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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 35 24
Rank change year-on-year -34 -11 +83
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 231 429 542
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 2.03% 8.38% 5.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.85% 9.18% 7.48%
Number of salaries quoted 170 118 196
10th Percentile £29,934 £34,079 £29,250
25th Percentile £35,250 £42,500 £37,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +22.22% -21.74%
75th Percentile £65,938 £72,500 £64,063
90th Percentile £75,000 £81,800 £80,426
England median annual salary £56,500 £60,000 £53,100
% change year-on-year -5.83% +12.99% -15.71%

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 8,095 4,675 7,243
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 71.21% 91.36% 78.66%
Number of salaries quoted 6,201 2,281 5,181
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,055 £50,055
Median % change year-on-year +9.88% - -8.99%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £65,603
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 24 July 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 24 July 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 -52 121 £55,000 -4.35% 45
Cheshire -18 44 £55,000 +10.00% 11
Merseyside -5 27 £54,800 +15.37% 4
Cumbria -2 25 £35,500 -1.39% 1
Lancashire -26 14 £42,500 +0.27% 16
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 20 (8.66%) SharePoint
2 12 (5.19%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (4.33%) CMS
4 9 (3.90%) WordPress
5 8 (3.46%) Confluence
6 3 (1.30%) Skype for Business
7 2 (0.87%) Moodle
7 2 (0.87%) nginx
7 2 (0.87%) Totara
8 1 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.43%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.43%) Umbraco
Applications
1 8 (3.46%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (3.03%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.30%) Sketch
4 2 (0.87%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (0.87%) Camtasia
5 1 (0.43%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.43%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.43%) Blender
5 1 (0.43%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.43%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.43%) InDesign
5 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.43%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 8 (3.46%) Magento
2 6 (2.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.30%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (1.30%) Shopify
4 1 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.43%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 37 (16.02%) Azure
2 31 (13.42%) Microsoft 365
3 27 (11.69%) Power Platform
4 21 (9.09%) PowerApps
5 20 (8.66%) Figma
6 18 (7.79%) Microsoft Copilot
7 17 (7.36%) Google Analytics
8 16 (6.93%) SaaS
9 15 (6.49%) Microsoft Purview
10 11 (4.76%) Power Automate
11 9 (3.90%) AWS
12 7 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (3.03%) Azure Logic Apps
13 5 (2.16%) Azure AI
13 5 (2.16%) Azure Cognitive Services
13 5 (2.16%) Copilot Studio
13 5 (2.16%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (2.16%) Entra ID
14 4 (1.73%) Azure Key Vault
14 4 (1.73%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.73%) DHCP
1 4 (1.73%) DNS
2 3 (1.30%) Firewall
2 3 (1.30%) Skype
3 1 (0.43%) CTI
3 1 (0.43%) FTP
3 1 (0.43%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.43%) VoIP
3 1 (0.43%) VPN
3 1 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.03%) Looker
2 5 (2.16%) SQL Server
3 4 (1.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (1.30%) Power BI
5 2 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.87%) Mixpanel
5 2 (0.87%) MySQL
5 2 (0.87%) 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 9 (3.90%) Git
2 8 (3.46%) JIRA
3 6 (2.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 6 (2.60%) fastlane
4 4 (1.73%) NUnit
5 3 (1.30%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.87%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.87%) Vagrant
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 41 (17.75%) Finance
2 33 (14.29%) Marketing
3 27 (11.69%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (10.82%) Social Skills
5 19 (8.23%) Public Sector
6 16 (6.93%) Law
7 11 (4.76%) Legal
8 8 (3.46%) Banking
8 8 (3.46%) Manufacturing
8 8 (3.46%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (3.46%) Retail
9 5 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.30%) Billing
11 3 (1.30%) Games
12 2 (0.87%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.43%) Local Government
13 1 (0.43%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 50 (21.65%) Designer
2 36 (15.58%) UX Designer
3 28 (12.12%) Senior
4 24 (10.39%) Lead
5 22 (9.52%) Developer
6 19 (8.23%) IT Manager
7 17 (7.36%) Product Designer
8 16 (6.93%) Service Manager
9 13 (5.63%) Coordinator
9 13 (5.63%) Desktop Engineer
9 13 (5.63%) E-Commerce Specialist
10 12 (5.19%) IT Engineer
10 12 (5.19%) IT Support
10 12 (5.19%) IT Support Engineer
10 12 (5.19%) Senior Designer
10 12 (5.19%) Senior UX Designer
10 12 (5.19%) Support Engineer
11 11 (4.76%) IT Services Manager
11 11 (4.76%) Microsoft 365 Manager
12 10 (4.33%) Desktop Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (6.06%) .NET
1 14 (6.06%) HTML
2 13 (5.63%) CSS
3 12 (5.19%) React
4 7 (3.03%) AngularJS
5 6 (2.60%) REST
6 5 (2.16%) Model Context Protocol
6 5 (2.16%) RESTful
7 4 (1.73%) .NET Framework
7 4 (1.73%) ASP.NET
7 4 (1.73%) ASP.NET Core
7 4 (1.73%) EDI
7 4 (1.73%) Entity Framework
7 4 (1.73%) LangChain
7 4 (1.73%) Vitest
8 3 (1.30%) Web Services
9 2 (0.87%) ASP.NET Web API
9 2 (0.87%) RxJS
9 2 (0.87%) Swagger
9 2 (0.87%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 21 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 14 (6.06%) Mobile App
3 13 (5.63%) Onboarding
4 11 (4.76%) Driving Licence
5 5 (2.16%) Low-Code
6 4 (1.73%) AI Agents
6 4 (1.73%) Cloud Native
6 4 (1.73%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.73%) Learning Management System
6 4 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.73%) Social Media
7 3 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.87%) Educational Technology
8 2 (0.87%) e-Learning
8 2 (0.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (0.87%) NHS
8 2 (0.87%) PropTech
9 1 (0.43%) 3D Graphics
9 1 (0.43%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 19 (8.23%) Windows
2 10 (4.33%) Apple iOS
3 7 (3.03%) Windows 10
4 5 (2.16%) Android
5 4 (1.73%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.30%) Windows 7
7 2 (0.87%) Linux
8 1 (0.43%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (29.87%) UX Design
2 65 (28.14%) Problem-Solving
3 55 (23.81%) Continuous Improvement
4 43 (18.61%) AI
5 35 (15.15%) Analytics
5 35 (15.15%) Mentoring
6 31 (13.42%) E-Commerce
7 28 (12.12%) CRM
7 28 (12.12%) Roadmaps
8 27 (11.69%) Agile
9 25 (10.82%) ITIL
10 24 (10.39%) CI/CD
11 23 (9.96%) Decision-Making
12 22 (9.52%) Customer Service
13 21 (9.09%) Software Engineering
13 21 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
13 21 (9.09%) Workflow
14 19 (8.23%) Service Management
15 18 (7.79%) Performance Management
15 18 (7.79%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 17 (7.36%) C#
2 15 (6.49%) JavaScript
3 12 (5.19%) TypeScript
4 9 (3.90%) SQL
5 7 (3.03%) PowerShell
5 7 (3.03%) VBScript
6 6 (2.60%) Swift
7 4 (1.73%) Bicep
7 4 (1.73%) Java
8 3 (1.30%) Python
8 3 (1.30%) VB
9 2 (0.87%) PHP
10 1 (0.43%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 18 (7.79%) Degree
2 12 (5.19%) Security Cleared
3 7 (3.03%) Postgraduate
4 6 (2.60%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.16%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.73%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.30%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.36%) Accessibility
2 13 (5.63%) GDPR
3 11 (4.76%) QA
4 7 (3.03%) WCAG
5 4 (1.73%) SLA
6 2 (0.87%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.43%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (3.03%) BitLocker
2 5 (2.16%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.87%) Docker
3 2 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 7 (3.03%) SCCM
2 4 (1.73%) Terraform
3 2 (0.87%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.87%) Packer
3 2 (0.87%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 61 (26.41%) Microsoft
2 18 (7.79%) Google
3 8 (3.46%) ServiceNow
4 6 (2.60%) Adobe
5 4 (1.73%) DevExpress
6 3 (1.30%) OneLogin
6 3 (1.30%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.87%) Amplitude
7 2 (0.87%) Apple
7 2 (0.87%) Synthesia
8 1 (0.43%) Adyen
8 1 (0.43%) Avaya
8 1 (0.43%) Cisco
8 1 (0.43%) Genesys
8 1 (0.43%) Hotjar
8 1 (0.43%) Meraki
8 1 (0.43%) Oracle
8 1 (0.43%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.43%) SAP
8 1 (0.43%) Workday