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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 51 41
Rank change year-on-year -30 -10 +78
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 382 490 848
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.89% 5.80% 4.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.72% 6.24% 5.39%
Number of salaries quoted 311 164 417
10th Percentile £29,342 £31,725 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £39,063 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £53,750 £46,968
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +14.44% -14.60%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,350 £76,000
England median annual salary £56,500 £60,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year -5.83% +17.65% -19.69%

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 14,027 7,854 15,736
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 69.43% 93.02% 79.03%
Number of salaries quoted 10,452 3,734 11,911
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,963 £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 £82,500 £79,250
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 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 23 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 -33 211 £53,000 -3.67% 76
Yorkshire +21 111 £52,500 +23.53% 22
North East -10 60 £52,000 +8.33% 24
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 26 (6.81%) SharePoint
2 20 (5.24%) CMS
3 18 (4.71%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (3.66%) WordPress
5 8 (2.09%) Confluence
6 3 (0.79%) Umbraco
7 2 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.52%) Moodle
7 2 (0.52%) nginx
7 2 (0.52%) Skype for Business
7 2 (0.52%) Totara
8 1 (0.26%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 14 (3.66%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.09%) Sketch
3 7 (1.83%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (1.05%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 4 (1.05%) 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 (0.52%) Adobe After Effects
6 2 (0.52%) Adobe Premiere
6 2 (0.52%) Camtasia
6 2 (0.52%) 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 (2.09%) Magento
1 8 (2.09%) Shopify
2 6 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.79%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 75 (19.63%) Azure
2 55 (14.40%) Microsoft 365
3 31 (8.12%) Figma
3 31 (8.12%) Power Platform
4 29 (7.59%) SaaS
5 23 (6.02%) Entra ID
6 22 (5.76%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (5.50%) Microsoft Copilot
8 19 (4.97%) Google Analytics
9 18 (4.71%) Power Automate
9 18 (4.71%) PowerApps
10 16 (4.19%) AWS
11 14 (3.66%) Microsoft Purview
12 11 (2.88%) Firebase
13 10 (2.62%) Copilot Studio
14 9 (2.36%) Dynamics 365
15 7 (1.83%) Azure Logic Apps
16 5 (1.31%) Adobe Analytics
16 5 (1.31%) GitHub Actions
16 5 (1.31%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.62%) Firewall
2 8 (2.09%) DHCP
2 8 (2.09%) DNS
3 4 (1.05%) Wireless
4 3 (0.79%) VLAN
4 3 (0.79%) VPN
5 2 (0.52%) HTTP
5 2 (0.52%) Skype
5 2 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.26%) CTI
6 1 (0.26%) Intranet
6 1 (0.26%) SAN
6 1 (0.26%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.26%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.26%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.36%) Looker
1 9 (2.36%) Power BI
2 5 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (1.31%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 4 (1.05%) BigQuery
4 3 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (0.79%) MySQL
4 3 (0.79%) Tableau
5 2 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.52%) GIS
5 2 (0.52%) Metadata
5 2 (0.52%) Mixpanel
5 2 (0.52%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.26%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.26%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.26%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 19 (4.97%) Git
2 16 (4.19%) fastlane
2 16 (4.19%) JIRA
3 13 (3.40%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.57%) Xcode
5 5 (1.31%) Android Studio
5 5 (1.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 5 (1.31%) Crashlytics
5 5 (1.31%) Gradle
6 4 (1.05%) NUnit
7 3 (0.79%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.52%) Axure RP
8 2 (0.52%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.52%) GitLab
8 2 (0.52%) JUnit
8 2 (0.52%) Postman
8 2 (0.52%) Selenium
8 2 (0.52%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.26%) JMeter
9 1 (0.26%) LoadRunner
General
1 88 (23.04%) Social Skills
2 67 (17.54%) Finance
3 62 (16.23%) Marketing
4 55 (14.40%) Public Sector
5 39 (10.21%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (5.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (4.97%) Law
7 19 (4.97%) Legal
8 18 (4.71%) Retail
9 10 (2.62%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (2.62%) Manufacturing
10 8 (2.09%) Banking
