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 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 88 98
Rank change year-on-year -28 +10 -17
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 131 239 148
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 2.37% 2.59% 2.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.73% 3.21% 3.03%
Number of salaries quoted 91 115 124
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £38,075
25th Percentile £40,625 £32,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,688 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.31% -18.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £62,395 £62,250 £66,436
90th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £60,500
% change year-on-year - -4.96% +0.83%

All Process and 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 4,797 7,452 4,887
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 86.93% 80.67% 93.32%
Number of salaries quoted 2,810 3,394 3,711
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,390 £50,404 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.95% -3.99% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year -8.33% -1.32% +1.33%

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 16 October 2025.

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 16 October 2025. 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 +26 95 £57,500 -4.17% 52
East Midlands -46 37 £40,000 +14.29% 20
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 13 (9.92%) SharePoint
2 9 (6.87%) CMS
3 5 (3.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (3.05%) Confluence
5 3 (2.29%) Apache
6 1 (0.76%) Appian
6 1 (0.76%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.76%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (2.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 3 (2.29%) InDesign
1 3 (2.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.76%) Adobe After Effects
3 1 (0.76%) Adobe Premiere
3 1 (0.76%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.76%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.76%) Simulink
3 1 (0.76%) Sketch
3 1 (0.76%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (5.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.29%) SAP Business One
3 2 (1.53%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 2 (1.53%) OpenCart
3 2 (1.53%) Shopify
4 1 (0.76%) Magento
4 1 (0.76%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.76%) TRIRIGA
Cloud Services
1 34 (25.95%) Azure
2 24 (18.32%) AWS
3 16 (12.21%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (12.21%) SaaS
4 13 (9.92%) Power Platform
5 11 (8.40%) Entra ID
6 9 (6.87%) PowerApps
7 7 (5.34%) Power Automate
8 6 (4.58%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (3.82%) Azure Key Vault
9 5 (3.82%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (3.82%) Figma
9 5 (3.82%) OneDrive
10 3 (2.29%) ChatGPT
10 3 (2.29%) Google Analytics
11 2 (1.53%) OCI
12 1 (0.76%) Amazon S3
12 1 (0.76%) Azure Logic Apps
12 1 (0.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 1 (0.76%) Google Data Studio
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.29%) Intranet
2 1 (0.76%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.76%) Internet
2 1 (0.76%) Skype
2 1 (0.76%) Unified Communications
2 1 (0.76%) Wireless
2 1 (0.76%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (19.85%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.29%) Power BI
3 2 (1.53%) Hazelcast
3 2 (1.53%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 2 (1.53%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (1.53%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.76%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.76%) MySQL
4 1 (0.76%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.76%) Power Query
4 1 (0.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 23 (17.56%) JIRA
2 19 (14.50%) GitLab
3 18 (13.74%) Selenium
4 16 (12.21%) Bitbucket
4 16 (12.21%) Cucumber
4 16 (12.21%) Maven
4 16 (12.21%) SonarQube
4 16 (12.21%) Sonatype Nexus
5 7 (5.34%) Git
6 3 (2.29%) Babel
6 3 (2.29%) webpack
7 2 (1.53%) JMeter
7 2 (1.53%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.76%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.76%) Subversion
8 1 (0.76%) Vite
General
1 50 (38.17%) Finance
2 35 (26.72%) Social Skills
3 32 (24.43%) Retail
4 31 (23.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 21 (16.03%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (12.21%) Banking
6 16 (12.21%) Corporate Banking
6 16 (12.21%) Investment Banking
7 14 (10.69%) Marketing
8 8 (6.11%) Law
9 6 (4.58%) Police
10 5 (3.82%) Public Sector
11 4 (3.05%) Advertising
11 4 (3.05%) Automotive
11 4 (3.05%) Legal
12 3 (2.29%) Manufacturing
