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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 50 42
Rank change year-on-year -33 -8 +74
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 379 490 850
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.89% 5.91% 4.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.73% 6.32% 5.39%
Number of salaries quoted 309 164 417
10th Percentile £29,342 £32,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £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 £77,350 £78,000
England median annual salary £57,325 £60,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year -4.46% +17.65% -19.05%

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 13,863 7,750 15,763
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 69.11% 93.41% 79.11%
Number of salaries quoted 10,297 3,686 11,968
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,156 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,751 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 19 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 19 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 -33 208 £53,000 -3.71% 71
Yorkshire +12 111 £52,500 +23.53% 21
North East -2 60 £52,000 +3.48% 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 25 (6.60%) SharePoint
2 20 (5.28%) CMS
3 17 (4.49%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (3.69%) WordPress
5 8 (2.11%) Confluence
6 3 (0.79%) Umbraco
7 2 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.53%) Moodle
7 2 (0.53%) nginx
7 2 (0.53%) Skype for Business
7 2 (0.53%) Totara
8 1 (0.26%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 14 (3.69%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.11%) Sketch
3 7 (1.85%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (1.06%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 4 (1.06%) Adobe XD
5 3 (0.79%) Adobe Illustrator
5 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.79%) Photoshop
5 3 (0.79%) Trello
6 2 (0.53%) Adobe After Effects
6 2 (0.53%) Adobe Premiere
6 2 (0.53%) Camtasia
6 2 (0.53%) InVision
7 1 (0.26%) Blender
7 1 (0.26%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.26%) CINEMA 4D
7 1 (0.26%) InDesign
7 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (2.11%) Magento
1 8 (2.11%) Shopify
2 6 (1.58%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.79%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 75 (19.79%) Azure
2 54 (14.25%) Microsoft 365
3 31 (8.18%) Figma
3 31 (8.18%) Power Platform
4 30 (7.92%) SaaS
5 23 (6.07%) Entra ID
6 22 (5.80%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (5.54%) Microsoft Copilot
8 19 (5.01%) Google Analytics
9 18 (4.75%) Power Automate
9 18 (4.75%) PowerApps
10 16 (4.22%) AWS
11 14 (3.69%) Microsoft Purview
12 11 (2.90%) Firebase
13 10 (2.64%) Copilot Studio
14 9 (2.37%) Dynamics 365
15 7 (1.85%) Azure Logic Apps
16 5 (1.32%) GitHub Actions
16 5 (1.32%) Google Play
16 5 (1.32%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.37%) Firewall
2 8 (2.11%) DHCP
2 8 (2.11%) DNS
3 3 (0.79%) HTTP
3 3 (0.79%) VLAN
3 3 (0.79%) VPN
3 3 (0.79%) Wireless
4 2 (0.53%) Skype
4 2 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.26%) CTI
5 1 (0.26%) Intranet
5 1 (0.26%) SAN
5 1 (0.26%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.26%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.26%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.37%) Looker
1 9 (2.37%) Power BI
2 5 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (1.32%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 4 (1.06%) BigQuery
4 3 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (0.79%) MySQL
4 3 (0.79%) NoSQL
4 3 (0.79%) Tableau
5 2 (0.53%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.53%) GIS
5 2 (0.53%) Metadata
5 2 (0.53%) Mixpanel
5 2 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.26%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.26%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.26%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 20 (5.28%) Git
2 17 (4.49%) JIRA
3 16 (4.22%) fastlane
4 13 (3.43%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.58%) Xcode
6 5 (1.32%) Android Studio
6 5 (1.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 5 (1.32%) Crashlytics
6 5 (1.32%) Gradle
7 4 (1.06%) NUnit
8 3 (0.79%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.79%) JUnit
9 2 (0.53%) Axure RP
9 2 (0.53%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.53%) GitLab
9 2 (0.53%) Postman
9 2 (0.53%) Selenium
9 2 (0.53%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.26%) JMeter
10 1 (0.26%) LoadRunner
General
1 87 (22.96%) Social Skills
2 67 (17.68%) Finance
3 62 (16.36%) Marketing
4 54 (14.25%) Public Sector
5 38 (10.03%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (5.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (5.28%) Legal
8 19 (5.01%) Law
9 18 (4.75%) Retail
10 10 (2.64%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (2.64%) Manufacturing
