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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 49 35
Rank change year-on-year +21 -14 +46
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 72 29 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 9.54% 2.58% 5.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.68% 3.58% 5.97%
Number of salaries quoted 8 16 24
10th Percentile £34,079 £33,375 £22,500
25th Percentile £42,439 £41,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £42,500 £23,850
Median % change year-on-year +20.59% +78.20% -52.30%
75th Percentile £58,750 £45,625 -
90th Percentile £65,575 £65,625 £77,941
North West median annual salary £55,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% -

All Process and 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 674 809 469
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 89.27% 71.85% 94.18%
Number of salaries quoted 316 502 333
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,550 £23,850
25th Percentile £35,750 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,720 £47,500 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.57% -1.04% +6.67%
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £66,778
90th Percentile £77,500 £68,484 £80,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £50,055 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.11% -8.99% +4.76%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing User Experience as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for User Experience 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025. 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
Crewe - 11 £52,500 - 1
Northwich -2 5 £34,755 -46.53%
Chester +4 3 £45,000 - 7
Knutsford +3 3 £57,500 - 1
Runcorn - 3 £50,000 -
Warrington -2 2 - - 13
Widnes - 2 - -
Wilmslow - 2 - - 1
Macclesfield - 2 - -
Congleton - 2 £35,000 -
Ellesmere Port - 2 - -
Middlewich - 1 - -
Sandbach - 1 - -
Winsford - 1 - -
User Experience
North West

User Experience
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Applications
1 3 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.39%) Adobe After Effects
2 1 (1.39%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (1.39%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (1.39%) InDesign
2 1 (1.39%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 62 (86.11%) AWS
2 56 (77.78%) Azure
3 20 (27.78%) GCP
4 4 (5.56%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.39%) Azure App Service
5 1 (1.39%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (1.39%) Google Analytics
5 1 (1.39%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.39%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (48.61%) SQL Server
2 8 (11.11%) MySQL
2 8 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (5.56%) Power BI
4 1 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.39%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.39%) Redis
Development Applications
1 38 (52.78%) GitLab
2 34 (47.22%) Bitbucket
2 34 (47.22%) Cucumber
2 34 (47.22%) JIRA
2 34 (47.22%) Maven
2 34 (47.22%) Selenium
2 34 (47.22%) SonarQube
2 34 (47.22%) Sonatype Nexus
3 4 (5.56%) Git
4 2 (2.78%) Babel
4 2 (2.78%) webpack
General
1 54 (75.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 37 (51.39%) Finance
3 36 (50.00%) Retail
4 35 (48.61%) Banking
5 34 (47.22%) Corporate Banking
5 34 (47.22%) Investment Banking
6 4 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (5.56%) Social Skills
7 3 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.78%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 54 (75.00%) Software Engineer
2 20 (27.78%) Senior
2 20 (27.78%) Senior Software Engineer
3 12 (16.67%) Developer
4 9 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
5 8 (11.11%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
5 8 (11.11%) JavaScript Developer
6 4 (5.56%) AWS Developer
6 4 (5.56%) Node.js Developer
7 3 (4.17%) Analyst
7 3 (4.17%) Insight Analyst
8 2 (2.78%) Designer
8 2 (2.78%) Java Developer
8 2 (2.78%) React Developer
9 1 (1.39%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 1 (1.39%) E-Commerce Manager
9 1 (1.39%) Graphic Designer
9 1 (1.39%) Power BI Developer
9 1 (1.39%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (51.39%) React
1 37 (51.39%) RESTful
2 36 (50.00%) CSS
2 36 (50.00%) CSS3
2 36 (50.00%) HTML
2 36 (50.00%) HTML5
2 36 (50.00%) Redux
2 36 (50.00%) Spring
2 36 (50.00%) Spring Boot
3 34 (47.22%) Jest
3 34 (47.22%) JPA
3 34 (47.22%) Kafka
3 34 (47.22%) REST
3 34 (47.22%) Sass
4 28 (38.89%) Node.js
5 21 (29.17%) .NET
6 8 (11.11%) Middleware
6 8 (11.11%) Svelte
7 1 (1.39%) FastAPI
7 1 (1.39%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 34 (47.22%) Enterprise Software
1 34 (47.22%) Product Ownership
2 20 (27.78%) Cyberattack
2 20 (27.78%) Linux Command Line
2 20 (27.78%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.39%) Graphic Design
3 1 (1.39%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 20 (27.78%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (87.50%) Agile
2 55 (76.39%) Microservices
3 54 (75.00%) Mentoring
3 54 (75.00%) Software Engineering
4 45 (62.50%) Full-Stack Development
5 41 (56.94%) Front End Development
6 39 (54.17%) CI/CD
7 35 (48.61%) DevOps
7 35 (48.61%) Performance Optimisation
7 35 (48.61%) Responsive Web Design
8 34 (47.22%) Containerisation
8 34 (47.22%) Migration
8 34 (47.22%) SDLC
8 34 (47.22%) Strategic Thinking
8 34 (47.22%) Test Automation
9 20 (27.78%) Cloud Security
9 20 (27.78%) Data Engineering
9 20 (27.78%) Machine Learning
9 20 (27.78%) Scrum
9 20 (27.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 65 (90.28%) JavaScript
2 56 (77.78%) Java
3 43 (59.72%) TypeScript
4 36 (50.00%) SQL
5 21 (29.17%) Python
6 20 (27.78%) C++
6 20 (27.78%) Go
6 20 (27.78%) Rust
7 1 (1.39%) C#
Qualifications
1 20 (27.78%) AWS Certification
1 20 (27.78%) AWS Certified Developer
1 20 (27.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 20 (27.78%) DV Cleared
1 20 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.17%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (51.39%) Accessibility
1 37 (51.39%) QA
2 3 (4.17%) Data Quality
System Software
1 39 (54.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 35 (48.61%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 34 (47.22%) Solace
2 3 (4.17%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.39%) Adobe
3 1 (1.39%) Google
3 1 (1.39%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.39%) WooCommerce