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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 46 59
Rank change year-on-year +33 +13 +41
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 1,354 502 592
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 7.37% 6.62% 3.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.35% 6.97% 4.24%
Number of salaries quoted 278 185 397
10th Percentile £29,164 £32,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +10.53% -17.39%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 13,086 7,206 13,972
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 71.22% 95.00% 82.85%
Number of salaries quoted 8,541 3,813 11,125
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £51,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +2.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £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 11 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 11 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 +30 1,106 £55,550 +1.00% 89
Yorkshire +28 203 £55,000 +29.41% 29
North East -20 45 £52,000 +8.33% 21
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%) CMS
1 23 (1.70%) SharePoint
2 13 (0.96%) WordPress
3 9 (0.66%) Confluence
4 8 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.37%) Umbraco
6 2 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.15%) nginx
7 1 (0.074%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.074%) Moodle
7 1 (0.074%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.074%) Totara
Applications
1 10 (0.74%) 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%) Trello
6 1 (0.074%) Blender
6 1 (0.074%) Camtasia
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 6 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.074%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 1,012 (74.74%) Cloud Computing
2 64 (4.73%) Azure
3 43 (3.18%) Microsoft 365
4 35 (2.58%) SaaS
5 32 (2.36%) Power Platform
6 29 (2.14%) Figma
7 26 (1.92%) Entra ID
8 19 (1.40%) Google Analytics
9 17 (1.26%) Microsoft Purview
10 15 (1.11%) Power Automate
10 15 (1.11%) PowerApps
11 12 (0.89%) AWS
11 12 (0.89%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (0.89%) Microsoft Copilot
12 11 (0.81%) Azure Monitor
13 10 (0.74%) Dynamics 365
14 9 (0.66%) OneDrive
15 7 (0.52%) Adobe Analytics
16 5 (0.37%) Azure Logic Apps
16 5 (0.37%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1,011 (74.67%) Internet
2 5 (0.37%) HTTP
3 3 (0.22%) DHCP
3 3 (0.22%) DNS
4 2 (0.15%) Intranet
4 2 (0.15%) VLAN
4 2 (0.15%) VPN
4 2 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.074%) Firewall
5 1 (0.074%) Skype
5 1 (0.074%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.074%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (0.66%) Looker
2 8 (0.59%) SQL Server
3 7 (0.52%) Power BI
4 5 (0.37%) MongoDB
4 5 (0.37%) MySQL
4 5 (0.37%) NoSQL
5 4 (0.30%) BigQuery
5 4 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (0.22%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.22%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.15%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.15%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.15%) Metadata
7 2 (0.15%) Mixpanel
7 2 (0.15%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.15%) PostHog
7 2 (0.15%) Redis
7 2 (0.15%) Tableau
8 1 (0.074%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.074%) GIS
Development Applications
1 19 (1.40%) Git
1 19 (1.40%) JIRA
2 7 (0.52%) fastlane
2 7 (0.52%) Jenkins
3 5 (0.37%) JUnit
4 4 (0.30%) NUnit
5 3 (0.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (0.22%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.22%) GitLab
5 3 (0.22%) Selenium
6 2 (0.15%) Android Studio
6 2 (0.15%) Crashlytics
6 2 (0.15%) Gradle
6 2 (0.15%) Postman
6 2 (0.15%) Vagrant
6 2 (0.15%) Xcode
7 1 (0.074%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.074%) JMeter
7 1 (0.074%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.074%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 1,098 (81.09%) Social Skills
2 1,028 (75.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,017 (75.11%) Banking
4 64 (4.73%) Finance
5 60 (4.43%) Marketing
6 43 (3.18%) Public Sector
7 39 (2.88%) Analytical Skills
8 16 (1.18%) Law
9 15 (1.11%) Legal
9 15 (1.11%) Retail
10 11 (0.81%) Manufacturing
11 9 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (0.44%) Advertising
14 4 (0.30%) Brand Awareness
14 4 (0.30%) Health Technology
15 2 (0.15%) Digital Health
15 2 (0.15%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.15%) Games
15 2 (0.15%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 728 (53.77%) Lecturer
2 62 (4.58%) Senior
3 55 (4.06%) Designer
4 46 (3.40%) Developer
5 34 (2.51%) UX Designer
6 28 (2.07%) Analyst
7 24 (1.77%) IT Manager
8 23 (1.70%) Lead
9 22 (1.62%) Service Manager
10 20 (1.48%) Senior Manager
11 19 (1.40%) Product Designer
12 17 (1.26%) IT Services Manager
12 17 (1.26%) Senior IT Manager
12 17 (1.26%) Senior Service Manager
13 15 (1.11%) Product Manager
14 14 (1.03%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 14 (1.03%) Senior Developer
15 13 (0.96%) Senior Designer
15 13 (0.96%) Senior UX Designer
15 13 (0.96%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (2.81%) HTML
2 36 (2.66%) CSS
3 24 (1.77%) .NET
4 21 (1.55%) React
5 18 (1.33%) RESTful
6 16 (1.18%) AngularJS
7 12 (0.89%) ASP.NET
8 10 (0.74%) .NET Framework
8 10 (0.74%) Node.js
9 8 (0.59%) REST
10 7 (0.52%) Spring
11 6 (0.44%) .NET Core
11 6 (0.44%) ASP.NET Core
11 6 (0.44%) Entity Framework
11 6 (0.44%) HTML5
11 6 (0.44%) jQuery
11 6 (0.44%) Web Services
12 5 (0.37%) Spring Boot
13 4 (0.30%) EDI
13 4 (0.30%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 1,012 (74.74%) IoT
2 30 (2.22%) Product Ownership
3 18 (1.33%) Mobile App
3 18 (1.33%) Onboarding
4 12 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (0.66%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (0.59%) Cloud Native
7 7 (0.52%) Social Media
8 6 (0.44%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (0.44%) Low-Code
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%) Driving Licence
11 3 (0.22%) FMCG
11 3 (0.22%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (0.22%) NHS
11 3 (0.22%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 24 (1.77%) Windows
2 10 (0.74%) Apple iOS
2 10 (0.74%) Windows 10
3 6 (0.44%) Android
4 3 (0.22%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.15%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.074%) Unix
6 1 (0.074%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,056 (77.99%) AI
2 1,028 (75.92%) Web Development
3 1,019 (75.26%) Cybersecurity
4 1,013 (74.82%) Machine Learning
5 95 (7.02%) UX Design
6 91 (6.72%) Agile
6 91 (6.72%) Continuous Improvement
7 75 (5.54%) Problem-Solving
8 62 (4.58%) Mentoring
9 59 (4.36%) Analytics
10 40 (2.95%) E-Commerce
11 39 (2.88%) ITIL
11 39 (2.88%) SEO
12 38 (2.81%) CRM
12 38 (2.81%) DevOps
13 34 (2.51%) Coaching
13 34 (2.51%) Roadmaps
13 34 (2.51%) Service Management
14 32 (2.36%) CI/CD
14 32 (2.36%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 38 (2.81%) JavaScript
2 28 (2.07%) TypeScript
3 24 (1.77%) SQL
4 20 (1.48%) C#
5 12 (0.89%) Python
6 11 (0.81%) Java
7 6 (0.44%) Swift
8 5 (0.37%) PHP
9 4 (0.30%) Bicep
10 2 (0.15%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.15%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.15%) VB
11 1 (0.074%) Go
11 1 (0.074%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1,044 (77.10%) Degree
2 1,013 (74.82%) Master's Degree
3 1,011 (74.67%) PhD
3 1,011 (74.67%) Postgraduate
4 10 (0.74%) Security Cleared
5 6 (0.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (0.37%) DBS Check
6 5 (0.37%) DV Cleared
7 4 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (0.22%) SC Cleared
9 2 (0.15%) IIBA
9 2 (0.15%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.074%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.074%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (3.18%) Accessibility
2 29 (2.14%) QA
3 19 (1.40%) GDPR
4 12 (0.89%) Data Quality
4 12 (0.89%) WCAG
5 10 (0.74%) PCI DSS
6 7 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (0.30%) SLA
8 3 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.074%) HL7
9 1 (0.074%) PMO
System Software
1 20 (1.48%) Active Directory
2 8 (0.59%) Docker
3 1 (0.074%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.074%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 20 (1.48%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (0.96%) Terraform
3 8 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (0.52%) Kubernetes
5 2 (0.15%) Grafana
5 2 (0.15%) Packer
5 2 (0.15%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.074%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.074%) SCCM
Vendors
1 78 (5.76%) Microsoft
2 23 (1.70%) Google
3 21 (1.55%) Adobe
4 10 (0.74%) ServiceNow
5 9 (0.66%) New Relic
6 8 (0.59%) Splunk
7 5 (0.37%) Hotjar
8 4 (0.30%) DevExpress
8 4 (0.30%) Dynatrace
8 4 (0.30%) OneLogin
9 3 (0.22%) Apple
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%) SAP
11 1 (0.074%) Meraki
11 1 (0.074%) Oracle
11 1 (0.074%) Sage