UX Design Job Trends in the Midlands

User Experience Design (UXD)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring UX Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 234 205 172
Rank change year-on-year -29 -33 +37
Permanent jobs citing UX Design 28 31 126
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.19% 0.53% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.63% 1.53%
Number of salaries quoted 27 26 74
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,354 £27,500
25th Percentile £42,750 £52,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £60,000 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +17.07% -6.82%
75th Percentile £61,250 £63,750 £61,650
90th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £68,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.18%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

UX Design 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 10,144 4,949 8,242
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.85% 85.09% 77.47%
Number of salaries quoted 7,222 2,998 4,983
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%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing UX Design relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

UX Design job vacancy trend in the Midlands

UX Design
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing UX Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing UX Design

UX Design
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing UX Design in the Midlands over the 6 months to 17 August 2026.

Salary histogram for UX Design in the Midlands

UX Design
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 UX Design within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 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 -22 22 £50,000 -16.67% 18
East Midlands -18 6 £45,000 +20.00% 3
UX Design
England

UX Design
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 1 (3.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Photoshop
2 2 (7.14%) Adobe After Effects
2 2 (7.14%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (3.57%) Adobe XD
3 1 (3.57%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 6 (21.43%) Figma
1 6 (21.43%) SaaS
2 1 (3.57%) Azure
2 1 (3.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (3.57%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (3.57%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (3.57%) Miro
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
1 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.57%) JIRA
1 1 (3.57%) NUnit
General
1 5 (17.86%) Marketing
2 3 (10.71%) Public Sector
2 3 (10.71%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Games
3 2 (7.14%) iGaming
4 1 (3.57%) Law
4 1 (3.57%) Local Government
4 1 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (75.00%) Designer
2 17 (60.71%) UX Designer
3 8 (28.57%) UI Designer
3 8 (28.57%) UI/UX Designer
4 6 (21.43%) Senior
5 4 (14.29%) Analyst
5 4 (14.29%) Business Analyst
6 3 (10.71%) Service Designer
7 2 (7.14%) 2D Animator
7 2 (7.14%) Animator
7 2 (7.14%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (7.14%) Senior Animator
7 2 (7.14%) Senior Business Analyst
8 1 (3.57%) Backend Developer
8 1 (3.57%) Content Designer
8 1 (3.57%) Developer
8 1 (3.57%) Senior Backend Developer
8 1 (3.57%) Senior Designer
8 1 (3.57%) Senior Developer
8 1 (3.57%) Senior Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.57%) .NET
1 1 (3.57%) .NET Core
1 1 (3.57%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (3.57%) CSS
1 1 (3.57%) CSS3
1 1 (3.57%) HTML
1 1 (3.57%) HTML5
1 1 (3.57%) Model Context Protocol
1 1 (3.57%) React Native
1 1 (3.57%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.14%) Animation
2 1 (3.57%) AI Agents
2 1 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (100.00%) User Experience
2 9 (32.14%) E-Commerce
3 6 (21.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (14.29%) Agile
4 4 (14.29%) AI
4 4 (14.29%) Business Analysis
4 4 (14.29%) Coaching
4 4 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 4 (14.29%) Service Design
4 4 (14.29%) User Research
5 3 (10.71%) Line Management
5 3 (10.71%) Workshop Facilitation
6 2 (7.14%) Customer Experience
6 2 (7.14%) Decision-Making
6 2 (7.14%) Journey Map
6 2 (7.14%) Prototyping
6 2 (7.14%) Scrum
6 2 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (7.14%) Visual Effects
6 2 (7.14%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.57%) C#
1 1 (3.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (3.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) Accessibility
1 2 (7.14%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (14.29%) Adobe
1 4 (14.29%) Salesforce
2 1 (3.57%) OpenAI