UX Design Job Trends in Birmingham

User Experience Design (UXD)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring UX Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 114 71
Rank change year-on-year +30 -43 +40
Permanent jobs citing UX Design 17 13 27
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.99% 0.69% 2.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% 0.75% 2.46%
Number of salaries quoted 16 2 27
10th Percentile - - £44,300
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £46,130
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% -13.04% +31.43%
75th Percentile £55,063 £55,000 £63,250
90th Percentile £60,625 - £80,274
West Midlands median annual salary £53,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.90% -4.55% +13.40%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Birmingham

UX Design 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 Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,377 1,742 1,097
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 80.01% 92.41% 89.92%
Number of salaries quoted 968 820 930
10th Percentile £30,000 £37,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,060 £44,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -2.62%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £88,875 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing UX Design relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

UX Design job vacancy trend in Birmingham

UX Design
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing UX Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing UX Design

UX Design
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing UX Design in Birmingham over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for UX Design in Birmingham

UX Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Cloud Services
1 12 (70.59%) SaaS
2 5 (29.41%) Figma
2 5 (29.41%) GitHub
2 5 (29.41%) GitHub Copilot
3 1 (5.88%) Azure
3 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Developer
2 7 (41.18%) Blazor Developer
2 7 (41.18%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 7 (41.18%) UX Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Designer
3 3 (17.65%) UX Designer
4 2 (11.76%) Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Product Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Product Owner
5 1 (5.88%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Technology Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (35.29%) .NET
1 6 (35.29%) Blazor
2 5 (29.41%) Material Design
2 5 (29.41%) WebAssembly
3 1 (5.88%) .NET Framework
3 1 (5.88%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.88%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) User Experience
2 11 (64.71%) CRM
3 10 (58.82%) Front End Development
4 8 (47.06%) AI
4 8 (47.06%) User Stories
5 7 (41.18%) Wireframes
6 6 (35.29%) Analytics
7 5 (29.41%) Data Analytics
7 5 (29.41%) Data Integration
7 5 (29.41%) Interaction Design
7 5 (29.41%) Responsive Web Design
8 3 (17.65%) Agile
8 3 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
9 2 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
9 2 (11.76%) Data Engineering
9 2 (11.76%) Data Management
9 2 (11.76%) ETL
9 2 (11.76%) IT Governance
9 2 (11.76%) Product Roadmap
9 2 (11.76%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) C#
2 3 (17.65%) SQL
3 2 (11.76%) Python
4 1 (5.88%) Bicep
4 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (29.41%) Accessibility
1 5 (29.41%) WCAG
2 2 (11.76%) Data Quality
3 1 (5.88%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft