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 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 37 77
Rank change year-on-year +21 +40 -14
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 825 563 269
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 8.57% 4.61% 3.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.13% 5.65% 3.78%
Number of salaries quoted 147 152 207
10th Percentile £30,500 £31,250 £27,650
25th Percentile £35,625 £40,000 £38,697
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,055 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +0.11% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £66,542 £61,250
90th Percentile £79,250 £73,750 £79,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £61,250
% change year-on-year -4.17% -2.04% -2.00%

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 8,142 9,958 7,120
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 84.61% 81.56% 94.64%
Number of salaries quoted 4,600 4,627 5,335
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,720 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.31% -5.45% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.64%

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 19 November 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 19 November 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 +12 702 £52,500 -4.55% 137
Yorkshire +19 106 £48,500 -3.00% 45
North East -27 17 £44,081 -7.20% 23
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 10 (1.21%) CMS
2 8 (0.97%) Confluence
3 5 (0.61%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.36%) WordPress
5 2 (0.24%) Drupal
5 2 (0.24%) EPiServer
5 2 (0.24%) Headless CMS
5 2 (0.24%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 7 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.73%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.61%) Adobe XD
3 5 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.61%) Sketch
4 3 (0.36%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.24%) InVision
5 2 (0.24%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
1 3 (0.36%) Shopify
2 1 (0.12%) Magento
2 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 625 (75.76%) Cloud Computing
2 38 (4.61%) Azure
3 35 (4.24%) AWS
4 16 (1.94%) SaaS
5 15 (1.82%) Figma
6 14 (1.70%) Google Analytics
6 14 (1.70%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (1.21%) Power Platform
8 9 (1.09%) Serverless
9 8 (0.97%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (0.85%) Adobe Analytics
11 6 (0.73%) GitHub
12 5 (0.61%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (0.48%) GCP
13 4 (0.48%) Google Ads
14 3 (0.36%) Contentsquare
14 3 (0.36%) npm
14 3 (0.36%) Power Automate
15 2 (0.24%) Miro
15 2 (0.24%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 626 (75.88%) Internet
2 5 (0.61%) DNS
3 4 (0.48%) LAN
4 3 (0.36%) WAN
5 2 (0.24%) AMQP
6 1 (0.12%) Broadband
6 1 (0.12%) DHCP
6 1 (0.12%) HTTP
6 1 (0.12%) SSH
6 1 (0.12%) SSL
6 1 (0.12%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.12%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (0.97%) MySQL
1 8 (0.97%) Power BI
2 7 (0.85%) DynamoDB
2 7 (0.85%) NoSQL
3 6 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (0.61%) Relational Database
5 4 (0.48%) Metadata
5 4 (0.48%) Mixpanel
5 4 (0.48%) SQL Server
6 3 (0.36%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.24%) Looker
7 2 (0.24%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.12%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.12%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.12%) DocumentDB
8 1 (0.12%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.12%) Redis
Development Applications
1 18 (2.18%) Git
2 11 (1.33%) JIRA
3 5 (0.61%) webpack
4 4 (0.48%) Xcode
5 3 (0.36%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.36%) GitLab
5 3 (0.36%) Selenium
6 2 (0.24%) Babel
6 2 (0.24%) Grunt
6 2 (0.24%) gulp
6 2 (0.24%) JUnit
7 1 (0.12%) Android Studio
7 1 (0.12%) Axure RP
7 1 (0.12%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.12%) ESLint
7 1 (0.12%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.12%) Maven
7 1 (0.12%) Storybook
General
1 706 (85.58%) Social Skills
2 633 (76.73%) Banking
3 630 (76.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 39 (4.73%) Finance
5 32 (3.88%) Marketing
6 21 (2.55%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (1.70%) Organisational Skills
8 12 (1.45%) Law
9 9 (1.09%) Electronics
9 9 (1.09%) Manufacturing
9 9 (1.09%) Retail
10 8 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (0.97%) Public Sector
11 7 (0.85%) Games
11 7 (0.85%) Legal
12 6 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.24%) Advertising
13 2 (0.24%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.12%) Publishing
14 1 (0.12%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 496 (60.12%) Lecturer
2 59 (7.15%) Developer
3 35 (4.24%) Senior
4 28 (3.39%) Analyst
5 24 (2.91%) IT Support
