User Research Jobs in the North of England

User Research
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring User Research skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited User Research over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 317 232 356
Rank change year-on-year -85 +124 -141
Permanent jobs citing User Research 32 173 77
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.27% 0.98% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 1.18% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 29 117 39
10th Percentile £42,250 - £36,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £42,725 £50,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £45,249 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +32.60% -35.36% +31.80%
75th Percentile £80,100 £62,200 -
90th Percentile - £75,772 £80,250
England median annual salary £63,750 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +21.43% -12.50% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

User Research 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 11,141 14,663 16,436
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 95.00% 83.15% 96.84%
Number of salaries quoted 5,753 11,257 7,869
10th Percentile £25,480 £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 Research
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for User Research in the North of England

User Research
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for User Research in the North of England

User Research
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing User Research in the North of England over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for User Research in the North of England

User Research
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 Research within the North of England region over the 6 months to 17 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 -67 25 £80,100 +60.20% 44
Yorkshire +14 5 £52,500 +16.03% 26
North East +15 2 £42,500 -6.07% 12
User Research
England

User Research
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 1 (3.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (18.75%) Adobe XD
2 5 (15.63%) Sketch
3 1 (3.13%) Notion
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 9 (28.13%) Figma
2 6 (18.75%) AWS
3 3 (9.38%) GitHub
4 2 (6.25%) AWS Fargate
4 2 (6.25%) Google Analytics
5 1 (3.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.25%) LoRaWAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.38%) SQL Server
1 3 (9.38%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Visual Studio
2 2 (6.25%) Git
3 1 (3.13%) JIRA
General
1 25 (78.13%) Social Skills
2 6 (18.75%) Manufacturing
3 3 (9.38%) Automotive
3 3 (9.38%) Electronics
4 2 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.25%) Games
4 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.13%) Health Technology
5 1 (3.13%) Law
5 1 (3.13%) Marketing
5 1 (3.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (40.63%) Product Manager
2 9 (28.13%) Designer
3 7 (21.88%) Senior
3 7 (21.88%) UX Designer
4 5 (15.63%) Senior Designer
4 5 (15.63%) Senior UX Designer
4 5 (15.63%) Software Engineer
4 5 (15.63%) UI Designer
4 5 (15.63%) UI/UX Designer
5 3 (9.38%) Senior UI Designer
5 3 (9.38%) Senior UI/UX Designer
6 2 (6.25%) Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 2 (6.25%) Performance Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Service Designer
6 2 (6.25%) User Researcher
7 1 (3.13%) Product Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (28.13%) HTML
2 7 (21.88%) CSS
3 3 (9.38%) .NET
3 3 (9.38%) JSON
3 3 (9.38%) LINQ
3 3 (9.38%) NestJS
3 3 (9.38%) Next.js
3 3 (9.38%) Node.js
3 3 (9.38%) React
3 3 (9.38%) RESTful
3 3 (9.38%) WPF
4 2 (6.25%) React Native
5 1 (3.13%) D3.js
Miscellaneous
1 14 (43.75%) Product Ownership
2 3 (9.38%) IoT
2 3 (9.38%) Renewable Energy
3 2 (6.25%) NHS
3 2 (6.25%) PropTech
4 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.13%) Graphic Design
4 1 (3.13%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.13%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (71.88%) Agile
2 17 (53.13%) Analytics
3 16 (50.00%) Roadmaps
4 15 (46.88%) User Experience
5 14 (43.75%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 14 (43.75%) Line Management
6 13 (40.63%) Product Management
7 12 (37.50%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 12 (37.50%) Computer Science
7 12 (37.50%) Decision-Making
7 12 (37.50%) PLM
8 11 (34.38%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 11 (34.38%) UX Design
9 10 (31.25%) Prototyping
10 6 (18.75%) Mentoring
10 6 (18.75%) Software Engineering
10 6 (18.75%) Wireframes
11 5 (15.63%) Usability Testing
12 4 (12.50%) Coaching
12 4 (12.50%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
Programming Languages
1 9 (28.13%) JavaScript
2 3 (9.38%) C#
2 3 (9.38%) TypeScript
3 2 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (43.75%) Degree
2 10 (31.25%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (9.38%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.63%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (9.38%) Docker
Vendors
1 6 (18.75%) Adobe
2 3 (9.38%) EMC
3 2 (6.25%) Google