User Experience Job Trends in the East Midlands

UX
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring User Experience skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 89 60
Rank change year-on-year +42 -29 +48
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 150 44 157
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 3.30% 2.40% 3.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.62% 2.65% 4.68%
Number of salaries quoted 37 35 71
10th Percentile £24,000 £30,800 -
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,000 £26,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £35,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% - -40.43%
75th Percentile £64,750 £39,875 £52,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £68,000 £57,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +17.65% -21.54%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,246 1,659 3,358
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 71.39% 90.56% 79.37%
Number of salaries quoted 1,989 926 2,494
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,500 £25,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,000 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £45,000 £44,553
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +1.00% -10.89%
75th Percentile £64,750 £61,250 £56,200
90th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £68,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

User Experience job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

User Experience
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing User Experience.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing User Experience

User Experience
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing User Experience in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 11 May 2026.

Salary histogram for User Experience in the East Midlands

User Experience
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing User Experience within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 11 May 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
Derbyshire +35 88 - - 2
Nottinghamshire -6 24 £40,000 +14.29% 7
Leicestershire -27 16 £63,500 +95.38% 2
Lincolnshire -9 14 £42,500 -41.38% 3
Northamptonshire +9 8 £75,000 +100.00% 6
User Experience
England

User Experience
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 9 (6.00%) CMS
2 8 (5.33%) Confluence
3 1 (0.67%) Apache
3 1 (0.67%) Drupal
3 1 (0.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.67%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 86 (57.33%) Cloud Computing
2 12 (8.00%) AWS
2 12 (8.00%) Firebase
2 12 (8.00%) GitHub
2 12 (8.00%) GitHub Actions
2 12 (8.00%) Serverless
2 12 (8.00%) Stripe
2 12 (8.00%) TestFlight
3 6 (4.00%) Azure
4 4 (2.67%) SaaS
5 3 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.33%) Figma
7 1 (0.67%) Adobe Analytics
7 1 (0.67%) ChatGPT
7 1 (0.67%) Contentsquare
7 1 (0.67%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.67%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 86 (57.33%) Internet
2 1 (0.67%) Broadband
2 1 (0.67%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.67%) Power BI
1 1 (0.67%) SQL Server
1 1 (0.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 12 (8.00%) Crashlytics
1 12 (8.00%) XCTest
2 7 (4.67%) JIRA
3 3 (2.00%) Storybook
3 3 (2.00%) XCUITest
4 1 (0.67%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.67%) Git
4 1 (0.67%) JMeter
4 1 (0.67%) LoadRunner
General
1 112 (74.67%) Social Skills
2 90 (60.00%) Banking
3 86 (57.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 14 (9.33%) Organisational Skills
5 11 (7.33%) Finance
6 7 (4.67%) Law
7 6 (4.00%) Marketing
8 5 (3.33%) Retail
9 4 (2.67%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.67%) Front Office
9 4 (2.67%) Military
10 1 (0.67%) Brand Awareness
10 1 (0.67%) Games
10 1 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 66 (44.00%) Lecturer
2 12 (8.00%) Mobile Engineer
3 9 (6.00%) Senior
4 8 (5.33%) Product Owner
5 6 (4.00%) Analyst
5 6 (4.00%) Designer
5 6 (4.00%) Products Support Technician
5 6 (4.00%) Support Technician
5 6 (4.00%) UX Designer
6 5 (3.33%) Agile Product Owner
6 5 (3.33%) UI Designer
6 5 (3.33%) UI/UX Designer
7 4 (2.67%) Developer
7 4 (2.67%) Senior User Experience Researcher
7 4 (2.67%) Service Manager
7 4 (2.67%) User Experience Researcher
8 3 (2.00%) iOS Developer
8 3 (2.00%) Senior Developer
8 3 (2.00%) Senior iOS Developer
8 3 (2.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (10.00%) SwiftUI
2 12 (8.00%) UIKit
3 7 (4.67%) RESTful
4 4 (2.67%) CSS
4 4 (2.67%) HTML
5 3 (2.00%) AngularJS
5 3 (2.00%) HTML5
5 3 (2.00%) Sass
6 1 (0.67%) jQuery
6 1 (0.67%) Laravel
6 1 (0.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 86 (57.33%) IoT
2 16 (10.67%) Mobile App
3 12 (8.00%) Greenfield Project
3 12 (8.00%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.67%) CMDB
4 4 (2.67%) Culture of Ownership
5 3 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.67%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 15 (10.00%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.33%) Windows
3 1 (0.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (58.67%) AI
2 86 (57.33%) Cybersecurity
2 86 (57.33%) Machine Learning
2 86 (57.33%) Web Development
3 18 (12.00%) Analytics
4 17 (11.33%) Code Quality
4 17 (11.33%) Test Automation
5 16 (10.67%) Agile
6 15 (10.00%) CI/CD
6 15 (10.00%) Clean Code
6 15 (10.00%) iOS Development
7 14 (9.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 13 (8.67%) Process Improvement
8 13 (8.67%) Product Vision
9 12 (8.00%) Community of Practice
9 12 (8.00%) Cross-Platform Development
9 12 (8.00%) Deployment Automation
9 12 (8.00%) Push Notifications
9 12 (8.00%) Re-Platforming
9 12 (8.00%) Storyboarding
Programming Languages
1 15 (10.00%) Swift
2 12 (8.00%) Kotlin
3 4 (2.67%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.00%) TypeScript
5 1 (0.67%) Java
5 1 (0.67%) PHP
5 1 (0.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 94 (62.67%) Degree
2 86 (57.33%) Master's Degree
2 86 (57.33%) PhD
2 86 (57.33%) Postgraduate
3 4 (2.67%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.67%) A+ Certification
4 1 (0.67%) MCDST
4 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.33%) Accessibility
2 7 (4.67%) QA
3 1 (0.67%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (0.67%) MOM
Vendors
1 12 (8.00%) Amplitude
1 12 (8.00%) Braze
2 5 (3.33%) Nexthink
3 3 (2.00%) Apple
3 3 (2.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.67%) Adobe
4 1 (0.67%) Epicor
4 1 (0.67%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.67%) SAP