12 3 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (1.53%) Games
13 2 (1.53%) Local Government
13 2 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (23.66%) Developer
2 17 (12.98%) Software Engineer
3 13 (9.92%) Analyst
3 13 (9.92%) Designer
4 10 (7.63%) 1st Line Support
5 9 (6.87%) Senior
6 6 (4.58%) E-Commerce Manager
6 6 (4.58%) Full-Stack Developer
6 6 (4.58%) Microsoft 365 Developer
6 6 (4.58%) Product Owner
6 6 (4.58%) React Developer
6 6 (4.58%) Solutions Designer
7 5 (3.82%) Chief Technology Officer
7 5 (3.82%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 5 (3.82%) Power Platform Developer
7 5 (3.82%) Senior Developer
7 5 (3.82%) Software Developer
7 5 (3.82%) Systems Designer
8 4 (3.05%) Blazor Developer
8 4 (3.05%) Digital Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (25.95%) HTML
2 33 (25.19%) CSS
3 28 (21.37%) React
4 24 (18.32%) RESTful
5 22 (16.79%) REST
6 21 (16.03%) HTML5
6 21 (16.03%) Spring
7 19 (14.50%) CSS3
7 19 (14.50%) Spring Boot
8 18 (13.74%) Redux
9 17 (12.98%) Jest
9 17 (12.98%) Sass
10 16 (12.21%) JPA
10 16 (12.21%) Kafka
11 13 (9.92%) .NET
12 6 (4.58%) .NET Framework
12 6 (4.58%) Entity Framework
13 5 (3.82%) AngularJS
13 5 (3.82%) Blazor
14 4 (3.05%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 23 (17.56%) Product Ownership
2 16 (12.21%) Enterprise Software
3 13 (9.92%) Driving Licence
3 13 (9.92%) e-Learning
4 6 (4.58%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.82%) Graphic Design
6 4 (3.05%) Animation
6 4 (3.05%) IoT
6 4 (3.05%) Social Media
6 4 (3.05%) Video Editing
7 3 (2.29%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (2.29%) Learning Management System
7 3 (2.29%) Legacy Code
7 3 (2.29%) Web Conferencing
8 2 (1.53%) Blog
8 2 (1.53%) Embedded Systems
8 2 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.53%) Life Science
8 2 (1.53%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.87%) Windows
2 4 (3.05%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.76%) Android
3 1 (0.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (38.17%) Agile
2 41 (31.30%) DevOps
3 33 (25.19%) Problem-Solving
4 31 (23.66%) CI/CD
5 30 (22.90%) Continuous Improvement
6 27 (20.61%) Front End Development
7 26 (19.85%) Full-Stack Development
8 24 (18.32%) UX Design
9 23 (17.56%) AI
9 23 (17.56%) Mentoring
9 23 (17.56%) SDLC
10 22 (16.79%) Migration
11 21 (16.03%) Containerisation
12 19 (14.50%) Microservices
12 19 (14.50%) Software Engineering
12 19 (14.50%) Test Automation
13 18 (13.74%) Strategic Thinking
14 17 (12.98%) ITIL
15 16 (12.21%) Performance Optimisation
15 16 (12.21%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 32 (24.43%) JavaScript
2 30 (22.90%) SQL
3 27 (20.61%) Java
4 22 (16.79%) TypeScript
5 14 (10.69%) C#
6 8 (6.11%) PowerShell
7 6 (4.58%) Python
8 5 (3.82%) Bicep
9 3 (2.29%) PHP
9 3 (2.29%) VB
10 2 (1.53%) Apex Code
10 2 (1.53%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.76%) Bash
11 1 (0.76%) C
11 1 (0.76%) C++
11 1 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.76%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.76%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.76%) XAML
Qualifications
1 8 (6.11%) Degree
2 5 (3.82%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.05%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.29%) ITIL Certification
4 3 (2.29%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.53%) A+ Certification
5 2 (1.53%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.53%) MCDST
6 1 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.76%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.76%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.76%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (21.37%) QA
2 23 (17.56%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.82%) COBIT
4 2 (1.53%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.53%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.53%) GDPR
4 2 (1.53%) SLA
5 1 (0.76%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (12.98%) Docker
2 15 (11.45%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.29%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 19 (14.50%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.58%) Terraform
3 5 (3.82%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.76%) SCCM
4 1 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 42 (32.06%) Microsoft
2 16 (12.21%) Solace
3 13 (9.92%) SAP
4 7 (5.34%) Adobe
5 6 (4.58%) Citrix
6 5 (3.82%) Guidewire
7 4 (3.05%) Ahrefs
7 4 (3.05%) Google
7 4 (3.05%) Salesforce
8 3 (2.29%) OpenAI
8 3 (2.29%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.53%) JD Edwards
9 2 (1.53%) Oracle
9 2 (1.53%) Planon
10 1 (0.76%) Apple
10 1 (0.76%) Cisco
10 1 (0.76%) Dell
10 1 (0.76%) HP
10 1 (0.76%) IBM
10 1 (0.76%) QNX