User Experience Job Trends in Belfast

UX
County Antrim > Belfast

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Belfast requiring User Experience skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 32 33
Rank change year-on-year +7 +1 +30
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 13 12 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Belfast 3.82% 3.70% 1.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.91% 4.32% 1.44%
Number of salaries quoted 3 5 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £60,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +58.33% - -
County Antrim median annual salary £95,000 £60,000 -
% change year-on-year +58.33% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Belfast

User Experience falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Belfast.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 265 278 209
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Belfast 77.94% 85.80% 94.57%
Number of salaries quoted 163 110 154
10th Percentile £30,000 £38,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £47,500 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £67,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +35.00% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £69,800
90th Percentile £94,000 £95,000 £79,625
County Antrim median annual salary £51,000 £67,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -24.44% +35.00% -

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing User Experience relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Belfast.

User Experience job vacancy trend in Belfast

User Experience
Salary Trend in Belfast

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing User Experience.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing User Experience

User Experience
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Belfast by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (15.38%) CICS
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Adobe XD
1 1 (7.69%) InVision
1 1 (7.69%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) AWS
1 4 (30.77%) Azure
1 4 (30.77%) GCP
2 3 (23.08%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (23.08%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (23.08%) Azure Functions
2 3 (23.08%) Cloud Functions
2 3 (23.08%) Serverless
3 1 (7.69%) Figma
3 1 (7.69%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) DB2
1 2 (15.38%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Bitbucket
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 8 (61.54%) Legal
2 3 (23.08%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Marketing
3 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Banking
4 1 (7.69%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Product Manager
2 7 (53.85%) Digital Product Manager
3 3 (23.08%) Identity Management Manager
4 2 (15.38%) Lead
4 2 (15.38%) Senior
5 1 (7.69%) Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Designer
5 1 (7.69%) Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Lead Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Manager
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Product Manager
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Technical Manager
5 1 (7.69%) Software Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Technical Manager
5 1 (7.69%) Technical Product Manager
5 1 (7.69%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) AngularJS
1 4 (30.77%) React
2 3 (23.08%) Next.js
2 3 (23.08%) Node.js
2 3 (23.08%) Vue
3 1 (7.69%) CSS
3 1 (7.69%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
1 2 (15.38%) Mainframe
1 2 (15.38%) VSAM
2 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Agile
2 8 (61.54%) Product Management
2 8 (61.54%) Telematics
2 8 (61.54%) UX Design
3 7 (53.85%) AI
3 7 (53.85%) Backlog Management
3 7 (53.85%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 7 (53.85%) Human-Centred Design
3 7 (53.85%) Product Strategy
4 6 (46.15%) Product Roadmap
4 6 (46.15%) Roadmaps
5 5 (38.46%) Analytics
5 5 (38.46%) Budget Management
5 5 (38.46%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (38.46%) DevOps
5 5 (38.46%) Identity Access Management
5 5 (38.46%) Market Research
5 5 (38.46%) Performance Metrics
5 5 (38.46%) Performance Monitoring
5 5 (38.46%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) TypeScript
2 3 (23.08%) C#
2 3 (23.08%) Java
2 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
2 3 (23.08%) Python
3 2 (15.38%) COBOL
3 2 (15.38%) JCL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
1 1 (7.69%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) RACF
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Terraform
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager