User Experience Jobs in the North West

UX
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 29 112
Rank change year-on-year -24 +83 -51
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 427 604 193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 5.55% 5.69% 2.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.12% 7.14% 2.99%
Number of salaries quoted 115 237 133
10th Percentile £34,755 £29,300 £32,800
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -21.74% +14.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £62,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,100 £82,500 £90,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £51,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +17.65% -21.54% +8.33%

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 6,975 8,461 6,460
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 90.66% 79.68% 95.86%
Number of salaries quoted 3,507 6,003 3,820
10th Percentile £27,750 £28,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -12.00% +4.17%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for User Experience in the North West

User Experience
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for User Experience in the North West

User Experience
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing User Experience in the North West over the 6 months to 16 July 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 16 July 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 +6 253 £57,500 +15.00% 165
Lancashire -64 85 £42,384 +5.96% 120
Cheshire +22 72 £47,500 +11.76% 29
Merseyside -10 11 £47,500 +5.56% 11
Cumbria -51 6 £36,000 -8.86% 4
User Experience
England

User Experience
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 10 (2.34%) CMS
2 9 (2.11%) Skype for Business
3 5 (1.17%) Confluence
4 4 (0.94%) IBM Domino
4 4 (0.94%) WordPress
5 2 (0.47%) Headless CMS
5 2 (0.47%) IIS
6 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.23%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 12 (2.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.17%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.94%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.47%) Adobe After Effects
4 2 (0.47%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (0.47%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (0.47%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.47%) InDesign
4 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.47%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.47%) Sketch
5 1 (0.23%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.23%) Blender
5 1 (0.23%) CINEMA 4D
Business Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Magento
1 1 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 292 (68.38%) AWS
2 267 (62.53%) Azure
3 180 (42.15%) GCP
4 20 (4.68%) Google Analytics
5 15 (3.51%) Serverless
6 14 (3.28%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (2.81%) Figma
8 11 (2.58%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (1.64%) GitHub
10 6 (1.41%) Miro
10 6 (1.41%) SaaS
11 5 (1.17%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (1.17%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (1.17%) Google Ads
11 5 (1.17%) Power Platform
12 4 (0.94%) Contentsquare
12 4 (0.94%) Google Workspace
12 4 (0.94%) Slack
13 3 (0.70%) AWS CloudFormation
13 3 (0.70%) Google Data Studio
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.34%) Unified Communications
2 9 (2.11%) Skype
2 9 (2.11%) Wireless
3 4 (0.94%) HTTP
3 4 (0.94%) LoRaWAN
4 2 (0.47%) DMZ
4 2 (0.47%) DNS
4 2 (0.47%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.47%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (18.50%) SQL Server
2 17 (3.98%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (3.51%) MySQL
4 10 (2.34%) DynamoDB
5 7 (1.64%) NoSQL
6 6 (1.41%) MongoDB
7 5 (1.17%) Power BI
8 4 (0.94%) Mixpanel
9 3 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.47%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.47%) TimescaleDB
11 1 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.23%) DocumentDB
11 1 (0.23%) Redis
11 1 (0.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 88 (20.61%) JIRA
2 76 (17.80%) GitLab
2 76 (17.80%) Selenium
3 72 (16.86%) Cucumber
4 71 (16.63%) Bitbucket
5 70 (16.39%) Maven
5 70 (16.39%) SonarQube
5 70 (16.39%) Sonatype Nexus
6 25 (5.85%) Git
7 5 (1.17%) Storybook
8 4 (0.94%) Appium
8 4 (0.94%) Balsamiq
8 4 (0.94%) Fiddler
8 4 (0.94%) JMeter
8 4 (0.94%) JUnit
8 4 (0.94%) LoadRunner
8 4 (0.94%) Postman
9 3 (0.70%) webpack
10 2 (0.47%) ESLint
10 2 (0.47%) Jasmine
General
1 256 (59.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 122 (28.57%) Finance
3 80 (18.74%) Retail
4 73 (17.10%) Banking
5 70 (16.39%) Corporate Banking
5 70 (16.39%) Investment Banking
6 62 (14.52%) Social Skills
7 29 (6.79%) Marketing
8 17 (3.98%) Analytical Skills
9 12 (2.81%) Financial Institution
10 11 (2.58%) Games
11 8 (1.87%) Mandarin Language
12 5 (1.17%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.94%) Advertising
13 4 (0.94%) Cantonese Language
14 3 (0.70%) Brand Awareness
14 3 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.47%) Local Government
15 2 (0.47%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 251 (58.78%) Software Engineer
2 208 (48.71%) Senior
3 174 (40.75%) Senior Software Engineer
4 42 (9.84%) Developer
5 16 (3.75%) Applications Support
6 14 (3.28%) Java Developer
7 13 (3.04%) Senior Developer
7 13 (3.04%) Senior Java Developer
8 12 (2.81%) Full-Stack Developer
8 12 (2.81%) IT Support
8 12 (2.81%) Lead
9 11 (2.58%) Analyst
10 10 (2.34%) Applications Manager
10 10 (2.34%) Applications Support Manager
10 10 (2.34%) Support Manager
11 9 (2.11%) Collaboration Specialist
11 9 (2.11%) Designer
11 9 (2.11%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
12 8 (1.87%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
12 8 (1.87%) JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 184 (43.09%) Node.js
2 182 (42.62%) .NET
3 107 (25.06%) React
4 90 (21.08%) CSS
4 90 (21.08%) RESTful
5 89 (20.84%) HTML
6 81 (18.97%) Kafka
7 78 (18.27%) Spring Boot
8 77 (18.03%) REST
8 77 (18.03%) Spring
9 74 (17.33%) CSS3
9 74 (17.33%) HTML5
9 74 (17.33%) Jest
10 73 (17.10%) Redux
11 72 (16.86%) Sass
12 70 (16.39%) JPA
13 19 (4.45%) AngularJS
14 9 (2.11%) Amazon Corretto
15 8 (1.87%) Next.js
15 8 (1.87%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 172 (40.28%) Cyberattack
1 172 (40.28%) Linux Command Line
1 172 (40.28%) Self-Motivation
2 89 (20.84%) Product Ownership
3 71 (16.63%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (2.81%) Social Media
5 10 (2.34%) e-Learning
6 9 (2.11%) Digital Signage
6 9 (2.11%) Video Conferencing
7 6 (1.41%) IoT
7 6 (1.41%) Mobile App
8 5 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.17%) Renewable Energy
9 4 (0.94%) FMCG
9 4 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (0.94%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 3 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.70%) Animation
10 3 (0.70%) Graphic Design
10 3 (0.70%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 180 (42.15%) Linux
2 10 (2.34%) Windows
2 10 (2.34%) Windows Server
3 3 (0.70%) Android
3 3 (0.70%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 322 (75.41%) Agile
2 265 (62.06%) Software Engineering
3 262 (61.36%) Mentoring
4 259 (60.66%) Microservices
5 187 (43.79%) Scrum
6 181 (42.39%) Machine Learning
7 173 (40.52%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 172 (40.28%) Cloud Security
8 172 (40.28%) Data Engineering
9 104 (24.36%) DevOps
10 100 (23.42%) CI/CD
11 98 (22.95%) Front End Development
11 98 (22.95%) Test Automation
12 96 (22.48%) Full-Stack Development
13 84 (19.67%) SDLC
14 78 (18.27%) Performance Optimisation
15 77 (18.03%) Containerisation
16 76 (17.80%) Migration
17 74 (17.33%) Responsive Web Design
18 73 (17.10%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 297 (69.56%) JavaScript
2 271 (63.47%) Java
3 187 (43.79%) Python
4 172 (40.28%) C++
4 172 (40.28%) Go
4 172 (40.28%) Rust
5 122 (28.57%) TypeScript
6 84 (19.67%) SQL
7 10 (2.34%) C#
7 10 (2.34%) PHP
8 1 (0.23%) Bash
8 1 (0.23%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.23%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.23%) Ruby
8 1 (0.23%) Swift
Qualifications
1 173 (40.52%) Security Cleared
2 172 (40.28%) AWS Certification
2 172 (40.28%) AWS Certified Developer
2 172 (40.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 172 (40.28%) DV Cleared
3 25 (5.85%) Degree
4 5 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (1.17%) DBS Check
5 4 (0.94%) ISTQB
6 2 (0.47%) CISM
6 2 (0.47%) CISSP
6 2 (0.47%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.23%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (21.08%) QA
2 84 (19.67%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.17%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.17%) GDPR
3 5 (1.17%) PCI DSS
4 4 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.47%) NCSC
5 2 (0.47%) NIST
5 2 (0.47%) WCAG
System Software
1 103 (24.12%) Docker
2 7 (1.64%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 91 (21.31%) Kubernetes
2 16 (3.75%) Terraform
3 7 (1.64%) Grafana
3 7 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.70%) Kibana
5 2 (0.47%) Puppet
Vendors
1 70 (16.39%) Solace
2 37 (8.67%) Google
3 33 (7.73%) Microsoft
4 13 (3.04%) Facebook
5 12 (2.81%) Bloomberg
6 10 (2.34%) Cisco
7 9 (2.11%) Mitel
7 9 (2.11%) Polycom
7 9 (2.11%) ShoreTel
8 8 (1.87%) Hotjar
9 7 (1.64%) Salesforce
9 7 (1.64%) Veeam
9 7 (1.64%) VMware
10 5 (1.17%) Adobe
11 4 (0.94%) Oracle
12 3 (0.70%) ServiceNow
13 2 (0.47%) IBM
14 1 (0.23%) Genesys
14 1 (0.23%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 1 (0.23%) Talend