User Experience Jobs in the West Midlands

UX
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring User Experience skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited User Experience over the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 75 129
Rank change year-on-year -22 +54 -64
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 107 263 109
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.57% 3.26% 2.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.93% 4.04% 2.12%
Number of salaries quoted 63 172 80
10th Percentile £41,250 £31,350 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,875 £39,500 £38,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,125 £66,250 £60,313
90th Percentile £68,750 £70,400 £71,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £51,000 £64,500
% change year-on-year +17.65% -20.93% +7.50%

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 3,648 6,505 5,142
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 87.76% 80.54% 96.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,825 4,363 3,170
10th Percentile £28,822 £26,750 £31,225
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,175 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £79,180 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -12.00% +4.17%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing User Experience as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for User Experience in the West Midlands

User Experience
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing User Experience in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for User Experience in the West Midlands

User Experience
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing User Experience in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 12 July 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 12 July 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 -9 45 £60,000 +26.32% 47
Staffordshire +23 22 £53,688 +27.83% 38
Warwickshire -10 16 £56,250 +43.31% 26
Worcestershire +7 4 £56,500 +18.95% 9
Wolverhampton +19 3 £64,000 +60.00% 3
Willenhall - 3 £45,000 -
Herefordshire +7 2 - - 1
Solihull -2 2 - - 2
West Bromwich - 2 - -
Coventry - 2 £45,000 - 8
Shropshire +1 1 £72,500 +65.71% 20
User Experience
England

User Experience
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (13.08%) SharePoint
2 9 (8.41%) Skype for Business
3 7 (6.54%) CMS
4 4 (3.74%) Confluence
4 4 (3.74%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.93%) ColdFusion
5 1 (0.93%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.93%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.93%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (4.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.74%) Sketch
3 3 (2.80%) Adobe XD
3 3 (2.80%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.87%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.93%) Simulink
5 1 (0.93%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (5.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (4.67%) Shopify
3 2 (1.87%) Magento
4 1 (0.93%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 30 (28.04%) Azure
2 19 (17.76%) Power Platform
3 18 (16.82%) AWS
4 14 (13.08%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (10.28%) Figma
6 10 (9.35%) Power Automate
6 10 (9.35%) PowerApps
7 9 (8.41%) Entra ID
8 7 (6.54%) SaaS
9 6 (5.61%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (4.67%) GitHub
11 4 (3.74%) Azure Key Vault
11 4 (3.74%) OneDrive
12 3 (2.80%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (2.80%) GCP
12 3 (2.80%) Supabase
12 3 (2.80%) Vercel
13 2 (1.87%) AWS Lambda
13 2 (1.87%) Lucidchart
13 2 (1.87%) MailChimp
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.41%) Skype
1 9 (8.41%) Unified Communications
1 9 (8.41%) Wireless
2 1 (0.93%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.93%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (18.69%) SQL Server
2 10 (9.35%) Power BI
3 6 (5.61%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (3.74%) NoSQL
4 4 (3.74%) Tableau
5 2 (1.87%) Big Data
5 2 (1.87%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.87%) Hadoop
5 2 (1.87%) Hazelcast
5 2 (1.87%) Looker
5 2 (1.87%) Metadata
5 2 (1.87%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.87%) MySQL
5 2 (1.87%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.93%) Power Query
6 1 (0.93%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (15.89%) GitLab
1 17 (15.89%) JIRA
2 12 (11.21%) Selenium
3 11 (10.28%) Bitbucket
3 11 (10.28%) Cucumber
3 11 (10.28%) Maven
3 11 (10.28%) SonarQube
3 11 (10.28%) Sonatype Nexus
4 6 (5.61%) Git
5 2 (1.87%) ER Studio
5 2 (1.87%) ERwin
5 2 (1.87%) PowerDesigner
5 2 (1.87%) Subversion
6 1 (0.93%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.93%) JMeter
6 1 (0.93%) Vite
6 1 (0.93%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.93%) webpack
General
1 41 (38.32%) Finance
2 39 (36.45%) Social Skills
3 31 (28.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 20 (18.69%) Retail
5 15 (14.02%) Marketing
6 14 (13.08%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (13.08%) Banking
7 11 (10.28%) Corporate Banking
7 11 (10.28%) Investment Banking
8 9 (8.41%) Automotive
9 8 (7.48%) Police
10 7 (6.54%) Advertising
11 5 (4.67%) Public Sector
12 4 (3.74%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (3.74%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (2.80%) Legal
14 2 (1.87%) Financial Institution
14 2 (1.87%) Law
15 1 (0.93%) Back Office
15 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 29 (27.10%) Developer
2 15 (14.02%) Software Engineer
3 14 (13.08%) Designer
4 12 (11.21%) Analyst
5 10 (9.35%) Senior
6 9 (8.41%) Collaboration Specialist
7 8 (7.48%) Microsoft 365 Developer
8 7 (6.54%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 7 (6.54%) Full-Stack Developer
9 5 (4.67%) Change Analyst
9 5 (4.67%) E-Commerce Manager
9 5 (4.67%) Power Platform Developer
9 5 (4.67%) SAP Analyst
9 5 (4.67%) Senior Developer
9 5 (4.67%) Software Developer
9 5 (4.67%) Systems Designer
9 5 (4.67%) UX Designer
10 4 (3.74%) Digital Developer
10 4 (3.74%) Product Manager
10 4 (3.74%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (27.10%) CSS
2 28 (26.17%) HTML
3 27 (25.23%) React
4 15 (14.02%) .NET
4 15 (14.02%) REST
4 15 (14.02%) RESTful
5 14 (13.08%) Spring
6 13 (12.15%) HTML5
7 12 (11.21%) CSS3
7 12 (11.21%) Jest
7 12 (11.21%) JPA
7 12 (11.21%) Sass
7 12 (11.21%) Spring Boot
8 11 (10.28%) Kafka
8 11 (10.28%) Redux
9 8 (7.48%) AngularJS
10 5 (4.67%) .NET Framework
11 4 (3.74%) Blazor
11 4 (3.74%) Entity Framework
12 3 (2.80%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.21%) Product Ownership
2 11 (10.28%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (8.41%) Digital Signage
3 9 (8.41%) Video Conferencing
4 8 (7.48%) Mobile App
4 8 (7.48%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (3.74%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.74%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.80%) Animation
6 3 (2.80%) Lidar
6 3 (2.80%) Video Editing
7 2 (1.87%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.87%) IoT
7 2 (1.87%) Life Science
7 2 (1.87%) Social Media
7 2 (1.87%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.93%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.93%) Infotainment
8 1 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.80%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.87%) Linux
2 2 (1.87%) Windows
3 1 (0.93%) Android
3 1 (0.93%) CentOS
3 1 (0.93%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (35.51%) Agile
2 26 (24.30%) CI/CD
2 26 (24.30%) DevOps
2 26 (24.30%) Front End Development
3 22 (20.56%) UX Design
4 21 (19.63%) Full-Stack Development
5 20 (18.69%) Problem-Solving
6 19 (17.76%) Mentoring
7 18 (16.82%) Continuous Improvement
7 18 (16.82%) SDLC
8 17 (15.89%) Software Engineering
9 15 (14.02%) ITIL
9 15 (14.02%) Microservices
10 13 (12.15%) Migration
10 13 (12.15%) Project Management
10 13 (12.15%) Responsive Web Design
11 12 (11.21%) Analytics
11 12 (11.21%) Containerisation
11 12 (11.21%) Strategic Thinking
11 12 (11.21%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 25 (23.36%) JavaScript
2 23 (21.50%) Java
2 23 (21.50%) SQL
3 19 (17.76%) TypeScript
4 16 (14.95%) C#
5 6 (5.61%) PowerShell
6 5 (4.67%) Python
7 4 (3.74%) Bicep
8 3 (2.80%) Swift
8 3 (2.80%) VB
9 2 (1.87%) Apex Code
9 2 (1.87%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.93%) C
10 1 (0.93%) C++
10 1 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.93%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.93%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.93%) PHP
10 1 (0.93%) XAML
Qualifications
1 12 (11.21%) Degree
2 8 (7.48%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.87%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (1.87%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.93%) DBS Check
4 1 (0.93%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (0.93%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (24.30%) QA
2 14 (13.08%) Accessibility
3 6 (5.61%) COBIT
4 3 (2.80%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.87%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.87%) SLA
6 1 (0.93%) GDPR
6 1 (0.93%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (12.15%) Docker
2 5 (4.67%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 15 (14.02%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.74%) Terraform
3 3 (2.80%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 27 (25.23%) Microsoft
2 11 (10.28%) Solace
3 9 (8.41%) Cisco
3 9 (8.41%) Mitel
3 9 (8.41%) Polycom
3 9 (8.41%) ShoreTel
4 6 (5.61%) Guidewire
5 5 (4.67%) Adobe
5 5 (4.67%) Google
5 5 (4.67%) SAP
6 4 (3.74%) Oracle
7 3 (2.80%) Citrix
7 3 (2.80%) Databricks
7 3 (2.80%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.87%) Ahrefs
8 2 (1.87%) Facebook
8 2 (1.87%) Hotjar
8 2 (1.87%) Instagram
8 2 (1.87%) Optimizely
8 2 (1.87%) WooCommerce