The first table below looks at the demand for Usability Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester 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 Manchester 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 68 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Usability Testing 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.103% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.149% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £400 £300
% change year-on-year
-12.50% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £13.61 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.61 £32.25 -
% change year-on-year
-57.79% -
All Processes & Methodologies
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
672 779 666
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 68.92% 63.18% 63.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 388 312
Average daily rate £338 £315 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% +5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £233 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 34 34
Average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.77% +2.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.90 £12.01 £11.06
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £77.50 £35.00 £30.10
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Usability Testing
North West

Usability Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester Usability Testing Daily Rate Trend

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 Manchester region.

Manchester Usability Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Usability Testing
Top 9 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) XHTML
1 1 (100.00%) Content Management
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Web Usability
1 1 (100.00%) CSS3

Usability Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) XHTML
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) CSS3
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Web Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Content Management
1 1 (100.00%) Web Usability
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PHP