Usability Testing Contract Job Trends in the South West

Usability Testing
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Usability Testing skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 134 150
Rank change year-on-year +23 +16 +12
Contract jobs citing Usability Testing 3 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.16% 0.038% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.045% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £340 - £420
25th Percentile £400 £713 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £725 £500
Median % change year-on-year -31.03% +45.00% -12.82%
75th Percentile £613 £738 £550
90th Percentile £680 - £580
England median daily rate £448 £472 £525
% change year-on-year -5.09% -10.19% -4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,738 2,213 2,887
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.24% 83.29% 87.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 997 1,333 2,013
10th Percentile £215 £281 £313
25th Percentile £363 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £619 £634 £650
90th Percentile £700 £710 £725
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.19% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 221 257
10th Percentile £14.67 £15.62 £20.40
25th Percentile £18.51 £46.25 £44.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £64.15
Median % change year-on-year -62.74% +5.23% +11.87%
75th Percentile £63.75 £72.50 £73.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +46.96%

Usability Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Usability Testing in the South West

Usability Testing
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Usability Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Usability Testing

Usability Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Usability Testing in the South West over the 6 months to 9 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Usability Testing in the South West

Usability Testing
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 9 September 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
Gloucestershire +19 1 £700 -3.45%
Wiltshire - 1 £300 -
Bristol - 1 £500 - 2
Usability Testing
England

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

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Adobe XD
1 1 (33.33%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Figma
1 1 (33.33%) Google Analytics
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Designer
1 2 (66.67%) UX Designer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Designer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior UX Designer
2 1 (33.33%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) CSS
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) User Research
2 2 (66.67%) User Experience
2 2 (66.67%) UX Design
2 2 (66.67%) Wireframes
3 1 (33.33%) A/B Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 1 (33.33%) Backlog Refinement
3 1 (33.33%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
3 1 (33.33%) Inclusive Design
3 1 (33.33%) Information Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Interaction Design
3 1 (33.33%) Journey Map
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Qualitative Research
3 1 (33.33%) Quantitative Research
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (33.33%) Actionable Recommendations
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Adobe
1 1 (33.33%) Google
1 1 (33.33%) Hotjar