User-Centered Design (UCD) Jobs in the West Midlands

User-Centered Design (UCD)
England > West Midlands

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

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 194 224 250
Rank change year-on-year +30 +26 +2
Permanent jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) 8 28 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.18% 0.39% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.46% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 5 28 17
10th Percentile £52,250 £47,125 £37,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £55,188 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £59,400 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.05% -1.00% -
75th Percentile £75,772 £71,082 £73,751
90th Percentile £79,809 - £81,350
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,965 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.51% -7.26% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

User-Centered Design (UCD) 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 4,067 6,036 6,360
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.19% 83.16% 96.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,685 4,542 3,272
10th Percentile £29,100 £26,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £35,713 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £53,125
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing User-Centered Design (UCD) as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for User-Centered Design (UCD) in the West Midlands

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for User-Centered Design (UCD) in the West Midlands

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 6 May 2025.

Salary histogram for User-Centered Design (UCD) in the West Midlands

User-Centered Design (UCD)
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-Centered Design (UCD) within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 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 +21 6 £73,805 +27.33% 5
Coventry -9 1 £62,500 -9.73%
Shropshire - 1 £72,500 -
User-Centered Design (UCD)
England

User-Centered Design (UCD)
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:

Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Sketch
2 3 (37.50%) Adobe XD
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Figma
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
1 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
1 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (12.50%) Metadata
1 1 (12.50%) Power BI
1 1 (12.50%) Spark SQL
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Automotive
2 3 (37.50%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Designer
1 5 (62.50%) UX Designer
2 3 (37.50%) Junior
2 3 (37.50%) Junior Designer
2 3 (37.50%) Junior UI/UX Designer
2 3 (37.50%) Junior UX Designer
2 3 (37.50%) Lead
2 3 (37.50%) UI Designer
2 3 (37.50%) UI/UX Designer
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Designer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Service Designer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead UX Designer
3 1 (12.50%) Product Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Service Designer
3 1 (12.50%) Supply Chain Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Supply Chain Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) UX Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) CSS
1 3 (37.50%) HTML
2 1 (12.50%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Animation
1 3 (37.50%) Mobile App
1 3 (37.50%) Video Editing
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) User Experience
1 5 (62.50%) User Research
1 5 (62.50%) UX Design
2 4 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 4 (50.00%) Usability Testing
3 3 (37.50%) Agile
3 3 (37.50%) Coaching
3 3 (37.50%) Design Thinking
3 3 (37.50%) Front End Development
3 3 (37.50%) Wireframes
4 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
5 1 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (12.50%) Inventory Management
5 1 (12.50%) Product Roadmap
5 1 (12.50%) Prototyping
5 1 (12.50%) Service Design
5 1 (12.50%) SFIA
5 1 (12.50%) Source to Pay
5 1 (12.50%) Strategic Roadmap
5 1 (12.50%) Typography
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Python
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
1 1 (12.50%) DBS Check
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
1 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
1 1 (12.50%) PMO
1 1 (12.50%) WCAG
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Adobe
2 1 (12.50%) Databricks
2 1 (12.50%) SAP