The first table below looks at the demand for Usability Testing skills in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Usability Testing over the 3 months to 17 May 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 England region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Usability Testing
Rank 647 657 716
Rank change year-on-year
+10 +59
Permanent jobs citing Usability Testing 184 208 144
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.182% 0.183% 0.123%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.238% 0.245% 0.168%
Number of salaries quoted 146 185 118
Average salary £41,500 £44,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.68% +10.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,250 £31,500 £32,200
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £63,250 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £40,000 £35,500
% change year-on-year
-12.50% +12.67%
All Processes & Methodologies
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
77284 84844 85896
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 76.63% 74.69% 73.48%
Number of salaries quoted 64164 72674 72257
Average salary £46,000 £47,500 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.15% -
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Usability Testing
UK

Usability Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Usability Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Usability Testing
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Usability Testing across the England region.

England Usability Testing Salary Trend

Usability Testing
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Usability Testing across the England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

England Usability Testing Salary Histogram

Usability Testing
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Usability Testing within the England region over the 3 months to 17 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
London +17 105 £44,500 -1.11%
South East +15 31 £32,750 -31.05%
Yorkshire -9 21 £35,000 -22.22%
East of England +9 17 £52,500 +77.96%
South West -3 5 £33,000 -5.71%
West Midlands - 4 £56,250 -
North West +3 2 £35,000 -
East Midlands -25 1 £42,500 +13.33%
Usability Testing
UK

Usability Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the England 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Usability Testing.

1 140 (38.46%) E-Commerce
2 106 (29.12%) Degree
3 103 (28.30%) Agile Software Development
4 89 (24.45%) HTML
5 84 (23.08%) QA
6 83 (22.80%) CSS
7 80 (21.98%) Analytics
8 74 (20.33%) Axure RP
8 74 (20.33%) JavaScript
9 73 (20.05%) User Stories
10 66 (18.13%) Selenium
10 66 (18.13%) SQL
11 64 (17.58%) Information Architecture
12 60 (16.48%) Marketing
13 57 (15.66%) Photoshop
14 56 (15.38%) Web Analytics
15 54 (14.84%) SEO
15 54 (14.84%) Finance
15 54 (14.84%) OmniGraffle
16 51 (14.01%) .NET
17 50 (13.74%) Performance Testing
17 50 (13.74%) Test Scripting
18 47 (12.91%) Retail
18 47 (12.91%) Automated Testing
18 47 (12.91%) MS Visio
19 46 (12.64%) Unit Testing
20 45 (12.36%) Integration Testing
21 44 (12.09%) Manual Testing
22 43 (11.81%) SOAP
23 39 (10.71%) jQuery