10 8 (2.09%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.05%) Advertising
11 4 (1.05%) Brand Awareness
11 4 (1.05%) Games
11 4 (1.05%) Health Technology
12 3 (0.79%) Billing
12 3 (0.79%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.52%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 60 (15.71%) Designer
1 60 (15.71%) Developer
2 59 (15.45%) Senior
3 39 (10.21%) Lead
4 35 (9.16%) UX Designer
5 31 (8.12%) Analyst
6 29 (7.59%) IT Manager
7 25 (6.54%) Support Engineer
8 21 (5.50%) Service Manager
9 20 (5.24%) Desktop Engineer
10 19 (4.97%) Desktop Support
10 19 (4.97%) Product Designer
11 18 (4.71%) Desktop Support Engineer
11 18 (4.71%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 17 (4.45%) IT Support
12 17 (4.45%) Senior Developer
12 17 (4.45%) Senior Manager
13 16 (4.19%) IT Services Manager
14 15 (3.93%) Business Analyst
15 14 (3.66%) Senior IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (8.38%) HTML
2 31 (8.12%) CSS
3 25 (6.54%) React
4 21 (5.50%) .NET
5 20 (5.24%) RESTful
6 10 (2.62%) AngularJS
7 8 (2.09%) Node.js
7 8 (2.09%) REST
8 7 (1.83%) iOS SDK
8 7 (1.83%) Next.js
8 7 (1.83%) SwiftUI
9 6 (1.57%) Core Data
9 6 (1.57%) UIKit
10 5 (1.31%) Android Jetpack
10 5 (1.31%) Android SDK
10 5 (1.31%) ASP.NET
10 5 (1.31%) HTML5
10 5 (1.31%) Jetpack Compose
10 5 (1.31%) jQuery
10 5 (1.31%) Retrofit
Miscellaneous
1 41 (10.73%) Product Ownership
2 28 (7.33%) Mobile App
3 19 (4.97%) Onboarding
4 10 (2.62%) Driving Licence
5 9 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (1.57%) Cloud Native
6 6 (1.57%) Low-Code
6 6 (1.57%) Social Media
7 5 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.31%) Photography
8 4 (1.05%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.05%) Learning Management System
8 4 (1.05%) Media Streaming
8 4 (1.05%) PropTech
9 3 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.79%) Security Posture
9 3 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (0.79%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 40 (10.47%) Windows
2 19 (4.97%) Windows 10
3 18 (4.71%) Apple iOS
4 12 (3.14%) Windows Server
5 11 (2.88%) Android
6 4 (1.05%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.79%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.52%) Linux
8 2 (0.52%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (28.27%) UX Design
2 104 (27.23%) Continuous Improvement
3 88 (23.04%) Agile
4 87 (22.77%) Problem-Solving
5 75 (19.63%) Analytics
6 56 (14.66%) Mentoring
7 51 (13.35%) AI
8 43 (11.26%) Roadmaps
9 42 (10.99%) CI/CD
9 42 (10.99%) CRM
10 41 (10.73%) DevOps
10 41 (10.73%) ITIL
11 40 (10.47%) E-Commerce
12 38 (9.95%) Decision-Making
13 35 (9.16%) SEO
13 35 (9.16%) Service Management
14 31 (8.12%) Coaching
14 31 (8.12%) Front End Development
14 31 (8.12%) Stakeholder Management
15 30 (7.85%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 32 (8.38%) JavaScript
2 24 (6.28%) TypeScript
3 21 (5.50%) SQL
4 19 (4.97%) C#
5 15 (3.93%) Python
6 12 (3.14%) Java
6 12 (3.14%) Swift
7 7 (1.83%) PHP
7 7 (1.83%) PowerShell
8 6 (1.57%) VBScript
9 5 (1.31%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.05%) Bicep
11 3 (0.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.79%) VB
12 2 (0.52%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.26%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 38 (9.95%) Degree
2 12 (3.14%) Security Cleared
3 8 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (1.57%) Postgraduate
5 5 (1.31%) DV Cleared
5 5 (1.31%) SC Cleared
6 3 (0.79%) DBS Check
6 3 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.52%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.52%) IIBA
7 2 (0.52%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (0.52%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (14.14%) Accessibility
2 25 (6.54%) QA
3 23 (6.02%) WCAG
4 19 (4.97%) GDPR
5 12 (3.14%) Data Quality
6 10 (2.62%) Cyber Essentials
7 7 (1.83%) PCI DSS
8 5 (1.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (1.05%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (1.05%) SLA
10 1 (0.26%) PMO
System Software
1 20 (5.24%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.57%) BitLocker
3 5 (1.31%) Docker
4 2 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.26%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (4.19%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (1.57%) SCCM
2 6 (1.57%) Terraform
3 4 (1.05%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.52%) Packer
4 2 (0.52%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 95 (24.87%) Microsoft
2 26 (6.81%) Google
3 20 (5.24%) Adobe
4 13 (3.40%) ServiceNow
5 11 (2.88%) Dynatrace
6 7 (1.83%) Apple
7 5 (1.31%) Cisco
7 5 (1.31%) Hotjar
7 5 (1.31%) Meraki
8 4 (1.05%) CheckPoint
8 4 (1.05%) DevExpress
8 4 (1.05%) iManage
8 4 (1.05%) OneLogin
9 3 (0.79%) HubSpot
9 3 (0.79%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.52%) Amplitude
10 2 (0.52%) Databricks
10 2 (0.52%) Hootsuite
10 2 (0.52%) Synthesia
11 1 (0.26%) Adyen