User Experience Job Trends in the North of England

UX
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring User Experience skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 50 57
Rank change year-on-year +36 +7 +49
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 1,351 482 595
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 6.97% 6.25% 3.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.86% 6.58% 4.23%
Number of salaries quoted 297 160 403
10th Percentile £29,342 £32,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +15.79% -17.39%
75th Percentile £65,640 £70,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £78,500
England median annual salary £57,150 £60,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year -4.75% +17.65% -21.54%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,703 7,330 14,059
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.74% 95.11% 82.35%
Number of salaries quoted 9,133 3,484 11,184
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,434 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.45% +0.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing User Experience relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

User Experience job vacancy trend in the North of England

User Experience
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing User Experience.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing User Experience

User Experience
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing User Experience in the North of England over the 6 months to 22 May 2026.

Salary histogram for User Experience in the North of England

User Experience
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing User Experience within the North of England region over the 6 months to 22 May 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
North West +28 1,104 £55,000 -0.04% 92
Yorkshire +42 198 £55,000 +29.41% 22
North East -4 49 £52,000 -0.95% 19
User Experience
England

User Experience
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 23 (1.70%) SharePoint
2 22 (1.63%) CMS
3 14 (1.04%) WordPress
4 12 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (0.74%) Confluence
6 3 (0.22%) Umbraco
7 2 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.15%) Moodle
7 2 (0.15%) nginx
7 2 (0.15%) Skype for Business
7 2 (0.15%) Totara
8 1 (0.074%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 13 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
3 6 (0.44%) Sketch
4 3 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 3 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
4 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.22%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.15%) Adobe After Effects
5 2 (0.15%) Adobe Premiere
5 2 (0.15%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.15%) Camtasia
5 2 (0.15%) Trello
6 1 (0.074%) Blender
6 1 (0.074%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.074%) FrameMaker
6 1 (0.074%) InDesign
6 1 (0.074%) MadCap Flare
6 1 (0.074%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (0.59%) Magento
1 8 (0.59%) Shopify
2 7 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.074%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 992 (73.43%) Cloud Computing
2 71 (5.26%) Azure
3 48 (3.55%) Microsoft 365
4 34 (2.52%) SaaS
5 31 (2.29%) Power Platform
6 30 (2.22%) Figma
7 27 (2.00%) Entra ID
8 19 (1.41%) Google Analytics
9 17 (1.26%) Microsoft Purview
10 16 (1.18%) Power Automate
11 15 (1.11%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (1.11%) Microsoft Copilot
11 15 (1.11%) PowerApps
12 14 (1.04%) AWS
13 10 (0.74%) Azure Monitor
13 10 (0.74%) Dynamics 365
14 7 (0.52%) Adobe Analytics
14 7 (0.52%) Copilot Studio
14 7 (0.52%) OneDrive
15 6 (0.44%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 990 (73.28%) Internet
2 5 (0.37%) DHCP
2 5 (0.37%) DNS
2 5 (0.37%) HTTP
3 3 (0.22%) Firewall
3 3 (0.22%) VLAN
3 3 (0.22%) VPN
4 2 (0.15%) Skype
4 2 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.074%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.074%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (0.67%) Looker
1 9 (0.67%) SQL Server
2 5 (0.37%) MongoDB
2 5 (0.37%) Power BI
3 4 (0.30%) BigQuery
3 4 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (0.22%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.22%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (0.22%) MySQL
4 3 (0.22%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.15%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (0.15%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.15%) GIS
5 2 (0.15%) Metadata
5 2 (0.15%) Mixpanel
5 2 (0.15%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.15%) PostHog
5 2 (0.15%) Redis
5 2 (0.15%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.15%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (1.48%) JIRA
2 19 (1.41%) Git
3 9 (0.67%) fastlane
3 9 (0.67%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.37%) JUnit
5 4 (0.30%) NUnit
6 3 (0.22%) Android Studio
6 3 (0.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (0.22%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.22%) Crashlytics
6 3 (0.22%) GitLab
6 3 (0.22%) Gradle
6 3 (0.22%) Selenium
6 3 (0.22%) Xcode
7 2 (0.15%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.15%) Postman
7 2 (0.15%) Vagrant
8 1 (0.074%) gulp
8 1 (0.074%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.074%) webpack
General
1 1,075 (79.57%) Social Skills
2 1,007 (74.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 996 (73.72%) Banking
4 65 (4.81%) Finance
5 62 (4.59%) Marketing
6 44 (3.26%) Public Sector
7 39 (2.89%) Analytical Skills
8 17 (1.26%) Law
8 17 (1.26%) Legal
8 17 (1.26%) Retail
9 11 (0.81%) Manufacturing
10 9 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (0.37%) Advertising
12 4 (0.30%) Brand Awareness
12 4 (0.30%) Health Technology
13 2 (0.15%) Digital Health
13 2 (0.15%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.15%) Games
13 2 (0.15%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 728 (53.89%) Lecturer
2 65 (4.81%) Senior
3 55 (4.07%) Designer
4 53 (3.92%) Developer
5 34 (2.52%) UX Designer
6 28 (2.07%) Analyst
6 28 (2.07%) IT Manager
7 27 (2.00%) Lead
8 23 (1.70%) Service Manager
9 20 (1.48%) Senior Manager
10 19 (1.41%) Product Designer
11 18 (1.33%) IT Services Manager
11 18 (1.33%) Support Engineer
12 17 (1.26%) Senior Developer
12 17 (1.26%) Senior IT Manager
12 17 (1.26%) Senior Service Manager
13 16 (1.18%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 15 (1.11%) Desktop Engineer
14 15 (1.11%) Product Manager
15 14 (1.04%) Desktop Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (2.66%) HTML
2 34 (2.52%) CSS
3 24 (1.78%) React
4 22 (1.63%) .NET
5 19 (1.41%) RESTful
6 16 (1.18%) AngularJS
7 9 (0.67%) ASP.NET
7 9 (0.67%) Node.js
8 8 (0.59%) REST
9 7 (0.52%) jQuery
9 7 (0.52%) Spring
10 6 (0.44%) .NET Core
10 6 (0.44%) .NET Framework
10 6 (0.44%) Entity Framework
10 6 (0.44%) HTML5
11 5 (0.37%) Next.js
11 5 (0.37%) Spring Boot
12 4 (0.30%) EDI
12 4 (0.30%) iOS SDK
12 4 (0.30%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 991 (73.35%) IoT
2 34 (2.52%) Product Ownership
3 20 (1.48%) Mobile App
4 18 (1.33%) Onboarding
5 10 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (0.67%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (0.52%) Low-Code
7 7 (0.52%) Social Media
8 6 (0.44%) Cloud Native
8 6 (0.44%) Driving Licence
9 5 (0.37%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (0.37%) Photography
10 4 (0.30%) AI Agents
10 4 (0.30%) Media Streaming
11 3 (0.22%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.22%) Animation
11 3 (0.22%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (0.22%) PropTech
11 3 (0.22%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.22%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 31 (2.29%) Windows
2 13 (0.96%) Windows 10
3 11 (0.81%) Apple iOS
4 7 (0.52%) Android
5 5 (0.37%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.22%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.15%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,036 (76.68%) AI
2 1,008 (74.61%) Web Development
3 1,001 (74.09%) Cybersecurity
4 993 (73.50%) Machine Learning
5 101 (7.48%) UX Design
6 94 (6.96%) Continuous Improvement
7 89 (6.59%) Agile
8 79 (5.85%) Problem-Solving
9 62 (4.59%) Analytics
9 62 (4.59%) Mentoring
10 42 (3.11%) ITIL
11 41 (3.03%) CRM
11 41 (3.03%) E-Commerce
12 39 (2.89%) DevOps
13 37 (2.74%) CI/CD
13 37 (2.74%) SEO
13 37 (2.74%) Service Management
14 36 (2.66%) Roadmaps
15 35 (2.59%) Coaching
16 31 (2.29%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 38 (2.81%) JavaScript
2 28 (2.07%) TypeScript
3 20 (1.48%) SQL
4 17 (1.26%) C#
5 13 (0.96%) Java
5 13 (0.96%) Python
6 7 (0.52%) Swift
7 6 (0.44%) PHP
8 5 (0.37%) PowerShell
9 4 (0.30%) Bicep
9 4 (0.30%) VBScript
10 3 (0.22%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.22%) VB
Qualifications
1 1,025 (75.87%) Degree
2 992 (73.43%) Master's Degree
3 991 (73.35%) Postgraduate
4 990 (73.28%) PhD
5 11 (0.81%) Security Cleared
6 7 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (0.37%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (0.30%) SC Cleared
9 3 (0.22%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.15%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.15%) IIBA
10 2 (0.15%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.074%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (3.33%) Accessibility
2 27 (2.00%) QA
3 20 (1.48%) GDPR
4 12 (0.89%) Data Quality
4 12 (0.89%) WCAG
5 9 (0.67%) PCI DSS
6 7 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
7 6 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (0.30%) SLA
9 3 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.074%) HL7
10 1 (0.074%) PMO
System Software
1 19 (1.41%) Active Directory
2 7 (0.52%) Docker
3 4 (0.30%) BitLocker
4 2 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 20 (1.48%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (0.81%) Terraform
3 6 (0.44%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (0.30%) SCCM
5 2 (0.15%) Grafana
5 2 (0.15%) Packer
5 2 (0.15%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.074%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 85 (6.29%) Microsoft
2 24 (1.78%) Google
3 21 (1.55%) Adobe
4 12 (0.89%) ServiceNow
5 7 (0.52%) New Relic
6 6 (0.44%) Dynatrace
6 6 (0.44%) Splunk
7 5 (0.37%) Hotjar
8 4 (0.30%) Apple
8 4 (0.30%) DevExpress
8 4 (0.30%) OneLogin
9 3 (0.22%) HubSpot
9 3 (0.22%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.15%) Amplitude
10 2 (0.15%) Databricks
10 2 (0.15%) Hootsuite
10 2 (0.15%) Oracle
10 2 (0.15%) SAP
10 2 (0.15%) Synthesia
11 1 (0.074%) Sage