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 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 51 59
Rank change year-on-year +38 +8 +47
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 1,350 476 590
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 6.86% 6.16% 3.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.68% 6.50% 4.16%
Number of salaries quoted 299 154 398
10th Percentile £29,868 £32,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +15.79% -17.39%
75th Percentile £65,640 £70,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,875
England median annual salary £57,000 £60,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% +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 13,943 7,324 14,183
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.85% 94.72% 81.44%
Number of salaries quoted 9,378 3,425 11,269
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,055 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.88% +0.11% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -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 27 May 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 27 May 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 +30 1,104 £55,000 -4.35% 89
Yorkshire +50 197 £55,000 +33.33% 28
North East -9 49 £52,000 -0.95% 24
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 24 (1.78%) SharePoint
2 21 (1.56%) CMS
3 13 (0.96%) WordPress
4 12 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.67%) Confluence
6 3 (0.22%) Umbraco
7 2 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.15%) Moodle
7 2 (0.15%) Skype for Business
7 2 (0.15%) Totara
8 1 (0.074%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.074%) nginx
Applications
1 13 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.52%) Sketch
2 7 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 3 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
3 3 (0.22%) Adobe XD
3 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.22%) Photoshop
3 3 (0.22%) Trello
4 2 (0.15%) Adobe After Effects
4 2 (0.15%) Adobe Premiere
4 2 (0.15%) Camtasia
5 1 (0.074%) Blender
5 1 (0.074%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.074%) InDesign
5 1 (0.074%) InVision
5 1 (0.074%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (0.59%) Magento
1 8 (0.59%) Shopify
2 7 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.074%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 992 (73.48%) Cloud Computing
2 69 (5.11%) Azure
3 50 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
4 34 (2.52%) SaaS
5 31 (2.30%) Power Platform
6 30 (2.22%) Figma
7 27 (2.00%) Entra ID
8 19 (1.41%) Google Analytics
9 18 (1.33%) Microsoft Purview
10 16 (1.19%) Power Automate
10 16 (1.19%) PowerApps
11 15 (1.11%) Microsoft Copilot
12 14 (1.04%) AWS
12 14 (1.04%) Azure DevOps
13 10 (0.74%) Dynamics 365
14 9 (0.67%) Azure Monitor
15 8 (0.59%) Copilot Studio
16 6 (0.44%) Adobe Analytics
16 6 (0.44%) Firebase
17 5 (0.37%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 990 (73.33%) Internet
2 5 (0.37%) DHCP
2 5 (0.37%) DNS
3 4 (0.30%) Firewall
3 4 (0.30%) HTTP
4 3 (0.22%) VLAN
4 3 (0.22%) VPN
5 2 (0.15%) Skype
5 2 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.074%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.074%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.074%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (0.67%) Looker
2 7 (0.52%) SQL Server
3 4 (0.30%) BigQuery
3 4 (0.30%) Power BI
3 4 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (0.22%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.22%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (0.22%) MongoDB
4 3 (0.22%) MySQL
5 2 (0.15%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (0.15%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.15%) GIS
5 2 (0.15%) Metadata
5 2 (0.15%) Mixpanel
5 2 (0.15%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.15%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.15%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.15%) Tableau
6 1 (0.074%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.074%) PostHog
Development Applications
1 20 (1.48%) JIRA
2 18 (1.33%) Git
3 9 (0.67%) fastlane
4 8 (0.59%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.30%) JUnit
5 4 (0.30%) NUnit
6 3 (0.22%) Android Studio
6 3 (0.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (0.22%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.22%) Crashlytics
6 3 (0.22%) Gradle
6 3 (0.22%) Xcode
7 2 (0.15%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.15%) GitLab
7 2 (0.15%) Postman
7 2 (0.15%) Selenium
7 2 (0.15%) Vagrant
8 1 (0.074%) JMeter
8 1 (0.074%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.074%) webpack
General
1 1,073 (79.48%) Social Skills
2 1,008 (74.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 996 (73.78%) Banking
4 64 (4.74%) Finance
5 62 (4.59%) Marketing
6 44 (3.26%) Public Sector
7 39 (2.89%) Analytical Skills
8 20 (1.48%) Legal
9 19 (1.41%) Law
10 17 (1.26%) Retail
11 11 (0.81%) Manufacturing
12 9 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.30%) Advertising
13 4 (0.30%) Brand Awareness
13 4 (0.30%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.22%) Billing
15 2 (0.15%) Games
15 2 (0.15%) Multimedia
15 2 (0.15%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 728 (53.93%) Lecturer
2 65 (4.81%) Senior
3 56 (4.15%) Designer
4 54 (4.00%) Developer
5 34 (2.52%) UX Designer
6 30 (2.22%) Analyst
6 30 (2.22%) IT Manager
7 26 (1.93%) Lead
8 23 (1.70%) Service Manager
9 20 (1.48%) Senior Manager
10 19 (1.41%) Product Designer
11 18 (1.33%) IT Services Manager
11 18 (1.33%) Support Engineer
12 17 (1.26%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 17 (1.26%) Senior Developer
12 17 (1.26%) Senior IT Manager
12 17 (1.26%) Senior Service Manager
13 15 (1.11%) Desktop Engineer
13 15 (1.11%) Product Manager
14 14 (1.04%) Desktop Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (2.59%) HTML
2 33 (2.44%) CSS
3 23 (1.70%) React
4 18 (1.33%) .NET
4 18 (1.33%) RESTful
5 14 (1.04%) AngularJS
6 8 (0.59%) Node.js
7 7 (0.52%) ASP.NET
7 7 (0.52%) REST
8 6 (0.44%) HTML5
8 6 (0.44%) jQuery
8 6 (0.44%) Spring
9 5 (0.37%) .NET Core
9 5 (0.37%) .NET Framework
9 5 (0.37%) Entity Framework
10 4 (0.30%) ASP.NET Core
10 4 (0.30%) LangChain
10 4 (0.30%) Next.js
10 4 (0.30%) SwiftUI
10 4 (0.30%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 991 (73.41%) IoT
2 36 (2.67%) Product Ownership
3 19 (1.41%) Mobile App
4 18 (1.33%) Onboarding
5 9 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (0.67%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (0.52%) Low-Code
7 6 (0.44%) Driving Licence
7 6 (0.44%) Social Media
8 5 (0.37%) Cloud Native
8 5 (0.37%) Photography
9 4 (0.30%) AI Agents
9 4 (0.30%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (0.30%) Media Streaming
10 3 (0.22%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.22%) Animation
10 3 (0.22%) FMCG
10 3 (0.22%) NHS
10 3 (0.22%) PropTech
10 3 (0.22%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 33 (2.44%) Windows
2 14 (1.04%) Windows 10
3 11 (0.81%) Apple iOS
4 7 (0.52%) Android
5 6 (0.44%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.22%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.15%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.074%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,034 (76.59%) AI
2 1,008 (74.67%) Web Development
3 1,003 (74.30%) Cybersecurity
4 993 (73.56%) Machine Learning
5 99 (7.33%) UX Design
6 96 (7.11%) Continuous Improvement
7 85 (6.30%) Agile
8 78 (5.78%) Problem-Solving
9 61 (4.52%) Analytics
9 61 (4.52%) Mentoring
10 44 (3.26%) ITIL
11 43 (3.19%) CRM
12 40 (2.96%) E-Commerce
13 38 (2.81%) Service Management
14 37 (2.74%) Roadmaps
15 36 (2.67%) DevOps
15 36 (2.67%) SEO
16 35 (2.59%) Coaching
17 34 (2.52%) CI/CD
18 32 (2.37%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 37 (2.74%) JavaScript
2 27 (2.00%) TypeScript
3 20 (1.48%) SQL
4 14 (1.04%) C#
5 13 (0.96%) Java
5 13 (0.96%) Python
6 7 (0.52%) Swift
7 6 (0.44%) PHP
8 5 (0.37%) PowerShell
9 4 (0.30%) Bicep
9 4 (0.30%) VBScript
10 3 (0.22%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.22%) VB
11 1 (0.074%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 1,025 (75.93%) Degree
2 992 (73.48%) Master's Degree
3 991 (73.41%) Postgraduate
4 990 (73.33%) PhD
5 11 (0.81%) Security Cleared
6 7 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (0.37%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (0.30%) SC Cleared
9 3 (0.22%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.15%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.15%) IIBA
10 2 (0.15%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.074%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (3.19%) Accessibility
2 26 (1.93%) QA
3 21 (1.56%) GDPR
4 13 (0.96%) WCAG
5 12 (0.89%) Data Quality
6 9 (0.67%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (0.30%) SLA
10 2 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.074%) HL7
11 1 (0.074%) PMO
System Software
1 19 (1.41%) Active Directory
2 6 (0.44%) Docker
3 4 (0.30%) BitLocker
4 2 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 20 (1.48%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (0.74%) Terraform
3 5 (0.37%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (0.30%) SCCM
5 2 (0.15%) Packer
5 2 (0.15%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.074%) Grafana
6 1 (0.074%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 85 (6.30%) Microsoft
2 23 (1.70%) Google
3 19 (1.41%) Adobe
4 12 (0.89%) ServiceNow
5 6 (0.44%) Dynatrace
6 5 (0.37%) Hotjar
6 5 (0.37%) New Relic
6 5 (0.37%) Splunk
7 4 (0.30%) Apple
7 4 (0.30%) DevExpress
7 4 (0.30%) OneLogin
8 3 (0.22%) HubSpot
8 3 (0.22%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.15%) Amplitude
9 2 (0.15%) Databricks
9 2 (0.15%) Hootsuite
9 2 (0.15%) Meraki
9 2 (0.15%) Oracle
9 2 (0.15%) SAP
9 2 (0.15%) Synthesia