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 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 109 83
Rank change year-on-year +38 -26 +12
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 180 207 167
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 3.02% 2.31% 3.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.68% 2.79% 3.55%
Number of salaries quoted 93 115 145
10th Percentile £27,600 £31,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £43,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £42,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.35% -22.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,041 £60,000 £65,001
90th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £59,684 £61,250
% change year-on-year -3.66% -2.56% -2.00%

All Process and 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 4,895 7,411 4,702
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.13% 82.85% 93.11%
Number of salaries quoted 3,274 3,351 3,623
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,750 £36,610
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,398 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.35% +4.80% -2.91%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,967 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.64%

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 22 November 2025.

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 22 November 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
East Midlands +20 93 £40,000 +14.29% 33
West Midlands +33 88 £55,000 +2.33% 62
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 10 (5.56%) CMS
1 10 (5.56%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.22%) Confluence
3 3 (1.67%) Apache
3 3 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.11%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.56%) Appian
5 1 (0.56%) nginx
5 1 (0.56%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (3.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.67%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 3 (1.67%) InDesign
4 1 (0.56%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (0.56%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.56%) Adobe Premiere
4 1 (0.56%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.56%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.56%) Simulink
4 1 (0.56%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (3.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.22%) Shopify
3 3 (1.67%) SAP Business One
4 2 (1.11%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 2 (1.11%) OpenCart
5 1 (0.56%) Magento
5 1 (0.56%) Sage X3
5 1 (0.56%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.56%) TRIRIGA
Cloud Services
1 58 (32.22%) Cloud Computing
2 15 (8.33%) Azure
2 15 (8.33%) SaaS
3 10 (5.56%) Power Platform
4 9 (5.00%) Entra ID
4 9 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (4.44%) AWS
5 8 (4.44%) Dynamics 365
6 7 (3.89%) OCI
6 7 (3.89%) PowerApps
7 6 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (2.78%) Google Analytics
8 5 (2.78%) Power Automate
9 4 (2.22%) Azure Key Vault
9 4 (2.22%) Figma
9 4 (2.22%) OneDrive
10 3 (1.67%) ChatGPT
11 2 (1.11%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (1.11%) Google Ads
12 1 (0.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 59 (32.78%) Internet
2 5 (2.78%) Intranet
3 1 (0.56%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.56%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.00%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.89%) Oracle Reports
3 5 (2.78%) Power BI
4 2 (1.11%) MySQL
4 2 (1.11%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 2 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.11%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.56%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.56%) Hazelcast
5 1 (0.56%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.56%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 9 (5.00%) Git
2 7 (3.89%) JIRA
3 3 (1.67%) Babel
3 3 (1.67%) webpack
4 2 (1.11%) GitLab
4 2 (1.11%) Vite
5 1 (0.56%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.56%) JMeter
5 1 (0.56%) Selenium
5 1 (0.56%) Subversion
5 1 (0.56%) WebDriver
General
1 95 (52.78%) Social Skills
2 67 (37.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 62 (34.44%) Banking
4 36 (20.00%) Finance
5 22 (12.22%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (12.22%) Marketing
6 17 (9.44%) Retail
7 13 (7.22%) Legal
8 8 (4.44%) Law
9 6 (3.33%) Public Sector
10 5 (2.78%) Advertising
11 3 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.11%) Automotive
12 2 (1.11%) Local Government
