User Experience Jobs in the North of England

UX
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring User Experience skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited User Experience over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 41 121
Rank change year-on-year -33 +80 -59
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 491 863 423
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.84% 4.37% 2.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.29% 5.46% 2.94%
Number of salaries quoted 166 405 237
10th Percentile £32,250 £30,000 £34,300
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% +14.58%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £51,000 £64,470
% change year-on-year +17.65% -20.89% +7.45%

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 11,444 15,817 14,378
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 89.46% 80.08% 96.79%
Number of salaries quoted 5,736 11,499 7,691
10th Percentile £25,084 £27,500 £31,149
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +9.62%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +1.82% -12.00% +4.17%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing User Experience as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for User Experience in the North of England

User Experience
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing User Experience in the North of England.

Salary trend for User Experience in the North of England

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 2 July 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 2 July 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 -26 423 £55,043 +22.32% 709
Yorkshire -44 51 £42,500 -15.00% 313
North East -4 17 £48,000 +12.94% 77
User Experience
England

User Experience
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (2.24%) CMS
2 9 (1.83%) Skype for Business
3 6 (1.22%) Confluence
3 6 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.02%) WordPress
5 4 (0.81%) IBM Domino
6 3 (0.61%) IIS
7 2 (0.41%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.20%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.02%) Adobe XD
2 5 (1.02%) Chatbot
2 5 (1.02%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.81%) Sketch
4 2 (0.41%) Adobe After Effects
4 2 (0.41%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (0.41%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (0.41%) InDesign
4 2 (0.41%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.20%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.20%) Blender
5 1 (0.20%) CINEMA 4D
Business Applications
1 8 (1.63%) Payment Gateway
2 7 (1.43%) Magento
3 6 (1.22%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.20%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 302 (61.51%) AWS
2 284 (57.84%) Azure
3 180 (36.66%) GCP
4 21 (4.28%) Google Analytics
5 19 (3.87%) Serverless
6 15 (3.05%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (3.05%) Figma
7 13 (2.65%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (1.63%) GitHub
9 7 (1.43%) Miro
9 7 (1.43%) SaaS
10 6 (1.22%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (1.22%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (1.22%) Power Platform
10 6 (1.22%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
11 4 (0.81%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (0.81%) Contentsquare
11 4 (0.81%) Google Ads
11 4 (0.81%) Google Workspace
11 4 (0.81%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.04%) Unified Communications
2 9 (1.83%) Skype
2 9 (1.83%) Wireless
3 8 (1.63%) Internet
4 4 (0.81%) HTTP
4 4 (0.81%) LoRaWAN
5 3 (0.61%) DNS
5 3 (0.61%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.61%) VPN
6 2 (0.41%) DMZ
7 1 (0.20%) Broadband
7 1 (0.20%) DHCP
7 1 (0.20%) Firewall
7 1 (0.20%) Intranet
7 1 (0.20%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (17.52%) SQL Server
2 21 (4.28%) MySQL
3 17 (3.46%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (2.04%) DynamoDB
5 8 (1.63%) NoSQL
6 7 (1.43%) MongoDB
7 6 (1.22%) Power BI
8 4 (0.81%) Mixpanel
9 3 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.41%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.41%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.41%) TimescaleDB
11 1 (0.20%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.20%) DocumentDB
11 1 (0.20%) Endeca
11 1 (0.20%) Redis
Development Applications
1 93 (18.94%) JIRA
2 83 (16.90%) Selenium
3 81 (16.50%) GitLab
4 74 (15.07%) Cucumber
5 73 (14.87%) Bitbucket
5 73 (14.87%) SonarQube
6 72 (14.66%) Maven
6 72 (14.66%) Sonatype Nexus
7 23 (4.68%) Git
8 5 (1.02%) JMeter
8 5 (1.02%) JUnit
8 5 (1.02%) Postman
9 4 (0.81%) Appium
9 4 (0.81%) Balsamiq
9 4 (0.81%) Fiddler
9 4 (0.81%) LoadRunner
9 4 (0.81%) Storybook
10 3 (0.61%) Jenkins
11 2 (0.41%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.41%) Jasmine
General
1 258 (52.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 127 (25.87%) Finance
3 86 (17.52%) Retail
3 86 (17.52%) Social Skills
4 75 (15.27%) Banking
5 72 (14.66%) Corporate Banking
5 72 (14.66%) Investment Banking
6 39 (7.94%) Marketing
7 22 (4.48%) Analytical Skills
8 12 (2.44%) Financial Institution
