UX Design Jobs in the West Midlands

User Experience Design (UXD)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring UX Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited UX Design over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 184 161 206
Rank change year-on-year -23 +45 -56
Permanent jobs citing UX Design 13 96 50
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.31% 1.22% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 1.50% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 9 65 23
10th Percentile £45,942 £31,750 £31,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £39,750 £39,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £61,250 £54,375
90th Percentile £79,000 £78,000 £60,652
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £64,500
% change year-on-year - -14.73% +7.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

UX Design 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 3,781 6,392 5,868
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.20% 81.17% 96.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,553 4,666 3,157
10th Percentile £28,822 £26,250 £30,625
25th Percentile £37,000 £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 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for UX Design in the West Midlands

UX Design
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing UX Design in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for UX Design in the West Midlands

UX Design
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing UX Design in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for UX Design in the West Midlands

UX Design
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 UX Design within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 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 0 7 £56,250 +4.65% 32
Staffordshire +19 2 £55,362 +1.12% 29
Warwickshire -20 2 £60,000 +9.09% 4
Worcestershire - 1 £56,500 - 31
Shropshire - 1 £72,500 - 56
UX Design
England

UX Design
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 1 (7.69%) CMS
1 1 (7.69%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Sketch
2 3 (23.08%) Adobe XD
3 1 (7.69%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (7.69%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) Figma
2 2 (15.38%) AWS
2 2 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (15.38%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) Serverless
3 1 (7.69%) Algolia
3 1 (7.69%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (7.69%) CloudFront
3 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
3 1 (7.69%) GCP
3 1 (7.69%) GitHub
3 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (7.69%) npm
3 1 (7.69%) SaaS
3 1 (7.69%) SonarCloud
3 1 (7.69%) Yarn
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) DynamoDB
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (7.69%) MySQL
2 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Cypress.io
1 1 (7.69%) Git
1 1 (7.69%) GitLab
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
1 1 (7.69%) Vite
1 1 (7.69%) webpack
General
1 6 (46.15%) Finance
2 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
3 4 (30.77%) Automotive
4 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Designer
2 5 (38.46%) UX Designer
3 3 (23.08%) Analyst
3 3 (23.08%) Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Junior
3 3 (23.08%) Junior Designer
3 3 (23.08%) Junior UI/UX Designer
3 3 (23.08%) Junior UX Designer
3 3 (23.08%) UI Designer
3 3 (23.08%) UI/UX Designer
4 2 (15.38%) Business Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 2 (15.38%) Lead
4 2 (15.38%) Senior
5 1 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Blazor Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Digital Business Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Lead Service Designer
5 1 (7.69%) Service Designer
5 1 (7.69%) UX Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) CSS
1 4 (30.77%) HTML
2 3 (23.08%) React
3 1 (7.69%) .NET
3 1 (7.69%) .NET Framework
3 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
3 1 (7.69%) Blazor
3 1 (7.69%) Electron
3 1 (7.69%) Entity Framework
3 1 (7.69%) Ionic Framework
3 1 (7.69%) Jest
3 1 (7.69%) Node.js
3 1 (7.69%) Parceljs
3 1 (7.69%) React Native
3 1 (7.69%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Animation
1 3 (23.08%) Mobile App
1 3 (23.08%) Video Editing
2 1 (7.69%) AI Agents
2 1 (7.69%) Augmented Reality
2 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.69%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (7.69%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (7.69%) Infotainment
2 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Android
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) User Experience
2 6 (46.15%) Front End Development
3 5 (38.46%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 4 (30.77%) Agile
4 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (30.77%) Usability Testing
4 4 (30.77%) User Research
4 4 (30.77%) Wireframes
5 3 (23.08%) Business Analysis
5 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
5 3 (23.08%) Decision-Making
5 3 (23.08%) Design Thinking
6 2 (15.38%) Artificial Intelligence
6 2 (15.38%) Coaching
6 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
6 2 (15.38%) Process Improvement
6 2 (15.38%) Prototyping
6 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (15.38%) UML
7 1 (7.69%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) TypeScript
2 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.69%) Bicep
3 1 (7.69%) C
3 1 (7.69%) C#
3 1 (7.69%) C++
3 1 (7.69%) Kotlin
3 1 (7.69%) MATLAB
3 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
3 1 (7.69%) Python
3 1 (7.69%) SQL
3 1 (7.69%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) DBS Check
2 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) QA
2 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
2 1 (7.69%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Adobe
2 1 (7.69%) Guidewire
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) OpenAI
2 1 (7.69%) QNX