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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 104 74
Rank change year-on-year +95 -30 +64
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 1,211 113 356
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 10.75% 2.34% 3.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.38% 2.59% 4.02%
Number of salaries quoted 119 82 259
10th Percentile £32,400 £31,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £39,750 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.21% -11.67% -17.43%
75th Percentile £54,438 £59,688 £62,200
90th Percentile £67,250 £72,500 £70,570
England median annual salary £57,325 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.46% +14.29% -19.23%

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 8,423 4,358 8,848
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 74.78% 90.19% 82.66%
Number of salaries quoted 4,931 2,593 6,890
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,822 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,125 £36,995 £34,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +9.47% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,640 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 April 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 April 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 +112 1,030 £45,000 -16.18% 62
East Midlands +27 193 £43,750 +25.00% 31
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 (1.32%) CMS
2 11 (0.91%) SharePoint
3 9 (0.74%) Confluence
4 5 (0.41%) nginx
5 2 (0.17%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.083%) Apache
6 1 (0.083%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.083%) Drupal
6 1 (0.083%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 13 (1.07%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.74%) Adobe Illustrator
2 9 (0.74%) Photoshop
3 4 (0.33%) Adobe After Effects
3 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.083%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 8 (0.66%) Shopify
2 3 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.083%) Sage X3
3 1 (0.083%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 1,045 (86.29%) Cloud Computing
2 22 (1.82%) GitHub
3 21 (1.73%) SaaS
4 15 (1.24%) AWS
5 13 (1.07%) Azure
5 13 (1.07%) Power Platform
6 11 (0.91%) Figma
7 10 (0.83%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (0.83%) Serverless
8 9 (0.74%) Firebase
8 9 (0.74%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (0.74%) Stripe
8 9 (0.74%) TestFlight
9 8 (0.66%) GitHub Copilot
10 7 (0.58%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (0.58%) Power Automate
10 7 (0.58%) PowerApps
11 6 (0.50%) Google Analytics
12 5 (0.41%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (0.41%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1,045 (86.29%) Internet
2 3 (0.25%) Intranet
3 1 (0.083%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.083%) Broadband
3 1 (0.083%) Firewall
3 1 (0.083%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (0.74%) Power BI
2 5 (0.41%) MySQL
2 5 (0.41%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (0.25%) BigQuery
3 3 (0.25%) Looker
3 3 (0.25%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.17%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.083%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.083%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.083%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.083%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (0.74%) Crashlytics
1 9 (0.74%) Git
1 9 (0.74%) XCTest
2 8 (0.66%) JIRA
2 8 (0.66%) Visual Studio
3 6 (0.50%) Vite
4 3 (0.25%) Storybook
4 3 (0.25%) XCUITest
5 2 (0.17%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.083%) Babel
6 1 (0.083%) Balsamiq
6 1 (0.083%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.083%) JMeter
6 1 (0.083%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.083%) Selenium
6 1 (0.083%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.083%) TestRail
6 1 (0.083%) Toad
6 1 (0.083%) webpack
6 1 (0.083%) Zephyr
General
1 1,092 (90.17%) Social Skills
2 1,051 (86.79%) Banking
2 1,051 (86.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 25 (2.06%) Finance
4 24 (1.98%) Marketing
5 15 (1.24%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (0.99%) Legal
6 12 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (0.74%) Retail
8 8 (0.66%) Law
9 6 (0.50%) Games
10 5 (0.41%) Public Sector
11 4 (0.33%) iGaming
11 4 (0.33%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.17%) Advertising
13 1 (0.083%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.083%) Back Office
13 1 (0.083%) Front Office
13 1 (0.083%) Military
13 1 (0.083%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 783 (64.66%) Lecturer
2 32 (2.64%) Developer
3 23 (1.90%) Designer
4 22 (1.82%) UX Designer
5 17 (1.40%) Product Owner
6 15 (1.24%) Senior
7 14 (1.16%) Analyst
8 11 (0.91%) UI Designer
8 11 (0.91%) UI/UX Designer
9 9 (0.74%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 9 (0.74%) Java Developer
9 9 (0.74%) Mobile Engineer
10 8 (0.66%) Coordinator
11 7 (0.58%) Blazor Developer
11 7 (0.58%) Service Manager
11 7 (0.58%) UX Developer
12 5 (0.41%) Agile Product Owner
12 5 (0.41%) Business Analyst
12 5 (0.41%) IT Support
13 4 (0.33%) User Experience Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (1.32%) CSS
1 16 (1.32%) HTML
2 13 (1.07%) .NET
3 12 (0.99%) SwiftUI
4 9 (0.74%) UIKit
5 8 (0.66%) Blazor
5 8 (0.66%) Material Design
5 8 (0.66%) RESTful
5 8 (0.66%) WebAssembly
6 6 (0.50%) Laravel
6 6 (0.50%) React
6 6 (0.50%) Tailwind CSS
6 6 (0.50%) Vue
7 5 (0.41%) LEMP Stack
7 5 (0.41%) YAML
8 4 (0.33%) AngularJS
8 4 (0.33%) HTML5
8 4 (0.33%) Oracle Fusion
8 4 (0.33%) REST
8 4 (0.33%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1,045 (86.29%) IoT
2 31 (2.56%) Product Ownership
3 15 (1.24%) Mobile App
4 9 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (0.41%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (0.33%) Animation
7 3 (0.25%) CMDB
7 3 (0.25%) Cyber Security Posture
7 3 (0.25%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (0.25%) Graphic Design
7 3 (0.25%) Management Information System
7 3 (0.25%) Security Posture
7 3 (0.25%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.17%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.17%) Digital Media
8 2 (0.17%) Driving Licence
8 2 (0.17%) Photography
8 2 (0.17%) Social Media
9 1 (0.083%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.083%) Online Gambling
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.07%) Apple iOS
2 6 (0.50%) Windows
3 5 (0.41%) Linux
4 1 (0.083%) Android
4 1 (0.083%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,063 (87.78%) AI
2 1,051 (86.79%) Cybersecurity
3 1,048 (86.54%) Web Development
4 1,045 (86.29%) Machine Learning
5 44 (3.63%) Agile
6 35 (2.89%) UX Design
7 29 (2.39%) Continuous Improvement
8 25 (2.06%) Analytics
9 24 (1.98%) Roadmaps
10 20 (1.65%) CRM
11 18 (1.49%) Front End Development
11 18 (1.49%) Problem-Solving
12 16 (1.32%) E-Commerce
12 16 (1.32%) Product Vision
12 16 (1.32%) Test Automation
13 15 (1.24%) Code Quality
14 14 (1.16%) Product Backlog
14 14 (1.16%) User Stories
14 14 (1.16%) Wireframes
15 13 (1.07%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 21 (1.73%) JavaScript
2 13 (1.07%) Java
3 12 (0.99%) C#
3 12 (0.99%) Swift
4 9 (0.74%) Kotlin
4 9 (0.74%) PHP
4 9 (0.74%) SQL
5 5 (0.41%) Bash
6 4 (0.33%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.17%) Python
Qualifications
1 1,053 (86.95%) Degree
2 1,046 (86.37%) Master's Degree
3 1,045 (86.29%) PhD
3 1,045 (86.29%) Postgraduate
4 6 (0.50%) Security Cleared
5 5 (0.41%) SC Cleared
6 4 (0.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.17%) A+ Certification
7 2 (0.17%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.083%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.083%) CBAP
8 1 (0.083%) MCDST
8 1 (0.083%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.083%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.083%) PMP
8 1 (0.083%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (2.23%) Accessibility
2 19 (1.57%) QA
3 12 (0.99%) WCAG
4 5 (0.41%) GDPR
5 3 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (0.25%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.17%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 19770
7 1 (0.083%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.083%) SLA
7 1 (0.083%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 6 (0.50%) Docker
2 2 (0.17%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (0.17%) Terraform
2 1 (0.083%) HP ALM
2 1 (0.083%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.083%) MOM
2 1 (0.083%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (1.98%) Microsoft
2 9 (0.74%) Amplitude
2 9 (0.74%) Braze
3 6 (0.50%) Adobe
3 6 (0.50%) Oracle
4 5 (0.41%) Apple
4 5 (0.41%) Google
4 5 (0.41%) Nexthink
4 5 (0.41%) ServiceNow
5 3 (0.25%) Infor
6 2 (0.17%) Facebook
6 2 (0.17%) Instagram
6 2 (0.17%) TikTok
6 2 (0.17%) YouTube
7 1 (0.083%) Databricks
7 1 (0.083%) Hotjar
7 1 (0.083%) IFS
7 1 (0.083%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.083%) Sage
7 1 (0.083%) Salesforce