Usability Testing Contracts in Manchester

Usability Testing
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 1 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 90 101
Rank change year-on-year +21 +11 +43
Contract jobs citing Usability Testing 6 7 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.66% 0.49% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 0.56% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 5
10th Percentile £401 - £474
25th Percentile £402 £325 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £350 £600
Median % change year-on-year +16.43% -41.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £417 £375 -
90th Percentile £420 - £615
North West median daily rate £357 £350 £600
% change year-on-year +1.86% -41.67% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 804 1,246 1,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 88.94% 86.41% 90.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 550 845 1,191
10th Percentile £312 £325 £318
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - -
75th Percentile £550 £588 £588
90th Percentile £667 £694 £675
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 77 51
10th Percentile £14.17 £12.46 £16.00
25th Percentile £24.70 £13.50 £17.71
Median hourly rate £60.00 £26.00 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +130.77% -6.14% +51.30%
75th Percentile £74.38 £61.25 £43.13
90th Percentile £86.20 £73.30 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £30.20 £26.46 £35.00
% change year-on-year +14.16% -24.41% +53.85%

Usability Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Usability Testing in Manchester

Usability Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Usability Testing in Manchester

Usability Testing
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Bolton - 1 - - 5
Oldham - 1 - -
Stockport - 1 - - 5
Usability Testing
North West

Usability Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 (66.67%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) UXPin
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Balsamiq
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) User Experience Researcher
2 1 (16.67%) Designer
2 1 (16.67%) User Researcher
2 1 (16.67%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) CSS
1 1 (16.67%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Actionable Insight
1 5 (83.33%) Qualitative Research
1 5 (83.33%) User Experience
1 5 (83.33%) UX Design
2 4 (66.67%) Analytics
2 4 (66.67%) Behavioural Analytics
2 4 (66.67%) Customer Insight
2 4 (66.67%) Product Strategy
2 4 (66.67%) Quantitative Research
2 4 (66.67%) UX Research
3 2 (33.33%) User Research
4 1 (16.67%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) Contextual Inquiry
4 1 (16.67%) Ethnographic Research
4 1 (16.67%) Ethnography
4 1 (16.67%) Focus Group
4 1 (16.67%) Psychology
4 1 (16.67%) Scrum
4 1 (16.67%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Google
1 4 (66.67%) Hotjar
2 1 (16.67%) IBM