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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 25 38
Rank change year-on-year +17 +13 +52
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 525 207 255
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 9.78% 9.53% 5.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.44% 9.98% 5.99%
Number of salaries quoted 84 98 137
10th Percentile £29,914 £35,000 £32,300
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,598 £55,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.54% -3.51% -5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £83,625 £85,000
North West median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +22.22% -21.74%

All Process & 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 3,907 2,075 4,255
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 72.80% 95.49% 86.19%
Number of salaries quoted 2,697 1,300 3,395
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £54,700
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +5.12% -4.87%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,840 £69,650
90th Percentile £95,000 £91,250 £82,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

User Experience job vacancy trend 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 6 May 2026.

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 6 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
Stockport +8 36 £40,000 -36.00% 1
Bolton +32 20 £30,000 -45.45% 3
Cheadle +3 15 £34,500 - 5
Wigan +5 14 - -
Altrincham -1 14 £67,500 +14.89% 1
Bury +5 13 - - 1
Dukinfield +3 13 - - 2
Ashton-under-Lyne +2 13 - - 3
Stalybridge +2 13 - - 1
Salford -5 13 - - 5
Oldham +7 12 - - 2
Heywood +2 12 - - 3
Littleborough - 12 - - 2
Rochdale - 12 - - 2
Sale +2 11 - - 1
User Experience
North West

User Experience
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 14 (2.67%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.71%) CMS
3 8 (1.52%) Confluence
3 8 (1.52%) WordPress
4 4 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.19%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 7 (1.33%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (0.57%) Sketch
3 1 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.57%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (0.57%) Shopify
3 1 (0.19%) Magento
3 1 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 402 (76.57%) Cloud Computing
2 18 (3.43%) Power Platform
3 16 (3.05%) Azure
4 15 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (2.48%) Figma
6 12 (2.29%) Microsoft Purview
7 10 (1.90%) SaaS
8 9 (1.71%) Azure Monitor
8 9 (1.71%) Entra ID
8 9 (1.71%) Google Analytics
9 8 (1.52%) AWS
9 8 (1.52%) OneDrive
10 6 (1.14%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (0.95%) Power Automate
12 4 (0.76%) Azure Logic Apps
12 4 (0.76%) Dropbox
12 4 (0.76%) Microsoft Copilot
12 4 (0.76%) PowerApps
13 3 (0.57%) Heroku
14 2 (0.38%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 402 (76.57%) Internet
2 3 (0.57%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (0.95%) NoSQL
2 4 (0.76%) SQL Server
2 4 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (0.57%) MongoDB
3 3 (0.57%) MySQL
3 3 (0.57%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.38%) Mixpanel
5 1 (0.19%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.19%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.19%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.19%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.19%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 11 (2.10%) JIRA
2 9 (1.71%) Git
3 3 (0.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 3 (0.57%) fastlane
3 3 (0.57%) JUnit
4 2 (0.38%) Vagrant
5 1 (0.19%) gulp
5 1 (0.19%) webpack
General
1 424 (80.76%) Social Skills
2 412 (78.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 408 (77.71%) Banking
4 25 (4.76%) Finance
5 16 (3.05%) Marketing
6 15 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (1.14%) Public Sector
9 5 (0.95%) Law
10 4 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (0.76%) Manufacturing
10 4 (0.76%) Retail
11 2 (0.38%) Billing
11 2 (0.38%) Games
11 2 (0.38%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 314 (59.81%) Lecturer
2 39 (7.43%) Designer
3 29 (5.52%) UX Designer
4 19 (3.62%) Senior
5 18 (3.43%) Product Designer
6 9 (1.71%) Senior Designer
6 9 (1.71%) Senior UX Designer
7 8 (1.52%) Platform Engineer
8 7 (1.33%) Coordinator
8 7 (1.33%) Developer
8 7 (1.33%) Software Engineer
9 6 (1.14%) E-Commerce Specialist
9 6 (1.14%) Senior Applications Designer
9 6 (1.14%) Senior Product Designer
9 6 (1.14%) UI Specialist
9 6 (1.14%) UX Specialist
10 5 (0.95%) Analyst
10 5 (0.95%) IT Manager
10 5 (0.95%) Service Designer
11 4 (0.76%) Senior IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.62%) HTML
2 18 (3.43%) CSS
3 8 (1.52%) AngularJS
4 6 (1.14%) React
5 5 (0.95%) REST
5 5 (0.95%) RESTful
5 5 (0.95%) Spring
5 5 (0.95%) Spring Boot
5 5 (0.95%) Web Services
6 4 (0.76%) EDI
7 3 (0.57%) .NET
7 3 (0.57%) gRPC
7 3 (0.57%) Kafka
7 3 (0.57%) Node.js
7 3 (0.57%) Spring Batch
8 2 (0.38%) .NET Framework
9 1 (0.19%) CSS3
9 1 (0.19%) HTML5
9 1 (0.19%) JSON
9 1 (0.19%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 402 (76.57%) IoT
2 12 (2.29%) Onboarding
3 10 (1.90%) Product Ownership
4 8 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (0.76%) Cloud Native
6 4 (0.76%) Mobile App
7 3 (0.57%) Social Media
8 2 (0.38%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (0.38%) NHS
8 2 (0.38%) PropTech
9 1 (0.19%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.19%) Data Fabric
9 1 (0.19%) EMV
9 1 (0.19%) FMCG
9 1 (0.19%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.19%) Online Gambling
9 1 (0.19%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.14%) Windows
2 3 (0.57%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.19%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 427 (81.33%) AI
2 407 (77.52%) Web Development
3 402 (76.57%) Cybersecurity
3 402 (76.57%) Machine Learning
4 50 (9.52%) UX Design
5 33 (6.29%) Agile
6 27 (5.14%) Problem-Solving
7 26 (4.95%) Continuous Improvement
8 15 (2.86%) E-Commerce
8 15 (2.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 14 (2.67%) Analytics
9 14 (2.67%) CI/CD
10 12 (2.29%) DevOps
11 11 (2.10%) Proactive Monitoring
11 11 (2.10%) Service Management
12 10 (1.90%) Decision-Making
12 10 (1.90%) Interaction Design
12 10 (1.90%) Mentoring
12 10 (1.90%) Platform Engineering
12 10 (1.90%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 16 (3.05%) JavaScript
2 12 (2.29%) TypeScript
3 7 (1.33%) C#
4 5 (0.95%) Java
4 5 (0.95%) SQL
5 3 (0.57%) Swift
6 1 (0.19%) Go
6 1 (0.19%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.19%) Python
Qualifications
1 414 (78.86%) Degree
2 402 (76.57%) Master's Degree
2 402 (76.57%) PhD
2 402 (76.57%) Postgraduate
3 6 (1.14%) Security Cleared
4 5 (0.95%) DV Cleared
5 4 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (1.90%) QA
2 9 (1.71%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.76%) SLA
3 4 (0.76%) WCAG
4 1 (0.19%) HL7
4 1 (0.19%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.19%) PMO
System Software
1 10 (1.90%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.95%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (2.29%) Terraform
2 9 (1.71%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (0.76%) Kubernetes
5 2 (0.38%) Packer
5 2 (0.38%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 22 (4.19%) Microsoft
2 9 (1.71%) Google
3 8 (1.52%) New Relic
3 8 (1.52%) Splunk
4 4 (0.76%) OneLogin
4 4 (0.76%) ServiceNow
5 2 (0.38%) Adobe
5 2 (0.38%) Amplitude
6 1 (0.19%) Adyen
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle
6 1 (0.19%) Qualtrics
6 1 (0.19%) SAP