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 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 78 66
Rank change year-on-year +70 -12 +25
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 1,884 222 543
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 12.56% 3.48% 3.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.76% 3.66% 4.18%
Number of salaries quoted 212 167 370
10th Percentile £30,500 £31,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,228 £40,000 £37,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +2.56% -15.67%
75th Percentile £68,666 £66,389 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,375 £75,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £52,550
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.18% -19.15%

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 11,239 6,066 12,989
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 74.92% 95.03% 84.51%
Number of salaries quoted 6,626 3,632 10,399
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,594 £70,000 £65,603
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +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 26 March 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 26 March 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 +58 1,622 £55,000 - 94
Yorkshire +45 238 £55,000 +27.91% 45
North East -20 24 £50,000 +4.71% 39
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 22 (1.17%) CMS
2 20 (1.06%) SharePoint
3 11 (0.58%) Confluence
4 10 (0.53%) WordPress
5 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.21%) Umbraco
7 2 (0.11%) nginx
8 1 (0.053%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.053%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 8 (0.42%) Sketch
2 7 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 3 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
3 3 (0.16%) Adobe XD
3 3 (0.16%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
4 2 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
4 2 (0.11%) Trello
5 1 (0.053%) Blender
5 1 (0.053%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.053%) FrameMaker
5 1 (0.053%) InDesign
5 1 (0.053%) InVision
5 1 (0.053%) MadCap Flare
5 1 (0.053%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (0.32%) Shopify
2 5 (0.27%) Magento
3 3 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.053%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.053%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 1,615 (85.72%) Cloud Computing
2 44 (2.34%) Azure
3 33 (1.75%) SaaS
4 32 (1.70%) Microsoft 365
5 24 (1.27%) Figma
6 23 (1.22%) Power Platform
7 15 (0.80%) AWS
7 15 (0.80%) Google Analytics
8 12 (0.64%) Entra ID
8 12 (0.64%) Microsoft Purview
9 11 (0.58%) Adobe Analytics
10 10 (0.53%) Azure Monitor
11 9 (0.48%) OneDrive
12 8 (0.42%) Microsoft Copilot
13 6 (0.32%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (0.32%) Power Automate
14 5 (0.27%) Dynamics 365
14 5 (0.27%) PowerApps
15 4 (0.21%) Dropbox
15 4 (0.21%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1,615 (85.72%) Internet
2 6 (0.32%) DNS
3 5 (0.27%) HTTP
4 4 (0.21%) LAN
5 3 (0.16%) WAN
6 2 (0.11%) DHCP
6 2 (0.11%) Intranet
6 2 (0.11%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.053%) SSL
7 1 (0.053%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.053%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (0.48%) Power BI
2 8 (0.42%) MySQL
3 7 (0.37%) Looker
4 6 (0.32%) MongoDB
4 6 (0.32%) NoSQL
4 6 (0.32%) SQL Server
5 5 (0.27%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.11%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.11%) Metadata
6 2 (0.11%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.11%) PostHog
6 2 (0.11%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.11%) Redis
7 1 (0.053%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.053%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.053%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 19 (1.01%) JIRA
2 14 (0.74%) Git
3 5 (0.27%) JUnit
4 4 (0.21%) GitLab
4 4 (0.21%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (0.16%) fastlane
5 3 (0.16%) Selenium
6 2 (0.11%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.11%) NUnit
6 2 (0.11%) Postman
6 2 (0.11%) Vagrant
7 1 (0.053%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.053%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.053%) JMeter
7 1 (0.053%) LoadRunner
General
1 1,698 (90.13%) Social Skills
2 1,628 (86.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,623 (86.15%) Banking
4 48 (2.55%) Finance
5 43 (2.28%) Marketing
6 37 (1.96%) Analytical Skills
7 31 (1.65%) Public Sector
8 14 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (0.64%) Legal
10 10 (0.53%) Law
11 9 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (0.48%) Manufacturing
11 9 (0.48%) Retail
12 6 (0.32%) Advertising
13 4 (0.21%) Electronics
13 4 (0.21%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.16%) Brand Awareness
