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

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 748 778 652
Rank change year-on-year +30 -126 +53
Permanent jobs citing Usability Testing 148 197 701
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.20% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.21% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 81 83 149
10th Percentile £29,750 £39,000 £44,750
25th Percentile £41,060 £45,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £74,300 £82,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,250 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.63% -13.64% +14.34%

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 84,701 95,929 153,018
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.52% 95.60% 95.73%
Number of salaries quoted 59,701 56,502 82,944
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,740
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 £96,250
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 14 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 14 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 +16 121 £53,750 -6.13% 48
UK excluding London +8 98 £46,250 -2.63% 23
Work from Home +35 54 £50,000 -16.67% 24
London +74 39 £55,000 +3.29% 25
South East +1 24 £31,500 -30.00% 2
South West -10 21 £65,000 +136.36% 6
North of England +28 17 £60,000 -14.29% 9
Scotland - 16 - - 1
North West +1 13 £60,000 -14.29% 7
Midlands +7 12 £51,250 +28.13% 4
West Midlands +9 8 £58,500 +46.25% 3
East of England +4 5 £28,500 -
East Midlands -18 4 £35,000 - 1
Wales +14 3 £32,500 -20.25%
North East - 3 £44,225 - 1
Yorkshire +82 1 £57,500 +35.29% 1

