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 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 22 19
Rank change year-on-year -63 -3 +64
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 115 249 329
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.61% 10.09% 7.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.15% 11.21% 9.31%
Number of salaries quoted 73 103 84
10th Percentile £31,550 £33,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +21.05% -24.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £82,250 £78,375
North West median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +22.22% -18.18%

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 5,357 2,221 3,534
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 75.23% 90.03% 82.00%
Number of salaries quoted 4,159 1,305 2,121
10th Percentile £32,500 £29,200 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £69,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £82,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -1.96% -7.27%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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
Salford -19 6 - - 2
Bolton +17 4 £30,000 - 1
Altrincham -11 3 £40,000 -38.46% 1
Cheadle -2 2 £34,500 -
Oldham -3 1 - - 1
Ashton-under-Lyne -6 1 £51,000 - 1
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 6 (5.22%) Confluence
1 6 (5.22%) SharePoint
2 5 (4.35%) WordPress
3 4 (3.48%) CMS
4 2 (1.74%) Moodle
4 2 (1.74%) nginx
4 2 (1.74%) Totara
5 1 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.87%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (2.61%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (2.61%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (1.74%) Camtasia
3 1 (0.87%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.87%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.87%) InDesign
3 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.87%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.87%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (4.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (3.48%) Workday HCM
3 3 (2.61%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.87%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 14 (12.17%) Azure
1 14 (12.17%) Power Platform
2 13 (11.30%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (6.96%) Power Automate
4 7 (6.09%) Figma
4 7 (6.09%) Microsoft Copilot
4 7 (6.09%) PowerApps
4 7 (6.09%) SaaS
5 6 (5.22%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (5.22%) Azure Logic Apps
5 6 (5.22%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (5.22%) Google Analytics
6 4 (3.48%) AWS
7 3 (2.61%) Copilot Studio
8 2 (1.74%) Canva
8 2 (1.74%) npm
8 2 (1.74%) Serverless
8 2 (1.74%) Vyond
9 1 (0.87%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.87%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.61%) FTP
2 1 (0.87%) DNS
2 1 (0.87%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.48%) SQL Server
1 4 (3.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (1.74%) Mixpanel
2 2 (1.74%) MySQL
2 2 (1.74%) NoSQL
2 2 (1.74%) Power BI
3 1 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (0.87%) BigQuery
3 1 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.87%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (5.22%) JIRA
2 4 (3.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 4 (3.48%) fastlane
3 3 (2.61%) Git
4 1 (0.87%) gulp
4 1 (0.87%) webpack
General
1 21 (18.26%) Finance
2 19 (16.52%) Social Skills
3 12 (10.43%) Marketing
4 11 (9.57%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (7.83%) Public Sector
6 6 (5.22%) Banking
7 5 (4.35%) Law
7 5 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (3.48%) Retail
9 3 (2.61%) Billing
9 3 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.61%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.74%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.87%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 37 (32.17%) Designer
2 25 (21.74%) UX Designer
3 20 (17.39%) Senior
4 17 (14.78%) Product Designer
5 9 (7.83%) Analyst
5 9 (7.83%) Developer
5 9 (7.83%) IT Manager
6 6 (5.22%) E-Commerce Specialist
6 6 (5.22%) Platform Specialist
6 6 (5.22%) Power Platform Specialist
6 6 (5.22%) Product Specialist
6 6 (5.22%) Senior Designer
6 6 (5.22%) Senior User Experience Researcher
6 6 (5.22%) Senior UX Designer
6 6 (5.22%) UI Specialist
6 6 (5.22%) User Experience Researcher
6 6 (5.22%) UX Specialist
7 5 (4.35%) Lead
7 5 (4.35%) Senior Product Designer
7 5 (4.35%) Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.83%) CSS
1 9 (7.83%) HTML
2 5 (4.35%) REST
3 4 (3.48%) EDI
3 4 (3.48%) React
4 3 (2.61%) .NET
4 3 (2.61%) Web Services
5 2 (1.74%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.74%) LAMP
5 2 (1.74%) Laravel
5 2 (1.74%) LEMP Stack
5 2 (1.74%) LESS
5 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Graph
5 2 (1.74%) Node.js
5 2 (1.74%) Sass
5 2 (1.74%) Terraform
5 2 (1.74%) Vue
6 1 (0.87%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.87%) Framer.js
6 1 (0.87%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.70%) Product Ownership
2 7 (6.09%) Onboarding
3 6 (5.22%) Mobile App
4 4 (3.48%) Learning Management System
4 4 (3.48%) Video\Live Streaming
5 3 (2.61%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.74%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.74%) Educational Technology
6 2 (1.74%) e-Learning
6 2 (1.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.87%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.87%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.87%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.87%) Online Gambling
7 1 (0.87%) Social Media
7 1 (0.87%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.09%) Windows
2 6 (5.22%) Apple iOS
3 3 (2.61%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.74%) Android
4 2 (1.74%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (31.30%) UX Design
2 25 (21.74%) Continuous Improvement
3 20 (17.39%) AI
4 18 (15.65%) Agile
4 18 (15.65%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (13.91%) Analytics
6 15 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
7 13 (11.30%) E-Commerce
8 10 (8.70%) CI/CD
9 9 (7.83%) Roadmaps
10 8 (6.96%) Collaborative Culture
10 8 (6.96%) ERP
10 8 (6.96%) Software Engineering
10 8 (6.96%) Workflow
11 7 (6.09%) DevOps
11 7 (6.09%) Incident Management
11 7 (6.09%) Migration
11 7 (6.09%) Product Management
11 7 (6.09%) Prototyping
11 7 (6.09%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (9.57%) JavaScript
2 9 (7.83%) C#
3 4 (3.48%) SQL
3 4 (3.48%) Swift
4 3 (2.61%) Python
5 2 (1.74%) PHP
6 1 (0.87%) Apex Code
6 1 (0.87%) Java
6 1 (0.87%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.87%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.87%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 6 (5.22%) Degree
1 6 (5.22%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.35%) DV Cleared
3 3 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.61%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.87%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.35%) Accessibility
1 5 (4.35%) QA
2 4 (3.48%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.61%) SLA
3 3 (2.61%) WCAG
4 1 (0.87%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (0.87%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (0.87%) SCCM
Vendors
1 23 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.22%) Google
3 4 (3.48%) Workday
4 3 (2.61%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.74%) Amplitude
5 2 (1.74%) OneLogin
5 2 (1.74%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.74%) Synthesia
6 1 (0.87%) Adobe
6 1 (0.87%) Adyen
6 1 (0.87%) Apple
6 1 (0.87%) Meraki
6 1 (0.87%) Oracle