14 3 (0.16%) Games
15 2 (0.11%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.11%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 1,224 (64.97%) Lecturer
2 55 (2.92%) Senior
3 43 (2.28%) Developer
4 27 (1.43%) Analyst
5 23 (1.22%) Designer
6 19 (1.01%) IT Manager
7 17 (0.90%) Senior Manager
8 15 (0.80%) Senior Developer
9 13 (0.69%) Service Manager
10 12 (0.64%) Lead
10 12 (0.64%) Software Engineer
11 11 (0.58%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 11 (0.58%) Full-Stack Developer
11 11 (0.58%) IT Support
11 11 (0.58%) Product Manager
11 11 (0.58%) UX Designer
12 10 (0.53%) IT Services Manager
12 10 (0.53%) Senior IT Manager
12 10 (0.53%) Senior Service Manager
13 8 (0.42%) E-Commerce Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (2.55%) CSS
1 48 (2.55%) HTML
2 32 (1.70%) .NET
3 23 (1.22%) React
4 15 (0.80%) AngularJS
4 15 (0.80%) RESTful
5 14 (0.74%) ASP.NET
6 10 (0.53%) HTML5
7 9 (0.48%) .NET Framework
7 9 (0.48%) Node.js
8 8 (0.42%) ASP.NET Core
9 7 (0.37%) Next.js
9 7 (0.37%) REST
9 7 (0.37%) Spring
10 6 (0.32%) Spring Boot
11 5 (0.27%) .NET Core
11 5 (0.27%) Apache Cordova
11 5 (0.27%) CSS3
11 5 (0.27%) jQuery
12 4 (0.21%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1,616 (85.77%) IoT
2 17 (0.90%) Product Ownership
3 14 (0.74%) Mobile App
4 12 (0.64%) Onboarding
5 11 (0.58%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (0.53%) Social Media
7 9 (0.48%) Cloud Native
8 8 (0.42%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (0.32%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (0.21%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.21%) Animation
10 4 (0.21%) NHS
10 4 (0.21%) Photography
11 3 (0.16%) Distributed Computing
11 3 (0.16%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (0.11%) Educational Technology
12 2 (0.11%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (0.11%) Low-Code
12 2 (0.11%) PropTech
12 2 (0.11%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (0.53%) Apple iOS
2 8 (0.42%) Windows
3 6 (0.32%) Android
4 2 (0.11%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.053%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.053%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,657 (87.95%) AI
2 1,625 (86.25%) Web Development
3 1,624 (86.20%) Cybersecurity
4 1,620 (85.99%) Machine Learning
5 90 (4.78%) Agile
6 76 (4.03%) Continuous Improvement
7 60 (3.18%) Problem-Solving
8 59 (3.13%) UX Design
9 51 (2.71%) Mentoring
10 50 (2.65%) Analytics
11 38 (2.02%) DevOps
11 38 (2.02%) SEO
11 38 (2.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 33 (1.75%) CI/CD
12 33 (1.75%) Coaching
12 33 (1.75%) Software Engineering
13 32 (1.70%) Full-Stack Development
13 32 (1.70%) Roadmaps
13 32 (1.70%) Service Management
14 31 (1.65%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 41 (2.18%) JavaScript
2 29 (1.54%) TypeScript
3 28 (1.49%) C#
4 18 (0.96%) SQL
5 9 (0.48%) Java
6 5 (0.27%) Python
7 4 (0.21%) PHP
7 4 (0.21%) Swift
8 3 (0.16%) XAML
9 2 (0.11%) Bicep
9 2 (0.11%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.053%) ABAP
10 1 (0.053%) Go
10 1 (0.053%) R
10 1 (0.053%) VB
Qualifications
1 1,648 (87.47%) Degree
2 1,617 (85.83%) Master's Degree
3 1,615 (85.72%) PhD
3 1,615 (85.72%) Postgraduate
4 6 (0.32%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 5 (0.27%) DBS Check
5 5 (0.27%) Security Cleared
6 3 (0.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (0.16%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.11%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.11%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (0.11%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.053%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.053%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.053%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (2.18%) Accessibility
2 28 (1.49%) QA
3 21 (1.11%) GDPR
4 12 (0.64%) Data Quality
5 11 (0.58%) PCI DSS
6 8 (0.42%) WCAG
7 4 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.11%) HL7
10 1 (0.053%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.053%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (0.74%) Active Directory
2 9 (0.48%) Docker
3 3 (0.16%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 12 (0.64%) Terraform
2 9 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (0.37%) Kubernetes
5 2 (0.11%) Grafana
5 2 (0.11%) Packer
5 2 (0.11%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.053%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 53 (2.81%) Microsoft
2 25 (1.33%) Adobe
3 20 (1.06%) Google
4 9 (0.48%) New Relic
4 9 (0.48%) ServiceNow
5 8 (0.42%) Splunk
6 7 (0.37%) Hotjar
7 5 (0.27%) Qualtrics
8 4 (0.21%) Apple
8 4 (0.21%) SAP
9 2 (0.11%) Ahrefs
9 2 (0.11%) DevExpress
9 2 (0.11%) Hootsuite
9 2 (0.11%) OneLogin
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle
9 2 (0.11%) Screaming Frog
10 1 (0.053%) HubSpot
10 1 (0.053%) Meraki
10 1 (0.053%) Sage
10 1 (0.053%) Sitecore