39.13%) Customer Experience
8 9 (39.13%) Social Skills
9 8 (34.78%) Miro
9 8 (34.78%) Wireframes
9 8 (34.78%) Digital Customer Experience
9 8 (34.78%) Design Patterns
9 8 (34.78%) Sprint Review
9 8 (34.78%) Sketch
9 8 (34.78%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (34.78%) Coaching
9 8 (34.78%) Heroku
10 7 (30.43%) User Research
11 6 (26.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (26.09%) Cyberattack

UX Designer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (8.70%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (34.78%) Sketch
2 2 (8.70%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (4.35%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (4.35%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 12 (52.17%) Figma
2 8 (34.78%) Heroku
2 8 (34.78%) Miro
3 1 (4.35%) Google Analytics
3 1 (4.35%) Pendo
General
1 9 (39.13%) Social Skills
2 6 (26.09%) Finance
2 6 (26.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 6 (26.09%) Law
3 3 (13.04%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (52.17%) HTML
2 2 (8.70%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Cyberattack
2 3 (13.04%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Android
1 1 (4.35%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (100.00%) User Experience
1 23 (100.00%) UX Design
2 17 (73.91%) Prototyping
3 16 (69.57%) Actionable Insight
4 15 (65.22%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 14 (60.87%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (43.48%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
6 10 (43.48%) Low-Fidelity Prototypes
6 10 (43.48%) Workshop Facilitation
7 9 (39.13%) Agile
7 9 (39.13%) Customer Experience
8 8 (34.78%) Coaching
8 8 (34.78%) Design Patterns
8 8 (34.78%) Digital Customer Experience
8 8 (34.78%) Sprint Review
8 8 (34.78%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (34.78%) Wireframes
9 7 (30.43%) User Research
10 6 (26.09%) Data Science
10 6 (26.09%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.70%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 16 (69.57%) Security Cleared
2 10 (43.48%) SC Cleared
3 6 (26.09%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.35%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (69.57%) Accessibility
2 10 (43.48%) WCAG
Vendors
1 3 (13.04%) Adobe
2 1 (4.35%) Hotjar