6 18 (2.18%) IT Analyst
6 18 (2.18%) IT Support Analyst
6 18 (2.18%) Support Analyst
7 14 (1.70%) Full-Stack Developer
8 12 (1.45%) Senior Developer
9 10 (1.21%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 10 (1.21%) Lead
10 9 (1.09%) .NET Developer
10 9 (1.09%) Java Developer
10 9 (1.09%) Senior Manager
10 9 (1.09%) Software Engineer
11 8 (0.97%) Designer
11 8 (0.97%) React Developer
11 8 (0.97%) Software Developer
12 7 (0.85%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (4.85%) CSS
2 36 (4.36%) HTML
2 36 (4.36%) React
3 28 (3.39%) .NET
4 18 (2.18%) RESTful
5 13 (1.58%) CSS3
5 13 (1.58%) HTML5
5 13 (1.58%) Node.js
6 9 (1.09%) AngularJS
6 9 (1.09%) Next.js
7 8 (0.97%) ASP.NET
7 8 (0.97%) Spring
7 8 (0.97%) Spring Boot
8 6 (0.73%) Amazon Corretto
8 6 (0.73%) REST
9 5 (0.61%) .NET Core
9 5 (0.61%) ASP.NET Core
9 5 (0.61%) Kafka
10 4 (0.48%) Apache Cordova
10 4 (0.48%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 625 (75.76%) IoT
2 14 (1.70%) Product Ownership
3 10 (1.21%) Cloud Native
3 10 (1.21%) Social Media
4 6 (0.73%) e-Learning
5 5 (0.61%) AI Agents
5 5 (0.61%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (0.61%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (0.61%) LIMS
5 5 (0.61%) Mobile App
5 5 (0.61%) Onboarding
5 5 (0.61%) SCADA
6 4 (0.48%) Animation
6 4 (0.48%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (0.36%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (0.36%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (0.24%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.24%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (0.24%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.24%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (0.97%) Apple iOS
1 8 (0.97%) Windows
2 7 (0.85%) Windows Server
3 5 (0.61%) Android
3 5 (0.61%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.24%) Linux
5 1 (0.12%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 655 (79.39%) AI
2 637 (77.21%) Machine Learning
3 631 (76.48%) Cybersecurity
3 631 (76.48%) Web Development
4 81 (9.82%) Agile
5 42 (5.09%) Continuous Improvement
5 42 (5.09%) UX Design
6 40 (4.85%) Problem-Solving
7 38 (4.61%) Analytics
7 38 (4.61%) DevOps
8 33 (4.00%) Full-Stack Development
9 31 (3.76%) ITIL
10 30 (3.64%) CI/CD
10 30 (3.64%) Roadmaps
11 25 (3.03%) Service Management
11 25 (3.03%) Software Engineering
11 25 (3.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 23 (2.79%) Front End Development
12 23 (2.79%) SEO
13 22 (2.67%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 43 (5.21%) JavaScript
2 30 (3.64%) C#
3 29 (3.52%) TypeScript
4 25 (3.03%) Java
5 14 (1.70%) Python
5 14 (1.70%) SQL
6 4 (0.48%) PHP
6 4 (0.48%) Swift
6 4 (0.48%) XAML
7 3 (0.36%) ABAP
7 3 (0.36%) Rust
8 2 (0.24%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.24%) R
9 1 (0.12%) Go
9 1 (0.12%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.12%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 648 (78.55%) Degree
2 626 (75.88%) PhD
3 625 (75.76%) Master's Degree
3 625 (75.76%) Postgraduate
4 13 (1.58%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 5 (0.61%) A+ Certification
5 5 (0.61%) CCNA
5 5 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (0.61%) MCSA
5 5 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (0.61%) Network+ Certification
5 5 (0.61%) Security Cleared
6 4 (0.48%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.24%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.12%) CISSP
8 1 (0.12%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.12%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (3.03%) Accessibility
2 14 (1.70%) QA
3 11 (1.33%) GDPR
4 6 (0.73%) Data Quality
5 5 (0.61%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 5 (0.61%) GxP
6 2 (0.24%) HL7
6 2 (0.24%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.24%) WCAG
7 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.12%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.12%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (2.42%) Docker
2 10 (1.21%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.36%) Firmware
4 2 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 16 (1.94%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.33%) Terraform
3 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.24%) Grafana
4 2 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.12%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 31 (3.76%) Microsoft
2 24 (2.91%) Google
3 16 (1.94%) Adobe
4 10 (1.21%) Hotjar
5 7 (0.85%) ServiceNow
6 6 (0.73%) Qualtrics
7 5 (0.61%) Cisco
7 5 (0.61%) Facebook
8 4 (0.48%) Genesys
8 4 (0.48%) Salesforce
8 4 (0.48%) SAP
9 3 (0.36%) Apple
9 3 (0.36%) HubSpot
10 2 (0.24%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.24%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.24%) New Relic
10 2 (0.24%) Screaming Frog
10 2 (0.24%) Splunk
10 2 (0.24%) Veeam
10 2 (0.24%) VMware