Resources: Industry Insights
UK UPA 2004 salary survey
Download the 2004 salary survey as a PDF (293kb)
Introduction
Are you getting richer?
Talking to usability business managers this year, two themes emerge.
Firstly, that it’s been another solid year for the industry. Everyone reports being busy, everyone is recruiting or at least looking to improve capacity and with areas such as mobile becoming mainstream, confidence is high.
Secondly, despite the bullish marketplace, the memory of the .com crash still influences business planning. Usability business managers are looking to grow organically and hiring conservatively.
Maybe that’s why, this year, overall salary levels in our survey remain almost identical to last year. The mean salary increased just 0.6% in the past year.Usability professionals in the UK must look to promotion, rather than wage inflation, to improve their lot.
Expanded results
This year, for the first time, we’ve included results by employer as well as information on the types of technique in use today and a breakdown of salary by experience. Members of the Usability Professionals’ Association are, of course, entitled to the raw data so that they can conduct their own analysis.
About the HTML & PDF versions
This year, we have tried to make our results more accessible by publishing them in HTML format as well as PDF (which includes useful graphs which cannot be rendered as HTML). In the future, we hope to continue to improve the accessibility of our surveys and welcome feedback from readers.
Giles Colborne (President, UK Chapter) January 2005
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