Usability Testing Contracts in the Midlands

Usability Testing
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 140 186
Rank change year-on-year +9 +46 -4
Contract jobs citing Usability Testing 7 3 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.26% 0.11% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.13% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 13
10th Percentile £317 - £397
25th Percentile £332 £206 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £348 £213 £425
Median % change year-on-year +63.90% -50.00% -12.37%
75th Percentile £356 £219 £464
90th Percentile - - £556
England median daily rate £466 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -15.32% -4.35% +15.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 in the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,223 2,342 4,229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 83.63% 84.46% 87.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,400 1,610 3,008
10th Percentile £255 £250 £250
25th Percentile £375 £384 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £489 £495
Median % change year-on-year +2.25% -1.21% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 110 106
10th Percentile £14.69 £14.50 £11.78
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.71 £14.36
Median hourly rate £24.00 £27.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% +57.14% +20.69%
75th Percentile £35.00 £51.50 £22.30
90th Percentile £53.00 £67.63 £36.96
England median hourly rate £39.50 £44.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.24% +27.14% +70.73%

Usability Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Usability Testing in the Midlands

Usability Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Usability Testing in the Midlands

Usability Testing
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
East Midlands - 6 £348 - 1
West Midlands +1 1 - - 1
Usability Testing
England

Usability Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (42.86%) Adobe XD
1 3 (42.86%) InVision
1 3 (42.86%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Figma
General
1 3 (42.86%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Designer
2 3 (42.86%) UI Designer
2 3 (42.86%) UI/UX Designer
2 3 (42.86%) User Experience Researcher
2 3 (42.86%) UX Designer
3 1 (14.29%) Service Designer
3 1 (14.29%) Telecoms Designer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Graphic Design
1 3 (42.86%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) User Experience
1 6 (85.71%) UX Design
2 4 (57.14%) Journey Map
2 4 (57.14%) Prototyping
2 4 (57.14%) User Research
3 3 (42.86%) Interaction Design
3 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (42.86%) Qualitative Research
3 3 (42.86%) Time Management
3 3 (42.86%) Typography
3 3 (42.86%) UX Research
3 3 (42.86%) Web Development
3 3 (42.86%) Wireframes
4 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
4 1 (14.29%) Security Management
4 1 (14.29%) Security Operations
4 1 (14.29%) Service Design
4 1 (14.29%) SIEM
4 1 (14.29%) Threat Detection
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) QRadar
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Adobe
2 1 (14.29%) ArcSight
2 1 (14.29%) IBM
2 1 (14.29%) Splunk