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

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 41 77
Rank change year-on-year +26 +36 -12
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 822 516 264
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 8.78% 4.51% 3.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.42% 5.35% 3.90%
Number of salaries quoted 149 172 198
10th Percentile £30,500 £31,250 £31,400
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 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -8.00% -

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 7,891 9,652 6,766
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 84.33% 84.43% 94.68%
Number of salaries quoted 4,488 4,539 5,186
10th Percentile £26,500 £31,250 £29,875
25th Percentile £31,438 £40,000 £41,227
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.77% -5.45% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,250 £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 2 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 2 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 +18 689 £55,000 +4.76% 85
Yorkshire +17 115 £50,000 - 54
North East -20 18 £50,000 +17.65% 30
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 (1.46%) CMS
2 9 (1.09%) SharePoint
3 8 (0.97%) Confluence
4 4 (0.49%) Umbraco
5 3 (0.36%) WordPress
6 2 (0.24%) Drupal
6 2 (0.24%) EPiServer
6 2 (0.24%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.12%) nginx
7 1 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 7 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.61%) Adobe XD
2 5 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.61%) Sketch
3 4 (0.49%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.36%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.24%) InVision
5 2 (0.24%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.12%) FrameMaker
6 1 (0.12%) MadCap Flare
6 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
1 3 (0.36%) Shopify
2 1 (0.12%) Magento
2 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 625 (76.03%) Cloud Computing
2 35 (4.26%) Azure
3 28 (3.41%) AWS
4 20 (2.43%) SaaS
5 17 (2.07%) Figma
6 14 (1.70%) Microsoft 365
7 13 (1.58%) Power Platform
8 9 (1.09%) Adobe Analytics
9 7 (0.85%) Google Analytics
9 7 (0.85%) Serverless
10 6 (0.73%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (0.73%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (0.61%) Power Automate
12 4 (0.49%) GitHub
12 4 (0.49%) Google Ads
12 4 (0.49%) OneDrive
12 4 (0.49%) PowerApps
13 3 (0.36%) Entra ID
13 3 (0.36%) GCP
13 3 (0.36%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 625 (76.03%) Internet
2 5 (0.61%) DNS
3 4 (0.49%) LAN
4 3 (0.36%) HTTP
4 3 (0.36%) WAN
5 2 (0.24%) AMQP
5 2 (0.24%) Intranet
6 1 (0.12%) DHCP
6 1 (0.12%) SSH
6 1 (0.12%) SSL
6 1 (0.12%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (1.22%) Power BI
2 8 (0.97%) MySQL
2 8 (0.97%) NoSQL
3 5 (0.61%) DynamoDB
3 5 (0.61%) MongoDB
3 5 (0.61%) Relational Database
4 4 (0.49%) Metadata
4 4 (0.49%) SQL Server
5 3 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.24%) Looker
6 2 (0.24%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.12%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.12%) DocumentDB
7 1 (0.12%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.12%) PostHog
7 1 (0.12%) Redis
Development Applications
1 18 (2.19%) Git
2 12 (1.46%) JIRA
3 5 (0.61%) webpack
4 4 (0.49%) JUnit
5 3 (0.36%) Xcode
6 2 (0.24%) Babel
6 2 (0.24%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.24%) GitLab
6 2 (0.24%) Grunt
6 2 (0.24%) gulp
6 2 (0.24%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.24%) Selenium
7 1 (0.12%) Axure RP
7 1 (0.12%) ESLint
7 1 (0.12%) Maven
7 1 (0.12%) Storybook
General
1 706 (85.89%) Social Skills
2 632 (76.89%) Banking
3 631 (76.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 36 (4.38%) Finance
5 30 (3.65%) Marketing
6 24 (2.92%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (1.70%) Organisational Skills
8 11 (1.34%) Law
8 11 (1.34%) Public Sector
9 9 (1.09%) Legal
9 9 (1.09%) Manufacturing
10 8 (0.97%) Electronics
10 8 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (0.97%) Retail
11 6 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (0.61%) Games
13 3 (0.36%) Advertising
14 2 (0.24%) Aerospace
15 1 (0.12%) Publishing
15 1 (0.12%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 496 (60.34%) Lecturer
2 50 (6.08%) Developer
3 33 (4.01%) Senior
4 27 (3.28%) Analyst
5 22 (2.68%) IT Support
6 18 (2.19%) IT Analyst
6 18 (2.19%) IT Support Analyst
6 18 (2.19%) Support Analyst
7 15 (1.82%) Lead
8 13 (1.58%) Full-Stack Developer
