User Experience Job Trends in Manchester

UX
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring User Experience skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 19 95
Rank change year-on-year -1 +76 -50
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 233 320 85
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 9.84% 7.86% 3.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.01% 9.47% 3.21%
Number of salaries quoted 88 71 64
10th Percentile £36,250 £30,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £38,000 £43,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £62,500 £69,063
90th Percentile £85,750 £73,750 £75,000
North West median annual salary £55,000 £45,375 £50,000
% change year-on-year +21.21% -9.25% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,116 3,378 2,648
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 89.36% 82.94% 94.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,201 1,788 2,077
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,700 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,997 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £83,750 £84,056
North West median annual salary £50,000 £50,309 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.61% -8.53% +4.76%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for User Experience in Manchester

User Experience
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing User Experience.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing User Experience

User Experience
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing User Experience in Manchester over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Salary histogram for User Experience in Manchester

User Experience
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing User Experience within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 19 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
Altrincham +13 32 £65,000 -
Stockport -2 10 £62,500 - 1
Oldham -1 9 - -
Ashton-under-Lyne -1 7 - -
Sale -2 7 - -
Heywood - 6 - -
Cheadle - 6 - -
Bury +1 5 - - 1
Dukinfield -4 5 - -
Stalybridge - 5 - -
Bolton +1 4 - - 8
Salford -7 2 - - 2
Wigan - 2 - -
User Experience
North West

User Experience
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (3.86%) Skype for Business
2 7 (3.00%) CMS
3 4 (1.72%) Confluence
4 2 (0.86%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.43%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.43%) IIS
5 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.43%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (2.58%) Chatbot
2 5 (2.15%) Adobe XD
3 4 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.72%) Sketch
4 2 (0.86%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (0.86%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (0.86%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.43%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.43%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.43%) Blender
5 1 (0.43%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.43%) InDesign
5 1 (0.43%) InVision
5 1 (0.43%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Magento
1 1 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 134 (57.51%) AWS
2 117 (50.21%) Azure
3 91 (39.06%) GCP
4 14 (6.01%) Google Analytics
5 12 (5.15%) AWS Lambda
5 12 (5.15%) Serverless
6 9 (3.86%) Figma
7 7 (3.00%) GitHub
7 7 (3.00%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (1.72%) Contentsquare
9 3 (1.29%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (1.29%) SaaS
10 2 (0.86%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (0.86%) Cloudflare
10 2 (0.86%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (0.86%) Miro
10 2 (0.86%) OpenShift
10 2 (0.86%) Power Platform
10 2 (0.86%) Supabase
10 2 (0.86%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.29%) Unified Communications
2 9 (3.86%) Skype
2 9 (3.86%) Wireless
3 5 (2.15%) HTTP
4 1 (0.43%) DMZ
4 1 (0.43%) DNS
4 1 (0.43%) SSH
4 1 (0.43%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.43%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (10.30%) SQL Server
2 9 (3.86%) DynamoDB
2 9 (3.86%) MySQL
3 8 (3.43%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (3.00%) MongoDB
4 7 (3.00%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.72%) Mixpanel
6 3 (1.29%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.86%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.86%) Power BI
7 2 (0.86%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.43%) DocumentDB
8 1 (0.43%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 33 (14.16%) JIRA
2 25 (10.73%) Selenium
3 20 (8.58%) Cucumber
3 20 (8.58%) GitLab
4 19 (8.15%) Maven
5 18 (7.73%) Bitbucket
5 18 (7.73%) SonarQube
5 18 (7.73%) Sonatype Nexus
6 12 (5.15%) Git
7 6 (2.58%) JUnit
8 4 (1.72%) Appium
8 4 (1.72%) Fiddler
8 4 (1.72%) JMeter
8 4 (1.72%) LoadRunner
8 4 (1.72%) Postman
8 4 (1.72%) Xcode
9 1 (0.43%) Android Studio
9 1 (0.43%) Axure RP
9 1 (0.43%) Storybook
General
1 110 (47.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 54 (23.18%) Finance
3 44 (18.88%) Social Skills
4 25 (10.73%) Retail
5 19 (8.15%) Banking
5 19 (8.15%) Marketing
6 18 (7.73%) Corporate Banking
6 18 (7.73%) Investment Banking
7 8 (3.43%) Financial Institution
7 8 (3.43%) Games
7 8 (3.43%) Mandarin Language
8 5 (2.15%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.72%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (1.72%) Cantonese Language
9 4 (1.72%) Electronics
10 3 (1.29%) Law
11 1 (0.43%) Advertising
11 1 (0.43%) Legal
11 1 (0.43%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.43%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 112 (48.07%) Senior
2 100 (42.92%) Software Engineer
3 82 (35.19%) Senior Software Engineer
4 32 (13.73%) Developer
5 15 (6.44%) Applications Support
6 14 (6.01%) Senior Developer
7 13 (5.58%) Java Developer
7 13 (5.58%) Senior Java Developer
8 11 (4.72%) IT Support
9 10 (4.29%) Applications Manager
9 10 (4.29%) Applications Support Manager
9 10 (4.29%) Support Manager
10 9 (3.86%) Collaboration Specialist
10 9 (3.86%) Designer
10 9 (3.86%) Lead
11 6 (2.58%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 6 (2.58%) Head of AI
11 6 (2.58%) Head of Digital
11 6 (2.58%) Head of IT
11 6 (2.58%) Head of Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (36.91%) .NET
1 86 (36.91%) Node.js
2 42 (18.03%) React
3 35 (15.02%) CSS
4 32 (13.73%) HTML
5 31 (13.30%) Kafka
6 29 (12.45%) RESTful
7 27 (11.59%) REST
8 26 (11.16%) Spring
8 26 (11.16%) Spring Boot
9 20 (8.58%) CSS3
9 20 (8.58%) HTML5
10 19 (8.15%) Sass
11 18 (7.73%) Jest
11 18 (7.73%) JPA
11 18 (7.73%) Redux
12 11 (4.72%) AngularJS
13 8 (3.43%) Amazon Corretto
14 5 (2.15%) gRPC
14 5 (2.15%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 83 (35.62%) Linux Command Line
1 83 (35.62%) Self-Motivation
2 82 (35.19%) Cyberattack
3 31 (13.30%) Product Ownership
4 19 (8.15%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (3.86%) Digital Signage
5 9 (3.86%) e-Learning
5 9 (3.86%) Video Conferencing
6 5 (2.15%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.15%) Social Media
7 4 (1.72%) AI Agents
7 4 (1.72%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 3 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.29%) Animation
8 3 (1.29%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.86%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.86%) Graphic Design
9 2 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.86%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.86%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 89 (38.20%) Linux
2 7 (3.00%) Windows
2 7 (3.00%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.72%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.43%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (67.38%) Agile
2 112 (48.07%) Mentoring
2 112 (48.07%) Software Engineering
3 110 (47.21%) Microservices
4 91 (39.06%) Machine Learning
5 90 (38.63%) Scrum
6 83 (35.62%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 82 (35.19%) Cloud Security
7 82 (35.19%) Data Engineering
8 41 (17.60%) Test Automation
9 37 (15.88%) CI/CD
10 36 (15.45%) DevOps
11 32 (13.73%) Front End Development
11 32 (13.73%) Full-Stack Development
12 27 (11.59%) SDLC
12 27 (11.59%) UX Design
13 26 (11.16%) Containerisation
14 24 (10.30%) Analytics
14 24 (10.30%) Roadmaps
15 21 (9.01%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 132 (56.65%) JavaScript
2 131 (56.22%) Java
3 98 (42.06%) Python
4 84 (36.05%) Rust
5 82 (35.19%) C++
5 82 (35.19%) Go
6 44 (18.88%) TypeScript
7 22 (9.44%) SQL
8 4 (1.72%) C#
8 4 (1.72%) PHP
8 4 (1.72%) Swift
9 2 (0.86%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.43%) Bash
10 1 (0.43%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 86 (36.91%) Security Cleared
2 82 (35.19%) AWS Certification
2 82 (35.19%) AWS Certified Developer
2 82 (35.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 82 (35.19%) DV Cleared
3 12 (5.15%) Degree
4 4 (1.72%) ISTQB
4 4 (1.72%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.43%) CISM
5 1 (0.43%) CISSP
5 1 (0.43%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.43%) PhD
5 1 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (13.73%) QA
2 29 (12.45%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.29%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.29%) WCAG
4 2 (0.86%) GDPR
5 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.43%) HL7
5 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.43%) NCSC
5 1 (0.43%) NIST
5 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 39 (16.74%) Docker
2 5 (2.15%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 36 (15.45%) Kubernetes
2 12 (5.15%) Terraform
3 5 (2.15%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.43%) Grafana
4 1 (0.43%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 22 (9.44%) Google
2 20 (8.58%) Microsoft
3 18 (7.73%) Solace
4 10 (4.29%) Cisco
4 10 (4.29%) Facebook
5 9 (3.86%) Bloomberg
5 9 (3.86%) Mitel
5 9 (3.86%) Polycom
5 9 (3.86%) ShoreTel
6 7 (3.00%) Adobe
6 7 (3.00%) Hotjar
7 6 (2.58%) ServiceNow
8 5 (2.15%) Veeam
8 5 (2.15%) VMware
9 4 (1.72%) Genesys
9 4 (1.72%) Oracle
10 2 (0.86%) IBM
10 2 (0.86%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.43%) HubSpot
11 1 (0.43%) Talend