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 23 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 55 39
Rank change year-on-year -20 -16 +77
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 422 497 735
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.00% 5.26% 4.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.85% 5.84% 5.58%
Number of salaries quoted 342 174 311
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,188 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,786 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.54% +10.53% -12.04%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £76,125 £78,375 £77,500
England median annual salary £56,500 £59,900 £52,550
% change year-on-year -5.68% +13.99% -16.59%

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 14,799 8,508 13,163
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.20% 90.06% 79.15%
Number of salaries quoted 11,082 4,241 9,502
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £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 23 July 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 23 July 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 -32 232 £53,500 -2.73% 72
Yorkshire +28 122 £52,786 +11.13% 47
North East -2 68 £52,000 +67.74% 21
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 29 (6.87%) SharePoint
2 21 (4.98%) CMS
3 19 (4.50%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (3.55%) WordPress
5 8 (1.90%) Confluence
6 3 (0.71%) Skype for Business
7 2 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.47%) Moodle
7 2 (0.47%) nginx
7 2 (0.47%) Totara
7 2 (0.47%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.24%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 16 (3.79%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.90%) Chatbot
2 8 (1.90%) Sketch
3 7 (1.66%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.95%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 4 (0.95%) Adobe XD
5 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.71%) Trello
6 2 (0.47%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.47%) Camtasia
6 2 (0.47%) InVision
6 2 (0.47%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.24%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.24%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.24%) Blender
7 1 (0.24%) CINEMA 4D
7 1 (0.24%) InDesign
7 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (1.90%) Magento
1 8 (1.90%) Shopify
2 6 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.71%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 87 (20.62%) Azure
2 63 (14.93%) Microsoft 365
3 34 (8.06%) Power Platform
4 32 (7.58%) Figma
5 29 (6.87%) SaaS
6 24 (5.69%) Entra ID
6 24 (5.69%) Microsoft Copilot
7 22 (5.21%) Azure DevOps
7 22 (5.21%) PowerApps
8 19 (4.50%) Google Analytics
9 18 (4.27%) AWS
9 18 (4.27%) Power Automate
10 17 (4.03%) Microsoft Purview
11 11 (2.61%) Firebase
12 10 (2.37%) Copilot Studio
13 9 (2.13%) Dynamics 365
14 7 (1.66%) Azure Logic Apps
15 5 (1.18%) Azure AI
15 5 (1.18%) Azure Cognitive Services
15 5 (1.18%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.37%) Firewall
2 8 (1.90%) CTI
2 8 (1.90%) DHCP
2 8 (1.90%) DNS
2 8 (1.90%) VoIP
3 4 (0.95%) Wireless
4 3 (0.71%) Skype
4 3 (0.71%) VLAN
4 3 (0.71%) VPN
5 2 (0.47%) HTTP
5 2 (0.47%) Intranet
5 2 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.24%) FTP
6 1 (0.24%) SAN
6 1 (0.24%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.24%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.13%) Looker
1 9 (2.13%) Power BI
2 5 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (1.18%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 4 (0.95%) BigQuery
4 3 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (0.71%) MySQL
4 3 (0.71%) Tableau
5 2 (0.47%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.47%) GIS
5 2 (0.47%) Metadata
5 2 (0.47%) Mixpanel
5 2 (0.47%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.24%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.24%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.24%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 22 (5.21%) Git
2 19 (4.50%) JIRA
3 17 (4.03%) fastlane
4 13 (3.08%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 6 (1.42%) Xcode
6 5 (1.18%) Android Studio
6 5 (1.18%) Crashlytics
6 5 (1.18%) Gradle
7 4 (0.95%) NUnit
8 3 (0.71%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.47%) Axure RP
9 2 (0.47%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.47%) GitLab
9 2 (0.47%) JUnit
9 2 (0.47%) Postman
9 2 (0.47%) Selenium
9 2 (0.47%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.24%) JMeter
10 1 (0.24%) LoadRunner
General
1 93 (22.04%) Social Skills
2 71 (16.82%) Finance
3 68 (16.11%) Public Sector
4 61 (14.45%) Marketing
5 42 (9.95%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (5.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (4.74%) Law
7 20 (4.74%) Legal
8 19 (4.50%) Influencing Skills
9 18 (4.27%) Retail
10 10 (2.37%) Manufacturing
11 9 (2.13%) Banking
