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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 36 101
Rank change year-on-year -14 +65 -41
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 479 626 282
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.09% 4.44% 3.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.82% 5.66% 3.34%
Number of salaries quoted 159 172 216
10th Percentile £30,500 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,234 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.86% -5.53% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £79,000 £70,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,750 £57,250 £62,500
% change year-on-year +0.87% -8.40% +4.17%

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 8,225 11,058 8,454
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 87.43% 78.47% 95.42%
Number of salaries quoted 4,089 6,080 6,151
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £39,390 £40,043
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,720 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £62,400
% change year-on-year -4.35% -7.85% +4.00%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing User Experience as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for User Experience 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -12 411 £55,000 +22.22% 130
Yorkshire -15 51 £37,500 -25.00% 50
North East -13 17 £31,000 -31.11% 31
User Experience
England

User Experience
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (2.09%) CMS
2 9 (1.88%) Skype for Business
3 6 (1.25%) Confluence
4 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.42%) Drupal
5 2 (0.42%) EPiServer
5 2 (0.42%) Headless CMS
5 2 (0.42%) Umbraco
5 2 (0.42%) WordPress
6 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.21%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.21%) IIS
6 1 (0.21%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (1.88%) Chatbot
2 5 (1.04%) Adobe XD
2 5 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.04%) Photoshop
3 4 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.84%) Sketch
4 3 (0.63%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 3 (0.63%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.42%) Adobe After Effects
5 2 (0.42%) InDesign
6 1 (0.21%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.21%) Blender
6 1 (0.21%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.21%) InVision
6 1 (0.21%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.21%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.63%) Shopify
2 2 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.21%) Magento
3 1 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 296 (61.80%) AWS
2 285 (59.50%) Azure
3 181 (37.79%) GCP
4 16 (3.34%) Google Analytics
5 15 (3.13%) Serverless
6 12 (2.51%) AWS Lambda
6 12 (2.51%) Microsoft 365
7 11 (2.30%) Figma
8 10 (2.09%) SaaS
9 8 (1.67%) Power Platform
10 7 (1.46%) GitHub
11 6 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (1.04%) Google Ads
13 4 (0.84%) Azure Service Bus
13 4 (0.84%) Contentsquare
14 3 (0.63%) Amazon SQS
14 3 (0.63%) Azure Functions
14 3 (0.63%) Facebook Ads
14 3 (0.63%) npm
15 2 (0.42%) Adobe Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.09%) Unified Communications
2 9 (1.88%) Skype
2 9 (1.88%) Wireless
3 5 (1.04%) HTTP
4 2 (0.42%) AMQP
4 2 (0.42%) DNS
4 2 (0.42%) Internet
4 2 (0.42%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.42%) VPN
5 1 (0.21%) Broadband
5 1 (0.21%) DHCP
5 1 (0.21%) DMZ
5 1 (0.21%) Firewall
5 1 (0.21%) SSH
5 1 (0.21%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (17.33%) SQL Server
2 17 (3.55%) MySQL
3 16 (3.34%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (2.09%) NoSQL
5 9 (1.88%) DynamoDB
6 8 (1.67%) Power BI
7 7 (1.46%) MongoDB
8 4 (0.84%) Mixpanel
9 3 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (0.63%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.42%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.42%) Metadata
11 1 (0.21%) DocumentDB
11 1 (0.21%) Endeca
11 1 (0.21%) Looker
11 1 (0.21%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.21%) Redis
Development Applications
1 90 (18.79%) JIRA
2 84 (17.54%) Selenium
3 81 (16.91%) GitLab
4 74 (15.45%) Cucumber
5 73 (15.24%) Maven
5 73 (15.24%) SonarQube
6 72 (15.03%) Bitbucket
6 72 (15.03%) Sonatype Nexus
7 22 (4.59%) Git
8 7 (1.46%) JUnit
9 6 (1.25%) webpack
10 5 (1.04%) JMeter
10 5 (1.04%) Postman
11 4 (0.84%) Appium
11 4 (0.84%) Fiddler
11 4 (0.84%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.84%) Xcode
12 3 (0.63%) Jenkins
12 3 (0.63%) Storybook
13 2 (0.42%) ESLint
General
1 254 (53.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 124 (25.89%) Finance
3 87 (18.16%) Retail
4 80 (16.70%) Social Skills
5 75 (15.66%) Banking
6 72 (15.03%) Corporate Banking
6 72 (15.03%) Investment Banking
7 38 (7.93%) Marketing
8 13 (2.71%) Analytical Skills
9 8 (1.67%) Financial Institution
9 8 (1.67%) Games
9 8 (1.67%) Law
9 8 (1.67%) Mandarin Language
9 8 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (1.25%) Advertising
