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

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 20 62
Rank change year-on-year +8 +42 -2
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 248 289 108
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 10.46% 8.00% 4.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.37% 9.13% 4.96%
Number of salaries quoted 60 74 56
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,625 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £44,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £72,500 £66,042 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,625 £73,375 £72,500
North West median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -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 2,005 3,165 2,176
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 84.53% 87.58% 94.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1,276 1,475 1,753
10th Percentile £28,125 £32,600 £33,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -7.65% +6.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +3.54%

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 25 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 25 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
Stockport +3 15 - - 5
Altrincham +7 14 £65,000 +23.81%
Bolton +14 7 - -
Salford +3 6 - -
Oldham +1 6 - -
Cheadle - 6 - - 1
Rochdale +10 5 - -
Bury +2 5 - -
Dukinfield 0 5 - -
Ashton-under-Lyne 0 5 - -
Stalybridge - 5 - -
Wigan - 5 - - 2
Littleborough - 5 - -
Sale 0 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
2 4 (1.61%) Confluence
2 4 (1.61%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.81%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 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 24 (9.68%) AWS
3 17 (6.85%) Azure
4 13 (5.24%) Figma
5 9 (3.63%) Google Analytics
6 7 (2.82%) Adobe Analytics
6 7 (2.82%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (2.82%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (2.82%) Serverless
7 5 (2.02%) GitHub
7 5 (2.02%) Power Platform
7 5 (2.02%) SaaS
8 4 (1.61%) GCP
9 3 (1.21%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (1.21%) Entra ID
9 3 (1.21%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (1.21%) OneDrive
10 2 (0.81%) Contentsquare
10 2 (0.81%) Miro
10 2 (0.81%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 157 (63.31%) Internet
2 2 (0.81%) HTTP
3 1 (0.40%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.23%) MySQL
2 6 (2.42%) DynamoDB
3 5 (2.02%) NoSQL
4 4 (1.61%) Mixpanel
4 4 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.61%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.21%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.81%) Power BI
6 2 (0.81%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.40%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.40%) DocumentDB
7 1 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 13 (5.24%) Git
2 8 (3.23%) JIRA
3 4 (1.61%) Xcode
4 3 (1.21%) JUnit
5 2 (0.81%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.40%) Android Studio
6 1 (0.40%) Axure RP
6 1 (0.40%) GitLab
6 1 (0.40%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.40%) Maven
6 1 (0.40%) Selenium
General
1 190 (76.61%) Social Skills
2 163 (65.73%) Banking
2 163 (65.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 23 (9.27%) Finance
4 12 (4.84%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (4.84%) Marketing
5 8 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (2.42%) Games
6 6 (2.42%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.02%) Electronics
7 5 (2.02%) Law
8 3 (1.21%) Retail
9 2 (0.81%) Legal
10 1 (0.40%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.40%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.40%) Publishing
10 1 (0.40%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 128 (51.61%) Lecturer
2 31 (12.50%) Developer
3 20 (8.06%) Senior
4 8 (3.23%) Lead
5 7 (2.82%) Senior Developer
6 6 (2.42%) Analyst
6 6 (2.42%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 6 (2.42%) Java Developer
6 6 (2.42%) Senior Java Developer
6 6 (2.42%) Software Engineer
6 6 (2.42%) Strategy Manager
7 5 (2.02%) Applications Support
7 5 (2.02%) Designer
7 5 (2.02%) Senior Manager
7 5 (2.02%) Software Developer
8 4 (1.61%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 4 (1.61%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (1.61%) iOS Developer
8 4 (1.61%) Lead Developer
8 4 (1.61%) User Experience Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (9.27%) React
2 21 (8.47%) CSS
3 17 (6.85%) HTML
4 13 (5.24%) RESTful
5 12 (4.84%) .NET
6 7 (2.82%) Node.js
7 6 (2.42%) CSS3
7 6 (2.42%) HTML5
7 6 (2.42%) Next.js
7 6 (2.42%) REST
8 5 (2.02%) Amazon Corretto
8 5 (2.02%) Kafka
9 4 (1.61%) AngularJS
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%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 157 (63.31%) IoT
2 7 (2.82%) Product Ownership
3 6 (2.42%) Cloud Native
4 5 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.02%) e-Learning
5 4 (1.61%) AI Agents
5 4 (1.61%) Animation
6 3 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.21%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.81%) Social Media
7 2 (0.81%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.40%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.40%) Life Science
8 1 (0.40%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.40%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.40%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.61%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.81%) Linux
2 2 (0.81%) Windows
2 2 (0.81%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.40%) Android
3 1 (0.40%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (71.77%) AI
2 165 (66.53%) Machine Learning
3 159 (64.11%) Web Development
4 157 (63.31%) Cybersecurity
5 53 (21.37%) Agile
6 24 (9.68%) UX Design
7 22 (8.87%) Analytics
8 20 (8.06%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (7.66%) CI/CD
10 17 (6.85%) DevOps
11 16 (6.45%) TDD
12 15 (6.05%) Clean Code
13 14 (5.65%) Continuous Improvement
13 14 (5.65%) Software Engineering
13 14 (5.65%) Stakeholder Management
14 13 (5.24%) Full-Stack Development
14 13 (5.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 11 (4.44%) Front End Development
16 10 (4.03%) Prototyping
17 9 (3.63%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 24 (9.68%) TypeScript
2 23 (9.27%) JavaScript
3 16 (6.45%) Java
4 15 (6.05%) C#
5 6 (2.42%) Python
6 5 (2.02%) SQL
7 4 (1.61%) Swift
8 3 (1.21%) PHP
8 3 (1.21%) Rust
9 2 (0.81%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.40%) Go
10 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 13 (5.24%) Docker
2 3 (1.21%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 12 (4.84%) Kubernetes
2 10 (4.03%) Terraform
3 5 (2.02%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.40%) Grafana
5 1 (0.40%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 11 (4.44%) 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%) Genesys
7 3 (1.21%) Facebook
7 3 (1.21%) New Relic
7 3 (1.21%) Splunk
8 2 (0.81%) Bloomberg
8 2 (0.81%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.81%) Veeam
8 2 (0.81%) VMware
9 1 (0.40%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.40%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.40%) iManage
9 1 (0.40%) Oracle
9 1 (0.40%) SAP