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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 69 131
Rank change year-on-year -40 +62 -67
Permanent jobs citing User Experience 91 253 140
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.11% 3.43% 2.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.32% 4.15% 2.28%
Number of salaries quoted 49 187 75
10th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £44,708 £37,500 £38,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,688 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.38% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £66,000 £66,250 £63,125
90th Percentile £74,000 £70,740 £69,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £51,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +12.75% -21.54% +8.33%

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 3,930 6,099 6,130
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.25% 82.77% 96.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,635 4,542 3,189
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,250 £30,925
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,700 £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 £64,375 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -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 15 May 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 15 May 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 -18 40 £60,000 +37.14% 74
Staffordshire +28 23 £53,688 +23.42% 40
Warwickshire -30 8 £57,500 +4.55% 45
Wolverhampton +15 3 £64,000 +60.00% 4
Willenhall - 3 £45,000 -
Worcestershire +9 2 £55,000 +71.88% 13
Herefordshire +7 2 - -
Shropshire +7 2 £72,500 +65.71% 5
West Bromwich - 2 - -
Coventry - 2 £85,000 - 7
Wednesbury +7 1 £45,000 +20.00%
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 12 (13.19%) SharePoint
2 9 (9.89%) Skype for Business
3 5 (5.49%) CMS
4 4 (4.40%) Confluence
4 4 (4.40%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (1.10%) ColdFusion
5 1 (1.10%) Headless CMS
5 1 (1.10%) Umbraco
5 1 (1.10%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (4.40%) Sketch
2 3 (3.30%) Adobe XD
2 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (2.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (2.20%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.10%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (3.30%) Shopify
2 2 (2.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.20%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 29 (31.87%) Azure
2 21 (23.08%) AWS
3 19 (20.88%) Power Platform
4 13 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (14.29%) PowerApps
5 10 (10.99%) Figma
5 10 (10.99%) Power Automate
6 5 (5.49%) GitHub
7 4 (4.40%) Entra ID
7 4 (4.40%) Serverless
8 3 (3.30%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (3.30%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (3.30%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (3.30%) GCP
8 3 (3.30%) OneDrive
8 3 (3.30%) Supabase
8 3 (3.30%) Vercel
9 2 (2.20%) Google Ads
9 2 (2.20%) Lucidchart
9 2 (2.20%) MailChimp
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.89%) Skype
1 9 (9.89%) Unified Communications
1 9 (9.89%) Wireless
2 1 (1.10%) PSTN
2 1 (1.10%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (19.78%) SQL Server
2 8 (8.79%) Power BI
3 6 (6.59%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (4.40%) NoSQL
4 4 (4.40%) Tableau
5 2 (2.20%) Big Data
5 2 (2.20%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.20%) Hadoop
5 2 (2.20%) Looker
5 2 (2.20%) Metadata
5 2 (2.20%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.20%) MySQL
5 2 (2.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.10%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.10%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (19.78%) JIRA
2 16 (17.58%) GitLab
3 12 (13.19%) Selenium
4 11 (12.09%) Bitbucket
4 11 (12.09%) Cucumber
4 11 (12.09%) Maven
4 11 (12.09%) SonarQube
4 11 (12.09%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (5.49%) Git
6 2 (2.20%) ER Studio
6 2 (2.20%) ERwin
6 2 (2.20%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (2.20%) Subversion
6 2 (2.20%) Visual Studio
6 2 (2.20%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (2.20%) webpack
7 1 (1.10%) Babel
7 1 (1.10%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.10%) JMeter
7 1 (1.10%) Vite
General
1 32 (35.16%) Social Skills
2 26 (28.57%) Finance
3 24 (26.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 20 (21.98%) Retail
5 14 (15.38%) Banking
6 11 (12.09%) Corporate Banking
6 11 (12.09%) Investment Banking
7 10 (10.99%) Analytical Skills
8 9 (9.89%) Marketing
9 8 (8.79%) Police
10 7 (7.69%) Automotive
11 6 (6.59%) Advertising
12 5 (5.49%) Public Sector
13 3 (3.30%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (3.30%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (1.10%) Aerospace
14 1 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (1.10%) Legal
14 1 (1.10%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 19 (20.88%) Developer
2 15 (16.48%) Software Engineer
3 11 (12.09%) Designer
4 9 (9.89%) Collaboration Specialist
5 8 (8.79%) Analyst
5 8 (8.79%) Microsoft 365 Developer
5 8 (8.79%) Senior
6 5 (5.49%) Change Analyst
6 5 (5.49%) Power Platform Developer
6 5 (5.49%) SAP Analyst
6 5 (5.49%) UX Designer
7 4 (4.40%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 4 (4.40%) Junior
7 4 (4.40%) Product Manager
8 3 (3.30%) Architect
8 3 (3.30%) E-Commerce Manager
8 3 (3.30%) Junior Designer
8 3 (3.30%) Senior Software Engineer
8 3 (3.30%) UI Designer
8 3 (3.30%) Web Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (28.57%) CSS
2 23 (25.27%) HTML
2 23 (25.27%) React
3 15 (16.48%) RESTful
4 13 (14.29%) Jest
5 12 (13.19%) .NET
5 12 (13.19%) CSS3
5 12 (13.19%) HTML5
5 12 (13.19%) JPA
5 12 (13.19%) Redux
5 12 (13.19%) REST
5 12 (13.19%) Sass
5 12 (13.19%) Spring
5 12 (13.19%) Spring Boot
6 11 (12.09%) Kafka
7 5 (5.49%) AngularJS
8 4 (4.40%) Next.js
9 3 (3.30%) FastAPI
9 3 (3.30%) Node.js
10 2 (2.20%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.19%) Enterprise Software
2 11 (12.09%) Product Ownership
3 9 (9.89%) Digital Signage
3 9 (9.89%) Mobile App
3 9 (9.89%) Video Conferencing
4 6 (6.59%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (3.30%) Animation
5 3 (3.30%) Data Structures
5 3 (3.30%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (3.30%) Lidar
5 3 (3.30%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.30%) Video Editing
5 3 (3.30%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.20%) Social Media
7 1 (1.10%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.10%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.10%) EPoS
7 1 (1.10%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.10%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.40%) Apple iOS
2 3 (3.30%) Windows
3 1 (1.10%) Android
3 1 (1.10%) CentOS
3 1 (1.10%) Debian
3 1 (1.10%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (37.36%) Agile
2 23 (25.27%) CI/CD
3 22 (24.18%) Front End Development
4 19 (20.88%) Software Engineering
5 18 (19.78%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (18.68%) DevOps
6 17 (18.68%) Full-Stack Development
6 17 (18.68%) SDLC
7 16 (17.58%) Microservices
8 15 (16.48%) Mentoring
8 15 (16.48%) Project Management
9 14 (15.38%) Migration
10 13 (14.29%) Responsive Web Design
10 13 (14.29%) Test Automation
11 12 (13.19%) Containerisation
11 12 (13.19%) Strategic Thinking
11 12 (13.19%) UX Design
12 11 (12.09%) Continuous Improvement
12 11 (12.09%) ITIL
12 11 (12.09%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 25 (27.47%) JavaScript
2 22 (24.18%) TypeScript
3 21 (23.08%) Java
4 18 (19.78%) SQL
5 15 (16.48%) C#
6 4 (4.40%) Swift
7 3 (3.30%) Python
8 1 (1.10%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.10%) PHP
8 1 (1.10%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (12.09%) Degree
2 8 (8.79%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.30%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.20%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.10%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.10%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (29.67%) QA
2 14 (15.38%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.30%) Actionable Recommendations
3 3 (3.30%) COBIT
4 2 (2.20%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.10%) GDPR
5 1 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 19770
5 1 (1.10%) SLA
5 1 (1.10%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (14.29%) Docker
2 4 (4.40%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 13 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 20 (21.98%) Microsoft
2 11 (12.09%) Solace
3 9 (9.89%) Cisco
3 9 (9.89%) Mitel
3 9 (9.89%) Polycom
3 9 (9.89%) ShoreTel
4 5 (5.49%) Adobe
4 5 (5.49%) Google
4 5 (5.49%) SAP
5 3 (3.30%) Citrix
6 2 (2.20%) Databricks
6 2 (2.20%) Facebook
6 2 (2.20%) Hotjar
6 2 (2.20%) Instagram
6 2 (2.20%) Optimizely
6 2 (2.20%) Oracle
6 2 (2.20%) WooCommerce
7 1 (1.10%) Guidewire
7 1 (1.10%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.10%) Snow