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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 34 26
Rank change year-on-year -36 -8 +68
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 234 430 517
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.95% 8.28% 6.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.71% 9.16% 7.96%
Number of salaries quoted 164 123 157
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,755 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,188 £42,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £46,250
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +18.92% -19.57%
75th Percentile £65,160 £72,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £74,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.70%

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 8,650 4,694 6,496
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 71.95% 90.43% 77.47%
Number of salaries quoted 6,579 2,263 4,315
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £39,720
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -1.96% -7.27%
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,465
% change year-on-year +9.09% -0.84% -11.26%

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 August 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 20 August 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
Manchester -65 114 £55,000 -0.08% 85
Cheshire -15 47 £55,000 +7.32% 11
Merseyside +4 31 £54,800 +15.37% 13
Cumbria -1 25 £35,500 -1.39%
Lancashire -24 17 £42,500 +0.27% 18
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 22 (9.40%) SharePoint
2 12 (5.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (3.85%) Confluence
4 5 (2.14%) CMS
4 5 (2.14%) WordPress
5 4 (1.71%) Skype for Business
6 2 (0.85%) Moodle
6 2 (0.85%) nginx
6 2 (0.85%) Totara
7 1 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.43%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.43%) Umbraco
Applications
1 11 (4.70%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.28%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.85%) Camtasia
5 1 (0.43%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.43%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 8 (3.42%) Magento
2 5 (2.14%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.71%) Workday HCM
4 3 (1.28%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.43%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 40 (17.09%) Azure
2 34 (14.53%) Microsoft 365
3 29 (12.39%) Power Platform
4 22 (9.40%) PowerApps
5 19 (8.12%) Microsoft Copilot
6 18 (7.69%) Figma
7 17 (7.26%) SaaS
8 14 (5.98%) Google Analytics
8 14 (5.98%) Microsoft Purview
9 12 (5.13%) Power Automate
10 9 (3.85%) AWS
11 7 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (2.99%) Azure Logic Apps
12 6 (2.56%) Copilot Studio
12 6 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (2.14%) Azure AI
13 5 (2.14%) Azure Cognitive Services
13 5 (2.14%) Entra ID
14 4 (1.71%) Azure Key Vault
14 4 (1.71%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.14%) DNS
2 4 (1.71%) DHCP
2 4 (1.71%) Skype
3 3 (1.28%) Firewall
3 3 (1.28%) FTP
4 1 (0.43%) CTI
4 1 (0.43%) SSL
4 1 (0.43%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.43%) VoIP
4 1 (0.43%) VPN
4 1 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.99%) Looker
2 5 (2.14%) SQL Server
3 4 (1.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (1.28%) Power BI
5 2 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.85%) Mixpanel
5 2 (0.85%) MySQL
5 2 (0.85%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.43%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.43%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.43%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (4.27%) Git
2 9 (3.85%) JIRA
3 5 (2.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 5 (2.14%) fastlane
4 4 (1.71%) NUnit
5 3 (1.28%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.85%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.43%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.43%) gulp
7 1 (0.43%) JMeter
7 1 (0.43%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.43%) webpack
General
1 42 (17.95%) Finance
2 31 (13.25%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (12.82%) Social Skills
4 27 (11.54%) Marketing
