User Acceptance Testing Contracts in Cheshire

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
North West > Cheshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for User Acceptance Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited User Acceptance Testing over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 43 41 51
Rank change year-on-year -2 +10 -12
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 14 22 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 2.79% 4.15% 1.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.31% 4.55% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 17 5
10th Percentile £313 £433 £341
25th Percentile £368 £450 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £540 £362
Median % change year-on-year -24.77% +49.17% -25.51%
75th Percentile £469 £680 £384
90th Percentile £626 £702 £435
North West median daily rate £500 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +11.11% +5.88% -6.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

User Acceptance 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 Cheshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 423 483 456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 84.43% 91.13% 86.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 328 263
10th Percentile £277 £275 £214
25th Percentile £400 £400 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% +2.86%
75th Percentile £580 £575 £538
90th Percentile £637 £660 £631
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 23 26
10th Percentile £13.70 £19.06 £10.28
25th Percentile £16.61 £23.15 £15.55
Median hourly rate £26.66 £30.54 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.70% +29.96% -27.06%
75th Percentile £42.31 £35.00 £33.62
90th Percentile £44.13 £39.20 £60.88
North West median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -40.00% +68.72% +9.18%

User Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing User Acceptance Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for User Acceptance Testing in Cheshire

User Acceptance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in Cheshire

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in Cheshire over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for User Acceptance Testing in Cheshire

User Acceptance Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in Cheshire.

Hourly rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in Cheshire

User Acceptance Testing
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing User Acceptance Testing within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Chester - 7 £441 - 1
Crewe +4 2 £456 -15.51%
Knutsford 0 2 £398 -41.54%
Warrington - 1 £325 -
Wilmslow - 1 £400 - 1
User Acceptance Testing
North West

User Acceptance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 3 (21.43%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (7.14%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (7.14%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.14%) Azure
1 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (7.14%) BrowserStack
1 1 (7.14%) Commercetools
1 1 (7.14%) Google Workspace
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) Postman
2 1 (7.14%) SoapUI
2 1 (7.14%) Zephyr
General
1 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Financial Institution
3 2 (14.29%) Front Office
4 1 (7.14%) Aeronautics
4 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Manufacturing
4 1 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) Business Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) Risk Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Project Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Change Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Compliance Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Lead
4 1 (7.14%) QA Tester
4 1 (7.14%) SAP Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Test Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Test Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Test Leader
4 1 (7.14%) Tester
4 1 (7.14%) UAT Lead
4 1 (7.14%) UAT Test Lead
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.14%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Android
1 1 (7.14%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Validation
2 4 (28.57%) Migration
3 3 (21.43%) Data Cleansing
3 3 (21.43%) Data Validation
3 3 (21.43%) Project Management
3 3 (21.43%) Requirements Gathering
3 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (21.43%) Test Scripting
3 3 (21.43%) Workflow
4 2 (14.29%) Agile
4 2 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (14.29%) Scenario Testing
4 2 (14.29%) Use Case
5 1 (7.14%) Change Management
5 1 (7.14%) CRM
5 1 (7.14%) Data Migration
5 1 (7.14%) E-Commerce
5 1 (7.14%) Integration Testing
5 1 (7.14%) Regression Testing
5 1 (7.14%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.14%) GDPR
2 1 (7.14%) GxP
2 1 (7.14%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Salesforce
2 2 (14.29%) SAP
3 1 (7.14%) HP