User Experience Jobs in the North of England

UX
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring User Experience skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited User Experience over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 58 107
Rank change year-on-year -11 +49 -44
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 500 618 551
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.30% 3.52% 3.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.53% 4.23% 3.34%
Number of salaries quoted 182 399 266
10th Percentile £32,250 £30,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -17.39% +21.05%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £78,750 £94,375
England median annual salary £57,500 £51,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +12.75% -21.54% +8.33%

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 11,048 14,622 16,474
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 95.01% 83.38% 96.84%
Number of salaries quoted 5,724 11,233 7,867
10th Percentile £25,313 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £37,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing User Experience in the North of England.

Salary trend for User Experience in the North of England

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 16 May 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 16 May 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 -11 414 £55,000 +22.22% 290
Yorkshire -5 65 £42,500 -15.00% 113
North East +3 21 £48,000 +9.71% 64
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 9 (1.80%) CMS
1 9 (1.80%) Skype for Business
2 7 (1.40%) WordPress
3 6 (1.20%) IBM Domino
3 6 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.80%) IIS
5 3 (0.60%) Confluence
6 1 (0.20%) Apache
6 1 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.20%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
Applications
1 13 (2.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.40%) Adobe XD
3 7 (1.40%) Sketch
4 5 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.80%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 4 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.80%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.60%) Adobe Illustrator
6 3 (0.60%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.40%) Adobe After Effects
7 2 (0.40%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.40%) InDesign
8 1 (0.20%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.20%) Blender
8 1 (0.20%) CINEMA 4D
8 1 (0.20%) Notion
Business Applications
1 12 (2.40%) Payment Gateway
2 10 (2.00%) Magento
3 9 (1.80%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.20%) iTrent
4 1 (0.20%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 287 (57.40%) AWS
2 282 (56.40%) Azure
3 179 (35.80%) GCP
4 22 (4.40%) Figma
5 14 (2.80%) Google Analytics
6 12 (2.40%) Serverless
7 11 (2.20%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (1.80%) SaaS
8 9 (1.80%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
9 8 (1.60%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (1.00%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (1.00%) Azure AKS
10 5 (1.00%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (1.00%) Miro
10 5 (1.00%) Power Platform
11 4 (0.80%) Google Ads
11 4 (0.80%) Google Workspace
11 4 (0.80%) Kibo
11 4 (0.80%) Slack
12 3 (0.60%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.00%) Internet
2 10 (2.00%) Unified Communications
3 9 (1.80%) Skype
3 9 (1.80%) Wireless
4 4 (0.80%) HTTP
4 4 (0.80%) LoRaWAN
5 3 (0.60%) DNS
5 3 (0.60%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.60%) VPN
6 2 (0.40%) DMZ
7 1 (0.20%) Broadband
7 1 (0.20%) DHCP
7 1 (0.20%) Firewall
7 1 (0.20%) Intranet
7 1 (0.20%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (17.00%) SQL Server
2 23 (4.60%) MySQL
3 12 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (1.20%) Data Lake
5 5 (1.00%) MongoDB
5 5 (1.00%) NoSQL
5 5 (1.00%) Power BI
6 3 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (0.60%) DynamoDB
6 3 (0.60%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.40%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.40%) TimescaleDB
8 1 (0.20%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.20%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.20%) Endeca
8 1 (0.20%) Redis
Development Applications
1 90 (18.00%) JIRA
2 80 (16.00%) Selenium
3 78 (15.60%) GitLab
4 74 (14.80%) Bitbucket
5 73 (14.60%) SonarQube
6 72 (14.40%) Cucumber
6 72 (14.40%) Maven
6 72 (14.40%) Sonatype Nexus
7 26 (5.20%) Git
8 5 (1.00%) JMeter
8 5 (1.00%) JUnit
8 5 (1.00%) Postman
9 4 (0.80%) Appium
9 4 (0.80%) Balsamiq
9 4 (0.80%) Fiddler
9 4 (0.80%) LoadRunner
9 4 (0.80%) Storybook
9 4 (0.80%) webpack
10 3 (0.60%) Babel
10 3 (0.60%) Jenkins
General
1 260 (52.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 120 (24.00%) Finance
3 88 (17.60%) Retail
4 87 (17.40%) Social Skills
5 74 (14.80%) Banking
6 72 (14.40%) Corporate Banking
6 72 (14.40%) Investment Banking
7 35 (7.00%) Marketing
8 23 (4.60%) Analytical Skills
9 12 (2.40%) Financial Institution
10 10 (2.00%) Advertising
10 10 (2.00%) Law
11 8 (1.60%) Mandarin Language
12 7 (1.40%) Games
13 6 (1.20%) Manufacturing
14 5 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.00%) Public Sector
