Usability Testing Contracts in the North West

Usability Testing
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 115 128 153
Rank change year-on-year +13 +25 +19
Contract jobs citing Usability Testing 5 9 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.25% 0.33% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.38% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 3
10th Percentile - - £440
25th Percentile £313 £325 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £357 £350 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.86% -41.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £406 £389 £613
90th Percentile £416 £467 £620
England median daily rate £469 £425 £525
% change year-on-year +10.29% -19.05% +2.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £65.00
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 North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Usability Testing in the North West

Usability Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Usability Testing in the North West

Usability Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Usability Testing in the North West

Usability Testing
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Cheshire - 3 £313 -
Manchester +10 2 £408 +16.43% 10
Usability Testing
England

Usability Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (40.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) InVision
1 2 (40.00%) UserZoom
2 1 (20.00%) Adobe XD
2 1 (20.00%) UXPin
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Figma
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Axure RP
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) Balsamiq
General
1 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Legal
3 1 (20.00%) Marketing
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Designer
1 2 (40.00%) User Researcher
1 2 (40.00%) UX Designer
2 1 (20.00%) UI Designer
2 1 (20.00%) UI/UX Designer
2 1 (20.00%) User Experience Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) CSS
1 4 (80.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Android
1 2 (40.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) User Research
2 4 (80.00%) User Experience
2 4 (80.00%) UX Design
2 4 (80.00%) Wireframes
3 3 (60.00%) Agile
3 3 (60.00%) Ethnographic Research
3 3 (60.00%) Ethnography
3 3 (60.00%) Prototyping
4 2 (40.00%) Benchmarking
4 2 (40.00%) Co-Creation
4 2 (40.00%) Contextual Inquiry
4 2 (40.00%) Guerrilla Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Human-Centred Design
4 2 (40.00%) Inclusive Design
4 2 (40.00%) Interaction Design
4 2 (40.00%) Psychology
4 2 (40.00%) Requirements Gathering
4 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (40.00%) Task Model
4 2 (40.00%) UX Research
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (20.00%) Adobe
2 1 (20.00%) IBM