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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 107 71
Rank change year-on-year -9 -36 +35
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 170 150 314
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.12% 2.65% 3.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.60% 3.11% 3.99%
Number of salaries quoted 114 99 149
10th Percentile £26,011 £32,000 £29,300
25th Percentile £31,563 £40,625 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £53,688 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.18% +6.31% -8.18%
75th Percentile £60,000 £61,770 £66,250
90th Percentile £71,750 £69,000 £70,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -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 10,596 4,821 7,866
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.55% 85.18% 77.98%
Number of salaries quoted 7,560 2,893 4,132
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,400
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 -43 102 £46,499 -17.70% 65
East Midlands -7 68 £43,750 +16.67% 34
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 (5.88%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.35%) CMS
4 1 (0.59%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.59%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (3.53%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.35%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (1.18%) Chatbot
3 2 (1.18%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.59%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (0.59%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.59%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.59%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.59%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 9 (5.29%) Dynamics CRM
1 9 (5.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.76%) Dynamics GP
2 3 (1.76%) Shopify
3 2 (1.18%) Visualfiles
4 1 (0.59%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 27 (15.88%) Azure
2 24 (14.12%) Microsoft 365
3 18 (10.59%) Entra ID
4 16 (9.41%) AWS
5 14 (8.24%) Figma
6 11 (6.47%) SaaS
7 10 (5.88%) Power Platform
8 9 (5.29%) Serverless
9 8 (4.71%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (4.71%) Firebase
9 8 (4.71%) GitHub
9 8 (4.71%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (4.71%) Stripe
9 8 (4.71%) TestFlight
10 7 (4.12%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 6 (3.53%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (3.53%) Power Automate
11 6 (3.53%) PowerApps
12 3 (1.76%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (1.76%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.12%) Firewall
2 4 (2.35%) DHCP
2 4 (2.35%) DNS
2 4 (2.35%) TCP/IP
2 4 (2.35%) VPN
3 3 (1.76%) Network Security
3 3 (1.76%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (1.18%) Internet
5 1 (0.59%) CTI
5 1 (0.59%) VLAN
5 1 (0.59%) VoIP
5 1 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.94%) Power BI
2 2 (1.18%) BigQuery
2 2 (1.18%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.59%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.59%) Looker
3 1 (0.59%) MySQL
3 1 (0.59%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.59%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.59%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (5.88%) JIRA
2 8 (4.71%) Crashlytics
2 8 (4.71%) Git
2 8 (4.71%) XCTest
3 2 (1.18%) XCUITest
4 1 (0.59%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.59%) gulp
4 1 (0.59%) JMeter
4 1 (0.59%) LoadRunner
4 1 (0.59%) NUnit
4 1 (0.59%) webpack
4 1 (0.59%) Yeoman
General
1 92 (54.12%) Social Skills
2 34 (20.00%) Finance
3 19 (11.18%) Organisational Skills
4 17 (10.00%) Retail
5 16 (9.41%) Law
6 13 (7.65%) Marketing
7 12 (7.06%) Public Sector
8 11 (6.47%) Analytical Skills
8 11 (6.47%) Legal
9 10 (5.88%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (2.35%) Advertising
11 4 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (2.35%) Front Office
11 4 (2.35%) Military
12 2 (1.18%) Banking
12 2 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.18%) Legal Technology
13 1 (0.59%) Brand Awareness
