Usability Testing Contracts

Usability Testing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 441 487 498
Rank change year-on-year +46 +11 +20
Contract jobs citing Usability Testing 95 104 185
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.24% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.28% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 65 136
10th Percentile £329 £325 £363
25th Percentile £363 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -3.85% -0.95%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £588
90th Percentile £650 £583 £649
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £425 £500
% change year-on-year - -15.00% -2.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £48.75
25th Percentile £89.68 - £54.38
Median hourly rate £93.08 - £65.00
75th Percentile £96.49 - £76.88
90th Percentile - - £83.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 27,997 36,800 49,961
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.87% 85.25% 89.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,653 23,447 34,408
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £405 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.57% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,376 2,552 1,712
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.74 £11.87
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.06 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +4.17% +38.46%
75th Percentile £53.78 £61.30 £64.72
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.66 £38.12 £35.00
% change year-on-year -35.31% +8.91% +66.67%

Usability Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Usability Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Usability Testing in the UK

Usability Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Usability Testing in the UK

Usability Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Usability Testing over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Usability Testing in the UK

Usability Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Usability Testing in the UK

Usability Testing
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 July 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 +54 63 £451 -1.26% 504
London +39 41 £469 -6.25% 289
UK excluding London +46 33 £425 - 258
Work from Home +17 27 £400 -20.00% 188
North of England +12 11 £400 +14.29% 66
Scotland +6 11 £471 -14.36% 20
North West +16 10 £400 +14.29% 38
South West +39 4 £375 -48.28% 34
South East +53 3 £650 +30.00% 54
Midlands +11 3 £322 -18.22% 36
East Midlands +3 2 £318 +1.60% 16
West Midlands +5 1 £515 +28.75% 20
Yorkshire -4 1 - - 27
Wales - 1 £525 - 13
East of England - 1 £363 - 27

Usability Testing
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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (7.37%) Confluence
2 4 (4.21%) IBM Domino
3 2 (2.11%) CMS
4 1 (1.05%) Drupal
4 1 (1.05%) SharePoint
Applications
1 17 (17.89%) Adobe XD
2 14 (14.74%) Sketch
3 4 (4.21%) Autodesk Smoke
3 4 (4.21%) InVision
4 2 (2.11%) UserZoom
5 1 (1.05%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (1.05%) Chatbot
5 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (1.05%) SPSS
5 1 (1.05%) Stata
5 1 (1.05%) Trello
5 1 (1.05%) UXPin
5 1 (1.05%) Zeplin
Cloud Services
1 36 (37.89%) Figma
2 10 (10.53%) Miro
3 6 (6.32%) Google Analytics
3 6 (6.32%) SaaS
4 3 (3.16%) AWS
5 2 (2.11%) Azure
6 1 (1.05%) Adobe Creative Cloud
6 1 (1.05%) GCP
6 1 (1.05%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.05%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.21%) Mixpanel
2 1 (1.05%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (9.47%) JIRA
2 6 (6.32%) Axure RP
3 2 (2.11%) Balsamiq
3 2 (2.11%) Selenium
4 1 (1.05%) Appium
4 1 (1.05%) Git
4 1 (1.05%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (1.05%) Postman
4 1 (1.05%) SpecFlow
General
1 40 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 31 (32.63%) Public Sector
3 13 (13.68%) Finance
4 10 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (10.53%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (5.26%) Retail
6 4 (4.21%) Banking
6 4 (4.21%) Law
6 4 (4.21%) Wearables
7 3 (3.16%) Marketing
8 2 (2.11%) Games
8 2 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.11%) Legal
8 2 (2.11%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.05%) Aviation
9 1 (1.05%) Electronics
9 1 (1.05%) Health Technology
9 1 (1.05%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.05%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.05%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 33 (34.74%) Designer
2 25 (26.32%) User Researcher
3 18 (18.95%) UX Designer
4 14 (14.74%) Senior
5 11 (11.58%) User Experience Researcher
6 9 (9.47%) Developer
7 8 (8.42%) UX Developer
8 6 (6.32%) Product Owner
8 6 (6.32%) Service Designer
8 6 (6.32%) UI Designer
8 6 (6.32%) UI Developer
8 6 (6.32%) UI/UX Developer
9 5 (5.26%) Senior Designer
9 5 (5.26%) Senior UX Designer
9 5 (5.26%) UI/UX Designer
10 4 (4.21%) Lead
10 4 (4.21%) Senior User Researcher
10 4 (4.21%) Visual Designer
11 3 (3.16%) Product Designer
11 3 (3.16%) Senior User Experience Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (21.05%) HTML
2 19 (20.00%) CSS
3 7 (7.37%) React
4 4 (4.21%) AngularJS
5 3 (3.16%) HTML5
5 3 (3.16%) Node.js
5 3 (3.16%) RESTful
5 3 (3.16%) Vue
6 2 (2.11%) CSS3
7 1 (1.05%) .NET
7 1 (1.05%) Framer.js
7 1 (1.05%) Lightning Web Components
7 1 (1.05%) Unity (Game Engine)
7 1 (1.05%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 21 (22.11%) Product Ownership
2 9 (9.47%) Mobile App
3 4 (4.21%) IoT
4 3 (3.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (3.16%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.11%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.11%) W3C
6 1 (1.05%) Animation
6 1 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.05%) RIA
6 1 (1.05%) Sports Betting
6 1 (1.05%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.21%) Android
1 4 (4.21%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (80.00%) User Research
2 74 (77.89%) User Experience
3 63 (66.32%) UX Design
4 42 (44.21%) Agile
5 35 (36.84%) Wireframes
6 34 (35.79%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 25 (26.32%) UX Research
8 24 (25.26%) Qualitative Research
9 22 (23.16%) Analytics
10 19 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
10 19 (20.00%) Quantitative Research
10 19 (20.00%) Service Design
11 17 (17.89%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
11 17 (17.89%) Inclusive Design
11 17 (17.89%) Problem-Solving
12 16 (16.84%) Responsive Web Design
13 15 (15.79%) Contextual Inquiry
13 15 (15.79%) Prototyping
14 12 (12.63%) Stakeholder Management
15 11 (11.58%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 18 (18.95%) JavaScript
2 5 (5.26%) Python
3 3 (3.16%) SQL
4 2 (2.11%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.05%) Apex Code
5 1 (1.05%) R
Qualifications
1 14 (14.74%) Degree
2 13 (13.68%) Security Cleared
3 11 (11.58%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.21%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.05%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (44.21%) Accessibility
2 14 (14.74%) WCAG
3 7 (7.37%) Actionable Recommendations
4 4 (4.21%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (2.11%) QA
6 1 (1.05%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (1.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.05%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 21 (22.11%) Adobe
2 5 (5.26%) Google
2 5 (5.26%) Hotjar
3 4 (4.21%) CA Agile Central
3 4 (4.21%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.11%) Pega
4 2 (2.11%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.11%) SAP
5 1 (1.05%) IBM
5 1 (1.05%) Oracle