User Acceptance Testing Contracts in London

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 101 132 133
Rank change year-on-year +31 +1 +36
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 430 525 847
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.44% 1.99% 2.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.75% 2.19% 2.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 291 391 611
10th Percentile £359 £364 £356
25th Percentile £445 £469 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £644 £700 £650
90th Percentile £825 £794 £706
England median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 1
10th Percentile £12.92 - -
25th Percentile £13.55 £61.25 £69.25
Median hourly rate £16.86 £62.50 £70.50
Median % change year-on-year -73.02% -11.35% -
75th Percentile £59.25 £65.31 £71.75
90th Percentile £78.20 £68.13 -
England median hourly rate £20.68 £62.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -66.91% +56.25% +58.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,657 23,997 35,658
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.72% 90.95% 92.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,215 17,295 26,043
10th Percentile £341 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £681 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 313 273 419
10th Percentile £15.96 £18.50 £17.56
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £24.08
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.00 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.21% +5.41% +13.85%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.00 £51.00
90th Percentile £66.40 £81.80 £68.88
England median hourly rate £37.18 £37.32 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.38% +49.28% +6.38%

User Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for User Acceptance Testing in London

User Acceptance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in London

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in London over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for User Acceptance Testing in London

User Acceptance Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in London

User Acceptance Testing
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in London over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for User Acceptance Testing in London

User Acceptance Testing
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 12 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +69 105 £550 -4.35% 10
East London +9 12 £564 +29.60% 1
South London +9 5 £425 -10.53% 2
West London +7 3 £413 -19.51% 4
North London - 3 £375 -
User Acceptance Testing
England

User Acceptance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 23 (5.35%) SharePoint
2 13 (3.02%) Confluence
3 9 (2.09%) SAS
4 2 (0.47%) CMS
5 1 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.23%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.23%) IIS
5 1 (0.23%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.23%) WebSphere
Applications
1 16 (3.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.40%) MS Visio
3 6 (1.40%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 13 (3.02%) Oracle Applications
2 11 (2.56%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (2.09%) Dynamics GP
3 9 (2.09%) ION MarketView
4 7 (1.63%) Loan IQ
5 5 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (1.16%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.70%) Markit EDM
6 3 (0.70%) Oracle AGIS
6 3 (0.70%) Oracle Assets
6 3 (0.70%) Oracle Cash Management
6 3 (0.70%) Oracle Financials
6 3 (0.70%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (0.70%) Oracle HRMS
6 3 (0.70%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.70%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.70%) SAP PM
6 3 (0.70%) SAP PP
6 3 (0.70%) SAP VC
6 3 (0.70%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 53 (12.33%) Azure
2 16 (3.72%) Azure DevOps
2 16 (3.72%) Power Platform
3 14 (3.26%) OCI
4 11 (2.56%) AWS
5 10 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
5 10 (2.33%) Oracle CX
5 10 (2.33%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 9 (2.09%) SaaS
7 6 (1.40%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (1.40%) Miro
8 5 (1.16%) SAP Fieldglass
9 3 (0.70%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (0.70%) Serverless
10 2 (0.47%) Azure Functions
10 2 (0.47%) GitHub
10 2 (0.47%) Google Play
11 1 (0.23%) Lucidchart
11 1 (0.23%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
11 1 (0.23%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.33%) NetScaler
2 7 (1.63%) SSH
3 5 (1.16%) 5G
4 4 (0.93%) VLAN
4 4 (0.93%) Wireless
5 3 (0.70%) VPN
5 3 (0.70%) WAN
6 2 (0.47%) BGP
6 2 (0.47%) CTI
6 2 (0.47%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 2 (0.47%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 2 (0.47%) Firewall
6 2 (0.47%) H.323
6 2 (0.47%) MPLS
6 2 (0.47%) Network Security
6 2 (0.47%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.23%) MVNO
7 1 (0.23%) PuTTY
7 1 (0.23%) Structured Cabling
7 1 (0.23%) VoWiFi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (4.88%) SQL Server
2 19 (4.42%) KDB
3 16 (3.72%) Oracle Reports
4 15 (3.49%) Power BI
5 14 (3.26%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (2.79%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.16%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
7 5 (1.16%) NoSQL
7 5 (1.16%) SAP HANA
7 5 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (0.93%) Geospatial Data
9 3 (0.70%) Data Mining
10 2 (0.47%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.47%) Tableau
11 1 (0.23%) Apache Hive
11 1 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.23%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.23%) Impala
11 1 (0.23%) Parquet
11 1 (0.23%) Redis
Development Applications
1 50 (11.63%) JIRA
2 15 (3.49%) Cucumber
3 10 (2.33%) JUnit
3 10 (2.33%) TestRail
4 8 (1.86%) Git
4 8 (1.86%) JMeter
4 8 (1.86%) LoadRunner
4 8 (1.86%) Selenium
5 7 (1.63%) Jenkins
6 5 (1.16%) SpecFlow
7 3 (0.70%) FitNesse
7 3 (0.70%) Maven
7 3 (0.70%) Postman
7 3 (0.70%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.47%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.47%) Gradle
8 2 (0.47%) IntelliJ
8 2 (0.47%) NUnit
8 2 (0.47%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 156 (36.28%) Finance
2 121 (28.14%) Social Skills
3 57 (13.26%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (12.79%) Banking
5 30 (6.98%) Public Sector
6 23 (5.35%) Front Office
7 20 (4.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (4.42%) Presentation Skills
9 16 (3.72%) Back Office
9 16 (3.72%) Investment Banking
10 10 (2.33%) Retail
11 8 (1.86%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (1.86%) Marketing
12 6 (1.40%) Financial Institution
12 6 (1.40%) Manufacturing
13 5 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (1.16%) Retail Banking
14 4 (0.93%) Billing
14 4 (0.93%) General Ledger
15 3 (0.70%) Law
Job Titles
1 134 (31.16%) Analyst
2 95 (22.09%) Business Analyst
3 54 (12.56%) Developer
3 54 (12.56%) Senior
4 39 (9.07%) Lead
5 32 (7.44%) Project Manager
6 29 (6.74%) Consultant
7 28 (6.51%) Java Developer
8 20 (4.65%) Test Analyst
9 18 (4.19%) Senior Analyst
10 17 (3.95%) Architect
10 17 (3.95%) Test Leader
11 16 (3.72%) Test Manager
11 16 (3.72%) Tester
12 15 (3.49%) Finance Business Analyst
12 15 (3.49%) Financial Analyst
