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 16 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 48 53
Rank change year-on-year +42 +5 +28
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 480 133 164
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 13.88% 5.27% 4.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.24% 5.55% 5.03%
Number of salaries quoted 48 67 93
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,450 £34,184
25th Percentile £45,938 £43,125 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,250 £75,500 £85,000
North West median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - +22.22% -22.45%

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 2,631 2,395 3,261
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 76.06% 94.93% 89.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1,661 1,181 2,709
10th Percentile £28,750 £34,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £39,750 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,886 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -8.90%

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 16 February 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 16 February 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 +13 36 £40,000 - 1
Bolton +21 17 £30,000 -45.45%
Altrincham -1 15 £67,500 +28.57% 3
Cheadle - 14 - -
Wigan - 14 - -
Salford +11 13 - -
Stalybridge - 13 - -
Ashton-under-Lyne - 13 - - 1
Bury - 13 - -
Dukinfield - 13 - -
Rochdale +7 12 - -
Oldham - 12 - -
Heywood - 12 - -
Littleborough - 12 - -
Sale - 11 - -
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 10 (2.08%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.25%) CMS
3 5 (1.04%) Confluence
3 5 (1.04%) WordPress
4 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 4 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (0.42%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.42%) Sketch
3 1 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.21%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.21%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.42%) Shopify
2 1 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 402 (83.75%) Cloud Computing
2 17 (3.54%) AWS
2 17 (3.54%) Azure
3 12 (2.50%) Figma
3 12 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (2.08%) Power Platform
4 10 (2.08%) SaaS
5 9 (1.88%) Azure Monitor
6 8 (1.67%) Adobe Analytics
6 8 (1.67%) Entra ID
6 8 (1.67%) Microsoft Purview
6 8 (1.67%) OneDrive
7 4 (0.83%) Google Analytics
8 2 (0.42%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (0.42%) GCP
8 2 (0.42%) Serverless
9 1 (0.21%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.21%) Canva
9 1 (0.21%) ChatGPT
9 1 (0.21%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 402 (83.75%) Internet
2 4 (0.83%) HTTP
3 1 (0.21%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.46%) MySQL
1 7 (1.46%) NoSQL
2 5 (1.04%) MongoDB
2 5 (1.04%) Relational Database
3 3 (0.63%) RDBMS
4 2 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.21%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (2.29%) Git
2 10 (2.08%) JIRA
3 5 (1.04%) JUnit
4 2 (0.42%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.42%) Vagrant
4 2 (0.42%) Xcode
5 1 (0.21%) GitLab
5 1 (0.21%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.21%) Maven
5 1 (0.21%) Selenium
General
1 425 (88.54%) Social Skills
2 413 (86.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 409 (85.21%) Banking
4 18 (3.75%) Finance
5 16 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (2.08%) Marketing
7 9 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (1.04%) Public Sector
9 4 (0.83%) Law
9 4 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (0.63%) Electronics
11 2 (0.42%) Legal
11 2 (0.42%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.21%) Games
12 1 (0.21%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.21%) Publishing
12 1 (0.21%) Retail
12 1 (0.21%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 314 (65.42%) Lecturer
2 16 (3.33%) Senior
3 15 (3.13%) Developer
4 9 (1.88%) Software Engineer
5 8 (1.67%) Platform Engineer
6 7 (1.46%) Strategy Manager
7 6 (1.25%) Lead
8 5 (1.04%) Designer
8 5 (1.04%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 5 (1.04%) Senior Manager
8 5 (1.04%) Software Developer
9 4 (0.83%) Analyst
9 4 (0.83%) Coordinator
9 4 (0.83%) UX Designer
10 3 (0.63%) AWS Engineer
10 3 (0.63%) Digital Analyst
10 3 (0.63%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 3 (0.63%) Integration Analyst
10 3 (0.63%) Lead Software Engineer
10 3 (0.63%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (5.21%) CSS
2 22 (4.58%) HTML
3 13 (2.71%) RESTful
4 12 (2.50%) React
5 10 (2.08%) .NET
6 8 (1.67%) AngularJS
6 8 (1.67%) REST
7 7 (1.46%) Spring
7 7 (1.46%) Spring Boot
8 6 (1.25%) Kafka
9 5 (1.04%) CSS3
9 5 (1.04%) HTML5
9 5 (1.04%) Node.js
10 4 (0.83%) ASP.NET
10 4 (0.83%) ASP.NET Core
10 4 (0.83%) gRPC
10 4 (0.83%) Spring Batch
11 3 (0.63%) FHIR
11 3 (0.63%) JSON
11 3 (0.63%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 402 (83.75%) IoT
2 10 (2.08%) Product Ownership
3 8 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (1.25%) Cloud Native
6 4 (0.83%) Onboarding
7 3 (0.63%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (0.42%) Animation
8 2 (0.42%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.42%) Social Media
9 1 (0.21%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.21%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.21%) EMV
9 1 (0.21%) FMCG
9 1 (0.21%) Life Science
9 1 (0.21%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.21%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.21%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.42%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.21%) Linux
2 1 (0.21%) Unix
2 1 (0.21%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 427 (88.96%) AI
2 405 (84.38%) Web Development
3 404 (84.17%) Machine Learning
4 402 (83.75%) Cybersecurity
5 47 (9.79%) Agile
6 22 (4.58%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (4.38%) CI/CD
7 21 (4.38%) UX Design
8 19 (3.96%) Continuous Improvement
9 16 (3.33%) DevOps
9 16 (3.33%) Software Engineering
9 16 (3.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 14 (2.92%) Analytics
11 12 (2.50%) Full-Stack Development
11 12 (2.50%) Prototyping
12 11 (2.29%) Platform Engineering
12 11 (2.29%) Proactive Monitoring
12 11 (2.29%) Stakeholder Management
12 11 (2.29%) TDD
13 10 (2.08%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 22 (4.58%) JavaScript
2 21 (4.38%) TypeScript
3 14 (2.92%) C#
4 13 (2.71%) Java
5 6 (1.25%) SQL
6 4 (0.83%) Python
7 3 (0.63%) PowerShell
7 3 (0.63%) Rust
8 2 (0.42%) Swift
9 1 (0.21%) Go
9 1 (0.21%) PHP
Qualifications
1 409 (85.21%) Degree
2 403 (83.96%) PhD
3 402 (83.75%) Master's Degree
3 402 (83.75%) Postgraduate
4 3 (0.63%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.21%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.21%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.21%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (2.71%) Accessibility
2 6 (1.25%) QA
3 3 (0.63%) HL7
4 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (1.88%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (2.08%) Terraform
2 8 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (1.04%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.42%) Packer
4 2 (0.42%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 11 (2.29%) Microsoft
2 9 (1.88%) Adobe
3 8 (1.67%) New Relic
3 8 (1.67%) Splunk
4 7 (1.46%) Qualtrics
5 4 (0.83%) Google
6 2 (0.42%) OneLogin
6 2 (0.42%) Oracle
6 2 (0.42%) SAP
6 2 (0.42%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.21%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.21%) Genesys
7 1 (0.21%) iManage
7 1 (0.21%) Salesforce