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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 747 793 669
Rank change year-on-year +46 -124 +21
Permanent jobs citing Usability Testing 160 203 678
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.20% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.21% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 86 84 142
10th Percentile £29,750 £39,000 £43,875
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £69,375 £70,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £71,500 £81,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £56,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.56% +2.27% +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 84,403 97,101 150,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.70% 95.61% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 59,565 57,006 82,680
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +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 7 May 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 7 May 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 +32 133 £52,500 -12.15% 48
UK excluding London +20 108 £47,500 -15.56% 26
Work from Home +43 62 £50,000 -16.67% 25
London +67 41 £56,250 +2.27% 23
North of England +46 24 £60,000 -14.29% 6
South East +15 24 £31,500 -30.00% 3
North West +18 20 £60,000 -14.29% 6
South West -18 20 £55,000 +100.00% 9
Midlands +8 16 £47,500 +18.75% 5
Scotland - 16 - - 1
West Midlands +20 8 £58,500 +46.25% 3
East Midlands -12 8 £43,750 - 2
East of England +16 5 £28,500 - 1
Wales +13 3 £32,500 -20.25%
North East - 3 £44,225 -
Yorkshire +76 1 £57,500 +35.29%

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 (2.50%) CMS
1 4 (2.50%) Umbraco
2 2 (1.25%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.63%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 33 (20.63%) Sketch
2 30 (18.75%) Adobe XD
3 11 (6.88%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 11 (6.88%) InVision
4 7 (4.38%) Photoshop
5 6 (3.75%) Adobe Illustrator
6 4 (2.50%) InDesign
7 1 (0.63%) Adobe Captivate
7 1 (0.63%) Blender
7 1 (0.63%) Zeplin
Cloud Services
1 47 (29.38%) Figma
2 17 (10.63%) SurveyMonkey
3 16 (10.00%) Power Platform
4 15 (9.38%) AWS
5 7 (4.38%) Heroku
6 6 (3.75%) Google Analytics
6 6 (3.75%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (2.50%) Miro
8 3 (1.88%) GitHub
9 2 (1.25%) Adobe Creative Cloud
9 2 (1.25%) Azure
9 2 (1.25%) SaaS
10 1 (0.63%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.63%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (0.63%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.63%) npm
10 1 (0.63%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 1 (0.63%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 1 (0.63%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.75%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (10.00%) Power BI
2 2 (1.25%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.63%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (0.63%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.63%) Big Data
3 1 (0.63%) BigQuery
3 1 (0.63%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.63%) Delta Lake
3 1 (0.63%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.63%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (0.63%) Looker
3 1 (0.63%) Neo4j
3 1 (0.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (10.63%) Axure RP
2 14 (8.75%) Balsamiq
3 13 (8.13%) JIRA
4 5 (3.13%) LabVIEW
4 5 (3.13%) NetBeans
4 5 (3.13%) Visual Studio
5 4 (2.50%) Selenium
6 2 (1.25%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.25%) Git
7 1 (0.63%) Babel
7 1 (0.63%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.63%) ESLint
7 1 (0.63%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.63%) JMeter
7 1 (0.63%) Postman
7 1 (0.63%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.63%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.63%) Spinnaker
7 1 (0.63%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.63%) webpack
General
1 55 (34.38%) Social Skills
2 47 (29.38%) Marketing
3 45 (28.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 35 (21.88%) Law
5 33 (20.63%) Finance
6 31 (19.38%) Presentation Skills
7 27 (16.88%) Public Sector
