UX Design Job Trends in the North West

User Experience Design (UXD)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring UX Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 161 159 117
Rank change year-on-year -2 -42 +29
Permanent jobs citing UX Design 20 60 57
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.33% 1.13% 1.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 1.25% 1.75%
Number of salaries quoted 6 21 43
10th Percentile £40,870 £42,250 -
25th Percentile £42,527 £48,750 £23,850
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £55,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% +29.41% -29.17%
75th Percentile £67,188 £58,750 £56,250
90th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £67,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +13.64% -15.38% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

UX Design 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 5,119 4,795 3,253
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 84.49% 90.00% 93.42%
Number of salaries quoted 2,455 2,393 2,478
10th Percentile £27,850 £32,114 £31,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +0.22%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,603 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £79,920 £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing UX Design relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North West.

UX Design job vacancy trend in the North West

UX Design
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing UX Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing UX Design

UX Design
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing UX Design in the North West over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Salary histogram for UX Design in the North West

UX Design
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 UX Design within the North West region over the 6 months to 20 December 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 -5 16 £63,750 +15.91% 12
Lancashire +9 2 £42,384 -16.57% 6
Cheshire -11 1 - - 2
Merseyside - 1 - - 1
UX Design
England

UX Design
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 3 (15.00%) Confluence
2 2 (10.00%) CMS
3 1 (5.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (5.00%) SAP EWM
1 1 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (40.00%) Figma
2 7 (35.00%) Adobe Analytics
2 7 (35.00%) AWS
3 3 (15.00%) Azure
4 2 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (10.00%) Serverless
5 1 (5.00%) ChatGPT
5 1 (5.00%) GitHub
5 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (5.00%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Git
2 4 (20.00%) JIRA
3 1 (5.00%) JUnit
3 1 (5.00%) Maven
3 1 (5.00%) Selenium
General
1 6 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (30.00%) Banking
1 6 (30.00%) Influencing Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (20.00%) Finance
4 2 (10.00%) Games
4 2 (10.00%) Law
4 2 (10.00%) Marketing
5 1 (5.00%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Developer
2 6 (30.00%) Senior
2 6 (30.00%) Strategy Manager
3 3 (15.00%) Senior Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Senior Manager
3 3 (15.00%) Senior Strategy Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Consultant
4 2 (10.00%) Designer
4 2 (10.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 2 (10.00%) Java Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Service Designer
4 2 (10.00%) UI Developer
4 2 (10.00%) UI/UX Developer
4 2 (10.00%) UX Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Angular Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 1 (5.00%) Node.js Developer
5 1 (5.00%) React Developer
5 1 (5.00%) SAP Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) CSS
1 4 (20.00%) HTML
1 4 (20.00%) React
2 3 (15.00%) AngularJS
3 2 (10.00%) Node.js
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon Corretto
4 1 (5.00%) JSR 170
4 1 (5.00%) Next.js
4 1 (5.00%) OSGi
4 1 (5.00%) Spring
4 1 (5.00%) Spring Boot
4 1 (5.00%) Svelte
4 1 (5.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.00%) e-Learning
2 1 (5.00%) FMCG
2 1 (5.00%) Life Science
2 1 (5.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) User Experience
2 13 (65.00%) Agile
3 10 (50.00%) Design Thinking
3 10 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 9 (45.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (45.00%) Strategic Thinking
5 8 (40.00%) Analytics
5 8 (40.00%) Prototyping
6 6 (30.00%) Business Strategy
6 6 (30.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
6 6 (30.00%) Customer Experience
6 6 (30.00%) Customer Journey Map
6 6 (30.00%) Customer-Centricity
6 6 (30.00%) Digital Banking
6 6 (30.00%) Journey Map
6 6 (30.00%) Matrix Organization
6 6 (30.00%) Service Design
6 6 (30.00%) Storytelling
6 6 (30.00%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) TypeScript
2 4 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (15.00%) Java
4 2 (10.00%) C#
5 1 (5.00%) Python
5 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Degree
1 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (50.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (10.00%) Terraform
2 1 (5.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) Adobe
2 6 (30.00%) Qualtrics
3 1 (5.00%) Google
3 1 (5.00%) Hotjar
3 1 (5.00%) SAP