5 19 (8.12%) Public Sector
6 16 (6.84%) Law
7 11 (4.70%) Legal
8 8 (3.42%) Manufacturing
8 8 (3.42%) Retail
9 7 (2.99%) Banking
9 7 (2.99%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.28%) Billing
12 3 (1.28%) Games
13 2 (0.85%) Advertising
13 2 (0.85%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.43%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.43%) Local Government
14 1 (0.43%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 49 (20.94%) Designer
2 37 (15.81%) UX Designer
3 27 (11.54%) Senior
4 25 (10.68%) Lead
5 23 (9.83%) Developer
6 18 (7.69%) IT Manager
7 17 (7.26%) Product Designer
8 14 (5.98%) Analyst
8 14 (5.98%) Desktop Engineer
8 14 (5.98%) IT Support
8 14 (5.98%) Service Manager
9 13 (5.56%) E-Commerce Specialist
10 12 (5.13%) IT Engineer
10 12 (5.13%) IT Support Engineer
10 12 (5.13%) Support Engineer
11 11 (4.70%) Microsoft 365 Manager
11 11 (4.70%) Senior Designer
11 11 (4.70%) Senior UX Designer
12 10 (4.27%) Desktop Support
13 9 (3.85%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.98%) .NET
2 11 (4.70%) React
3 9 (3.85%) CSS
3 9 (3.85%) HTML
4 6 (2.56%) AngularJS
4 6 (2.56%) REST
5 5 (2.14%) Model Context Protocol
6 4 (1.71%) .NET Framework
6 4 (1.71%) ASP.NET
6 4 (1.71%) ASP.NET Core
6 4 (1.71%) EDI
6 4 (1.71%) Entity Framework
6 4 (1.71%) LangChain
6 4 (1.71%) RESTful
6 4 (1.71%) Vitest
7 3 (1.28%) Terraform
7 3 (1.28%) Web Services
8 2 (0.85%) LEMP Stack
8 2 (0.85%) RxJS
8 2 (0.85%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 21 (8.97%) Product Ownership
2 16 (6.84%) Mobile App
3 13 (5.56%) Driving Licence
4 10 (4.27%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.56%) Low-Code
6 5 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.71%) AI Agents
7 4 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.71%) Learning Management System
7 4 (1.71%) Video\Live Streaming
8 3 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.85%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.85%) Educational Technology
9 2 (0.85%) e-Learning
9 2 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.85%) PropTech
10 1 (0.43%) IVR
10 1 (0.43%) NHS
10 1 (0.43%) Online Gambling
10 1 (0.43%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 20 (8.55%) Windows
2 9 (3.85%) Apple iOS
3 8 (3.42%) Windows 10
4 5 (2.14%) Android
5 4 (1.71%) Windows 7
6 3 (1.28%) Mac OS
6 3 (1.28%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (28.21%) Problem-Solving
1 66 (28.21%) UX Design
2 55 (23.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 41 (17.52%) AI
4 36 (15.38%) Analytics
5 35 (14.96%) Mentoring
6 32 (13.68%) Roadmaps
7 28 (11.97%) E-Commerce
7 28 (11.97%) Stakeholder Management
8 27 (11.54%) CRM
9 23 (9.83%) Agile
9 23 (9.83%) CI/CD
9 23 (9.83%) Customer Service
9 23 (9.83%) Decision-Making
9 23 (9.83%) ITIL
10 22 (9.40%) Workflow
11 18 (7.69%) ITSM
11 18 (7.69%) Performance Management
11 18 (7.69%) Software Engineering
12 17 (7.26%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (7.26%) C#
2 16 (6.84%) JavaScript
3 10 (4.27%) TypeScript
4 9 (3.85%) SQL
5 8 (3.42%) PowerShell
5 8 (3.42%) VBScript
6 5 (2.14%) Swift
7 4 (1.71%) Bicep
7 4 (1.71%) VB
8 3 (1.28%) Python
9 2 (0.85%) Java
9 2 (0.85%) PHP
10 1 (0.43%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 15 (6.41%) Degree
2 11 (4.70%) Security Cleared
3 7 (2.99%) Postgraduate
4 6 (2.56%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.14%) DBS Check
5 5 (2.14%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.28%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.84%) Accessibility
2 14 (5.98%) GDPR
3 7 (2.99%) QA
4 5 (2.14%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.71%) SLA
5 4 (1.71%) WCAG
6 1 (0.43%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (3.42%) BitLocker
2 4 (1.71%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (3.42%) SCCM
2 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 67 (28.63%) Microsoft
2 15 (6.41%) Google
3 9 (3.85%) ServiceNow
4 4 (1.71%) Adobe
4 4 (1.71%) DevExpress
4 4 (1.71%) Workday
5 3 (1.28%) OpenAI
6 2 (0.85%) Amplitude
6 2 (0.85%) Apple
6 2 (0.85%) OneLogin
6 2 (0.85%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.85%) Synthesia
7 1 (0.43%) Adyen
7 1 (0.43%) Avaya
7 1 (0.43%) Cisco
7 1 (0.43%) Genesys
7 1 (0.43%) Hotjar
7 1 (0.43%) Meraki
7 1 (0.43%) Oracle