User Acceptance Testing Contracts in Northern Ireland

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
UK > Northern Ireland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 31 30
Rank change year-on-year +10 -1 -3
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 3 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 2.01% 0.99% 1.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.65% 1.29% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £448
25th Percentile - £385 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £395 £473
Median % change year-on-year - -16.40% -10.00%
75th Percentile - £405 £505
90th Percentile - - £517
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 113 155 171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 75.84% 76.73% 81.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 80 89
10th Percentile £210 £165 £145
25th Percentile £331 £302 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £406 £438
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -7.14% +6.06%
75th Percentile £575 £504 £500
90th Percentile £660 £624 £550
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 14 11
10th Percentile - £13.40 £10.22
25th Percentile £12.25 £13.91 £10.26
Median hourly rate £13.94 £15.25 £15.74
Median % change year-on-year -8.59% -3.11% +12.43%
75th Percentile £23.54 £16.78 £21.00
90th Percentile £31.88 £18.12 -
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.83% +49.20% -

User Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for User Acceptance Testing in Northern Ireland

User Acceptance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Daily rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in Northern Ireland

User Acceptance Testing
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 29 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
County Antrim 0 3 - - 4
User Acceptance Testing
UK

User Acceptance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (66.67%) Maven
1 2 (66.67%) NUnit
1 2 (66.67%) Selenium
1 2 (66.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Legal
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Automation Tester
1 2 (66.67%) QA Automation Tester
1 2 (66.67%) QA Tester
1 2 (66.67%) Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) End-to-End Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Integration Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Software Testing
1 2 (66.67%) System Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Business Case
2 1 (33.33%) ERP
2 1 (33.33%) Logistics
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
1 2 (66.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
1 2 (66.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Apple
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft