Heuristic Evaluation Contracts

Heuristic Evaluation
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Heuristic Evaluation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Heuristic Evaluation over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 522 582 703
Rank change year-on-year +60 +121 +125
Contract jobs citing Heuristic Evaluation 4 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.002% 0.003%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.015% 0.003% 0.004%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile - - £519
25th Percentile £500 £291 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £303 £544
Median % change year-on-year +90.08% -44.37% -2.90%
75th Percentile £650 £314 £570
90th Percentile - - £573
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Heuristic Evaluation 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,620 37,484 53,362
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.85% 86.34% 89.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,162 24,149 37,016
10th Percentile £306 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.17%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £745 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,075 2,454 1,744
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.30 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.58 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.48% -1.18% +44.00%
75th Percentile £60.38 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +6.69% +75.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Heuristic Evaluation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Heuristic Evaluation in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Heuristic Evaluation.

Daily rate trend for Heuristic Evaluation in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Heuristic Evaluation over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Heuristic Evaluation in the UK

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Top 2 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Heuristic Evaluation within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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
England +71 4 £575 +90.08% 4
London +48 4 £575 +90.08% 1

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (50.00%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Figma
1 2 (50.00%) Miro
General
1 4 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (50.00%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Designer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior User Researcher
1 2 (50.00%) User Researcher
2 1 (25.00%) Interaction Designer
2 1 (25.00%) Product Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
1 1 (25.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Usability Testing
1 4 (100.00%) User Research
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
3 1 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (25.00%) Coaching
3 1 (25.00%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
3 1 (25.00%) Interaction Design
3 1 (25.00%) Product Vision
3 1 (25.00%) Prototyping
3 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Service Design
3 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (25.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 1 (25.00%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (50.00%) WCAG