15 4 (0.80%) Cantonese Language
16 3 (0.60%) Legal
16 3 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 259 (51.80%) Software Engineer
2 232 (46.40%) Senior
3 179 (35.80%) Senior Software Engineer
4 67 (13.40%) Developer
5 34 (6.80%) Lead
6 23 (4.60%) Senior Developer
7 21 (4.20%) Designer
8 19 (3.80%) IT Support
9 16 (3.20%) Analyst
10 13 (2.60%) UX Designer
11 11 (2.20%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 11 (2.20%) Full-Stack Developer
12 10 (2.00%) .NET Developer
12 10 (2.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
12 10 (2.00%) Magento Developer
12 10 (2.00%) Team Leader
13 9 (1.80%) Architect
13 9 (1.80%) Collaboration Specialist
13 9 (1.80%) JavaScript Developer
13 9 (1.80%) Senior Magento Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 202 (40.40%) .NET
2 191 (38.20%) Node.js
3 120 (24.00%) CSS
4 118 (23.60%) HTML
4 118 (23.60%) React
5 96 (19.20%) RESTful
6 85 (17.00%) REST
7 80 (16.00%) HTML5
7 80 (16.00%) Kafka
8 77 (15.40%) CSS3
8 77 (15.40%) Jest
8 77 (15.40%) Spring Boot
9 76 (15.20%) Redux
9 76 (15.20%) Spring
10 74 (14.80%) Sass
11 72 (14.40%) JPA
12 28 (5.60%) AngularJS
13 12 (2.40%) .NET Core
14 10 (2.00%) Vue
14 10 (2.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 172 (34.40%) Cyberattack
1 172 (34.40%) Linux Command Line
1 172 (34.40%) Self-Motivation
2 95 (19.00%) Product Ownership
3 73 (14.60%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (2.20%) Mobile App
4 11 (2.20%) Social Media
5 10 (2.00%) Renewable Energy
6 9 (1.80%) Digital Signage
6 9 (1.80%) Video Conferencing
7 8 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.20%) Distributed Architecture
8 6 (1.20%) IoT
9 5 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (1.00%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.00%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 4 (0.80%) e-Learning
10 4 (0.80%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 180 (36.00%) Linux
2 20 (4.00%) Windows
3 13 (2.60%) Android
3 13 (2.60%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.40%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.80%) Windows Vista
6 2 (0.40%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.20%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 327 (65.40%) Agile
2 280 (56.00%) Mentoring
3 274 (54.80%) Software Engineering
4 263 (52.60%) Microservices
5 192 (38.40%) Scrum
6 178 (35.60%) Machine Learning
7 174 (34.80%) Cloud Security
8 173 (34.60%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 172 (34.40%) Data Engineering
10 111 (22.20%) DevOps
11 108 (21.60%) CI/CD
12 107 (21.40%) Front End Development
13 97 (19.40%) Full-Stack Development
14 94 (18.80%) Test Automation
15 90 (18.00%) SDLC
16 89 (17.80%) Responsive Web Design
17 85 (17.00%) Performance Optimisation
18 79 (15.80%) Containerisation
19 76 (15.20%) Strategic Thinking
20 73 (14.60%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 331 (66.20%) JavaScript
2 268 (53.60%) Java
3 190 (38.00%) Python
4 173 (34.60%) Go
4 173 (34.60%) Rust
5 172 (34.40%) C++
6 130 (26.00%) TypeScript
7 96 (19.20%) SQL
8 21 (4.20%) PHP
9 20 (4.00%) C#
10 2 (0.40%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.20%) Bash
11 1 (0.20%) Elixir
11 1 (0.20%) Erlang
11 1 (0.20%) F#
11 1 (0.20%) Haskell
11 1 (0.20%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.20%) Lisp
11 1 (0.20%) PureScript
11 1 (0.20%) Scala
Qualifications
1 176 (35.20%) Security Cleared
2 172 (34.40%) AWS Certification
2 172 (34.40%) AWS Certified Developer
2 172 (34.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 172 (34.40%) DV Cleared
3 30 (6.00%) Degree
4 10 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (1.80%) DBS Check
6 4 (0.80%) ISTQB
6 4 (0.80%) PMI Certification
6 4 (0.80%) PMP
6 4 (0.80%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 4 (0.80%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.40%) CISM
7 2 (0.40%) CISSP
7 2 (0.40%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (0.40%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (19.00%) QA
2 89 (17.80%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.00%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.00%) PCI DSS
4 4 (0.80%) GDPR
5 2 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.40%) NCSC
5 2 (0.40%) NIST
6 1 (0.20%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.20%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.20%) SLA
6 1 (0.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 101 (20.20%) Docker
2 5 (1.00%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.80%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 88 (17.60%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.00%) Terraform
3 6 (1.20%) Grafana
4 4 (0.80%) Kibana
4 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.40%) Puppet
6 1 (0.20%) cPanel
6 1 (0.20%) SCCM
Vendors
1 72 (14.40%) Solace
2 37 (7.40%) Microsoft
3 30 (6.00%) Google
4 27 (5.40%) Adobe
5 11 (2.20%) Salesforce
6 10 (2.00%) Bloomberg
6 10 (2.00%) Cisco
6 10 (2.00%) New Relic
7 9 (1.80%) Mitel
7 9 (1.80%) Polycom
7 9 (1.80%) ShoreTel
8 8 (1.60%) Facebook
9 6 (1.20%) Oracle
9 6 (1.20%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.00%) Apple
11 4 (0.80%) Veeam
11 4 (0.80%) VMware
12 1 (0.20%) CyberSource
12 1 (0.20%) Red Hat
12 1 (0.20%) Talend