User Experience Job Trends in Cheshire

UX
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring User Experience skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 28 52
Rank change year-on-year -18 +24 +9
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 40 72 48
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheshire 2.36% 10.89% 2.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.57% 12.18% 3.50%
Number of salaries quoted 34 8 24
10th Percentile £27,375 £34,755 -
25th Percentile £30,000 £39,626 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% +11.76% -50.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £55,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £75,875 £65,575 £66,750
North West median annual salary £55,000 £55,043 £45,000
% change year-on-year -0.08% +22.32% -21.74%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,121 591 1,370
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 66.10% 89.41% 75.90%
Number of salaries quoted 905 219 982
10th Percentile £29,000 £25,950 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £34,345 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £40,000 £47,507
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -15.80% -4.99%
75th Percentile £63,000 £59,250 £61,250
90th Percentile £75,250 £75,500 £72,441
North West median annual salary £55,000 £51,564 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.66% +3.13% -9.09%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

User Experience job vacancy trend in Cheshire

User Experience
Salary Trend in Cheshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing User Experience.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing User Experience

User Experience
Salary Histogram in Cheshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing User Experience in Cheshire over the 6 months to 30 June 2026.

Salary histogram for User Experience in Cheshire

User Experience
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing User Experience within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 30 June 2026. 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
Warrington -2 18 £55,000 - 7
Crewe -10 11 £27,500 -47.62% 1
Knutsford 0 1 - -
Widnes -2 1 £32,500 -
Chester -13 1 £60,000 +33.33%
Lymm - 1 £55,000 -
User Experience
North West

User Experience
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 8 (20.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.50%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (2.50%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (2.50%) Adobe XD
2 1 (2.50%) Blender
2 1 (2.50%) CINEMA 4D
2 1 (2.50%) InDesign
2 1 (2.50%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 7 (17.50%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 15 (37.50%) Azure
2 9 (22.50%) Power Platform
3 8 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 8 (20.00%) PowerApps
3 8 (20.00%) SaaS
4 7 (17.50%) Google Analytics
5 5 (12.50%) Figma
6 4 (10.00%) Azure Key Vault
6 4 (10.00%) ChatGPT
6 4 (10.00%) Entra ID
6 4 (10.00%) n8n
6 4 (10.00%) Zapier
7 3 (7.50%) Azure AI
7 3 (7.50%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (5.00%) Anthropic Claude
8 2 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.50%) Looker
2 2 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.50%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.50%) Power BI
3 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (10.00%) NUnit
2 3 (7.50%) Bitbucket
3 2 (5.00%) Claude Code
3 2 (5.00%) Git
4 1 (2.50%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.50%) JMeter
4 1 (2.50%) LoadRunner
General
1 14 (35.00%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (27.50%) Finance
3 9 (22.50%) Marketing
4 8 (20.00%) Law
4 8 (20.00%) Legal
5 5 (12.50%) Manufacturing
6 2 (5.00%) Social Skills
7 1 (2.50%) Games
7 1 (2.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (22.50%) Developer
2 8 (20.00%) Microsoft 365 Manager
3 7 (17.50%) E-Commerce Specialist
4 6 (15.00%) Lead
4 6 (15.00%) Lead Developer
5 5 (12.50%) Applications Manager
6 4 (10.00%) Coordinator
6 4 (10.00%) Project Coordinator
6 4 (10.00%) Senior
7 3 (7.50%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
7 3 (7.50%) IT Manager
7 3 (7.50%) Senior Developer
7 3 (7.50%) Software Developer
8 2 (5.00%) C# Software Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) iOS Developer
8 2 (5.00%) Lead Software Developer
8 2 (5.00%) Senior iOS Developer
8 2 (5.00%) Software Engineer
9 1 (2.50%) Senior Software Developer
9 1 (2.50%) Systems Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (22.50%) .NET
2 5 (12.50%) RESTful
3 4 (10.00%) .NET Framework
3 4 (10.00%) AngularJS
3 4 (10.00%) ASP.NET
3 4 (10.00%) ASP.NET Core
3 4 (10.00%) Entity Framework
3 4 (10.00%) LangChain
3 4 (10.00%) Vitest
4 3 (7.50%) Model Context Protocol
5 2 (5.00%) ASP.NET Web API
5 2 (5.00%) OpenAPI
5 2 (5.00%) Playwright
5 2 (5.00%) React
5 2 (5.00%) RxJS
5 2 (5.00%) Swagger
6 1 (2.50%) Google Maps API
6 1 (2.50%) iOS SDK
6 1 (2.50%) REST
6 1 (2.50%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 10 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 5 (12.50%) Mobile App
3 4 (10.00%) AI Agents
3 4 (10.00%) Low-Code
4 3 (7.50%) Driving Licence
5 2 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.50%) 3D Graphics
6 1 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.50%) Lidar
6 1 (2.50%) Motion Graphics
6 1 (2.50%) Social Media
6 1 (2.50%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.00%) Apple iOS
2 2 (5.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (55.00%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (40.00%) CRM
3 11 (27.50%) UX Design
4 9 (22.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (22.50%) Mentoring
4 9 (22.50%) Product Roadmap
4 9 (22.50%) Roadmaps
5 8 (20.00%) Customer Service
5 8 (20.00%) ITIL
5 8 (20.00%) Line Management
5 8 (20.00%) Performance Management
5 8 (20.00%) PRINCE2
5 8 (20.00%) Project Management
5 8 (20.00%) SEO
5 8 (20.00%) Software Engineering
5 8 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 8 (20.00%) Supplier Management
5 8 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
6 7 (17.50%) AI
6 7 (17.50%) Digital Marketing
Programming Languages
1 6 (15.00%) C#
2 4 (10.00%) Bicep
2 4 (10.00%) SQL
2 4 (10.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (2.50%) Java
3 1 (2.50%) Swift
Qualifications
1 3 (7.50%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (22.50%) GDPR
2 2 (5.00%) QA
Vendors
1 23 (57.50%) Microsoft
2 8 (20.00%) Google
3 5 (12.50%) Adobe
4 4 (10.00%) DevExpress