Usability Testing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Usability Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Usability Testing over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 763 790 699
Rank change year-on-year +27 -91 -4
Permanent jobs citing Usability Testing 145 208 577
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.20% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.20% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 85 82 138
10th Percentile £29,750 £39,000 £42,350
25th Percentile £41,060 £45,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £59,763 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.34% +8.66% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,500 £71,475 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,250 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -28.85% +18.18% +15.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Usability Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 83,814 101,905 146,218
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.22% 95.67% 95.49%
Number of salaries quoted 59,590 59,680 83,719
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,882 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.90% +4.54% +9.38%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Usability Testing in the UK

Usability Testing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Usability Testing over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Usability Testing in the UK

Usability Testing
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Usability Testing within the UK over the 6 months to 19 April 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +55 118 £50,000 -16.34% 47
UK excluding London +39 99 £46,250 -28.85% 26
Work from Home +58 60 £50,000 -16.00% 16
London +88 35 £57,500 +4.55% 20
North of England +59 23 £60,000 -14.29% 7
South East -10 21 £31,500 -30.00% 2
North West +19 20 £60,000 -14.29% 4
Midlands +25 18 £47,500 +18.75% 7
Scotland -45 16 - - 1
South West -3 13 £52,500 +90.91% 10
West Midlands +39 9 £57,000 +42.50% 4
East Midlands -11 9 £45,000 - 3
East of England +34 5 £28,500 - 1
Wales +7 3 £32,500 -20.25% 1
North East - 2 £44,225 - 2
Yorkshire +96 1 £57,500 +35.29% 3

