User Experience Jobs in the North of England

UX
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring User Experience skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited User Experience over the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 61 112
Rank change year-on-year -5 +51 -50
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 505 617 534
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.29% 3.49% 3.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.52% 4.20% 3.28%
Number of salaries quoted 184 398 270
10th Percentile £32,250 £30,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -17.39% +21.05%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £78,750 £96,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £51,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +12.75% -21.54% +8.33%

All Process and 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 11,174 14,675 16,303
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 94.99% 83.09% 96.80%
Number of salaries quoted 5,765 11,264 7,872
10th Percentile £25,480 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,250 £37,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £82,450
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing User Experience as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for User Experience in the North of England

User Experience
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing User Experience in the North of England.

Salary trend for User Experience in the North of England

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 May 2025.

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 May 2025. 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 -9 419 £55,000 +22.22% 281
Yorkshire -9 65 £42,500 -15.00% 101
North East -4 21 £48,000 +9.71% 52
User Experience
England

User Experience
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (1.78%) CMS
1 9 (1.78%) Skype for Business
2 7 (1.39%) WordPress
3 6 (1.19%) IBM Domino
3 6 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.79%) Confluence
4 4 (0.79%) IIS
5 1 (0.20%) Apache
5 1 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.20%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
Applications
1 13 (2.57%) Adobe XD
1 13 (2.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.58%) Sketch
3 5 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.79%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 4 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.79%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.59%) Adobe Illustrator
5 3 (0.59%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.59%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.40%) Adobe After Effects
6 2 (0.40%) InDesign
7 1 (0.20%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.20%) Blender
7 1 (0.20%) CINEMA 4D
7 1 (0.20%) Notion
Business Applications
1 12 (2.38%) Payment Gateway
2 10 (1.98%) Magento
3 9 (1.78%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.20%) iTrent
4 1 (0.20%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 289 (57.23%) AWS
2 282 (55.84%) Azure
3 180 (35.64%) GCP
4 23 (4.55%) Figma
5 14 (2.77%) Google Analytics
6 12 (2.38%) Serverless
7 11 (2.18%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (1.98%) SaaS
9 9 (1.78%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
10 8 (1.58%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (0.99%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (0.99%) Azure AKS
11 5 (0.99%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (0.99%) Miro
11 5 (0.99%) Power Platform
12 4 (0.79%) Google Ads
12 4 (0.79%) Google Workspace
12 4 (0.79%) Kibo
12 4 (0.79%) Slack
13 3 (0.59%) Google Data Studio
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.97%) Internet
2 10 (1.98%) Unified Communications
3 9 (1.78%) Skype
3 9 (1.78%) Wireless
4 4 (0.79%) HTTP
4 4 (0.79%) LoRaWAN
5 3 (0.59%) DNS
5 3 (0.59%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.59%) VPN
6 2 (0.40%) DMZ
7 1 (0.20%) Broadband
7 1 (0.20%) DHCP
7 1 (0.20%) Firewall
7 1 (0.20%) Intranet
7 1 (0.20%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (16.83%) SQL Server
2 23 (4.55%) MySQL
3 13 (2.57%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (1.19%) Data Lake
4 6 (1.19%) MongoDB
4 6 (1.19%) NoSQL
5 5 (0.99%) Power BI
6 3 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (0.59%) DynamoDB
6 3 (0.59%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.40%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.40%) TimescaleDB
8 1 (0.20%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.20%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.20%) Endeca
8 1 (0.20%) Redis
Development Applications
1 91 (18.02%) JIRA
2 81 (16.04%) Selenium
3 79 (15.64%) GitLab
4 74 (14.65%) Bitbucket
5 73 (14.46%) Cucumber
5 73 (14.46%) SonarQube
6 72 (14.26%) Maven
6 72 (14.26%) Sonatype Nexus
7 26 (5.15%) Git
8 5 (0.99%) JMeter
8 5 (0.99%) JUnit
8 5 (0.99%) Postman
9 4 (0.79%) Appium
9 4 (0.79%) Balsamiq
9 4 (0.79%) Fiddler
9 4 (0.79%) LoadRunner
9 4 (0.79%) Storybook
9 4 (0.79%) webpack
10 3 (0.59%) Babel
10 3 (0.59%) Jenkins
General
1 260 (51.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 122 (24.16%) Finance
3 89 (17.62%) Social Skills
4 88 (17.43%) Retail
5 74 (14.65%) Banking
6 72 (14.26%) Corporate Banking
6 72 (14.26%) Investment Banking
7 35 (6.93%) Marketing
8 23 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
9 12 (2.38%) Financial Institution
10 10 (1.98%) Advertising
10 10 (1.98%) Law
11 8 (1.58%) Mandarin Language
12 7 (1.39%) Games
13 6 (1.19%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.99%) Public Sector
15 4 (0.79%) Cantonese Language
16 3 (0.59%) Legal
16 3 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 259 (51.29%) Software Engineer
2 233 (46.14%) Senior
3 179 (35.45%) Senior Software Engineer
4 67 (13.27%) Developer
5 34 (6.73%) Lead
6 23 (4.55%) Senior Developer
7 22 (4.36%) Designer
8 19 (3.76%) IT Support
9 16 (3.17%) Analyst
10 14 (2.77%) UX Designer
11 11 (2.18%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 11 (2.18%) Full-Stack Developer
12 10 (1.98%) .NET Developer
12 10 (1.98%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
12 10 (1.98%) Magento Developer
12 10 (1.98%) Team Leader
13 9 (1.78%) Applications Support
13 9 (1.78%) Architect
13 9 (1.78%) Collaboration Specialist
13 9 (1.78%) JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 202 (40.00%) .NET
2 191 (37.82%) Node.js
3 120 (23.76%) CSS
4 118 (23.37%) HTML
4 118 (23.37%) React
5 96 (19.01%) RESTful
6 85 (16.83%) REST
7 81 (16.04%) Kafka
8 80 (15.84%) HTML5
9 78 (15.45%) Spring Boot
10 77 (15.25%) CSS3
10 77 (15.25%) Jest
10 77 (15.25%) Spring
11 76 (15.05%) Redux
12 74 (14.65%) Sass
13 72 (14.26%) JPA
14 28 (5.54%) AngularJS
15 12 (2.38%) .NET Core
16 10 (1.98%) Vue
16 10 (1.98%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 172 (34.06%) Cyberattack
1 172 (34.06%) Linux Command Line
1 172 (34.06%) Self-Motivation
2 96 (19.01%) Product Ownership
3 73 (14.46%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (2.18%) Mobile App
4 11 (2.18%) Social Media
5 10 (1.98%) Renewable Energy
6 9 (1.78%) Digital Signage
6 9 (1.78%) Video Conferencing
7 8 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.19%) Distributed Architecture
8 6 (1.19%) IoT
8 6 (1.19%) Onboarding
9 5 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (0.99%) Public Cloud
9 5 (0.99%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 4 (0.79%) e-Learning
10 4 (0.79%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 180 (35.64%) Linux
2 20 (3.96%) Windows
3 13 (2.57%) Android
3 13 (2.57%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.39%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.79%) Windows Vista
6 2 (0.40%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.20%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 332 (65.74%) Agile
2 281 (55.64%) Mentoring
3 277 (54.85%) Software Engineering
4 264 (52.28%) Microservices
5 192 (38.02%) Scrum
6 178 (35.25%) Machine Learning
7 174 (34.46%) Cloud Security
8 173 (34.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 172 (34.06%) Data Engineering
10 113 (22.38%) DevOps
11 109 (21.58%) CI/CD
12 107 (21.19%) Front End Development
13 98 (19.41%) Full-Stack Development
14 96 (19.01%) Test Automation
15 90 (17.82%) Responsive Web Design
15 90 (17.82%) SDLC
16 85 (16.83%) Performance Optimisation
17 80 (15.84%) Containerisation
18 76 (15.05%) Strategic Thinking
19 73 (14.46%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 332 (65.74%) JavaScript
2 270 (53.47%) Java
3 191 (37.82%) Python
4 173 (34.26%) Go
4 173 (34.26%) Rust
5 172 (34.06%) C++
6 130 (25.74%) TypeScript
7 96 (19.01%) SQL
8 21 (4.16%) PHP
9 20 (3.96%) C#
10 2 (0.40%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.20%) Bash
11 1 (0.20%) Elixir
11 1 (0.20%) Erlang
11 1 (0.20%) F#
11 1 (0.20%) Haskell
11 1 (0.20%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.20%) Lisp
11 1 (0.20%) PureScript
11 1 (0.20%) Scala
Qualifications
1 176 (34.85%) Security Cleared
2 172 (34.06%) AWS Certification
2 172 (34.06%) AWS Certified Developer
2 172 (34.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 172 (34.06%) DV Cleared
3 32 (6.34%) Degree
4 10 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (1.78%) DBS Check
6 4 (0.79%) ISTQB
6 4 (0.79%) PMI Certification
6 4 (0.79%) PMP
6 4 (0.79%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 4 (0.79%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.40%) CISM
7 2 (0.40%) CISSP
7 2 (0.40%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (0.40%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (18.81%) QA
2 90 (17.82%) Accessibility
3 5 (0.99%) Data Quality
3 5 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (0.99%) PCI DSS
4 4 (0.79%) GDPR
5 2 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.40%) NCSC
5 2 (0.40%) NIST
5 2 (0.40%) WCAG
6 1 (0.20%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.20%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.20%) SLA
System Software
1 102 (20.20%) Docker
2 5 (0.99%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.79%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 89 (17.62%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.98%) Terraform
3 6 (1.19%) Grafana
4 4 (0.79%) Kibana
4 4 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.40%) Puppet
6 1 (0.20%) cPanel
6 1 (0.20%) SCCM
Vendors
1 72 (14.26%) Solace
2 38 (7.52%) Microsoft
3 30 (5.94%) Google
4 28 (5.54%) Adobe
5 11 (2.18%) Salesforce
6 10 (1.98%) Bloomberg
6 10 (1.98%) Cisco
6 10 (1.98%) New Relic
7 9 (1.78%) Facebook
7 9 (1.78%) Mitel
7 9 (1.78%) Polycom
7 9 (1.78%) ShoreTel
8 6 (1.19%) Oracle
8 6 (1.19%) ServiceNow
9 5 (0.99%) Apple
10 4 (0.79%) Veeam
10 4 (0.79%) VMware
11 2 (0.40%) IBM
12 1 (0.20%) Red Hat
12 1 (0.20%) Sage