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 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 51 31
Rank change year-on-year +18 -20 +54
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 67 20 30
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheshire 8.67% 2.19% 6.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.20% 2.91% 6.62%
Number of salaries quoted 10 12 26
10th Percentile £48,250 - £22,500
25th Percentile £50,313 £41,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £42,500 £23,850
Median % change year-on-year +35.29% +78.20% -52.30%
75th Percentile £61,250 £45,625 -
90th Percentile £66,650 £65,500 £51,360
North West median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -6.98%

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 657 688 453
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 84.99% 75.19% 93.60%
Number of salaries quoted 368 376 337
10th Percentile £27,675 £32,500 £23,850
25th Percentile £34,250 £40,000 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,850 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.84% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,588 £67,070
90th Percentile £75,000 £68,484 £78,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +4.76%

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 27 October 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 27 October 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
Warrington +9 4 - - 19
Crewe - 4 £52,500 - 3
Knutsford -2 3 £57,500 - 1
Macclesfield - 3 £50,000 - 2
Runcorn - 3 £50,000 -
Chester -3 2 - - 4
Northwich -5 2 - - 2
Widnes - 2 - -
Wilmslow - 2 - - 1
Congleton - 2 £35,000 -
Ellesmere Port - 2 - -
Sandbach - 1 - -
Middlewich - 1 - -
Winsford - 1 - -
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 57 (85.07%) Azure
2 55 (82.09%) AWS
3 20 (29.85%) GCP
4 4 (5.97%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.99%) Power Automate
5 2 (2.99%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.49%) Azure AI
6 1 (1.49%) Azure App Service
6 1 (1.49%) Azure Cognitive Services
6 1 (1.49%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (1.49%) Google Analytics
6 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (1.49%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (53.73%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.97%) Power BI
3 1 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.49%) MySQL
3 1 (1.49%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.49%) Redis
Development Applications
1 35 (52.24%) GitLab
2 34 (50.75%) Bitbucket
2 34 (50.75%) Cucumber
2 34 (50.75%) JIRA
2 34 (50.75%) Maven
2 34 (50.75%) Selenium
2 34 (50.75%) SonarQube
2 34 (50.75%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (2.99%) Babel
3 2 (2.99%) webpack
4 1 (1.49%) Git
General
1 54 (80.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 37 (55.22%) Finance
3 35 (52.24%) Banking
3 35 (52.24%) Retail
4 34 (50.75%) Corporate Banking
4 34 (50.75%) Investment Banking
5 6 (8.96%) Social Skills
6 4 (5.97%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.49%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 54 (80.60%) Software Engineer
2 20 (29.85%) Senior
2 20 (29.85%) Senior Software Engineer
3 6 (8.96%) Developer
4 3 (4.48%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (2.99%) Data Scientist
5 2 (2.99%) Graduate
5 2 (2.99%) Help Desk Manager
5 2 (2.99%) Infrastructure Manager
5 2 (2.99%) IT Infrastructure Manager
5 2 (2.99%) IT Manager
5 2 (2.99%) Java Developer
5 2 (2.99%) React Developer
6 1 (1.49%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 1 (1.49%) E-Commerce Manager
6 1 (1.49%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
6 1 (1.49%) Full-Stack Python Developer
6 1 (1.49%) JavaScript Developer
6 1 (1.49%) Lead
6 1 (1.49%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (55.22%) React
1 37 (55.22%) RESTful
2 36 (53.73%) CSS
2 36 (53.73%) CSS3
2 36 (53.73%) HTML
2 36 (53.73%) HTML5
2 36 (53.73%) Redux
2 36 (53.73%) Spring
2 36 (53.73%) Spring Boot
3 34 (50.75%) Jest
3 34 (50.75%) JPA
3 34 (50.75%) Kafka
3 34 (50.75%) REST
3 34 (50.75%) Sass
4 22 (32.84%) .NET
5 21 (31.34%) Node.js
6 1 (1.49%) ASP.NET
6 1 (1.49%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (1.49%) Middleware
6 1 (1.49%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 34 (50.75%) Enterprise Software
1 34 (50.75%) Product Ownership
2 20 (29.85%) Cyberattack
2 20 (29.85%) Linux Command Line
2 20 (29.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (29.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (83.58%) Agile
1 56 (83.58%) Mentoring
2 55 (82.09%) Microservices
2 55 (82.09%) Software Engineering
3 39 (58.21%) Front End Development
3 39 (58.21%) Full-Stack Development
4 36 (53.73%) CI/CD
5 35 (52.24%) DevOps
5 35 (52.24%) Performance Optimisation
5 35 (52.24%) Responsive Web Design
6 34 (50.75%) Containerisation
6 34 (50.75%) Migration
6 34 (50.75%) SDLC
6 34 (50.75%) Strategic Thinking
6 34 (50.75%) Test Automation
7 22 (32.84%) Machine Learning
8 20 (29.85%) Cloud Security
8 20 (29.85%) Data Engineering
8 20 (29.85%) Scrum
8 20 (29.85%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 58 (86.57%) JavaScript
2 56 (83.58%) Java
3 38 (56.72%) SQL
4 36 (53.73%) TypeScript
5 24 (35.82%) Python
6 20 (29.85%) C++
6 20 (29.85%) Go
6 20 (29.85%) Rust
7 2 (2.99%) C#
7 2 (2.99%) R
Qualifications
1 20 (29.85%) AWS Certification
1 20 (29.85%) AWS Certified Developer
1 20 (29.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 20 (29.85%) DV Cleared
1 20 (29.85%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.97%) Degree
3 1 (1.49%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (55.22%) Accessibility
2 34 (50.75%) QA
3 2 (2.99%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.49%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 36 (53.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 35 (52.24%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 34 (50.75%) Solace
2 2 (2.99%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.49%) Google
3 1 (1.49%) WooCommerce