User Experience Job Trends in the West Midlands

UX
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring User Experience skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 127 69
Rank change year-on-year +120 -58 +60
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 1,029 58 222
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 14.92% 1.72% 3.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.31% 1.87% 4.06%
Number of salaries quoted 89 33 176
10th Percentile £34,500 £38,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -15.89%
75th Percentile £53,875 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £67,250 £86,250 £71,875
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -19.23%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,330 3,097 5,474
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 77.26% 91.68% 84.31%
Number of salaries quoted 2,977 1,696 4,305
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £39,000 £41,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

User Experience job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

User Experience
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing User Experience.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing User Experience

User Experience
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing User Experience in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 25 March 2026.

Salary histogram for User Experience in the West Midlands

User Experience
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 User Experience within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 25 March 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
Staffordshire +48 264 £35,000 -31.71% 6
Warwickshire +51 234 £40,000 -20.00% 14
Worcestershire - 169 £35,000 -
Birmingham +41 92 £50,000 -9.09% 24
Shropshire +7 46 £82,500 +13.79% 3
Wolverhampton - 15 - -
Coventry -5 14 £42,500 -50.00% 9
Sutton Coldfield - 14 - -
Bilston - 13 £66,500 -
Halesowen - 13 £32,500 -
Tipton - 9 - -
Solihull - 9 - - 1
Stourbridge - 9 - -
Brierley Hill - 9 - -
Wednesbury +1 8 - -
Dudley - 8 - -
Kingswinford - 8 - -
Walsall - 8 - - 1
Smethwick - 8 - -
West Bromwich -1 7 - -
Rowley Regis - 7 - -
Willenhall - 6 - - 1
User Experience
England

User Experience
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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (0.87%) CMS
2 8 (0.78%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.49%) nginx
4 2 (0.19%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.097%) Confluence
5 1 (0.097%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (0.87%) Adobe Illustrator
1 9 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
1 9 (0.87%) Photoshop
2 4 (0.39%) Adobe After Effects
2 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.097%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 8 (0.78%) Shopify
2 1 (0.097%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.097%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 915 (88.92%) Cloud Computing
2 17 (1.65%) SaaS
3 13 (1.26%) GitHub
4 10 (0.97%) Power Platform
5 9 (0.87%) Figma
6 8 (0.78%) GitHub Copilot
7 7 (0.68%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (0.58%) AWS
8 6 (0.58%) Google Analytics
9 5 (0.49%) Azure
9 5 (0.49%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (0.49%) OCI
9 5 (0.49%) Power Automate
9 5 (0.49%) PowerApps
10 2 (0.19%) GCP
10 2 (0.19%) Google Ads
10 2 (0.19%) Google Tag Manager
10 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (0.19%) Serverless
11 1 (0.097%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 915 (88.92%) Internet
2 2 (0.19%) Intranet
3 1 (0.097%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.097%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (0.68%) Power BI
2 5 (0.49%) MySQL
2 5 (0.49%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (0.29%) Looker
3 3 (0.29%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.19%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.097%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.097%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.097%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.097%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (0.78%) Git
1 8 (0.78%) Visual Studio
2 6 (0.58%) Vite
3 1 (0.097%) Babel
3 1 (0.097%) Balsamiq
3 1 (0.097%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.097%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.097%) JIRA
3 1 (0.097%) Selenium
3 1 (0.097%) SpecFlow
3 1 (0.097%) TestRail
3 1 (0.097%) Toad
3 1 (0.097%) webpack
3 1 (0.097%) Zephyr
General
1 943 (91.64%) Social Skills
2 921 (89.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 917 (89.12%) Banking
4 18 (1.75%) Finance
5 17 (1.65%) Marketing
6 13 (1.26%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (0.97%) Legal
8 9 (0.87%) Retail
9 6 (0.58%) Public Sector
10 5 (0.49%) Games
11 4 (0.39%) iGaming
12 3 (0.29%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.29%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.19%) Advertising
14 1 (0.097%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.097%) Back Office
14 1 (0.097%) Law
14 1 (0.097%) Police
14 1 (0.097%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 681 (66.18%) Lecturer
2 27 (2.62%) Developer
3 17 (1.65%) Designer
4 16 (1.55%) UX Designer
5 13 (1.26%) Analyst
6 9 (0.87%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 9 (0.87%) Java Developer
6 9 (0.87%) Product Owner
7 8 (0.78%) Coordinator
8 7 (0.68%) Blazor Developer
8 7 (0.68%) UX Developer
9 6 (0.58%) Senior
9 6 (0.58%) Service Manager
9 6 (0.58%) UI Designer
9 6 (0.58%) UI/UX Designer
10 5 (0.49%) Business Analyst
11 4 (0.39%) Administrator
11 4 (0.39%) IT Manager
11 4 (0.39%) Support Analyst
11 4 (0.39%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (1.26%) .NET
2 12 (1.17%) CSS
2 12 (1.17%) HTML
3 8 (0.78%) Blazor
3 8 (0.78%) Material Design
3 8 (0.78%) WebAssembly
4 7 (0.68%) React
5 6 (0.58%) Tailwind CSS
5 6 (0.58%) Vue
6 5 (0.49%) Laravel
6 5 (0.49%) LEMP Stack
6 5 (0.49%) Spring
6 5 (0.49%) YAML
7 4 (0.39%) Oracle Fusion
7 4 (0.39%) Spring Boot
8 3 (0.29%) Hibernate
8 3 (0.29%) JPA
8 3 (0.29%) XML
9 2 (0.19%) ASP.NET
9 2 (0.19%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 915 (88.92%) IoT
2 18 (1.75%) Product Ownership
3 5 (0.49%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (0.39%) Animation
5 3 (0.29%) Cyber Security Posture
5 3 (0.29%) Driving Licence
5 3 (0.29%) Graphic Design
5 3 (0.29%) Management Information System
5 3 (0.29%) Security Posture
5 3 (0.29%) Virtual Team
6 2 (0.19%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (0.19%) CMDB
6 2 (0.19%) Digital Media
6 2 (0.19%) Mobile App
6 2 (0.19%) Photography
6 2 (0.19%) Social Media
7 1 (0.097%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.097%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.097%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.097%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 5 (0.49%) Linux
2 3 (0.29%) Windows
3 1 (0.097%) Android
3 1 (0.097%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 931 (90.48%) AI
2 920 (89.41%) Cybersecurity
3 918 (89.21%) Web Development
4 916 (89.02%) Machine Learning
5 29 (2.82%) Agile
6 28 (2.72%) UX Design
7 18 (1.75%) Front End Development
8 17 (1.65%) Continuous Improvement
8 17 (1.65%) CRM
9 15 (1.46%) E-Commerce
10 14 (1.36%) Roadmaps
10 14 (1.36%) Wireframes
11 13 (1.26%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (1.26%) User Stories
12 11 (1.07%) Full-Stack Development
13 10 (0.97%) Analytics
13 10 (0.97%) Decision-Making
13 10 (0.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 9 (0.87%) Coaching
14 9 (0.87%) Interaction Design
Programming Languages
1 17 (1.65%) JavaScript
2 13 (1.26%) Java
3 12 (1.17%) C#
4 8 (0.78%) PHP
5 7 (0.68%) SQL
6 5 (0.49%) Bash
7 2 (0.19%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.097%) Python
Qualifications
1 918 (89.21%) Degree
2 916 (89.02%) Master's Degree
3 915 (88.92%) PhD
3 915 (88.92%) Postgraduate
4 6 (0.58%) SC Cleared
4 6 (0.58%) Security Cleared
5 4 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.19%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.097%) CBAP
7 1 (0.097%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.097%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.097%) PMP
7 1 (0.097%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (1.85%) Accessibility
2 12 (1.17%) QA
3 11 (1.07%) WCAG
4 5 (0.49%) GDPR
5 3 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (0.29%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.19%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 19770
7 1 (0.097%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.097%) SLA
7 1 (0.097%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 6 (0.58%) Docker
2 2 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.097%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (0.19%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.097%) HP ALM
2 1 (0.097%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.097%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (1.85%) Microsoft
2 6 (0.58%) Oracle
3 5 (0.49%) Adobe
3 5 (0.49%) Google
3 5 (0.49%) ServiceNow
4 3 (0.29%) Infor
5 2 (0.19%) Apple
5 2 (0.19%) Facebook
5 2 (0.19%) Instagram
5 2 (0.19%) TikTok
5 2 (0.19%) YouTube
6 1 (0.097%) Databricks
6 1 (0.097%) Hotjar
6 1 (0.097%) HP
6 1 (0.097%) IFS
6 1 (0.097%) Sage
6 1 (0.097%) Salesforce