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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 105 66
Rank change year-on-year -8 -39 +47
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 178 157 342
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.20% 2.71% 3.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.72% 3.21% 4.17%
Number of salaries quoted 118 103 173
10th Percentile £26,526 £32,100 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,063 £41,250 £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 £60,000 £63,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £72,875 £70,000 £70,320
England median annual salary £57,500 £58,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.71% +6.36% -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 10,353 4,898 8,197
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.78% 84.52% 77.90%
Number of salaries quoted 7,405 2,934 4,634
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £28,119
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,700
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 £64,108
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £76,250
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 2 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 2 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 -32 104 £45,497 -20.18% 72
East Midlands +5 74 £45,000 +16.13% 37
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 (5.62%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.81%) CMS
2 5 (2.81%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.69%) Confluence
4 1 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 6 (3.37%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.25%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (1.69%) Photoshop
4 2 (1.12%) Adobe After Effects
4 2 (1.12%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.56%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.56%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.56%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.56%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 9 (5.06%) Dynamics CRM
1 9 (5.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.69%) Dynamics GP
2 3 (1.69%) Shopify
3 2 (1.12%) Visualfiles
4 1 (0.56%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 30 (16.85%) Azure
2 24 (13.48%) Microsoft 365
3 19 (10.67%) AWS
4 18 (10.11%) Entra ID
5 15 (8.43%) Figma
6 12 (6.74%) SaaS
6 12 (6.74%) Serverless
7 11 (6.18%) Firebase
7 11 (6.18%) GitHub
7 11 (6.18%) GitHub Actions
7 11 (6.18%) Stripe
7 11 (6.18%) TestFlight
8 10 (5.62%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (4.49%) Power Platform
10 7 (3.93%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 6 (3.37%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (3.37%) Power Automate
11 6 (3.37%) PowerApps
12 3 (1.69%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.93%) Firewall
2 4 (2.25%) DHCP
2 4 (2.25%) DNS
2 4 (2.25%) TCP/IP
2 4 (2.25%) VPN
3 3 (1.69%) Network Security
3 3 (1.69%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (1.12%) Internet
5 1 (0.56%) Broadband
5 1 (0.56%) CTI
5 1 (0.56%) VLAN
5 1 (0.56%) VoIP
5 1 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.69%) Power BI
1 3 (1.69%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.12%) BigQuery
3 1 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.56%) Looker
3 1 (0.56%) MySQL
3 1 (0.56%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.56%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (6.18%) Crashlytics
1 11 (6.18%) JIRA
1 11 (6.18%) XCTest
2 8 (4.49%) Git
3 3 (1.69%) XCUITest
4 1 (0.56%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.56%) gulp
4 1 (0.56%) JMeter
4 1 (0.56%) LoadRunner
4 1 (0.56%) NUnit
4 1 (0.56%) Selenium
4 1 (0.56%) Storybook
4 1 (0.56%) TestRail
4 1 (0.56%) Toad
4 1 (0.56%) webpack
4 1 (0.56%) Yeoman
4 1 (0.56%) Zephyr
General
1 96 (53.93%) Social Skills
2 33 (18.54%) Finance
3 19 (10.67%) Organisational Skills
4 17 (9.55%) Retail
5 16 (8.99%) Law
6 15 (8.43%) Marketing
7 12 (6.74%) Legal
7 12 (6.74%) Public Sector
8 11 (6.18%) Analytical Skills
9 10 (5.62%) Manufacturing
10 6 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (2.25%) Advertising
11 4 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (2.25%) Front Office
11 4 (2.25%) Military