Usability Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the England 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Usability Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 89 (24.45%) HTML
2 83 (22.80%) CSS
3 51 (14.01%) .NET
4 43 (11.81%) SOAP
5 39 (10.71%) jQuery
6 38 (10.44%) soapUI
7 35 (9.615%) XHTML
8 34 (9.341%) HTML5
9 26 (7.143%) Web Services
10 21 (5.769%) XML
11 18 (4.945%) CSS3
12 17 (4.670%) Gherkin
12 17 (4.670%) Silverlight
13 15 (4.121%) Ajax
14 14 (3.846%) WSDL
14 14 (3.846%) XSD
15 13 (3.571%) Flash
16 11 (3.022%) XSLT
17 9 (2.473%) ASP.NET
17 9 (2.473%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 12 (3.297%) CMS
2 8 (2.198%) WordPress
3 7 (1.923%) Magento
4 5 (1.374%) Windows Azure
5 4 (1.099%) WebLogic
5 4 (1.099%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.275%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 57 (15.66%) Photoshop
2 54 (14.84%) OmniGraffle
3 47 (12.91%) MS Visio
4 37 (10.16%) Adobe Illustrator
5 23 (6.319%) MS Excel
6 5 (1.374%) Fireworks
6 5 (1.374%) InDesign
7 2 (0.549%) Acrobat
7 2 (0.549%) QuarkXPress
7 2 (0.549%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.099%) WebTrends
1 4 (1.099%) Google Analytics
2 2 (0.549%) SiteCatalyst
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.121%) Internet
2 4 (1.099%) HTTP
3 3 (0.824%) Intranet
4 2 (0.549%) ATM
5 1 (0.275%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (2.747%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.198%) MySQL
3 5 (1.374%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (0.549%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 74 (20.33%) Axure RP
2 66 (18.13%) Selenium
3 36 (9.890%) QuickTest Pro
4 25 (6.868%) Cucumber
5 24 (6.593%) SpecFlow
5 24 (6.593%) Team Foundation Server
6 18 (4.945%) FitNesse
7 16 (4.396%) Visual Studio
8 10 (2.747%) JUnit
9 9 (2.473%) Balsamiq Mockups
10 8 (2.198%) Dreamweaver
11 7 (1.923%) JIRA
12 5 (1.374%) Git (software)
12 5 (1.374%) SilkPerformer
12 5 (1.374%) Eclipse
12 5 (1.374%) LoadRunner
12 5 (1.374%) ClearQuest
13 4 (1.099%) GitHub
14 3 (0.824%) Subversion
15 1 (0.275%) WebDriver
General
1 60 (16.48%) Marketing
2 54 (14.84%) Finance
3 47 (12.91%) Retail
4 27 (7.418%) Telecoms
5 19 (5.220%) Legal
6 12 (3.297%) Manufacturing
7 11 (3.022%) Banking
8 10 (2.747%) Advertising
9 5 (1.374%) Publishing
9 5 (1.374%) Games
10 3 (0.824%) Automotive
11 2 (0.549%) Multimedia
11 2 (0.549%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.549%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 106 (29.12%) Designer
2 72 (19.78%) User Experience Designer
3 57 (15.66%) Analyst
4 36 (9.890%) Architect
5 34 (9.341%) QA Engineer
6 32 (8.791%) Test Analyst
7 30 (8.242%) Developer
7 30 (8.242%) Senior Designer
8 22 (6.044%) Business Analyst
9 19 (5.220%) User Experience Architect
10 18 (4.945%) Web Designer
11 17 (4.670%) Tester
12 16 (4.396%) Technical Architect
13 14 (3.846%) Consultant
14 13 (3.571%) User Experience Manager
14 13 (3.571%) User Experience Consultant
15 11 (3.022%) Web Developer
16 10 (2.747%) Junior
16 10 (2.747%) Senior QA Engineer
17 9 (2.473%) Front-End Developer
Miscellaneous
1 37 (10.16%) Psychology
2 32 (8.791%) Human Factors
3 28 (7.692%) SaaS
4 24 (6.593%) Mobile App
5 20 (5.495%) Digital Media
6 17 (4.670%) Cloud Computing
6 17 (4.670%) W3C
7 12 (3.297%) Social Media
8 11 (3.022%) iDTV
8 11 (3.022%) Ergonomics
9 10 (2.747%) New Media
10 9 (2.473%) Computer Science
10 9 (2.473%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 9 (2.473%) Blackberry
11 8 (2.198%) Copywriting
12 7 (1.923%) Mobile Banking
13 6 (1.648%) iPad
14 5 (1.374%) PKI
15 4 (1.099%) Visualisation
16 3 (0.824%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 17 (4.670%) Windows
2 15 (4.121%) Apple iOS
3 13 (3.571%) Android
4 10 (2.747%) Linux
5 8 (2.198%) Windows Phone
6 7 (1.923%) UNIX
7 2 (0.549%) Windows 8
8 1 (0.275%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (38.46%) E-Commerce
2 103 (28.30%) Agile Software Development
3 80 (21.98%) Analytics
4 73 (20.05%) User Stories
5 64 (17.58%) Information Architecture
6 56 (15.38%) Web Analytics
7 54 (14.84%) SEO
8 50 (13.74%) Performance Testing
8 50 (13.74%) Test Scripting
9 47 (12.91%) Automated Testing
10 46 (12.64%) Unit Testing
11 45 (12.36%) Integration Testing
12 44 (12.09%) Manual Testing
13 38 (10.44%) Security Testing
14 35 (9.615%) Web Development
15 34 (9.341%) Scrum
16 33 (9.066%) Project Management
17 26 (7.143%) Business Analysis
18 25 (6.868%) Content Management
19 23 (6.319%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 74 (20.33%) JavaScript
2 66 (18.13%) SQL
3 18 (4.945%) C#
4 14 (3.846%) PHP
5 11 (3.022%) Java
6 10 (2.747%) T-SQL
6 10 (2.747%) C
7 8 (2.198%) Python
7 8 (2.198%) Perl
8 5 (1.374%) PL/SQL
9 4 (1.099%) Ruby
9 4 (1.099%) Bash shell
10 3 (0.824%) PHP5
11 2 (0.549%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.275%) PHP4
12 1 (0.275%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 106 (29.12%) Degree
2 22 (6.044%) ISEB
3 14 (3.846%) ISTQB
4 3 (0.824%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (23.08%) QA
2 2 (0.549%) WCAG
3 1 (0.275%) WAI
System Software
1 1 (0.275%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 29 (7.967%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (0.549%) Puppet
Vendors
1 38 (10.44%) Microsoft
2 26 (7.143%) Adobe
3 21 (5.769%) Salesforce.com
4 17 (4.670%) HP
5 12 (3.297%) Fujitsu
6 6 (1.648%) Google
7 5 (1.374%) Facebook
7 5 (1.374%) Borland
7 5 (1.374%) Oracle
8 3 (0.824%) Apple
8 3 (0.824%) Twitter
9 2 (0.549%) Hitwise
9 2 (0.549%) Omniture
9 2 (0.549%) Quark
9 2 (0.549%) Macromedia
9 2 (0.549%) Sony
10 1 (0.275%) ATG
10 1 (0.275%) Open Text
10 1 (0.275%) RedDot
10 1 (0.275%) Zend
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Salary: £25000 - £35000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
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