UX Design Job Trends in the West Midlands

User Experience Design (UXD)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring UX Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 162 178 125
Rank change year-on-year +16 -53 +73
Permanent jobs citing UX Design 19 38 45
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.41% 0.76% 1.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.87% 1.48%
Number of salaries quoted 18 8 43
10th Percentile £46,375 £44,625 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,375 £45,000 £46,130
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +4.55% +2.80%
75th Percentile £62,906 £62,813 £63,250
90th Percentile £65,000 £64,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +4.00%

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 3,904 4,360 3,031
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.62% 87.46% 92.49%
Number of salaries quoted 2,123 1,988 2,448
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,175 £26,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing UX Design relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

UX Design job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

UX Design
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing UX Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing UX Design

UX Design
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing UX Design in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 12 December 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 12 December 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 +32 12 £55,000 +10.00% 7
Warwickshire +28 4 £61,375 - 7
Solihull +1 1 £40,000 -36.00%
Shropshire -9 1 £65,000 - 4
Worcestershire - 1 £52,500 - 3
UX Design
England

UX Design
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 1 (5.26%) Appian
1 1 (5.26%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Adobe After Effects
1 1 (5.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (5.26%) Adobe Premiere
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.26%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (52.63%) SaaS
2 3 (15.79%) Azure
2 3 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (15.79%) Azure Key Vault
2 3 (15.79%) Entra ID
2 3 (15.79%) Figma
3 1 (5.26%) GitHub
3 1 (5.26%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) Ethernet
1 1 (5.26%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.26%) MySQL
2 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) JIRA
2 2 (10.53%) Git
3 1 (5.26%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Finance
3 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (10.53%) Marketing
4 1 (5.26%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Developer
2 5 (26.32%) Blazor Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Designer
3 3 (15.79%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 3 (15.79%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Software Developer
3 3 (15.79%) UX Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Product Owner
4 2 (10.53%) Solutions Designer
4 2 (10.53%) UML Designer
4 2 (10.53%) UX Designer
5 1 (5.26%) Development Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Development Support Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Engineering Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Product Manager
5 1 (5.26%) React Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Support Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Technology Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (26.32%) .NET
2 4 (21.05%) Blazor
3 3 (15.79%) .NET Framework
3 3 (15.79%) Entity Framework
4 2 (10.53%) HTML
4 2 (10.53%) Material Design
4 2 (10.53%) XML
5 1 (5.26%) CSS
5 1 (5.26%) JSON
5 1 (5.26%) Next.js
5 1 (5.26%) OAuth
5 1 (5.26%) React
5 1 (5.26%) REST
5 1 (5.26%) SAML
5 1 (5.26%) SOAP
5 1 (5.26%) WebAssembly
5 1 (5.26%) WPF
5 1 (5.26%) XSL
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Onboarding
1 4 (21.05%) Product Ownership
2 2 (10.53%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (5.26%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (5.26%) Graphic Design
3 1 (5.26%) Mobile App
3 1 (5.26%) Social Media
3 1 (5.26%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (100.00%) User Experience
2 10 (52.63%) Agile
3 6 (31.58%) AI
3 6 (31.58%) Analytics
3 6 (31.58%) CRM
3 6 (31.58%) Wireframes
4 5 (26.32%) Data Analytics
4 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (26.32%) User Stories
5 4 (21.05%) DevOps
5 4 (21.05%) Front End Development
5 4 (21.05%) Prototyping
6 3 (15.79%) Business Analysis
6 3 (15.79%) CI/CD
6 3 (15.79%) Clean Code
6 3 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (15.79%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (10.53%) Journey Map
Programming Languages
1 6 (31.58%) SQL
2 5 (26.32%) C#
3 3 (15.79%) Bicep
3 3 (15.79%) PowerShell
4 2 (10.53%) Python
5 1 (5.26%) TypeScript
5 1 (5.26%) VB
5 1 (5.26%) XAML
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.26%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.26%) QA
2 1 (5.26%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.26%) Adobe
2 1 (5.26%) CA Agile Central