Usability Testing Contracts in the UK excluding London

Usability Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 16 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 369 368 402
Rank change year-on-year -1 +34 -47
Contract jobs citing Usability Testing 32 62 102
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.27% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.31% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 51 78
10th Percentile £312 £350 £398
25th Percentile £325 £403 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £514
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -7.54% +5.38%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £550
90th Percentile £626 £625 £586
UK median daily rate £500 £508 £515
% change year-on-year -1.48% -1.46% +4.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.00
Median hourly rate - - £19.00
75th Percentile - - £23.00
90th Percentile - - £37.95
UK median hourly rate - £65.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +225.00% -49.37%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,630 20,207 27,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.67% 89.05% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,358 13,864 18,970
10th Percentile £250 £260 £246
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,185 1,244 1,334
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.90 £12.49
25th Percentile £15.48 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £47.96
90th Percentile £72.90 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

Usability Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Usability Testing in the UK excluding London

Usability Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Usability Testing in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Usability Testing in the UK excluding London

Usability Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Usability Testing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Usability Testing in the UK excluding London

Usability Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Usability Testing in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Usability Testing in the UK excluding London

Usability Testing
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 June 2024. 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 of England +11 12 £350 -36.25% 5
Scotland +51 11 £550 +4.76% 4
North West +15 6 £350 -41.67% 3
Yorkshire +9 6 £406 -22.62% 1
Midlands +16 5 £394 +21.15% 1
West Midlands +16 3 £400 +8.47% 1
South East +5 3 £500 +5.26% 4
East Midlands +8 2 £313 -3.85%
South West -5 1 £725 +61.11% 2
Usability Testing
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Usability Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 6 (18.75%) InVision
2 5 (15.63%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 4 (12.50%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (12.50%) Photoshop
4 3 (9.38%) Adobe XD
4 3 (9.38%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 5 (15.63%) Figma
2 1 (3.13%) AWS
2 1 (3.13%) GCP
2 1 (3.13%) npm
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.38%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 4 (12.50%) Axure RP
1 4 (12.50%) Selenium
2 3 (9.38%) JMeter
2 3 (9.38%) LoadRunner
3 1 (3.13%) Babel
3 1 (3.13%) Cypress.io
3 1 (3.13%) ESLint
3 1 (3.13%) Vite
3 1 (3.13%) webpack
General
1 9 (28.13%) Public Sector
2 7 (21.88%) Social Skills
3 3 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (9.38%) Banking
3 3 (9.38%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (6.25%) Health Technology
5 1 (3.13%) Finance
5 1 (3.13%) Law
5 1 (3.13%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 12 (37.50%) Designer
2 10 (31.25%) Lead
3 9 (28.13%) User Researcher
4 5 (15.63%) UX Designer
5 4 (12.50%) UI Designer
6 2 (6.25%) Senior
6 2 (6.25%) Service Designer
6 2 (6.25%) Test Leader
6 2 (6.25%) UI/UX Designer
7 1 (3.13%) Developer
7 1 (3.13%) Product Designer
7 1 (3.13%) Senior Designer
7 1 (3.13%) Senior Product Designer
7 1 (3.13%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.63%) CSS
1 5 (15.63%) HTML
2 1 (3.13%) Jest
2 1 (3.13%) Material-UI
2 1 (3.13%) Parceljs
2 1 (3.13%) React
2 1 (3.13%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.88%) Mobile App
2 3 (9.38%) Graphic Design
2 3 (9.38%) Product Ownership
2 3 (9.38%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.13%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (59.38%) User Research
2 17 (53.13%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 16 (50.00%) User Experience
4 13 (40.63%) UX Design
5 11 (34.38%) Mentoring
5 11 (34.38%) Wireframes
6 9 (28.13%) Agile
6 9 (28.13%) Qualitative Research
7 8 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
7 8 (25.00%) Prototyping
7 8 (25.00%) Quantitative Research
7 8 (25.00%) Service Design
8 7 (21.88%) Ethnography
8 7 (21.88%) Focus Group
9 6 (18.75%) Design Persona
9 6 (18.75%) Front End Development
9 6 (18.75%) Guerrilla Testing
9 6 (18.75%) Interaction Design
9 6 (18.75%) Requirements Gathering
9 6 (18.75%) Typography
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.25%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (15.63%) Degree
2 3 (9.38%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (6.25%) Master's Degree
4 1 (3.13%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (34.38%) Accessibility
2 7 (21.88%) WCAG
3 6 (18.75%) Actionable Recommendations
4 5 (15.63%) QA
5 1 (3.13%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 8 (25.00%) Adobe
2 1 (3.13%) Brio
2 1 (3.13%) Google
2 1 (3.13%) Pega
2 1 (3.13%) SAP