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 4 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 46 43
Rank change year-on-year +20 -3 +65
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 993 497 769
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 5.01% 6.26% 4.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.17% 6.63% 5.19%
Number of salaries quoted 300 169 403
10th Percentile £29,342 £32,100 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,188 £36,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +15.79% -17.39%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £59,150 £51,000
% change year-on-year -7.02% +15.98% -20.89%

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 13,857 7,496 14,803
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 69.85% 94.38% 80.49%
Number of salaries quoted 9,667 3,544 11,513
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,500 £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 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £84,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -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 4 June 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 4 June 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 +26 775 £53,500 -6.96% 117
Yorkshire +35 165 £53,750 +26.47% 36
North East -4 53 £52,000 +8.33% 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 26 (2.62%) SharePoint
2 21 (2.11%) CMS
3 15 (1.51%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (1.31%) WordPress
5 8 (0.81%) Confluence
6 3 (0.30%) Umbraco
7 2 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.20%) Moodle
7 2 (0.20%) Skype for Business
7 2 (0.20%) Totara
8 1 (0.10%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.10%) nginx
Applications
1 14 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.81%) Sketch
3 7 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.40%) Adobe XD
4 4 (0.40%) Trello
5 3 (0.30%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 3 (0.30%) Adobe Illustrator
5 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.30%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.20%) Adobe After Effects
6 2 (0.20%) Adobe Premiere
6 2 (0.20%) Camtasia
6 2 (0.20%) InVision
7 1 (0.10%) Blender
7 1 (0.10%) CINEMA 4D
7 1 (0.10%) InDesign
7 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (0.81%) Magento
1 8 (0.81%) Shopify
2 6 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.30%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.10%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 631 (63.54%) Cloud Computing
2 72 (7.25%) Azure
3 54 (5.44%) Microsoft 365
4 33 (3.32%) Power Platform
4 33 (3.32%) SaaS
5 30 (3.02%) Figma
6 26 (2.62%) Entra ID
7 19 (1.91%) Google Analytics
8 17 (1.71%) AWS
8 17 (1.71%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (1.71%) Microsoft Copilot
8 17 (1.71%) Microsoft Purview
8 17 (1.71%) Power Automate
8 17 (1.71%) PowerApps
9 10 (1.01%) Dynamics 365
10 9 (0.91%) Copilot Studio
11 8 (0.81%) Firebase
12 7 (0.70%) Azure Monitor
13 6 (0.60%) Azure Logic Apps
14 5 (0.50%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 629 (63.34%) Internet
2 7 (0.70%) DHCP
2 7 (0.70%) DNS
2 7 (0.70%) Firewall
3 3 (0.30%) HTTP
3 3 (0.30%) VLAN
3 3 (0.30%) VPN
4 2 (0.20%) Skype
4 2 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.20%) Wireless
5 1 (0.10%) SAN
5 1 (0.10%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.10%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (0.91%) Looker
2 7 (0.70%) Power BI
3 5 (0.50%) SQL Server
3 5 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 4 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (0.40%) BigQuery
4 4 (0.40%) MySQL
5 3 (0.30%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (0.30%) Tableau
6 2 (0.20%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.20%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.20%) GIS
6 2 (0.20%) Metadata
6 2 (0.20%) Mixpanel
6 2 (0.20%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.20%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.20%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.10%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.10%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.10%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 19 (1.91%) JIRA
2 18 (1.81%) Git
3 11 (1.11%) fastlane
4 10 (1.01%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.40%) Android Studio
5 4 (0.40%) Crashlytics
5 4 (0.40%) Gradle
5 4 (0.40%) NUnit
5 4 (0.40%) Xcode
6 3 (0.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (0.30%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.30%) JUnit
7 2 (0.20%) Axure RP
7 2 (0.20%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.20%) GitLab
7 2 (0.20%) Postman
7 2 (0.20%) Selenium
7 2 (0.20%) Vagrant
8 1 (0.10%) JMeter
8 1 (0.10%) LoadRunner
General
1 717 (72.21%) Social Skills
2 650 (65.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 635 (63.95%) Banking
4 63 (6.34%) Finance
5 61 (6.14%) Marketing
6 49 (4.93%) Public Sector
7 41 (4.13%) Analytical Skills
8 20 (2.01%) Legal
9 19 (1.91%) Law
10 18 (1.81%) Retail
11 11 (1.11%) Manufacturing
