User Acceptance Testing Contracts

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 113 150 138
Rank change year-on-year +37 -12 +35
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 870 1,072 1,761
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.99% 1.79% 1.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.31% 1.99% 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 583 740 1,221
10th Percentile £325 £356 £331
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £589 £641 £613
90th Percentile £738 £775 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 8 12
10th Percentile £12.92 £49.60 £17.13
25th Percentile £14.85 £61.25 £25.38
Median hourly rate £36.25 £62.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.00% +56.25% +56.86%
75th Percentile £78.25 £64.06 £57.75
90th Percentile £87.65 £66.50 £71.18
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.25 £62.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -42.00% +78.57% +38.61%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,653 53,977 80,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.28% 89.91% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,313 37,392 56,301
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,429 1,779 1,937
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.54 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.98 £35.90 £20.00
% change year-on-year +0.21% +79.50% -8.09%

User Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for User Acceptance Testing in the UK

User Acceptance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in the UK

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Acceptance Testing over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for User Acceptance Testing in the UK

User Acceptance Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in the UK

User Acceptance Testing
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing User Acceptance Testing over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for User Acceptance Testing in the UK

User Acceptance Testing
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 25 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
England +33 745 £525 - 198
London +30 432 £550 - 76
Work from Home +62 349 £500 - 77
UK excluding London +31 344 £475 - 130
South East +1 101 £575 +21.05% 29
North of England -1 75 £450 - 28
Midlands +32 61 £447 -10.70% 32
Scotland +46 57 £463 -2.63% 9
North West 0 50 £500 +11.11% 15
East Midlands +44 33 £443 +1.26% 18
West Midlands +7 27 £444 -11.25% 14
South West +26 25 £298 -37.37% 11
East of England +15 25 £375 -26.69% 14
Yorkshire +3 20 £450 -5.26% 13
North East +20 5 £390 -2.50%
Northern Ireland +9 3 - - 6