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 4 (2.76%) CMS
1 4 (2.76%) Umbraco
2 2 (1.38%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.69%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 34 (23.45%) Sketch
2 30 (20.69%) Adobe XD
3 11 (7.59%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 11 (7.59%) InVision
4 6 (4.14%) Photoshop
5 5 (3.45%) Adobe Illustrator
6 4 (2.76%) InDesign
7 1 (0.69%) Adobe Captivate
7 1 (0.69%) Blender
7 1 (0.69%) Zeplin
Cloud Services
1 48 (33.10%) Figma
2 16 (11.03%) Power Platform
3 14 (9.66%) AWS
4 11 (7.59%) SurveyMonkey
5 7 (4.83%) Heroku
6 6 (4.14%) Google Analytics
6 6 (4.14%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (3.45%) Miro
8 3 (2.07%) GitHub
9 2 (1.38%) Adobe Creative Cloud
9 2 (1.38%) Azure
9 2 (1.38%) SaaS
10 1 (0.69%) Amazon EMR
10 1 (0.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (0.69%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.69%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (0.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (0.69%) GCP
10 1 (0.69%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.69%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.14%) Intranet
2 1 (0.69%) SNA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (11.03%) Power BI
2 2 (1.38%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.69%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.69%) Big Data
3 1 (0.69%) BigQuery
3 1 (0.69%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.69%) Delta Lake
3 1 (0.69%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.69%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (0.69%) Looker
3 1 (0.69%) Neo4j
3 1 (0.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (11.72%) Axure RP
2 13 (8.97%) Balsamiq
2 13 (8.97%) JIRA
3 5 (3.45%) LabVIEW
3 5 (3.45%) NetBeans
3 5 (3.45%) Visual Studio
4 4 (2.76%) Selenium
5 2 (1.38%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.38%) Git
6 1 (0.69%) Babel
6 1 (0.69%) ESLint
6 1 (0.69%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.69%) JMeter
6 1 (0.69%) Postman
6 1 (0.69%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.69%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.69%) Spinnaker
6 1 (0.69%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.69%) Vite
6 1 (0.69%) webpack
General
1 48 (33.10%) Social Skills
2 46 (31.72%) Marketing
3 36 (24.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 26 (17.93%) Finance
4 26 (17.93%) Public Sector
5 25 (17.24%) Law
6 21 (14.48%) Presentation Skills
7 18 (12.41%) Analytical Skills
8 14 (9.66%) Brand Awareness
8 14 (9.66%) Legal
8 14 (9.66%) Telecoms
9 7 (4.83%) Publishing
10 4 (2.76%) Games
11 3 (2.07%) Polish Language
12 2 (1.38%) Banking
12 2 (1.38%) Financial Institution
12 2 (1.38%) Investment Banking
12 2 (1.38%) Military
12 2 (1.38%) Multimedia
13 1 (0.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 64 (44.14%) Designer
2 48 (33.10%) UX Designer
3 39 (26.90%) Senior
4 23 (15.86%) User Researcher
5 22 (15.17%) Senior Designer
6 19 (13.10%) Senior UX Designer
6 19 (13.10%) UI Designer
7 18 (12.41%) UI/UX Designer
8 14 (9.66%) Customer Experience Manager
9 13 (8.97%) Consultant
9 13 (8.97%) User Experience Consultant
10 10 (6.90%) User Experience Researcher
11 8 (5.52%) Software Engineer
12 7 (4.83%) Interaction Designer
12 7 (4.83%) Senior User Experience Researcher
13 4 (2.76%) Analyst
13 4 (2.76%) Lead
14 3 (2.07%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
14 3 (2.07%) Senior Software Engineer
14 3 (2.07%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (31.72%) CSS
1 46 (31.72%) HTML
2 20 (13.79%) React
3 6 (4.14%) AngularJS
4 5 (3.45%) JavaFX
5 4 (2.76%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 3 (2.07%) D3.js
6 3 (2.07%) Ember.js
6 3 (2.07%) LESS
6 3 (2.07%) Sass
6 3 (2.07%) WebGL
7 2 (1.38%) Vue
8 1 (0.69%) CSS3
8 1 (0.69%) HTML5
8 1 (0.69%) Jest
8 1 (0.69%) Kafka
8 1 (0.69%) Material-UI
8 1 (0.69%) Parceljs
8 1 (0.69%) PySpark
8 1 (0.69%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 40 (27.59%) Product Ownership
2 11 (7.59%) Market Risk
3 10 (6.90%) Cyberattack
4 9 (6.21%) NHS
5 8 (5.52%) Graphic Design
6 5 (3.45%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.76%) Virtual Team
8 3 (2.07%) Algorithms
8 3 (2.07%) Cloud Native
8 3 (2.07%) Data Structures
8 3 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.07%) PMI
8 3 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.38%) Digital Signage
9 2 (1.38%) Life Science
9 2 (1.38%) Photography
10 1 (0.69%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.69%) Social Media
10 1 (0.69%) Social Network
10 1 (0.69%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.76%) Android
2 3 (2.07%) Apple iOS
2 3 (2.07%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (74.48%) User Experience
2 94 (64.83%) User Research
3 91 (62.76%) Wireframes
4 89 (61.38%) Agile
5 73 (50.34%) UX Design
6 58 (40.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 47 (32.41%) Journey Map
8 44 (30.34%) Prototyping
9 33 (22.76%) Interaction Design
9 33 (22.76%) UX Research
10 29 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
10 29 (20.00%) Psychology
11 25 (17.24%) Actionable Insight
12 24 (16.55%) Qualitative Research
13 23 (15.86%) Decision-Making
13 23 (15.86%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
13 23 (15.86%) Quantitative Research
13 23 (15.86%) Visualisation
14 22 (15.17%) Analytics
14 22 (15.17%) Customer-Centricity
Programming Languages
1 41 (28.28%) JavaScript
2 17 (11.72%) C
3 8 (5.52%) Java
3 8 (5.52%) Python
3 8 (5.52%) SQL
4 5 (3.45%) C++
4 5 (3.45%) Fortran
4 5 (3.45%) MATLAB
5 3 (2.07%) C#
6 2 (1.38%) R
7 1 (0.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 72 (49.66%) Degree
2 13 (8.97%) Security Cleared
3 12 (8.28%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (5.52%) DV Cleared
5 7 (4.83%) Master's Degree
6 5 (3.45%) SC Cleared
7 4 (2.76%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (2.07%) PMI Certification
9 2 (1.38%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (40.69%) Accessibility
2 18 (12.41%) WCAG
3 11 (7.59%) Actionable Recommendations
4 5 (3.45%) ISO 9001
4 5 (3.45%) TickIT
5 4 (2.76%) GDPR
5 4 (2.76%) QA
6 2 (1.38%) PMO
7 1 (0.69%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (0.69%) Ansible
1 1 (0.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 42 (28.97%) Adobe
2 19 (13.10%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.83%) Google
4 6 (4.14%) Hotjar
5 5 (3.45%) Atlassian
6 4 (2.76%) dotdigital
6 4 (2.76%) Mercator
7 3 (2.07%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (1.38%) Databricks
8 2 (1.38%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.69%) Cloudera
9 1 (0.69%) Hortonworks
9 1 (0.69%) Oracle