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 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 22 18
Rank change year-on-year -61 -4 +76
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 115 255 364
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.70% 10.21% 8.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.29% 11.16% 9.86%
Number of salaries quoted 81 104 109
10th Percentile £32,775 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £44,375 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,043 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.08% +10.09% -23.08%
75th Percentile £68,666 £72,813 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £83,375 £78,750
North West median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £46,875
% change year-on-year -4.55% +17.33% -18.48%

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 5,026 2,285 3,691
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 74.18% 91.47% 81.97%
Number of salaries quoted 3,957 1,326 2,437
10th Percentile £33,000 £29,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £36,250 £42,500
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 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £83,750
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%

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 7 August 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 7 August 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
Altrincham -11 4 £40,000 -38.46% 4
Bolton +15 3 £30,000 - 1
Stockport -4 3 £40,000 -36.00%
Cheadle -2 2 £34,500 -
Oldham -2 1 - -
Ashton-under-Lyne -6 1 £51,000 - 1
Salford -20 1 - - 3
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 10 (8.70%) SharePoint
2 9 (7.83%) Confluence
3 4 (3.48%) CMS
3 4 (3.48%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (2.61%) WordPress
5 2 (1.74%) Moodle
5 2 (1.74%) nginx
5 2 (1.74%) Totara
6 1 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.87%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 3 (2.61%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (2.61%) Sketch
1 3 (2.61%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (1.74%) Camtasia
3 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.87%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (4.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.61%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (2.61%) Shopify
3 2 (1.74%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.87%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 16 (13.91%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (11.30%) Azure
3 11 (9.57%) Power Platform
4 10 (8.70%) Figma
5 9 (7.83%) Microsoft Copilot
6 7 (6.09%) Power Automate
7 6 (5.22%) Azure Logic Apps
7 6 (5.22%) PowerApps
7 6 (5.22%) SaaS
8 5 (4.35%) AWS
8 5 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (4.35%) Google Analytics
9 4 (3.48%) Dropbox
9 4 (3.48%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (2.61%) Heroku
10 3 (2.61%) Serverless
11 2 (1.74%) Canva
11 2 (1.74%) Copilot Studio
11 2 (1.74%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.61%) FTP
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 9 (7.83%) JIRA
2 6 (5.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 6 (5.22%) fastlane
3 3 (2.61%) Git
4 1 (0.87%) gulp
4 1 (0.87%) Vagrant
4 1 (0.87%) webpack
General
1 21 (18.26%) Social Skills
2 20 (17.39%) Finance
3 13 (11.30%) Marketing
4 10 (8.70%) Public Sector
5 8 (6.96%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (6.96%) Banking
6 5 (4.35%) Law
7 4 (3.48%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (3.48%) Retail
8 3 (2.61%) Billing
8 3 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.61%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.74%) Games
9 2 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.74%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.87%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 39 (33.91%) Designer
2 26 (22.61%) UX Designer
3 18 (15.65%) Senior
4 17 (14.78%) Product Designer
5 9 (7.83%) Developer
5 9 (7.83%) IT Manager
6 7 (6.09%) Analyst
6 7 (6.09%) Senior Designer
6 7 (6.09%) Senior UX Designer
7 6 (5.22%) E-Commerce Specialist
7 6 (5.22%) UI Specialist
7 6 (5.22%) UX Specialist
8 5 (4.35%) Applications Engineer
8 5 (4.35%) Junior
8 5 (4.35%) Lead
8 5 (4.35%) Product Manager
8 5 (4.35%) Senior Applications Designer
8 5 (4.35%) Senior Applications Engineer
8 5 (4.35%) Senior Product Designer
8 5 (4.35%) Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.83%) HTML
2 8 (6.96%) CSS
3 5 (4.35%) React
3 5 (4.35%) REST
4 4 (3.48%) EDI
5 3 (2.61%) .NET
5 3 (2.61%) Web Services
6 2 (1.74%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.74%) LAMP
6 2 (1.74%) Laravel
6 2 (1.74%) LEMP Stack
6 2 (1.74%) LESS
6 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (1.74%) Node.js
6 2 (1.74%) Sass
6 2 (1.74%) Vue
7 1 (0.87%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.87%) Lightning Web Components
7 1 (0.87%) Next.js
7 1 (0.87%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.83%) Onboarding
1 9 (7.83%) Product Ownership
2 6 (5.22%) Mobile App
3 4 (3.48%) Learning Management System
4 3 (2.61%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.61%) Driving Licence
4 3 (2.61%) Social Media
5 2 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.74%) Educational Technology
5 2 (1.74%) e-Learning
5 2 (1.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.74%) NHS
5 2 (1.74%) PropTech
5 2 (1.74%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (0.87%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.87%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.87%) Online Gambling
6 1 (0.87%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.96%) Apple iOS
1 8 (6.96%) Windows
2 3 (2.61%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.74%) Android
3 2 (1.74%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (35.65%) UX Design
2 27 (23.48%) Continuous Improvement
3 23 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (18.26%) Agile
5 19 (16.52%) AI
6 18 (15.65%) E-Commerce
7 13 (11.30%) Analytics
7 13 (11.30%) CI/CD
8 12 (10.43%) Stakeholder Management
9 10 (8.70%) Collaborative Culture
9 10 (8.70%) User Research
10 9 (7.83%) Interaction Design
10 9 (7.83%) Mentoring
10 9 (7.83%) Service Management
10 9 (7.83%) Software Engineering
10 9 (7.83%) Test Automation
11 8 (6.96%) CRM
11 8 (6.96%) Prototyping
11 8 (6.96%) Roadmaps
11 8 (6.96%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 10 (8.70%) JavaScript
2 9 (7.83%) C#
3 6 (5.22%) Swift
4 4 (3.48%) SQL
5 3 (2.61%) Python
6 2 (1.74%) Java
6 2 (1.74%) PHP
6 2 (1.74%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.87%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 6 (5.22%) Degree
1 6 (5.22%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.35%) DV Cleared
3 3 (2.61%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.87%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.96%) Accessibility
2 6 (5.22%) WCAG
3 4 (3.48%) QA
3 4 (3.48%) SLA
4 2 (1.74%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.87%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (0.87%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.87%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.61%) Terraform
2 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.87%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.87%) Packer
3 1 (0.87%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 21 (18.26%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.35%) Google
3 3 (2.61%) ServiceNow
4 2 (1.74%) Amplitude
4 2 (1.74%) OneLogin
4 2 (1.74%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.74%) Synthesia
4 2 (1.74%) Workday
5 1 (0.87%) Adyen
5 1 (0.87%) Apple
5 1 (0.87%) Meraki
5 1 (0.87%) Oracle