11 8 (2.11%) Banking
11 8 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.06%) Advertising
12 4 (1.06%) Brand Awareness
12 4 (1.06%) Games
12 4 (1.06%) Health Technology
13 3 (0.79%) Billing
13 3 (0.79%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.53%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 60 (15.83%) Designer
1 60 (15.83%) Developer
2 59 (15.57%) Senior
3 36 (9.50%) Lead
4 35 (9.23%) UX Designer
5 30 (7.92%) Analyst
6 28 (7.39%) IT Manager
7 24 (6.33%) Support Engineer
8 20 (5.28%) Service Manager
9 19 (5.01%) Desktop Engineer
9 19 (5.01%) Product Designer
10 18 (4.75%) Desktop Support
10 18 (4.75%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 17 (4.49%) Desktop Support Engineer
11 17 (4.49%) Senior Developer
11 17 (4.49%) Senior Manager
12 15 (3.96%) Business Analyst
12 15 (3.96%) IT Services Manager
12 15 (3.96%) IT Support
12 15 (3.96%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (8.71%) HTML
2 32 (8.44%) CSS
3 25 (6.60%) React
4 21 (5.54%) .NET
4 21 (5.54%) RESTful
5 11 (2.90%) AngularJS
6 9 (2.37%) REST
7 8 (2.11%) Node.js
8 7 (1.85%) iOS SDK
8 7 (1.85%) Next.js
8 7 (1.85%) SwiftUI
9 6 (1.58%) Core Data
9 6 (1.58%) UIKit
10 5 (1.32%) Android Jetpack
10 5 (1.32%) Android SDK
10 5 (1.32%) ASP.NET
10 5 (1.32%) HTML5
10 5 (1.32%) Jetpack Compose
10 5 (1.32%) jQuery
10 5 (1.32%) Retrofit
Miscellaneous
1 42 (11.08%) Product Ownership
2 28 (7.39%) Mobile App
3 19 (5.01%) Onboarding
4 10 (2.64%) Driving Licence
5 9 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (1.58%) Cloud Native
6 6 (1.58%) Low-Code
6 6 (1.58%) Social Media
7 5 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.32%) Photography
8 4 (1.06%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.06%) Learning Management System
8 4 (1.06%) Media Streaming
8 4 (1.06%) PropTech
9 3 (0.79%) Animation
9 3 (0.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (0.79%) NHS
9 3 (0.79%) Security Posture
9 3 (0.79%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 39 (10.29%) Windows
2 18 (4.75%) Apple iOS
2 18 (4.75%) Windows 10
3 11 (2.90%) Android
3 11 (2.90%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.79%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.79%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (0.53%) Linux
5 2 (0.53%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (28.76%) UX Design
2 100 (26.39%) Continuous Improvement
3 89 (23.48%) Agile
4 85 (22.43%) Problem-Solving
5 73 (19.26%) Analytics
6 55 (14.51%) Mentoring
7 51 (13.46%) AI
8 43 (11.35%) CI/CD
9 42 (11.08%) CRM
9 42 (11.08%) Roadmaps
10 41 (10.82%) DevOps
11 40 (10.55%) E-Commerce
11 40 (10.55%) ITIL
12 36 (9.50%) Decision-Making
13 35 (9.23%) SEO
14 34 (8.97%) Service Management
15 31 (8.18%) Front End Development
16 30 (7.92%) Coaching
16 30 (7.92%) Customer Service
16 30 (7.92%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (8.71%) JavaScript
2 25 (6.60%) TypeScript
3 21 (5.54%) SQL
4 19 (5.01%) C#
5 15 (3.96%) Python
6 13 (3.43%) Java
7 12 (3.17%) Swift
8 7 (1.85%) PHP
8 7 (1.85%) PowerShell
9 6 (1.58%) VBScript
10 5 (1.32%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.06%) Bicep
12 3 (0.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (0.79%) VB
13 2 (0.53%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.26%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 36 (9.50%) Degree
2 12 (3.17%) Security Cleared
3 8 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (1.32%) DV Cleared
4 5 (1.32%) SC Cleared
5 4 (1.06%) Postgraduate
6 3 (0.79%) DBS Check
6 3 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.53%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.53%) IIBA
7 2 (0.53%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (0.53%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (13.72%) Accessibility
2 25 (6.60%) QA
3 23 (6.07%) WCAG
4 19 (5.01%) GDPR
5 12 (3.17%) Data Quality
6 9 (2.37%) Cyber Essentials
7 7 (1.85%) PCI DSS
8 5 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (1.06%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (1.06%) SLA
10 1 (0.26%) PMO
System Software
1 19 (5.01%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.58%) BitLocker
3 5 (1.32%) Docker
4 2 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.26%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (4.22%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (1.58%) SCCM
2 6 (1.58%) Terraform
3 4 (1.06%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.53%) Packer
4 2 (0.53%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 94 (24.80%) Microsoft
2 26 (6.86%) Google
3 20 (5.28%) Adobe
4 13 (3.43%) ServiceNow
5 11 (2.90%) Dynatrace
6 7 (1.85%) Apple
7 5 (1.32%) Hotjar
8 4 (1.06%) Cisco
8 4 (1.06%) DevExpress
8 4 (1.06%) Meraki
8 4 (1.06%) OneLogin
9 3 (0.79%) CheckPoint
9 3 (0.79%) HubSpot
9 3 (0.79%) iManage
9 3 (0.79%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.53%) Amplitude
10 2 (0.53%) Databricks
10 2 (0.53%) Hootsuite
10 2 (0.53%) Synthesia
11 1 (0.26%) Adyen