8 24 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
9 14 (8.75%) Brand Awareness
9 14 (8.75%) Telecoms
10 13 (8.13%) Legal
11 10 (6.25%) Banking
11 10 (6.25%) Investment Banking
12 7 (4.38%) Publishing
13 6 (3.75%) Social Science
14 3 (1.88%) Games
14 3 (1.88%) Polish Language
15 2 (1.25%) Financial Institution
15 2 (1.25%) Military
15 2 (1.25%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 63 (39.38%) Designer
2 48 (30.00%) UX Designer
3 40 (25.00%) Senior
4 23 (14.38%) Senior Designer
5 22 (13.75%) User Researcher
6 20 (12.50%) Senior UX Designer
7 18 (11.25%) UI Designer
7 18 (11.25%) UI/UX Designer
7 18 (11.25%) User Experience Researcher
8 14 (8.75%) Consultant
8 14 (8.75%) Customer Experience Manager
8 14 (8.75%) User Experience Consultant
9 12 (7.50%) Lead
10 8 (5.00%) Software Engineer
11 7 (4.38%) Interaction Designer
11 7 (4.38%) Senior User Experience Researcher
12 4 (2.50%) Analyst
12 4 (2.50%) Senior UI Designer
12 4 (2.50%) Senior UI/UX Designer
13 3 (1.88%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (33.75%) CSS
1 54 (33.75%) HTML
2 28 (17.50%) React
3 6 (3.75%) AngularJS
4 5 (3.13%) JavaFX
5 4 (2.50%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 3 (1.88%) D3.js
6 3 (1.88%) Ember.js
6 3 (1.88%) LESS
6 3 (1.88%) Sass
6 3 (1.88%) WebGL
7 2 (1.25%) Vue
8 1 (0.63%) ASP.NET Web API
8 1 (0.63%) CSS3
8 1 (0.63%) HTML5
8 1 (0.63%) Kafka
8 1 (0.63%) RESTful
8 1 (0.63%) Spark Streaming
8 1 (0.63%) Swagger
8 1 (0.63%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 49 (30.63%) Product Ownership
2 11 (6.88%) Market Risk
3 10 (6.25%) Cyberattack
4 9 (5.63%) NHS
5 7 (4.38%) Graphic Design
6 5 (3.13%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.50%) Life Science
7 4 (2.50%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.88%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.88%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.88%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.88%) PMI
8 3 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.25%) Digital Signage
9 2 (1.25%) Photography
10 1 (0.63%) Animation
10 1 (0.63%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.63%) Social Media
10 1 (0.63%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.50%) Android
2 3 (1.88%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (76.88%) User Experience
2 107 (66.88%) User Research
3 98 (61.25%) Wireframes
4 90 (56.25%) Agile
5 87 (54.38%) UX Design
6 75 (46.88%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 50 (31.25%) Prototyping
8 49 (30.63%) UX Research
9 46 (28.75%) Journey Map
10 38 (23.75%) Interaction Design
11 35 (21.88%) Psychology
12 33 (20.63%) Visualisation
13 31 (19.38%) Actionable Insight
14 29 (18.13%) Problem-Solving
14 29 (18.13%) Qualitative Research
15 28 (17.50%) Quantitative Research
16 25 (15.63%) Data Visualisation
16 25 (15.63%) Information Architecture
17 24 (15.00%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
18 22 (13.75%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 50 (31.25%) JavaScript
2 17 (10.63%) C
3 8 (5.00%) Java
4 7 (4.38%) Python
4 7 (4.38%) SQL
5 5 (3.13%) C++
5 5 (3.13%) Fortran
5 5 (3.13%) MATLAB
6 3 (1.88%) C#
7 2 (1.25%) R
8 1 (0.63%) Scala
Qualifications
1 89 (55.63%) Degree
2 13 (8.13%) Master's Degree
2 13 (8.13%) Microsoft Certification
2 13 (8.13%) Security Cleared
3 8 (5.00%) DV Cleared
4 5 (3.13%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.88%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.25%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (41.88%) Accessibility
2 19 (11.88%) WCAG
3 11 (6.88%) Actionable Recommendations
4 6 (3.75%) QA
5 5 (3.13%) ISO 9001
5 5 (3.13%) TickIT
6 3 (1.88%) GDPR
7 2 (1.25%) PMO
8 1 (0.63%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (0.63%) Ansible
1 1 (0.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 42 (26.25%) Adobe
2 20 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.38%) Google
3 7 (4.38%) Hotjar
4 6 (3.75%) Qualtrics
5 5 (3.13%) Atlassian
6 4 (2.50%) dotdigital
6 4 (2.50%) Mercator
7 3 (1.88%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (1.25%) Databricks
8 2 (1.25%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.63%) Cloudera
9 1 (0.63%) Hortonworks
9 1 (0.63%) Oracle