9 11 (2.24%) Games
10 9 (1.83%) Advertising
11 8 (1.63%) Mandarin Language
12 6 (1.22%) Manufacturing
13 5 (1.02%) Law
13 5 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.81%) Cantonese Language
15 3 (0.61%) Brand Awareness
15 3 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
16 2 (0.41%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 262 (53.36%) Software Engineer
2 227 (46.23%) Senior
3 182 (37.07%) Senior Software Engineer
4 65 (13.24%) Developer
5 28 (5.70%) Lead
6 23 (4.68%) Senior Developer
7 20 (4.07%) IT Support
8 16 (3.26%) Analyst
8 16 (3.26%) Applications Support
9 14 (2.85%) Java Developer
10 13 (2.65%) Full-Stack Developer
10 13 (2.65%) Senior Java Developer
11 12 (2.44%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 11 (2.24%) Designer
13 10 (2.04%) Applications Manager
13 10 (2.04%) Applications Support Manager
13 10 (2.04%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
13 10 (2.04%) Support Manager
13 10 (2.04%) Team Leader
14 9 (1.83%) Collaboration Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 198 (40.33%) .NET
2 188 (38.29%) Node.js
3 119 (24.24%) React
4 106 (21.59%) CSS
5 104 (21.18%) HTML
6 96 (19.55%) RESTful
7 83 (16.90%) Kafka
8 82 (16.70%) HTML5
8 82 (16.70%) REST
9 81 (16.50%) CSS3
10 80 (16.29%) Spring Boot
11 79 (16.09%) Spring
12 75 (15.27%) Jest
12 75 (15.27%) Redux
13 74 (15.07%) Sass
14 72 (14.66%) JPA
15 30 (6.11%) AngularJS
16 10 (2.04%) .NET Core
17 9 (1.83%) Amazon Corretto
17 9 (1.83%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 172 (35.03%) Cyberattack
1 172 (35.03%) Linux Command Line
1 172 (35.03%) Self-Motivation
2 96 (19.55%) Product Ownership
3 73 (14.87%) Enterprise Software
4 13 (2.65%) Renewable Energy
5 11 (2.24%) Social Media
6 10 (2.04%) e-Learning
7 9 (1.83%) Digital Signage
7 9 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (1.83%) Mobile App
7 9 (1.83%) Video Conferencing
8 6 (1.22%) IoT
9 5 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (0.81%) FMCG
10 4 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (0.81%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 3 (0.61%) CMDB
11 3 (0.61%) Graphic Design
11 3 (0.61%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 181 (36.86%) Linux
2 16 (3.26%) Windows
2 16 (3.26%) Windows Server
3 9 (1.83%) Android
4 3 (0.61%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.20%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 339 (69.04%) Agile
2 281 (57.23%) Software Engineering
3 270 (54.99%) Mentoring
4 262 (53.36%) Microservices
5 190 (38.70%) Scrum
6 180 (36.66%) Machine Learning
7 174 (35.44%) Cloud Security
8 173 (35.23%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 172 (35.03%) Data Engineering
10 121 (24.64%) DevOps
11 108 (22.00%) CI/CD
11 108 (22.00%) Front End Development
12 105 (21.38%) Full-Stack Development
13 103 (20.98%) Test Automation
14 90 (18.33%) SDLC
15 85 (17.31%) Performance Optimisation
15 85 (17.31%) Responsive Web Design
16 81 (16.50%) Containerisation
17 76 (15.48%) Migration
18 75 (15.27%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 318 (64.77%) JavaScript
2 282 (57.43%) Java
3 195 (39.71%) Python
4 173 (35.23%) Go
4 173 (35.23%) Rust
5 172 (35.03%) C++
6 137 (27.90%) TypeScript
7 94 (19.14%) SQL
8 17 (3.46%) PHP
9 16 (3.26%) C#
10 2 (0.41%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.41%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.20%) Bash
11 1 (0.20%) Elixir
11 1 (0.20%) Elm
11 1 (0.20%) F#
11 1 (0.20%) Lisp
11 1 (0.20%) PureScript
11 1 (0.20%) Scala
11 1 (0.20%) Swift
Qualifications
1 176 (35.85%) Security Cleared
2 172 (35.03%) AWS Certification
2 172 (35.03%) AWS Certified Developer
2 172 (35.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 172 (35.03%) DV Cleared
3 28 (5.70%) Degree
4 6 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.02%) DBS Check
6 4 (0.81%) ISTQB
6 4 (0.81%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.41%) CISM
7 2 (0.41%) CISSP
7 2 (0.41%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (18.74%) QA
2 89 (18.13%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.22%) GDPR
4 5 (1.02%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.02%) PCI DSS
5 4 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.41%) NCSC
6 2 (0.41%) NIST
6 2 (0.41%) WCAG
7 1 (0.20%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.20%) SLA
System Software
1 112 (22.81%) Docker
2 7 (1.43%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (1.02%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 96 (19.55%) Kubernetes
2 16 (3.26%) Terraform
3 7 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (1.22%) Grafana
5 3 (0.61%) Kibana
6 2 (0.41%) Puppet
7 1 (0.20%) SCCM
Vendors
1 72 (14.66%) Solace
2 38 (7.74%) Google
3 36 (7.33%) Microsoft
4 15 (3.05%) Adobe
5 13 (2.65%) Facebook
6 12 (2.44%) Bloomberg
7 10 (2.04%) Cisco
7 10 (2.04%) Salesforce
8 9 (1.83%) Mitel
8 9 (1.83%) Polycom
8 9 (1.83%) ShoreTel
9 7 (1.43%) Hotjar
9 7 (1.43%) New Relic
9 7 (1.43%) Veeam
9 7 (1.43%) VMware
10 5 (1.02%) Apple
10 5 (1.02%) Oracle
10 5 (1.02%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.41%) IBM
12 1 (0.20%) Sage