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 25 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 114 70
Rank change year-on-year +12 -44 +81
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 171 133 460
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.35% 2.62% 3.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.94% 2.97% 4.17%
Number of salaries quoted 121 80 278
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £26,925
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,938 £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 £57,500 £60,625 £63,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £70,125 £70,400
England median annual salary £56,500 £60,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year -5.83% +17.65% -20.93%

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 8,819 4,485 11,024
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.70% 88.39% 78.99%
Number of salaries quoted 6,198 2,585 7,602
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £48,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.25% +2.11% -9.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 25 June 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 25 June 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 -19 102 £47,500 -13.64% 32
East Midlands +8 69 £45,000 +28.57% 21
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 (9.36%) CMS
2 11 (6.43%) SharePoint
3 7 (4.09%) Confluence
4 4 (2.34%) nginx
5 3 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.58%) Apache
6 1 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.58%) Drupal
Applications
1 14 (8.19%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (5.85%) Photoshop
3 9 (5.26%) Adobe Illustrator
4 5 (2.92%) Adobe After Effects
5 4 (2.34%) Microsoft Excel
6 3 (1.75%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (1.17%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.58%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.58%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 7 (4.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (3.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (3.51%) Shopify
3 2 (1.17%) Dynamics GP
3 2 (1.17%) Visualfiles
4 1 (0.58%) Magento
4 1 (0.58%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 23 (13.45%) GitHub
2 21 (12.28%) AWS
3 19 (11.11%) SaaS
4 16 (9.36%) Azure
5 15 (8.77%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (8.77%) Serverless
6 14 (8.19%) Firebase
6 14 (8.19%) GitHub Actions
6 14 (8.19%) Stripe
6 14 (8.19%) TestFlight
7 13 (7.60%) Figma
8 10 (5.85%) Power Platform
9 6 (3.51%) Entra ID
9 6 (3.51%) Power Automate
9 6 (3.51%) PowerApps
10 5 (2.92%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (2.92%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (2.92%) GitHub Copilot
11 4 (2.34%) Google Analytics
12 3 (1.75%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.75%) Firewall
2 1 (0.58%) Broadband
2 1 (0.58%) Intranet
2 1 (0.58%) VLAN
2 1 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.92%) Power BI
2 4 (2.34%) MySQL
3 3 (1.75%) BigQuery
3 3 (1.75%) Looker
3 3 (1.75%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.17%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (8.19%) Crashlytics
1 14 (8.19%) XCTest
2 8 (4.68%) JIRA
3 7 (4.09%) Git
4 5 (2.92%) Visual Studio
5 4 (2.34%) Vite
6 3 (1.75%) Storybook
6 3 (1.75%) XCUITest
7 2 (1.17%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.58%) gulp
8 1 (0.58%) JMeter
8 1 (0.58%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.58%) NUnit
8 1 (0.58%) Selenium
8 1 (0.58%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.58%) TestRail
8 1 (0.58%) Toad
8 1 (0.58%) webpack
8 1 (0.58%) Zephyr
General
1 68 (39.77%) Social Skills
2 28 (16.37%) Finance
3 16 (9.36%) Marketing
3 16 (9.36%) Retail
4 13 (7.60%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (7.60%) Law
4 13 (7.60%) Organisational Skills
5 11 (6.43%) Legal
6 9 (5.26%) Manufacturing
7 7 (4.09%) Public Sector
8 6 (3.51%) Games
8 6 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.92%) iGaming
10 4 (2.34%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (2.34%) Front Office
10 4 (2.34%) Military
11 2 (1.17%) Legal Technology
12 1 (0.58%) Banking
12 1 (0.58%) Brand Awareness
12 1 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (15.20%) Designer
2 25 (14.62%) Developer
3 23 (13.45%) UX Designer
4 21 (12.28%) Analyst
