Usability Testing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Usability Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Usability Testing over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 743 764 696
Rank change year-on-year +21 -68 -3
Permanent jobs citing Usability Testing 153 207 610
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.20% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.21% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 87 82 143
10th Percentile £29,750 £39,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £41,155 £45,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £71,875
90th Percentile £79,500 £71,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,250 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -28.85% +18.18% +15.79%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Usability Testing in the UK

Usability Testing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Usability Testing over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Usability Testing in the UK

Usability Testing
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Usability Testing within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +45 126 £52,500 -12.50% 45
UK excluding London +38 105 £46,250 -28.85% 23
Work from Home +55 63 £50,000 -16.34% 22
London +72 37 £57,500 +4.55% 21
North of England +54 23 £60,000 -14.29% 6
South East +20 22 £31,500 -30.00% 3
North West +16 20 £60,000 -14.29% 4
South West +8 19 £52,500 +90.91% 5
Midlands +15 17 £47,500 +18.75% 7
Scotland -48 16 - - 1
West Midlands +30 9 £57,000 +42.50% 3
East Midlands -11 8 £43,750 - 4
East of England +13 5 £28,500 - 1
Wales +14 3 £32,500 -20.25% 1
North East - 2 £44,225 - 1
Yorkshire +90 1 £57,500 +35.29% 1

