Usability Testing Contracts in the Midlands

Usability Testing
England > Midlands

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 130 162
Rank change year-on-year +22 +32 +23
Contract jobs citing Usability Testing 3 3 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.16% 0.11% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.13% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 5
10th Percentile £315 £385 £274
25th Percentile £318 £391 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £322 £400 £475
Median % change year-on-year -19.50% -15.79% -1.04%
75th Percentile £419 £419 £488
90th Percentile £476 £430 £524
England median daily rate £469 £425 £525
% change year-on-year +10.29% -19.05% +2.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Usability Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Usability Testing in the Midlands

Usability Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Usability Testing in the Midlands

Usability Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Usability Testing in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Usability Testing in the Midlands

Usability Testing
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
East Midlands - 2 £318 -
West Midlands +12 1 £515 +28.75% 2
Usability Testing
England

Usability Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Adobe XD
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Figma
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Humanities
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Designer
1 2 (66.67%) UI Designer
1 2 (66.67%) UI/UX Designer
1 2 (66.67%) UX Designer
2 1 (33.33%) Junior
2 1 (33.33%) Junior Designer
2 1 (33.33%) Junior UI/UX Designer
2 1 (33.33%) Junior UX Designer
2 1 (33.33%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) CSS
1 2 (66.67%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Project Management
2 2 (66.67%) A/B Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Content Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Contextual Inquiry
2 2 (66.67%) Data Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
2 2 (66.67%) Information Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Interaction Design
2 2 (66.67%) Low-Fidelity Prototypes
2 2 (66.67%) Prototyping
2 2 (66.67%) Typography
2 2 (66.67%) User Experience
2 2 (66.67%) User Research
2 2 (66.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 2 (66.67%) UX Design
2 2 (66.67%) Web Accessibility
2 2 (66.67%) Web Development
2 2 (66.67%) Wireframes
3 1 (33.33%) Backlog Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Adobe