12 2 (1.11%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.56%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.56%) Back Office
13 1 (0.56%) Games
13 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 48 (26.67%) Lecturer
2 30 (16.67%) Developer
3 16 (8.89%) Analyst
4 10 (5.56%) 1st Line Support
4 10 (5.56%) Senior
5 9 (5.00%) Designer
6 7 (3.89%) Coordinator
6 7 (3.89%) Product Owner
7 6 (3.33%) React Developer
7 6 (3.33%) Support Analyst
8 5 (2.78%) Chief Technology Officer
8 5 (2.78%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 5 (2.78%) Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (2.78%) Senior Developer
9 4 (2.22%) Digital Developer
9 4 (2.22%) E-Commerce Manager
9 4 (2.22%) Java Developer
9 4 (2.22%) Oracle Analyst
9 4 (2.22%) Oracle Support Analyst
9 4 (2.22%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (10.00%) HTML
2 17 (9.44%) CSS
3 12 (6.67%) React
4 9 (5.00%) .NET
5 8 (4.44%) RESTful
6 7 (3.89%) .NET Framework
7 6 (3.33%) Oracle Fusion
7 6 (3.33%) REST
8 5 (2.78%) Entity Framework
8 5 (2.78%) HTML5
8 5 (2.78%) Spring
9 4 (2.22%) AngularJS
9 4 (2.22%) Blazor
9 4 (2.22%) jQuery
9 4 (2.22%) Laravel
9 4 (2.22%) Spring Boot
10 3 (1.67%) ASP.NET
10 3 (1.67%) CSS3
10 3 (1.67%) JSON
10 3 (1.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 61 (33.89%) IoT
2 15 (8.33%) Driving Licence
3 13 (7.22%) e-Learning
4 8 (4.44%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.78%) Graphic Design
5 5 (2.78%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.78%) Social Media
6 3 (1.67%) Animation
6 3 (1.67%) Learning Management System
6 3 (1.67%) Legacy Code
6 3 (1.67%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.67%) Video Editing
6 3 (1.67%) Web Conferencing
7 2 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.11%) Blog
7 2 (1.11%) CMDB
7 2 (1.11%) Digital Media
7 2 (1.11%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.11%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.89%) Windows
2 4 (2.22%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.11%) Linux
4 1 (0.56%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (45.56%) AI
2 63 (35.00%) Cybersecurity
3 62 (34.44%) Web Development
4 59 (32.78%) Machine Learning
5 37 (20.56%) Agile
5 37 (20.56%) Problem-Solving
6 34 (18.89%) Continuous Improvement
7 24 (13.33%) UX Design
8 23 (12.78%) DevOps
9 15 (8.33%) Service Management
10 14 (7.78%) Analytics
10 14 (7.78%) CI/CD
11 13 (7.22%) E-Commerce
11 13 (7.22%) ITIL
11 13 (7.22%) Stakeholder Management
12 12 (6.67%) Roadmaps
13 11 (6.11%) Coaching
13 11 (6.11%) CRM
13 11 (6.11%) Full-Stack Development
14 10 (5.56%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 19 (10.56%) JavaScript
2 13 (7.22%) SQL
3 10 (5.56%) C#
4 7 (3.89%) Java
4 7 (3.89%) PowerShell
5 6 (3.33%) Python
6 5 (2.78%) TypeScript
7 4 (2.22%) Bicep
7 4 (2.22%) PHP
8 2 (1.11%) Apex Code
8 2 (1.11%) Bash
8 2 (1.11%) VB
9 1 (0.56%) C
9 1 (0.56%) C++
9 1 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.56%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.56%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.56%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.56%) XAML
Qualifications
1 65 (36.11%) Degree
2 59 (32.78%) Master's Degree
3 58 (32.22%) PhD
3 58 (32.22%) Postgraduate
4 5 (2.78%) Security Cleared
5 4 (2.22%) DBS Check
5 4 (2.22%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.11%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.56%) A+ Certification
8 1 (0.56%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.56%) MCDST
8 1 (0.56%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.56%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.00%) Accessibility
2 7 (3.89%) QA
3 3 (1.67%) WCAG
4 2 (1.11%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.11%) GDPR
4 2 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 19770
4 2 (1.11%) SLA
5 1 (0.56%) COBIT
System Software
1 14 (7.78%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.11%) Docker
2 2 (1.11%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (2.78%) Terraform
2 4 (2.22%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.11%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.56%) SCCM
4 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 35 (19.44%) Microsoft
2 13 (7.22%) SAP
3 7 (3.89%) Oracle
4 6 (3.33%) Adobe
5 5 (2.78%) Google
5 5 (2.78%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.22%) Ahrefs
6 4 (2.22%) Citrix
6 4 (2.22%) Guidewire
6 4 (2.22%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.67%) Apple
7 3 (1.67%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.11%) Facebook
8 2 (1.11%) Instagram
8 2 (1.11%) JD Edwards
8 2 (1.11%) Planon
8 2 (1.11%) TikTok
8 2 (1.11%) YouTube
9 1 (0.56%) IBM
9 1 (0.56%) Sage