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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 109 64
Rank change year-on-year +2 -45 +63
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 182 148 364
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.26% 2.55% 3.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.80% 3.00% 4.40%
Number of salaries quoted 119 94 191
10th Percentile £26,655 £32,500 £27,250
25th Percentile £34,875 £41,375 £32,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £54,344 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.19% +8.69% -9.09%
75th Percentile £60,000 £63,750 £65,625
90th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £70,400
England median annual salary £57,325 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.46% +9.09% -12.70%

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 10,092 4,931 8,268
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.86% 85.12% 77.52%
Number of salaries quoted 7,194 2,983 5,018
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,968 £28,000
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 £65,000 £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% - -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 15 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 15 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 -25 106 £45,497 -17.28% 79
East Midlands +19 76 £43,750 +16.67% 19
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 9 (4.95%) SharePoint
2 8 (4.40%) CMS
3 4 (2.20%) Confluence
3 4 (2.20%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.55%) Drupal
4 1 (0.55%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.75%) Photoshop
3 4 (2.20%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (2.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (2.20%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (1.65%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.55%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.55%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.55%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.55%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 9 (4.95%) Dynamics CRM
1 9 (4.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (3.30%) Shopify
3 3 (1.65%) Dynamics GP
4 2 (1.10%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.55%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 29 (15.93%) Azure
2 23 (12.64%) Microsoft 365
3 21 (11.54%) AWS
4 16 (8.79%) Entra ID
5 14 (7.69%) Figma
5 14 (7.69%) GitHub
5 14 (7.69%) Serverless
6 13 (7.14%) Firebase
6 13 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
6 13 (7.14%) Stripe
6 13 (7.14%) TestFlight
7 12 (6.59%) SaaS
8 10 (5.49%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (4.95%) Power Platform
10 7 (3.85%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 7 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (3.30%) Power Automate
11 6 (3.30%) PowerApps
12 4 (2.20%) Google Analytics
13 3 (1.65%) Adobe Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.30%) Firewall
2 3 (1.65%) DHCP
2 3 (1.65%) DNS
2 3 (1.65%) Remote Desktop
2 3 (1.65%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.65%) VPN
3 2 (1.10%) Network Security
4 1 (0.55%) Broadband
4 1 (0.55%) CTI
4 1 (0.55%) VLAN
4 1 (0.55%) VoIP
4 1 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.20%) Power BI
2 3 (1.65%) BigQuery
3 2 (1.10%) Looker
3 2 (1.10%) SQL Server
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 13 (7.14%) Crashlytics
1 13 (7.14%) XCTest
2 12 (6.59%) JIRA
3 8 (4.40%) Git
4 3 (1.65%) 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%) Storybook
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 93 (51.10%) Social Skills
2 36 (19.78%) Finance
3 21 (11.54%) Retail
4 19 (10.44%) Organisational Skills
5 16 (8.79%) Law
5 16 (8.79%) Marketing
6 13 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (7.14%) Legal
7 12 (6.59%) Public Sector
8 10 (5.49%) Manufacturing
9 7 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (2.20%) Front Office
