User-Centered Design (UCD) Job Trends in Merseyside

User-Centered Design (UCD)
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring User-Centered Design (UCD) skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 - 72
Rank change year-on-year - - +20
Permanent jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) 2 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Merseyside 0.26% - 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% - 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £43,583 - -
25th Percentile £47,569 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,025 - £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +29.41%
75th Percentile £75,169 - -
90th Percentile £79,568 - -
North West median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +9.52% -18.52%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Merseyside

User-Centered Design (UCD) 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 Merseyside.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 559 405 759
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 73.94% 92.89% 81.79%
Number of salaries quoted 352 168 636
10th Percentile £28,250 - £28,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% - -1.17%
75th Percentile £53,000 £60,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £69,750 £75,375 £76,636
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing User-Centered Design (UCD) relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Merseyside.

User-Centered Design (UCD) job vacancy trend in Merseyside

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Salary Trend in Merseyside

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing User-Centered Design (UCD).

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing User-Centered Design (UCD)

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Salary Histogram in Merseyside

Salary distribution for jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) in Merseyside over the 6 months to 2 March 2026.

Salary histogram for User-Centered Design (UCD) in Merseyside

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 2 March 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
Birkenhead - 1 £47,050 - 1
Liverpool - 1 £75,000 - 2
User-Centered Design (UCD)
North West

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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 1 (50.00%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Geospatial Data
1 1 (50.00%) GIS
1 1 (50.00%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Geospatial Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) Leaflet
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) OpenLayers
1 1 (50.00%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Design
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Kanban
2 1 (50.00%) Line Management
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) SEO
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Spatial Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Usability Testing
2 1 (50.00%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform