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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 53 37
Rank change year-on-year -21 -16 +81
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 419 496 723
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.99% 5.24% 4.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.83% 5.82% 5.68%
Number of salaries quoted 339 173 290
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £78,500 £77,625
England median annual salary £56,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.83% +9.09% -12.00%

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 14,824 8,518 12,722
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.23% 89.97% 78.92%
Number of salaries quoted 11,086 4,249 9,084
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £79,225
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -11.29%

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 25 July 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 25 July 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 -32 231 £52,500 -4.55% 64
Yorkshire +19 119 £53,000 +11.58% 47
North East +2 69 £51,810 +67.13% 30
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 31 (7.40%) SharePoint
2 21 (5.01%) CMS
2 21 (5.01%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (3.82%) WordPress
4 11 (2.63%) Confluence
5 4 (0.95%) Skype for Business
6 2 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.48%) Moodle
6 2 (0.48%) nginx
6 2 (0.48%) Totara
7 1 (0.24%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.24%) Umbraco
Applications
1 17 (4.06%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.91%) Chatbot
2 8 (1.91%) Sketch
3 7 (1.67%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
5 4 (0.95%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 4 (0.95%) Adobe XD
6 3 (0.72%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.72%) Trello
7 2 (0.48%) Camtasia
7 2 (0.48%) InVision
8 1 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.24%) Blender
8 1 (0.24%) CINEMA 4D
8 1 (0.24%) InDesign
8 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.24%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 8 (1.91%) Magento
1 8 (1.91%) Shopify
2 6 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.72%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.24%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 88 (21.00%) Azure
2 64 (15.27%) Microsoft 365
3 34 (8.11%) Power Platform
4 32 (7.64%) Figma
5 29 (6.92%) SaaS
6 25 (5.97%) Entra ID
7 24 (5.73%) Microsoft Copilot
8 22 (5.25%) Azure DevOps
8 22 (5.25%) PowerApps
9 19 (4.53%) Google Analytics
10 18 (4.30%) AWS
10 18 (4.30%) Power Automate
11 17 (4.06%) Microsoft Purview
12 11 (2.63%) Firebase
13 10 (2.39%) Copilot Studio
14 9 (2.15%) Dynamics 365
15 7 (1.67%) Azure Logic Apps
16 5 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
16 5 (1.19%) Google Play
16 5 (1.19%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.39%) Firewall
2 8 (1.91%) CTI
2 8 (1.91%) DHCP
2 8 (1.91%) DNS
2 8 (1.91%) VoIP
3 4 (0.95%) Skype
3 4 (0.95%) Wireless
4 3 (0.72%) VLAN
4 3 (0.72%) VPN
5 2 (0.48%) HTTP
5 2 (0.48%) Intranet
5 2 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.24%) FTP
6 1 (0.24%) SAN
6 1 (0.24%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.24%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.15%) Looker
1 9 (2.15%) Power BI
2 5 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (1.19%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 4 (0.95%) BigQuery
4 3 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (0.72%) Tableau
5 2 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.48%) GIS
5 2 (0.48%) Metadata
5 2 (0.48%) Mixpanel
5 2 (0.48%) MySQL
5 2 (0.48%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.24%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.24%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 22 (5.25%) JIRA
2 21 (5.01%) Git
3 17 (4.06%) fastlane
4 13 (3.10%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 6 (1.43%) Xcode
6 5 (1.19%) Android Studio
6 5 (1.19%) Crashlytics
6 5 (1.19%) Gradle
7 4 (0.95%) NUnit
8 3 (0.72%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.48%) Axure RP
9 2 (0.48%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.48%) GitLab
9 2 (0.48%) JUnit
9 2 (0.48%) Postman
9 2 (0.48%) Selenium
9 2 (0.48%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.24%) JMeter
10 1 (0.24%) LoadRunner
General
1 96 (22.91%) Social Skills
2 73 (17.42%) Finance
3 65 (15.51%) Public Sector
4 60 (14.32%) Marketing
5 43 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (5.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 21 (5.01%) Law
8 19 (4.53%) Legal
9 18 (4.30%) Influencing Skills
9 18 (4.30%) Retail
10 10 (2.39%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.91%) Banking
11 8 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.95%) Advertising
