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 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 49 57
Rank change year-on-year +35 +8 +48
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 1,345 503 590
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 7.01% 6.37% 3.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.91% 6.70% 4.20%
Number of salaries quoted 291 181 398
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £39,492 £40,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +10.53% -17.39%
75th Percentile £66,875 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,150 £60,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year -4.75% +17.65% -21.54%

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 13,578 7,507 14,053
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.74% 95.04% 82.44%
Number of salaries quoted 9,020 3,753 11,185
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £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 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £84,880 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 20 May 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 20 May 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 +30 1,100 £55,000 - 78
Yorkshire +40 198 £55,000 +29.41% 19
North East -13 47 £52,000 +8.33% 16
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 (1.64%) SharePoint
2 21 (1.56%) CMS
3 13 (0.97%) WordPress
4 11 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.67%) Confluence
6 3 (0.22%) Umbraco
7 2 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.15%) Moodle
7 2 (0.15%) nginx
7 2 (0.15%) Skype for Business
7 2 (0.15%) Totara
8 1 (0.074%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 12 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
3 6 (0.45%) Sketch
4 3 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 3 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
4 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.22%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.15%) Adobe After Effects
5 2 (0.15%) Adobe Premiere
5 2 (0.15%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.15%) Camtasia
5 2 (0.15%) Trello
6 1 (0.074%) Blender
6 1 (0.074%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.074%) FrameMaker
6 1 (0.074%) InDesign
6 1 (0.074%) MadCap Flare
6 1 (0.074%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (0.59%) Magento
1 8 (0.59%) Shopify
2 6 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.074%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 991 (73.68%) Cloud Computing
2 69 (5.13%) Azure
3 46 (3.42%) Microsoft 365
4 34 (2.53%) SaaS
5 30 (2.23%) Figma
5 30 (2.23%) Power Platform
6 27 (2.01%) Entra ID
7 19 (1.41%) Google Analytics
8 17 (1.26%) Microsoft Purview
9 15 (1.12%) Microsoft Copilot
9 15 (1.12%) Power Automate
9 15 (1.12%) PowerApps
10 13 (0.97%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (0.89%) AWS
12 9 (0.67%) Azure Monitor
12 9 (0.67%) Dynamics 365
13 7 (0.52%) Adobe Analytics
13 7 (0.52%) Copilot Studio
13 7 (0.52%) OneDrive
14 6 (0.45%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 990 (73.61%) Internet
2 5 (0.37%) HTTP
3 4 (0.30%) DHCP
3 4 (0.30%) DNS
4 3 (0.22%) VLAN
4 3 (0.22%) VPN
5 2 (0.15%) Skype
5 2 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.074%) Firewall
6 1 (0.074%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.074%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (0.67%) Looker
2 8 (0.59%) SQL Server
3 5 (0.37%) MongoDB
3 5 (0.37%) Power BI
4 4 (0.30%) BigQuery
4 4 (0.30%) MySQL
4 4 (0.30%) NoSQL
4 4 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (0.22%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.15%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.15%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.15%) Metadata
6 2 (0.15%) Mixpanel
6 2 (0.15%) PostHog
6 2 (0.15%) Redis
6 2 (0.15%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.15%) Tableau
7 1 (0.074%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.074%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.074%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 19 (1.41%) JIRA
2 18 (1.34%) Git
3 9 (0.67%) fastlane
3 9 (0.67%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.37%) JUnit
5 4 (0.30%) NUnit
6 3 (0.22%) Android Studio
6 3 (0.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (0.22%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.22%) Crashlytics
6 3 (0.22%) GitLab
6 3 (0.22%) Gradle
6 3 (0.22%) Selenium
6 3 (0.22%) Xcode
7 2 (0.15%) Postman
7 2 (0.15%) Vagrant
8 1 (0.074%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.074%) gulp
8 1 (0.074%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.074%) webpack
General
1 1,073 (79.78%) Social Skills
2 1,007 (74.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 996 (74.05%) Banking
4 65 (4.83%) Finance
5 61 (4.54%) Marketing
6 44 (3.27%) Public Sector
7 39 (2.90%) Analytical Skills
8 17 (1.26%) Law
8 17 (1.26%) Legal
8 17 (1.26%) Retail
9 11 (0.82%) Manufacturing
10 9 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (0.37%) Advertising
12 4 (0.30%) Brand Awareness
12 4 (0.30%) Health Technology
13 2 (0.15%) Digital Health
13 2 (0.15%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.15%) Games
13 2 (0.15%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 728 (54.13%) Lecturer
2 63 (4.68%) Senior
3 55 (4.09%) Designer
4 50 (3.72%) Developer
5 34 (2.53%) UX Designer
6 28 (2.08%) Analyst
6 28 (2.08%) IT Manager
6 28 (2.08%) Lead
7 23 (1.71%) Service Manager
8 20 (1.49%) Senior Manager
9 19 (1.41%) Product Designer
10 18 (1.34%) IT Services Manager
11 17 (1.26%) Senior IT Manager
11 17 (1.26%) Senior Service Manager
12 16 (1.19%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 15 (1.12%) Product Manager
13 15 (1.12%) Senior Developer
13 15 (1.12%) Support Engineer
14 13 (0.97%) Business Analyst
14 13 (0.97%) Desktop Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (2.53%) HTML
2 32 (2.38%) CSS
3 23 (1.71%) React
4 21 (1.56%) .NET
5 19 (1.41%) RESTful
6 16 (1.19%) AngularJS
7 9 (0.67%) ASP.NET
8 8 (0.59%) Node.js
8 8 (0.59%) REST
9 7 (0.52%) .NET Framework
9 7 (0.52%) Spring
10 6 (0.45%) Entity Framework
10 6 (0.45%) HTML5
10 6 (0.45%) jQuery
11 5 (0.37%) .NET Core
11 5 (0.37%) Next.js
11 5 (0.37%) Spring Boot
11 5 (0.37%) Web Services
12 4 (0.30%) ASP.NET Core
12 4 (0.30%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 991 (73.68%) IoT
2 34 (2.53%) Product Ownership
3 20 (1.49%) Mobile App
4 18 (1.34%) Onboarding
5 10 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (0.67%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (0.52%) Cloud Native
7 7 (0.52%) Social Media
8 6 (0.45%) Low-Code
9 5 (0.37%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (0.37%) Photography
10 4 (0.30%) AI Agents
10 4 (0.30%) Driving Licence
10 4 (0.30%) Media Streaming
11 3 (0.22%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.22%) Animation
11 3 (0.22%) FMCG
11 3 (0.22%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (0.22%) PropTech
11 3 (0.22%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 29 (2.16%) Windows
2 12 (0.89%) Windows 10
3 11 (0.82%) Apple iOS
4 7 (0.52%) Android
5 4 (0.30%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.22%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.15%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,036 (77.03%) AI
2 1,007 (74.87%) Web Development
3 1,000 (74.35%) Cybersecurity
4 993 (73.83%) Machine Learning
5 100 (7.43%) UX Design
6 94 (6.99%) Continuous Improvement
7 88 (6.54%) Agile
8 76 (5.65%) Problem-Solving
9 62 (4.61%) Analytics
9 62 (4.61%) Mentoring
10 42 (3.12%) ITIL
11 41 (3.05%) E-Commerce
12 40 (2.97%) CRM
13 37 (2.75%) SEO
13 37 (2.75%) Service Management
14 36 (2.68%) DevOps
15 35 (2.60%) CI/CD
15 35 (2.60%) Roadmaps
16 34 (2.53%) Coaching
17 31 (2.30%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 36 (2.68%) JavaScript
2 29 (2.16%) TypeScript
3 21 (1.56%) SQL
4 17 (1.26%) C#
5 13 (0.97%) Java
6 12 (0.89%) Python
7 7 (0.52%) Swift
8 5 (0.37%) PHP
9 4 (0.30%) Bicep
9 4 (0.30%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.22%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.22%) VB
10 3 (0.22%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1,024 (76.13%) Degree
2 992 (73.75%) Master's Degree
3 991 (73.68%) Postgraduate
4 990 (73.61%) PhD
5 10 (0.74%) Security Cleared
6 7 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (0.37%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.22%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.22%) SC Cleared
10 2 (0.15%) IIBA
10 2 (0.15%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.074%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.074%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (3.27%) Accessibility
2 26 (1.93%) QA
3 20 (1.49%) GDPR
4 12 (0.89%) Data Quality
4 12 (0.89%) WCAG
5 9 (0.67%) PCI DSS
6 7 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
7 6 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (0.30%) SLA
9 3 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.074%) HL7
10 1 (0.074%) PMO
System Software
1 18 (1.34%) Active Directory
2 7 (0.52%) Docker
3 3 (0.22%) BitLocker
4 2 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 20 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (0.82%) Terraform
3 6 (0.45%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.22%) SCCM
5 2 (0.15%) Grafana
5 2 (0.15%) Packer
5 2 (0.15%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.074%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 82 (6.10%) Microsoft
2 24 (1.78%) Google
3 21 (1.56%) Adobe
4 11 (0.82%) ServiceNow
5 7 (0.52%) New Relic
6 6 (0.45%) Dynatrace
6 6 (0.45%) Splunk
7 5 (0.37%) Hotjar
8 4 (0.30%) Apple
8 4 (0.30%) DevExpress
8 4 (0.30%) OneLogin
9 3 (0.22%) HubSpot
9 3 (0.22%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.15%) Amplitude
10 2 (0.15%) Databricks
10 2 (0.15%) Hootsuite
10 2 (0.15%) SAP
10 2 (0.15%) Synthesia
11 1 (0.074%) Oracle
11 1 (0.074%) Sage