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 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 83 63
Rank change year-on-year +74 -20 +35
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 1,933 254 566
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 11.12% 3.71% 3.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.17% 3.93% 4.11%
Number of salaries quoted 257 178 387
10th Percentile £29,737 £31,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,125 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,250 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +10.00% -17.39%
75th Percentile £67,500 £66,354 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £74,125 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £58,675 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.00% +11.76% -19.23%

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 12,746 6,460 13,787
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 73.34% 94.43% 83.57%
Number of salaries quoted 7,794 3,726 11,009
10th Percentile £28,500 £28,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £37,500 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 18 April 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 18 April 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 +64 1,652 £55,000 - 230
Yorkshire +30 250 £55,000 +26.44% 74
North East -19 31 £52,500 +9.38% 28
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 (1.09%) CMS
2 19 (0.98%) SharePoint
3 11 (0.57%) WordPress
4 9 (0.47%) Confluence
5 6 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (0.26%) Umbraco
7 2 (0.10%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.10%) nginx
8 1 (0.052%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 10 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.47%) Sketch
3 7 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
5 4 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 4 (0.21%) Adobe XD
6 3 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
6 3 (0.16%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.10%) Adobe After Effects
7 2 (0.10%) Adobe Premiere
7 2 (0.10%) Trello
8 1 (0.052%) Blender
8 1 (0.052%) CINEMA 4D
8 1 (0.052%) FrameMaker
8 1 (0.052%) InDesign
8 1 (0.052%) InVision
8 1 (0.052%) MadCap Flare
8 1 (0.052%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (0.47%) Magento
2 8 (0.41%) Shopify
3 4 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.052%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.052%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 1,615 (83.55%) Cloud Computing
2 49 (2.53%) Azure
3 35 (1.81%) Microsoft 365
4 34 (1.76%) SaaS
5 28 (1.45%) Figma
6 25 (1.29%) Power Platform
7 19 (0.98%) Entra ID
7 19 (0.98%) Google Analytics
8 14 (0.72%) Microsoft Purview
9 13 (0.67%) AWS
10 11 (0.57%) Azure Monitor
11 9 (0.47%) OneDrive
11 9 (0.47%) Power Automate
12 8 (0.41%) Adobe Analytics
12 8 (0.41%) Microsoft Copilot
12 8 (0.41%) PowerApps
13 7 (0.36%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (0.36%) Dynamics 365
14 5 (0.26%) GCP
15 4 (0.21%) Dropbox
Communications & Networking
1 1,615 (83.55%) Internet
2 5 (0.26%) HTTP
3 3 (0.16%) DNS
4 2 (0.10%) DHCP
4 2 (0.10%) Intranet
4 2 (0.10%) LAN
4 2 (0.10%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.10%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.052%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.052%) VLAN
5 1 (0.052%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (0.52%) Looker
2 8 (0.41%) Power BI
3 7 (0.36%) MySQL
3 7 (0.36%) SQL Server
4 6 (0.31%) NoSQL
5 5 (0.26%) MongoDB
6 4 (0.21%) BigQuery
6 4 (0.21%) Metadata
6 4 (0.21%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.16%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.10%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.10%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.10%) PostHog
8 2 (0.10%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.10%) Redis
8 2 (0.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.10%) Tableau
9 1 (0.052%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.052%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.052%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 19 (0.98%) JIRA
2 17 (0.88%) Git
3 5 (0.26%) JUnit
4 4 (0.21%) NUnit
5 3 (0.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (0.16%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.16%) fastlane
5 3 (0.16%) GitLab
5 3 (0.16%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.16%) Selenium
6 2 (0.10%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.10%) Postman
6 2 (0.10%) Vagrant
7 1 (0.052%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.052%) gulp
7 1 (0.052%) JMeter
7 1 (0.052%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.052%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.052%) webpack
General
1 1,706 (88.26%) Social Skills
2 1,628 (84.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,621 (83.86%) Banking
4 62 (3.21%) Finance
5 56 (2.90%) Marketing
6 43 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
7 34 (1.76%) Public Sector
8 13 (0.67%) Legal
9 12 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (0.62%) Retail
10 11 (0.57%) Law
11 10 (0.52%) Manufacturing
12 8 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (0.31%) Advertising
14 4 (0.21%) Brand Awareness
14 4 (0.21%) Health Technology
15 2 (0.10%) Digital Health
15 2 (0.10%) Games
15 2 (0.10%) Multimedia
15 2 (0.10%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 1,224 (63.32%) Lecturer
2 58 (3.00%) Senior
3 43 (2.22%) Designer
4 37 (1.91%) Developer
5 30 (1.55%) Analyst
6 27 (1.40%) UX Designer
7 24 (1.24%) Lead
8 22 (1.14%) IT Manager
9 18 (0.93%) Service Manager
10 17 (0.88%) Senior Manager
11 15 (0.78%) Product Designer
12 14 (0.72%) E-Commerce Specialist
12 14 (0.72%) Product Manager
13 13 (0.67%) IT Services Manager
13 13 (0.67%) Senior Designer
13 13 (0.67%) Senior IT Manager
13 13 (0.67%) Senior Service Manager
13 13 (0.67%) Senior UX Designer
14 12 (0.62%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 12 (0.62%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (2.12%) CSS
1 41 (2.12%) HTML
2 27 (1.40%) .NET
3 20 (1.03%) React
4 16 (0.83%) AngularJS
5 15 (0.78%) RESTful
6 13 (0.67%) ASP.NET
7 11 (0.57%) .NET Framework
8 9 (0.47%) Node.js
9 8 (0.41%) REST
10 7 (0.36%) ASP.NET Core
10 7 (0.36%) HTML5
10 7 (0.36%) Spring
11 6 (0.31%) Entity Framework
11 6 (0.31%) Next.js
12 5 (0.26%) .NET Core
12 5 (0.26%) jQuery
12 5 (0.26%) Spring Boot
12 5 (0.26%) Web Services
13 4 (0.21%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 1,616 (83.60%) IoT
2 23 (1.19%) Product Ownership
3 16 (0.83%) Onboarding
4 15 (0.78%) Mobile App
5 12 (0.62%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (0.52%) Cloud Native
6 10 (0.52%) Social Media
7 9 (0.47%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (0.31%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (0.26%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (0.26%) Animation
9 5 (0.26%) Low-Code
9 5 (0.26%) Photography
10 4 (0.21%) AI Agents
10 4 (0.21%) Media Streaming
11 3 (0.16%) Distributed Computing
11 3 (0.16%) Driving Licence
11 3 (0.16%) FMCG
11 3 (0.16%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (0.16%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 14 (0.72%) Windows
2 9 (0.47%) Apple iOS
3 5 (0.26%) Android
3 5 (0.26%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.10%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.052%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.052%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,657 (85.72%) AI
2 1,628 (84.22%) Web Development
3 1,624 (84.01%) Cybersecurity
4 1,617 (83.65%) Machine Learning
5 94 (4.86%) Agile
6 86 (4.45%) Continuous Improvement
7 78 (4.04%) UX Design
8 65 (3.36%) Problem-Solving
9 54 (2.79%) Analytics
10 52 (2.69%) Mentoring
11 42 (2.17%) SEO
12 38 (1.97%) E-Commerce
13 35 (1.81%) DevOps
13 35 (1.81%) Roadmaps
13 35 (1.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 33 (1.71%) CRM
14 33 (1.71%) Decision-Making
15 32 (1.66%) Coaching
15 32 (1.66%) Software Engineering
16 31 (1.60%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (1.97%) JavaScript
2 29 (1.50%) TypeScript
3 25 (1.29%) SQL
4 22 (1.14%) C#
5 9 (0.47%) Java
6 7 (0.36%) Python
7 4 (0.21%) Bicep
7 4 (0.21%) Swift
8 3 (0.16%) PHP
9 2 (0.10%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.052%) ABAP
10 1 (0.052%) Go
10 1 (0.052%) VB
10 1 (0.052%) XAML
Qualifications
1 1,646 (85.15%) Degree
2 1,617 (83.65%) Master's Degree
3 1,615 (83.55%) PhD
3 1,615 (83.55%) Postgraduate
4 5 (0.26%) DBS Check
4 5 (0.26%) Security Cleared
5 3 (0.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (0.16%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 3 (0.16%) SC Cleared
6 2 (0.10%) ISTQB
6 2 (0.10%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (0.10%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.052%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.052%) IIBA
7 1 (0.052%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (2.22%) Accessibility
2 29 (1.50%) QA
3 19 (0.98%) GDPR
4 14 (0.72%) Data Quality
5 10 (0.52%) PCI DSS
6 8 (0.41%) WCAG
7 6 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.10%) HL7
9 2 (0.10%) SLA
10 1 (0.052%) PMO
System Software
1 17 (0.88%) Active Directory
2 8 (0.41%) Docker
3 1 (0.052%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 14 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (0.67%) Terraform
3 8 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (0.36%) Kubernetes
5 2 (0.10%) Grafana
5 2 (0.10%) Packer
5 2 (0.10%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.052%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 67 (3.47%) Microsoft
2 24 (1.24%) Adobe
3 23 (1.19%) Google
4 10 (0.52%) ServiceNow
5 9 (0.47%) New Relic
6 8 (0.41%) Splunk
7 7 (0.36%) Hotjar
8 4 (0.21%) DevExpress
8 4 (0.21%) OneLogin
9 3 (0.16%) HubSpot
9 3 (0.16%) SAP
10 2 (0.10%) Ahrefs
10 2 (0.10%) Apple
10 2 (0.10%) Databricks
10 2 (0.10%) Hootsuite
10 2 (0.10%) Qualtrics
10 2 (0.10%) Screaming Frog
11 1 (0.052%) Adyen
11 1 (0.052%) Amplitude
11 1 (0.052%) Sage