12 4 (0.95%) Brand Awareness
12 4 (0.95%) Games
12 4 (0.95%) Health Technology
13 3 (0.72%) Billing
13 3 (0.72%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.72%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 66 (15.75%) Designer
2 60 (14.32%) Developer
3 54 (12.89%) Senior
4 51 (12.17%) Lead
5 40 (9.55%) UX Designer
6 36 (8.59%) Analyst
7 30 (7.16%) IT Manager
8 25 (5.97%) Support Engineer
9 23 (5.49%) Desktop Engineer
10 20 (4.77%) Service Manager
11 19 (4.53%) Desktop Support
12 18 (4.30%) Business Analyst
12 18 (4.30%) Desktop Support Engineer
12 18 (4.30%) Product Designer
13 17 (4.06%) IT Support
13 17 (4.06%) Senior Developer
14 16 (3.82%) Product Manager
15 15 (3.58%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 15 (3.58%) IT Services Manager
16 13 (3.10%) E-Commerce Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (8.11%) HTML
2 33 (7.88%) CSS
3 25 (5.97%) .NET
3 25 (5.97%) React
4 18 (4.30%) RESTful
5 11 (2.63%) Node.js
6 10 (2.39%) AngularJS
7 9 (2.15%) Next.js
7 9 (2.15%) REST
8 8 (1.91%) HTML5
9 7 (1.67%) iOS SDK
10 6 (1.43%) Core Data
10 6 (1.43%) SwiftUI
10 6 (1.43%) UIKit
11 5 (1.19%) Android Jetpack
11 5 (1.19%) Android SDK
11 5 (1.19%) CSS3
11 5 (1.19%) Jetpack Compose
11 5 (1.19%) Model Context Protocol
11 5 (1.19%) Retrofit
Miscellaneous
1 47 (11.22%) Product Ownership
2 29 (6.92%) Mobile App
3 18 (4.30%) Onboarding
4 11 (2.63%) Driving Licence
5 8 (1.91%) IVR
6 6 (1.43%) Cloud Native
6 6 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (1.43%) Low-Code
7 5 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (0.95%) AI Agents
8 4 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (0.95%) Learning Management System
8 4 (0.95%) Media Streaming
8 4 (0.95%) PropTech
8 4 (0.95%) Security Posture
8 4 (0.95%) Social Media
9 3 (0.72%) Animation
9 3 (0.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (0.72%) Photography
Operating Systems
1 46 (10.98%) Windows
2 21 (5.01%) Windows 10
3 18 (4.30%) Apple iOS
4 13 (3.10%) Windows Server
5 12 (2.86%) Android
6 5 (1.19%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.95%) Windows 7
7 4 (0.95%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.48%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (28.88%) Continuous Improvement
2 116 (27.68%) UX Design
3 105 (25.06%) Agile
4 99 (23.63%) Problem-Solving
5 86 (20.53%) Analytics
6 67 (15.99%) Mentoring
7 63 (15.04%) AI
8 57 (13.60%) Roadmaps
9 48 (11.46%) CI/CD
10 47 (11.22%) ITIL
11 46 (10.98%) CRM
12 44 (10.50%) E-Commerce
13 43 (10.26%) DevOps
14 40 (9.55%) Decision-Making
14 40 (9.55%) Stakeholder Management
15 39 (9.31%) Coaching
16 38 (9.07%) Service Management
17 37 (8.83%) Customer Service
18 36 (8.59%) ITSM
19 34 (8.11%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 34 (8.11%) JavaScript
2 25 (5.97%) TypeScript
3 23 (5.49%) C#
4 21 (5.01%) SQL
5 15 (3.58%) Python
6 12 (2.86%) Java
6 12 (2.86%) Swift
7 9 (2.15%) PowerShell
8 8 (1.91%) PHP
8 8 (1.91%) VBScript
9 5 (1.19%) Kotlin
9 5 (1.19%) VB
10 4 (0.95%) Bicep
11 3 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.72%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.24%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 37 (8.83%) Degree
2 18 (4.30%) Security Cleared
3 10 (2.39%) SC Cleared
4 7 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (1.67%) Postgraduate
5 5 (1.19%) DV Cleared
6 4 (0.95%) DBS Check
7 3 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.48%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.48%) IIBA
8 2 (0.48%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.48%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (14.56%) Accessibility
2 26 (6.21%) WCAG
3 23 (5.49%) GDPR
3 23 (5.49%) QA
4 14 (3.34%) Data Quality
5 10 (2.39%) Cyber Essentials
6 7 (1.67%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 5 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.95%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.95%) SLA
9 1 (0.24%) PMO
System Software
1 22 (5.25%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.91%) BitLocker
3 6 (1.43%) Docker
4 2 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.24%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (4.77%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (1.91%) SCCM
3 5 (1.19%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.19%) Terraform
4 2 (0.48%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (0.48%) Packer
4 2 (0.48%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 107 (25.54%) Microsoft
2 26 (6.21%) Google
3 17 (4.06%) Adobe
4 15 (3.58%) ServiceNow
5 12 (2.86%) Cisco
6 11 (2.63%) Dynatrace
7 10 (2.39%) Apple
8 8 (1.91%) Avaya
8 8 (1.91%) Genesys
9 7 (1.67%) Meraki
10 5 (1.19%) Hotjar
11 4 (0.95%) CheckPoint
11 4 (0.95%) DevExpress
11 4 (0.95%) iManage
12 3 (0.72%) HubSpot
12 3 (0.72%) OpenAI
12 3 (0.72%) Salesforce
13 2 (0.48%) Amplitude
13 2 (0.48%) Databricks
13 2 (0.48%) OneLogin