User Experience Job Trends in the Midlands

UX
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring User Experience skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 111 66
Rank change year-on-year +98 -45 +86
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 1,162 124 428
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 8.75% 2.54% 3.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.06% 2.84% 4.29%
Number of salaries quoted 130 75 273
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £26,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £53,688 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.18% +13.03% -9.52%
75th Percentile £55,000 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £67,625 £70,250 £70,400
England median annual salary £56,500 £60,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year -5.83% +17.65% -21.54%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,635 4,366 9,984
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 72.52% 89.47% 80.28%
Number of salaries quoted 5,885 2,375 7,358
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,897 £26,250
25th Percentile £39,959 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £49,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.08% +3.16% -9.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £62,200
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing User Experience relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

User Experience job vacancy trend in the Midlands

User Experience
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing User Experience.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing User Experience

User Experience
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing User Experience in the Midlands over the 6 months to 28 May 2026.

Salary histogram for User Experience in the Midlands

User Experience
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing User Experience within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 May 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
West Midlands +76 1,024 £47,500 -12.59% 40
East Midlands +52 150 £43,750 +25.00% 18
User Experience
England

User Experience
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 16 (1.38%) CMS
2 9 (0.77%) Confluence
3 8 (0.69%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.34%) nginx
5 1 (0.086%) Apache
5 1 (0.086%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.086%) Drupal
5 1 (0.086%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 12 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (0.86%) Photoshop
3 9 (0.77%) Adobe Illustrator
4 5 (0.43%) Adobe After Effects
5 3 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
6 2 (0.17%) Sketch
6 2 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.086%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 6 (0.52%) Shopify
2 5 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.086%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.086%) Magento
4 1 (0.086%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 987 (84.94%) Cloud Computing
2 25 (2.15%) GitHub
3 24 (2.07%) SaaS
4 20 (1.72%) AWS
5 14 (1.20%) Figma
5 14 (1.20%) Serverless
6 13 (1.12%) Azure
6 13 (1.12%) Firebase
6 13 (1.12%) GitHub Actions
6 13 (1.12%) Stripe
6 13 (1.12%) TestFlight
7 11 (0.95%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (0.86%) Power Platform
9 8 (0.69%) GitHub Copilot
10 5 (0.43%) Entra ID
11 4 (0.34%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (0.34%) Google Analytics
11 4 (0.34%) Power Automate
11 4 (0.34%) PowerApps
12 3 (0.26%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 987 (84.94%) Internet
2 3 (0.26%) Firewall
3 1 (0.086%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.086%) Broadband
3 1 (0.086%) Intranet
3 1 (0.086%) RFID
3 1 (0.086%) VLAN
3 1 (0.086%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (0.43%) Power BI
2 4 (0.34%) MySQL
3 3 (0.26%) BigQuery
3 3 (0.26%) Looker
4 2 (0.17%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.17%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.086%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.086%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.086%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.086%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (1.12%) Crashlytics
1 13 (1.12%) XCTest
2 8 (0.69%) Git
2 8 (0.69%) JIRA
2 8 (0.69%) Visual Studio
3 4 (0.34%) Vite
4 3 (0.26%) Storybook
4 3 (0.26%) XCUITest
5 2 (0.17%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.086%) Balsamiq
6 1 (0.086%) gulp
6 1 (0.086%) JMeter
6 1 (0.086%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.086%) Selenium
6 1 (0.086%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.086%) TestRail
6 1 (0.086%) Toad
6 1 (0.086%) webpack
6 1 (0.086%) Zephyr
General
1 1,048 (90.19%) Social Skills
2 993 (85.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 987 (84.94%) Banking
4 23 (1.98%) Finance
5 14 (1.20%) Marketing
5 14 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
5 14 (1.20%) Retail
6 12 (1.03%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (0.77%) Law
8 7 (0.60%) Public Sector
9 6 (0.52%) Games
9 6 (0.52%) Manufacturing
10 5 (0.43%) iGaming
10 5 (0.43%) Legal
11 4 (0.34%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (0.34%) Front Office
11 4 (0.34%) Military
12 1 (0.086%) Brand Awareness
12 1 (0.086%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 735 (63.25%) Lecturer
2 27 (2.32%) Designer
3 26 (2.24%) Developer
4 24 (2.07%) UX Designer
5 21 (1.81%) Analyst
6 17 (1.46%) Senior
7 13 (1.12%) Mobile Engineer
7 13 (1.12%) Product Owner
8 12 (1.03%) Business Analyst
9 11 (0.95%) UI Designer
9 11 (0.95%) UI/UX Designer
10 10 (0.86%) Service Manager
11 8 (0.69%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 7 (0.60%) Blazor Developer
12 7 (0.60%) IT Manager
12 7 (0.60%) IT Support
12 7 (0.60%) Java Developer
12 7 (0.60%) Products Support Technician
12 7 (0.60%) Support Technician
12 7 (0.60%) UX Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (1.38%) SwiftUI
2 14 (1.20%) CSS
2 14 (1.20%) HTML
3 13 (1.12%) UIKit
4 10 (0.86%) .NET
5 8 (0.69%) Blazor
5 8 (0.69%) Material Design
5 8 (0.69%) WebAssembly
6 7 (0.60%) RESTful
7 6 (0.52%) Laravel
8 5 (0.43%) REST
8 5 (0.43%) Sass
8 5 (0.43%) Vue
9 4 (0.34%) AngularJS
9 4 (0.34%) HTML5
9 4 (0.34%) LEMP Stack
9 4 (0.34%) React
9 4 (0.34%) Tailwind CSS
9 4 (0.34%) YAML
10 3 (0.26%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 987 (84.94%) IoT
2 27 (2.32%) Product Ownership
3 19 (1.64%) Mobile App
4 13 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (0.60%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (0.43%) Animation
7 4 (0.34%) CMDB
7 4 (0.34%) Culture of Ownership
8 3 (0.26%) Cyber Security Posture
8 3 (0.26%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (0.26%) Graphic Design
8 3 (0.26%) Management Information System
8 3 (0.26%) Onboarding
8 3 (0.26%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.17%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.17%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.17%) Photography
9 2 (0.17%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.086%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.086%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 18 (1.55%) Apple iOS
2 10 (0.86%) Windows
3 5 (0.43%) Linux
4 2 (0.17%) Android
5 1 (0.086%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.086%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,003 (86.32%) AI
2 993 (85.46%) Cybersecurity
3 988 (85.03%) Web Development
4 987 (84.94%) Machine Learning
5 42 (3.61%) UX Design
6 41 (3.53%) Agile
7 34 (2.93%) Continuous Improvement
8 27 (2.32%) Analytics
9 23 (1.98%) CRM
10 22 (1.89%) Test Automation
11 20 (1.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 19 (1.64%) Code Quality
12 19 (1.64%) Process Improvement
12 19 (1.64%) Product Vision
13 18 (1.55%) Problem-Solving
14 17 (1.46%) CI/CD
14 17 (1.46%) Front End Development
14 17 (1.46%) Roadmaps
15 16 (1.38%) iOS Development
15 16 (1.38%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 16 (1.38%) JavaScript
1 16 (1.38%) Swift
2 13 (1.12%) Kotlin
3 12 (1.03%) Java
4 9 (0.77%) C#
4 9 (0.77%) PHP
5 6 (0.52%) SQL
6 4 (0.34%) Bash
7 3 (0.26%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.17%) ABAP
8 2 (0.17%) Python
9 1 (0.086%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 1,004 (86.40%) Degree
2 988 (85.03%) Master's Degree
3 987 (84.94%) PhD
3 987 (84.94%) Postgraduate
4 8 (0.69%) Security Cleared
5 5 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (0.34%) A+ Certification
6 4 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (0.34%) SC Cleared
7 3 (0.26%) Network+ Certification
8 2 (0.17%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.086%) CBAP
9 1 (0.086%) MCDST
9 1 (0.086%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.086%) PMP
9 1 (0.086%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (2.15%) Accessibility
2 15 (1.29%) QA
3 9 (0.77%) WCAG
4 7 (0.60%) GDPR
5 4 (0.34%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (0.26%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.086%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.086%) SLA
7 1 (0.086%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 5 (0.43%) Docker
2 4 (0.34%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (0.17%) Terraform
2 1 (0.086%) HP ALM
2 1 (0.086%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.086%) MOM
2 1 (0.086%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (2.15%) Microsoft
2 13 (1.12%) Amplitude
2 13 (1.12%) Braze
3 9 (0.77%) Adobe
4 5 (0.43%) Nexthink
5 3 (0.26%) Apple
5 3 (0.26%) Google
5 3 (0.26%) Infor
5 3 (0.26%) SAP
5 3 (0.26%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.17%) IFS
6 2 (0.17%) iManage
6 2 (0.17%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.086%) Databricks
7 1 (0.086%) Epicor
7 1 (0.086%) Hotjar
7 1 (0.086%) HP
7 1 (0.086%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.086%) Oracle