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 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 116 82
Rank change year-on-year +32 -34 +23
Permanent jobs citing UX Design 12 14 25
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.77% 0.68% 2.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% 0.77% 2.31%
Number of salaries quoted 11 2 25
10th Percentile £47,500 - £45,000
25th Percentile £50,250 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -17.36% +7.08%
75th Percentile £59,375 £55,000 £63,250
90th Percentile £65,000 - £84,161
West Midlands median annual salary £56,250 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.17% +4.55% +2.80%

All Process and 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 1,280 1,820 1,084
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 82.32% 88.87% 92.81%
Number of salaries quoted 901 885 890
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,850 £31,343
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,652 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.47% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £71,250 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £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 13 December 2025.

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:

Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) SaaS
2 3 (25.00%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 3 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (8.33%) Figma
3 1 (8.33%) GitHub
3 1 (8.33%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Developer
2 5 (41.67%) Blazor Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 3 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Software Developer
3 3 (25.00%) UX Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Product Manager
5 1 (8.33%) Product Owner
5 1 (8.33%) Technology Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) .NET
1 4 (33.33%) Blazor
2 3 (25.00%) .NET Framework
2 3 (25.00%) Entity Framework
3 1 (8.33%) Material Design
3 1 (8.33%) WebAssembly
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (16.67%) Product Ownership
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (8.33%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) User Experience
2 6 (50.00%) AI
2 6 (50.00%) Analytics
2 6 (50.00%) CRM
3 5 (41.67%) Data Analytics
4 4 (33.33%) User Stories
5 3 (25.00%) Agile
5 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (25.00%) Clean Code
5 3 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (25.00%) DevOps
5 3 (25.00%) Front End Development
5 3 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (25.00%) Wireframes
6 2 (16.67%) DataOps
6 2 (16.67%) Journey Map
6 2 (16.67%) Optimization Problems
6 2 (16.67%) Product Roadmap
6 2 (16.67%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) SQL
2 4 (33.33%) C#
3 3 (25.00%) Bicep
3 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 2 (16.67%) Python
5 1 (8.33%) VB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (8.33%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft