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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 51 59
Rank change year-on-year +37 +8 +49
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 1,349 475 590
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 6.88% 6.17% 3.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.72% 6.51% 4.16%
Number of salaries quoted 298 153 398
10th Percentile £29,803 £32,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £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 £77,875
England median annual salary £57,075 £60,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year -4.88% +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 13,877 7,295 14,182
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.80% 94.75% 81.54%
Number of salaries quoted 9,312 3,435 11,272
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,055 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.88% +0.11% -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 26 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 26 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 +31 1,103 £55,000 -4.35% 92
Yorkshire +38 195 £55,000 +33.33% 28
North East -9 51 £52,000 -0.95% 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 21 (1.56%) CMS
1 21 (1.56%) SharePoint
2 14 (1.04%) WordPress
3 11 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.67%) Confluence
5 3 (0.22%) Umbraco
6 2 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.15%) Moodle
6 2 (0.15%) nginx
6 2 (0.15%) Skype for Business
6 2 (0.15%) Totara
7 1 (0.074%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 13 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.52%) Sketch
2 7 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 3 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
3 3 (0.22%) Adobe XD
3 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.22%) Photoshop
3 3 (0.22%) Trello
4 2 (0.15%) Adobe After Effects
4 2 (0.15%) Adobe Premiere
4 2 (0.15%) Camtasia
5 1 (0.074%) Blender
5 1 (0.074%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.074%) InDesign
5 1 (0.074%) InVision
5 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 (73.54%) Cloud Computing
2 68 (5.04%) Azure
3 46 (3.41%) Microsoft 365
4 33 (2.45%) SaaS
5 31 (2.30%) Figma
6 29 (2.15%) Power Platform
7 26 (1.93%) Entra ID
8 19 (1.41%) Google Analytics
9 16 (1.19%) Microsoft Purview
10 15 (1.11%) Azure DevOps
10 15 (1.11%) Power Automate
11 14 (1.04%) AWS
11 14 (1.04%) Microsoft Copilot
11 14 (1.04%) PowerApps
12 10 (0.74%) Dynamics 365
13 9 (0.67%) Azure Monitor
14 7 (0.52%) Adobe Analytics
14 7 (0.52%) Copilot Studio
15 6 (0.44%) Firebase
16 5 (0.37%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 990 (73.39%) Internet
2 5 (0.37%) DHCP
2 5 (0.37%) DNS
3 4 (0.30%) HTTP
4 3 (0.22%) Firewall
4 3 (0.22%) VLAN
4 3 (0.22%) VPN
5 2 (0.15%) Skype
5 2 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.074%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.074%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (0.67%) Looker
2 8 (0.59%) SQL Server
3 4 (0.30%) BigQuery
3 4 (0.30%) MongoDB
3 4 (0.30%) Power BI
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
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%) NoSQL
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 18 (1.33%) Git
3 9 (0.67%) fastlane
3 9 (0.67%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.30%) JUnit
4 4 (0.30%) NUnit
5 3 (0.22%) Android Studio
5 3 (0.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (0.22%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.22%) Crashlytics
5 3 (0.22%) GitLab
5 3 (0.22%) Gradle
5 3 (0.22%) Selenium
5 3 (0.22%) Xcode
6 2 (0.15%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.15%) Postman
6 2 (0.15%) Vagrant
7 1 (0.074%) gulp
7 1 (0.074%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.074%) webpack
General
1 1,072 (79.47%) Social Skills
2 1,008 (74.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 996 (73.83%) Banking
4 63 (4.67%) Finance
4 63 (4.67%) Marketing
5 44 (3.26%) Public Sector
6 36 (2.67%) Analytical Skills
7 17 (1.26%) Law
7 17 (1.26%) Legal
7 17 (1.26%) Retail
8 11 (0.82%) Manufacturing
9 9 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (0.37%) Advertising
11 4 (0.30%) Brand Awareness
11 4 (0.30%) Health Technology
12 3 (0.22%) Billing
13 2 (0.15%) Games
13 2 (0.15%) Multimedia
13 2 (0.15%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 728 (53.97%) Lecturer
2 65 (4.82%) Senior
3 57 (4.23%) Designer
4 55 (4.08%) Developer
5 35 (2.59%) UX Designer
6 28 (2.08%) Analyst
6 28 (2.08%) IT Manager
7 26 (1.93%) 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%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 17 (1.26%) Senior Developer
12 17 (1.26%) Senior IT Manager
12 17 (1.26%) Senior Service Manager
13 15 (1.11%) Desktop Engineer
13 15 (1.11%) Product Manager
14 14 (1.04%) Desktop Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (2.74%) HTML
2 35 (2.59%) CSS
3 24 (1.78%) React
4 21 (1.56%) .NET
5 18 (1.33%) RESTful
6 15 (1.11%) AngularJS
7 9 (0.67%) ASP.NET
7 9 (0.67%) Node.js
8 7 (0.52%) HTML5
8 7 (0.52%) jQuery
8 7 (0.52%) REST
9 6 (0.44%) .NET Core
9 6 (0.44%) .NET Framework
9 6 (0.44%) Entity Framework
9 6 (0.44%) Spring
10 5 (0.37%) Next.js
11 4 (0.30%) ASP.NET Core
11 4 (0.30%) LangChain
11 4 (0.30%) SwiftUI
11 4 (0.30%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 991 (73.46%) IoT
2 33 (2.45%) Product Ownership
3 20 (1.48%) Mobile App
4 18 (1.33%) Onboarding
5 9 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (0.67%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (0.52%) Low-Code
6 7 (0.52%) Social Media
7 6 (0.44%) Cloud Native
7 6 (0.44%) Driving Licence
8 5 (0.37%) Photography
9 4 (0.30%) AI Agents
9 4 (0.30%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (0.30%) Media Streaming
10 3 (0.22%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.22%) Animation
10 3 (0.22%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (0.22%) PropTech
10 3 (0.22%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.22%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 31 (2.30%) Windows
2 13 (0.96%) Windows 10
3 11 (0.82%) 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 1,033 (76.58%) AI
2 1,008 (74.72%) Web Development
3 1,002 (74.28%) Cybersecurity
4 993 (73.61%) Machine Learning
5 102 (7.56%) UX Design
6 94 (6.97%) Continuous Improvement
7 86 (6.38%) Agile
8 77 (5.71%) Problem-Solving
9 62 (4.60%) Analytics
10 61 (4.52%) Mentoring
11 42 (3.11%) ITIL
12 41 (3.04%) CRM
12 41 (3.04%) E-Commerce
13 38 (2.82%) DevOps
14 37 (2.74%) SEO
14 37 (2.74%) Service Management
15 36 (2.67%) CI/CD
15 36 (2.67%) Roadmaps
16 35 (2.59%) Coaching
17 32 (2.37%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 39 (2.89%) JavaScript
2 28 (2.08%) TypeScript
3 20 (1.48%) SQL
4 16 (1.19%) 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
11 1 (0.074%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 1,025 (75.98%) Degree
2 992 (73.54%) Master's Degree
3 991 (73.46%) Postgraduate
4 990 (73.39%) PhD
5 11 (0.82%) 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 (3.34%) Accessibility
2 27 (2.00%) QA
3 19 (1.41%) GDPR
4 13 (0.96%) WCAG
5 12 (0.89%) Data Quality
6 9 (0.67%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
8 5 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (0.30%) SLA
10 1 (0.074%) HL7
10 1 (0.074%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.074%) PMO
System Software
1 18 (1.33%) Active Directory
2 7 (0.52%) Docker
3 4 (0.30%) BitLocker
4 2 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 19 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (0.74%) Terraform
3 6 (0.44%) Kubernetes
4 5 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.30%) SCCM
6 2 (0.15%) Grafana
6 2 (0.15%) Packer
6 2 (0.15%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.074%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 82 (6.08%) Microsoft
2 24 (1.78%) Google
3 21 (1.56%) Adobe
4 12 (0.89%) ServiceNow
5 6 (0.44%) Dynatrace
5 6 (0.44%) New Relic
6 5 (0.37%) Hotjar
6 5 (0.37%) Splunk
7 4 (0.30%) Apple
7 4 (0.30%) DevExpress
7 4 (0.30%) OneLogin
8 3 (0.22%) HubSpot
8 3 (0.22%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.15%) Amplitude
9 2 (0.15%) Databricks
9 2 (0.15%) Hootsuite
9 2 (0.15%) Oracle
9 2 (0.15%) SAP
9 2 (0.15%) Synthesia
10 1 (0.074%) Sage