User Research Jobs in Manchester

User Research
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring User Research skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited User Research over the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 147 155 213
Rank change year-on-year +8 +58 -97
Permanent jobs citing User Research 12 68 32
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.54% 1.31% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 1.52% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 11 38 23
10th Percentile £42,250 - £50,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,725 £56,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - -21.43% +31.80%
75th Percentile £58,750 £70,000 -
90th Percentile £63,750 £76,666 -
North West median annual salary £71,300 £50,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +42.60% -28.57% +31.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

User Research 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 2,124 4,475 4,724
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 95.20% 86.37% 96.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1,298 3,415 2,525
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,750 £41,250 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £54,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.50% -5.22% +4.55%
75th Percentile £76,840 £68,857 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £82,500 £83,750
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

User Research
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing User Research as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for User Research in Manchester

User Research
Salary Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing User Research in Manchester.

Salary trend for User Research in Manchester

User Research
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing User Research in Manchester over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Salary histogram for User Research in Manchester

User Research
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 Research within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
Bolton - 1 £42,500 - 1
Rochdale - 1 £52,500 -
Stockport - 1 £62,500 - 2
User Research
North West

User Research
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Adobe XD
1 1 (8.33%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) AWS
1 4 (33.33%) Figma
2 2 (16.67%) AWS Fargate
2 2 (16.67%) Google Analytics
3 1 (8.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) LoRaWAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
1 1 (8.33%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (8.33%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 9 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Manufacturing
3 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Games
4 1 (8.33%) Automotive
4 1 (8.33%) Banking
4 1 (8.33%) Electronics
4 1 (8.33%) Law
4 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Senior
2 4 (33.33%) Designer
3 3 (25.00%) Senior Designer
3 3 (25.00%) Senior UX Designer
3 3 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) UX Designer
4 2 (16.67%) Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 2 (16.67%) Performance Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (8.33%) Junior
5 1 (8.33%) Lead
5 1 (8.33%) Lead Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Product Manager
5 1 (8.33%) Senior UI Designer
5 1 (8.33%) Service Designer
5 1 (8.33%) UI Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) CSS
1 4 (33.33%) HTML
2 3 (25.00%) NestJS
2 3 (25.00%) React
2 3 (25.00%) RESTful
3 2 (16.67%) React Native
4 1 (8.33%) .NET
4 1 (8.33%) D3.js
4 1 (8.33%) JSON
4 1 (8.33%) LINQ
4 1 (8.33%) Next.js
4 1 (8.33%) Node.js
4 1 (8.33%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 3 (25.00%) IoT
2 3 (25.00%) Renewable Energy
3 2 (16.67%) PropTech
4 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) User Experience
2 7 (58.33%) Agile
3 6 (50.00%) Prototyping
3 6 (50.00%) UX Design
4 5 (41.67%) Analytics
4 5 (41.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 4 (33.33%) Customer-Centricity
5 4 (33.33%) Mentoring
5 4 (33.33%) Wireframes
6 3 (25.00%) Data Analysis
6 3 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
6 3 (25.00%) Machine Learning
6 3 (25.00%) Performance Metrics
6 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (25.00%) Software Engineering
6 3 (25.00%) Usability Testing
6 3 (25.00%) Visualisation
6 3 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
7 2 (16.67%) CRM
7 2 (16.67%) Web Analytics
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 3 (25.00%) TypeScript
3 2 (16.67%) SQL
4 1 (8.33%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
1 1 (8.33%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Google
2 1 (8.33%) Adobe
2 1 (8.33%) EMC