User Experience Jobs in the West Midlands

UX
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring User Experience skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited User Experience over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 67 126
Rank change year-on-year -53 +59 -59
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 82 252 162
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.84% 3.48% 2.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.01% 4.19% 2.52%
Number of salaries quoted 47 188 86
10th Percentile £40,000 £30,000 £31,875
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £39,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,688 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.38% -4.76% +7.91%
75th Percentile £66,195 £66,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £74,250 £70,655 £75,625
England median annual salary £57,500 £51,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +11.65% -20.77% +8.33%

All Process and 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 4,072 6,020 6,438
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.16% 83.15% 96.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,682 4,530 3,268
10th Percentile £29,250 £26,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £35,700 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing User Experience as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for User Experience in the West Midlands

User Experience
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing User Experience in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for User Experience in the West Midlands

User Experience
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing User Experience in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 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 -27 41 £58,750 +38.24% 53
Staffordshire +29 15 £53,688 +27.83% 34
Warwickshire -43 9 £47,500 -13.64% 26
Willenhall - 3 £45,000 -
Wolverhampton +16 2 £63,250 +58.13% 5
Shropshire +11 2 £72,500 +114.81% 5
Worcestershire +6 2 £55,000 +71.88% 12
West Bromwich - 2 - -
Coventry - 2 £85,000 - 6
Wednesbury +9 1 £45,000 +20.00%
User Experience
England

User Experience
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (13.41%) SharePoint
2 9 (10.98%) Skype for Business
3 5 (6.10%) CMS
4 4 (4.88%) Confluence
5 3 (3.66%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (1.22%) ColdFusion
6 1 (1.22%) Headless CMS
6 1 (1.22%) Umbraco
6 1 (1.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (4.88%) Sketch
2 3 (3.66%) Adobe XD
2 3 (3.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (2.44%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (2.44%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.22%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (7.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (3.66%) Shopify
3 2 (2.44%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 22 (26.83%) Power Platform
2 20 (24.39%) Azure
3 17 (20.73%) PowerApps
4 12 (14.63%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (12.20%) Figma
5 10 (12.20%) Power Automate
6 9 (10.98%) AWS
7 7 (8.54%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (7.32%) Azure API Management
9 5 (6.10%) GitHub
10 4 (4.88%) Serverless
11 3 (3.66%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (3.66%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (3.66%) Entra ID
11 3 (3.66%) GCP
11 3 (3.66%) Supabase
11 3 (3.66%) Vercel
12 2 (2.44%) npm
12 2 (2.44%) OneDrive
12 2 (2.44%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.98%) Skype
1 9 (10.98%) Unified Communications
1 9 (10.98%) Wireless
2 1 (1.22%) PSTN
2 1 (1.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (13.41%) SQL Server
2 7 (8.54%) Power BI
3 6 (7.32%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (7.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (4.88%) NoSQL
5 3 (3.66%) Tableau
6 2 (2.44%) Big Data
6 2 (2.44%) DynamoDB
6 2 (2.44%) Hadoop
6 2 (2.44%) Looker
6 2 (2.44%) Metadata
6 2 (2.44%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.44%) MySQL
7 1 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.22%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (8.54%) JIRA
2 6 (7.32%) Visual Studio
2 6 (7.32%) Visual Studio Code
3 5 (6.10%) Git
3 5 (6.10%) GitLab
4 2 (2.44%) ER Studio
4 2 (2.44%) ERwin
4 2 (2.44%) PowerDesigner
4 2 (2.44%) Subversion
4 2 (2.44%) webpack
5 1 (1.22%) Babel
5 1 (1.22%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.22%) JMeter
5 1 (1.22%) Mocha
5 1 (1.22%) Selenium
5 1 (1.22%) Vite
5 1 (1.22%) WebDriver
General
1 32 (39.02%) Social Skills
2 12 (14.63%) Finance
3 11 (13.41%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (13.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (12.20%) Retail
5 8 (9.76%) Police
6 7 (8.54%) Marketing
7 6 (7.32%) Automotive
8 5 (6.10%) Advertising
9 4 (4.88%) Banking
9 4 (4.88%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (4.88%) Public Sector
10 3 (3.66%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (1.22%) Aerospace
11 1 (1.22%) Back Office
11 1 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (1.22%) French Language
11 1 (1.22%) Games
11 1 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (1.22%) Legal
Job Titles
1 19 (23.17%) Developer
2 13 (15.85%) Designer
3 9 (10.98%) Analyst
3 9 (10.98%) Collaboration Specialist
4 8 (9.76%) Microsoft 365 Developer
5 7 (8.54%) Senior
6 5 (6.10%) Change Analyst
6 5 (6.10%) Power Platform Developer
6 5 (6.10%) SAP Analyst
6 5 (6.10%) UX Designer
7 4 (4.88%) Architect
7 4 (4.88%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 4 (4.88%) Junior
7 4 (4.88%) Product Manager
7 4 (4.88%) Software Engineer
8 3 (3.66%) E-Commerce Manager
8 3 (3.66%) Senior Software Engineer
8 3 (3.66%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (3.66%) Solutions Designer
8 3 (3.66%) Web Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (23.17%) CSS
2 16 (19.51%) React
3 12 (14.63%) .NET
3 12 (14.63%) HTML
4 6 (7.32%) ADO
5 5 (6.10%) AngularJS
6 4 (4.88%) Next.js
6 4 (4.88%) RESTful
7 3 (3.66%) FastAPI
7 3 (3.66%) Node.js
8 2 (2.44%) Bootstrap
8 2 (2.44%) Jest
8 2 (2.44%) JSON
9 1 (1.22%) Enzyme
9 1 (1.22%) HTML5
9 1 (1.22%) HTML5 Canvas
9 1 (1.22%) Ionic Framework
9 1 (1.22%) MACH
9 1 (1.22%) Parceljs
9 1 (1.22%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.20%) Mobile App
2 9 (10.98%) Digital Signage
2 9 (10.98%) Video Conferencing
3 7 (8.54%) Distributed Architecture
4 6 (7.32%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (3.66%) Animation
5 3 (3.66%) Data Structures
5 3 (3.66%) Lidar
5 3 (3.66%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.66%) Video Editing
5 3 (3.66%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.22%) EPoS
6 1 (1.22%) FMCG
6 1 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.22%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.22%) Social Media
6 1 (1.22%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.88%) Apple iOS
2 3 (3.66%) Windows
3 1 (1.22%) Android
3 1 (1.22%) CentOS
3 1 (1.22%) Debian
3 1 (1.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (34.15%) Agile
2 19 (23.17%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (19.51%) CI/CD
3 16 (19.51%) Project Management
4 12 (14.63%) UX Design
5 11 (13.41%) Front End Development
6 10 (12.20%) DevOps
7 9 (10.98%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (10.98%) ITIL
7 9 (10.98%) Microservices
7 9 (10.98%) Wireframes
8 8 (9.76%) CRM
8 8 (9.76%) Data Transformation
8 8 (9.76%) Impact Assessments
8 8 (9.76%) Prototyping
8 8 (9.76%) Release Management
8 8 (9.76%) Roadmaps
8 8 (9.76%) User Stories
9 7 (8.54%) Data Integration
9 7 (8.54%) Digital Marketing
Programming Languages
1 19 (23.17%) C#
2 18 (21.95%) JavaScript
3 15 (18.29%) TypeScript
4 10 (12.20%) Java
5 7 (8.54%) SQL
6 4 (4.88%) Swift
7 3 (3.66%) Python
8 1 (1.22%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.22%) PHP
8 1 (1.22%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (12.20%) Degree
2 8 (9.76%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.66%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.22%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.22%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (19.51%) QA
2 3 (3.66%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.66%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (2.44%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.44%) GDPR
3 2 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 19770
4 1 (1.22%) COBIT
4 1 (1.22%) SLA
4 1 (1.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (3.66%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.44%) Docker
3 1 (1.22%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (2.44%) Kubernetes
1 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 23 (28.05%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.98%) Cisco
2 9 (10.98%) Mitel
2 9 (10.98%) Polycom
2 9 (10.98%) ShoreTel
3 5 (6.10%) Adobe
3 5 (6.10%) SAP
4 4 (4.88%) Google
5 2 (2.44%) Citrix
5 2 (2.44%) Databricks
5 2 (2.44%) Oracle
5 2 (2.44%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.44%) Snow
5 2 (2.44%) WooCommerce
6 1 (1.22%) Facebook
6 1 (1.22%) Guidewire
6 1 (1.22%) Hotjar
6 1 (1.22%) Optimizely
6 1 (1.22%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.22%) Sitecore