12 9 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.40%) Advertising
13 4 (0.40%) Brand Awareness
13 4 (0.40%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.30%) Billing
14 3 (0.30%) Games
15 2 (0.20%) Multimedia
15 2 (0.20%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 482 (48.54%) Lecturer
2 61 (6.14%) Senior
3 57 (5.74%) Designer
4 56 (5.64%) Developer
5 34 (3.42%) UX Designer
6 32 (3.22%) Analyst
6 32 (3.22%) IT Manager
7 28 (2.82%) Lead
8 23 (2.32%) Service Manager
9 21 (2.11%) Support Engineer
10 20 (2.01%) Senior Manager
11 19 (1.91%) Product Designer
12 18 (1.81%) IT Services Manager
12 18 (1.81%) Senior Developer
13 17 (1.71%) Desktop Engineer
13 17 (1.71%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 17 (1.71%) Senior IT Manager
13 17 (1.71%) Senior Service Manager
14 16 (1.61%) Desktop Support
15 15 (1.51%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (3.32%) HTML
2 32 (3.22%) CSS
3 23 (2.32%) React
4 18 (1.81%) RESTful
5 17 (1.71%) .NET
6 12 (1.21%) AngularJS
7 8 (0.81%) Node.js
7 8 (0.81%) REST
8 5 (0.50%) ASP.NET
8 5 (0.50%) HTML5
8 5 (0.50%) iOS SDK
8 5 (0.50%) jQuery
8 5 (0.50%) Next.js
8 5 (0.50%) SwiftUI
9 4 (0.40%) .NET Core
9 4 (0.40%) Android Jetpack
9 4 (0.40%) ASP.NET Core
9 4 (0.40%) Core Data
9 4 (0.40%) Jetpack Compose
9 4 (0.40%) Retrofit
Miscellaneous
1 630 (63.44%) IoT
2 38 (3.83%) Product Ownership
3 22 (2.22%) Mobile App
4 19 (1.91%) Onboarding
5 9 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (0.81%) Driving Licence
6 8 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (0.60%) Low-Code
7 6 (0.60%) Social Media
8 5 (0.50%) Cloud Native
8 5 (0.50%) Photography
9 4 (0.40%) AI Agents
9 4 (0.40%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (0.40%) Media Streaming
9 4 (0.40%) PropTech
10 3 (0.30%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.30%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (0.30%) Security Posture
10 3 (0.30%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.30%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 37 (3.73%) Windows
2 16 (1.61%) Windows 10
3 12 (1.21%) Apple iOS
4 9 (0.91%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.81%) Android
6 3 (0.30%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.20%) Windows 7
7 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.10%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 675 (67.98%) AI
2 646 (65.06%) Web Development
3 644 (64.85%) Cybersecurity
4 632 (63.65%) Machine Learning
5 101 (10.17%) UX Design
6 97 (9.77%) Continuous Improvement
7 82 (8.26%) Problem-Solving
8 81 (8.16%) Agile
9 65 (6.55%) Analytics
10 57 (5.74%) Mentoring
11 45 (4.53%) ITIL
12 42 (4.23%) CRM
13 39 (3.93%) E-Commerce
14 38 (3.83%) Roadmaps
14 38 (3.83%) Service Management
15 37 (3.73%) DevOps
16 35 (3.52%) CI/CD
17 34 (3.42%) Decision-Making
17 34 (3.42%) SEO
18 32 (3.22%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 34 (3.42%) JavaScript
2 25 (2.52%) TypeScript
3 21 (2.11%) SQL
4 14 (1.41%) C#
4 14 (1.41%) Python
5 12 (1.21%) Java
6 8 (0.81%) Swift
7 7 (0.70%) PHP
7 7 (0.70%) PowerShell
8 5 (0.50%) VBScript
9 4 (0.40%) Bicep
9 4 (0.40%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.30%) VB
11 2 (0.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.10%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 664 (66.87%) Degree
2 631 (63.54%) Master's Degree
2 631 (63.54%) Postgraduate
3 629 (63.34%) PhD
4 12 (1.21%) Security Cleared
5 7 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (0.50%) DV Cleared
6 5 (0.50%) SC Cleared
7 4 (0.40%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (0.30%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.20%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.20%) IIBA
9 2 (0.20%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (4.43%) Accessibility
2 25 (2.52%) QA
3 19 (1.91%) GDPR
4 17 (1.71%) WCAG
5 12 (1.21%) Data Quality
6 8 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
7 7 (0.70%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.40%) SLA
10 3 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.10%) HL7
11 1 (0.10%) PMO
System Software
1 21 (2.11%) Active Directory
2 6 (0.60%) Docker
3 5 (0.50%) BitLocker
4 2 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.10%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.10%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (1.91%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (0.91%) Terraform
3 5 (0.50%) SCCM
4 4 (0.40%) Kubernetes
4 4 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.20%) Packer
5 2 (0.20%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.10%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 91 (9.16%) Microsoft
2 25 (2.52%) Google
3 19 (1.91%) Adobe
4 13 (1.31%) ServiceNow
5 8 (0.81%) Dynatrace
6 5 (0.50%) Apple
6 5 (0.50%) Hotjar
7 4 (0.40%) DevExpress
7 4 (0.40%) New Relic
7 4 (0.40%) OneLogin
7 4 (0.40%) Splunk
8 3 (0.30%) HubSpot
8 3 (0.30%) Meraki
8 3 (0.30%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.20%) Amplitude
9 2 (0.20%) CheckPoint
9 2 (0.20%) Databricks
9 2 (0.20%) Hootsuite
9 2 (0.20%) iManage
9 2 (0.20%) Synthesia