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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 109 64
Rank change year-on-year +102 -45 +68
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 1,031 70 241
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 13.75% 2.09% 3.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.29% 2.32% 4.20%
Number of salaries quoted 92 39 183
10th Percentile - £39,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £43,604 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,500 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -19.09% +15.79% -9.52%
75th Percentile £53,781 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £67,089 £82,500 £72,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 5,636 3,023 5,739
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 75.15% 90.45% 83.42%
Number of salaries quoted 3,274 1,703 4,454
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,580 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £35,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £53,688 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.21% +7.38% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 9 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 9 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 +41 266 £35,000 -34.81% 6
Warwickshire +47 233 £40,000 -20.00% 14
Worcestershire - 169 £35,000 -
Birmingham +40 92 £50,000 -11.11% 24
Shropshire +5 46 £82,500 +13.79% 3
Coventry -9 15 £42,500 -50.00% 9
Wolverhampton -10 15 - -
Sutton Coldfield - 14 - -
Halesowen - 13 £32,500 -
Bilston - 13 £66,500 -
Brierley Hill - 9 - -
Tipton - 9 - -
Solihull - 9 - - 1
Stourbridge - 9 - -
Wednesbury +1 8 - -
Walsall - 8 - - 1
Dudley - 8 - -
Smethwick - 8 - -
Kingswinford - 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 10 (0.97%) 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 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 3 (0.29%) 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
4 12 (1.16%) Power Platform
5 9 (0.87%) Figma
5 9 (0.87%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (0.78%) GitHub Copilot
7 7 (0.68%) Azure
7 7 (0.68%) Power Automate
7 7 (0.68%) PowerApps
8 6 (0.58%) AWS
8 6 (0.58%) Google Analytics
9 5 (0.48%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (0.48%) OCI
10 3 (0.29%) Entra ID
10 3 (0.29%) GCP
11 2 (0.19%) Google Ads
11 2 (0.19%) Google Tag Manager
11 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Copilot
12 1 (0.097%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 915 (88.75%) Internet
2 2 (0.19%) Firewall
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 (0.48%) MySQL
2 5 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (0.29%) BigQuery
3 3 (0.29%) Looker
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 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
1 945 (91.66%) Social Skills
2 921 (89.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 917 (88.94%) Banking
4 20 (1.94%) Finance
5 18 (1.75%) Marketing
6 13 (1.26%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (0.97%) Legal
8 9 (0.87%) Retail
9 5 (0.48%) Games
9 5 (0.48%) Manufacturing
9 5 (0.48%) Public Sector
10 4 (0.39%) iGaming
11 3 (0.29%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.19%) Advertising
13 1 (0.097%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.097%) Back Office
13 1 (0.097%) Law
13 1 (0.097%) Police
13 1 (0.097%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 681 (66.05%) 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%) IT Support
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 (0.48%) Business Analyst
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 (1.16%) CSS
2 12 (1.16%) HTML
3 8 (0.78%) Blazor
3 8 (0.78%) Material Design
3 8 (0.78%) WebAssembly
4 6 (0.58%) React
4 6 (0.58%) Tailwind CSS
4 6 (0.58%) Vue
5 5 (0.48%) Laravel
5 5 (0.48%) LEMP Stack
5 5 (0.48%) YAML
6 4 (0.39%) Oracle Fusion
6 4 (0.39%) Spring
7 3 (0.29%) Hibernate
7 3 (0.29%) JPA
7 3 (0.29%) Spring Boot
7 3 (0.29%) XML
8 2 (0.19%) .NET Framework
8 2 (0.19%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 915 (88.75%) IoT
2 19 (1.84%) Product Ownership
3 5 (0.48%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (0.39%) Animation
5 3 (0.29%) Cyber Security Posture
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%) Driving Licence
6 2 (0.19%) Mobile App
6 2 (0.19%) Onboarding
6 2 (0.19%) Photography
6 2 (0.19%) Social Media
7 1 (0.097%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.097%) Online Gambling
7 1 (0.097%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 5 (0.48%) Linux
1 5 (0.48%) Windows
2 1 (0.097%) Android
2 1 (0.097%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 930 (90.20%) AI
2 922 (89.43%) Cybersecurity
3 918 (89.04%) Web Development
4 915 (88.75%) Machine Learning
5 29 (2.81%) Agile
6 28 (2.72%) UX Design
7 19 (1.84%) Continuous Improvement
7 19 (1.84%) CRM
8 18 (1.75%) Front End Development
9 15 (1.45%) E-Commerce
9 15 (1.45%) Roadmaps
10 14 (1.36%) Wireframes
11 13 (1.26%) User Stories
12 12 (1.16%) Problem-Solving
13 10 (0.97%) Analytics
13 10 (0.97%) Decision-Making
13 10 (0.97%) Full-Stack Development
13 10 (0.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 9 (0.87%) Interaction Design
15 8 (0.78%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 17 (1.65%) 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
6 1 (0.097%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 920 (89.23%) 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
6 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.19%) A+ Certification
7 2 (0.19%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.19%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.097%) CBAP
8 1 (0.097%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.097%) PMP
8 1 (0.097%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (1.84%) Accessibility
2 12 (1.16%) QA
3 11 (1.07%) WCAG
4 5 (0.48%) 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 3 (0.29%) 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 21 (2.04%) Microsoft
2 6 (0.58%) Oracle
3 5 (0.48%) Adobe
3 5 (0.48%) Google
3 5 (0.48%) 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