12 3 (1.69%) Games
13 2 (1.12%) Banking
13 2 (1.12%) iGaming
13 2 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (1.12%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 28 (15.73%) Designer
2 25 (14.04%) Analyst
2 25 (14.04%) Developer
3 22 (12.36%) Senior
4 18 (10.11%) IT Support
5 17 (9.55%) UX Designer
6 14 (7.87%) Business Analyst
7 11 (6.18%) Mobile Engineer
8 9 (5.06%) Digital Designer
8 9 (5.06%) Mid-Level Digital Designer
8 9 (5.06%) SAP Developer
8 9 (5.06%) Senior Analyst
8 9 (5.06%) Support Engineer
9 8 (4.49%) IT Engineer
9 8 (4.49%) Lead
9 8 (4.49%) Service Manager
9 8 (4.49%) UI Designer
9 8 (4.49%) UI/UX Designer
10 7 (3.93%) 1st Line Support
10 7 (3.93%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.87%) SwiftUI
2 12 (6.74%) REST
3 11 (6.18%) Node.js
3 11 (6.18%) UIKit
4 9 (5.06%) CSS
4 9 (5.06%) HTML
4 9 (5.06%) JDBC
4 9 (5.06%) OAuth
4 9 (5.06%) SAP Fiori
4 9 (5.06%) SAPUI5
4 9 (5.06%) SOAP
5 6 (3.37%) React
5 6 (3.37%) React Native
6 5 (2.81%) .NET
6 5 (2.81%) RESTful
7 3 (1.69%) HTML5
7 3 (1.69%) jQuery
7 3 (1.69%) Sass
8 2 (1.12%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.12%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 24 (13.48%) Mobile App
2 15 (8.43%) Product Ownership
3 12 (6.74%) Onboarding
4 11 (6.18%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (3.93%) PMI
6 5 (2.81%) Driving Licence
7 4 (2.25%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (2.25%) CMDB
7 4 (2.25%) Culture of Ownership
7 4 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.69%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (1.69%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.69%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.12%) Animation
9 2 (1.12%) BYOD
9 2 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.12%) IoT
10 1 (0.56%) Online Gambling
Operating Systems
1 21 (11.80%) Windows
2 17 (9.55%) Apple iOS
3 6 (3.37%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.69%) Android
5 1 (0.56%) Linux
5 1 (0.56%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (33.15%) Problem-Solving
2 54 (30.34%) Continuous Improvement
3 35 (19.66%) Agile
4 29 (16.29%) Analytics
5 27 (15.17%) UX Design
6 25 (14.04%) E-Commerce
7 22 (12.36%) Stakeholder Management
8 21 (11.80%) Workflow
9 20 (11.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 18 (10.11%) Process Improvement
10 18 (10.11%) Test Automation
11 17 (9.55%) AI
12 16 (8.99%) Coaching
12 16 (8.99%) ITIL
12 16 (8.99%) Mentoring
12 16 (8.99%) Roadmaps
13 15 (8.43%) CI/CD
13 15 (8.43%) Code Quality
13 15 (8.43%) Decision-Making
13 15 (8.43%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (7.87%) Swift
2 12 (6.74%) SQL
3 11 (6.18%) Kotlin
4 10 (5.62%) Java
5 9 (5.06%) ABAP
5 9 (5.06%) JavaScript
6 7 (3.93%) TypeScript
7 5 (2.81%) PowerShell
8 4 (2.25%) C#
9 2 (1.12%) PHP
9 2 (1.12%) Python
10 1 (0.56%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 17 (9.55%) Degree
2 11 (6.18%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (3.93%) PMI Certification
4 4 (2.25%) Security Cleared
5 3 (1.69%) A+ Certification
5 3 (1.69%) CBAP
5 3 (1.69%) IIBA
5 3 (1.69%) Network+ Certification
6 2 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.56%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.56%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.56%) PhD
7 1 (0.56%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.74%) Accessibility
2 7 (3.93%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.93%) QA
3 2 (1.12%) GDPR
3 2 (1.12%) WCAG
4 1 (0.56%) SLA
4 1 (0.56%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 13 (7.30%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.12%) Firmware
2 2 (1.12%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (4.49%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.56%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 45 (25.28%) Microsoft
2 15 (8.43%) Adobe
3 11 (6.18%) Amplitude
3 11 (6.18%) Braze
3 11 (6.18%) SAP
4 9 (5.06%) iManage
5 6 (3.37%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.81%) Apple
7 4 (2.25%) Google
8 3 (1.69%) Cisco
8 3 (1.69%) Oracle
8 3 (1.69%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.12%) IFS
9 2 (1.12%) Samsung
10 1 (0.56%) Avaya
10 1 (0.56%) Facebook
10 1 (0.56%) Genesys
10 1 (0.56%) HP
10 1 (0.56%) Instagram
10 1 (0.56%) OpenAI