The first table below looks at the demand for Usability Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Usability Testing over the 3 months to 20 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Edinburgh region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Usability Testing
Rank 61 57 -
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -
Contract jobs citing Usability Testing 2 4 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.217% 0.384% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.309% 0.566% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
Average daily rate £338 £325 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.84% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £400 £300
% change year-on-year
-12.50% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.61 £31.25 -
% change year-on-year
-56.44% -
All Processes & Methodologies
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
648 707 838
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 70.36% 67.85% 63.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 308 337 438
Average daily rate £400 £375 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £252 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
+2.06% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 12 8
Average hourly rate £19.50 £23.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-17.02% +34.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.50 £13.76 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.25 £39.40 £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.50 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+22.00% -13.79%
Usability Testing
Scotland

Usability Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Usability Testing across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Edinburgh Usability Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Usability Testing
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Usability Testing across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Usability Testing Daily Rate Trend

Usability Testing
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Usability Testing also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Usability Testing.

1 3 (75.00%) Finance
1 3 (75.00%) User Experience Design
2 2 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Axure RP
3 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
3 1 (25.00%) MS Visio
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Publishing
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Web Design
3 1 (25.00%) Retail
3 1 (25.00%) Content Management
3 1 (25.00%) Copywriting

Usability Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Usability Testing also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Usability Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Visio
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Axure RP
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Publishing
2 1 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) User Experience Designer
1 2 (50.00%) Designer
2 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Copywriting
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) User Experience Design
2 2 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Web Design
3 1 (25.00%) Content Management
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