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 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 67 54
Rank change year-on-year +61 -13 +38
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 1,612 151 316
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 19.68% 3.81% 3.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 25.76% 4.02% 4.66%
Number of salaries quoted 91 100 207
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,438 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +15.79% -20.83%
75th Percentile £68,708 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £76,250 £76,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £52,550
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.18% -19.15%

All Process & 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 6,257 3,756 6,781
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 76.39% 94.87% 84.83%
Number of salaries quoted 3,443 2,142 5,463
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,620 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,793 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.75% +9.59% -9.09%
75th Percentile £68,333 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 14 March 2026.

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 14 March 2026. 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
Lancashire +54 584 £45,497 -27.53% 17
Cheshire +38 521 £57,500 +35.29% 17
Manchester +40 494 £55,000 - 57
Merseyside -5 17 £66,250 +15.22% 7
Cumbria +1 4 £56,500 +88.33% 3
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 15 (0.93%) SharePoint
2 10 (0.62%) CMS
3 9 (0.56%) Confluence
4 7 (0.43%) WordPress
5 5 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.12%) nginx
7 1 (0.062%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 6 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
2 5 (0.31%) Sketch
3 3 (0.19%) Adobe XD
3 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.062%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.062%) Blender
5 1 (0.062%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.062%) InDesign
5 1 (0.062%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.062%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.062%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.19%) Magento
1 3 (0.19%) Shopify
2 2 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.062%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.062%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 1,477 (91.63%) Cloud Computing
2 24 (1.49%) Azure
3 20 (1.24%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (1.18%) Power Platform
5 18 (1.12%) Figma
6 13 (0.81%) AWS
7 12 (0.74%) Microsoft Purview
7 12 (0.74%) SaaS
8 11 (0.68%) Entra ID
9 10 (0.62%) Azure Monitor
9 10 (0.62%) Google Analytics
10 8 (0.50%) OneDrive
11 7 (0.43%) Adobe Analytics
11 7 (0.43%) Microsoft Copilot
12 4 (0.25%) Dropbox
13 3 (0.19%) Heroku
13 3 (0.19%) Power Automate
14 2 (0.12%) Azure Key Vault
14 2 (0.12%) Dynamics 365
14 2 (0.12%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1,477 (91.63%) Internet
2 3 (0.19%) HTTP
3 1 (0.062%) DHCP
3 1 (0.062%) DNS
3 1 (0.062%) LAN
3 1 (0.062%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.062%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.062%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (0.50%) MySQL
2 6 (0.37%) MongoDB
2 6 (0.37%) NoSQL
2 6 (0.37%) SQL Server
3 5 (0.31%) Power BI
3 5 (0.31%) Relational Database
4 3 (0.19%) Looker
5 2 (0.12%) Metadata
5 2 (0.12%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.12%) PostHog
5 2 (0.12%) RDBMS
5 2 (0.12%) Redis
6 1 (0.062%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.062%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.062%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 14 (0.87%) JIRA
2 11 (0.68%) Git
3 3 (0.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 3 (0.19%) fastlane
3 3 (0.19%) JUnit
4 2 (0.12%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.12%) NUnit
4 2 (0.12%) Vagrant
5 1 (0.062%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.062%) GitLab
5 1 (0.062%) Jenkins
General
1 1,514 (93.92%) Social Skills
2 1,488 (92.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,487 (92.25%) Banking
4 26 (1.61%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (1.36%) Finance
6 19 (1.18%) Marketing
7 8 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (0.50%) Public Sector
8 7 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (0.25%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.19%) Games
10 3 (0.19%) Law
10 3 (0.19%) Legal
11 2 (0.12%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.062%) Electronics
12 1 (0.062%) Retail
12 1 (0.062%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1,127 (69.91%) Lecturer
2 27 (1.67%) Senior
3 19 (1.18%) Developer
4 12 (0.74%) Designer
4 12 (0.74%) IT Manager
5 10 (0.62%) Senior Manager
5 10 (0.62%) Software Engineer
6 9 (0.56%) Lead
7 8 (0.50%) Platform Engineer
8 7 (0.43%) Analyst
8 7 (0.43%) Software Developer
8 7 (0.43%) Strategy Manager
9 6 (0.37%) Coordinator
9 6 (0.37%) Senior Developer
9 6 (0.37%) Service Manager
9 6 (0.37%) UX Designer
10 5 (0.31%) E-Commerce Specialist
10 5 (0.31%) IT Infrastructure Manager
10 5 (0.31%) IT Services Manager
10 5 (0.31%) Senior Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (1.67%) CSS
2 26 (1.61%) HTML
3 15 (0.93%) .NET
3 15 (0.93%) React
4 14 (0.87%) RESTful
5 9 (0.56%) AngularJS
6 7 (0.43%) .NET Framework
7 6 (0.37%) ASP.NET
7 6 (0.37%) ASP.NET Core
7 6 (0.37%) Next.js
7 6 (0.37%) REST
7 6 (0.37%) Spring
7 6 (0.37%) Spring Boot
8 5 (0.31%) CSS3
8 5 (0.31%) HTML5
9 4 (0.25%) Entity Framework
9 4 (0.25%) Kafka
9 4 (0.25%) Node.js
9 4 (0.25%) Web Services
10 3 (0.19%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 1,477 (91.63%) IoT
2 9 (0.56%) Enterprise Software
2 9 (0.56%) Product Ownership
3 8 (0.50%) Cloud Native
3 8 (0.50%) Onboarding
4 7 (0.43%) Social Media
5 6 (0.37%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (0.31%) Mobile App
7 3 (0.19%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (0.19%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (0.12%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.12%) Animation
8 2 (0.12%) FMCG
8 2 (0.12%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.12%) NHS
8 2 (0.12%) PropTech
9 1 (0.062%) 3D Graphics
9 1 (0.062%) EMV
9 1 (0.062%) iPad
9 1 (0.062%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 6 (0.37%) Apple iOS
1 6 (0.37%) Windows
2 2 (0.12%) Android
3 1 (0.062%) Unix
3 1 (0.062%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,507 (93.49%) AI
2 1,483 (92.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1,481 (91.87%) Machine Learning
3 1,481 (91.87%) Web Development
4 48 (2.98%) Agile
5 40 (2.48%) Continuous Improvement
6 39 (2.42%) Problem-Solving
7 33 (2.05%) UX Design
8 25 (1.55%) Analytics
8 25 (1.55%) CI/CD
9 24 (1.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 21 (1.30%) Mentoring
11 20 (1.24%) Software Engineering
12 18 (1.12%) DevOps
13 16 (0.99%) Coaching
13 16 (0.99%) Decision-Making
13 16 (0.99%) SEO
14 14 (0.87%) Full-Stack Development
14 14 (0.87%) Prototyping
15 13 (0.81%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 25 (1.55%) TypeScript
2 22 (1.36%) JavaScript
3 17 (1.05%) C#
4 10 (0.62%) SQL
5 8 (0.50%) Java
6 5 (0.31%) Python
7 4 (0.25%) Swift
8 3 (0.19%) PHP
9 2 (0.12%) Bicep
9 2 (0.12%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.12%) R
10 1 (0.062%) Go
10 1 (0.062%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1,497 (92.87%) Degree
2 1,477 (91.63%) Master's Degree
2 1,477 (91.63%) PhD
2 1,477 (91.63%) Postgraduate
3 2 (0.12%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (0.12%) DBS Check
3 2 (0.12%) Numerate Degree
3 2 (0.12%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.062%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.062%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.062%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (0.062%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (1.18%) Accessibility
2 12 (0.74%) QA
3 4 (0.25%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.25%) WCAG
4 2 (0.12%) GDPR
4 2 (0.12%) HL7
5 1 (0.062%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.062%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.062%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.062%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (0.68%) Active Directory
2 8 (0.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (0.68%) Terraform
2 9 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (0.43%) Kubernetes
5 2 (0.12%) Grafana
5 2 (0.12%) Packer
5 2 (0.12%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 27 (1.67%) Microsoft
2 13 (0.81%) Google
3 10 (0.62%) Adobe
4 8 (0.50%) New Relic
4 8 (0.50%) Splunk
5 7 (0.43%) Qualtrics
6 3 (0.19%) Hotjar
6 3 (0.19%) SAP
7 2 (0.12%) Ahrefs
7 2 (0.12%) DevExpress
7 2 (0.12%) OneLogin
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle
7 2 (0.12%) Screaming Frog
8 1 (0.062%) Apple
8 1 (0.062%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.062%) iManage
8 1 (0.062%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.062%) ServiceNow