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 1 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 109 81
Rank change year-on-year +28 -28 +8
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 95 112 114
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 2.86% 2.08% 3.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.32% 2.53% 3.50%
Number of salaries quoted 62 55 101
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,250 £43,125 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% -4.55% +9.89%
75th Percentile £64,688 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £73,375 £70,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% +4.17%

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 2,865 4,434 3,256
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 86.11% 82.22% 93.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,793 2,076 2,576
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £64,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 1 November 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 November 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 +22 30 £60,000 +20.60% 20
Warwickshire +37 25 £57,500 +57.53% 14
Staffordshire +6 20 £35,000 - 6
Worcestershire +5 4 £52,500 -25.00% 6
Solihull -6 3 £40,000 -36.00%
Wolverhampton - 3 £64,000 -
Herefordshire - 2 - - 3
Shropshire - 2 £51,250 -
Coventry - 2 £45,000 - 4
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 7 (7.37%) SharePoint
2 6 (6.32%) CMS
3 4 (4.21%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.05%) Appian
4 1 (1.05%) Confluence
4 1 (1.05%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.21%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (3.16%) InDesign
4 1 (1.05%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (1.05%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (1.05%) Adobe Premiere
4 1 (1.05%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.05%) Simulink
4 1 (1.05%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (7.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.11%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 2 (2.11%) Shopify
3 1 (1.05%) Sage X3
3 1 (1.05%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (1.05%) TRIRIGA
Cloud Services
1 25 (26.32%) Azure
2 17 (17.89%) AWS
3 15 (15.79%) SaaS
4 10 (10.53%) Entra ID
5 8 (8.42%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (6.32%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (6.32%) Power Platform
7 5 (5.26%) Azure Key Vault
7 5 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (5.26%) OCI
7 5 (5.26%) OneDrive
8 4 (4.21%) Figma
8 4 (4.21%) PowerApps
9 3 (3.16%) Google Analytics
10 2 (2.11%) Google Ads
10 2 (2.11%) Power Automate
11 1 (1.05%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (1.05%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (1.05%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (1.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.05%) Ethernet
1 1 (1.05%) Internet
1 1 (1.05%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (18.95%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.26%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (2.11%) Hazelcast
3 2 (2.11%) Power BI
4 1 (1.05%) MySQL
4 1 (1.05%) Power Query
4 1 (1.05%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (15.79%) JIRA
2 14 (14.74%) GitLab
3 12 (12.63%) Selenium
4 11 (11.58%) Bitbucket
4 11 (11.58%) Cucumber
4 11 (11.58%) Maven
4 11 (11.58%) SonarQube
4 11 (11.58%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (3.16%) Git
6 1 (1.05%) Babel
6 1 (1.05%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.05%) JMeter
6 1 (1.05%) Vite
6 1 (1.05%) WebDriver
6 1 (1.05%) webpack
General
1 41 (43.16%) Finance
2 24 (25.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 20 (21.05%) Social Skills
4 17 (17.89%) Marketing
5 16 (16.84%) Retail
6 12 (12.63%) Banking
7 11 (11.58%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (11.58%) Corporate Banking
7 11 (11.58%) Investment Banking
8 5 (5.26%) Legal
9 4 (4.21%) Law
10 3 (3.16%) Advertising
10 3 (3.16%) Automotive
10 3 (3.16%) Public Sector
11 2 (2.11%) Financial Institution
11 2 (2.11%) Local Government
12 1 (1.05%) Aerospace
12 1 (1.05%) Back Office
12 1 (1.05%) Games
12 1 (1.05%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (18.95%) Developer
2 12 (12.63%) Designer
2 12 (12.63%) Software Engineer
3 10 (10.53%) Analyst
4 7 (7.37%) Senior
5 6 (6.32%) Full-Stack Developer
5 6 (6.32%) Solutions Designer
6 5 (5.26%) Coordinator
6 5 (5.26%) Software Developer
6 5 (5.26%) Systems Designer
7 4 (4.21%) Blazor Developer
7 4 (4.21%) Chief Technology Officer
7 4 (4.21%) Digital Developer
7 4 (4.21%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 4 (4.21%) React Developer
7 4 (4.21%) Support Analyst
8 3 (3.16%) Content Designer
8 3 (3.16%) e-Learning Designer
8 3 (3.16%) Product Owner
8 3 (3.16%) UML Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (22.11%) React
2 20 (21.05%) HTML
3 19 (20.00%) CSS
4 16 (16.84%) REST
5 14 (14.74%) RESTful
5 14 (14.74%) Spring
6 13 (13.68%) HTML5
7 12 (12.63%) CSS3
7 12 (12.63%) Jest
7 12 (12.63%) Spring Boot
8 11 (11.58%) JPA
8 11 (11.58%) Kafka
8 11 (11.58%) Redux
8 11 (11.58%) Sass
9 7 (7.37%) .NET
10 5 (5.26%) .NET Framework
10 5 (5.26%) Blazor
10 5 (5.26%) Entity Framework
11 4 (4.21%) AngularJS
11 4 (4.21%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.79%) Product Ownership
2 11 (11.58%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (6.32%) Onboarding
4 5 (5.26%) Driving Licence
4 5 (5.26%) Graphic Design
5 4 (4.21%) IoT
6 3 (3.16%) Animation
6 3 (3.16%) e-Learning
6 3 (3.16%) Learning Management System
6 3 (3.16%) Mobile App
6 3 (3.16%) Social Media
6 3 (3.16%) Video Editing
6 3 (3.16%) Web Conferencing
7 2 (2.11%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (2.11%) Digital Media
7 2 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.11%) Life Science
7 2 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.11%) Taxonomies
8 1 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.11%) Windows
2 1 (1.05%) Android
2 1 (1.05%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (36.84%) Agile
2 33 (34.74%) DevOps
3 26 (27.37%) Continuous Improvement
4 24 (25.26%) CI/CD
5 22 (23.16%) Problem-Solving
5 22 (23.16%) UX Design
6 19 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 18 (18.95%) AI
7 18 (18.95%) Front End Development
8 17 (17.89%) ITIL
8 17 (17.89%) Mentoring
8 17 (17.89%) SDLC
9 15 (15.79%) Containerisation
10 14 (14.74%) Microservices
10 14 (14.74%) Migration
10 14 (14.74%) Strategic Thinking
11 13 (13.68%) Roadmaps
12 12 (12.63%) Analytics
12 12 (12.63%) Software Engineering
12 12 (12.63%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 23 (24.21%) SQL
2 20 (21.05%) JavaScript
3 15 (15.79%) Java
3 15 (15.79%) TypeScript
4 8 (8.42%) C#
4 8 (8.42%) PowerShell
5 5 (5.26%) Bicep
5 5 (5.26%) Python
6 3 (3.16%) VB
7 2 (2.11%) Apex Code
7 2 (2.11%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.05%) Bash
8 1 (1.05%) C
8 1 (1.05%) C++
8 1 (1.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.05%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.05%) MATLAB
8 1 (1.05%) XAML
Qualifications
1 8 (8.42%) Degree
2 4 (4.21%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.16%) ITIL Certification
3 3 (3.16%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.05%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.05%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.05%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (14.74%) Accessibility
1 14 (14.74%) QA
2 5 (5.26%) COBIT
3 2 (2.11%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.11%) GDPR
3 2 (2.11%) SLA
4 1 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 19770
4 1 (1.05%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (11.58%) Docker
2 5 (5.26%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.11%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (14.74%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (5.26%) Terraform
3 1 (1.05%) SCCM
3 1 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (22.11%) Microsoft
2 11 (11.58%) Solace
3 5 (5.26%) Citrix
3 5 (5.26%) Guidewire
3 5 (5.26%) Oracle
4 4 (4.21%) Adobe
4 4 (4.21%) Salesforce
4 4 (4.21%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.16%) Apple
5 3 (3.16%) Google
6 2 (2.11%) Ahrefs
6 2 (2.11%) Facebook
6 2 (2.11%) Instagram
6 2 (2.11%) Planon
6 2 (2.11%) TikTok
6 2 (2.11%) YouTube
7 1 (1.05%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (1.05%) Databricks
7 1 (1.05%) IFS
7 1 (1.05%) QNX