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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 82 68
Rank change year-on-year +75 -14 +63
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 1,022 93 261
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 11.94% 3.09% 3.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.35% 3.47% 4.08%
Number of salaries quoted 88 52 189
10th Percentile £34,925 £40,125 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,563 £46,063 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £53,688 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.53% +7.38% -4.76%
75th Percentile £55,000 £64,313 £66,250
90th Percentile £67,250 £72,125 £70,400
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +17.65% -21.24%

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 6,251 2,680 6,393
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 73.00% 89.04% 81.18%
Number of salaries quoted 3,789 1,549 4,666
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,822 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,000 £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 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £59,400 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.01% +8.00% -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 30 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 30 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 +40 258 £35,000 -34.81% 6
Warwickshire +35 228 £40,000 -30.43% 7
Worcestershire +20 169 £36,500 -35.40% 3
Birmingham +23 92 £50,000 -16.67% 19
Shropshire +9 46 £82,500 +13.79% 1
Coventry -9 17 £42,500 -50.00%
Wolverhampton -13 15 - -
Sutton Coldfield - 14 - -
Halesowen - 13 £32,500 -
Bilston - 12 £66,500 -
Brierley Hill - 9 - - 1
Tipton - 9 - -
Solihull - 9 - -
Stourbridge - 9 - -
Walsall - 8 - - 1
Wednesbury - 8 - -
Dudley - 8 - -
Smethwick - 8 - -
Kingswinford - 8 - -
West Bromwich +2 7 - -
Rowley Regis - 7 - -
Willenhall +1 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 7 (0.68%) SharePoint
2 6 (0.59%) CMS
3 4 (0.39%) nginx
4 2 (0.20%) Confluence
5 1 (0.098%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.098%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 10 (0.98%) Photoshop
2 9 (0.88%) Adobe Illustrator
3 5 (0.49%) Adobe After Effects
3 5 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.20%) Sketch
5 2 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.098%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 6 (0.59%) Shopify
2 5 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.098%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 915 (89.53%) Cloud Computing
2 18 (1.76%) SaaS
3 12 (1.17%) GitHub
4 10 (0.98%) Figma
5 8 (0.78%) GitHub Copilot
5 8 (0.78%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (0.78%) Power Platform
6 7 (0.68%) AWS
6 7 (0.68%) Azure
7 4 (0.39%) Entra ID
7 4 (0.39%) Google Analytics
7 4 (0.39%) Power Automate
7 4 (0.39%) PowerApps
8 3 (0.29%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (0.29%) GCP
9 2 (0.20%) Google Tag Manager
9 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (0.098%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.098%) Copilot Studio
10 1 (0.098%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 915 (89.53%) Internet
2 3 (0.29%) Firewall
3 1 (0.098%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.098%) RFID
3 1 (0.098%) VLAN
3 1 (0.098%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (0.39%) MySQL
2 3 (0.29%) BigQuery
2 3 (0.29%) Looker
2 3 (0.29%) Power BI
3 2 (0.20%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.098%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.098%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.098%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.098%) SQL Server
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
1 946 (92.56%) Social Skills
2 921 (90.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 915 (89.53%) Banking
4 15 (1.47%) Finance
5 7 (0.68%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (0.68%) Public Sector
5 7 (0.68%) Retail
6 6 (0.59%) Manufacturing
7 5 (0.49%) Games
7 5 (0.49%) iGaming
8 4 (0.39%) Marketing
9 3 (0.29%) Legal
10 2 (0.20%) Law
10 2 (0.20%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 681 (66.63%) Lecturer
2 20 (1.96%) Designer
2 20 (1.96%) Developer
3 17 (1.66%) UX Designer
4 13 (1.27%) Analyst
5 10 (0.98%) Senior
6 9 (0.88%) Business Analyst
7 8 (0.78%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 7 (0.68%) Blazor Developer
8 7 (0.68%) IT Manager
8 7 (0.68%) IT Support
8 7 (0.68%) Java Developer
8 7 (0.68%) UI Designer
8 7 (0.68%) UI/UX Designer
8 7 (0.68%) UX Developer
9 6 (0.59%) Product Owner
9 6 (0.59%) Service Manager
10 5 (0.49%) Animator
10 5 (0.49%) IT Services Manager
11 4 (0.39%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (0.98%) .NET
2 9 (0.88%) CSS
2 9 (0.88%) 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%) EDI
7 2 (0.20%) Hibernate
7 2 (0.20%) JPA
7 2 (0.20%) Node.js
7 2 (0.20%) REST
7 2 (0.20%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 915 (89.53%) IoT
2 16 (1.57%) Product Ownership
3 5 (0.49%) Animation
4 4 (0.39%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (0.29%) Cyber Security Posture
5 3 (0.29%) Graphic Design
5 3 (0.29%) Onboarding
5 3 (0.29%) Security Posture
6 2 (0.20%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.20%) Mobile App
6 2 (0.20%) Photography
6 2 (0.20%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.098%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.098%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.098%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.098%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.098%) Online Gambling
7 1 (0.098%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.098%) Sports Betting
7 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
1 929 (90.90%) AI
2 921 (90.12%) Cybersecurity
3 915 (89.53%) Machine Learning
3 915 (89.53%) Web Development
4 34 (3.33%) UX Design
5 26 (2.54%) Agile
6 22 (2.15%) CRM
7 19 (1.86%) Continuous Improvement
8 17 (1.66%) Front End Development
9 15 (1.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 14 (1.37%) Wireframes
11 12 (1.17%) Roadmaps
11 12 (1.17%) User Stories
12 11 (1.08%) ERP
12 11 (1.08%) Workflow
13 10 (0.98%) Decision-Making
14 9 (0.88%) Interaction Design
14 9 (0.88%) Service Delivery
15 8 (0.78%) Service Management
15 8 (0.78%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 11 (1.08%) JavaScript
2 10 (0.98%) Java
3 9 (0.88%) C#
4 7 (0.68%) PHP
5 5 (0.49%) SQL
6 4 (0.39%) Bash
7 2 (0.20%) Python
8 1 (0.098%) ABAP
8 1 (0.098%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 923 (90.31%) Degree
2 916 (89.63%) Master's Degree
3 915 (89.53%) PhD
3 915 (89.53%) Postgraduate
4 4 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (0.39%) SC Cleared
4 4 (0.39%) Security Cleared
5 3 (0.29%) A+ Certification
5 3 (0.29%) Network+ Certification
6 2 (0.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.098%) CBAP
7 1 (0.098%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.098%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.098%) PMP
7 1 (0.098%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (1.57%) Accessibility
2 10 (0.98%) QA
3 8 (0.78%) WCAG
4 7 (0.68%) GDPR
5 4 (0.39%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (0.29%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.098%) SLA
7 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 21 (2.05%) Microsoft
2 8 (0.78%) Adobe
3 3 (0.29%) Google
3 3 (0.29%) Infor
3 3 (0.29%) ServiceNow
4 2 (0.20%) IFS
4 2 (0.20%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.098%) Databricks
5 1 (0.098%) Hotjar
5 1 (0.098%) HP
5 1 (0.098%) iManage
5 1 (0.098%) Oracle
5 1 (0.098%) SAP