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

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 125 68
Rank change year-on-year +117 -57 +36
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 1,012 76 121
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 19.09% 1.79% 3.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 23.24% 1.97% 3.88%
Number of salaries quoted 72 37 109
10th Percentile - £32,500 £37,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £43,750 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - +9.89%
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £68,625 £77,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 4,355 3,852 3,119
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 82.17% 90.96% 86.76%
Number of salaries quoted 2,259 1,716 2,621
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £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 £67,500 £70,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 8 January 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 8 January 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 +50 266 £35,000 -36.36% 6
Warwickshire +50 233 £61,250 +67.81% 19
Worcestershire +21 165 £35,000 -50.00% 8
Birmingham +70 92 £55,000 - 17
Shropshire +12 43 £51,250 - 12
Wolverhampton - 17 £64,000 - 2
Sutton Coldfield - 14 - -
Bilston - 11 £66,500 - 2
Solihull +9 10 £40,000 -30.43% 1
Coventry +8 10 £52,500 -38.24% 3
Halesowen - 10 £35,000 - 1
Brierley Hill - 9 - -
Stourbridge - 9 - -
Tipton - 9 - -
Wednesbury +2 8 - -
Walsall - 8 - - 4
Dudley - 8 - -
Kingswinford - 8 - -
Smethwick - 8 - -
Rowley Regis - 7 - -
West Bromwich - 7 - -
Willenhall - 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 9 (0.89%) CMS
2 7 (0.69%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.30%) nginx
4 2 (0.20%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.099%) Appian
5 1 (0.099%) Confluence
5 1 (0.099%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.30%) Adobe Illustrator
3 3 (0.30%) InDesign
3 3 (0.30%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.099%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (0.099%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.099%) Adobe Premiere
4 1 (0.099%) Sketch
4 1 (0.099%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.40%) Shopify
2 2 (0.20%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.099%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.099%) Sage X3
3 1 (0.099%) TRIRIGA
Cloud Services
1 915 (90.42%) Cloud Computing
2 20 (1.98%) SaaS
3 10 (0.99%) Figma
4 9 (0.89%) GitHub
5 8 (0.79%) AWS
6 7 (0.69%) Azure
6 7 (0.69%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (0.69%) Power Platform
7 6 (0.59%) GitHub Copilot
7 6 (0.59%) OCI
7 6 (0.59%) PowerApps
8 5 (0.49%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (0.40%) Entra ID
9 4 (0.40%) Power Automate
10 3 (0.30%) Google Analytics
10 3 (0.30%) OneDrive
11 2 (0.20%) Google Ads
12 1 (0.099%) Azure Data Factory
12 1 (0.099%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (0.099%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 916 (90.51%) Internet
2 2 (0.20%) Intranet
3 1 (0.099%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.099%) RFID
3 1 (0.099%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (0.59%) Oracle Reports
2 4 (0.40%) MySQL
2 4 (0.40%) Power BI
3 2 (0.20%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.20%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.099%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.099%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.099%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (0.59%) Git
1 6 (0.59%) Visual Studio
2 4 (0.40%) Vite
3 3 (0.30%) JIRA
4 1 (0.099%) Babel
4 1 (0.099%) Balsamiq
4 1 (0.099%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.099%) JMeter
4 1 (0.099%) Selenium
4 1 (0.099%) WebDriver
4 1 (0.099%) webpack
General
1 936 (92.49%) Social Skills
2 919 (90.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 917 (90.61%) Banking
4 17 (1.68%) Finance
4 17 (1.68%) Marketing
5 11 (1.09%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (0.89%) Legal
7 5 (0.49%) Retail
8 4 (0.40%) Public Sector
9 2 (0.20%) Advertising
9 2 (0.20%) Law
10 1 (0.099%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.099%) Back Office
