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

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 31 44
Rank change year-on-year -5 +13 +19
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 17 22 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 4.05% 4.49% 2.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.68% 5.67% 2.62%
Number of salaries quoted 0 10 2
10th Percentile - £45,725 -
25th Percentile - £46,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £52,500 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year - +40.00% -31.82%
75th Percentile - £60,000 £38,750
90th Percentile - £92,375 -
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £61,250
% change year-on-year - -6.12% +2.08%

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 363 388 305
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 86.43% 79.18% 91.32%
Number of salaries quoted 147 191 228
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,112 £29,994
25th Percentile £35,000 £46,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £79,613 £67,406
90th Percentile £86,000 £95,000 £76,250
UK median annual salary £54,250 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.58% - -

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
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 5 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
County Antrim +6 17 - - 6
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 1 (5.88%) CICS
1 1 (5.88%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Adobe XD
1 1 (5.88%) InVision
1 1 (5.88%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 8 (47.06%) AWS
2 7 (41.18%) Google Workspace
3 1 (5.88%) Azure
3 1 (5.88%) Figma
3 1 (5.88%) GCP
3 1 (5.88%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) Metadata
2 1 (5.88%) DB2
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) JIRA
2 1 (5.88%) Bitbucket
General
1 7 (41.18%) Legal
2 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Finance
3 2 (11.76%) Marketing
4 1 (5.88%) Banking
4 1 (5.88%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) IT Support
1 7 (41.18%) Product Manager
2 6 (35.29%) Digital Product Manager
3 3 (17.65%) Identity Management Manager
4 2 (11.76%) Senior
5 1 (5.88%) Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Business Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Designer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Product Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Technical Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Technical Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Technical Product Manager
5 1 (5.88%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) AngularJS
1 1 (5.88%) CSS
1 1 (5.88%) HTML
1 1 (5.88%) React
Miscellaneous
1 7 (41.18%) Smartphone
2 1 (5.88%) Mainframe
2 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.88%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (76.47%) Product Strategy
2 12 (70.59%) Cybersecurity
3 9 (52.94%) Agile
4 7 (41.18%) Innovative Thinking
4 7 (41.18%) Matrix Organization
4 7 (41.18%) Product Management
4 7 (41.18%) Roadmaps
4 7 (41.18%) Root Cause Analysis
4 7 (41.18%) Service Delivery
4 7 (41.18%) Telematics
4 7 (41.18%) UX Design
5 6 (35.29%) Backlog Management
5 6 (35.29%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 6 (35.29%) Human-Centred Design
5 6 (35.29%) Product Roadmap
6 5 (29.41%) Analytics
6 5 (29.41%) Budget Management
6 5 (29.41%) Identity Access Management
6 5 (29.41%) Performance Metrics
6 5 (29.41%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.88%) COBOL
1 1 (5.88%) JCL
1 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) Accessibility
1 1 (5.88%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) RACF
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) Google
1 7 (41.18%) ServiceNow