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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 25 84
Rank change year-on-year -12 +59 -20
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 411 475 155
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 7.98% 6.13% 3.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.94% 7.86% 3.63%
Number of salaries quoted 107 118 125
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £23,850
25th Percentile £43,750 £38,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £62,188 £61,250
90th Percentile £84,250 £71,125 £70,750
England median annual salary £57,750 £57,250 £62,500
% change year-on-year +0.87% -8.40% +4.17%

All Process and 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 4,596 6,044 4,269
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 89.21% 77.96% 94.74%
Number of salaries quoted 2,192 3,460 3,149
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £42,075
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,055 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% -8.99% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £62,400
% change year-on-year -4.35% -7.85% +4.00%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing User Experience as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for User Experience 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025. 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 -1 233 £60,000 +26.32% 88
Lancashire -28 86 £42,384 -15.32% 61
Cheshire +21 72 £51,250 +20.59% 27
Merseyside -8 11 £47,500 +5.56% 3
Cumbria +10 7 £36,000 +3.60%
User Experience
England

User Experience
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (2.19%) Skype for Business
2 7 (1.70%) CMS
3 5 (1.22%) Confluence
4 2 (0.49%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.24%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.24%) IIS
5 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (1.70%) Chatbot
2 5 (1.22%) Adobe XD
2 5 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.97%) Sketch
4 3 (0.73%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 3 (0.73%) Adobe Illustrator
4 3 (0.73%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.49%) Adobe After Effects
5 2 (0.49%) InDesign
6 1 (0.24%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.24%) Blender
6 1 (0.24%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.24%) InVision
6 1 (0.24%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.24%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Magento
1 1 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (0.24%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 287 (69.83%) AWS
2 267 (64.96%) Azure
3 181 (44.04%) GCP
4 16 (3.89%) Google Analytics
5 12 (2.92%) AWS Lambda
5 12 (2.92%) Serverless
6 9 (2.19%) Figma
6 9 (2.19%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (1.95%) SaaS
8 7 (1.70%) GitHub
9 6 (1.46%) Power Platform
10 4 (0.97%) Contentsquare
11 3 (0.73%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (0.73%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (0.73%) Facebook Ads
11 3 (0.73%) Google Ads
12 2 (0.49%) Cloudflare
12 2 (0.49%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (0.49%) OpenShift
12 2 (0.49%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.43%) Unified Communications
2 9 (2.19%) Skype
2 9 (2.19%) Wireless
3 5 (1.22%) HTTP
4 1 (0.24%) DMZ
4 1 (0.24%) DNS
4 1 (0.24%) SSH
4 1 (0.24%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.24%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (18.98%) SQL Server
2 17 (4.14%) MySQL
3 16 (3.89%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (2.19%) DynamoDB
5 8 (1.95%) NoSQL
6 7 (1.70%) MongoDB
7 6 (1.46%) Power BI
8 4 (0.97%) Mixpanel
9 3 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (0.73%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.49%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.24%) DocumentDB
11 1 (0.24%) Looker
11 1 (0.24%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.24%) Redis
Development Applications
1 86 (20.92%) JIRA
2 77 (18.73%) Selenium
3 76 (18.49%) GitLab
4 72 (17.52%) Cucumber
5 71 (17.27%) Maven
6 70 (17.03%) Bitbucket
6 70 (17.03%) SonarQube
6 70 (17.03%) Sonatype Nexus
7 20 (4.87%) Git
8 6 (1.46%) JUnit
9 4 (0.97%) Appium
9 4 (0.97%) Fiddler
9 4 (0.97%) JMeter
9 4 (0.97%) LoadRunner
9 4 (0.97%) Postman
9 4 (0.97%) webpack
9 4 (0.97%) Xcode
10 3 (0.73%) Storybook
11 2 (0.49%) Babel
11 2 (0.49%) ESLint
General
1 252 (61.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 118 (28.71%) Finance
3 82 (19.95%) Retail
4 72 (17.52%) Banking
5 70 (17.03%) Corporate Banking
5 70 (17.03%) Investment Banking
6 52 (12.65%) Social Skills
7 31 (7.54%) Marketing
8 11 (2.68%) Analytical Skills
9 8 (1.95%) Financial Institution
9 8 (1.95%) Games
9 8 (1.95%) Mandarin Language
10 5 (1.22%) Public Sector
11 4 (0.97%) Advertising
11 4 (0.97%) Cantonese Language
11 4 (0.97%) Electronics
11 4 (0.97%) Law
11 4 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.73%) Brand Awareness
13 1 (0.24%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 242 (58.88%) Software Engineer
2 204 (49.64%) Senior
3 172 (41.85%) Senior Software Engineer
4 48 (11.68%) Developer
5 16 (3.89%) Applications Support
6 15 (3.65%) Java Developer
7 14 (3.41%) Senior Developer
8 13 (3.16%) Senior Java Developer
9 11 (2.68%) Designer
9 11 (2.68%) Full-Stack Developer
9 11 (2.68%) IT Support
9 11 (2.68%) Lead
10 10 (2.43%) Applications Manager
10 10 (2.43%) Applications Support Manager
10 10 (2.43%) Support Manager
11 9 (2.19%) Collaboration Specialist
11 9 (2.19%) JavaScript Developer
12 8 (1.95%) Analyst
12 8 (1.95%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
13 6 (1.46%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 184 (44.77%) Node.js
2 180 (43.80%) .NET
3 100 (24.33%) React
4 91 (22.14%) CSS
5 88 (21.41%) HTML
6 84 (20.44%) RESTful
7 83 (20.19%) Kafka
8 81 (19.71%) REST
9 80 (19.46%) Spring
9 80 (19.46%) Spring Boot
10 74 (18.00%) CSS3
10 74 (18.00%) HTML5
11 72 (17.52%) Jest
11 72 (17.52%) Redux
12 71 (17.27%) Sass
13 70 (17.03%) JPA
14 12 (2.92%) AngularJS
15 8 (1.95%) Amazon Corretto
15 8 (1.95%) Middleware
15 8 (1.95%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 173 (42.09%) Linux Command Line
1 173 (42.09%) Self-Motivation
2 172 (41.85%) Cyberattack
3 86 (20.92%) Product Ownership
4 71 (17.27%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (3.16%) Social Media
6 10 (2.43%) Digital Signage
7 9 (2.19%) e-Learning
7 9 (2.19%) Video Conferencing
8 5 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (0.97%) AI Agents
9 4 (0.97%) FMCG
9 4 (0.97%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 3 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.73%) Animation
10 3 (0.73%) Graphic Design
10 3 (0.73%) Mobile App
11 2 (0.49%) Cloud Native
11 2 (0.49%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 179 (43.55%) Linux
2 8 (1.95%) Windows
2 8 (1.95%) Windows Server
3 4 (0.97%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.24%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 311 (75.67%) Agile
2 255 (62.04%) Microservices
3 254 (61.80%) Mentoring
3 254 (61.80%) Software Engineering
4 181 (44.04%) Machine Learning
4 181 (44.04%) Scrum
5 173 (42.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 172 (41.85%) Cloud Security
6 172 (41.85%) Data Engineering
7 97 (23.60%) CI/CD
7 97 (23.60%) Full-Stack Development
8 94 (22.87%) DevOps
9 93 (22.63%) Front End Development
9 93 (22.63%) Test Automation
10 80 (19.46%) SDLC
11 78 (18.98%) Containerisation
12 76 (18.49%) Migration
13 74 (18.00%) Performance Optimisation
14 73 (17.76%) Responsive Web Design
14 73 (17.76%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 288 (70.07%) JavaScript
2 276 (67.15%) Java
3 189 (45.99%) Python
4 174 (42.34%) Rust
5 172 (41.85%) C++
5 172 (41.85%) Go
6 107 (26.03%) TypeScript
7 77 (18.73%) SQL
8 10 (2.43%) C#
9 4 (0.97%) PHP
9 4 (0.97%) Swift
10 2 (0.49%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.24%) Bash
11 1 (0.24%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.24%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 177 (43.07%) Security Cleared
2 172 (41.85%) AWS Certification
2 172 (41.85%) AWS Certified Developer
2 172 (41.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 172 (41.85%) DV Cleared
3 13 (3.16%) Degree
4 5 (1.22%) SC Cleared
5 4 (0.97%) DBS Check
5 4 (0.97%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.24%) CISM
6 1 (0.24%) CISSP
6 1 (0.24%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.24%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.24%) PhD
6 1 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (21.90%) QA
2 84 (20.44%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.46%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.22%) GDPR
5 4 (0.97%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.73%) WCAG
7 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.24%) HL7
7 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.24%) NCSC
7 1 (0.24%) NIST
System Software
1 98 (23.84%) Docker
2 6 (1.46%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 89 (21.65%) Kubernetes
2 12 (2.92%) Terraform
3 6 (1.46%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.73%) Grafana
5 1 (0.24%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 70 (17.03%) Solace
2 31 (7.54%) Google
3 27 (6.57%) Microsoft
4 13 (3.16%) Facebook
5 10 (2.43%) Cisco
6 9 (2.19%) Bloomberg
6 9 (2.19%) Mitel
6 9 (2.19%) Polycom
6 9 (2.19%) ShoreTel
7 8 (1.95%) Adobe
7 8 (1.95%) Hotjar
8 6 (1.46%) Salesforce
8 6 (1.46%) ServiceNow
8 6 (1.46%) Veeam
8 6 (1.46%) VMware
9 4 (0.97%) Genesys
9 4 (0.97%) Oracle
10 2 (0.49%) IBM
11 1 (0.24%) Marin
11 1 (0.24%) Talend