User Experience Job Trends in the North West

UX
England > North West

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

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 22 57
Rank change year-on-year +12 +35 +16
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 701 424 175
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 13.89% 6.21% 4.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.42% 7.56% 4.87%
Number of salaries quoted 90 105 121
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,750 £23,850
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,625 £73,750 £68,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,750
% change year-on-year -4.17% -1.23% -2.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,269 5,612 3,596
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 84.62% 82.20% 94.23%
Number of salaries quoted 2,453 2,768 2,710
10th Percentile £27,000 £32,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.64%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing User Experience relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North West.

User Experience job vacancy trend in the North West

User Experience
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing User Experience.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing User Experience

User Experience
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing User Experience in the North West over the 6 months to 20 November 2025.

Salary histogram for User Experience in the North West

User Experience
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 20 November 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
Manchester +6 248 £55,000 - 114
Lancashire +6 230 £45,000 -22.28% 30
Cheshire +42 210 £57,500 +35.29% 16
Merseyside +2 8 £45,000 -21.74% 4
Cumbria +7 6 £36,000 +3.60%
User Experience
England

User Experience
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 6 (0.86%) CMS
1 6 (0.86%) Confluence
2 3 (0.43%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.29%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (0.71%) Adobe XD
1 5 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.57%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.57%) Sketch
3 2 (0.29%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.14%) InVision
4 1 (0.14%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.14%) Magento
1 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (0.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 574 (81.88%) Cloud Computing
2 30 (4.28%) AWS
3 23 (3.28%) Azure
4 13 (1.85%) Google Analytics
5 12 (1.71%) Figma
6 10 (1.43%) SaaS
7 8 (1.14%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (1.14%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (1.14%) Power Platform
7 8 (1.14%) Serverless
8 7 (1.00%) Adobe Analytics
9 6 (0.86%) GitHub
10 4 (0.57%) GCP
11 3 (0.43%) Contentsquare
12 2 (0.29%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (0.29%) Entra ID
12 2 (0.29%) Google Ads
12 2 (0.29%) OneDrive
12 2 (0.29%) Power Automate
12 2 (0.29%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 574 (81.88%) Internet
2 1 (0.14%) DHCP
2 1 (0.14%) DNS
2 1 (0.14%) HTTP
2 1 (0.14%) LAN
2 1 (0.14%) SSH
2 1 (0.14%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (1.14%) MySQL
2 7 (1.00%) DynamoDB
3 6 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (0.86%) Power BI
4 5 (0.71%) NoSQL
4 5 (0.71%) Relational Database
5 4 (0.57%) Mixpanel
6 3 (0.43%) MongoDB
6 3 (0.43%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.29%) Looker
7 2 (0.29%) Metadata
7 2 (0.29%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.14%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.14%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.14%) DocumentDB
8 1 (0.14%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.14%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (2.28%) Git
2 9 (1.28%) JIRA
3 4 (0.57%) Xcode
4 3 (0.43%) GitLab
4 3 (0.43%) webpack
5 2 (0.29%) Babel
5 2 (0.29%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.29%) JUnit
5 2 (0.29%) Selenium
6 1 (0.14%) Android Studio
6 1 (0.14%) Axure RP
6 1 (0.14%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.14%) ESLint
6 1 (0.14%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.14%) Maven
6 1 (0.14%) Storybook
General
1 620 (88.45%) Social Skills
2 581 (82.88%) Banking
3 579 (82.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 32 (4.56%) Finance
5 24 (3.42%) Marketing
6 19 (2.71%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (1.00%) Games
9 6 (0.86%) Law
9 6 (0.86%) Public Sector
10 5 (0.71%) Electronics
10 5 (0.71%) Retail
11 4 (0.57%) Legal
