Usability Testing Contracts in England

Usability Testing
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Usability Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Usability Testing over the 6 months leading up to 24 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 403 470 513
Rank change year-on-year +67 +43 -2
Contract jobs citing Usability Testing 68 67 118
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.28% 0.18% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.21% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 48 89
10th Percentile £324 £325 £382
25th Percentile £366 £369 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £457 £469 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% -10.71% -
75th Percentile £566 £541 £575
90th Percentile £650 £561 £625
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £524
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.53% +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £55.54 - -
25th Percentile £61.23 - £82.50
Median hourly rate £73.29 - £85.00
75th Percentile £86.18 - £87.50
90th Percentile £92.36 - -
UK median hourly rate £73.29 - £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +242.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Usability Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 21,908 31,369 43,074
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.28% 86.13% 90.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,318 20,561 30,212
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £769
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 931 2,271 1,523
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.92 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.97 £16.00
Median hourly rate £28.00 £36.50 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -23.29% -2.14% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year -23.61% - +40.19%

Usability Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Usability Testing in England

Usability Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Usability Testing in England

Usability Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Usability Testing in England over the 6 months to 24 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Usability Testing in England

Usability Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Usability Testing in England

Usability Testing
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Usability Testing in England over the 6 months to 24 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Usability Testing in England

Usability Testing
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 24 May 2025. 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
London +69 51 £469 -6.25% 101
South West +46 5 £375 -48.28% 41
North West +7 5 £357 +1.86% 47
North of England +4 5 £357 +1.86% 92
Midlands +8 3 £322 -18.22% 64
South East +43 2 £650 +15.56% 106
East Midlands +8 2 £318 +1.60% 24
West Midlands +10 1 £515 +28.75% 36
East of England - 1 £363 - 51
Usability Testing
UK

Usability Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (5.88%) Confluence
2 1 (1.47%) CMS
2 1 (1.47%) Drupal
2 1 (1.47%) nginx
Applications
1 14 (20.59%) Sketch
2 13 (19.12%) Adobe XD
3 5 (7.35%) Autodesk Smoke
3 5 (7.35%) InVision
4 3 (4.41%) UserZoom
5 1 (1.47%) Chatbot
5 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (1.47%) SPSS
5 1 (1.47%) Stata
5 1 (1.47%) UXPin
5 1 (1.47%) Zeplin
Cloud Services
1 30 (44.12%) Figma
2 7 (10.29%) SaaS
3 3 (4.41%) Google Analytics
3 3 (4.41%) Miro
4 2 (2.94%) AWS
5 1 (1.47%) Adobe Creative Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.47%) Internet
Development Applications
1 6 (8.82%) Axure RP
1 6 (8.82%) JIRA
2 2 (2.94%) Balsamiq
3 1 (1.47%) Appium
3 1 (1.47%) Postman
3 1 (1.47%) Selenium
General
1 32 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 14 (20.59%) Public Sector
3 13 (19.12%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (17.65%) Finance
5 10 (14.71%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (7.35%) Retail
6 5 (7.35%) Wearables
7 4 (5.88%) Banking
7 4 (5.88%) Marketing
8 2 (2.94%) Games
8 2 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.94%) Legal
8 2 (2.94%) Local Government
9 1 (1.47%) Aviation
9 1 (1.47%) Electronics
9 1 (1.47%) Humanities
9 1 (1.47%) Law
9 1 (1.47%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.47%) Multimedia
9 1 (1.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (44.12%) Designer
2 16 (23.53%) UX Designer
3 14 (20.59%) User Researcher
4 9 (13.24%) Senior
5 7 (10.29%) User Experience Researcher
6 6 (8.82%) Product Owner
6 6 (8.82%) UI Designer
6 6 (8.82%) UI/UX Designer
7 5 (7.35%) Product Designer
7 5 (7.35%) Visual Designer
8 4 (5.88%) Interaction Designer
8 4 (5.88%) Lead
9 3 (4.41%) Developer
9 3 (4.41%) Digital Designer
9 3 (4.41%) Senior User Experience Researcher
9 3 (4.41%) UX Developer
10 2 (2.94%) Digital UX Designer
10 2 (2.94%) Senior Designer
10 2 (2.94%) Senior UX Designer
10 2 (2.94%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (27.94%) HTML
2 18 (26.47%) CSS
3 5 (7.35%) React
4 3 (4.41%) AngularJS
4 3 (4.41%) HTML5
5 2 (2.94%) CSS3
5 2 (2.94%) RESTful
5 2 (2.94%) Vue
6 1 (1.47%) Framer.js
6 1 (1.47%) Unity (Game Engine)
6 1 (1.47%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 20 (29.41%) Product Ownership
2 7 (10.29%) Mobile App
3 5 (7.35%) IoT
4 3 (4.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (4.41%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.94%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.94%) W3C
6 1 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.47%) Animation
6 1 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.47%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.47%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.47%) RIA
6 1 (1.47%) Sports Betting
6 1 (1.47%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.88%) Android
1 4 (5.88%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (77.94%) User Research
2 52 (76.47%) User Experience
3 39 (57.35%) UX Design
4 27 (39.71%) Wireframes
5 23 (33.82%) Agile
6 21 (30.88%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 17 (25.00%) Analytics
8 16 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (20.59%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
9 14 (20.59%) UX Research
10 13 (19.12%) Prototyping
10 13 (19.12%) Qualitative Research
10 13 (19.12%) Responsive Web Design
11 11 (16.18%) Interaction Design
12 10 (14.71%) Roadmaps
13 9 (13.24%) Actionable Insight
13 9 (13.24%) Inclusive Design
13 9 (13.24%) Quantitative Research
14 8 (11.76%) Ethnographic Research
14 8 (11.76%) Ethnography
Programming Languages
1 17 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (2.94%) Python
2 2 (2.94%) TypeScript
3 1 (1.47%) R
3 1 (1.47%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (14.71%) Security Cleared
2 8 (11.76%) Degree
2 8 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.47%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (36.76%) Accessibility
2 8 (11.76%) WCAG
3 5 (7.35%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.47%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.47%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (25.00%) Adobe
2 4 (5.88%) CA Agile Central
3 2 (2.94%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.47%) Google
4 1 (1.47%) Hotjar
4 1 (1.47%) IBM
4 1 (1.47%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.47%) SAP