UX Design Jobs in Manchester

User Experience Design (UXD)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring UX Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited UX Design over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 134 150 170
Rank change year-on-year +16 +20 -30
Permanent jobs citing UX Design 28 69 75
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 1.27% 1.27% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.33% 1.49% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 20 47 36
10th Percentile £42,500 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £49,875 £41,250 £44,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £52,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.90% -25.00% +27.27%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 -
90th Percentile £75,750 £76,340 £76,250
North West median annual salary £57,500 £45,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +27.78% -28.00% +13.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

UX Design 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 2,112 4,618 4,513
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 95.48% 84.84% 96.31%
Number of salaries quoted 1,188 3,482 2,473
10th Percentile £29,750 £30,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £76,250 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,875 £81,250 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing UX Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for UX Design in Manchester

UX Design
Salary Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing UX Design in Manchester.

Salary trend for UX Design in Manchester

UX Design
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing UX Design in Manchester over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for UX Design in Manchester

UX Design
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing UX Design within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 30 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
Altrincham +4 6 £65,000 +100.00% 3
Bolton - 1 - - 33
Oldham - 1 - -
Stockport - 1 - - 27
UX Design
North West

UX Design
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 4 (14.29%) IBM Domino
2 1 (3.57%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Adobe XD
1 2 (7.14%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 10 (35.71%) AWS
2 7 (25.00%) Figma
3 5 (17.86%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (17.86%) Google Analytics
3 5 (17.86%) Serverless
4 3 (10.71%) SaaS
5 2 (7.14%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (3.57%) Azure
6 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.57%) Cloudflare
6 1 (3.57%) Cloudflare Workers
6 1 (3.57%) Datadog
6 1 (3.57%) GitHub
6 1 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.14%) LoRaWAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.86%) DynamoDB
2 4 (14.29%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 4 (14.29%) Git
2 1 (3.57%) Jasmine
2 1 (3.57%) Karma Test Runner
2 1 (3.57%) Storybook
General
1 11 (39.29%) Social Skills
2 9 (32.14%) Finance
3 7 (25.00%) Games
4 3 (10.71%) Manufacturing
5 2 (7.14%) Marketing
6 1 (3.57%) Health Technology
6 1 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (39.29%) Senior
2 8 (28.57%) Developer
3 5 (17.86%) Designer
3 5 (17.86%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 5 (17.86%) Java Developer
3 5 (17.86%) Senior Developer
3 5 (17.86%) Senior Java Developer
4 4 (14.29%) User Experience Researcher
4 4 (14.29%) UX Designer
5 3 (10.71%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 3 (10.71%) Senior Designer
5 3 (10.71%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 3 (10.71%) Senior UX Designer
5 3 (10.71%) Software Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Lead
6 2 (7.14%) Senior Software Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Magento Developer
7 1 (3.57%) Senior UI/UX Designer
7 1 (3.57%) UI/UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (35.71%) React
2 9 (32.14%) CSS
3 8 (28.57%) HTML
4 5 (17.86%) Amazon Corretto
4 5 (17.86%) RESTful
5 4 (14.29%) React Native
6 3 (10.71%) NestJS
7 2 (7.14%) AngularJS
7 2 (7.14%) Sass
8 1 (3.57%) .NET
8 1 (3.57%) Framer.js
8 1 (3.57%) GraphQL
8 1 (3.57%) Jest
8 1 (3.57%) LESS
8 1 (3.57%) Next.js
8 1 (3.57%) Redux
8 1 (3.57%) RequireJS
8 1 (3.57%) RxJS
8 1 (3.57%) Tailwind CSS
8 1 (3.57%) Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) e-Learning
2 4 (14.29%) IoT
3 3 (10.71%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (7.14%) Educational Technology
4 2 (7.14%) Product Ownership
4 2 (7.14%) PropTech
5 1 (3.57%) Client/Server
5 1 (3.57%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (3.57%) Graphic Design
5 1 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (3.57%) Mobile App
5 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.57%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) Android
1 1 (3.57%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (100.00%) User Experience
2 14 (50.00%) Agile
3 11 (39.29%) Front End Development
4 10 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (28.57%) Analytics
5 8 (28.57%) DevOps
5 8 (28.57%) Prototyping
6 6 (21.43%) Clean Code
6 6 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (21.43%) Test Automation
6 6 (21.43%) Usability Testing
6 6 (21.43%) User Research
7 5 (17.86%) Actionable Insight
7 5 (17.86%) Pair Programming
7 5 (17.86%) Performance Monitoring
7 5 (17.86%) Software Engineering
7 5 (17.86%) TDD
7 5 (17.86%) UX Research
8 4 (14.29%) Behavioural Analytics
8 4 (14.29%) Quantitative Research
Programming Languages
1 12 (42.86%) TypeScript
2 8 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 5 (17.86%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (25.00%) Degree
2 2 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (21.43%) Accessibility
2 2 (7.14%) WCAG
3 1 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 9 (32.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (21.43%) Kubernetes
1 6 (21.43%) Terraform
2 1 (3.57%) Grafana
2 1 (3.57%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (17.86%) Google
2 4 (14.29%) Hotjar
3 3 (10.71%) Adobe
3 3 (10.71%) Bloomberg
4 1 (3.57%) Microsoft