Usability Testing Contracts

Usability Testing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Usability Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Usability Testing over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 484 534 491
Rank change year-on-year +50 -43 -38
Contract jobs citing Usability Testing 106 166 400
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.29% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.32% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 118 220
10th Percentile £345 £368 £405
25th Percentile £400 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £506 £510
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% -0.74% +6.92%
75th Percentile £550 £584 £585
90th Percentile £578 £638 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £503
% change year-on-year - -5.47% +3.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 11
10th Percentile - £48.75 -
25th Percentile - £54.38 £17.00
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year - +242.11% -51.90%
75th Percentile - £76.88 £50.06
90th Percentile - £83.25 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £19.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Usability Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,094 51,920 79,222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.26% 89.82% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,889 35,981 55,625
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,438 1,716 1,886
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.24 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%

Usability Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Usability Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Usability Testing in the UK

Usability Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Usability Testing.

Daily rate trend for Usability Testing in the UK

Usability Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Usability Testing over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Usability Testing in the UK

Usability Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Usability Testing.

Hourly rate trend for Usability Testing in the UK

Usability Testing
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Usability Testing within the UK over the 6 months to 11 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +57 70 £438 -16.47% 47
Work from Home +65 48 £500 - 25
London +67 46 £500 -9.09% 23
UK excluding London +30 32 £475 - 24
North of England +35 15 £350 -36.25% 8
Scotland +44 9 £550 +10.00% 1
North West +21 8 £350 -41.67% 8
Yorkshire +15 7 £400 -25.93%
South East +9 4 £563 +18.42% 2
Midlands +28 3 £400 - 4
West Midlands +16 3 £400 -15.79% 3
South West +6 1 £725 +61.11% 7

Usability Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.89%) SAS
Applications
1 19 (17.92%) Sketch
2 18 (16.98%) Adobe XD
3 6 (5.66%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 6 (5.66%) InVision
3 6 (5.66%) UserZoom
4 4 (3.77%) Adobe Illustrator
4 4 (3.77%) Photoshop
5 2 (1.89%) Chatbot
5 2 (1.89%) Zeplin
6 1 (0.94%) Adobe Captivate
6 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.94%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 34 (32.08%) Figma
2 9 (8.49%) Azure
3 8 (7.55%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (6.60%) Miro
5 5 (4.72%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.89%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.94%) AWS
7 1 (0.94%) GCP
7 1 (0.94%) npm
7 1 (0.94%) SaaS
7 1 (0.94%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.83%) Big Data
1 3 (2.83%) Power BI
2 1 (0.94%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (5.66%) Axure RP
2 4 (3.77%) Selenium
3 3 (2.83%) JMeter
3 3 (2.83%) LoadRunner
4 2 (1.89%) SpecFlow
4 2 (1.89%) webpack
5 1 (0.94%) Babel
5 1 (0.94%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.94%) ESLint
5 1 (0.94%) Git
5 1 (0.94%) JIRA
5 1 (0.94%) Vite
General
1 51 (48.11%) Social Skills
2 16 (15.09%) Public Sector
3 13 (12.26%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (9.43%) Presentation Skills
5 7 (6.60%) Finance
6 6 (5.66%) Marketing
7 3 (2.83%) Banking
8 2 (1.89%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.94%) Advertising
9 1 (0.94%) Arabic Language
9 1 (0.94%) Cantonese Language
9 1 (0.94%) Danish Language
9 1 (0.94%) Games
9 1 (0.94%) Law
9 1 (0.94%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.94%) Multimedia
9 1 (0.94%) Police
9 1 (0.94%) Spanish Language
9 1 (0.94%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 54 (50.94%) Designer
2 24 (22.64%) User Researcher
2 24 (22.64%) UX Designer
3 16 (15.09%) Service Designer
4 14 (13.21%) Lead
4 14 (13.21%) Senior
5 8 (7.55%) Senior Designer
6 7 (6.60%) Senior UX Designer
7 6 (5.66%) Interaction Designer
8 5 (4.72%) Test Leader
9 4 (3.77%) Senior User Researcher
9 4 (3.77%) User Experience Researcher
10 3 (2.83%) Developer
10 3 (2.83%) UI Designer
11 2 (1.89%) Agile Delivery Lead
11 2 (1.89%) Analyst
11 2 (1.89%) Digital Designer
11 2 (1.89%) Technical Tester
11 2 (1.89%) Tester
11 2 (1.89%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.49%) CSS
1 9 (8.49%) HTML
2 2 (1.89%) React
2 2 (1.89%) REST
2 2 (1.89%) Vue
3 1 (0.94%) ADO
3 1 (0.94%) D3.js
3 1 (0.94%) Jest
3 1 (0.94%) Material-UI
3 1 (0.94%) Parceljs
3 1 (0.94%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.32%) Mobile App
2 7 (6.60%) Product Ownership
3 6 (5.66%) Graphic Design
4 4 (3.77%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.83%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.94%) BYOD
6 1 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.94%) Life Science
6 1 (0.94%) NHS
6 1 (0.94%) Podcast
6 1 (0.94%) Smartphone
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (59.43%) User Research
2 59 (55.66%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 57 (53.77%) User Experience
4 46 (43.40%) Agile
5 42 (39.62%) UX Design
6 29 (27.36%) Service Design
7 27 (25.47%) Wireframes
8 26 (24.53%) Problem-Solving
9 24 (22.64%) Prototyping
10 21 (19.81%) Actionable Insight
11 18 (16.98%) Workshop Facilitation
12 15 (14.15%) Ethnography
12 15 (14.15%) Interaction Design
13 14 (13.21%) Ergonomics
13 14 (13.21%) Human Factors
14 13 (12.26%) Focus Group
14 13 (12.26%) Qualitative Research
14 13 (12.26%) Quantitative Research
14 13 (12.26%) UX Research
15 12 (11.32%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 6 (5.66%) JavaScript
2 2 (1.89%) Python
3 1 (0.94%) Java
3 1 (0.94%) SQL
3 1 (0.94%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 22 (20.75%) Degree
2 7 (6.60%) Master's Degree
2 7 (6.60%) Security Cleared
3 5 (4.72%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (4.72%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (4.72%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.94%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.94%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (31.13%) Accessibility
2 11 (10.38%) Actionable Recommendations
3 9 (8.49%) WCAG
4 3 (2.83%) QA
5 1 (0.94%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.94%) SLA
Vendors
1 25 (23.58%) Adobe
2 5 (4.72%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.89%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.94%) Brio
4 1 (0.94%) Google
4 1 (0.94%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.94%) Pega
4 1 (0.94%) SAP
4 1 (0.94%) Virgin Media