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 2 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 104 67
Rank change year-on-year +93 -37 +70
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 1,218 124 410
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 9.55% 2.49% 3.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.12% 2.80% 4.33%
Number of salaries quoted 125 85 266
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £35,750 £32,500 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -12.04%
75th Percentile £55,000 £62,500 £64,688
90th Percentile £67,400 £72,000 £70,400
England median annual salary £57,500 £58,500 £51,500
% change year-on-year -1.71% +13.59% -20.77%

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 9,281 4,432 9,460
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 72.79% 88.91% 82.17%
Number of salaries quoted 5,526 2,609 7,119
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £37,000 £35,000 £34,792
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £67,250 £65,000 £61,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,000 £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 2 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 2 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 +90 1,026 £45,000 -16.18% 58
East Midlands +46 204 £45,000 +28.57% 27
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 17 (1.40%) CMS
2 11 (0.90%) SharePoint
3 9 (0.74%) Confluence
4 5 (0.41%) nginx
5 2 (0.16%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.082%) Apache
6 1 (0.082%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.082%) Drupal
6 1 (0.082%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 12 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (0.82%) Adobe Illustrator
2 10 (0.82%) Photoshop
3 5 (0.41%) Adobe After Effects
4 3 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.082%) Sketch
5 1 (0.082%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (0.66%) Shopify
2 5 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.082%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 1,045 (85.80%) Cloud Computing
2 25 (2.05%) GitHub
3 21 (1.72%) SaaS
4 19 (1.56%) AWS
5 14 (1.15%) Azure
6 13 (1.07%) Power Platform
6 13 (1.07%) Serverless
7 12 (0.99%) Firebase
7 12 (0.99%) GitHub Actions
7 12 (0.99%) Stripe
7 12 (0.99%) TestFlight
8 11 (0.90%) Figma
9 10 (0.82%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (0.66%) GitHub Copilot
11 7 (0.57%) Power Automate
11 7 (0.57%) PowerApps
12 6 (0.49%) Dynamics 365
13 4 (0.33%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (0.33%) Entra ID
13 4 (0.33%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1,045 (85.80%) Internet
2 3 (0.25%) Firewall
2 3 (0.25%) Intranet
3 1 (0.082%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.082%) Broadband
3 1 (0.082%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (0.66%) Power BI
2 5 (0.41%) MySQL
3 3 (0.25%) BigQuery
3 3 (0.25%) Looker
3 3 (0.25%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.16%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (0.16%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.082%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.082%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.082%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.082%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 12 (0.99%) Crashlytics
1 12 (0.99%) XCTest
2 9 (0.74%) Git
3 8 (0.66%) JIRA
3 8 (0.66%) Visual Studio
4 5 (0.41%) Vite
5 3 (0.25%) Storybook
5 3 (0.25%) XCUITest
6 2 (0.16%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.082%) Balsamiq
7 1 (0.082%) JMeter
7 1 (0.082%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.082%) Selenium
7 1 (0.082%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.082%) TestRail
7 1 (0.082%) Toad
7 1 (0.082%) Zephyr
General
1 1,101 (90.39%) Social Skills
2 1,051 (86.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,050 (86.21%) Banking
4 28 (2.30%) Finance
5 16 (1.31%) Marketing
5 16 (1.31%) Organisational Skills
6 14 (1.15%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (0.90%) Retail
8 8 (0.66%) Law
8 8 (0.66%) Legal
9 7 (0.57%) Public Sector
10 6 (0.49%) Games
10 6 (0.49%) Manufacturing
11 5 (0.41%) iGaming
12 4 (0.33%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.33%) Front Office
12 4 (0.33%) Military
13 1 (0.082%) Brand Awareness
13 1 (0.082%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 783 (64.29%) Lecturer
2 29 (2.38%) Developer
3 23 (1.89%) Designer
