Usability Engineering Contract Job Trends

Usability Engineering
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Usability Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 564 - 638
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Usability Engineering 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.003% - 0.002%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.003% - 0.002%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Usability Engineering 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 31,960 31,635 41,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 89.93% 86.21% 88.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,027 19,055 27,781
10th Percentile £295 £310 £308
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.41% -3.18%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,098 1,126 1,593
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.10 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.12 £18.95
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -19.54% +24.29%
75th Percentile £44.40 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £73.53 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £33.00 £43.90
% change year-on-year -31.42% -24.83% +48.81%

Usability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Usability Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Usability Engineering job vacancy trend in the UK

Usability Engineering
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Usability Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Usability Engineering

Usability Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Usability Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Usability Engineering

Usability Engineering
Top 2 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Usability Engineering within the UK over the 6 months to 14 November 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
London - 1 £425 -
England - 1 £425 - 1

Usability Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe After Effects
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe XD
1 1 (100.00%) InVision
1 1 (100.00%) Sketch
1 1 (100.00%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Asana
1 1 (100.00%) Figma
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Axure RP
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Designer
1 1 (100.00%) Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Framer.js
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Augmented Reality
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Reality
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) A/B Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Design Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (100.00%) Journey Map
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Psychology
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Service Design
1 1 (100.00%) SFIA
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Usability Testing
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) User Research
1 1 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
1 1 (100.00%) UX Design
1 1 (100.00%) Wireframes
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe