User-Centered Design (UCD) Jobs in the North West

User-Centered Design (UCD)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring User-Centered Design (UCD) skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited User-Centered Design (UCD) over the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 258 203 280
Rank change year-on-year -55 +77 +9
Permanent jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) 12 89 26
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.16% 0.91% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 1.10% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 12 48 17
10th Percentile £42,275 £40,988 £47,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,112 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,965 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.43% -10.82% +35.42%
75th Percentile £69,568 £60,741 £80,000
90th Percentile £75,772 £70,000 £95,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,965 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.51% -7.26% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

User-Centered Design (UCD) 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 7,294 8,082 7,610
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 95.51% 83.02% 95.74%
Number of salaries quoted 4,083 6,134 3,964
10th Percentile £27,003 £27,575 £30,774
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing User-Centered Design (UCD) as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for User-Centered Design (UCD) in the North West

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) in the North West.

Salary trend for User-Centered Design (UCD) in the North West

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) in the North West over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Salary histogram for User-Centered Design (UCD) in the North West

User-Centered Design (UCD)
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-Centered Design (UCD) within the North West region over the 6 months to 5 May 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 +25 10 £51,250 -11.58% 15
Lancashire -61 2 £73,805 +27.33% 9
User-Centered Design (UCD)
England

User-Centered Design (UCD)
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:

Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Adobe XD
1 1 (8.33%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) Figma
1 2 (16.67%) Google Analytics
2 1 (8.33%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
1 1 (8.33%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Automotive
3 1 (8.33%) Electronics
3 1 (8.33%) Law
3 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
3 1 (8.33%) Marketing
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (8.33%) Retail
3 1 (8.33%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Product Manager
2 3 (25.00%) Lead
2 3 (25.00%) Lead Product Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Designer
3 2 (16.67%) Performance Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Software Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 1 (8.33%) Junior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Designer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior UI Designer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior UI/UX Designer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior UX Designer
4 1 (8.33%) Service Designer
4 1 (8.33%) UI Designer
4 1 (8.33%) UI/UX Designer
4 1 (8.33%) User Experience Researcher
4 1 (8.33%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) HTML
2 2 (16.67%) .NET
2 2 (16.67%) CSS
3 1 (8.33%) AngularJS
3 1 (8.33%) JSON
3 1 (8.33%) LINQ
3 1 (8.33%) Next.js
3 1 (8.33%) Node.js
3 1 (8.33%) RESTful
3 1 (8.33%) RxJS
3 1 (8.33%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (8.33%) Client/Server
2 1 (8.33%) Educational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Agile
2 6 (50.00%) User Experience
3 5 (41.67%) Coaching
3 5 (41.67%) Mentoring
3 5 (41.67%) Performance Metrics
3 5 (41.67%) Roadmaps
3 5 (41.67%) User Research
4 4 (33.33%) Product Roadmap
5 3 (25.00%) Analytics
5 3 (25.00%) Customer Experience
6 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (16.67%) Customer-Centricity
6 2 (16.67%) Front End Development
6 2 (16.67%) Interaction Design
6 2 (16.67%) Multivariate Testing
6 2 (16.67%) Performance Analysis
6 2 (16.67%) Product Management
6 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering
6 2 (16.67%) UX Design
6 2 (16.67%) Web Analytics
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (8.33%) C#
3 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (8.33%) HND
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Google
2 1 (8.33%) Adobe
2 1 (8.33%) EMC