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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 50 36
Rank change year-on-year -29 -14 +71
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 438 495 669
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.95% 5.18% 4.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.77% 5.84% 5.64%
Number of salaries quoted 341 174 224
10th Percentile £29,076 £30,650 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,313 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,786 £52,250 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.02% +10.00% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,640 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,350 £72,625
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -14.73%

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 15,826 8,470 11,863
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.31% 88.58% 78.18%
Number of salaries quoted 11,848 4,259 7,577
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% -4.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £78,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -0.90% -11.20%

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 August 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 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
North West -38 235 £52,500 -4.55% 106
Yorkshire +25 119 £55,000 +18.92% 55
North East +10 84 £50,000 +61.29% 32
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 34 (7.76%) SharePoint
2 22 (5.02%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (3.65%) Confluence
4 15 (3.42%) CMS
5 14 (3.20%) WordPress
6 4 (0.91%) Skype for Business
7 2 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.46%) Moodle
7 2 (0.46%) nginx
7 2 (0.46%) Totara
8 1 (0.23%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.23%) Umbraco
Applications
1 18 (4.11%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (2.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (1.83%) Chatbot
4 7 (1.60%) MS Visio
5 5 (1.14%) Sketch
6 3 (0.68%) Adobe XD
6 3 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.46%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.46%) Camtasia
7 2 (0.46%) InVision
7 2 (0.46%) Trello
8 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (1.83%) Magento
2 5 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.14%) Shopify
3 4 (0.91%) Workday HCM
4 3 (0.68%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 100 (22.83%) Azure
2 66 (15.07%) Microsoft 365
3 35 (7.99%) Power Platform
4 28 (6.39%) AWS
4 28 (6.39%) Entra ID
4 28 (6.39%) Figma
5 27 (6.16%) SaaS
6 25 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (5.71%) Microsoft Copilot
7 23 (5.25%) PowerApps
8 19 (4.34%) Power Automate
9 16 (3.65%) Microsoft Purview
10 15 (3.42%) Google Analytics
11 11 (2.51%) Copilot Studio
11 11 (2.51%) Firebase
12 10 (2.28%) Dynamics 365
13 7 (1.60%) Azure Logic Apps
14 6 (1.37%) OneDrive
15 5 (1.14%) GitHub
15 5 (1.14%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.28%) Firewall
2 9 (2.05%) DNS
3 8 (1.83%) CTI
3 8 (1.83%) DHCP
3 8 (1.83%) VoIP
4 6 (1.37%) Network Security
5 4 (0.91%) Skype
5 4 (0.91%) Wireless
6 3 (0.68%) FTP
6 3 (0.68%) VLAN
6 3 (0.68%) VPN
7 2 (0.46%) Intranet
7 2 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.23%) HTTP
8 1 (0.23%) SAN
8 1 (0.23%) SSL
8 1 (0.23%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.23%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (1.83%) Looker
1 8 (1.83%) Power BI
2 7 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (1.14%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 4 (0.91%) GIS
4 4 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.68%) BigQuery
5 3 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (0.68%) Tableau
6 2 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.46%) Metadata
6 2 (0.46%) Mixpanel
6 2 (0.46%) MySQL
6 2 (0.46%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.23%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.23%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 26 (5.94%) JIRA
2 24 (5.48%) Git
3 16 (3.65%) fastlane
4 12 (2.74%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.37%) Xcode
6 5 (1.14%) Android Studio
6 5 (1.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 5 (1.14%) Crashlytics
6 5 (1.14%) Gradle
7 4 (0.91%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.91%) NUnit
8 3 (0.68%) Selenium
9 2 (0.46%) Axure RP
9 2 (0.46%) Balsamiq
9 2 (0.46%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.23%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.23%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.23%) gulp
10 1 (0.23%) Postman
10 1 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 104 (23.74%) Social Skills
2 77 (17.58%) Public Sector
3 74 (16.89%) Finance
4 53 (12.10%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (12.10%) Marketing
5 34 (7.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 22 (5.02%) Influencing Skills
7 19 (4.34%) Law
7 19 (4.34%) Legal
8 17 (3.88%) Retail
9 9 (2.05%) Manufacturing
10 7 (1.60%) Banking
11 5 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.91%) Advertising
12 4 (0.91%) Brand Awareness
12 4 (0.91%) Games
13 3 (0.68%) Billing
13 3 (0.68%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.68%) Publishing
13 3 (0.68%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 65 (14.84%) Designer
2 63 (14.38%) Developer
3 60 (13.70%) Senior
4 57 (13.01%) Lead
5 44 (10.05%) Analyst
6 42 (9.59%) UX Designer
7 30 (6.85%) IT Manager
8 26 (5.94%) Product Manager
9 23 (5.25%) Desktop Engineer
10 22 (5.02%) Support Engineer
11 20 (4.57%) Business Analyst
12 19 (4.34%) Desktop Support
12 19 (4.34%) IT Support
12 19 (4.34%) Service Manager
13 18 (4.11%) Desktop Support Engineer
13 18 (4.11%) Product Designer
13 18 (4.11%) Senior Developer
14 14 (3.20%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 14 (3.20%) IT Services Manager
14 14 (3.20%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (6.85%) CSS
2 29 (6.62%) HTML
3 26 (5.94%) .NET
4 25 (5.71%) React
5 18 (4.11%) RESTful
6 14 (3.20%) Node.js
7 10 (2.28%) REST
8 9 (2.05%) Terraform
9 8 (1.83%) Next.js
10 7 (1.60%) CSS3
10 7 (1.60%) HTML5
10 7 (1.60%) iOS SDK
11 6 (1.37%) .NET Core
11 6 (1.37%) AngularJS
11 6 (1.37%) Core Data
11 6 (1.37%) SwiftUI
11 6 (1.37%) UIKit
12 5 (1.14%) Android Jetpack
12 5 (1.14%) Model Context Protocol
12 5 (1.14%) Retrofit
Miscellaneous
1 52 (11.87%) Product Ownership
2 30 (6.85%) Mobile App
3 17 (3.88%) Onboarding
4 13 (2.97%) Driving Licence
5 8 (1.83%) Cloud Native
5 8 (1.83%) IVR
6 7 (1.60%) Low-Code
7 6 (1.37%) Cyber Threat
7 6 (1.37%) Data Centre
7 6 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.14%) Security Posture
9 4 (0.91%) AI Agents
9 4 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (0.91%) Learning Management System
9 4 (0.91%) Media Streaming
9 4 (0.91%) PropTech
9 4 (0.91%) Renewable Energy
9 4 (0.91%) Video\Live Streaming
10 3 (0.68%) Animation
Operating Systems
1 49 (11.19%) Windows
2 21 (4.79%) Windows 10
3 19 (4.34%) Apple iOS
4 14 (3.20%) Android
4 14 (3.20%) Windows Server
5 9 (2.05%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.91%) Windows 7
6 4 (0.91%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.46%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (27.85%) Continuous Improvement
2 118 (26.94%) UX Design
3 111 (25.34%) Agile
4 102 (23.29%) Problem-Solving
5 82 (18.72%) Analytics
6 77 (17.58%) Mentoring
7 71 (16.21%) AI
7 71 (16.21%) Roadmaps
8 57 (13.01%) CI/CD
9 51 (11.64%) Coaching
10 47 (10.73%) DevOps
11 46 (10.50%) Decision-Making
12 42 (9.59%) ITIL
12 42 (9.59%) Stakeholder Management
13 39 (8.90%) CRM
13 39 (8.90%) Customer Service
14 36 (8.22%) E-Commerce
14 36 (8.22%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 33 (7.53%) ITSM
16 32 (7.31%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (7.99%) JavaScript
2 27 (6.16%) TypeScript
3 26 (5.94%) C#
4 21 (4.79%) SQL
5 18 (4.11%) Python
6 11 (2.51%) Java
6 11 (2.51%) Swift
7 9 (2.05%) PHP
7 9 (2.05%) PowerShell
8 8 (1.83%) VBScript
9 5 (1.14%) Kotlin
9 5 (1.14%) VB
10 4 (0.91%) Bicep
11 3 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.68%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.23%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.23%) Scala
Qualifications
1 35 (7.99%) Degree
2 22 (5.02%) Security Cleared
3 11 (2.51%) SC Cleared
4 7 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (1.60%) Postgraduate
5 5 (1.14%) DBS Check
5 5 (1.14%) DV Cleared
5 5 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (0.91%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.68%) IIBA
7 3 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.46%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.23%) CSPO
9 1 (0.23%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (14.16%) Accessibility
2 25 (5.71%) WCAG
3 22 (5.02%) QA
4 20 (4.57%) GDPR
5 14 (3.20%) Data Quality
6 10 (2.28%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 5 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.91%) SLA
9 3 (0.68%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.23%) GRC
10 1 (0.23%) PMO
System Software
1 24 (5.48%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.83%) BitLocker
3 6 (1.37%) Docker
4 2 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.23%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (5.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (1.83%) SCCM
3 5 (1.14%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.46%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 110 (25.11%) Microsoft
2 23 (5.25%) Google
3 13 (2.97%) Adobe
4 12 (2.74%) Cisco
5 11 (2.51%) Dynatrace
5 11 (2.51%) ServiceNow
6 10 (2.28%) Apple
7 8 (1.83%) Avaya
7 8 (1.83%) Genesys
8 7 (1.60%) Meraki
9 4 (0.91%) CheckPoint
9 4 (0.91%) DevExpress
9 4 (0.91%) iManage
9 4 (0.91%) Salesforce
9 4 (0.91%) Workday
10 3 (0.68%) Hotjar
10 3 (0.68%) HubSpot
10 3 (0.68%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.46%) Amplitude
11 2 (0.46%) OneLogin