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 6 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 113 66
Rank change year-on-year +4 -47 +73
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 182 142 367
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.28% 2.48% 3.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.83% 2.91% 4.37%
Number of salaries quoted 125 88 193
10th Percentile £26,140 £32,500 £27,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,625 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £53,688 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.18% +7.38% -9.09%
75th Percentile £58,750 £60,906 £63,750
90th Percentile £69,500 £68,750 £70,320
England median annual salary £57,000 £58,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.56% +6.36% -12.00%

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 9,952 4,878 8,395
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.86% 85.12% 77.81%
Number of salaries quoted 7,098 2,971 5,137
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,968 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £66,250 £63,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £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 6 August 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 6 August 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 -25 108 £45,249 -17.73% 69
East Midlands +26 74 £45,000 +20.00% 16
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 (5.49%) CMS
2 9 (4.95%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.20%) Confluence
3 4 (2.20%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.55%) Apache
4 1 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.55%) Drupal
4 1 (0.55%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (4.95%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (3.30%) Photoshop
3 5 (2.75%) Adobe Illustrator
4 4 (2.20%) Adobe After Effects
4 4 (2.20%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (2.20%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (1.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.55%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.55%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.55%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 10 (5.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (4.95%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (2.20%) Shopify
4 3 (1.65%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (1.10%) Visualfiles
6 1 (0.55%) Magento
6 1 (0.55%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 26 (14.29%) Azure
2 22 (12.09%) AWS
3 21 (11.54%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (8.24%) GitHub
4 15 (8.24%) Serverless
5 14 (7.69%) Entra ID
5 14 (7.69%) Firebase
5 14 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
5 14 (7.69%) Stripe
5 14 (7.69%) TestFlight
6 12 (6.59%) SaaS
7 10 (5.49%) Figma
8 9 (4.95%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (4.95%) Power Platform
9 7 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (3.30%) Power Automate
10 6 (3.30%) PowerApps
11 4 (2.20%) Google Analytics
12 3 (1.65%) Adobe Analytics
12 3 (1.65%) Adobe Creative Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.75%) Firewall
2 3 (1.65%) Remote Desktop
3 2 (1.10%) DHCP
3 2 (1.10%) DNS
3 2 (1.10%) Network Security
3 2 (1.10%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.10%) VPN
4 1 (0.55%) Broadband
4 1 (0.55%) CTI
4 1 (0.55%) Intranet
4 1 (0.55%) VLAN
4 1 (0.55%) VoIP
4 1 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.20%) Power BI
2 3 (1.65%) BigQuery
2 3 (1.65%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.10%) Looker
4 1 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.55%) MySQL
4 1 (0.55%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (7.69%) Crashlytics
1 14 (7.69%) XCTest
2 11 (6.04%) JIRA
3 6 (3.30%) Git
4 3 (1.65%) XCUITest
5 1 (0.55%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.55%) gulp
5 1 (0.55%) JMeter
5 1 (0.55%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.55%) NUnit
5 1 (0.55%) Selenium
5 1 (0.55%) Storybook
5 1 (0.55%) TestRail
5 1 (0.55%) Toad
5 1 (0.55%) Vite
5 1 (0.55%) webpack
5 1 (0.55%) Yeoman
5 1 (0.55%) Zephyr
General
1 90 (49.45%) Social Skills
2 38 (20.88%) Finance
3 21 (11.54%) Retail
4 19 (10.44%) Organisational Skills
5 17 (9.34%) Marketing
6 16 (8.79%) Law
7 15 (8.24%) Analytical Skills
8 13 (7.14%) Legal
9 11 (6.04%) Public Sector
10 10 (5.49%) Manufacturing
11 7 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (2.75%) Games