10 6 (1.25%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (1.04%) Public Sector
12 4 (0.84%) Cantonese Language
12 4 (0.84%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 253 (52.82%) Software Engineer
2 215 (44.89%) Senior
3 180 (37.58%) Senior Software Engineer
4 63 (13.15%) Developer
5 30 (6.26%) IT Support
6 24 (5.01%) Lead
7 20 (4.18%) Analyst
8 17 (3.55%) Senior Developer
9 16 (3.34%) Applications Support
10 15 (3.13%) Java Developer
11 13 (2.71%) Senior Java Developer
12 12 (2.51%) Designer
12 12 (2.51%) IT Analyst
12 12 (2.51%) IT Support Analyst
12 12 (2.51%) Support Analyst
13 11 (2.30%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 11 (2.30%) Full-Stack Developer
14 10 (2.09%) Applications Manager
14 10 (2.09%) Applications Support Manager
14 10 (2.09%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 195 (40.71%) .NET
2 188 (39.25%) Node.js
3 107 (22.34%) React
4 100 (20.88%) CSS
5 97 (20.25%) HTML
6 91 (19.00%) RESTful
7 85 (17.75%) Kafka
7 85 (17.75%) REST
8 84 (17.54%) Spring
8 84 (17.54%) Spring Boot
9 83 (17.33%) HTML5
10 82 (17.12%) CSS3
11 76 (15.87%) Redux
12 75 (15.66%) Sass
13 74 (15.45%) Jest
14 72 (15.03%) JPA
15 22 (4.59%) AngularJS
16 8 (1.67%) Amazon Corretto
16 8 (1.67%) Middleware
16 8 (1.67%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 176 (36.74%) Self-Motivation
2 173 (36.12%) Linux Command Line
3 172 (35.91%) Cyberattack
4 94 (19.62%) Product Ownership
5 73 (15.24%) Enterprise Software
6 14 (2.92%) Social Media
7 10 (2.09%) Digital Signage
8 9 (1.88%) e-Learning
8 9 (1.88%) Video Conferencing
9 8 (1.67%) Renewable Energy
10 7 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.46%) Onboarding
11 6 (1.25%) FMCG
12 5 (1.04%) Cloud Native
12 5 (1.04%) Graphic Design
12 5 (1.04%) LIMS
12 5 (1.04%) SCADA
13 4 (0.84%) AI Agents
13 4 (0.84%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 180 (37.58%) Linux
2 16 (3.34%) Windows
2 16 (3.34%) Windows Server
3 5 (1.04%) Windows 10
4 4 (0.84%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.63%) Android
6 1 (0.21%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 334 (69.73%) Agile
2 270 (56.37%) Software Engineering
3 259 (54.07%) Mentoring
3 259 (54.07%) Microservices
4 183 (38.20%) Scrum
5 181 (37.79%) Machine Learning
6 174 (36.33%) Cloud Security
7 173 (36.12%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 172 (35.91%) Data Engineering
9 114 (23.80%) DevOps
10 109 (22.76%) CI/CD
11 106 (22.13%) Full-Stack Development
12 100 (20.88%) Front End Development
13 98 (20.46%) Test Automation
14 84 (17.54%) Containerisation
14 84 (17.54%) SDLC
15 81 (16.91%) Performance Optimisation
16 78 (16.28%) Migration
17 77 (16.08%) Responsive Web Design
18 75 (15.66%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 302 (63.05%) JavaScript
2 289 (60.33%) Java
3 196 (40.92%) Python
4 174 (36.33%) Rust
5 172 (35.91%) C++
5 172 (35.91%) Go
6 116 (24.22%) TypeScript
7 84 (17.54%) SQL
8 18 (3.76%) C#
9 5 (1.04%) PHP
10 4 (0.84%) Swift
11 3 (0.63%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.21%) ABAP
12 1 (0.21%) Bash
12 1 (0.21%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.21%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 179 (37.37%) Security Cleared
2 172 (35.91%) AWS Certification
2 172 (35.91%) AWS Certified Developer
2 172 (35.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 172 (35.91%) DV Cleared
3 17 (3.55%) Degree
4 7 (1.46%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 7 (1.46%) SC Cleared
5 5 (1.04%) A+ Certification
5 5 (1.04%) CCNA
5 5 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (1.04%) MCSA
5 5 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (1.04%) Network+ Certification
6 4 (0.84%) DBS Check
6 4 (0.84%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.42%) CISSP
8 1 (0.21%) CISM
8 1 (0.21%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.21%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (19.62%) QA
2 90 (18.79%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.25%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.04%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 5 (1.04%) GDPR
4 5 (1.04%) GxP
5 4 (0.84%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.63%) WCAG
7 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.21%) HL7
7 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.21%) NCSC
7 1 (0.21%) NIST
7 1 (0.21%) SLA
System Software
1 104 (21.71%) Docker
2 7 (1.46%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.25%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 95 (19.83%) Kubernetes
2 12 (2.51%) Terraform
3 6 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.63%) Grafana
5 1 (0.21%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.21%) SCCM
Vendors
1 72 (15.03%) Solace
2 35 (7.31%) Microsoft
3 34 (7.10%) Google
4 15 (3.13%) Cisco
5 14 (2.92%) Facebook
6 12 (2.51%) Adobe
7 10 (2.09%) ServiceNow
8 9 (1.88%) Bloomberg
8 9 (1.88%) Mitel
8 9 (1.88%) Polycom
8 9 (1.88%) ShoreTel
9 8 (1.67%) Hotjar
10 7 (1.46%) Salesforce
11 6 (1.25%) Veeam
11 6 (1.25%) VMware
12 5 (1.04%) Oracle
13 4 (0.84%) Genesys
14 3 (0.63%) HubSpot
15 2 (0.42%) Apple
15 2 (0.42%) IBM