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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 73 69
Rank change year-on-year +65 -4 +3
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 1,838 266 447
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 14.21% 3.44% 3.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.42% 3.70% 4.11%
Number of salaries quoted 169 149 343
10th Percentile £30,500 £32,500 £30,450
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -13.51%
75th Percentile £67,500 £66,389 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £81,181
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +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 9,980 7,198 10,867
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 77.18% 93.00% 86.43%
Number of salaries quoted 5,669 3,434 8,837
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £84,925 £80,070
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -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 21 February 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 21 February 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 +59 1,595 £56,250 +2.27% 74
Yorkshire +55 226 £55,000 +22.22% 36
North East -34 17 £50,000 +5.26% 16
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 16 (0.87%) CMS
1 16 (0.87%) SharePoint
2 8 (0.44%) Confluence
3 7 (0.38%) WordPress
4 4 (0.22%) Umbraco
5 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.11%) nginx
6 1 (0.054%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.054%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 6 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (0.33%) Sketch
2 5 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 3 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
3 3 (0.16%) Adobe XD
3 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.16%) Photoshop
3 3 (0.16%) Trello
4 2 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
4 2 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.054%) Blender
5 1 (0.054%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.054%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.054%) FrameMaker
5 1 (0.054%) InDesign
5 1 (0.054%) InVision
5 1 (0.054%) MadCap Flare
5 1 (0.054%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (0.33%) Shopify
2 5 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.054%) Magento
4 1 (0.054%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.054%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 1,615 (87.87%) Cloud Computing
2 41 (2.23%) Azure
3 28 (1.52%) SaaS
4 26 (1.41%) Microsoft 365
5 21 (1.14%) AWS
6 19 (1.03%) Figma
6 19 (1.03%) Power Platform
7 12 (0.65%) Adobe Analytics
8 9 (0.49%) Azure Monitor
8 9 (0.49%) Microsoft Purview
8 9 (0.49%) OneDrive
9 8 (0.44%) Entra ID
9 8 (0.44%) Google Analytics
10 6 (0.33%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (0.33%) Power Automate
11 4 (0.22%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (0.22%) GCP
11 4 (0.22%) PowerApps
12 3 (0.16%) Google Ads
12 3 (0.16%) Heroku
Communications & Networking
1 1,615 (87.87%) Internet
2 5 (0.27%) DNS
2 5 (0.27%) HTTP
3 4 (0.22%) LAN
4 3 (0.16%) WAN
5 2 (0.11%) Intranet
6 1 (0.054%) DHCP
6 1 (0.054%) SSH
6 1 (0.054%) SSL
6 1 (0.054%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.054%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (0.49%) MySQL
2 8 (0.44%) Power BI
3 7 (0.38%) MongoDB
3 7 (0.38%) NoSQL
4 5 (0.27%) Relational Database
4 5 (0.27%) SQL Server
5 3 (0.16%) Looker
5 3 (0.16%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.11%) Metadata
6 2 (0.11%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.11%) PostHog
6 2 (0.11%) Redis
7 1 (0.054%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.054%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 16 (0.87%) JIRA
2 14 (0.76%) Git
3 6 (0.33%) JUnit
4 3 (0.16%) GitLab
4 3 (0.16%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.16%) Selenium
5 2 (0.11%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.11%) Vagrant
6 1 (0.054%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.054%) fastlane
6 1 (0.054%) Maven
6 1 (0.054%) Postman
6 1 (0.054%) Xcode
General
1 1,690 (91.95%) Social Skills
2 1,627 (88.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,623 (88.30%) Banking
4 35 (1.90%) Finance
5 32 (1.74%) Analytical Skills
6 30 (1.63%) Marketing
7 24 (1.31%) Public Sector
8 17 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
9 13 (0.71%) Legal
10 11 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (0.60%) Law
11 8 (0.44%) Retail
12 6 (0.33%) Electronics
12 6 (0.33%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.22%) Advertising
14 2 (0.11%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.11%) Health Technology
14 2 (0.11%) Multimedia
15 1 (0.054%) Automotive
15 1 (0.054%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1,224 (66.59%) Lecturer
2 49 (2.67%) Senior
3 44 (2.39%) Developer
4 26 (1.41%) Analyst
5 17 (0.92%) IT Manager
6 15 (0.82%) IT Support
6 15 (0.82%) Senior Manager
7 13 (0.71%) Designer
7 13 (0.71%) Full-Stack Developer
7 13 (0.71%) Senior Developer
8 12 (0.65%) IT Analyst
8 12 (0.65%) Lead
9 11 (0.60%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 11 (0.60%) IT Support Analyst
9 11 (0.60%) Service Manager
9 11 (0.60%) Software Engineer
9 11 (0.60%) Support Analyst
10 10 (0.54%) IT Services Manager
10 10 (0.54%) Senior IT Manager
10 10 (0.54%) Senior Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (2.61%) CSS
1 48 (2.61%) HTML
2 33 (1.80%) .NET
3 21 (1.14%) React
4 17 (0.92%) RESTful
5 14 (0.76%) AngularJS
6 12 (0.65%) ASP.NET
7 10 (0.54%) HTML5
8 8 (0.44%) .NET Framework
8 8 (0.44%) Node.js
8 8 (0.44%) Spring
9 7 (0.38%) REST
9 7 (0.38%) Spring Boot
10 6 (0.33%) Apache Cordova
10 6 (0.33%) ASP.NET Core
10 6 (0.33%) Kafka
10 6 (0.33%) Next.js
11 5 (0.27%) .NET Core
11 5 (0.27%) CSS3
11 5 (0.27%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 1,616 (87.92%) IoT
2 12 (0.65%) Product Ownership
3 11 (0.60%) Cloud Native
3 11 (0.60%) Mobile App
4 9 (0.49%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (0.49%) Social Media
5 8 (0.44%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (0.38%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (0.33%) Onboarding
8 4 (0.22%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (0.22%) FMCG
9 3 (0.16%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (0.16%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.11%) AI Agents
10 2 (0.11%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.11%) Blog
10 2 (0.11%) Digital Signage
10 2 (0.11%) Educational Technology
10 2 (0.11%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.11%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 8 (0.44%) Apple iOS
2 4 (0.22%) Android
2 4 (0.22%) Windows
3 1 (0.054%) Linux
3 1 (0.054%) Unix
3 1 (0.054%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,653 (89.93%) AI
2 1,625 (88.41%) Web Development
3 1,623 (88.30%) Cybersecurity
4 1,621 (88.19%) Machine Learning
5 86 (4.68%) Agile
6 65 (3.54%) Continuous Improvement
7 53 (2.88%) Problem-Solving
8 49 (2.67%) UX Design
9 44 (2.39%) Mentoring
10 42 (2.29%) Analytics
11 36 (1.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 35 (1.90%) DevOps
13 34 (1.85%) CI/CD
14 33 (1.80%) Software Engineering
15 32 (1.74%) ITIL
15 32 (1.74%) Service Management
16 31 (1.69%) Full-Stack Development
17 29 (1.58%) Coaching
18 28 (1.52%) SEO
19 26 (1.41%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 45 (2.45%) JavaScript
2 33 (1.80%) C#
3 26 (1.41%) TypeScript
4 17 (0.92%) SQL
5 15 (0.82%) Java
6 7 (0.38%) Python
7 4 (0.22%) PHP
7 4 (0.22%) XAML
8 3 (0.16%) ABAP
8 3 (0.16%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.16%) Rust
8 3 (0.16%) Swift
9 2 (0.11%) R
10 1 (0.054%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,640 (89.23%) Degree
2 1,616 (87.92%) PhD
3 1,615 (87.87%) Master's Degree
3 1,615 (87.87%) Postgraduate
4 11 (0.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 6 (0.33%) Security Cleared
6 4 (0.22%) SC Cleared
7 3 (0.16%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.11%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.11%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.054%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.054%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.054%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.054%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.054%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (2.07%) Accessibility
2 17 (0.92%) GDPR
2 17 (0.92%) QA
3 8 (0.44%) Data Quality
3 8 (0.44%) PCI DSS
4 7 (0.38%) WCAG
5 4 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
5 4 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (0.16%) HL7
7 1 (0.054%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.054%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (0.71%) Active Directory
2 9 (0.49%) Docker
3 3 (0.16%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (0.60%) Terraform
2 8 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (0.38%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.11%) Grafana
4 2 (0.11%) Packer
4 2 (0.11%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 35 (1.90%) Microsoft
2 22 (1.20%) Adobe
3 15 (0.82%) Google
4 9 (0.49%) New Relic
5 8 (0.44%) ServiceNow
5 8 (0.44%) Splunk
6 7 (0.38%) Qualtrics
7 6 (0.33%) SAP
8 5 (0.27%) Hotjar
9 3 (0.16%) Apple
10 2 (0.11%) Ahrefs
10 2 (0.11%) Hootsuite
10 2 (0.11%) HubSpot
10 2 (0.11%) OneLogin
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle
10 2 (0.11%) Screaming Frog
11 1 (0.054%) Instagram
11 1 (0.054%) Marin
11 1 (0.054%) TikTok
11 1 (0.054%) WooCommerce