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

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 20 62
Rank change year-on-year -4 +42 -7
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 177 279 99
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 7.48% 7.67% 4.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.74% 9.00% 4.32%
Number of salaries quoted 69 60 60
10th Percentile £35,500 £30,000 £38,625
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,188 £43,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +14.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £65,313
90th Percentile £84,000 £75,125 £70,000
North West median annual salary £53,750 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.27% +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 2,025 3,101 2,290
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 85.55% 85.24% 94.59%
Number of salaries quoted 1,249 1,417 1,876
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £55,000 £59,541
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% -7.63% +8.26%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £84,056
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +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 4 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 4 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 +8 23 £65,000 - 8
Stockport -1 8 - -
Oldham -1 7 - -
Sale -1 6 - -
Ashton-under-Lyne -1 6 - - 6
Bolton +5 4 - - 19
Bury -1 4 - - 6
Dukinfield -1 4 - -
Heywood - 4 - -
Cheadle - 4 - -
Stalybridge - 4 - -
Salford -1 2 - - 1
Wigan - 2 - - 2
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 7 (3.95%) Confluence
2 5 (2.82%) CMS
3 2 (1.13%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.56%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.56%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (3.39%) Adobe XD
1 6 (3.39%) Chatbot
2 5 (2.82%) Sketch
3 4 (2.26%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.56%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.56%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.56%) InVision
4 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.56%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.56%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.56%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 106 (59.89%) AWS
2 92 (51.98%) Azure
3 64 (36.16%) GCP
4 14 (7.91%) Figma
5 11 (6.21%) Google Analytics
6 10 (5.65%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (5.65%) Serverless
7 7 (3.95%) Adobe Analytics
7 7 (3.95%) GitHub
8 6 (3.39%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (2.26%) Contentsquare
10 3 (1.69%) SaaS
11 2 (1.13%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (1.13%) Miro
11 2 (1.13%) OpenShift
11 2 (1.13%) Power Platform
11 2 (1.13%) Supabase
11 2 (1.13%) Vercel
12 1 (0.56%) Amazon EKS
12 1 (0.56%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.13%) HTTP
2 1 (0.56%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (10.17%) SQL Server
2 9 (5.08%) DynamoDB
3 6 (3.39%) MySQL
4 5 (2.82%) MongoDB
4 5 (2.82%) NoSQL
4 5 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.26%) Mixpanel
6 3 (1.69%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.13%) Power BI
7 2 (1.13%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.56%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.56%) DocumentDB
8 1 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 29 (16.38%) JIRA
2 21 (11.86%) GitLab
2 21 (11.86%) Selenium
3 20 (11.30%) Cucumber
4 19 (10.73%) Maven
5 18 (10.17%) Bitbucket
5 18 (10.17%) SonarQube
5 18 (10.17%) Sonatype Nexus
6 9 (5.08%) Git
7 4 (2.26%) Xcode
8 3 (1.69%) JUnit
9 2 (1.13%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.56%) Android Studio
10 1 (0.56%) Axure RP
10 1 (0.56%) Jenkins
General
1 77 (43.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 46 (25.99%) Finance
3 40 (22.60%) Social Skills
4 24 (13.56%) Banking
5 23 (12.99%) Retail
6 18 (10.17%) Corporate Banking
6 18 (10.17%) Investment Banking
7 15 (8.47%) Marketing
8 9 (5.08%) Analytical Skills
8 9 (5.08%) Games
9 8 (4.52%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (3.39%) Public Sector
11 5 (2.82%) Electronics
11 5 (2.82%) Law
12 2 (1.13%) Legal
13 1 (0.56%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.56%) Publishing