13 1 (0.59%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 27 (15.88%) Designer
2 24 (14.12%) Analyst
3 23 (13.53%) Developer
4 19 (11.18%) IT Support
4 19 (11.18%) Senior
5 16 (9.41%) UX Designer
6 14 (8.24%) Business Analyst
7 10 (5.88%) Support Engineer
8 9 (5.29%) Digital Designer
8 9 (5.29%) IT Engineer
8 9 (5.29%) Mid-Level Digital Designer
8 9 (5.29%) SAP Developer
8 9 (5.29%) Senior Analyst
8 9 (5.29%) Service Manager
9 8 (4.71%) Mobile Engineer
10 7 (4.12%) 1st Line Support
10 7 (4.12%) IT Support Engineer
10 7 (4.12%) Lead
10 7 (4.12%) UI Designer
10 7 (4.12%) UI/UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.06%) REST
2 11 (6.47%) Node.js
3 10 (5.88%) SwiftUI
4 9 (5.29%) JDBC
4 9 (5.29%) OAuth
4 9 (5.29%) SAP Fiori
4 9 (5.29%) SAPUI5
4 9 (5.29%) SOAP
5 8 (4.71%) UIKit
6 7 (4.12%) CSS
6 7 (4.12%) HTML
7 6 (3.53%) React
7 6 (3.53%) React Native
8 5 (2.94%) .NET
9 3 (1.76%) jQuery
9 3 (1.76%) RESTful
10 2 (1.18%) ASP.NET Web API
10 2 (1.18%) CSS3
10 2 (1.18%) HTML5
10 2 (1.18%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 20 (11.76%) Mobile App
2 13 (7.65%) Product Ownership
3 12 (7.06%) Onboarding
4 8 (4.71%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (4.12%) PMI
6 5 (2.94%) Driving Licence
6 5 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.35%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (2.35%) CMDB
7 4 (2.35%) Culture of Ownership
8 3 (1.76%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (1.76%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.76%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.18%) BYOD
9 2 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.18%) IoT
9 2 (1.18%) IVR
10 1 (0.59%) Online Gambling
Operating Systems
1 21 (12.35%) Windows
2 13 (7.65%) Apple iOS
3 6 (3.53%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.76%) Android
5 1 (0.59%) Linux
5 1 (0.59%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (34.71%) Problem-Solving
2 53 (31.18%) Continuous Improvement
3 32 (18.82%) Agile
4 26 (15.29%) Analytics
5 25 (14.71%) E-Commerce
5 25 (14.71%) UX Design
6 24 (14.12%) Stakeholder Management
7 21 (12.35%) Workflow
8 20 (11.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 18 (10.59%) AI
9 18 (10.59%) Coaching
10 17 (10.00%) ITIL
11 16 (9.41%) Mentoring
11 16 (9.41%) Service Management
12 15 (8.82%) Process Improvement
13 14 (8.24%) CRM
13 14 (8.24%) Decision-Making
13 14 (8.24%) ERP
14 13 (7.65%) Customer Service
14 13 (7.65%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 12 (7.06%) SQL
2 10 (5.88%) Java
2 10 (5.88%) Swift
3 9 (5.29%) ABAP
4 8 (4.71%) Kotlin
5 7 (4.12%) JavaScript
6 6 (3.53%) TypeScript
7 5 (2.94%) PowerShell
8 4 (2.35%) C#
9 2 (1.18%) Python
10 1 (0.59%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.59%) PHP
Qualifications
1 16 (9.41%) Degree
2 11 (6.47%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (4.12%) PMI Certification
4 5 (2.94%) Security Cleared
5 3 (1.76%) A+ Certification
5 3 (1.76%) CBAP
5 3 (1.76%) IIBA
5 3 (1.76%) Network+ Certification
6 2 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.59%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.59%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.59%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.59%) PhD
7 1 (0.59%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.59%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.29%) Accessibility
2 7 (4.12%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.53%) QA
4 2 (1.18%) GDPR
4 2 (1.18%) SLA
5 1 (0.59%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (7.65%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.18%) Firmware
2 2 (1.18%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (4.71%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 45 (26.47%) Microsoft
2 13 (7.65%) Adobe
3 11 (6.47%) SAP
4 9 (5.29%) iManage
5 8 (4.71%) Amplitude
5 8 (4.71%) Braze
6 6 (3.53%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.35%) Apple
7 4 (2.35%) Google
7 4 (2.35%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.76%) Cisco
9 2 (1.18%) IFS
9 2 (1.18%) Oracle
9 2 (1.18%) Samsung
10 1 (0.59%) Avaya
10 1 (0.59%) Facebook
10 1 (0.59%) Genesys
10 1 (0.59%) Instagram
10 1 (0.59%) OpenAI