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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 55 40
Rank change year-on-year -18 -15 +80
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 412 495 799
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.98% 5.26% 4.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.82% 5.81% 5.51%
Number of salaries quoted 336 170 370
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £37,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,643 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.27% +10.53% -13.64%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,625 £78,750
England median annual salary £56,500 £60,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year -5.83% +17.65% -21.54%

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 14,626 8,513 14,488
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.23% 90.38% 79.45%
Number of salaries quoted 10,946 4,212 10,706
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £27,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,851 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £71,203 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £81,950 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 16 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 16 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 -33 228 £54,250 -1.36% 67
Yorkshire +21 117 £52,643 +16.98% 33
North East -4 67 £52,000 +8.33% 19
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 28 (6.80%) SharePoint
2 21 (5.10%) CMS
3 18 (4.37%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (3.64%) WordPress
5 8 (1.94%) Confluence
6 2 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.49%) Moodle
6 2 (0.49%) nginx
6 2 (0.49%) Skype for Business
6 2 (0.49%) Totara
6 2 (0.49%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.24%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 15 (3.64%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.94%) Chatbot
2 8 (1.94%) Sketch
3 7 (1.70%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.97%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 4 (0.97%) Adobe XD
5 3 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.73%) Trello
6 2 (0.49%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.49%) Camtasia
6 2 (0.49%) InVision
6 2 (0.49%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.24%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.24%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.24%) Blender
7 1 (0.24%) CINEMA 4D
7 1 (0.24%) InDesign
7 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (1.94%) Magento
1 8 (1.94%) Shopify
2 6 (1.46%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.73%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 81 (19.66%) Azure
2 59 (14.32%) Microsoft 365
3 33 (8.01%) Power Platform
4 32 (7.77%) Figma
5 27 (6.55%) SaaS
6 23 (5.58%) Entra ID
6 23 (5.58%) Microsoft Copilot
7 22 (5.34%) Azure DevOps
8 21 (5.10%) PowerApps
9 19 (4.61%) Google Analytics
10 18 (4.37%) Power Automate
11 17 (4.13%) AWS
12 16 (3.88%) Microsoft Purview
13 11 (2.67%) Firebase
14 10 (2.43%) Copilot Studio
15 9 (2.18%) Dynamics 365
16 7 (1.70%) Azure Logic Apps
17 5 (1.21%) GitHub Actions
17 5 (1.21%) Google Play
17 5 (1.21%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.43%) Firewall
2 8 (1.94%) CTI
2 8 (1.94%) DHCP
2 8 (1.94%) DNS
2 8 (1.94%) VoIP
3 4 (0.97%) Wireless
4 3 (0.73%) VLAN
4 3 (0.73%) VPN
5 2 (0.49%) HTTP
5 2 (0.49%) Intranet
5 2 (0.49%) Skype
5 2 (0.49%) 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 (2.18%) Looker
1 9 (2.18%) Power BI
2 5 (1.21%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (1.21%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 4 (0.97%) BigQuery
4 3 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (0.73%) MySQL
4 3 (0.73%) Tableau
5 2 (0.49%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.49%) GIS
5 2 (0.49%) Metadata
5 2 (0.49%) Mixpanel
5 2 (0.49%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.49%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.24%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.24%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.24%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 21 (5.10%) Git
2 19 (4.61%) JIRA
3 17 (4.13%) fastlane
4 13 (3.16%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 6 (1.46%) Xcode
6 5 (1.21%) Android Studio
6 5 (1.21%) Crashlytics
6 5 (1.21%) Gradle
7 4 (0.97%) NUnit
8 3 (0.73%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.49%) Axure RP
9 2 (0.49%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.49%) GitLab
9 2 (0.49%) JUnit
9 2 (0.49%) Postman
9 2 (0.49%) Selenium
9 2 (0.49%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.24%) JMeter
10 1 (0.24%) LoadRunner
General
1 92 (22.33%) Social Skills
2 70 (16.99%) Finance
3 69 (16.75%) Public Sector
4 61 (14.81%) Marketing
5 41 (9.95%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (5.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (4.61%) Influencing Skills