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 (2.70%) CMS
1 4 (2.70%) Umbraco
2 2 (1.35%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.68%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 28 (18.92%) Sketch
2 26 (17.57%) Adobe XD
3 11 (7.43%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 11 (7.43%) InVision
4 7 (4.73%) Photoshop
5 6 (4.05%) Adobe Illustrator
6 4 (2.70%) InDesign
7 1 (0.68%) Blender
7 1 (0.68%) Zeplin
Cloud Services
1 42 (28.38%) Figma
2 17 (11.49%) SurveyMonkey
3 16 (10.81%) Power Platform
4 15 (10.14%) AWS
5 6 (4.05%) Google Analytics
5 6 (4.05%) Heroku
5 6 (4.05%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (2.70%) Miro
7 3 (2.03%) GitHub
8 2 (1.35%) Adobe Creative Cloud
8 2 (1.35%) Azure
9 1 (0.68%) Amazon EMR
9 1 (0.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (0.68%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.68%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (0.68%) GCP
9 1 (0.68%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.68%) SaaS
9 1 (0.68%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.05%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (10.81%) Power BI
2 2 (1.35%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.68%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.68%) Big Data
3 1 (0.68%) BigQuery
3 1 (0.68%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.68%) Delta Lake
3 1 (0.68%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.68%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (0.68%) Looker
3 1 (0.68%) Neo4j
3 1 (0.68%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (10.81%) Axure RP
2 14 (9.46%) Balsamiq
3 13 (8.78%) JIRA
4 5 (3.38%) LabVIEW
4 5 (3.38%) NetBeans
4 5 (3.38%) Visual Studio
5 4 (2.70%) Selenium
6 2 (1.35%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.35%) Git
7 1 (0.68%) Babel
7 1 (0.68%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.68%) ESLint
7 1 (0.68%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.68%) Postman
7 1 (0.68%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.68%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.68%) Spinnaker
7 1 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.68%) Vite
7 1 (0.68%) webpack
General
1 47 (31.76%) Marketing
2 46 (31.08%) Social Skills
3 38 (25.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 31 (20.95%) Presentation Skills
5 28 (18.92%) Law
6 27 (18.24%) Public Sector
7 25 (16.89%) Finance
8 23 (15.54%) Analytical Skills
9 14 (9.46%) Brand Awareness
9 14 (9.46%) Telecoms
10 12 (8.11%) Legal
11 10 (6.76%) Banking
11 10 (6.76%) Investment Banking
12 7 (4.73%) Publishing
13 6 (4.05%) Social Science
14 3 (2.03%) Games
14 3 (2.03%) Polish Language
15 2 (1.35%) Financial Institution
15 2 (1.35%) Military
15 2 (1.35%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 51 (34.46%) Designer
2 37 (25.00%) Senior
2 37 (25.00%) UX Designer
3 22 (14.86%) User Researcher
4 20 (13.51%) Senior Designer
5 18 (12.16%) User Experience Researcher
6 17 (11.49%) Senior UX Designer
7 14 (9.46%) Customer Experience Manager
8 13 (8.78%) Consultant
8 13 (8.78%) UI Designer
8 13 (8.78%) UI/UX Designer
8 13 (8.78%) User Experience Consultant
9 11 (7.43%) Lead
10 8 (5.41%) Software Engineer
11 7 (4.73%) Senior User Experience Researcher
12 6 (4.05%) Interaction Designer
13 4 (2.70%) Analyst
14 3 (2.03%) Senior Manager
14 3 (2.03%) Senior Software Engineer
14 3 (2.03%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (35.14%) CSS
1 52 (35.14%) HTML
2 27 (18.24%) React
3 6 (4.05%) AngularJS
4 5 (3.38%) JavaFX
5 4 (2.70%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 3 (2.03%) D3.js
6 3 (2.03%) Ember.js
6 3 (2.03%) LESS
6 3 (2.03%) Sass
6 3 (2.03%) WebGL
7 2 (1.35%) Vue
8 1 (0.68%) ASP.NET Web API
8 1 (0.68%) Jest
8 1 (0.68%) Material-UI
8 1 (0.68%) Parceljs
8 1 (0.68%) PySpark
8 1 (0.68%) Spark Streaming
8 1 (0.68%) Swagger
8 1 (0.68%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 50 (33.78%) Product Ownership
2 11 (7.43%) Market Risk
3 9 (6.08%) NHS
4 7 (4.73%) Graphic Design
5 5 (3.38%) Mobile App
6 4 (2.70%) Life Science
6 4 (2.70%) Virtual Team
7 3 (2.03%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.03%) Cloud Native
7 3 (2.03%) Cyberattack
7 3 (2.03%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.03%) PMI
7 3 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.35%) Digital Signage
8 2 (1.35%) Photography
9 1 (0.68%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.68%) Social Media
9 1 (0.68%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.70%) Android
2 3 (2.03%) Apple iOS
2 3 (2.03%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (74.32%) User Experience
2 96 (64.86%) User Research
3 88 (59.46%) Wireframes
4 78 (52.70%) Agile
5 74 (50.00%) UX Design
6 64 (43.24%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 49 (33.11%) UX Research
8 45 (30.41%) Journey Map
9 41 (27.70%) Prototyping
10 34 (22.97%) Interaction Design
11 32 (21.62%) Visualisation
12 29 (19.59%) Qualitative Research
13 28 (18.92%) Psychology
13 28 (18.92%) Quantitative Research
14 24 (16.22%) Data Visualisation
14 24 (16.22%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
14 24 (16.22%) Information Architecture
15 23 (15.54%) Actionable Insight
16 22 (14.86%) Decision-Making
16 22 (14.86%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 48 (32.43%) JavaScript
2 17 (11.49%) C
3 8 (5.41%) Java
4 7 (4.73%) Python
4 7 (4.73%) SQL
5 5 (3.38%) C++
5 5 (3.38%) Fortran
5 5 (3.38%) MATLAB
6 3 (2.03%) C#
7 2 (1.35%) R
8 1 (0.68%) Scala
Qualifications
1 88 (59.46%) Degree
2 13 (8.78%) Master's Degree
2 13 (8.78%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (4.05%) Security Cleared
4 5 (3.38%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.03%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.35%) PhD
8 1 (0.68%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (38.51%) Accessibility
2 18 (12.16%) WCAG
3 11 (7.43%) Actionable Recommendations
4 6 (4.05%) QA
5 5 (3.38%) ISO 9001
5 5 (3.38%) TickIT
6 3 (2.03%) GDPR
7 2 (1.35%) PMO
8 1 (0.68%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (0.68%) Ansible
1 1 (0.68%) Terraform
Vendors
1 38 (25.68%) Adobe
2 20 (13.51%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.73%) Google
3 7 (4.73%) Hotjar
4 6 (4.05%) Qualtrics
5 5 (3.38%) Atlassian
6 4 (2.70%) dotdigital
6 4 (2.70%) Mercator
7 3 (2.03%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (1.35%) Databricks
8 2 (1.35%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.68%) Cloudera
9 1 (0.68%) Hortonworks
9 1 (0.68%) Oracle