9 10 (1.22%) Senior Developer
9 10 (1.22%) Software Engineer
10 9 (1.09%) .NET Developer
10 9 (1.09%) Designer
11 8 (0.97%) Software Developer
12 7 (0.85%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 7 (0.85%) Java Developer
12 7 (0.85%) React Developer
13 6 (0.73%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 6 (0.73%) E-Commerce Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (5.23%) CSS
2 39 (4.74%) HTML
3 33 (4.01%) .NET
4 30 (3.65%) React
5 17 (2.07%) RESTful
6 12 (1.46%) ASP.NET
7 11 (1.34%) HTML5
7 11 (1.34%) Node.js
8 10 (1.22%) AngularJS
8 10 (1.22%) Spring
9 9 (1.09%) CSS3
9 9 (1.09%) Spring Boot
10 8 (0.97%) REST
11 7 (0.85%) .NET Framework
11 7 (0.85%) Next.js
12 6 (0.73%) Apache Cordova
12 6 (0.73%) ASP.NET Core
12 6 (0.73%) Kafka
13 5 (0.61%) .NET Core
13 5 (0.61%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 625 (76.03%) IoT
2 15 (1.82%) Product Ownership
3 12 (1.46%) Cloud Native
4 9 (1.09%) Social Media
5 8 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (0.73%) Mobile App
6 6 (0.73%) Onboarding
7 5 (0.61%) AI Agents
7 5 (0.61%) LIMS
7 5 (0.61%) SCADA
8 4 (0.49%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (0.49%) e-Learning
8 4 (0.49%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (0.36%) Animation
9 3 (0.36%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (0.36%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.24%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.24%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.24%) Educational Technology
10 2 (0.24%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (0.85%) Apple iOS
2 6 (0.73%) Windows
3 5 (0.61%) Windows 10
3 5 (0.61%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.49%) Android
5 2 (0.24%) Linux
6 1 (0.12%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 657 (79.93%) AI
2 636 (77.37%) Machine Learning
3 634 (77.13%) Web Development
4 631 (76.76%) Cybersecurity
5 85 (10.34%) Agile
6 47 (5.72%) Continuous Improvement
7 42 (5.11%) Problem-Solving
8 38 (4.62%) UX Design
9 36 (4.38%) DevOps
10 33 (4.01%) CI/CD
11 32 (3.89%) Analytics
12 31 (3.77%) Full-Stack Development
13 30 (3.65%) ITIL
14 29 (3.53%) Software Engineering
15 28 (3.41%) Mentoring
16 27 (3.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 26 (3.16%) Roadmaps
18 25 (3.04%) Service Management
19 24 (2.92%) Customer Experience
19 24 (2.92%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 45 (5.47%) JavaScript
2 36 (4.38%) C#
3 27 (3.28%) TypeScript
4 22 (2.68%) Java
5 15 (1.82%) SQL
6 11 (1.34%) Python
7 4 (0.49%) XAML
8 3 (0.36%) ABAP
8 3 (0.36%) PHP
8 3 (0.36%) Rust
8 3 (0.36%) Swift
9 2 (0.24%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.24%) R
10 1 (0.12%) Go
Qualifications
1 645 (78.47%) Degree
2 626 (76.16%) PhD
3 625 (76.03%) Master's Degree
3 625 (76.03%) Postgraduate
4 13 (1.58%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 6 (0.73%) Security Cleared
6 5 (0.61%) A+ Certification
6 5 (0.61%) CCNA
6 5 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (0.61%) MCSA
6 5 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (0.61%) Network+ Certification
6 5 (0.61%) SC Cleared
7 3 (0.36%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.24%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.12%) CISSP
9 1 (0.12%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (3.89%) Accessibility
2 14 (1.70%) GDPR
2 14 (1.70%) QA
3 6 (0.73%) Data Quality
4 5 (0.61%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 5 (0.61%) GxP
5 4 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
5 4 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.49%) PCI DSS
5 4 (0.49%) WCAG
6 3 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.24%) HL7
8 1 (0.12%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.12%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (1.95%) Docker
2 11 (1.34%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.36%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 13 (1.58%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.22%) Terraform
3 3 (0.36%) Grafana
3 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.12%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 33 (4.01%) Microsoft
2 20 (2.43%) Adobe
3 17 (2.07%) Google
4 7 (0.85%) ServiceNow
5 6 (0.73%) Qualtrics
6 5 (0.61%) Cisco
6 5 (0.61%) Hotjar
7 4 (0.49%) Facebook
7 4 (0.49%) Genesys
7 4 (0.49%) New Relic
7 4 (0.49%) SAP
8 3 (0.36%) Apple
8 3 (0.36%) HubSpot
8 3 (0.36%) Splunk
9 2 (0.24%) Ahrefs
9 2 (0.24%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.24%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.24%) Screaming Frog
10 1 (0.12%) Instagram
10 1 (0.12%) TikTok