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 4 (2.61%) CMS
1 4 (2.61%) Umbraco
2 2 (1.31%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.65%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 33 (21.57%) Sketch
2 30 (19.61%) Adobe XD
3 11 (7.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 11 (7.19%) InVision
4 7 (4.58%) Photoshop
5 6 (3.92%) Adobe Illustrator
6 4 (2.61%) InDesign
7 1 (0.65%) Adobe Captivate
7 1 (0.65%) Blender
7 1 (0.65%) Zeplin
Cloud Services
1 48 (31.37%) Figma
2 16 (10.46%) Power Platform
3 15 (9.80%) AWS
4 11 (7.19%) SurveyMonkey
5 7 (4.58%) Heroku
6 6 (3.92%) Google Analytics
6 6 (3.92%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (3.27%) Miro
8 3 (1.96%) GitHub
9 2 (1.31%) Adobe Creative Cloud
9 2 (1.31%) Azure
9 2 (1.31%) SaaS
10 1 (0.65%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.65%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.65%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.65%) npm
10 1 (0.65%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 1 (0.65%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 1 (0.65%) Serverless
10 1 (0.65%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.92%) Intranet
2 1 (0.65%) SNA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (10.46%) Power BI
2 2 (1.31%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.65%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (0.65%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.65%) Big Data
3 1 (0.65%) BigQuery
3 1 (0.65%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.65%) Delta Lake
3 1 (0.65%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.65%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (0.65%) Looker
3 1 (0.65%) Neo4j
3 1 (0.65%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (11.76%) Axure RP
2 14 (9.15%) Balsamiq
3 13 (8.50%) JIRA
4 5 (3.27%) LabVIEW
4 5 (3.27%) NetBeans
4 5 (3.27%) Visual Studio
5 4 (2.61%) Selenium
6 2 (1.31%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.31%) Git
7 1 (0.65%) Babel
7 1 (0.65%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.65%) ESLint
7 1 (0.65%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.65%) JMeter
7 1 (0.65%) Postman
7 1 (0.65%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.65%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.65%) Spinnaker
7 1 (0.65%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.65%) webpack
General
1 48 (31.37%) Social Skills
2 47 (30.72%) Marketing
3 43 (28.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 32 (20.92%) Finance
5 31 (20.26%) Law
6 27 (17.65%) Public Sector
7 23 (15.03%) Presentation Skills
8 18 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
9 14 (9.15%) Brand Awareness
9 14 (9.15%) Legal
9 14 (9.15%) Telecoms
10 8 (5.23%) Banking
10 8 (5.23%) Investment Banking
11 7 (4.58%) Publishing
12 4 (2.61%) Games
13 3 (1.96%) Polish Language
14 2 (1.31%) Financial Institution
14 2 (1.31%) Military
14 2 (1.31%) Multimedia
15 1 (0.65%) Retail
Job Titles
1 64 (41.83%) Designer
2 48 (31.37%) UX Designer
3 41 (26.80%) Senior
4 23 (15.03%) Senior Designer
4 23 (15.03%) User Researcher
5 20 (13.07%) Senior UX Designer
6 19 (12.42%) UI Designer
7 18 (11.76%) UI/UX Designer
8 14 (9.15%) Consultant
8 14 (9.15%) Customer Experience Manager
8 14 (9.15%) User Experience Consultant
9 11 (7.19%) User Experience Researcher
10 10 (6.54%) Lead
11 8 (5.23%) Senior User Experience Researcher
11 8 (5.23%) Software Engineer
12 7 (4.58%) Interaction Designer
13 4 (2.61%) Analyst
13 4 (2.61%) Senior UI Designer
13 4 (2.61%) Senior UI/UX Designer
14 3 (1.96%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (34.64%) CSS
1 53 (34.64%) HTML
2 26 (16.99%) React
3 6 (3.92%) AngularJS
4 5 (3.27%) JavaFX
5 4 (2.61%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 3 (1.96%) D3.js
6 3 (1.96%) Ember.js
6 3 (1.96%) LESS
6 3 (1.96%) Sass
6 3 (1.96%) WebGL
7 2 (1.31%) Vue
8 1 (0.65%) CSS3
8 1 (0.65%) HTML5
8 1 (0.65%) Jest
8 1 (0.65%) Kafka
8 1 (0.65%) Material-UI
8 1 (0.65%) Parceljs
8 1 (0.65%) PySpark
8 1 (0.65%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 47 (30.72%) Product Ownership
2 11 (7.19%) Market Risk
3 10 (6.54%) Cyberattack
4 9 (5.88%) NHS
5 8 (5.23%) Graphic Design
6 5 (3.27%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.61%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.96%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.96%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.96%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.96%) PMI
8 3 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.31%) Digital Signage
9 2 (1.31%) Life Science
9 2 (1.31%) Photography
10 1 (0.65%) Animation
10 1 (0.65%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.65%) Social Network
10 1 (0.65%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.61%) Android
2 3 (1.96%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.96%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (75.82%) User Experience
2 102 (66.67%) User Research
3 97 (63.40%) Wireframes
4 91 (59.48%) Agile
5 80 (52.29%) UX Design
6 65 (42.48%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 50 (32.68%) Prototyping
8 46 (30.07%) Journey Map
9 40 (26.14%) UX Research
10 38 (24.84%) Interaction Design
11 29 (18.95%) Problem-Solving
11 29 (18.95%) Psychology
11 29 (18.95%) Visualisation
12 25 (16.34%) Actionable Insight
12 25 (16.34%) Qualitative Research
13 24 (15.69%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
13 24 (15.69%) Quantitative Research
14 23 (15.03%) Analytics
14 23 (15.03%) Data Visualisation
14 23 (15.03%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 48 (31.37%) JavaScript
2 17 (11.11%) C
3 8 (5.23%) Java
3 8 (5.23%) Python
3 8 (5.23%) SQL
4 5 (3.27%) C++
4 5 (3.27%) Fortran
4 5 (3.27%) MATLAB
5 3 (1.96%) C#
6 2 (1.31%) R
7 1 (0.65%) Scala
Qualifications
1 79 (51.63%) Degree
2 13 (8.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 13 (8.50%) Security Cleared
3 8 (5.23%) DV Cleared
4 7 (4.58%) Master's Degree
5 5 (3.27%) SC Cleared
6 4 (2.61%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.96%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.31%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (43.14%) Accessibility
2 19 (12.42%) WCAG
3 11 (7.19%) Actionable Recommendations
4 5 (3.27%) ISO 9001
4 5 (3.27%) TickIT
5 4 (2.61%) GDPR
5 4 (2.61%) QA
6 2 (1.31%) PMO
7 1 (0.65%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (0.65%) Ansible
1 1 (0.65%) Terraform
Vendors
1 42 (27.45%) Adobe
2 20 (13.07%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.58%) Google
3 7 (4.58%) Hotjar
4 5 (3.27%) Atlassian
5 4 (2.61%) dotdigital
5 4 (2.61%) Mercator
6 3 (1.96%) CrowdStrike
7 2 (1.31%) Databricks
7 2 (1.31%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.65%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.65%) Hortonworks
8 1 (0.65%) Oracle