12 8 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.95%) Advertising
13 4 (0.95%) Brand Awareness
13 4 (0.95%) Games
13 4 (0.95%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.71%) Billing
14 3 (0.71%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.71%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 66 (15.64%) Designer
2 62 (14.69%) Developer
3 57 (13.51%) Senior
4 52 (12.32%) Lead
5 40 (9.48%) UX Designer
6 34 (8.06%) IT Manager
7 32 (7.58%) Analyst
8 25 (5.92%) Support Engineer
9 24 (5.69%) Service Manager
10 22 (5.21%) Desktop Engineer
11 19 (4.50%) Desktop Support
11 19 (4.50%) IT Services Manager
12 18 (4.27%) Desktop Support Engineer
12 18 (4.27%) Product Designer
13 17 (4.03%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 17 (4.03%) IT Support
13 17 (4.03%) Senior Developer
14 16 (3.79%) Product Manager
14 16 (3.79%) Senior Manager
15 15 (3.55%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (8.06%) HTML
2 33 (7.82%) CSS
3 26 (6.16%) React
4 25 (5.92%) .NET
5 20 (4.74%) RESTful
6 10 (2.37%) AngularJS
6 10 (2.37%) Node.js
7 9 (2.13%) Next.js
7 9 (2.13%) REST
8 7 (1.66%) HTML5
8 7 (1.66%) iOS SDK
9 6 (1.42%) Core Data
9 6 (1.42%) SwiftUI
9 6 (1.42%) UIKit
10 5 (1.18%) Android Jetpack
10 5 (1.18%) Android SDK
10 5 (1.18%) Jetpack Compose
10 5 (1.18%) jQuery
10 5 (1.18%) Model Context Protocol
10 5 (1.18%) Retrofit
Miscellaneous
1 46 (10.90%) Product Ownership
2 29 (6.87%) Mobile App
3 18 (4.27%) Onboarding
4 11 (2.61%) Driving Licence
5 8 (1.90%) IVR
5 8 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (1.42%) Cloud Native
6 6 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (1.42%) Low-Code
7 5 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.18%) Social Media
8 4 (0.95%) AI Agents
8 4 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (0.95%) Learning Management System
8 4 (0.95%) Media Streaming
8 4 (0.95%) Photography
8 4 (0.95%) PropTech
9 3 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.71%) Security Posture
9 3 (0.71%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 44 (10.43%) Windows
2 20 (4.74%) Windows 10
3 17 (4.03%) Apple iOS
4 12 (2.84%) Windows Server
5 11 (2.61%) Android
6 4 (0.95%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.95%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.71%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.47%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (29.15%) Continuous Improvement
2 114 (27.01%) UX Design
3 105 (24.88%) Agile
4 99 (23.46%) Problem-Solving
5 85 (20.14%) Analytics
6 72 (17.06%) Mentoring
7 63 (14.93%) AI
8 57 (13.51%) Roadmaps
9 50 (11.85%) ITIL
10 47 (11.14%) CI/CD
11 46 (10.90%) CRM
12 44 (10.43%) E-Commerce
13 42 (9.95%) DevOps
14 41 (9.72%) Coaching
14 41 (9.72%) Service Management
15 40 (9.48%) Decision-Making
16 39 (9.24%) Stakeholder Management
17 37 (8.77%) Customer Service
18 35 (8.29%) ITSM
18 35 (8.29%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 35 (8.29%) JavaScript
2 25 (5.92%) TypeScript
3 23 (5.45%) C#
4 21 (4.98%) SQL
5 15 (3.55%) Python
6 12 (2.84%) Java
6 12 (2.84%) Swift
7 8 (1.90%) PHP
7 8 (1.90%) PowerShell
8 7 (1.66%) VBScript
9 5 (1.18%) Kotlin
10 4 (0.95%) Bicep
10 4 (0.95%) VB
11 3 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.71%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.24%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 37 (8.77%) Degree
2 16 (3.79%) Security Cleared
3 9 (2.13%) SC Cleared
4 8 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (1.66%) Postgraduate
6 5 (1.18%) DV Cleared
7 4 (0.95%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.47%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.47%) IIBA
9 2 (0.47%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.47%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (14.69%) Accessibility
2 25 (5.92%) WCAG
3 23 (5.45%) GDPR
3 23 (5.45%) QA
4 12 (2.84%) Data Quality
5 10 (2.37%) Cyber Essentials
6 7 (1.66%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 5 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.95%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.95%) SLA
9 1 (0.24%) PMO
System Software
1 21 (4.98%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.66%) BitLocker
3 6 (1.42%) Docker
4 2 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.24%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (4.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (1.66%) SCCM
3 5 (1.18%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.18%) Terraform
4 2 (0.47%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (0.47%) Packer
4 2 (0.47%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 105 (24.88%) Microsoft
2 26 (6.16%) Google
3 19 (4.50%) Adobe
4 14 (3.32%) ServiceNow
5 12 (2.84%) Cisco
6 11 (2.61%) Dynatrace
7 10 (2.37%) Apple
8 8 (1.90%) Avaya
8 8 (1.90%) Genesys
9 7 (1.66%) Meraki
10 5 (1.18%) Hotjar
11 4 (0.95%) CheckPoint
11 4 (0.95%) DevExpress
11 4 (0.95%) iManage
12 3 (0.71%) HubSpot
12 3 (0.71%) OneLogin
12 3 (0.71%) OpenAI
13 2 (0.47%) Amplitude
13 2 (0.47%) Databricks
13 2 (0.47%) Synthesia