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 2 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 67 50
Rank change year-on-year +61 -17 +51
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 1,658 178 377
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 15.99% 4.29% 4.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.70% 4.50% 4.95%
Number of salaries quoted 132 110 230
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,976 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,800 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.27% +22.22% -21.95%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,375 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £58,500 £51,500
% change year-on-year -1.71% +13.59% -20.77%

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 7,642 3,952 7,618
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 73.69% 95.18% 82.34%
Number of salaries quoted 4,523 2,172 6,060
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% +6.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,313 £65,603
90th Percentile £88,148 £84,200 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 2 May 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 2 May 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 +76 589 £45,497 -19.32% 9
Cheshire +37 526 £47,500 +11.76% 9
Manchester +29 521 £58,765 +6.85% 66
Merseyside -6 20 £72,500 +31.82% 5
Cumbria -8 11 £70,000 +133.33% 5
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 (0.90%) SharePoint
2 11 (0.66%) CMS
3 9 (0.54%) WordPress
4 8 (0.48%) Confluence
5 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.12%) nginx
7 1 (0.060%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.060%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.060%) Umbraco
Applications
1 7 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.18%) Sketch
3 2 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.060%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.060%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.060%) Blender
4 1 (0.060%) CINEMA 4D
4 1 (0.060%) InDesign
4 1 (0.060%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.060%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.060%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.060%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (0.48%) Magento
2 5 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.18%) Shopify
4 2 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.060%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 1,477 (89.08%) Cloud Computing
2 26 (1.57%) Azure
3 23 (1.39%) Power Platform
4 19 (1.15%) Figma
4 19 (1.15%) Microsoft 365
5 17 (1.03%) Google Analytics
6 13 (0.78%) Entra ID
6 13 (0.78%) Microsoft Purview
7 11 (0.66%) Azure Monitor
7 11 (0.66%) SaaS
8 9 (0.54%) AWS
9 8 (0.48%) Microsoft Copilot
9 8 (0.48%) OneDrive
9 8 (0.48%) Power Automate
9 8 (0.48%) PowerApps
10 5 (0.30%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (0.24%) ChatGPT
11 4 (0.24%) Dropbox
11 4 (0.24%) n8n
11 4 (0.24%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 1,477 (89.08%) Internet
2 3 (0.18%) HTTP
3 1 (0.060%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (0.42%) Looker
1 7 (0.42%) SQL Server
2 6 (0.36%) MySQL
2 6 (0.36%) NoSQL
3 5 (0.30%) MongoDB
4 3 (0.18%) Relational Database
4 3 (0.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (0.12%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.12%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.12%) Mixpanel
5 2 (0.12%) PostHog
5 2 (0.12%) Power BI
5 2 (0.12%) Redis
6 1 (0.060%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.060%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.060%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.060%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.060%) Metadata
6 1 (0.060%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.060%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 14 (0.84%) Git
2 13 (0.78%) JIRA
3 4 (0.24%) NUnit
4 3 (0.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 3 (0.18%) Bitbucket
4 3 (0.18%) fastlane
4 3 (0.18%) JUnit
5 2 (0.12%) Vagrant
6 1 (0.060%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.060%) gulp
6 1 (0.060%) JMeter
6 1 (0.060%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.060%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.060%) webpack
General
1 1,507 (90.89%) Social Skills
2 1,487 (89.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,483 (89.45%) Banking
4 30 (1.81%) Finance
5 29 (1.75%) Marketing
