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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 72 50
Rank change year-on-year +66 -22 +52
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 1,659 175 377
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 16.02% 4.20% 4.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.72% 4.41% 4.95%
Number of salaries quoted 133 108 230
10th Percentile £29,342 £34,927 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +22.22% -21.95%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,125 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £79,000 £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 7,639 3,965 7,620
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 73.78% 95.11% 82.34%
Number of salaries quoted 4,520 2,158 6,062
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,500 £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 £70,000 £65,603
90th Percentile £88,148 £83,750 £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 1 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 1 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% 8
Cheshire +40 527 £45,000 +5.88% 9
Manchester +30 520 £58,932 +7.15% 64
Merseyside -6 20 £72,500 +31.82% 6
Cumbria -7 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 14 (0.84%) 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 4 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.18%) Sketch
4 2 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.060%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.060%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.060%) Blender
5 1 (0.060%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.060%) InDesign
5 1 (0.060%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.060%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.060%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (0.54%) 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 (89.03%) Cloud Computing
2 25 (1.51%) Azure
3 22 (1.33%) Power Platform
4 19 (1.15%) Figma
4 19 (1.15%) Microsoft 365
5 18 (1.08%) Google Analytics
6 13 (0.78%) Entra ID
7 12 (0.72%) Microsoft Purview
8 11 (0.66%) Azure Monitor
9 10 (0.60%) SaaS
10 9 (0.54%) AWS
11 8 (0.48%) Microsoft Copilot
11 8 (0.48%) OneDrive
11 8 (0.48%) Power Automate
12 7 (0.42%) PowerApps
13 5 (0.30%) Dynamics 365
14 4 (0.24%) Azure Key Vault
14 4 (0.24%) Azure Logic Apps
14 4 (0.24%) Dropbox
14 4 (0.24%) n8n
Communications & Networking
1 1,477 (89.03%) Internet
2 3 (0.18%) HTTP
3 1 (0.060%) DHCP
3 1 (0.060%) DNS
3 1 (0.060%) LAN
3 1 (0.060%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.060%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.060%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (0.48%) Looker
2 7 (0.42%) SQL Server
3 6 (0.36%) MySQL
3 6 (0.36%) NoSQL
4 5 (0.30%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.18%) Relational Database
5 3 (0.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (0.12%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.12%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.12%) Mixpanel
6 2 (0.12%) PostHog
6 2 (0.12%) Power BI
6 2 (0.12%) Redis
7 1 (0.060%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.060%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.060%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.060%) Metadata
7 1 (0.060%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.060%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.060%) SQL Server Integration Services
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 1,509 (90.96%) Social Skills
2 1,487 (89.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,483 (89.39%) Banking
4 29 (1.75%) Finance
4 29 (1.75%) Marketing
5 27 (1.63%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (0.78%) Public Sector
7 9 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (0.48%) Manufacturing
9 4 (0.24%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (0.24%) Law
9 4 (0.24%) Retail
10 2 (0.12%) Billing
10 2 (0.12%) Games
10 2 (0.12%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.060%) Legal
11 1 (0.060%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,127 (67.93%) Lecturer
2 40 (2.41%) Designer
3 34 (2.05%) Senior
4 29 (1.75%) UX Designer
5 17 (1.02%) Product Designer
6 16 (0.96%) IT Manager
7 15 (0.90%) Developer
7 15 (0.90%) Service Manager
8 14 (0.84%) E-Commerce Specialist
9 13 (0.78%) Senior Designer
9 13 (0.78%) Senior UX Designer
10 11 (0.66%) Lead
11 10 (0.60%) IT Services Manager
11 10 (0.60%) Senior IT Manager
11 10 (0.60%) Senior Manager
11 10 (0.60%) Senior Service Manager
12 8 (0.48%) Analyst
12 8 (0.48%) Platform Engineer
12 8 (0.48%) Software Engineer
13 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%) Next.js
10 3 (0.18%) Node.js
10 3 (0.18%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 1,477 (89.03%) IoT
2 12 (0.72%) Onboarding
2 12 (0.72%) Product Ownership
3 10 (0.60%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (0.54%) Mobile App
5 7 (0.42%) Cloud Native
6 6 (0.36%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (0.36%) Social Media
7 5 (0.30%) Low-Code
8 4 (0.24%) AI Agents
9 3 (0.18%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (0.18%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (0.18%) Driving Licence
10 2 (0.12%) FMCG
10 2 (0.12%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.12%) NHS
10 2 (0.12%) PropTech
11 1 (0.060%) 3D Graphics
11 1 (0.060%) EMV
11 1 (0.060%) Online Gambling
Operating Systems
1 8 (0.48%) Windows
2 7 (0.42%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.18%) Android
4 1 (0.060%) Unix
4 1 (0.060%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,511 (91.08%) AI
2 1,483 (89.39%) Web Development
3 1,481 (89.27%) Cybersecurity
4 1,477 (89.03%) Machine Learning
5 58 (3.50%) UX Design
6 45 (2.71%) Problem-Solving
7 41 (2.47%) Continuous Improvement
8 40 (2.41%) Agile
9 28 (1.69%) Analytics
10 27 (1.63%) Mentoring
11 24 (1.45%) E-Commerce
12 22 (1.33%) CI/CD
13 20 (1.21%) Decision-Making
13 20 (1.21%) SEO
14 19 (1.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 18 (1.08%) Digital Marketing
15 18 (1.08%) Service Management
16 17 (1.02%) CRM
16 17 (1.02%) DevOps
17 15 (0.90%) 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 (89.99%) Degree
2 1,477 (89.03%) Master's Degree
2 1,477 (89.03%) PhD
2 1,477 (89.03%) 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 1 (0.060%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.060%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (0.84%) QA
2 13 (0.78%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.24%) WCAG
4 3 (0.18%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.18%) GDPR
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 39 (2.35%) Microsoft
2 20 (1.21%) 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