Usability Testing Contracts in the UK excluding London

Usability Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Usability Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Usability Testing over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 367 376 410
Rank change year-on-year +9 +34 -57
Contract jobs citing Usability Testing 32 62 103
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.27% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.30% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 51 79
10th Percentile £312 £363 £402
25th Percentile £325 £403 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £503
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.47% +1.52%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £550
90th Percentile £626 £625 £586
UK median daily rate £500 £524 £510
% change year-on-year -4.53% +2.70% +3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.00
Median hourly rate - - £19.00
75th Percentile - - £23.00
90th Percentile - - £37.95
UK median hourly rate - £65.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +225.00% -49.37%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,325 20,337 27,186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.38% 89.23% 89.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,289 13,953 19,001
10th Percentile £250 £260 £238
25th Percentile £375 £400 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,130 1,241 1,347
10th Percentile £12.42 £10.63 £12.38
25th Percentile £15.39 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.99%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.40
90th Percentile £72.50 £74.50 £62.35
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.68
% change year-on-year -0.11% +42.29% +9.46%

Usability Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Usability Testing in the UK excluding London

Usability Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Usability Testing in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Usability Testing in the UK excluding London

Usability Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Usability Testing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Usability Testing in the UK excluding London

Usability Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Usability Testing in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Usability Testing in the UK excluding London

Usability Testing
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +21 13 £350 -36.25% 6
Scotland +39 11 £550 +4.76% 4
North West +20 7 £350 -41.67% 5
Yorkshire +11 6 £406 -22.62% 1
Midlands +21 4 £394 -1.56% 4
West Midlands +15 3 £400 -15.79% 3
South East +1 3 £500 +5.26% 2
East Midlands +14 1 £313 -3.85% 1
South West +2 1 £725 +61.11% 2
Usability Testing
UK

Usability Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (15.63%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 5 (15.63%) InVision
2 4 (12.50%) Adobe Illustrator
2 4 (12.50%) Photoshop
3 2 (6.25%) Adobe XD
3 2 (6.25%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 4 (12.50%) Figma
2 1 (3.13%) AWS
2 1 (3.13%) GCP
2 1 (3.13%) npm
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.38%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 4 (12.50%) Axure RP
1 4 (12.50%) Selenium
2 3 (9.38%) JMeter
2 3 (9.38%) LoadRunner
3 1 (3.13%) Babel
3 1 (3.13%) Cypress.io
3 1 (3.13%) ESLint
3 1 (3.13%) Vite
3 1 (3.13%) webpack
General
1 10 (31.25%) Public Sector
2 8 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (9.38%) Banking
3 3 (9.38%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (6.25%) Health Technology
5 1 (3.13%) Finance
5 1 (3.13%) Law
5 1 (3.13%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 11 (34.38%) Designer
2 10 (31.25%) Lead
2 10 (31.25%) User Researcher
3 4 (12.50%) UX Designer
4 3 (9.38%) UI Designer
5 2 (6.25%) Senior
5 2 (6.25%) Service Designer
5 2 (6.25%) Test Leader
6 1 (3.13%) Developer
6 1 (3.13%) Product Designer
6 1 (3.13%) Quantitative Researcher
6 1 (3.13%) Senior Designer
6 1 (3.13%) Senior Product Designer
6 1 (3.13%) UI Developer
6 1 (3.13%) UI/UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.63%) CSS
1 5 (15.63%) HTML
2 1 (3.13%) Jest
2 1 (3.13%) Material-UI
2 1 (3.13%) Parceljs
2 1 (3.13%) React
2 1 (3.13%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.75%) Mobile App
2 3 (9.38%) Product Ownership
2 3 (9.38%) Public Cloud
3 2 (6.25%) Graphic Design
4 1 (3.13%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (59.38%) User Research
2 17 (53.13%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 15 (46.88%) User Experience
4 12 (37.50%) UX Design
5 11 (34.38%) Mentoring
6 10 (31.25%) Agile
6 10 (31.25%) Wireframes
7 9 (28.13%) Qualitative Research
8 8 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
8 8 (25.00%) Prototyping
8 8 (25.00%) Quantitative Research
8 8 (25.00%) Service Design
9 7 (21.88%) Ethnography
9 7 (21.88%) Focus Group
10 6 (18.75%) Contextual Inquiry
10 6 (18.75%) Data Science
10 6 (18.75%) Design Persona
10 6 (18.75%) Front End Development
10 6 (18.75%) Guerrilla Testing
10 6 (18.75%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.25%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (12.50%) Degree
2 3 (9.38%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (6.25%) Master's Degree
4 1 (3.13%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (31.25%) Accessibility
2 7 (21.88%) WCAG
3 6 (18.75%) Actionable Recommendations
4 5 (15.63%) QA
5 1 (3.13%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 7 (21.88%) Adobe
2 1 (3.13%) Brio
2 1 (3.13%) Google
2 1 (3.13%) Pega
2 1 (3.13%) SAP