User Acceptance Testing Contracts in the South West

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 124 147 123
Rank change year-on-year +23 -24 -11
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 25 21 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.78% 0.58% 1.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% 0.64% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 15 31
10th Percentile - £338 £275
25th Percentile £208 £406 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £220 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -53.68% +11.76% +6.25%
75th Percentile £613 £538 £494
90th Percentile £725 £567 £500
England median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South 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 South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,653 3,256 3,295
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 83.09% 89.72% 88.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,693 2,396 2,335
10th Percentile £220 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +6.21%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £589
90th Percentile £700 £723 £670
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 334 194
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £29.19 £16.32 £20.08
Median hourly rate £55.00 £61.50 £48.61
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +26.52% +8.02%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.37 £69.95
England median hourly rate £36.33 £36.77 £24.35
% change year-on-year -1.19% +51.01% +1.46%

User Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for User Acceptance Testing in the South West

User Acceptance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in the South West

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in the South West over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for User Acceptance Testing in the South West

User Acceptance Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in the South West

User Acceptance Testing
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 3 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
Wiltshire +15 12 £220 -53.68% 1
Bristol +18 4 £475 +11.76% 3
Devon -4 2 - - 1
Somerset 0 1 - - 7
User Acceptance Testing
England

User Acceptance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 8 (32.00%) CMS
2 6 (24.00%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 8 (32.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (24.00%) Magento
2 1 (4.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (24.00%) SAP Commerce Cloud
2 5 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
2 5 (20.00%) OCI
3 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (4.00%) SaaS
3 1 (4.00%) ShareGate
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Selenium
2 1 (4.00%) JIRA
2 1 (4.00%) Zephyr
General
1 7 (28.00%) Finance
2 5 (20.00%) Law
3 4 (16.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (24.00%) Web Specialist
2 5 (20.00%) Cloud Specialist
2 5 (20.00%) Lead
2 5 (20.00%) Oracle Payroll Specialist
2 5 (20.00%) Oracle Specialist
3 4 (16.00%) Consultant
3 4 (16.00%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
3 4 (16.00%) Lead Consultant
4 2 (8.00%) Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Product Owner
4 2 (8.00%) Test Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Web Content Specialist
5 1 (4.00%) Administrator
5 1 (4.00%) Data Migration Specialist
5 1 (4.00%) Migration Specialist
5 1 (4.00%) Pensions Administrator
5 1 (4.00%) Test Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Test Leader
5 1 (4.00%) UAT Lead
5 1 (4.00%) UAT Test Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (56.00%) Validation
2 8 (32.00%) User Experience
3 6 (24.00%) System Integration Testing
4 5 (20.00%) Data Migration
4 5 (20.00%) Data Reconciliation
4 5 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 5 (20.00%) Migration
5 4 (16.00%) GAP Analysis
5 4 (16.00%) Inventory Management
5 4 (16.00%) Requirements Gathering
5 4 (16.00%) Requirements Workshops
5 4 (16.00%) Scenario Testing
5 4 (16.00%) Supply Chain Management
5 4 (16.00%) System Testing
6 3 (12.00%) Agile
6 3 (12.00%) Test Automation
7 2 (8.00%) Non-Functional Testing
7 2 (8.00%) Test Planning
7 2 (8.00%) Test Scripting
7 2 (8.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (4.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (16.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) QA
Vendors
1 13 (52.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (24.00%) Sitecore
3 5 (20.00%) Oracle
4 4 (16.00%) Atlassian