User Acceptance Testing Contracts in the North West

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 84 88 129
Rank change year-on-year +4 +41 -26
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 51 71 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.91% 2.27% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.22% 2.51% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 51 40
10th Percentile £325 £350 £308
25th Percentile £406 £384 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £445 £425
Median % change year-on-year +12.36% +4.71% -8.11%
75th Percentile £538 £545 £500
90th Percentile - £680 £550
England median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,301 2,831 3,540
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.18% 90.71% 88.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,459 2,009 2,591
10th Percentile £306 £313 £250
25th Percentile £405 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £593 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 137 159
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.45 £23.15 £14.13
Median hourly rate £23.48 £36.00 £20.13
Median % change year-on-year -34.79% +78.84% +9.28%
75th Percentile £45.88 £49.52 £43.13
90th Percentile £60.38 £66.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%

User Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for User Acceptance Testing in the North West

User Acceptance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in the North West

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in the North West over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for User Acceptance Testing in the North West

User Acceptance Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in the North West

User Acceptance Testing
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 7 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
Manchester +11 34 £500 +25.00% 7
Cheshire -3 14 £406 -24.77% 6
Lancashire +6 2 £501 +17.94% 2
User Acceptance Testing
England

User Acceptance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (5.88%) SAS
2 1 (1.96%) Confluence
2 1 (1.96%) LiveLink
2 1 (1.96%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.96%) MS Visio
1 1 (1.96%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (23.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (7.84%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.96%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (1.96%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (1.96%) SAP EWM
3 1 (1.96%) SAP GTS
3 1 (1.96%) SAP MM
3 1 (1.96%) SAP PP
3 1 (1.96%) SAP Retail
3 1 (1.96%) SAP SD
3 1 (1.96%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 21 (41.18%) Dynamics 365
2 3 (5.88%) Azure
3 2 (3.92%) Power Platform
3 2 (3.92%) SaaS
4 1 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.96%) BrowserStack
4 1 (1.96%) Commercetools
4 1 (1.96%) Google Workspace
4 1 (1.96%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 1 (1.96%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.92%) Power BI
2 1 (1.96%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.96%) EDRMS
Development Applications
1 6 (11.76%) JIRA
2 3 (5.88%) Zephyr
3 1 (1.96%) Postman
3 1 (1.96%) SoapUI
General
1 13 (25.49%) Marketing
2 11 (21.57%) Social Skills
3 7 (13.73%) Finance
4 5 (9.80%) Retail
5 4 (7.84%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (5.88%) Manufacturing
6 3 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (3.92%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (3.92%) Banking
7 2 (3.92%) Financial Institution
7 2 (3.92%) Front Office
7 2 (3.92%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.96%) Aeronautics
8 1 (1.96%) Billing
8 1 (1.96%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.96%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.96%) Law
8 1 (1.96%) Legal
8 1 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.96%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (33.33%) Analyst
1 17 (33.33%) Consultant
2 14 (27.45%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
3 12 (23.53%) Business Analyst
4 5 (9.80%) Developer
5 3 (5.88%) Functional Consultant
5 3 (5.88%) Risk Analyst
6 2 (3.92%) Project Manager
6 2 (3.92%) QA Manager
6 2 (3.92%) QA Test Manager
6 2 (3.92%) SAP Consultant
6 2 (3.92%) Test Manager
6 2 (3.92%) Tester
6 2 (3.92%) UAT Manager
7 1 (1.96%) Billing Business Analyst
7 1 (1.96%) Business Data Analyst
7 1 (1.96%) CRM Analyst
7 1 (1.96%) CRM Business Analyst
7 1 (1.96%) SAP Manager
7 1 (1.96%) UAT Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.96%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 11 (21.57%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (3.92%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.96%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.96%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (1.96%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.96%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.96%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.96%) Android
1 1 (1.96%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (43.14%) Migration
2 18 (35.29%) Data Migration
3 15 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (27.45%) CRM
5 13 (25.49%) Translating Business Requirements
6 11 (21.57%) Customer Experience
6 11 (21.57%) Customer Insight
6 11 (21.57%) End-to-End Testing
6 11 (21.57%) System Testing
7 9 (17.65%) Agile
8 8 (15.69%) Requirements Gathering
8 8 (15.69%) Test Scripting
9 7 (13.73%) User Stories
10 6 (11.76%) Validation
11 5 (9.80%) Business Analysis
11 5 (9.80%) Stakeholder Management
11 5 (9.80%) Unit Testing
12 4 (7.84%) Data Cleansing
12 4 (7.84%) Test Management
12 4 (7.84%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 4 (7.84%) SQL
2 2 (3.92%) ABAP
3 1 (1.96%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (9.80%) Degree
2 1 (1.96%) ISEB
2 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.84%) QA
2 3 (5.88%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.92%) GDPR
4 1 (1.96%) GxP
Systems Management
1 1 (1.96%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 10 (19.61%) Microsoft
2 7 (13.73%) SAP
3 5 (9.80%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.96%) HP
4 1 (1.96%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.96%) Workday