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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 86 69
Rank change year-on-year +79 -17 +67
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 1,023 91 253
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 12.15% 2.90% 3.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.67% 3.25% 4.15%
Number of salaries quoted 90 49 187
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,750 £44,708 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,499 £53,688 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.39% +7.38% -4.76%
75th Percentile £53,875 £66,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £65,801 £74,000 £70,740
England median annual salary £57,500 £59,092 £51,000
% change year-on-year -2.69% +15.87% -21.54%

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 6,136 2,798 6,100
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 72.89% 89.11% 82.78%
Number of salaries quoted 3,682 1,632 4,542
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £35,700
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £64,375
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 15 May 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 15 May 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 +34 258 £35,000 -34.81% 5
Warwickshire +42 228 £40,000 -30.43% 14
Worcestershire +19 170 £35,750 -35.00% 2
Birmingham +23 94 £50,000 -16.67% 17
Shropshire +7 46 £82,500 +13.79% 1
Coventry -9 17 £42,500 -50.00% 1
Wolverhampton -10 15 - - 1
Sutton Coldfield - 14 - -
Halesowen - 13 £32,500 -
Bilston - 12 £66,500 -
Brierley Hill - 9 - - 1
Tipton - 9 - - 1
Solihull - 9 - - 2
Stourbridge - 9 - -
Wednesbury 0 8 - -
Walsall - 8 - -
Dudley - 8 - -
Smethwick - 8 - -
Kingswinford - 8 - -
West Bromwich +2 7 - -
Rowley Regis - 7 - -
Willenhall +2 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 10 (0.98%) SharePoint
2 8 (0.78%) CMS
3 4 (0.39%) nginx
4 2 (0.20%) Confluence
4 2 (0.20%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.098%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.098%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (0.88%) Adobe Illustrator
1 9 (0.88%) Photoshop
2 5 (0.49%) Adobe After Effects
2 5 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.20%) Sketch
4 2 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (0.59%) Shopify
2 4 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 915 (89.44%) Cloud Computing
2 17 (1.66%) SaaS
3 12 (1.17%) GitHub
3 12 (1.17%) Power Platform
4 10 (0.98%) Figma
4 10 (0.98%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (0.78%) Azure
5 8 (0.78%) GitHub Copilot
6 7 (0.68%) AWS
6 7 (0.68%) Power Automate
6 7 (0.68%) PowerApps
7 5 (0.49%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (0.39%) Entra ID
8 4 (0.39%) Google Analytics
9 3 (0.29%) GCP
10 2 (0.20%) Google Tag Manager
10 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Copilot
11 1 (0.098%) Copilot Studio
11 1 (0.098%) Dagster
11 1 (0.098%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 915 (89.44%) Internet
2 3 (0.29%) Firewall
3 2 (0.20%) Intranet
4 1 (0.098%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.098%) RFID
4 1 (0.098%) VLAN
4 1 (0.098%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (0.68%) Power BI
2 4 (0.39%) MySQL
3 3 (0.29%) BigQuery
3 3 (0.29%) Looker
4 2 (0.20%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.098%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.098%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.098%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.098%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.098%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.098%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (0.78%) Visual Studio
2 6 (0.59%) Git
3 4 (0.39%) Vite
4 2 (0.20%) JIRA
5 1 (0.098%) Balsamiq
5 1 (0.098%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.098%) Selenium
5 1 (0.098%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.098%) TestRail
5 1 (0.098%) Toad
5 1 (0.098%) Zephyr
General
1 947 (92.57%) Social Skills
2 921 (90.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 915 (89.44%) Banking
4 14 (1.37%) Finance
5 8 (0.78%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (0.78%) Public Sector
6 6 (0.59%) Manufacturing
6 6 (0.59%) Marketing
6 6 (0.59%) Retail
7 5 (0.49%) Games
7 5 (0.49%) iGaming
8 4 (0.39%) Legal
9 3 (0.29%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.098%) Law
Job Titles
1 681 (66.57%) Lecturer
2 22 (2.15%) Developer
3 19 (1.86%) Designer
4 17 (1.66%) UX Designer
5 13 (1.27%) Analyst
6 11 (1.08%) Senior
7 9 (0.88%) Business Analyst
8 8 (0.78%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 7 (0.68%) Blazor Developer
9 7 (0.68%) IT Manager
9 7 (0.68%) IT Support
9 7 (0.68%) Java Developer
9 7 (0.68%) Product Owner
9 7 (0.68%) UI Designer
9 7 (0.68%) UI/UX Designer
9 7 (0.68%) UX Developer
10 6 (0.59%) Service Manager
11 5 (0.49%) IT Services Manager
11 5 (0.49%) Senior Analyst
11 5 (0.49%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (1.17%) .NET
2 11 (1.08%) CSS
2 11 (1.08%) HTML
3 8 (0.78%) Blazor
3 8 (0.78%) Material Design
3 8 (0.78%) WebAssembly
4 5 (0.49%) Vue
5 4 (0.39%) Laravel
5 4 (0.39%) LEMP Stack
5 4 (0.39%) React
5 4 (0.39%) Tailwind CSS
5 4 (0.39%) YAML
6 3 (0.29%) Spring
6 3 (0.29%) XML
7 2 (0.20%) .NET Framework
7 2 (0.20%) ASP.NET
7 2 (0.20%) EDI
7 2 (0.20%) Hibernate
7 2 (0.20%) JPA
7 2 (0.20%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 915 (89.44%) IoT
2 17 (1.66%) Product Ownership
3 5 (0.49%) Animation
3 5 (0.49%) 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 (0.20%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (0.20%) Mobile App
5 2 (0.20%) Photography
6 1 (0.098%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.098%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.098%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.098%) Online Gambling
6 1 (0.098%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.098%) Sports Betting
6 1 (0.098%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 7 (0.68%) Windows
2 4 (0.39%) Linux
3 2 (0.20%) Android
3 2 (0.20%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.098%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 931 (91.01%) AI
2 921 (90.03%) Cybersecurity
3 917 (89.64%) Web Development
4 915 (89.44%) Machine Learning
5 34 (3.32%) UX Design
6 27 (2.64%) Agile
7 20 (1.96%) CRM
8 19 (1.86%) Continuous Improvement
9 17 (1.66%) Front End Development
10 15 (1.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 14 (1.37%) Wireframes
12 13 (1.27%) Roadmaps
12 13 (1.27%) User Stories
13 11 (1.08%) Coaching
14 10 (0.98%) Decision-Making
14 10 (0.98%) Interaction Design
14 10 (0.98%) Workflow
15 9 (0.88%) Mentoring
15 9 (0.88%) Service Delivery
16 8 (0.78%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 14 (1.37%) JavaScript
2 11 (1.08%) C#
3 9 (0.88%) Java
4 8 (0.78%) SQL
5 7 (0.68%) PHP
6 4 (0.39%) Bash
7 2 (0.20%) Python
Qualifications
1 923 (90.22%) Degree
2 916 (89.54%) Master's Degree
3 915 (89.44%) PhD
3 915 (89.44%) Postgraduate
4 5 (0.49%) SC Cleared
4 5 (0.49%) 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 (0.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.20%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.098%) CBAP
8 1 (0.098%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.098%) PMP
8 1 (0.098%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (1.86%) Accessibility
2 10 (0.98%) QA
2 10 (0.98%) WCAG
3 7 (0.68%) GDPR
4 3 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (0.29%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.20%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.098%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.098%) SLA
6 1 (0.098%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 5 (0.49%) Docker
2 4 (0.39%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (0.20%) Terraform
2 1 (0.098%) HP ALM
2 1 (0.098%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.098%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (2.35%) Microsoft
2 7 (0.68%) Adobe
3 3 (0.29%) Google
3 3 (0.29%) Infor
3 3 (0.29%) ServiceNow
4 2 (0.20%) IFS
5 1 (0.098%) Databricks
5 1 (0.098%) Hotjar
5 1 (0.098%) HP
5 1 (0.098%) Oracle
5 1 (0.098%) Salesforce