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 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 57 74
Rank change year-on-year +46 +17 -8
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 1,183 407 263
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 12.14% 3.65% 3.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.28% 4.29% 3.93%
Number of salaries quoted 148 172 197
10th Percentile £30,500 £31,318 £31,200
25th Percentile £40,870 £40,000 £38,750
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 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £59,684 £61,500
% change year-on-year -3.66% -2.95% -1.60%

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 8,284 9,478 6,686
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 85.00% 85.09% 94.66%
Number of salaries quoted 4,510 4,507 5,115
10th Percentile £26,520 £31,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,979 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.81% -5.45% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,225 £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% - -4.00%

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 5 December 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 5 December 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 +40 1,019 £55,000 +2.33% 66
Yorkshire +32 146 £50,000 - 35
North East -15 18 £50,000 +17.65% 25
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 12 (1.01%) CMS
2 11 (0.93%) SharePoint
3 9 (0.76%) Confluence
4 4 (0.34%) Umbraco
5 3 (0.25%) WordPress
6 2 (0.17%) Drupal
6 2 (0.17%) EPiServer
6 2 (0.17%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.17%) nginx
7 1 (0.085%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.085%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.085%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 7 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.42%) Adobe XD
2 5 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.42%) Sketch
3 4 (0.34%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.25%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.17%) InVision
5 2 (0.17%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.085%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.085%) FrameMaker
6 1 (0.085%) MadCap Flare
6 1 (0.085%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.085%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
1 3 (0.25%) Shopify
2 1 (0.085%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.085%) Magento
2 1 (0.085%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 986 (83.35%) Cloud Computing
2 37 (3.13%) Azure
3 24 (2.03%) AWS
4 21 (1.78%) SaaS
5 17 (1.44%) Figma
6 16 (1.35%) Microsoft 365
7 15 (1.27%) Power Platform
8 9 (0.76%) Adobe Analytics
9 8 (0.68%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (0.59%) Google Analytics
11 6 (0.51%) Power Automate
11 6 (0.51%) Serverless
12 5 (0.42%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (0.42%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (0.42%) OneDrive
13 4 (0.34%) Entra ID
13 4 (0.34%) Google Ads
13 4 (0.34%) Microsoft Purview
13 4 (0.34%) PowerApps
14 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 986 (83.35%) Internet
2 5 (0.42%) DNS
3 4 (0.34%) LAN
4 3 (0.25%) HTTP
4 3 (0.25%) WAN
5 2 (0.17%) AMQP
5 2 (0.17%) Intranet
6 1 (0.085%) DHCP
6 1 (0.085%) SSH
6 1 (0.085%) SSL
6 1 (0.085%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.085%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (0.85%) Power BI
2 8 (0.68%) MySQL
2 8 (0.68%) NoSQL
3 6 (0.51%) MongoDB
3 6 (0.51%) SQL Server
4 5 (0.42%) Relational Database
5 4 (0.34%) DynamoDB
5 4 (0.34%) Metadata
6 2 (0.17%) Looker
6 2 (0.17%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.17%) PostHog
6 2 (0.17%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.17%) Redis
7 1 (0.085%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.085%) DocumentDB
7 1 (0.085%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 17 (1.44%) Git
2 13 (1.10%) JIRA
3 5 (0.42%) webpack
4 4 (0.34%) JUnit
5 3 (0.25%) Xcode
6 2 (0.17%) Babel
6 2 (0.17%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.17%) GitLab
6 2 (0.17%) Grunt
6 2 (0.17%) gulp
6 2 (0.17%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.17%) Selenium
7 1 (0.085%) Axure RP
7 1 (0.085%) ESLint
7 1 (0.085%) Maven
7 1 (0.085%) Storybook
General
1 1,065 (90.03%) Social Skills
2 993 (83.94%) Banking
2 993 (83.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 35 (2.96%) Finance
4 29 (2.45%) Marketing
5 25 (2.11%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
7 11 (0.93%) Law
7 11 (0.93%) Public Sector
8 9 (0.76%) Legal
8 9 (0.76%) Manufacturing
9 8 (0.68%) Electronics
9 8 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (0.68%) Retail
10 6 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (0.34%) Games
12 3 (0.25%) Advertising
13 2 (0.17%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.085%) Publishing