10 1 (0.099%) Games
10 1 (0.099%) Local Government
10 1 (0.099%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.099%) Police
10 1 (0.099%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 681 (67.29%) Lecturer
2 22 (2.17%) Developer
3 10 (0.99%) Designer
4 9 (0.89%) Analyst
5 8 (0.79%) Coordinator
5 8 (0.79%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 8 (0.79%) Product Owner
6 7 (0.69%) Blazor Developer
6 7 (0.69%) Java Developer
6 7 (0.69%) UX Developer
7 6 (0.59%) Service Manager
7 6 (0.59%) UX Designer
8 5 (0.49%) Senior
8 5 (0.49%) Support Analyst
9 4 (0.40%) Chief Technology Officer
9 4 (0.40%) Oracle Analyst
9 4 (0.40%) Oracle Support Analyst
10 3 (0.30%) Content Designer
10 3 (0.30%) IT Services Manager
10 3 (0.30%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (0.99%) .NET
2 9 (0.89%) HTML
3 8 (0.79%) CSS
4 7 (0.69%) Blazor
5 6 (0.59%) Material Design
5 6 (0.59%) WebAssembly
6 5 (0.49%) Oracle Fusion
6 5 (0.49%) React
7 4 (0.40%) Tailwind CSS
8 3 (0.30%) .NET Framework
8 3 (0.30%) JSON
8 3 (0.30%) Laravel
8 3 (0.30%) LEMP Stack
8 3 (0.30%) REST
8 3 (0.30%) Spring
8 3 (0.30%) Spring Boot
8 3 (0.30%) Vue
8 3 (0.30%) YAML
9 2 (0.20%) EDI
9 2 (0.20%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 917 (90.61%) IoT
2 14 (1.38%) Product Ownership
3 5 (0.49%) Driving Licence
3 5 (0.49%) Graphic Design
4 3 (0.30%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (0.30%) Animation
4 3 (0.30%) e-Learning
4 3 (0.30%) Learning Management System
4 3 (0.30%) Mobile App
4 3 (0.30%) Social Media
4 3 (0.30%) Video Editing
4 3 (0.30%) Web Conferencing
5 2 (0.20%) CMDB
5 2 (0.20%) Digital Media
5 2 (0.20%) Management Information System
5 2 (0.20%) Onboarding
5 2 (0.20%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.099%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.099%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.099%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.30%) Linux
2 2 (0.20%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 936 (92.49%) AI
2 918 (90.71%) Web Development
3 917 (90.61%) Cybersecurity
4 916 (90.51%) Machine Learning
5 29 (2.87%) Agile
6 25 (2.47%) UX Design
7 23 (2.27%) Continuous Improvement
8 21 (2.08%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (1.28%) CRM
9 13 (1.28%) Front End Development
10 12 (1.19%) Roadmaps
10 12 (1.19%) User Stories
10 12 (1.19%) Wireframes
11 11 (1.09%) Analytics
11 11 (1.09%) E-Commerce
12 10 (0.99%) Coaching
12 10 (0.99%) DevOps
12 10 (0.99%) Full-Stack Development
12 10 (0.99%) ITIL
13 9 (0.89%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (1.09%) JavaScript
2 10 (0.99%) C#
3 9 (0.89%) Java
4 8 (0.79%) SQL
5 4 (0.40%) Bash
5 4 (0.40%) TypeScript
6 3 (0.30%) PHP
6 3 (0.30%) PowerShell
6 3 (0.30%) Python
7 1 (0.099%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 919 (90.81%) Degree
2 916 (90.51%) Master's Degree
3 915 (90.42%) PhD
3 915 (90.42%) Postgraduate
4 4 (0.40%) SC Cleared
4 4 (0.40%) Security Cleared
5 2 (0.20%) DBS Check
5 2 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.099%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.099%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.099%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (1.19%) Accessibility
2 9 (0.89%) WCAG
3 8 (0.79%) QA
4 2 (0.20%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 19770
5 1 (0.099%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.099%) GDPR
5 1 (0.099%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (0.30%) Active Directory
1 3 (0.30%) Docker
2 2 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.099%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.099%) SCCM
2 1 (0.099%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.099%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (1.19%) Microsoft
2 6 (0.59%) Oracle
2 6 (0.59%) ServiceNow
3 4 (0.40%) Adobe
3 4 (0.40%) Citrix
4 3 (0.30%) Apple
4 3 (0.30%) Google
5 2 (0.20%) Facebook
5 2 (0.20%) Instagram
5 2 (0.20%) Planon
5 2 (0.20%) TikTok
5 2 (0.20%) YouTube
6 1 (0.099%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (0.099%) Dell
6 1 (0.099%) HP
6 1 (0.099%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.099%) IBM
6 1 (0.099%) IFS
6 1 (0.099%) Sage
6 1 (0.099%) Salesforce