6 27 (1.63%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (0.78%) Public Sector
8 9 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (0.48%) Manufacturing
10 5 (0.30%) Law
11 4 (0.24%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (0.24%) Retail
12 2 (0.12%) Billing
12 2 (0.12%) Games
12 2 (0.12%) Legal
12 2 (0.12%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.060%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,127 (67.97%) Lecturer
2 40 (2.41%) Designer
3 34 (2.05%) Senior
4 29 (1.75%) UX Designer
5 17 (1.03%) Product Designer
6 16 (0.97%) Developer
7 15 (0.90%) IT Manager
7 15 (0.90%) Service Manager
8 13 (0.78%) E-Commerce Specialist
8 13 (0.78%) Senior Designer
8 13 (0.78%) Senior UX Designer
9 11 (0.66%) Lead
10 10 (0.60%) IT Services Manager
10 10 (0.60%) Senior IT Manager
10 10 (0.60%) Senior Manager
10 10 (0.60%) Senior Service Manager
11 8 (0.48%) Analyst
11 8 (0.48%) Platform Engineer
11 8 (0.48%) Software Engineer
12 7 (0.42%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (1.33%) HTML
2 21 (1.27%) CSS
3 12 (0.72%) AngularJS
4 11 (0.66%) .NET
4 11 (0.66%) RESTful
5 10 (0.60%) React
6 9 (0.54%) .NET Framework
7 6 (0.36%) Entity Framework
7 6 (0.36%) REST
7 6 (0.36%) Web Services
8 5 (0.30%) Spring
8 5 (0.30%) Spring Boot
9 4 (0.24%) ASP.NET
9 4 (0.24%) ASP.NET Core
9 4 (0.24%) LangChain
9 4 (0.24%) Vitest
10 3 (0.18%) EDI
10 3 (0.18%) gRPC
10 3 (0.18%) Next.js
10 3 (0.18%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 1,477 (89.08%) IoT
2 13 (0.78%) Product Ownership
3 12 (0.72%) Onboarding
4 10 (0.60%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (0.54%) Mobile App
6 7 (0.42%) Cloud Native
7 6 (0.36%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (0.30%) Low-Code
8 5 (0.30%) Social Media
9 4 (0.24%) AI Agents
10 3 (0.18%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.18%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (0.18%) Driving Licence
11 2 (0.12%) FMCG
11 2 (0.12%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.12%) NHS
11 2 (0.12%) PropTech
12 1 (0.060%) 3D Graphics
12 1 (0.060%) Data Protection Act
12 1 (0.060%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 7 (0.42%) Apple iOS
1 7 (0.42%) Windows
2 3 (0.18%) Android
3 1 (0.060%) Unix
3 1 (0.060%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,511 (91.13%) AI
2 1,484 (89.51%) Web Development
3 1,479 (89.20%) Cybersecurity
4 1,477 (89.08%) Machine Learning
5 59 (3.56%) UX Design
6 44 (2.65%) Problem-Solving
7 40 (2.41%) Agile
7 40 (2.41%) Continuous Improvement
8 28 (1.69%) Mentoring
9 27 (1.63%) Analytics
10 23 (1.39%) E-Commerce
11 22 (1.33%) CI/CD
12 20 (1.21%) Decision-Making
13 19 (1.15%) SEO
14 18 (1.09%) Service Management
14 18 (1.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 17 (1.03%) CRM
15 17 (1.03%) DevOps
15 17 (1.03%) Digital Marketing
16 16 (0.97%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 20 (1.21%) TypeScript
2 19 (1.15%) JavaScript
3 11 (0.66%) C#
3 11 (0.66%) SQL
4 6 (0.36%) Java
5 4 (0.24%) Bicep
5 4 (0.24%) Swift
6 2 (0.12%) PHP
7 1 (0.060%) Go
7 1 (0.060%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.060%) Python
Qualifications
1 1,493 (90.05%) Degree
2 1,477 (89.08%) Master's Degree
2 1,477 (89.08%) PhD
2 1,477 (89.08%) Postgraduate
3 4 (0.24%) Security Cleared
4 3 (0.18%) DBS Check
4 3 (0.18%) DV Cleared
4 3 (0.18%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (0.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.060%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (0.84%) QA
2 13 (0.78%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.24%) GDPR
3 4 (0.24%) WCAG
4 3 (0.18%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.18%) SLA
5 1 (0.060%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.060%) HL7
5 1 (0.060%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.060%) PMO
System Software
1 11 (0.66%) Active Directory
2 8 (0.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (0.72%) Terraform
2 9 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (0.42%) Kubernetes
5 2 (0.12%) Grafana
5 2 (0.12%) Packer
5 2 (0.12%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 38 (2.29%) Microsoft
2 19 (1.15%) Google
3 8 (0.48%) New Relic
3 8 (0.48%) Splunk
4 7 (0.42%) Adobe
5 4 (0.24%) DevExpress
5 4 (0.24%) OneLogin
5 4 (0.24%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.12%) Amplitude
6 2 (0.12%) Hotjar
6 2 (0.12%) OpenAI
6 2 (0.12%) SAP
7 1 (0.060%) Adyen
7 1 (0.060%) Ahrefs
7 1 (0.060%) Apple
7 1 (0.060%) Oracle
7 1 (0.060%) Qualtrics
7 1 (0.060%) Screaming Frog