14 1 (0.085%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 742 (62.72%) Lecturer
2 51 (4.31%) Developer
3 31 (2.62%) Senior
4 27 (2.28%) Analyst
5 22 (1.86%) IT Support
6 18 (1.52%) IT Analyst
6 18 (1.52%) IT Support Analyst
6 18 (1.52%) Support Analyst
7 16 (1.35%) Lead
8 13 (1.10%) Full-Stack Developer
9 10 (0.85%) Senior Developer
10 9 (0.76%) .NET Developer
10 9 (0.76%) Designer
10 9 (0.76%) Software Engineer
11 8 (0.68%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 8 (0.68%) Software Developer
12 7 (0.59%) React Developer
13 6 (0.51%) Consultant
13 6 (0.51%) Java Developer
13 6 (0.51%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (3.72%) CSS
2 40 (3.38%) HTML
3 34 (2.87%) .NET
4 29 (2.45%) React
5 16 (1.35%) RESTful
6 13 (1.10%) ASP.NET
7 11 (0.93%) Node.js
8 10 (0.85%) HTML5
8 10 (0.85%) Spring
9 9 (0.76%) AngularJS
9 9 (0.76%) Spring Boot
10 8 (0.68%) .NET Framework
10 8 (0.68%) CSS3
10 8 (0.68%) REST
11 7 (0.59%) Next.js
12 6 (0.51%) .NET Core
12 6 (0.51%) Apache Cordova
12 6 (0.51%) ASP.NET Core
12 6 (0.51%) Kafka
13 5 (0.42%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 986 (83.35%) IoT
2 15 (1.27%) Product Ownership
3 13 (1.10%) Cloud Native
4 9 (0.76%) Social Media
5 8 (0.68%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (0.51%) Mobile App
6 6 (0.51%) Onboarding
7 5 (0.42%) AI Agents
7 5 (0.42%) LIMS
7 5 (0.42%) SCADA
8 4 (0.34%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (0.34%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (0.34%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (0.25%) Animation
9 3 (0.25%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (0.25%) e-Learning
10 2 (0.17%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.17%) Educational Technology
10 2 (0.17%) Graphic Design
10 2 (0.17%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 7 (0.59%) Apple iOS
2 6 (0.51%) Windows
3 5 (0.42%) Windows 10
3 5 (0.42%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.34%) Android
5 2 (0.17%) Linux
6 1 (0.085%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,018 (86.05%) AI
2 996 (84.19%) Machine Learning
3 995 (84.11%) Web Development
4 992 (83.85%) Cybersecurity
5 84 (7.10%) Agile
6 47 (3.97%) Continuous Improvement
7 41 (3.47%) Problem-Solving
8 38 (3.21%) UX Design
9 36 (3.04%) DevOps
10 35 (2.96%) CI/CD
11 32 (2.70%) Analytics
12 30 (2.54%) Full-Stack Development
12 30 (2.54%) Mentoring
13 29 (2.45%) ITIL
13 29 (2.45%) Software Engineering
14 27 (2.28%) Roadmaps
14 27 (2.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 25 (2.11%) Service Management
16 24 (2.03%) Customer Experience
16 24 (2.03%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 45 (3.80%) JavaScript
2 38 (3.21%) C#
3 26 (2.20%) TypeScript
4 20 (1.69%) Java
5 15 (1.27%) SQL
6 10 (0.85%) Python
7 4 (0.34%) XAML
8 3 (0.25%) ABAP
8 3 (0.25%) PHP
8 3 (0.25%) Rust
8 3 (0.25%) Swift
9 2 (0.17%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.17%) R
10 1 (0.085%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,006 (85.04%) Degree
2 987 (83.43%) PhD
3 986 (83.35%) Master's Degree
3 986 (83.35%) Postgraduate
4 13 (1.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 6 (0.51%) Security Cleared
6 5 (0.42%) A+ Certification
6 5 (0.42%) CCNA
6 5 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (0.42%) MCSA
6 5 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (0.42%) Network+ Certification
6 5 (0.42%) SC Cleared
7 3 (0.25%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.17%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.17%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.085%) CISSP
9 1 (0.085%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (2.79%) Accessibility
2 15 (1.27%) QA
3 13 (1.10%) GDPR
4 6 (0.51%) Data Quality
5 5 (0.42%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 5 (0.42%) GxP
6 4 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.34%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.34%) WCAG
7 3 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.17%) HL7
9 1 (0.085%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.085%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (1.27%) Docker
2 12 (1.01%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 12 (1.01%) Kubernetes
2 10 (0.85%) Terraform
3 4 (0.34%) Grafana
3 4 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.085%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 34 (2.87%) Microsoft
2 20 (1.69%) Adobe
3 16 (1.35%) Google
4 7 (0.59%) ServiceNow
5 6 (0.51%) Qualtrics
6 5 (0.42%) Cisco
6 5 (0.42%) Hotjar
6 5 (0.42%) New Relic
7 4 (0.34%) Genesys
7 4 (0.34%) SAP
7 4 (0.34%) Splunk
8 3 (0.25%) Apple
8 3 (0.25%) Facebook
8 3 (0.25%) HubSpot
9 2 (0.17%) Ahrefs
9 2 (0.17%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.17%) Oracle
9 2 (0.17%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.17%) Screaming Frog
10 1 (0.085%) TikTok