UX Design Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

User Experience Design (UXD)
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 55 68 41
Rank change year-on-year +13 -27 -1
Permanent jobs citing UX Design 10 9 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 1.26% 1.21% 1.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.53% 1.33% 1.26%
Number of salaries quoted 9 4 4
10th Percentile - £31,400 -
25th Percentile £47,500 £38,375 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -5.56% -23.08%
75th Percentile £52,500 £45,813 £48,750
90th Percentile £53,000 £51,325 £51,000
North East median annual salary £50,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +17.65% -5.56% -23.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 653 675 317
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 82.55% 90.60% 92.69%
Number of salaries quoted 468 319 280
10th Percentile £28,175 £30,000 £29,425
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,972 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.06% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,113 £62,500
90th Percentile £81,625 £88,000 £77,500
North East median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £48,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +3.09% -3.00%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

UX Design job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

UX Design
Salary Trend in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing UX Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing UX Design

UX Design
Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing UX Design within the Tyne and Wear 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +7 10 £50,000 +17.65% 5
UX Design
North East

UX Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 (10.00%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (10.00%) InVision
1 1 (10.00%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Figma
4 1 (10.00%) SaaS
General
1 4 (40.00%) Electronics
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Developer
1 8 (80.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 4 (40.00%) .NET Developer
2 4 (40.00%) C# .NET Developer
2 4 (40.00%) C# Developer
2 4 (40.00%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
2 4 (40.00%) Full-Stack C# Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Designer
3 2 (20.00%) UX Designer
4 1 (10.00%) UI Designer
4 1 (10.00%) UI/UX Designer
4 1 (10.00%) User Experience Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (80.00%) .NET
1 8 (80.00%) CSS
1 8 (80.00%) HTML
2 4 (40.00%) .NET Core
2 4 (40.00%) Apache Cordova
2 4 (40.00%) ASP.NET
2 4 (40.00%) Node.js
3 1 (10.00%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Android
1 4 (40.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) User Experience
2 8 (80.00%) DevOps
2 8 (80.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 8 (80.00%) Mentoring
2 8 (80.00%) Roadmaps
3 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (40.00%) Mobile Application Development
3 4 (40.00%) Product Roadmap
3 4 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 4 (40.00%) Technology Roadmap
4 1 (10.00%) Agile
4 1 (10.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (10.00%) Front End Development
4 1 (10.00%) Low-Fidelity Prototypes
4 1 (10.00%) Mobile First
4 1 (10.00%) Prototyping
4 1 (10.00%) Responsive Web Design
4 1 (10.00%) Usability Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) C#
1 8 (80.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (40.00%) XAML
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Adobe