5 16 (9.36%) Senior
6 14 (8.19%) Mobile Engineer
7 12 (7.02%) Business Analyst
8 10 (5.85%) Product Owner
9 8 (4.68%) Service Manager
10 7 (4.09%) Products Support Technician
10 7 (4.09%) Support Technician
10 7 (4.09%) UI Designer
10 7 (4.09%) UI/UX Designer
11 6 (3.51%) IT Manager
11 6 (3.51%) IT Support
11 6 (3.51%) Lead
11 6 (3.51%) SAP Developer
12 5 (2.92%) Animator
13 4 (2.34%) Java Developer
13 4 (2.34%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (9.94%) SwiftUI
2 14 (8.19%) CSS
2 14 (8.19%) HTML
2 14 (8.19%) UIKit
3 10 (5.85%) .NET
3 10 (5.85%) REST
4 7 (4.09%) Node.js
4 7 (4.09%) RESTful
5 6 (3.51%) JDBC
5 6 (3.51%) Laravel
5 6 (3.51%) OAuth
5 6 (3.51%) SAP Fiori
5 6 (3.51%) SAPUI5
5 6 (3.51%) SOAP
6 5 (2.92%) Blazor
6 5 (2.92%) Material Design
6 5 (2.92%) React
6 5 (2.92%) Sass
6 5 (2.92%) Vue
6 5 (2.92%) WebAssembly
Miscellaneous
1 23 (13.45%) Product Ownership
2 22 (12.87%) Mobile App
3 14 (8.19%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (4.09%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.92%) Animation
5 5 (2.92%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.92%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.34%) CMDB
6 4 (2.34%) Culture of Ownership
7 3 (1.75%) Cyber Security Posture
7 3 (1.75%) Graphic Design
7 3 (1.75%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.17%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.17%) BYOD
8 2 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.17%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.17%) Photography
9 1 (0.58%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.58%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (12.28%) Apple iOS
2 15 (8.77%) Windows
3 5 (2.92%) Linux
4 4 (2.34%) Android
5 3 (1.75%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.58%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (24.56%) Continuous Improvement
2 38 (22.22%) Agile
3 34 (19.88%) UX Design
4 31 (18.13%) Analytics
5 29 (16.96%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (13.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 23 (13.45%) Test Automation
7 20 (11.70%) Code Quality
7 20 (11.70%) Process Improvement
7 20 (11.70%) Product Vision
8 19 (11.11%) CI/CD
9 18 (10.53%) Roadmaps
9 18 (10.53%) Workflow
10 17 (9.94%) Clean Code
10 17 (9.94%) CRM
10 17 (9.94%) Decision-Making
10 17 (9.94%) iOS Development
10 17 (9.94%) Storyboarding
11 16 (9.36%) ERP
12 15 (8.77%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 17 (9.94%) Swift
2 15 (8.77%) JavaScript
3 14 (8.19%) Kotlin
4 13 (7.60%) Java
5 10 (5.85%) SQL
6 9 (5.26%) C#
6 9 (5.26%) PHP
7 6 (3.51%) ABAP
8 5 (2.92%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.34%) Bash
10 2 (1.17%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.17%) Python
11 1 (0.58%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 17 (9.94%) Degree
2 8 (4.68%) Microsoft Certification
2 8 (4.68%) Security Cleared
3 4 (2.34%) A+ Certification
3 4 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (2.34%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.75%) Network+ Certification
5 2 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.58%) CBAP
6 1 (0.58%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.58%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.58%) MCDST
6 1 (0.58%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.58%) PMP
6 1 (0.58%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (12.28%) Accessibility
2 14 (8.19%) QA
3 7 (4.09%) GDPR
4 6 (3.51%) WCAG
5 5 (2.92%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (1.75%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.58%) SLA
7 1 (0.58%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 5 (2.92%) Docker
2 4 (2.34%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (1.17%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (1.17%) Terraform
2 1 (0.58%) HP ALM
2 1 (0.58%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 33 (19.30%) Microsoft
2 14 (8.19%) Amplitude
2 14 (8.19%) Braze
3 9 (5.26%) Adobe
3 9 (5.26%) SAP
4 6 (3.51%) iManage
5 5 (2.92%) Apple
6 4 (2.34%) Nexthink
7 3 (1.75%) Google
7 3 (1.75%) Infor
7 3 (1.75%) Oracle
7 3 (1.75%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.17%) IFS
8 2 (1.17%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.17%) Samsung
8 2 (1.17%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.58%) Databricks
9 1 (0.58%) Hotjar
9 1 (0.58%) HP