4 22 (1.81%) UX Designer
5 19 (1.56%) Senior
6 17 (1.40%) Analyst
7 16 (1.31%) Product Owner
8 12 (0.99%) Mobile Engineer
9 11 (0.90%) Service Manager
9 11 (0.90%) UI Designer
9 11 (0.90%) UI/UX Designer
10 9 (0.74%) Java Developer
11 8 (0.66%) Business Analyst
11 8 (0.66%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 7 (0.57%) Blazor Developer
12 7 (0.57%) IT Manager
12 7 (0.57%) IT Support
12 7 (0.57%) UX Developer
13 5 (0.41%) Animator
13 5 (0.41%) IT Services Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (1.23%) CSS
1 15 (1.23%) HTML
1 15 (1.23%) SwiftUI
2 12 (0.99%) .NET
2 12 (0.99%) UIKit
3 8 (0.66%) Blazor
3 8 (0.66%) Material Design
3 8 (0.66%) WebAssembly
4 7 (0.57%) RESTful
5 6 (0.49%) Laravel
5 6 (0.49%) Vue
6 5 (0.41%) LEMP Stack
6 5 (0.41%) React
6 5 (0.41%) Tailwind CSS
6 5 (0.41%) YAML
7 4 (0.33%) AngularJS
7 4 (0.33%) Spring
8 3 (0.25%) REST
8 3 (0.25%) Sass
8 3 (0.25%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1,045 (85.80%) IoT
2 30 (2.46%) Product Ownership
3 17 (1.40%) Mobile App
4 12 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (0.57%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (0.41%) Animation
6 5 (0.41%) CMDB
7 4 (0.33%) Culture of Ownership
8 3 (0.25%) Cyber Security Posture
8 3 (0.25%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (0.25%) Graphic Design
8 3 (0.25%) Management Information System
8 3 (0.25%) Onboarding
8 3 (0.25%) Security Posture
8 3 (0.25%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.16%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.16%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.16%) Photography
10 1 (0.082%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.082%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (1.31%) Apple iOS
2 8 (0.66%) Windows
3 5 (0.41%) Linux
4 1 (0.082%) Android
4 1 (0.082%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,062 (87.19%) AI
2 1,052 (86.37%) Cybersecurity
3 1,048 (86.04%) Web Development
4 1,045 (85.80%) Machine Learning
5 44 (3.61%) Agile
6 38 (3.12%) UX Design
7 34 (2.79%) Continuous Improvement
8 26 (2.13%) Analytics
9 23 (1.89%) Roadmaps
10 22 (1.81%) CRM
11 20 (1.64%) Test Automation
12 19 (1.56%) Product Vision
13 18 (1.48%) Code Quality
14 17 (1.40%) Front End Development
14 17 (1.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 16 (1.31%) CI/CD
15 16 (1.31%) Problem-Solving
15 16 (1.31%) Wireframes
16 15 (1.23%) Clean Code
16 15 (1.23%) Storyboarding
Programming Languages
1 20 (1.64%) JavaScript
2 15 (1.23%) Swift
3 12 (0.99%) Java
3 12 (0.99%) Kotlin
4 11 (0.90%) C#
5 9 (0.74%) PHP
5 9 (0.74%) SQL
6 5 (0.41%) Bash
7 3 (0.25%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.16%) Python
Qualifications
1 1,059 (86.95%) Degree
2 1,046 (85.88%) Master's Degree
3 1,045 (85.80%) PhD
3 1,045 (85.80%) Postgraduate
4 9 (0.74%) Security Cleared
5 5 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (0.41%) SC Cleared
6 4 (0.33%) A+ Certification
6 4 (0.33%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.25%) Network+ Certification
8 2 (0.16%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.082%) CBAP
9 1 (0.082%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.082%) MCDST
9 1 (0.082%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.082%) PMP
9 1 (0.082%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (2.13%) Accessibility
2 18 (1.48%) QA
3 11 (0.90%) WCAG
4 7 (0.57%) GDPR
5 3 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (0.25%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.16%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.082%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.082%) ISO/IEC 19770
7 1 (0.082%) SLA
7 1 (0.082%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 6 (0.49%) Docker
2 4 (0.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.082%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (0.16%) Terraform
2 1 (0.082%) HP ALM
2 1 (0.082%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.082%) MOM
2 1 (0.082%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (2.05%) Microsoft
2 12 (0.99%) Amplitude
2 12 (0.99%) Braze
3 7 (0.57%) Adobe
4 5 (0.41%) Nexthink
5 3 (0.25%) Apple
5 3 (0.25%) Google
5 3 (0.25%) Infor
5 3 (0.25%) Oracle
5 3 (0.25%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.082%) Databricks
6 1 (0.082%) Epicor
6 1 (0.082%) Hotjar
6 1 (0.082%) HP
6 1 (0.082%) IFS
6 1 (0.082%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.082%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.082%) SAP