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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 33 57
Rank change year-on-year -30 +24 +18
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 14 3 9
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 1.46% 1.10% 1.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.87% 1.22% 2.00%
Number of salaries quoted 7 1 1
10th Percentile £48,200 - -
25th Percentile £59,375 £87,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £95,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +111.11% +20.00%
75th Percentile - £102,500 £47,500
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year - +12.75% -18.40%

All Process & 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 748 245 449
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 77.92% 89.74% 86.85%
Number of salaries quoted 286 67 296
10th Percentile - £32,967 £30,000
25th Percentile £26,250 £40,221 £35,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £82,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.86%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing User Experience relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

User Experience job vacancy trend 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
Salary Histogram in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution for jobs citing User Experience in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 21 April 2026.

Salary histogram for User Experience in Northern Ireland

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 21 April 2026. 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 -17 14 £95,000 - 16
User Experience
UK

User Experience
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 2 (14.29%) CICS
2 1 (7.14%) Confluence
2 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) AWS
1 4 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
1 4 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
1 4 (28.57%) Azure
1 4 (28.57%) Azure Functions
1 4 (28.57%) Cloud Functions
1 4 (28.57%) GCP
1 4 (28.57%) Serverless
2 1 (7.14%) GitHub
2 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) DB2
2 1 (7.14%) Metadata
2 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 5 (35.71%) Legal
2 3 (21.43%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Marketing
3 2 (14.29%) Advertising
3 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Digital Product Manager
1 5 (35.71%) Product Manager
2 4 (28.57%) Lead
3 2 (14.29%) Identity Management Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Business Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Business Sales Executive
4 1 (7.14%) Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Lead Developer
4 1 (7.14%) New Business Sales Executive
4 1 (7.14%) Sales Executive
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Software Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) UI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (42.86%) React
2 5 (35.71%) Next.js
3 4 (28.57%) AngularJS
3 4 (28.57%) Node.js
3 4 (28.57%) Vue
4 1 (7.14%) D3.js
4 1 (7.14%) GraphQL
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (7.14%) RESTful
4 1 (7.14%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 2 (14.29%) Mainframe
1 2 (14.29%) VSAM
2 1 (7.14%) Algorithms
2 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) UX Design
2 7 (50.00%) Agile
2 7 (50.00%) AI
3 6 (42.86%) DevOps
4 5 (35.71%) Backlog Management
4 5 (35.71%) CI/CD
4 5 (35.71%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 5 (35.71%) Full-Stack Development
4 5 (35.71%) Human-Centred Design
4 5 (35.71%) Product Management
4 5 (35.71%) Product Strategy
4 5 (35.71%) Telematics
5 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (28.57%) LLM
5 4 (28.57%) Mentoring
5 4 (28.57%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 4 (28.57%) Roadmaps
5 4 (28.57%) Software Delivery
5 4 (28.57%) Software Engineering
6 3 (21.43%) Budget Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) TypeScript
2 4 (28.57%) C#
2 4 (28.57%) Java
2 4 (28.57%) JavaScript
2 4 (28.57%) Python
3 2 (14.29%) COBOL
3 2 (14.29%) JCL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) RACF
2 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Terraform
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft