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 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 20 60
Rank change year-on-year +7 +40 -4
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 248 283 106
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 10.36% 7.92% 4.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.20% 9.18% 4.74%
Number of salaries quoted 62 65 58
10th Percentile £36,250 £30,000 £38,375
25th Percentile £46,250 £37,500 £43,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £65,938
90th Percentile £82,375 £75,750 £70,000
North West median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%

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 2,033 3,082 2,237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 84.96% 86.21% 94.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1,277 1,395 1,806
10th Percentile £28,150 £32,500 £33,858
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -7.60% +8.23%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,450 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +4.76%

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 18 November 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 18 November 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 +6 16 £65,000 +23.81% 7
Stockport +4 15 - - 5
Bolton +15 7 - - 5
Oldham +2 6 - -
Salford +1 6 - -
Cheadle - 6 - - 1
Rochdale +9 5 - -
Bury +1 5 - - 6
Dukinfield 0 5 - -
Ashton-under-Lyne 0 5 - - 5
Wigan - 5 - - 4
Stalybridge - 5 - -
Littleborough - 5 - -
Sale +1 4 - -
Heywood - 4 - -
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 5 (2.02%) CMS
1 5 (2.02%) Confluence
2 2 (0.81%) Headless CMS
2 2 (0.81%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (2.02%) Adobe XD
2 4 (1.61%) Chatbot
2 4 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.61%) Sketch
3 1 (0.40%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.40%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.40%) InVision
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.40%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.40%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 157 (63.31%) Cloud Computing
2 26 (10.48%) AWS
3 16 (6.45%) Azure
4 12 (4.84%) Figma
5 10 (4.03%) Google Analytics
6 8 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (3.23%) Serverless
7 7 (2.82%) Adobe Analytics
8 6 (2.42%) GitHub
8 6 (2.42%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (1.61%) GCP
10 3 (1.21%) Contentsquare
10 3 (1.21%) Power Platform
10 3 (1.21%) SaaS
11 2 (0.81%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (0.81%) Miro
11 2 (0.81%) Supabase
11 2 (0.81%) Vercel
12 1 (0.40%) ChatGPT
12 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 157 (63.31%) Internet
2 1 (0.40%) HTTP
2 1 (0.40%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.82%) DynamoDB
1 7 (2.82%) MySQL
2 5 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (1.61%) Mixpanel
3 4 (1.61%) NoSQL
3 4 (1.61%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.21%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.81%) Power BI
5 2 (0.81%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.40%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.40%) DocumentDB
6 1 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 11 (4.44%) Git
2 8 (3.23%) JIRA
3 4 (1.61%) Xcode
4 2 (0.81%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.81%) GitLab
4 2 (0.81%) JUnit
4 2 (0.81%) Selenium
5 1 (0.40%) Android Studio
5 1 (0.40%) Axure RP
5 1 (0.40%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.40%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.40%) Maven
General
1 192 (77.42%) Social Skills
2 163 (65.73%) Banking
3 161 (64.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 23 (9.27%) Finance
5 13 (5.24%) Marketing
6 10 (4.03%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (2.82%) Games
9 6 (2.42%) Public Sector
10 5 (2.02%) Electronics
10 5 (2.02%) Law
11 4 (1.61%) Retail
12 2 (0.81%) Legal
13 1 (0.40%) Digital Health
13 1 (0.40%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.40%) Publishing
13 1 (0.40%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 128 (51.61%) Lecturer
2 32 (12.90%) Developer
3 22 (8.87%) Senior
4 8 (3.23%) Senior Developer
5 7 (2.82%) Applications Support
5 7 (2.82%) Java Developer
5 7 (2.82%) Lead
5 7 (2.82%) Senior Java Developer
6 6 (2.42%) Analyst
6 6 (2.42%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 6 (2.42%) Senior Manager
6 6 (2.42%) Strategy Manager
7 5 (2.02%) Designer
7 5 (2.02%) Software Developer
7 5 (2.02%) Software Engineer
8 4 (1.61%) Applications Manager
8 4 (1.61%) Applications Support Manager
8 4 (1.61%) iOS Developer
8 4 (1.61%) Lead Developer
8 4 (1.61%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (9.68%) React
2 19 (7.66%) CSS
3 15 (6.05%) HTML
4 12 (4.84%) RESTful
5 11 (4.44%) .NET
6 7 (2.82%) Node.js
7 6 (2.42%) Amazon Corretto
7 6 (2.42%) CSS3
7 6 (2.42%) HTML5
7 6 (2.42%) Next.js
8 5 (2.02%) Kafka
8 5 (2.02%) REST
9 4 (1.61%) ASP.NET
9 4 (1.61%) ASP.NET Core
9 4 (1.61%) Spring
9 4 (1.61%) Spring Boot
9 4 (1.61%) SwiftUI
9 4 (1.61%) Tailwind CSS
10 3 (1.21%) AngularJS
10 3 (1.21%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 157 (63.31%) IoT
2 6 (2.42%) e-Learning
2 6 (2.42%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.02%) Cloud Native
4 4 (1.61%) AI Agents
4 4 (1.61%) Animation
5 3 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.21%) Social Media
6 2 (0.81%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (0.81%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.40%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.40%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.40%) Life Science
7 1 (0.40%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.40%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.40%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.40%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.61%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.21%) Windows
2 3 (1.21%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.81%) Linux
4 1 (0.40%) Android
4 1 (0.40%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (70.56%) AI
2 165 (66.53%) Machine Learning
3 159 (64.11%) Web Development
4 157 (63.31%) Cybersecurity
5 52 (20.97%) Agile
6 24 (9.68%) UX Design
7 23 (9.27%) Analytics
8 19 (7.66%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (7.26%) CI/CD
10 17 (6.85%) DevOps
10 17 (6.85%) TDD
11 16 (6.45%) Clean Code
12 15 (6.05%) Continuous Improvement
12 15 (6.05%) Stakeholder Management
13 14 (5.65%) Software Engineering
14 13 (5.24%) Full-Stack Development
15 12 (4.84%) Front End Development
15 12 (4.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 10 (4.03%) Prototyping
17 9 (3.63%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 23 (9.27%) TypeScript
2 21 (8.47%) JavaScript
3 17 (6.85%) Java
4 14 (5.65%) C#
5 6 (2.42%) Python
6 4 (1.61%) SQL
6 4 (1.61%) Swift
7 3 (1.21%) PHP
7 3 (1.21%) Rust
8 2 (0.81%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.40%) Go
9 1 (0.40%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 166 (66.94%) Degree
2 158 (63.71%) PhD
3 157 (63.31%) Master's Degree
3 157 (63.31%) Postgraduate
4 4 (1.61%) Security Cleared
5 3 (1.21%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.40%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.05%) Accessibility
2 6 (2.42%) QA
3 2 (0.81%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.81%) GDPR
3 2 (0.81%) HL7
4 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 14 (5.65%) Docker
2 3 (1.21%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.40%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (5.24%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.63%) Terraform
3 4 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.40%) Grafana
4 1 (0.40%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (4.84%) Google
2 10 (4.03%) Microsoft
3 9 (3.63%) Adobe
4 6 (2.42%) Hotjar
4 6 (2.42%) Qualtrics
5 5 (2.02%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.61%) Facebook
6 4 (1.61%) Genesys
7 3 (1.21%) Veeam
7 3 (1.21%) VMware
8 2 (0.81%) Bloomberg
8 2 (0.81%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.40%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.40%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.40%) iManage
9 1 (0.40%) New Relic
9 1 (0.40%) Oracle
9 1 (0.40%) SAP
9 1 (0.40%) Splunk