12 2 (0.29%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.14%) Digital Health
13 1 (0.14%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.14%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.14%) Publishing
13 1 (0.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 460 (65.62%) Lecturer
2 42 (5.99%) Developer
3 25 (3.57%) Senior
4 9 (1.28%) Java Developer
4 9 (1.28%) Lead
5 8 (1.14%) Senior Developer
5 8 (1.14%) Senior Manager
6 7 (1.00%) Analyst
6 7 (1.00%) Full-Stack Developer
6 7 (1.00%) Senior Java Developer
7 6 (0.86%) Applications Support
7 6 (0.86%) Designer
7 6 (0.86%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 6 (0.86%) React Developer
7 6 (0.86%) Strategy Manager
8 5 (0.71%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 5 (0.71%) Software Developer
8 5 (0.71%) Software Engineer
9 4 (0.57%) iOS Developer
9 4 (0.57%) User Experience Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (4.14%) React
2 25 (3.57%) CSS
3 21 (3.00%) HTML
4 15 (2.14%) .NET
4 15 (2.14%) RESTful
5 8 (1.14%) CSS3
5 8 (1.14%) HTML5
5 8 (1.14%) Next.js
5 8 (1.14%) Node.js
6 6 (0.86%) Amazon Corretto
6 6 (0.86%) ASP.NET
6 6 (0.86%) REST
6 6 (0.86%) Spring
6 6 (0.86%) Spring Boot
7 5 (0.71%) ASP.NET Core
7 5 (0.71%) Kafka
8 4 (0.57%) AngularJS
8 4 (0.57%) SwiftUI
8 4 (0.57%) Tailwind CSS
9 3 (0.43%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 574 (81.88%) IoT
2 10 (1.43%) Social Media
3 9 (1.28%) Product Ownership
4 6 (0.86%) e-Learning
5 5 (0.71%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (0.71%) Cloud Native
6 4 (0.57%) AI Agents
6 4 (0.57%) Animation
7 3 (0.43%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.29%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.29%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (0.29%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.29%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.29%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.14%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.14%) Digital Signage
9 1 (0.14%) iPad
9 1 (0.14%) Life Science
9 1 (0.14%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.14%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.57%) Apple iOS
2 3 (0.43%) Windows
3 2 (0.29%) Linux
3 2 (0.29%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.14%) Android
4 1 (0.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 599 (85.45%) AI
2 586 (83.59%) Machine Learning
3 580 (82.74%) Web Development
4 579 (82.60%) Cybersecurity
5 58 (8.27%) Agile
6 34 (4.85%) Analytics
7 31 (4.42%) Problem-Solving
8 28 (3.99%) UX Design
9 26 (3.71%) Continuous Improvement
10 23 (3.28%) DevOps
11 22 (3.14%) CI/CD
12 20 (2.85%) Full-Stack Development
13 19 (2.71%) Clean Code
14 18 (2.57%) Front End Development
15 17 (2.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 17 (2.43%) TDD
16 16 (2.28%) Stakeholder Management
17 15 (2.14%) Software Engineering
18 14 (2.00%) SEO
19 13 (1.85%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 30 (4.28%) JavaScript
2 26 (3.71%) TypeScript
3 20 (2.85%) C#
3 20 (2.85%) Java
4 10 (1.43%) Python
5 9 (1.28%) SQL
6 4 (0.57%) Swift
7 3 (0.43%) PHP
7 3 (0.43%) Rust
8 2 (0.29%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.29%) R
9 1 (0.14%) Go
9 1 (0.14%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.14%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 591 (84.31%) Degree
2 575 (82.03%) PhD
3 574 (81.88%) Master's Degree
3 574 (81.88%) Postgraduate
4 5 (0.71%) Security Cleared
5 4 (0.57%) SC Cleared
6 2 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.29%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.14%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.14%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (2.85%) Accessibility
2 8 (1.14%) QA
3 6 (0.86%) Data Quality
4 4 (0.57%) GDPR
5 2 (0.29%) HL7
6 1 (0.14%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (2.43%) Docker
2 2 (0.29%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 14 (2.00%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.43%) Terraform
3 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.29%) Grafana
4 2 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.14%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 20 (2.85%) Google
2 19 (2.71%) Microsoft
3 9 (1.28%) Adobe
3 9 (1.28%) Hotjar
4 6 (0.86%) Qualtrics
5 5 (0.71%) ServiceNow
6 4 (0.57%) Facebook
6 4 (0.57%) Genesys
7 3 (0.43%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.29%) Ahrefs
8 2 (0.29%) Bloomberg
8 2 (0.29%) New Relic
8 2 (0.29%) Screaming Frog
8 2 (0.29%) Splunk
8 2 (0.29%) Veeam
8 2 (0.29%) VMware
9 1 (0.14%) iManage
9 1 (0.14%) Marin
9 1 (0.14%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.14%) WooCommerce