Interaction Design Job Trends in the West Midlands

Interaction Design (IxD)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Interaction Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 171 198 177
Rank change year-on-year +27 -21 +88
Permanent jobs citing Interaction Design 4 4 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.078% 0.089% 0.033%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.093% 0.099% 0.036%
Number of salaries quoted 4 4 1
10th Percentile £42,250 - -
25th Percentile £45,625 £42,200 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,488 £30,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.97% +68.29% -31.58%
75th Percentile £55,785 £60,991 £32,500
90th Percentile £61,698 - -
England median annual salary £63,076 £58,465 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.89% -10.05% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Interaction 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 the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,300 4,039 2,800
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.64% 89.58% 91.92%
Number of salaries quoted 2,200 1,842 2,381
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,288 £26,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Interaction Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Interaction Design relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Interaction Design job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Interaction Design
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Interaction Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Interaction Design

Interaction Design
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Interaction Design in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Interaction Design in the West Midlands

Interaction Design
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Interaction Design within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 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
Birmingham +32 3 £50,000 -14.48% 3
Solihull - 1 £40,000 -
Interaction Design
England

Interaction Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Adobe After Effects
1 1 (25.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (25.00%) Adobe Premiere
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Figma
1 3 (75.00%) SaaS
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub Copilot
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (25.00%) Marketing
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Blazor Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
1 2 (50.00%) UX Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Designer
2 1 (25.00%) Product Designer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior User Researcher
2 1 (25.00%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
1 2 (50.00%) Blazor
1 2 (50.00%) Material Design
1 2 (50.00%) WebAssembly
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (25.00%) Graphic Design
2 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (25.00%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) User Experience
2 3 (75.00%) UX Design
2 3 (75.00%) Wireframes
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) AI
3 2 (50.00%) CRM
3 2 (50.00%) Data Integration
3 2 (50.00%) Front End Development
3 2 (50.00%) Responsive Web Design
3 2 (50.00%) User Stories
4 1 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
4 1 (25.00%) Coaching
4 1 (25.00%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
4 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (25.00%) Prototyping
4 1 (25.00%) Qualitative Research
4 1 (25.00%) Quantitative Research
4 1 (25.00%) Service Design
4 1 (25.00%) User Research
4 1 (25.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (50.00%) WCAG
3 1 (25.00%) Actionable Recommendations
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Adobe