13 13 (3.02%) Data Business Analyst
13 13 (3.02%) Senior Developer
13 13 (3.02%) Test Engineer
14 12 (2.79%) Data Migration Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (4.19%) XML
2 15 (3.49%) Spring
3 14 (3.26%) REST
4 13 (3.02%) JSON
5 12 (2.79%) .NET
6 11 (2.56%) Web Services
7 9 (2.09%) SAML
8 8 (1.86%) ADO
8 8 (1.86%) SOAP
9 7 (1.63%) Hibernate
9 7 (1.63%) J2EE
9 7 (1.63%) JPA
10 4 (0.93%) SAP PI
11 3 (0.70%) .NET Framework
11 3 (0.70%) Oracle Fusion
12 2 (0.47%) CSS
12 2 (0.47%) Dojo
12 2 (0.47%) HTML
12 2 (0.47%) Middleware
12 2 (0.47%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 24 (5.58%) Product Ownership
2 19 (4.42%) Data Protection Act
3 18 (4.19%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 16 (3.72%) Derivative
4 16 (3.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 14 (3.26%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (3.02%) Distributed Systems
6 13 (3.02%) Management Information System
7 12 (2.79%) Reinsurance
8 11 (2.56%) Fixed Income
8 11 (2.56%) Mobile App
9 10 (2.33%) Algorithms
9 10 (2.33%) Data Structures
10 9 (2.09%) Market Risk
11 7 (1.63%) Linux Command Line
11 7 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (1.40%) Equities
13 5 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (1.16%) Data Centre
13 5 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 23 (5.35%) Windows
2 19 (4.42%) Linux
3 9 (2.09%) Unix
4 5 (1.16%) Apple iOS
4 5 (1.16%) VMS
5 4 (0.93%) Android
5 4 (0.93%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.23%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (28.84%) Agile
2 81 (18.84%) Migration
3 64 (14.88%) Problem-Solving
4 62 (14.42%) Test Automation
5 59 (13.72%) Requirements Gathering
5 59 (13.72%) System Integration Testing
6 56 (13.02%) User Stories
7 51 (11.86%) Project Management
8 50 (11.63%) SDLC
9 45 (10.47%) Business Analysis
9 45 (10.47%) Data Migration
10 44 (10.23%) Test Scripting
11 43 (10.00%) Test Strategy
12 39 (9.07%) Validation
13 38 (8.84%) DevOps
14 34 (7.91%) Acceptance Criteria
14 34 (7.91%) GAP Analysis
14 34 (7.91%) Stakeholder Management
15 33 (7.67%) Continuous Integration
15 33 (7.67%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 79 (18.37%) SQL
2 43 (10.00%) Python
3 40 (9.30%) Java
4 21 (4.88%) C#
5 10 (2.33%) JavaScript
6 7 (1.63%) Perl
7 6 (1.40%) C++
7 6 (1.40%) PowerShell
8 4 (0.93%) PL/SQL
8 4 (0.93%) XPath
8 4 (0.93%) XQuery
9 3 (0.70%) F#
9 3 (0.70%) TypeScript
9 3 (0.70%) VBA
9 3 (0.70%) VBScript
10 2 (0.47%) ABAP
10 2 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.23%) C
11 1 (0.23%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.23%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 51 (11.86%) Degree
2 26 (6.05%) Security Cleared
3 20 (4.65%) SC Cleared
4 14 (3.26%) Master's Degree
5 9 (2.09%) ISTQB
6 7 (1.63%) ISEB
7 4 (0.93%) CCNA
7 4 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (0.93%) SAP Certification
8 3 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (0.70%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.47%) CBAP
9 2 (0.47%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 2 (0.47%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.47%) PMP
10 1 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.23%) IIBA
10 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (17.91%) QA
2 20 (4.65%) Data Quality
3 13 (3.02%) SLA
4 9 (2.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 8 (1.86%) EMIR
5 8 (1.86%) PMO
6 7 (1.63%) ISO 20022
7 6 (1.40%) MiFID
8 5 (1.16%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.70%) HL7
11 2 (0.47%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.47%) Basel III
11 2 (0.47%) COREP
11 2 (0.47%) Dodd-Frank
11 2 (0.47%) FINREP
11 2 (0.47%) GDPR
12 1 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 2 (0.47%) Active Directory
1 2 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.23%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 5 (1.16%) SCCM
2 4 (0.93%) Iperf
3 3 (0.70%) Control-M
4 2 (0.47%) HP ALM
4 2 (0.47%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (0.23%) Grafana
5 1 (0.23%) Kibana
5 1 (0.23%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.23%) logstash
5 1 (0.23%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 44 (10.23%) SAP
2 42 (9.77%) Microsoft
3 33 (7.67%) Oracle
4 20 (4.65%) ION Trading
5 15 (3.49%) Citrix
6 9 (2.09%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.40%) Bloomberg
7 6 (1.40%) Calypso
7 6 (1.40%) Cisco
7 6 (1.40%) Refinitiv
7 6 (1.40%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.16%) IBM
8 5 (1.16%) Reuters
9 4 (0.93%) CyberSource
9 4 (0.93%) Google
9 4 (0.93%) Murex
9 4 (0.93%) NEC
9 4 (0.93%) Red Hat
9 4 (0.93%) Workday
10 3 (0.70%) Guidewire