User Acceptance Testing Contracts in the East Midlands

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
England > East Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 34 78 74
Rank change year-on-year +44 -4 -21
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 33 7 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 4.32% 0.68% 1.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.52% 0.77% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 5 23
10th Percentile £355 £270 £240
25th Percentile £356 £413 £339
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £438 £438
Median % change year-on-year +1.26% - +2.94%
75th Percentile £575 £475 £453
90th Percentile £610 £550 £484
England median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.25
Median hourly rate - - £17.50
75th Percentile - - £18.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £38.75 £62.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -38.00% +56.25% +58.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 598 908 1,206
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 78.27% 88.50% 83.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 407 682 892
10th Percentile £188 £213 £210
25th Percentile £269 £330 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £450 £440
Median % change year-on-year -7.11% +2.27% +13.55%
75th Percentile £550 £574 £520
90th Percentile £625 £700 £612
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 74 83
10th Percentile £11.67 £11.80 £9.51
25th Percentile £12.75 £16.25 £13.32
Median hourly rate £17.25 £18.56 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.05% +0.31% +19.90%
75th Percentile £26.15 £31.50 £26.81
90th Percentile £50.79 £58.50 £35.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +56.25% -

User Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for User Acceptance Testing in the East Midlands

User Acceptance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in the East Midlands

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for User Acceptance Testing in the East Midlands

User Acceptance Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in the East Midlands

User Acceptance Testing
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 23 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
Northamptonshire +24 16 £388 -11.43% 2
Derbyshire +10 7 £575 - 3
Nottinghamshire +15 6 £600 +17.07% 2
Leicestershire +12 2 £450 +125.00% 7
Lincolnshire +12 1 £189 -58.08% 4
User Acceptance Testing
England

User Acceptance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 1 (3.03%) SAS
1 1 (3.03%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (15.15%) Google Analytics
2 4 (12.12%) Azure
3 1 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.03%) Power Platform
3 1 (3.03%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (18.18%) Fibre Channel
1 6 (18.18%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.12%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 4 (12.12%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (3.03%) Cucumber
2 1 (3.03%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.03%) Postman
2 1 (3.03%) Selenium
2 1 (3.03%) SoapUI
General
1 3 (9.09%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.06%) Banking
2 2 (6.06%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (3.03%) Finance
3 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (33.33%) Analyst
2 7 (21.21%) Test Analyst
3 5 (15.15%) Automation Tester
3 5 (15.15%) Developer
3 5 (15.15%) Tester
4 4 (12.12%) Data Analyst
4 4 (12.12%) Oracle Analyst
4 4 (12.12%) Oracle Developer
4 4 (12.12%) PL/SQL Developer
4 4 (12.12%) SQL Developer
5 3 (9.09%) Analytics Consultant
5 3 (9.09%) Business Analyst
5 3 (9.09%) Consultant
5 3 (9.09%) Storage Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Azure Consultant
6 2 (6.06%) Backup Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Data Consultant
7 1 (3.03%) IT Analyst
7 1 (3.03%) QA Automation Analyst
7 1 (3.03%) QA Automation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.03%) .NET
1 1 (3.03%) .NET Framework
1 1 (3.03%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (3.03%) HTML
1 1 (3.03%) SPFx
1 1 (3.03%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.18%) HP Storage
2 3 (9.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (6.06%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (6.06%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.06%) NHS
4 1 (3.03%) Learning Management System
4 1 (3.03%) Low-Code
4 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (18.18%) AIX
1 6 (18.18%) Linux
1 6 (18.18%) Solaris
1 6 (18.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (36.36%) Scenario Testing
2 9 (27.27%) Agile
3 8 (24.24%) Change Management
3 8 (24.24%) System Integration Testing
4 7 (21.21%) Test Strategy
5 6 (18.18%) Data Modelling
5 6 (18.18%) End-to-End Testing
5 6 (18.18%) Manual Testing
5 6 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
5 6 (18.18%) Test Automation
5 6 (18.18%) Test Scripting
5 6 (18.18%) Waterfall
6 5 (15.15%) Conceptual Models
6 5 (15.15%) Exploratory Testing
6 5 (15.15%) ITIL
6 5 (15.15%) Performance Testing
6 5 (15.15%) Project Delivery
6 5 (15.15%) System Testing
6 5 (15.15%) Thought Leadership
6 5 (15.15%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 12 (36.36%) SQL
2 5 (15.15%) JavaScript
3 4 (12.12%) PL/SQL
4 3 (9.09%) Bash
4 3 (9.09%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.03%) C#
Qualifications
1 7 (21.21%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.12%) SC Cleared
3 3 (9.09%) Degree
4 2 (6.06%) DV Cleared
4 2 (6.06%) ISEB
4 2 (6.06%) ISTQB
4 2 (6.06%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.03%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.12%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.06%) QA
Systems Management
1 6 (18.18%) EMC NetWorker
1 6 (18.18%) HP Data Protector
1 6 (18.18%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 13 (39.39%) Oracle
2 6 (18.18%) Brocade
2 6 (18.18%) Cisco
2 6 (18.18%) EMC
2 6 (18.18%) HP
2 6 (18.18%) Symantec
3 5 (15.15%) Google
3 5 (15.15%) ServiceNow
4 2 (6.06%) Databricks
4 2 (6.06%) Microsoft