UX Design Job Trends in West Yorkshire

User Experience Design (UXD)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring UX Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 99 107
Rank change year-on-year -16 +8 +8
Permanent jobs citing UX Design 5 12 26
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 0.28% 0.77% 1.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.89% 1.45%
Number of salaries quoted 3 8 23
10th Percentile £54,000 £37,050 £48,000
25th Percentile £58,125 £44,063 £59,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £50,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -28.57% +29.63%
75th Percentile - £58,438 £90,000
90th Percentile - £71,750 £91,547
Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £45,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +44.44% -35.71% +32.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,496 1,353 1,796
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 84.42% 86.62% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 894 671 1,350
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,625 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,375 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £54,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% -4.42% +2.73%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £87,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £49,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% - -4.34%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

UX Design job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

UX Design
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing UX Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing UX Design

UX Design
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing UX Design in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Salary histogram for UX Design in West Yorkshire

UX Design
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 UX Design within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 20 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
Leeds -17 2 £52,500 +5.00% 4
Bradford -18 2 £65,000 -
Halifax - 1 - -
UX Design
Yorkshire

UX Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Adobe Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
1 1 (20.00%) Selenium
General
1 2 (40.00%) Marketing
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Advertising
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Law
2 1 (20.00%) Legal
2 1 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Designer
3 1 (20.00%) Developer
3 1 (20.00%) E-Commerce Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Business Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (20.00%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) .NET
1 2 (40.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (40.00%) Apache Cordova
1 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (40.00%) CSS
1 2 (40.00%) HTML
1 2 (40.00%) HTML5
1 2 (40.00%) Ionic Framework
1 2 (40.00%) jQuery
2 1 (20.00%) React
2 1 (20.00%) Spring
2 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (20.00%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (20.00%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) User Experience
2 4 (80.00%) DevOps
3 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (60.00%) Customer Experience
3 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (40.00%) A/B Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Analytics
4 2 (40.00%) B2C
4 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (40.00%) E-Commerce
4 2 (40.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (40.00%) Scrum
4 2 (40.00%) SEO
4 2 (40.00%) Sprint Planning
4 2 (40.00%) Workshop Facilitation
5 1 (20.00%) Backlog Refinement
5 1 (20.00%) Clean Code
5 1 (20.00%) Emotional Intelligence
5 1 (20.00%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (20.00%) GDPR
2 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Adobe
2 1 (20.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) New Relic