User Research Jobs in West Yorkshire

User Research
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire requiring User Research skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited User Research over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 129 208
Rank change year-on-year +27 +79 -68
Permanent jobs citing User Research 5 31 27
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 0.38% 1.03% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 1.20% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 2 14 12
10th Percentile - £40,817 -
25th Percentile £51,250 £42,725 £50,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,249 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year +16.03% -38.65% +40.48%
75th Percentile £53,750 £64,038 £84,688
90th Percentile - £71,725 £99,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £52,500 £45,249 £72,500
% change year-on-year +16.03% -37.59% +44.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

User Research 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 West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,248 2,575 4,985
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 95.12% 85.80% 98.07%
Number of salaries quoted 702 1,866 2,277
10th Percentile £25,313 £28,000 £34,285
25th Percentile £37,625 £38,890 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,750 £51,999 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% -5.46% +4.76%
75th Percentile £73,886 £69,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,250 £84,964 £86,393
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,683 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.63% -9.09% +7.84%

User Research
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Job postings citing User Research as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for User Research in West Yorkshire

User Research
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing User Research in West Yorkshire.

Salary trend for User Research in West Yorkshire

User Research
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing User Research within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 16 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
Leeds +26 3 - - 11
Bradford - 1 £52,500 -
Huddersfield - 1 £52,500 -
User Research
Yorkshire

User Research
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 1 (20.00%) Adobe XD
1 1 (20.00%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (40.00%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Automotive
2 2 (40.00%) Electronics
2 2 (40.00%) Manufacturing
2 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Designer
2 2 (40.00%) Service Designer
2 2 (40.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) User Researcher
3 1 (20.00%) UI Designer
3 1 (20.00%) UI/UX Designer
3 1 (20.00%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) .NET
1 2 (40.00%) HTML
1 2 (40.00%) JSON
1 2 (40.00%) LINQ
1 2 (40.00%) Next.js
1 2 (40.00%) Node.js
1 2 (40.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Business Development
3 2 (40.00%) Change Management
3 2 (40.00%) Coaching
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (40.00%) Design Thinking
3 2 (40.00%) Line Management
3 2 (40.00%) Mathematics
3 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (40.00%) MVVM
3 2 (40.00%) OO
3 2 (40.00%) OOP
3 2 (40.00%) Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (40.00%) Rapid Prototyping
3 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (40.00%) TDD
3 2 (40.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) C#
1 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) HND
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) EMC
2 1 (20.00%) Adobe