UX Design Job Trends in Northern Ireland

User Experience Design (UXD)
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring UX Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 42 41
Rank change year-on-year -7 -1 +35
Permanent jobs citing UX Design 8 7 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 1.49% 1.82% 2.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.94% 2.17% 2.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61,250 £47,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £50,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% - -
75th Percentile £63,750 £52,500 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -4.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 413 322 316
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 76.77% 83.85% 91.33%
Number of salaries quoted 186 100 225
10th Percentile £26,625 £34,112 £30,000
25th Percentile £30,875 £45,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,250 £59,430 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.13% +18.86% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £69,800
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £80,778
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

UX Design job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

UX Design
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing UX Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing UX Design

UX Design
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 UX Design within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 21 January 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 -4 8 £62,500 +25.00% 2
UX Design
UK

UX Design
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 (25.00%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) GitHub
1 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) DB2
1 2 (25.00%) Metadata
2 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
General
1 7 (87.50%) Legal
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Marketing
3 1 (12.50%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Digital Product Manager
1 7 (87.50%) Product Manager
2 3 (37.50%) Identity Management Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) GraphQL
1 1 (12.50%) Next.js
1 1 (12.50%) React
1 1 (12.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Mainframe
1 2 (25.00%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Agile
1 8 (100.00%) User Experience
2 7 (87.50%) Backlog Management
2 7 (87.50%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 7 (87.50%) Human-Centred Design
2 7 (87.50%) Product Management
2 7 (87.50%) Product Strategy
2 7 (87.50%) Telematics
3 5 (62.50%) Analytics
3 5 (62.50%) Budget Management
3 5 (62.50%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (62.50%) Identity Access Management
3 5 (62.50%) Market Research
3 5 (62.50%) Performance Metrics
3 5 (62.50%) Performance Monitoring
3 5 (62.50%) Product Roadmap
3 5 (62.50%) Roadmaps
3 5 (62.50%) User Research
4 3 (37.50%) Coaching
4 3 (37.50%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) COBOL
1 2 (25.00%) JCL
2 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) RACF
2 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes