UX Design Job Trends in the North of England

User Experience Design (UXD)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring UX Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 225 194 173
Rank change year-on-year -31 -21 -34
Permanent jobs citing UX Design 37 94 94
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.35% 0.97% 1.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 1.08% 1.48%
Number of salaries quoted 20 44 77
10th Percentile £46,837 £35,375 £23,850
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,402 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% +0.80% -13.04%
75th Percentile £65,313 £57,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £68,125 £71,375 £85,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +13.64% -15.38% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

UX Design 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 8,835 8,681 6,349
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 83.58% 89.45% 94.17%
Number of salaries quoted 4,604 3,973 4,922
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £29,500
25th Percentile £31,938 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -4.63% +2.86%
75th Percentile £66,250 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing UX Design relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

UX Design job vacancy trend in the North of England

UX Design
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing UX Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing UX Design

UX Design
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing UX Design in the North of England over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Salary histogram for UX Design in the North of England

UX Design
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 UX Design within the North of England region over the 6 months to 20 December 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 -2 20 £56,250 +2.27% 15
North East +8 10 £50,000 +17.65% 6
Yorkshire -15 7 £65,000 +44.44% 7
UX Design
England

UX Design
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 4 (10.81%) Confluence
2 2 (5.41%) CMS
3 1 (2.70%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (2.70%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (2.70%) InVision
1 1 (2.70%) Sketch
1 1 (2.70%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (2.70%) SAP EWM
1 1 (2.70%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (29.73%) Azure
2 10 (27.03%) Figma
3 9 (24.32%) Adobe Analytics
4 7 (18.92%) AWS
5 4 (10.81%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (5.41%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (5.41%) Serverless
7 1 (2.70%) ChatGPT
7 1 (2.70%) GitHub
7 1 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.70%) Google Analytics
7 1 (2.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.70%) AMQP
1 1 (2.70%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.70%) DynamoDB
1 1 (2.70%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (13.51%) Git
1 5 (13.51%) JIRA
2 2 (5.41%) Selenium
3 1 (2.70%) GitLab
3 1 (2.70%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.70%) JUnit
3 1 (2.70%) Maven
General
1 9 (24.32%) Finance
2 7 (18.92%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (18.92%) Banking
2 7 (18.92%) Social Skills
3 6 (16.22%) Influencing Skills
3 6 (16.22%) Marketing
4 4 (10.81%) Electronics
5 3 (8.11%) Law
6 2 (5.41%) Games
7 1 (2.70%) Advertising
7 1 (2.70%) Legal
7 1 (2.70%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.70%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.70%) Publishing
7 1 (2.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (43.24%) Developer
2 9 (24.32%) Senior
3 8 (21.62%) Full-Stack Developer
4 6 (16.22%) Strategy Manager
5 5 (13.51%) Designer
6 4 (10.81%) .NET Developer
6 4 (10.81%) C# .NET Developer
6 4 (10.81%) C# Developer
6 4 (10.81%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
6 4 (10.81%) Full-Stack C# Developer
7 3 (8.11%) Product Manager
7 3 (8.11%) Senior Developer
7 3 (8.11%) Senior Manager
7 3 (8.11%) Senior Strategy Manager
7 3 (8.11%) UX Designer
8 2 (5.41%) Analyst
8 2 (5.41%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 2 (5.41%) UI Developer
8 2 (5.41%) UI/UX Developer
8 2 (5.41%) UX Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (37.84%) CSS
1 14 (37.84%) HTML
2 10 (27.03%) .NET
3 6 (16.22%) Apache Cordova
3 6 (16.22%) ASP.NET
3 6 (16.22%) Node.js
4 5 (13.51%) AngularJS
4 5 (13.51%) React
5 4 (10.81%) .NET Core
6 2 (5.41%) HTML5
6 2 (5.41%) Ionic Framework
6 2 (5.41%) jQuery
6 2 (5.41%) Spring
6 2 (5.41%) Spring Boot
7 1 (2.70%) JSR 170
7 1 (2.70%) OSGi
7 1 (2.70%) React Native
7 1 (2.70%) Spring Cloud
7 1 (2.70%) Svelte
7 1 (2.70%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.22%) Product Ownership
2 5 (13.51%) Mobile App
3 2 (5.41%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.41%) Robotics
4 1 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.70%) e-Learning
4 1 (2.70%) FMCG
4 1 (2.70%) Life Science
4 1 (2.70%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.70%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.81%) Android
1 4 (10.81%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (100.00%) User Experience
2 21 (56.76%) Agile
3 17 (45.95%) DevOps
4 15 (40.54%) Continuous Improvement
5 11 (29.73%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (29.73%) Roadmaps
6 10 (27.03%) Analytics
6 10 (27.03%) CI/CD
6 10 (27.03%) Design Thinking
6 10 (27.03%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (24.32%) Customer Experience
7 9 (24.32%) Full-Stack Development
7 9 (24.32%) Mentoring
7 9 (24.32%) Prototyping
7 9 (24.32%) Strategic Thinking
8 8 (21.62%) Journey Map
8 8 (21.62%) Software Engineering
9 7 (18.92%) Product Roadmap
9 7 (18.92%) Service Design
9 7 (18.92%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 15 (40.54%) JavaScript
2 11 (29.73%) C#
3 5 (13.51%) Java
3 5 (13.51%) TypeScript
4 4 (10.81%) XAML
5 3 (8.11%) SQL
6 1 (2.70%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (5.41%) Degree
1 2 (5.41%) SC Cleared
1 2 (5.41%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.70%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (37.84%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.70%) GDPR
2 1 (2.70%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 4 (10.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (8.11%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.41%) Terraform
3 1 (2.70%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 11 (29.73%) Adobe
2 6 (16.22%) Qualtrics
3 2 (5.41%) Google
4 1 (2.70%) Hotjar
4 1 (2.70%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.70%) New Relic
4 1 (2.70%) SAP