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 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 22 63
Rank change year-on-year -34 +41 +9
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 227 420 170
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 4.68% 6.07% 4.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.56% 7.49% 4.62%
Number of salaries quoted 96 97 125
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,050 £23,850
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £81,375 £73,750 £68,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% +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 4,080 5,604 3,677
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 84.16% 81.01% 94.19%
Number of salaries quoted 2,395 2,793 2,815
10th Percentile £27,000 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 6 November 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 6 November 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 -9 138 £55,000 -3.51% 166
Lancashire -20 37 £45,000 -22.28% 56
Cheshire +9 35 £57,500 +35.29% 40
Merseyside -5 8 £45,000 -21.74% 2
Cumbria +12 6 £36,000 +3.60%
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 8 (3.52%) Confluence
2 6 (2.64%) CMS
3 2 (0.88%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.44%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.44%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (3.08%) Chatbot
2 6 (2.64%) Adobe XD
3 5 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (2.20%) Sketch
4 4 (1.76%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.88%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.44%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.44%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.44%) InVision
6 1 (0.44%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.44%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Magento
1 1 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (0.44%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 124 (54.63%) AWS
2 114 (50.22%) Azure
3 67 (29.52%) GCP
4 15 (6.61%) Google Analytics
5 14 (6.17%) Figma
6 10 (4.41%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (4.41%) Serverless
7 9 (3.96%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (3.96%) SaaS
8 7 (3.08%) Adobe Analytics
8 7 (3.08%) GitHub
9 6 (2.64%) Power Platform
10 4 (1.76%) Contentsquare
11 2 (0.88%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (0.88%) Miro
11 2 (0.88%) OpenShift
11 2 (0.88%) Power Automate
11 2 (0.88%) PowerApps
11 2 (0.88%) Supabase
11 2 (0.88%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.88%) HTTP
2 1 (0.44%) DHCP
2 1 (0.44%) DNS
2 1 (0.44%) Internet
2 1 (0.44%) LAN
2 1 (0.44%) SSH
2 1 (0.44%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (14.10%) SQL Server
2 9 (3.96%) DynamoDB
3 7 (3.08%) MySQL
4 6 (2.64%) NoSQL
4 6 (2.64%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (2.64%) Power BI
5 5 (2.20%) MongoDB
6 4 (1.76%) Mixpanel
6 4 (1.76%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.88%) Looker
7 2 (0.88%) Metadata
7 2 (0.88%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.44%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.44%) DocumentDB
8 1 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.44%) Redis
Development Applications
1 41 (18.06%) JIRA
2 33 (14.54%) GitLab
3 32 (14.10%) Selenium
4 31 (13.66%) Cucumber
5 30 (13.22%) Maven
6 29 (12.78%) Bitbucket
6 29 (12.78%) SonarQube
6 29 (12.78%) Sonatype Nexus
7 14 (6.17%) Git
8 4 (1.76%) Xcode
9 3 (1.32%) JUnit
9 3 (1.32%) webpack
10 2 (0.88%) Babel
10 2 (0.88%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.44%) Android Studio
11 1 (0.44%) Axure RP
11 1 (0.44%) ESLint
11 1 (0.44%) Jenkins
11 1 (0.44%) Storybook
General
1 92 (40.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 66 (29.07%) Finance
3 49 (21.59%) Social Skills
4 37 (16.30%) Banking
5 35 (15.42%) Retail
6 29 (12.78%) Corporate Banking
6 29 (12.78%) Investment Banking
7 27 (11.89%) Marketing
8 16 (7.05%) Analytical Skills
9 9 (3.96%) Games
10 8 (3.52%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (2.64%) Law
11 6 (2.64%) Public Sector
12 5 (2.20%) Electronics
13 4 (1.76%) Legal
14 2 (0.88%) Aerospace
15 1 (0.44%) Manufacturing
15 1 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
15 1 (0.44%) Publishing
15 1 (0.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 93 (40.97%) Senior
1 93 (40.97%) Software Engineer
2 61 (26.87%) Senior Software Engineer
3 43 (18.94%) Developer
4 11 (4.85%) Applications Support
4 11 (4.85%) Java Developer
4 11 (4.85%) Senior Manager
5 10 (4.41%) Senior Developer
6 9 (3.96%) Senior Java Developer
7 8 (3.52%) Lead
8 7 (3.08%) Analyst
8 7 (3.08%) Designer
8 7 (3.08%) Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (2.64%) Applications Manager
9 6 (2.64%) Applications Support Manager
9 6 (2.64%) React Developer
9 6 (2.64%) Strategy Manager
9 6 (2.64%) Support Manager
10 5 (2.20%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 5 (2.20%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (33.04%) .NET
2 67 (29.52%) Node.js
3 58 (25.55%) React
4 53 (23.35%) CSS
5 49 (21.59%) HTML
6 44 (19.38%) RESTful
7 37 (16.30%) CSS3
7 37 (16.30%) HTML5
7 37 (16.30%) Spring
7 37 (16.30%) Spring Boot
8 36 (15.86%) Kafka
8 36 (15.86%) REST
9 32 (14.10%) Jest
10 31 (13.66%) Redux
11 29 (12.78%) JPA
11 29 (12.78%) Sass
12 9 (3.96%) Next.js
13 8 (3.52%) Amazon Corretto
14 6 (2.64%) ASP.NET
15 5 (2.20%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 62 (27.31%) Linux Command Line
1 62 (27.31%) Self-Motivation
2 61 (26.87%) Cyberattack
3 39 (17.18%) Product Ownership
4 29 (12.78%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (4.85%) Social Media
6 8 (3.52%) e-Learning
7 5 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.76%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.76%) Animation
8 4 (1.76%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.88%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.88%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.88%) Wiki
11 1 (0.44%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.44%) Graphic Design
11 1 (0.44%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.44%) IoT
11 1 (0.44%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 63 (27.75%) Linux
2 6 (2.64%) Windows
3 5 (2.20%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.76%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.44%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (67.40%) Agile
2 107 (47.14%) Software Engineering
3 101 (44.49%) Microservices
4 100 (44.05%) Mentoring
5 74 (32.60%) Machine Learning
6 70 (30.84%) Scrum
7 62 (27.31%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 61 (26.87%) Cloud Security
8 61 (26.87%) Data Engineering
9 55 (24.23%) DevOps
10 51 (22.47%) CI/CD
11 50 (22.03%) Full-Stack Development
12 48 (21.15%) Front End Development
13 44 (19.38%) Test Automation
14 37 (16.30%) SDLC
14 37 (16.30%) Strategic Thinking
15 35 (15.42%) Analytics
15 35 (15.42%) Containerisation
15 35 (15.42%) Migration
15 35 (15.42%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 121 (53.30%) JavaScript
2 116 (51.10%) Java
3 73 (32.16%) Python
4 64 (28.19%) Rust
5 61 (26.87%) C++
5 61 (26.87%) Go
6 55 (24.23%) TypeScript
7 38 (16.74%) SQL
8 19 (8.37%) C#
9 4 (1.76%) Swift
10 3 (1.32%) PHP
11 2 (0.88%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.88%) R
12 1 (0.44%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.44%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 66 (29.07%) Security Cleared
2 62 (27.31%) DV Cleared
3 61 (26.87%) AWS Certification
3 61 (26.87%) AWS Certified Developer
3 61 (26.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 20 (8.81%) Degree
5 4 (1.76%) SC Cleared
6 2 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.88%) Numerate Degree
6 2 (0.88%) PhD
7 1 (0.44%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.44%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.44%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (21.59%) Accessibility
2 37 (16.30%) QA
3 5 (2.20%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.32%) GDPR
5 2 (0.88%) HL7
5 2 (0.88%) WCAG
6 1 (0.44%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 48 (21.15%) Docker
2 5 (2.20%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 45 (19.82%) Kubernetes
2 10 (4.41%) Terraform
3 5 (2.20%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.88%) Grafana
5 1 (0.44%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 29 (12.78%) Solace
2 22 (9.69%) Google
2 22 (9.69%) Microsoft
3 10 (4.41%) Adobe
3 10 (4.41%) Hotjar
4 6 (2.64%) Facebook
4 6 (2.64%) Qualtrics
5 5 (2.20%) ServiceNow
5 5 (2.20%) Veeam
5 5 (2.20%) VMware
6 4 (1.76%) Bloomberg
6 4 (1.76%) Genesys
6 4 (1.76%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.88%) Ahrefs
7 2 (0.88%) IBM
7 2 (0.88%) Screaming Frog
8 1 (0.44%) iManage
8 1 (0.44%) Marin
8 1 (0.44%) TikTok
8 1 (0.44%) WooCommerce