10 4 (2.20%) Games
10 4 (2.20%) Military
11 3 (1.65%) Advertising
11 3 (1.65%) iGaming
12 2 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.10%) Legal Technology
13 1 (0.55%) Brand Awareness
Job Titles
1 28 (15.38%) Designer
2 26 (14.29%) Analyst
3 25 (13.74%) Developer
4 19 (10.44%) Senior
5 17 (9.34%) UX Designer
6 15 (8.24%) IT Support
7 14 (7.69%) Business Analyst
8 13 (7.14%) Mobile Engineer
9 9 (4.95%) Lead
9 9 (4.95%) SAP Developer
9 9 (4.95%) Senior Analyst
10 8 (4.40%) Service Manager
10 8 (4.40%) UI Designer
10 8 (4.40%) UI/UX Designer
11 7 (3.85%) 1st Line Support
11 7 (3.85%) Digital Designer
11 7 (3.85%) Mid-Level Digital Designer
11 7 (3.85%) Project Manager
11 7 (3.85%) Senior Business Analyst
12 6 (3.30%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (8.79%) SwiftUI
2 13 (7.14%) UIKit
3 12 (6.59%) REST
4 11 (6.04%) CSS
4 11 (6.04%) HTML
5 9 (4.95%) JDBC
5 9 (4.95%) Node.js
5 9 (4.95%) OAuth
5 9 (4.95%) SAP Fiori
5 9 (4.95%) SAPUI5
5 9 (4.95%) SOAP
6 6 (3.30%) React Native
7 5 (2.75%) React
8 4 (2.20%) .NET
8 4 (2.20%) RESTful
9 3 (1.65%) jQuery
9 3 (1.65%) Sass
9 3 (1.65%) XML
10 2 (1.10%) HTML5
10 2 (1.10%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 26 (14.29%) Mobile App
2 18 (9.89%) Product Ownership
3 13 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
4 12 (6.59%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.30%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.30%) PMI
6 5 (2.75%) Driving Licence
7 4 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (2.20%) CMDB
7 4 (2.20%) Culture of Ownership
7 4 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.65%) Animation
8 3 (1.65%) Management Information System
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%) Photography
10 1 (0.55%) IVR
10 1 (0.55%) Online Gambling
Operating Systems
1 20 (10.99%) Windows
2 19 (10.44%) Apple iOS
3 5 (2.75%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.65%) Android
5 2 (1.10%) Linux
6 1 (0.55%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (32.42%) Problem-Solving
2 56 (30.77%) Continuous Improvement
3 38 (20.88%) Agile
4 30 (16.48%) Analytics
5 28 (15.38%) E-Commerce
5 28 (15.38%) UX Design
6 23 (12.64%) Workflow
7 22 (12.09%) Stakeholder Management
8 21 (11.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 20 (10.99%) Process Improvement
10 19 (10.44%) Test Automation
11 17 (9.34%) CI/CD
11 17 (9.34%) Code Quality
11 17 (9.34%) Decision-Making
12 16 (8.79%) iOS Development
12 16 (8.79%) ITIL
12 16 (8.79%) Roadmaps
13 15 (8.24%) AI
13 15 (8.24%) Coaching
13 15 (8.24%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (8.79%) Swift
2 13 (7.14%) Kotlin
2 13 (7.14%) SQL
3 11 (6.04%) Java
4 10 (5.49%) JavaScript
5 9 (4.95%) ABAP
6 6 (3.30%) TypeScript
7 5 (2.75%) PHP
7 5 (2.75%) PowerShell
8 4 (2.20%) C#
9 1 (0.55%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.55%) Bash
9 1 (0.55%) Python
Qualifications
1 15 (8.24%) Degree
2 11 (6.04%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (3.30%) PMI Certification
4 4 (2.20%) Security Cleared
5 3 (1.65%) A+ Certification
5 3 (1.65%) CBAP
5 3 (1.65%) IIBA
5 3 (1.65%) Network+ Certification
6 2 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.55%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.59%) Accessibility
2 9 (4.95%) QA
3 8 (4.40%) 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 11 (6.04%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.10%) Firmware
2 2 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (4.40%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.55%) HP ALM
2 1 (0.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 43 (23.63%) Microsoft
2 15 (8.24%) Adobe
3 13 (7.14%) Amplitude
3 13 (7.14%) Braze
4 11 (6.04%) SAP
5 9 (4.95%) iManage
6 5 (2.75%) Apple
6 5 (2.75%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.20%) Google
8 3 (1.65%) Cisco
8 3 (1.65%) Oracle
8 3 (1.65%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.10%) IFS
9 2 (1.10%) Samsung
10 1 (0.55%) Avaya
10 1 (0.55%) Genesys
10 1 (0.55%) HP
10 1 (0.55%) OpenAI