Usability Testing Contracts in the North of England

Usability Testing
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 160 164 188
Rank change year-on-year +4 +24 +46
Contract jobs citing Usability Testing 9 14 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.27% 0.30% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.35% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 11 12
10th Percentile - £294 £429
25th Percentile £313 £325 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £357 £350 £549
Median % change year-on-year +1.86% -36.25% +4.57%
75th Percentile £406 £438 £600
90th Percentile £416 £538 -
England median daily rate £451 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +0.11% -14.29% +0.96%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,978 3,966 5,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.97% 84.67% 90.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,915 2,415 3,463
10th Percentile £268 £300 £300
25th Percentile £381 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £648 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 377 204
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.07 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.99 £12.53 £15.74
Median hourly rate £25.15 £18.11 £27.84
Median % change year-on-year +38.87% -34.95% +46.53%
75th Percentile £51.00 £45.88 £43.94
90th Percentile £76.25 £62.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £37.18 £37.32
% change year-on-year -24.69% -0.38% +49.28%

Usability Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Usability Testing in the North of England

Usability Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Usability Testing in the North of England

Usability Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Usability Testing in the North of England

Usability Testing
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 29 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
North West +6 9 £357 +1.86% 13
Usability Testing
England

Usability Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 (44.44%) IBM Domino
2 2 (22.22%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) InVision
1 2 (22.22%) UserZoom
2 1 (11.11%) Adobe XD
2 1 (11.11%) UXPin
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Google Analytics
2 1 (11.11%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Axure RP
1 2 (22.22%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) Balsamiq
General
1 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Legal
3 1 (11.11%) Marketing
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) User Experience Researcher
2 2 (22.22%) Designer
2 2 (22.22%) User Researcher
2 2 (22.22%) UX Designer
3 1 (11.11%) UI Designer
3 1 (11.11%) UI/UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) CSS
1 4 (44.44%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Android
1 2 (22.22%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) User Experience
1 8 (88.89%) UX Design
2 6 (66.67%) Analytics
2 6 (66.67%) UX Research
3 5 (55.56%) Actionable Insight
3 5 (55.56%) Qualitative Research
3 5 (55.56%) User Research
4 4 (44.44%) Behavioural Analytics
4 4 (44.44%) Customer Insight
4 4 (44.44%) Product Strategy
4 4 (44.44%) Quantitative Research
4 4 (44.44%) Wireframes
5 3 (33.33%) Agile
5 3 (33.33%) Ethnographic Research
5 3 (33.33%) Ethnography
5 3 (33.33%) Prototyping
6 2 (22.22%) Benchmarking
6 2 (22.22%) Psychology
6 2 (22.22%) Rapid Prototyping
6 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Google
1 4 (44.44%) Hotjar
2 2 (22.22%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (11.11%) Adobe
3 1 (11.11%) IBM