7 19 (4.61%) Law
7 19 (4.61%) Legal
8 18 (4.37%) Retail
9 10 (2.43%) Manufacturing
10 9 (2.18%) Banking
11 8 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.97%) Advertising
12 4 (0.97%) Brand Awareness
12 4 (0.97%) Games
12 4 (0.97%) Health Technology
13 3 (0.73%) Billing
13 3 (0.73%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.73%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 63 (15.29%) Designer
2 62 (15.05%) Developer
3 60 (14.56%) Senior
4 52 (12.62%) Lead
5 37 (8.98%) UX Designer
6 36 (8.74%) IT Manager
7 31 (7.52%) Analyst
8 26 (6.31%) Service Manager
9 25 (6.07%) Support Engineer
10 21 (5.10%) Desktop Engineer
10 21 (5.10%) IT Services Manager
11 19 (4.61%) Desktop Support
12 18 (4.37%) Desktop Support Engineer
12 18 (4.37%) Product Designer
12 18 (4.37%) Senior Developer
12 18 (4.37%) Senior Manager
13 17 (4.13%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 17 (4.13%) IT Support
14 15 (3.64%) Product Manager
14 15 (3.64%) Senior IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (8.01%) HTML
2 32 (7.77%) CSS
3 25 (6.07%) React
4 24 (5.83%) .NET
5 20 (4.85%) RESTful
6 10 (2.43%) AngularJS
7 9 (2.18%) Node.js
8 8 (1.94%) Next.js
8 8 (1.94%) REST
9 7 (1.70%) iOS SDK
9 7 (1.70%) SwiftUI
10 6 (1.46%) Core Data
10 6 (1.46%) HTML5
10 6 (1.46%) UIKit
11 5 (1.21%) Android Jetpack
11 5 (1.21%) Android SDK
11 5 (1.21%) ASP.NET
11 5 (1.21%) Jetpack Compose
11 5 (1.21%) jQuery
11 5 (1.21%) Retrofit
Miscellaneous
1 44 (10.68%) Product Ownership
2 30 (7.28%) Mobile App
3 19 (4.61%) Onboarding
4 11 (2.67%) Driving Licence
5 9 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (1.94%) IVR
7 6 (1.46%) Cloud Native
7 6 (1.46%) Low-Code
8 5 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.21%) Social Media
9 4 (0.97%) AI Agents
9 4 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (0.97%) Learning Management System
9 4 (0.97%) Media Streaming
9 4 (0.97%) Photography
9 4 (0.97%) PropTech
10 3 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.73%) Security Posture
10 3 (0.73%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 42 (10.19%) Windows
2 19 (4.61%) Apple iOS
2 19 (4.61%) Windows 10
3 12 (2.91%) Windows Server
4 11 (2.67%) Android
5 4 (0.97%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.97%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.49%) Linux
6 2 (0.49%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (29.85%) Continuous Improvement
2 111 (26.94%) UX Design
3 103 (25.00%) Agile
4 96 (23.30%) Problem-Solving
5 85 (20.63%) Analytics
6 71 (17.23%) Mentoring
7 62 (15.05%) AI
8 54 (13.11%) Roadmaps
9 49 (11.89%) ITIL
10 46 (11.17%) CI/CD
11 45 (10.92%) CRM
12 43 (10.44%) E-Commerce
13 42 (10.19%) Coaching
14 41 (9.95%) DevOps
14 41 (9.95%) Service Management
15 39 (9.47%) Decision-Making
16 37 (8.98%) Stakeholder Management
17 35 (8.50%) Customer Service
17 35 (8.50%) SEO
18 33 (8.01%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 34 (8.25%) JavaScript
2 24 (5.83%) TypeScript
3 22 (5.34%) C#
4 21 (5.10%) SQL
5 15 (3.64%) Python
6 13 (3.16%) Swift
7 12 (2.91%) Java
8 8 (1.94%) PHP
9 7 (1.70%) PowerShell
10 6 (1.46%) VBScript
11 5 (1.21%) Kotlin
12 4 (0.97%) Bicep
13 3 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.73%) VB
13 3 (0.73%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.24%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 37 (8.98%) Degree
2 14 (3.40%) Security Cleared
3 8 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (1.70%) Postgraduate
4 7 (1.70%) SC Cleared
5 5 (1.21%) DV Cleared
6 3 (0.73%) DBS Check
6 3 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.49%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.49%) IIBA
7 2 (0.49%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (0.49%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (14.81%) Accessibility
2 24 (5.83%) WCAG
3 23 (5.58%) QA
4 22 (5.34%) GDPR
5 12 (2.91%) Data Quality
6 10 (2.43%) Cyber Essentials
7 7 (1.70%) PCI DSS
8 5 (1.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.97%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.97%) SLA
10 1 (0.24%) PMO
System Software
1 20 (4.85%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.46%) BitLocker
3 5 (1.21%) Docker
4 2 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.24%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (3.88%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (1.46%) SCCM
3 5 (1.21%) Terraform
4 4 (0.97%) Kubernetes
5 2 (0.49%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (0.49%) Packer
5 2 (0.49%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 101 (24.51%) Microsoft
2 26 (6.31%) Google
3 19 (4.61%) Adobe
4 13 (3.16%) ServiceNow
5 12 (2.91%) Cisco
6 11 (2.67%) Dynatrace
7 8 (1.94%) Apple
7 8 (1.94%) Avaya
7 8 (1.94%) Genesys
8 5 (1.21%) Hotjar
8 5 (1.21%) Meraki
9 4 (0.97%) CheckPoint
9 4 (0.97%) DevExpress
9 4 (0.97%) iManage
9 4 (0.97%) OneLogin
10 3 (0.73%) HubSpot
10 3 (0.73%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.49%) Amplitude
11 2 (0.49%) Databricks
11 2 (0.49%) Synthesia