User Experience Job Trends in Northern Ireland

UX
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring User Experience skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 36 43
Rank change year-on-year +5 +7 +24
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 9 21 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 2.85% 4.18% 3.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.24% 5.32% 3.53%
Number of salaries quoted 0 9 5
10th Percentile - £45,200 £30,550
25th Percentile - £46,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £50,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year - +33.33% -31.82%
75th Percentile - £60,000 £38,750
90th Percentile - £66,250 -
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 278 395 368
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 87.97% 78.69% 92.00%
Number of salaries quoted 125 216 284
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,375 £29,823
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,750 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% +15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £69,500 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £76,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings citing User Experience as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for User Experience in Northern Ireland

User Experience
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing User Experience.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing User Experience

User Experience
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing User Experience within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 22 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
County Antrim +13 9 - - 9
User Experience
UK

User Experience
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 (11.11%) Adobe XD
1 1 (11.11%) InVision
1 1 (11.11%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) AWS
1 7 (77.78%) Google Workspace
2 1 (11.11%) Figma
2 1 (11.11%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Bitbucket
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) IT Support
2 1 (11.11%) Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Designer
2 1 (11.11%) Senior
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Architect
2 1 (11.11%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
1 1 (11.11%) CSS
1 1 (11.11%) HTML
1 1 (11.11%) React
Miscellaneous
1 7 (77.78%) Smartphone
2 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Cybersecurity
1 7 (77.78%) Innovative Thinking
1 7 (77.78%) Matrix Organization
1 7 (77.78%) Product Strategy
1 7 (77.78%) Root Cause Analysis
1 7 (77.78%) Service Delivery
2 1 (11.11%) Agile
2 1 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (11.11%) Co-Creation
2 1 (11.11%) Community of Practice
2 1 (11.11%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (11.11%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
2 1 (11.11%) Migration
2 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (11.11%) Prototyping
2 1 (11.11%) Technical Analysis
2 1 (11.11%) Unit Testing
2 1 (11.11%) UX Design
2 1 (11.11%) UX Research
2 1 (11.11%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
1 1 (11.11%) WCAG
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Google
1 7 (77.78%) ServiceNow