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 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 96 64
Rank change year-on-year +89 -32 +65
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 1,031 84 247
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 12.74% 2.51% 3.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.26% 2.81% 4.13%
Number of salaries quoted 93 48 184
10th Percentile - £39,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £53,688 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.18% +7.38% -4.76%
75th Percentile £53,750 £66,097 £66,250
90th Percentile £66,928 £74,125 £70,995
England median annual salary £57,500 £58,675 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.00% +11.76% -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 5,975 2,990 5,984
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 73.82% 89.25% 83.24%
Number of salaries quoted 3,515 1,703 4,538
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,300 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,754 £35,700
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £53,300 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.50% +6.60% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £58,600 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.33% +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 April 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 April 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 +34 262 £35,000 -34.81% 2
Warwickshire +43 231 £40,000 -20.00% 19
Worcestershire +20 170 £35,000 -36.36% 2
Birmingham +31 94 £50,000 -14.89% 19
Shropshire +7 46 £82,500 +13.79%
Coventry -7 17 £42,500 -50.00% 2
Wolverhampton -7 15 - - 1
Sutton Coldfield - 14 - - 1
Halesowen - 13 £32,500 -
Bilston - 13 £66,500 -
Brierley Hill - 9 - -
Tipton - 9 - -
Solihull - 9 - - 2
Stourbridge - 9 - -
Wednesbury 0 8 - -
Walsall - 8 - - 1
Dudley - 8 - -
Smethwick - 8 - -
Kingswinford - 8 - -
West Bromwich +3 7 - -
Rowley Regis - 7 - -
Willenhall 0 6 - -
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 11 (1.07%) SharePoint
2 9 (0.87%) CMS
3 5 (0.48%) nginx
4 2 (0.19%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.097%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.097%) Confluence
5 1 (0.097%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 10 (0.97%) Adobe Illustrator
1 10 (0.97%) Photoshop
2 8 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.48%) Adobe After Effects
4 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.097%) Sketch
6 1 (0.097%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (0.78%) Shopify
2 4 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.097%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 915 (88.75%) Cloud Computing
2 17 (1.65%) SaaS
3 13 (1.26%) GitHub
3 13 (1.26%) Power Platform
4 10 (0.97%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (0.87%) Figma
6 8 (0.78%) Azure
6 8 (0.78%) GitHub Copilot
6 8 (0.78%) Power Automate
6 8 (0.78%) PowerApps
7 7 (0.68%) AWS
8 5 (0.48%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (0.48%) Google Analytics
9 4 (0.39%) Entra ID
10 3 (0.29%) GCP
10 3 (0.29%) OCI
11 2 (0.19%) Google Tag Manager
11 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Copilot
12 1 (0.097%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (0.097%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 915 (88.75%) Internet
2 3 (0.29%) Firewall
3 2 (0.19%) Intranet
4 1 (0.097%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.097%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (0.68%) Power BI
2 5 (0.48%) MySQL
3 3 (0.29%) BigQuery
3 3 (0.29%) Looker
3 3 (0.29%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (0.29%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.097%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.097%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.097%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.097%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.097%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.097%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (0.78%) Git
1 8 (0.78%) Visual Studio
2 5 (0.48%) Vite
3 1 (0.097%) Balsamiq
3 1 (0.097%) Cucumber
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%) Zephyr
General
1 947 (91.85%) Social Skills
2 921 (89.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 917 (88.94%) Banking
4 19 (1.84%) Finance
5 12 (1.16%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (1.16%) Marketing
6 9 (0.87%) Legal
7 8 (0.78%) Retail
8 7 (0.68%) Public Sector
9 6 (0.58%) Manufacturing
10 5 (0.48%) Games
10 5 (0.48%) iGaming
11 3 (0.29%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.097%) Advertising
12 1 (0.097%) Law
12 1 (0.097%) Police
Job Titles
1 681 (66.05%) Lecturer
2 26 (2.52%) Developer
3 17 (1.65%) Designer
4 16 (1.55%) UX Designer
5 14 (1.36%) Analyst
6 10 (0.97%) Senior
7 9 (0.87%) Java Developer
8 8 (0.78%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 8 (0.78%) Product Owner
8 8 (0.78%) Service Manager
9 7 (0.68%) Blazor Developer
9 7 (0.68%) Business Analyst
9 7 (0.68%) IT Manager
9 7 (0.68%) IT Support
9 7 (0.68%) UX Developer
10 6 (0.58%) UI Designer
10 6 (0.58%) UI/UX Designer
11 5 (0.48%) Animator
11 5 (0.48%) IT Services Manager
12 4 (0.39%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (1.26%) .NET
2 11 (1.07%) CSS
2 11 (1.07%) HTML
3 8 (0.78%) Blazor
3 8 (0.78%) Material Design
3 8 (0.78%) WebAssembly
4 6 (0.58%) Vue
5 5 (0.48%) Laravel
5 5 (0.48%) LEMP Stack
5 5 (0.48%) React
5 5 (0.48%) Tailwind CSS
5 5 (0.48%) YAML
6 4 (0.39%) Spring
7 3 (0.29%) Hibernate
7 3 (0.29%) JPA
7 3 (0.29%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (0.29%) Spring Boot
7 3 (0.29%) XML
8 2 (0.19%) ASP.NET
8 2 (0.19%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 915 (88.75%) IoT
2 18 (1.75%) Product Ownership
3 5 (0.48%) Animation
3 5 (0.48%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (0.29%) Cyber Security Posture
4 3 (0.29%) Graphic Design
4 3 (0.29%) Management Information System
4 3 (0.29%) Onboarding
4 3 (0.29%) Security Posture
4 3 (0.29%) Virtual Team
5 2 (0.19%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (0.19%) CMDB
5 2 (0.19%) Mobile App
5 2 (0.19%) Photography
6 1 (0.097%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.097%) Digital Media
6 1 (0.097%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.097%) Online Gambling
6 1 (0.097%) Social Media
6 1 (0.097%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 6 (0.58%) Windows
2 5 (0.48%) Linux
3 1 (0.097%) Android
3 1 (0.097%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 930 (90.20%) AI
2 923 (89.52%) Cybersecurity
3 918 (89.04%) Web Development
4 915 (88.75%) Machine Learning
5 31 (3.01%) UX Design
6 28 (2.72%) Agile
7 22 (2.13%) Continuous Improvement
8 20 (1.94%) CRM
9 17 (1.65%) Front End Development
10 14 (1.36%) Roadmaps
10 14 (1.36%) Wireframes
11 13 (1.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 13 (1.26%) User Stories
12 12 (1.16%) Coaching
13 11 (1.07%) Decision-Making
13 11 (1.07%) Problem-Solving
14 10 (0.97%) E-Commerce
14 10 (0.97%) Full-Stack Development
14 10 (0.97%) Service Management
15 9 (0.87%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 16 (1.55%) JavaScript
2 12 (1.16%) C#
2 12 (1.16%) Java
3 8 (0.78%) PHP
3 8 (0.78%) SQL
4 5 (0.48%) Bash
5 2 (0.19%) Python
Qualifications
1 922 (89.43%) Degree
2 916 (88.85%) Master's Degree
3 915 (88.75%) PhD
3 915 (88.75%) Postgraduate
4 5 (0.48%) SC Cleared
4 5 (0.48%) Security Cleared
5 4 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (0.29%) A+ Certification
6 3 (0.29%) Network+ Certification
7 2 (0.19%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.097%) CBAP
8 1 (0.097%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.097%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.097%) PMP
8 1 (0.097%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (1.75%) Accessibility
2 12 (1.16%) QA
3 10 (0.97%) WCAG
4 7 (0.68%) 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 4 (0.39%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (0.19%) Terraform
2 1 (0.097%) HP ALM
2 1 (0.097%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.097%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (2.23%) Microsoft
2 6 (0.58%) Adobe
3 4 (0.39%) Google
3 4 (0.39%) Oracle
3 4 (0.39%) ServiceNow
4 3 (0.29%) Infor
5 1 (0.097%) Apple
5 1 (0.097%) Databricks
5 1 (0.097%) Facebook
5 1 (0.097%) Hotjar
5 1 (0.097%) HP
5 1 (0.097%) IFS
5 1 (0.097%) Instagram
5 1 (0.097%) Sage
5 1 (0.097%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.097%) TikTok
5 1 (0.097%) YouTube