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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 112 62
Rank change year-on-year +8 -50 +70
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 181 141 364
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.28% 2.46% 3.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.84% 2.89% 4.35%
Number of salaries quoted 127 86 192
10th Percentile £26,398 £32,500 £27,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,375 £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 £59,375 £60,281 £63,750
90th Percentile £71,500 £68,750 £70,360
England median annual salary £56,500 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.59% +5.45% -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 9,860 4,877 8,359
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.95% 85.19% 77.79%
Number of salaries quoted 7,021 2,978 5,160
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% - -11.29%

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 3 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 3 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 -23 106 £45,000 -18.18% 61
East Midlands +22 75 £45,000 +20.00% 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 11 (6.08%) CMS
2 9 (4.97%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.21%) Confluence
3 4 (2.21%) 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 (4.97%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (3.87%) Photoshop
3 6 (3.31%) Adobe Illustrator
4 5 (2.76%) Adobe After Effects
5 4 (2.21%) Microsoft Excel
5 4 (2.21%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (1.66%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.55%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.55%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.55%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 10 (5.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (4.97%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (2.21%) Shopify
4 3 (1.66%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (1.10%) Visualfiles
6 1 (0.55%) Magento
6 1 (0.55%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 26 (14.36%) Azure
2 22 (12.15%) AWS
3 21 (11.60%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (8.29%) GitHub
4 15 (8.29%) Serverless
5 14 (7.73%) Firebase
5 14 (7.73%) GitHub Actions
5 14 (7.73%) SaaS
5 14 (7.73%) Stripe
5 14 (7.73%) TestFlight
6 13 (7.18%) Entra ID
7 9 (4.97%) Figma
7 9 (4.97%) Power Platform
8 8 (4.42%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (3.87%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (3.31%) Power Automate
10 6 (3.31%) PowerApps
11 4 (2.21%) Google Analytics
12 3 (1.66%) GCP
12 3 (1.66%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.21%) Firewall
2 3 (1.66%) Remote Desktop
3 2 (1.10%) Network Security
4 1 (0.55%) Broadband
4 1 (0.55%) CTI
4 1 (0.55%) DHCP
4 1 (0.55%) DNS
4 1 (0.55%) Intranet
4 1 (0.55%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.55%) VLAN
4 1 (0.55%) VoIP
4 1 (0.55%) VPN
4 1 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.21%) Power BI
2 3 (1.66%) BigQuery
2 3 (1.66%) 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 (7.73%) Crashlytics
1 14 (7.73%) XCTest
2 10 (5.52%) JIRA
3 5 (2.76%) Git
4 3 (1.66%) Storybook
4 3 (1.66%) 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%) 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 89 (49.17%) Social Skills
2 37 (20.44%) Finance
3 21 (11.60%) Retail
4 18 (9.94%) Organisational Skills
5 17 (9.39%) Marketing
6 16 (8.84%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (8.84%) Law
7 13 (7.18%) Legal
8 10 (5.52%) Manufacturing
8 10 (5.52%) Public Sector
9 7 (3.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (3.31%) Games
11 5 (2.76%) iGaming
12 4 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (2.21%) Front Office
12 4 (2.21%) Military
13 3 (1.66%) Advertising
13 3 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (1.10%) Brand Awareness
14 2 (1.10%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 24 (13.26%) Analyst
1 24 (13.26%) Designer
1 24 (13.26%) Developer
2 18 (9.94%) UX Designer
3 17 (9.39%) Senior
4 15 (8.29%) IT Support
5 14 (7.73%) Mobile Engineer
6 12 (6.63%) Business Analyst
7 9 (4.97%) Lead
7 9 (4.97%) SAP Developer
7 9 (4.97%) UI Designer
7 9 (4.97%) UI/UX Designer
8 8 (4.42%) Service Manager
9 7 (3.87%) 1st Line Support
9 7 (3.87%) Project Manager
9 7 (3.87%) Senior Analyst
10 6 (3.31%) Digital Project Manager
10 6 (3.31%) IT Manager
10 6 (3.31%) Support Engineer
11 5 (2.76%) Animator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (9.39%) SwiftUI
2 14 (7.73%) UIKit
3 12 (6.63%) CSS
3 12 (6.63%) HTML
3 12 (6.63%) REST
4 9 (4.97%) JDBC
4 9 (4.97%) Node.js
4 9 (4.97%) OAuth
4 9 (4.97%) SAP Fiori
4 9 (4.97%) SAPUI5
4 9 (4.97%) SOAP
5 7 (3.87%) RESTful
6 6 (3.31%) React Native
7 5 (2.76%) React
7 5 (2.76%) Sass
8 4 (2.21%) .NET
8 4 (2.21%) HTML5
9 3 (1.66%) AngularJS
9 3 (1.66%) Laravel
9 3 (1.66%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (14.92%) Mobile App
2 17 (9.39%) Product Ownership
3 14 (7.73%) Greenfield Project
4 11 (6.08%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.31%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.76%) Animation
6 5 (2.76%) Driving Licence
7 4 (2.21%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (2.21%) CMDB
7 4 (2.21%) Culture of Ownership
8 3 (1.66%) Graphic Design
9 2 (1.10%) BYOD
9 2 (1.10%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (1.10%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.10%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.10%) Photography
9 2 (1.10%) PMI
10 1 (0.55%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (11.05%) Apple iOS
2 18 (9.94%) Windows
3 4 (2.21%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.66%) Android
5 2 (1.10%) Linux
6 1 (0.55%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (32.60%) Continuous Improvement
2 54 (29.83%) Problem-Solving
3 38 (20.99%) Agile
4 30 (16.57%) Analytics
4 30 (16.57%) UX Design
5 23 (12.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 23 (12.71%) Workflow
6 22 (12.15%) Test Automation
7 21 (11.60%) Roadmaps
8 20 (11.05%) Code Quality
8 20 (11.05%) E-Commerce
8 20 (11.05%) Process Improvement
9 18 (9.94%) CI/CD
9 18 (9.94%) Decision-Making
10 17 (9.39%) Clean Code
10 17 (9.39%) iOS Development
10 17 (9.39%) Stakeholder Management
10 17 (9.39%) Storyboarding
11 16 (8.84%) ERP
11 16 (8.84%) Product Vision
Programming Languages
1 17 (9.39%) Swift
2 14 (7.73%) Kotlin
3 12 (6.63%) SQL
4 11 (6.08%) Java
4 11 (6.08%) JavaScript
5 9 (4.97%) ABAP
6 8 (4.42%) TypeScript
7 6 (3.31%) PHP
8 4 (2.21%) C#
8 4 (2.21%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.55%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.55%) Bash
9 1 (0.55%) Python
Qualifications
1 15 (8.29%) Degree
2 11 (6.08%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (2.21%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.66%) A+ Certification
4 3 (1.66%) Network+ Certification
5 2 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.10%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.55%) CBAP
6 1 (0.55%) IIBA
6 1 (0.55%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.73%) Accessibility
2 9 (4.97%) QA
3 8 (4.42%) 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 8 (4.42%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.55%) Docker
3 1 (0.55%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (3.87%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.55%) HP ALM
2 1 (0.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 40 (22.10%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.73%) Amplitude
2 14 (7.73%) Braze
3 12 (6.63%) SAP
4 11 (6.08%) Adobe
5 9 (4.97%) iManage
6 5 (2.76%) Apple
6 5 (2.76%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.66%) Google
7 3 (1.66%) Oracle
7 3 (1.66%) 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