UX Design Job Trends in Manchester

User Experience Design (UXD)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring UX Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 112 115
Rank change year-on-year -5 +3 +2
Permanent jobs citing UX Design 16 53 31
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.60% 1.88% 1.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 2.02% 1.55%
Number of salaries quoted 4 19 20
10th Percentile £50,875 £42,450 £33,575
25th Percentile £55,938 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £55,000 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year +15.91% +7.32% -14.58%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £61,250
90th Percentile - £75,250 £70,250
North West median annual salary £56,250 £55,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +2.27% +29.41% -29.17%

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 2,223 2,627 1,999
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 82.95% 93.02% 94.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1,281 1,236 1,601
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,250 £33,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +0.22%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing UX Design relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

UX Design job vacancy trend in Manchester

UX Design
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing UX Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing UX Design

UX Design
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing UX Design in Manchester over the 6 months to 20 December 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 20 December 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 -9 2 £65,000 +23.81%
Stockport - 1 - -
UX Design
North West

UX Design
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 3 (18.75%) Confluence
2 1 (6.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (6.25%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) Figma
2 7 (43.75%) Adobe Analytics
3 5 (31.25%) AWS
4 2 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (12.50%) Serverless
5 1 (6.25%) Azure
5 1 (6.25%) ChatGPT
5 1 (6.25%) GitHub
5 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) JIRA
2 3 (18.75%) Git
3 1 (6.25%) JUnit
3 1 (6.25%) Maven
3 1 (6.25%) Selenium
General
1 6 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (37.50%) Banking
1 6 (37.50%) Influencing Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Finance
2 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Games
3 2 (12.50%) Law
4 1 (6.25%) Marketing
4 1 (6.25%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.25%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Senior
1 6 (37.50%) Strategy Manager
2 5 (31.25%) Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Senior Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Senior Manager
3 3 (18.75%) Senior Strategy Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Consultant
4 2 (12.50%) Designer
4 2 (12.50%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 2 (12.50%) Java Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Java Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Service Designer
5 1 (6.25%) Angular Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 1 (6.25%) Node.js Developer
5 1 (6.25%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) CSS
1 4 (25.00%) HTML
1 4 (25.00%) React
2 3 (18.75%) AngularJS
3 2 (12.50%) Node.js
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon Corretto
4 1 (6.25%) JSR 170
4 1 (6.25%) OSGi
4 1 (6.25%) Spring
4 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
4 1 (6.25%) Svelte
4 1 (6.25%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.25%) e-Learning
2 1 (6.25%) Life Science
2 1 (6.25%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) User Experience
2 12 (75.00%) Agile
3 10 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (62.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 9 (56.25%) Continuous Improvement
5 8 (50.00%) Design Thinking
5 8 (50.00%) Prototyping
5 8 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
6 7 (43.75%) Analytics
7 6 (37.50%) Business Strategy
7 6 (37.50%) Creative Problem-Solving
7 6 (37.50%) Customer Journey Map
7 6 (37.50%) Customer-Centricity
7 6 (37.50%) Digital Banking
7 6 (37.50%) Journey Map
7 6 (37.50%) Matrix Organization
7 6 (37.50%) Service Design
7 6 (37.50%) Storytelling
7 6 (37.50%) Visualisation
7 6 (37.50%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) TypeScript
2 4 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (18.75%) Java
4 1 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
1 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (62.50%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 2 (12.50%) Terraform
2 1 (6.25%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) Adobe
2 6 (37.50%) Qualtrics