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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 735 779 644
Rank change year-on-year +44 -135 +56
Permanent jobs citing Usability Testing 149 197 741
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.20% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.21% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 83 84 154
10th Percentile £29,750 £39,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £41,155 £45,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £59,763 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.15% +8.66% -8.33%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £72,188
90th Percentile £81,500 £73,950 £80,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £46,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.70% -15.91% +10.00%

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 85,108 95,066 155,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.18% 95.58% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 59,794 56,135 83,138
10th Percentile £29,071 £34,000 £33,645
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% +10.53%

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 20 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 20 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 +22 123 £55,000 - 52
UK excluding London +13 99 £47,500 +2.70% 29
Work from Home +45 55 £50,000 -16.34% 26
London +57 40 £55,000 +4.76% 25
South East +7 25 £31,500 -30.00% 3
South West -8 21 £65,000 +136.36% 5
North of England +29 17 £60,000 -14.29% 13
Scotland - 16 - - 1
North West -4 13 £60,000 -14.29% 8
Midlands -5 12 £51,250 +28.13% 6
West Midlands +16 8 £58,500 +46.25% 3
East of England +6 5 £28,500 -
East Midlands -19 4 £35,000 - 3
Wales +10 3 £32,500 -20.25%
North East +1 3 £44,225 +6.57% 1
Yorkshire +76 1 £57,500 +35.29% 4

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 (2.68%) CMS
1 4 (2.68%) Umbraco
2 2 (1.34%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.67%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 28 (18.79%) Sketch
2 27 (18.12%) Adobe XD
3 11 (7.38%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 11 (7.38%) InVision
4 8 (5.37%) Photoshop
5 7 (4.70%) Adobe Illustrator
6 4 (2.68%) InDesign
7 1 (0.67%) Blender
7 1 (0.67%) Zeplin
Cloud Services
1 43 (28.86%) Figma
2 17 (11.41%) SurveyMonkey
3 16 (10.74%) AWS
3 16 (10.74%) Power Platform
4 6 (4.03%) Google Analytics
4 6 (4.03%) Heroku
4 6 (4.03%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (2.68%) Miro
6 3 (2.01%) GitHub
7 2 (1.34%) Adobe Creative Cloud
7 2 (1.34%) Azure
8 1 (0.67%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (0.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (0.67%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.67%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (0.67%) GCP
8 1 (0.67%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.67%) SaaS
8 1 (0.67%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.03%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (10.74%) Power BI
2 2 (1.34%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.67%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.67%) Big Data
3 1 (0.67%) BigQuery
3 1 (0.67%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.67%) Delta Lake
3 1 (0.67%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.67%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (0.67%) Looker
3 1 (0.67%) Neo4j
3 1 (0.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (10.74%) Axure RP
2 14 (9.40%) Balsamiq
3 13 (8.72%) JIRA
4 5 (3.36%) LabVIEW
4 5 (3.36%) NetBeans
4 5 (3.36%) Visual Studio
5 4 (2.68%) Selenium
6 2 (1.34%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.34%) Git
7 1 (0.67%) Babel
7 1 (0.67%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.67%) ESLint
7 1 (0.67%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.67%) Postman
7 1 (0.67%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.67%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.67%) Spinnaker
7 1 (0.67%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.67%) Vite
7 1 (0.67%) webpack
General
1 47 (31.54%) Marketing
1 47 (31.54%) Social Skills
2 38 (25.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 31 (20.81%) Presentation Skills
4 28 (18.79%) Law
5 27 (18.12%) Public Sector
6 25 (16.78%) Finance
7 23 (15.44%) Analytical Skills
8 14 (9.40%) Brand Awareness
8 14 (9.40%) Telecoms
9 12 (8.05%) Legal
10 10 (6.71%) Banking
10 10 (6.71%) Investment Banking
11 7 (4.70%) Publishing
12 6 (4.03%) Social Science
13 3 (2.01%) Games
13 3 (2.01%) Polish Language
14 2 (1.34%) Financial Institution
14 2 (1.34%) Military
14 2 (1.34%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 52 (34.90%) Designer
2 37 (24.83%) Senior
2 37 (24.83%) UX Designer
3 22 (14.77%) User Researcher
4 20 (13.42%) Senior Designer
5 18 (12.08%) User Experience Researcher
6 17 (11.41%) Senior UX Designer
7 14 (9.40%) Customer Experience Manager
7 14 (9.40%) UI Designer
7 14 (9.40%) UI/UX Designer
8 13 (8.72%) Consultant
8 13 (8.72%) User Experience Consultant
9 11 (7.38%) Lead
10 8 (5.37%) Software Engineer
11 7 (4.70%) Interaction Designer
11 7 (4.70%) Senior User Experience Researcher
12 4 (2.68%) Analyst
13 3 (2.01%) Senior Manager
13 3 (2.01%) Senior Software Engineer
13 3 (2.01%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (35.57%) CSS
1 53 (35.57%) HTML
2 27 (18.12%) React
3 6 (4.03%) AngularJS
4 5 (3.36%) JavaFX
5 4 (2.68%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 3 (2.01%) D3.js
6 3 (2.01%) Ember.js
6 3 (2.01%) LESS
6 3 (2.01%) Sass
6 3 (2.01%) WebGL
7 2 (1.34%) Vue
8 1 (0.67%) ASP.NET Web API
8 1 (0.67%) Jest
8 1 (0.67%) Material-UI
8 1 (0.67%) Parceljs
8 1 (0.67%) PySpark
8 1 (0.67%) Spark Streaming
8 1 (0.67%) Swagger
8 1 (0.67%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 50 (33.56%) Product Ownership
2 11 (7.38%) Market Risk
3 9 (6.04%) NHS
4 7 (4.70%) Graphic Design
5 5 (3.36%) Mobile App
6 4 (2.68%) Life Science
6 4 (2.68%) Virtual Team
7 3 (2.01%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.01%) Cloud Native
7 3 (2.01%) Cyberattack
7 3 (2.01%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.01%) PMI
7 3 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.34%) Digital Signage
8 2 (1.34%) Photography
9 1 (0.67%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.67%) Social Media
9 1 (0.67%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.68%) Android
2 3 (2.01%) Apple iOS
2 3 (2.01%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (74.50%) User Experience
2 97 (65.10%) User Research
3 88 (59.06%) Wireframes
4 77 (51.68%) Agile
5 75 (50.34%) UX Design
6 65 (43.62%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 49 (32.89%) UX Research
8 46 (30.87%) Journey Map
9 41 (27.52%) Prototyping
10 35 (23.49%) Interaction Design
11 32 (21.48%) Visualisation
12 29 (19.46%) Qualitative Research
13 28 (18.79%) Psychology
13 28 (18.79%) Quantitative Research
14 25 (16.78%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
15 24 (16.11%) Data Visualisation
15 24 (16.11%) Information Architecture
16 23 (15.44%) Actionable Insight
17 22 (14.77%) Customer-Centricity
17 22 (14.77%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 49 (32.89%) JavaScript
2 17 (11.41%) C
3 8 (5.37%) Java
4 7 (4.70%) Python
4 7 (4.70%) SQL
5 5 (3.36%) C++
5 5 (3.36%) Fortran
5 5 (3.36%) MATLAB
6 3 (2.01%) C#
7 2 (1.34%) R
8 1 (0.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 89 (59.73%) Degree
2 13 (8.72%) Master's Degree
2 13 (8.72%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (4.03%) Security Cleared
4 5 (3.36%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.01%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.34%) PhD
8 1 (0.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (38.26%) Accessibility
2 18 (12.08%) WCAG
3 11 (7.38%) Actionable Recommendations
4 6 (4.03%) QA
5 5 (3.36%) ISO 9001
5 5 (3.36%) TickIT
6 3 (2.01%) GDPR
7 2 (1.34%) PMO
8 1 (0.67%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (0.67%) Ansible
1 1 (0.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 38 (25.50%) Adobe
2 20 (13.42%) Microsoft
3 8 (5.37%) Hotjar
4 7 (4.70%) Google
5 6 (4.03%) Qualtrics
6 5 (3.36%) Atlassian
7 4 (2.68%) dotdigital
7 4 (2.68%) Mercator
8 3 (2.01%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (1.34%) Databricks
9 2 (1.34%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.67%) Cloudera
10 1 (0.67%) Hortonworks
10 1 (0.67%) Oracle