13 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 86 (48.59%) Senior
2 79 (44.63%) Software Engineer
3 58 (32.77%) Senior Software Engineer
4 33 (18.64%) Developer
5 11 (6.21%) Applications Support
6 10 (5.65%) Senior Developer
7 9 (5.08%) Java Developer
7 9 (5.08%) Senior Java Developer
8 8 (4.52%) Senior Manager
9 7 (3.95%) Applications Manager
9 7 (3.95%) Applications Support Manager
9 7 (3.95%) Support Manager
10 6 (3.39%) Analyst
10 6 (3.39%) Designer
10 6 (3.39%) Lead
10 6 (3.39%) Strategy Manager
11 5 (2.82%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 5 (2.82%) Software Developer
12 4 (2.26%) IT Support
12 4 (2.26%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (38.42%) .NET
2 63 (35.59%) Node.js
3 42 (23.73%) React
4 36 (20.34%) CSS
5 32 (18.08%) HTML
6 30 (16.95%) RESTful
7 25 (14.12%) Kafka
8 24 (13.56%) CSS3
8 24 (13.56%) HTML5
8 24 (13.56%) REST
8 24 (13.56%) Spring
8 24 (13.56%) Spring Boot
9 20 (11.30%) Jest
10 18 (10.17%) JPA
10 18 (10.17%) Redux
10 18 (10.17%) Sass
11 8 (4.52%) Amazon Corretto
12 6 (3.39%) Next.js
13 4 (2.26%) ASP.NET Core
13 4 (2.26%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 59 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
1 59 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
2 58 (32.77%) Cyberattack
3 25 (14.12%) Product Ownership
4 18 (10.17%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (4.52%) e-Learning
6 4 (2.26%) AI Agents
6 4 (2.26%) Animation
6 4 (2.26%) Cloud Native
6 4 (2.26%) Social Media
7 3 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.13%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.13%) Wiki
9 1 (0.56%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.56%) Graphic Design
9 1 (0.56%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.56%) Life Science
9 1 (0.56%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.56%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 60 (33.90%) Linux
2 4 (2.26%) Apple iOS
2 4 (2.26%) Windows
2 4 (2.26%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.56%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (75.71%) Agile
2 92 (51.98%) Software Engineering
3 85 (48.02%) Microservices
4 84 (47.46%) Mentoring
5 66 (37.29%) Machine Learning
5 66 (37.29%) Scrum
6 59 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 58 (32.77%) Cloud Security
7 58 (32.77%) Data Engineering
8 39 (22.03%) DevOps
9 36 (20.34%) CI/CD
10 33 (18.64%) Test Automation
11 32 (18.08%) Full-Stack Development
12 31 (17.51%) Front End Development
13 27 (15.25%) UX Design
14 25 (14.12%) SDLC
14 25 (14.12%) Strategic Thinking
15 24 (13.56%) Analytics
15 24 (13.56%) Containerisation
16 23 (12.99%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 99 (55.93%) Java
2 98 (55.37%) JavaScript
3 66 (37.29%) Python
4 61 (34.46%) Rust
5 58 (32.77%) C++
5 58 (32.77%) Go
6 41 (23.16%) TypeScript
7 21 (11.86%) SQL
8 13 (7.34%) C#
9 4 (2.26%) Swift
10 3 (1.69%) PHP
11 2 (1.13%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.56%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 62 (35.03%) Security Cleared
2 59 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 58 (32.77%) AWS Certification
3 58 (32.77%) AWS Certified Developer
3 58 (32.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 12 (6.78%) Degree
5 3 (1.69%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.56%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (18.64%) Accessibility
2 24 (13.56%) QA
3 2 (1.13%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.13%) GDPR
3 2 (1.13%) HL7
3 2 (1.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 34 (19.21%) Docker
2 4 (2.26%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 33 (18.64%) Kubernetes
2 10 (5.65%) Terraform
3 4 (2.26%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.56%) Grafana
4 1 (0.56%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 18 (10.17%) Solace
2 13 (7.34%) Google
2 13 (7.34%) Microsoft
3 10 (5.65%) Adobe
4 7 (3.95%) Facebook
5 6 (3.39%) Hotjar
5 6 (3.39%) Qualtrics
6 5 (2.82%) ServiceNow
7 4 (2.26%) Bloomberg
7 4 (2.26%) Genesys
7 4 (2.26%) Veeam
7 4 (2.26%) VMware
8 3 (1.69%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.13%) IBM
10 1 (0.56%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.56%) HubSpot
10 1 (0.56%) iManage
10 1 (0.56%) Oracle
10 1 (0.56%) SAP