13 4 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (2.20%) Front Office
13 4 (2.20%) iGaming
13 4 (2.20%) Military
14 3 (1.65%) Advertising
15 2 (1.10%) Brand Awareness
15 2 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (1.10%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 26 (14.29%) Designer
2 25 (13.74%) Analyst
3 24 (13.19%) Developer
4 19 (10.44%) UX Designer
5 18 (9.89%) Senior
6 15 (8.24%) IT Support
7 14 (7.69%) Mobile Engineer
8 13 (7.14%) Business Analyst
9 10 (5.49%) UI Designer
9 10 (5.49%) UI/UX Designer
10 9 (4.95%) Lead
10 9 (4.95%) SAP Developer
11 8 (4.40%) Senior Analyst
11 8 (4.40%) Service Manager
12 7 (3.85%) 1st Line Support
12 7 (3.85%) Project Manager
13 6 (3.30%) Digital Project Manager
13 6 (3.30%) IT Manager
13 6 (3.30%) Senior Business Analyst
13 6 (3.30%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (9.34%) SwiftUI
2 14 (7.69%) UIKit
3 12 (6.59%) REST
4 10 (5.49%) CSS
4 10 (5.49%) HTML
5 9 (4.95%) JDBC
5 9 (4.95%) Node.js
5 9 (4.95%) OAuth
5 9 (4.95%) SAP Fiori
5 9 (4.95%) SAPUI5
5 9 (4.95%) SOAP
6 6 (3.30%) React Native
7 5 (2.75%) React
7 5 (2.75%) RESTful
8 4 (2.20%) .NET
9 3 (1.65%) Laravel
9 3 (1.65%) Sass
9 3 (1.65%) XML
10 2 (1.10%) Gherkin
10 2 (1.10%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 27 (14.84%) Mobile App
2 17 (9.34%) Product Ownership
3 14 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
4 11 (6.04%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.30%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.75%) Driving Licence
7 4 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (2.20%) Animation
7 4 (2.20%) CMDB
7 4 (2.20%) Culture of Ownership
7 4 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.20%) PMI
8 2 (1.10%) BYOD
8 2 (1.10%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.10%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.10%) Graphic Design
8 2 (1.10%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.10%) Photography
9 1 (0.55%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (10.99%) Apple iOS
2 19 (10.44%) Windows
3 5 (2.75%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.65%) Android
5 2 (1.10%) Linux
6 1 (0.55%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (31.87%) Continuous Improvement
2 56 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
3 38 (20.88%) Agile
4 31 (17.03%) Analytics
5 30 (16.48%) UX Design
6 23 (12.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 23 (12.64%) Workflow
7 22 (12.09%) E-Commerce
8 20 (10.99%) Process Improvement
8 20 (10.99%) Test Automation
9 19 (10.44%) Stakeholder Management
10 18 (9.89%) CI/CD
10 18 (9.89%) Code Quality
10 18 (9.89%) Roadmaps
11 17 (9.34%) Decision-Making
11 17 (9.34%) iOS Development
12 16 (8.79%) Community of Practice
12 16 (8.79%) ERP
12 16 (8.79%) Storyboarding
13 15 (8.24%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 17 (9.34%) Swift
2 14 (7.69%) Kotlin
3 12 (6.59%) SQL
4 11 (6.04%) Java
5 9 (4.95%) ABAP
5 9 (4.95%) JavaScript
6 6 (3.30%) PHP
6 6 (3.30%) TypeScript
7 4 (2.20%) C#
7 4 (2.20%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.55%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.55%) Bash
8 1 (0.55%) Python
Qualifications
1 16 (8.79%) Degree
2 11 (6.04%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (2.20%) PMI Certification
3 4 (2.20%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.65%) A+ Certification
4 3 (1.65%) Network+ Certification
5 2 (1.10%) CBAP
5 2 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.10%) IIBA
6 1 (0.55%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.59%) Accessibility
2 9 (4.95%) QA
3 8 (4.40%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.10%) GDPR
5 1 (0.55%) SLA
5 1 (0.55%) Software Quality Assurance
5 1 (0.55%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (4.95%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.55%) Docker
3 1 (0.55%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.55%) HP ALM
2 1 (0.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 41 (22.53%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.69%) Amplitude
2 14 (7.69%) Braze
3 12 (6.59%) Adobe
3 12 (6.59%) SAP
4 9 (4.95%) iManage
5 5 (2.75%) Apple
5 5 (2.75%) Salesforce
6 4 (2.20%) Google
7 3 (1.65%) Oracle
7 3 (1.65%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.10%) Cisco
8 2 (1.10%) IFS
8 2 (1.10%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.10%) Samsung
9 1 (0.55%) Avaya
9 1 (0.55%) Genesys
9 1 (0.55%) HP