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 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 22 41
Rank change year-on-year +4 +19 +60
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 364 246 257
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 6.42% 10.87% 5.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.96% 11.37% 5.93%
Number of salaries quoted 86 95 141
10th Percentile £30,296 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,375 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -3.51% -8.80%
75th Percentile £69,667 £71,875 £72,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £87,500 £85,000
North West median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - +22.22% -22.16%

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 4,061 2,164 4,331
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 71.61% 95.63% 85.53%
Number of salaries quoted 2,973 1,276 3,442
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,125 £30,000
25th Percentile £44,250 £40,030 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +6.48% -6.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,000 £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 20 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 20 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 23 £40,000 -36.00%
Bolton +31 15 £30,000 -45.45%
Cheadle +4 10 £34,500 -
Wigan +6 9 - -
Altrincham -7 9 £67,500 +3.85%
Bury +5 8 - -
Dukinfield +4 8 - - 1
Heywood +3 8 - - 2
Stalybridge +3 8 - -
Ashton-under-Lyne +2 8 - - 1
Oldham +4 7 - - 1
Sale +4 7 - -
Salford -13 7 - - 3
Rochdale - 7 - -
Littleborough - 7 - -
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 12 (3.30%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.47%) CMS
3 8 (2.20%) Confluence
3 8 (2.20%) WordPress
4 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.55%) Moodle
5 2 (0.55%) Totara
6 1 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.27%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 7 (1.92%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (0.82%) Sketch
3 2 (0.55%) Camtasia
4 1 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (1.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.82%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (0.82%) Shopify
3 1 (0.27%) Magento
3 1 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 245 (67.31%) Cloud Computing
2 16 (4.40%) Power Platform
3 14 (3.85%) Azure
4 13 (3.57%) Figma
4 13 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (2.75%) Microsoft Purview
6 9 (2.47%) Google Analytics
7 8 (2.20%) SaaS
8 7 (1.92%) AWS
8 7 (1.92%) Azure Monitor
8 7 (1.92%) Entra ID
9 6 (1.65%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (1.65%) OneDrive
10 5 (1.37%) Power Automate
11 4 (1.10%) Azure Logic Apps
11 4 (1.10%) Dropbox
11 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Copilot
11 4 (1.10%) PowerApps
12 3 (0.82%) Canva
12 3 (0.82%) Heroku
Communications & Networking
1 245 (67.31%) Internet
2 3 (0.82%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.10%) NoSQL
1 4 (1.10%) SQL Server
1 4 (1.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 3 (0.82%) MongoDB
3 2 (0.55%) Mixpanel
3 2 (0.55%) MySQL
3 2 (0.55%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.27%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.27%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.27%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.27%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 11 (3.02%) JIRA
2 6 (1.65%) Git
3 3 (0.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 3 (0.82%) fastlane
3 3 (0.82%) JUnit
4 2 (0.55%) Vagrant
5 1 (0.27%) gulp
5 1 (0.27%) webpack
General
1 266 (73.08%) Social Skills
2 253 (69.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 251 (68.96%) Banking
4 23 (6.32%) Finance
5 17 (4.67%) Marketing
6 13 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (1.65%) Public Sector
9 5 (1.37%) Law
10 4 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.10%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.10%) Retail
11 2 (0.55%) Billing
11 2 (0.55%) Games
11 2 (0.55%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 186 (51.10%) Lecturer
2 39 (10.71%) Designer
3 29 (7.97%) UX Designer
4 19 (5.22%) Senior
5 18 (4.95%) Product Designer
6 9 (2.47%) Senior Designer
6 9 (2.47%) Senior UX Designer
7 7 (1.92%) Coordinator
7 7 (1.92%) Developer
8 6 (1.65%) E-Commerce Specialist
8 6 (1.65%) Platform Engineer
8 6 (1.65%) Senior Applications Designer
8 6 (1.65%) Senior Product Designer
8 6 (1.65%) UI Specialist
8 6 (1.65%) UX Specialist
9 5 (1.37%) Analyst
9 5 (1.37%) IT Manager
9 5 (1.37%) Service Designer
9 5 (1.37%) Software Engineer
10 4 (1.10%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (4.67%) HTML
2 16 (4.40%) CSS
3 7 (1.92%) AngularJS
4 5 (1.37%) REST
4 5 (1.37%) Spring
4 5 (1.37%) Spring Boot
5 4 (1.10%) EDI
5 4 (1.10%) React
5 4 (1.10%) RESTful
5 4 (1.10%) Web Services
6 3 (0.82%) gRPC
6 3 (0.82%) Kafka
6 3 (0.82%) Spring Batch
7 2 (0.55%) .NET
8 1 (0.27%) .NET Framework
8 1 (0.27%) CSS3
8 1 (0.27%) HTML5
8 1 (0.27%) JSON
8 1 (0.27%) Node.js
8 1 (0.27%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 245 (67.31%) IoT
2 12 (3.30%) Onboarding
3 9 (2.47%) Product Ownership
4 6 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (1.10%) Mobile App
6 3 (0.82%) Cloud Native
6 3 (0.82%) Social Media
7 2 (0.55%) e-Learning
7 2 (0.55%) Learning Management System
7 2 (0.55%) NHS
7 2 (0.55%) PropTech
8 1 (0.27%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.27%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.27%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.27%) EMV
8 1 (0.27%) FMCG
8 1 (0.27%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.27%) Online Gambling
8 1 (0.27%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.65%) Windows
2 3 (0.82%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 268 (73.63%) AI
2 251 (68.96%) Web Development
3 245 (67.31%) Cybersecurity
3 245 (67.31%) Machine Learning
4 50 (13.74%) UX Design
5 27 (7.42%) Agile
5 27 (7.42%) Continuous Improvement
6 25 (6.87%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (4.12%) E-Commerce
8 14 (3.85%) Analytics
9 13 (3.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 12 (3.30%) CI/CD
11 11 (3.02%) Responsive Web Design
11 11 (3.02%) Service Management
12 10 (2.75%) DevOps
12 10 (2.75%) Digital Marketing
12 10 (2.75%) Interaction Design
12 10 (2.75%) SEO
12 10 (2.75%) Wireframes
13 9 (2.47%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 14 (3.85%) JavaScript
2 9 (2.47%) TypeScript
3 6 (1.65%) C#
4 5 (1.37%) Java
5 4 (1.10%) SQL
6 3 (0.82%) Swift
7 1 (0.27%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.27%) Python
Qualifications
1 258 (70.88%) Degree
2 245 (67.31%) Master's Degree
2 245 (67.31%) PhD
2 245 (67.31%) Postgraduate
3 6 (1.65%) Security Cleared
4 5 (1.37%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.10%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (0.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.47%) QA
2 8 (2.20%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.10%) SLA
3 4 (1.10%) WCAG
4 1 (0.27%) HL7
4 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.27%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (2.20%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.10%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (2.75%) Terraform
2 7 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.82%) Kubernetes
5 2 (0.55%) Packer
5 2 (0.55%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 20 (5.49%) Microsoft
2 9 (2.47%) Google
3 6 (1.65%) New Relic
3 6 (1.65%) Splunk
4 4 (1.10%) OneLogin
4 4 (1.10%) ServiceNow
5 2 (0.55%) Adobe
5 2 (0.55%) Amplitude
5 2 (0.55%) Synthesia
6 1 (0.27%) Adyen
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle
6 1 (0.27%) Qualtrics
6 1 (0.27%) SAP