UX Design Job Trends in Leeds

User Experience Design (UXD)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring UX Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 78 96
Rank change year-on-year -21 +18 -5
Permanent jobs citing UX Design 3 8 13
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 0.23% 0.74% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.85% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 2 6 13
10th Percentile £52,750 £36,125 £65,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £45,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £83,577
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -40.17% +62.28%
75th Percentile £65,000 £55,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £67,250 £66,875 £91,934
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £50,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +30.00% -28.57% +27.27%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,068 943 1,211
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 80.48% 87.80% 93.66%
Number of salaries quoted 704 543 883
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,625 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +2.22%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £56,264 £53,000 £55,440
% change year-on-year +6.16% -4.40% +0.80%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing UX Design relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

UX Design job vacancy trend in Leeds

UX Design
Salary Trend in Leeds

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing UX Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing UX Design

UX Design
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing UX Design in Leeds over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for UX Design in Leeds

UX Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
General
1 2 (66.67%) Legal
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Law
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Business Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Product Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Business Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Software Developer
1 1 (33.33%) User Experience Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) React
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
1 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
1 1 (33.33%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) User Experience
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) Business Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Case Management
3 1 (33.33%) Commercial Awareness
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Data Privacy
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Pair Programming
3 1 (33.33%) Product Roadmap
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
3 1 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes