The first table below looks at the demand for Usability Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Usability Testing over the 3 months to 18 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 London 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Usability Testing
Rank 355 378 421
Rank change year-on-year
+23 +43
Contract jobs citing Usability Testing 37 35 34
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.160% 0.131% 0.108%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.214% 0.183% 0.153%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 22 23
Average daily rate £351 £470 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-25.42% +44.61%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £300 £249
10% offered a daily rate of more than £540 £525 £462
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £400 £300
% change year-on-year
-12.50% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £21.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.61 £32.25 -
% change year-on-year
-57.79% -
All Processes & Methodologies
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
17251 19112 22276
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 74.80% 71.77% 70.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 11844 12569 14693
Average daily rate £450 £450 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.26%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £300 £310
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 328 346
Average hourly rate £27.00 £26.23 £26.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.95% +0.86%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.97 £15.00 £14.68
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £55.00 £47.50 £53.87
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Usability Testing
England

Usability Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

London Usability Testing Daily Rate Trend

Usability Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Usability Testing across the London region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

London Usability Testing Daily Rate Histogram

Usability Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Usability Testing across the London region.

London Usability Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Usability Testing
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Usability Testing across the London region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

London Usability Testing Hourly Rate Histogram

Usability Testing
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Usability Testing within the London region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
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Job
Vacancies
City of London +1 6 £475 +35.61%
Paddington - - - -
Hammersmith - - - -
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England

Usability Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 26 (48.15%) HTML
2 21 (38.89%) Adobe
3 19 (35.19%) Photoshop
4 14 (25.93%) CSS
4 14 (25.93%) Information Architecture
5 13 (24.07%) JavaScript
5 13 (24.07%) Microsoft
6 12 (22.22%) Workflow
6 12 (22.22%) Adobe Illustrator
6 12 (22.22%) Axure RP
6 12 (22.22%) Degree
6 12 (22.22%) QA
7 11 (20.37%) User Experience Design
7 11 (20.37%) Finance
7 11 (20.37%) XAML
8 10 (18.52%) Mobile App
9 9 (16.67%) Analytics
9 9 (16.67%) E-Commerce
10 8 (14.81%) OmniGraffle
11 6 (11.11%) Intranet
11 6 (11.11%) Games
11 6 (11.11%) Banking
12 5 (9.259%) Web Design
12 5 (9.259%) Agile Software Development
12 5 (9.259%) Fixed Income
12 5 (9.259%) Validation
12 5 (9.259%) MS Visio
12 5 (9.259%) Waterfall
12 5 (9.259%) Customer Insight
12 5 (9.259%) Apple iOS

Usability Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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.

Application Development
1 26 (48.15%) HTML
2 14 (25.93%) CSS
3 4 (7.407%) XHTML
3 4 (7.407%) HTML5
3 4 (7.407%) CSS3
4 2 (3.704%) AngularJS
4 2 (3.704%) Node.js
4 2 (3.704%) JSP
5 1 (1.852%) Flash
5 1 (1.852%) LAMP
5 1 (1.852%) Ajax
5 1 (1.852%) YUI
5 1 (1.852%) jQuery
5 1 (1.852%) WAMP
Application Platforms
1 1 (1.852%) MS Exchange
1 1 (1.852%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 19 (35.19%) Photoshop
2 12 (22.22%) Adobe Illustrator
3 8 (14.81%) OmniGraffle
4 5 (9.259%) MS Visio
5 1 (1.852%) Fireworks
5 1 (1.852%) MS Project
5 1 (1.852%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.852%) SAP SRM
1 1 (1.852%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.11%) Intranet
2 2 (3.704%) Internet
3 1 (1.852%) ATM
Development Applications
1 12 (22.22%) Axure RP
2 2 (3.704%) JSUnit
2 2 (3.704%) Jasmine
3 1 (1.852%) QuickTest Pro
3 1 (1.852%) Cucumber
General
1 11 (20.37%) Finance
2 6 (11.11%) Games
2 6 (11.11%) Banking
3 3 (5.556%) Investment Banking
4 2 (3.704%) Marketing
5 1 (1.852%) French Language
5 1 (1.852%) Spanish Language
5 1 (1.852%) Retail
5 1 (1.852%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 33 (61.11%) Designer
2 28 (51.85%) User Experience Designer
3 10 (18.52%) Senior Designer
4 8 (14.81%) Senior User Experience Designer
5 5 (9.259%) User Experience Consultant
5 5 (9.259%) Consultant
6 4 (7.407%) Analyst
6 4 (7.407%) Test Analyst
7 2 (3.704%) Web Developer
7 2 (3.704%) Developer
7 2 (3.704%) Web Designer
7 2 (3.704%) Interaction Designer
8 1 (1.852%) Senior Interaction Designer
8 1 (1.852%) UAT Test Analyst
8 1 (1.852%) Senior Web Designer
8 1 (1.852%) Communications Manager
8 1 (1.852%) UAT Analyst
8 1 (1.852%) UI Designer
8 1 (1.852%) Web Engineer
8 1 (1.852%) Test Leader
Miscellaneous
1 10 (18.52%) Mobile App
2 5 (9.259%) Fixed Income
2 5 (9.259%) Online Games
3 2 (3.704%) Computer Science
4 1 (1.852%) W3C
4 1 (1.852%) Online Banking
4 1 (1.852%) Psychology
4 1 (1.852%) Visualisation
4 1 (1.852%) Kindle
4 1 (1.852%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.259%) Android
1 5 (9.259%) Apple iOS
2 2 (3.704%) Windows
3 1 (1.852%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (25.93%) Information Architecture
2 12 (22.22%) Workflow
3 11 (20.37%) User Experience Design
4 9 (16.67%) E-Commerce
4 9 (16.67%) Analytics
5 5 (9.259%) Customer Insight
5 5 (9.259%) Validation
5 5 (9.259%) Web Design
5 5 (9.259%) Agile Software Development
5 5 (9.259%) Waterfall
5 5 (9.259%) Requirements Analysis
6 4 (7.407%) Project Planning
7 3 (5.556%) Performance Testing
7 3 (5.556%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (5.556%) Project Management
8 2 (3.704%) Migration
8 2 (3.704%) Disaster Recovery
8 2 (3.704%) MVC
8 2 (3.704%) Business Analysis
8 2 (3.704%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 13 (24.07%) JavaScript
2 11 (20.37%) XAML
3 2 (3.704%) Perl
3 2 (3.704%) PHP
3 2 (3.704%) Python
4 1 (1.852%) C
Qualifications
1 12 (22.22%) Degree
2 3 (5.556%) SC Cleared
2 3 (5.556%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.556%) ISEB
3 1 (1.852%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (22.22%) QA
2 1 (1.852%) ISO 9001
Systems Management
1 2 (3.704%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 21 (38.89%) Adobe
2 13 (24.07%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.556%) Google
3 3 (5.556%) Facebook
4 2 (3.704%) HP
5 1 (1.852%) Capita
5 1 (1.852%) SAP
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