User Acceptance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 34 (3.91%) SharePoint
2 19 (2.18%) Confluence
3 10 (1.15%) CMS
4 9 (1.03%) SAS
5 6 (0.69%) Sitecore CMS
6 4 (0.46%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.34%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.23%) SharePoint 2013
9 1 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.11%) Camunda
9 1 (0.11%) IIS
9 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 35 (4.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (2.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 18 (2.07%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (1.38%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
6 7 (0.80%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.11%) InVision
7 1 (0.11%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 34 (3.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 25 (2.87%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (1.95%) SAP EWM
4 15 (1.72%) Oracle Applications
5 12 (1.38%) SAP QM
6 9 (1.03%) Dynamics GP
6 9 (1.03%) ION MarketView
6 9 (1.03%) Loan IQ
7 8 (0.92%) Oracle Assets
7 8 (0.92%) Oracle Cash Management
7 8 (0.92%) Oracle Financials
7 8 (0.92%) Oracle Payables
7 8 (0.92%) Oracle Receivables
8 7 (0.80%) Oracle General Ledger
8 7 (0.80%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 6 (0.69%) Magento
9 6 (0.69%) SAP PP
10 5 (0.57%) SAP FI
10 5 (0.57%) SAP FI/CO
10 5 (0.57%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 104 (11.95%) Azure
2 53 (6.09%) Dynamics 365
3 37 (4.25%) OCI
4 32 (3.68%) Azure DevOps
5 30 (3.45%) Power Platform
6 23 (2.64%) AWS
6 23 (2.64%) SaaS
7 13 (1.49%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 10 (1.15%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (1.03%) Oracle CX
10 8 (0.92%) Azure Data Factory
11 7 (0.80%) Google Analytics
11 7 (0.80%) SAP Commerce Cloud
12 6 (0.69%) Serverless
13 5 (0.57%) Azure Functions
13 5 (0.57%) SuccessFactors
14 4 (0.46%) Azure Monitor
14 4 (0.46%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
14 4 (0.46%) SAP Fieldglass
15 3 (0.34%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.38%) NetScaler
2 6 (0.69%) 5G
2 6 (0.69%) Fibre Channel
2 6 (0.69%) SAN
3 5 (0.57%) Firewall
3 5 (0.57%) SSH
3 5 (0.57%) WAN
3 5 (0.57%) Wireless
4 4 (0.46%) Internet
4 4 (0.46%) VLAN
4 4 (0.46%) VPN
5 3 (0.34%) BGP
5 3 (0.34%) CTI
5 3 (0.34%) H.323
5 3 (0.34%) MPLS
5 3 (0.34%) Network Security
5 3 (0.34%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.23%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 2 (0.23%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 1 (0.11%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (4.37%) SQL Server
2 27 (3.10%) Power BI
3 25 (2.87%) Oracle Reports
4 21 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
5 16 (1.84%) KDB
6 12 (1.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 11 (1.26%) Relational Database
8 6 (0.69%) Data Lake
9 5 (0.57%) Big Data
9 5 (0.57%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
10 4 (0.46%) Geospatial Data
10 4 (0.46%) Oracle Database
11 3 (0.34%) Data Mining
12 2 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.23%) BusinessObjects
12 2 (0.23%) SAP HANA
12 2 (0.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 1 (0.11%) Elasticsearch
13 1 (0.11%) Redis
13 1 (0.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 96 (11.03%) JIRA
2 19 (2.18%) Cucumber
2 19 (2.18%) Selenium
3 15 (1.72%) TestRail
4 13 (1.49%) Git
4 13 (1.49%) Jenkins
4 13 (1.49%) JMeter
5 11 (1.26%) LoadRunner
6 9 (1.03%) JUnit
6 9 (1.03%) Postman
6 9 (1.03%) Zephyr
7 6 (0.69%) Maven
7 6 (0.69%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 5 (0.57%) Eclipse
8 5 (0.57%) Team Foundation Server
9 4 (0.46%) Oracle APEX
9 4 (0.46%) SoapUI
9 4 (0.46%) SpecFlow
9 4 (0.46%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.34%) FitNesse
General
1 253 (29.08%) Finance
2 247 (28.39%) Social Skills
3 75 (8.62%) Analytical Skills
4 71 (8.16%) Banking
4 71 (8.16%) Public Sector
5 38 (4.37%) Marketing
6 37 (4.25%) Presentation Skills
7 29 (3.33%) Manufacturing
8 26 (2.99%) Retail
9 22 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 20 (2.30%) Front Office
11 18 (2.07%) Investment Banking
12 16 (1.84%) Organisational Skills
13 12 (1.38%) Back Office
13 12 (1.38%) Law
14 11 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
15 10 (1.15%) Legal
16 9 (1.03%) Games
16 9 (1.03%) Telecoms
17 8 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 262 (30.11%) Analyst
2 151 (17.36%) Business Analyst
3 104 (11.95%) Consultant
4 86 (9.89%) Lead
5 79 (9.08%) Developer
6 62 (7.13%) Test Analyst
7 53 (6.09%) Senior
8 44 (5.06%) Test Manager
9 41 (4.71%) Project Manager
10 38 (4.37%) Test Leader
11 35 (4.02%) Tester
12 32 (3.68%) SAP Consultant
13 29 (3.33%) Java Developer
14 25 (2.87%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
15 24 (2.76%) Windows Engineer
16 23 (2.64%) Architect
17 21 (2.41%) Build Engineer
17 21 (2.41%) Windows Build Engineer
18 20 (2.30%) UAT Analyst
19 18 (2.07%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (2.64%) Oracle Fusion
2 18 (2.07%) .NET
3 17 (1.95%) XML
4 16 (1.84%) REST
5 13 (1.49%) ADO
5 13 (1.49%) SAML
5 13 (1.49%) Spring
6 12 (1.38%) Web Services
7 11 (1.26%) JSON
8 8 (0.92%) SOAP
9 6 (0.69%) Hibernate
9 6 (0.69%) Kafka
9 6 (0.69%) SailPoint
10 5 (0.57%) .NET Framework
10 5 (0.57%) J2EE
10 5 (0.57%) JPA
11 4 (0.46%) HTML
12 3 (0.34%) PySpark
12 3 (0.34%) RESTful
12 3 (0.34%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 48 (5.52%) Product Ownership
2 24 (2.76%) Data Protection Act
3 17 (1.95%) Management Information System
4 16 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
5 15 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 14 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
7 12 (1.38%) Data Structures
7 12 (1.38%) Derivative
7 12 (1.38%) Mobile App
7 12 (1.38%) Reinsurance
7 12 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
8 10 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (1.15%) Onboarding
9 9 (1.03%) Algorithms
9 9 (1.03%) Fixed Income
9 9 (1.03%) Market Risk
9 9 (1.03%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 8 (0.92%) Wiki
11 6 (0.69%) HP Storage
11 6 (0.69%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 62 (7.13%) Windows
2 31 (3.56%) Windows Server
3 26 (2.99%) Linux
4 22 (2.53%) Windows 10
5 21 (2.41%) Windows NT
5 21 (2.41%) Windows Server 2012
5 21 (2.41%) Windows Server 2016
5 21 (2.41%) Windows Server 2019
6 12 (1.38%) Unix
7 7 (0.80%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.69%) AIX
8 6 (0.69%) Android
8 6 (0.69%) Solaris
9 4 (0.46%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (21.26%) Agile
2 145 (16.67%) Migration
3 122 (14.02%) System Integration Testing
4 107 (12.30%) Test Automation
5 106 (12.18%) Problem-Solving
6 102 (11.72%) Integration Testing
7 101 (11.61%) Test Strategy
8 97 (11.15%) Requirements Gathering
9 95 (10.92%) Test Scripting
10 93 (10.69%) Project Management
11 91 (10.46%) Data Migration
12 90 (10.34%) User Stories
13 85 (9.77%) Scenario Testing
14 81 (9.31%) DevOps
15 73 (8.39%) Business Analysis
15 73 (8.39%) Validation
16 68 (7.82%) GAP Analysis
17 67 (7.70%) SDLC
18 66 (7.59%) End-to-End Testing
18 66 (7.59%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 116 (13.33%) SQL
2 50 (5.75%) Python
3 46 (5.29%) Java
4 33 (3.79%) C#
5 19 (2.18%) JavaScript
6 14 (1.61%) PowerShell
7 9 (1.03%) F#
8 8 (0.92%) PL/SQL
9 7 (0.80%) ABAP
9 7 (0.80%) Perl
10 5 (0.57%) C++
11 4 (0.46%) XPath
11 4 (0.46%) XQuery
12 3 (0.34%) Bash
12 3 (0.34%) Scala
12 3 (0.34%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.34%) VBA
12 3 (0.34%) VBScript
13 2 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.23%) R
Qualifications
1 90 (10.34%) Security Cleared
2 83 (9.54%) Degree
3 54 (6.21%) SC Cleared
4 34 (3.91%) DV Cleared
5 23 (2.64%) ISTQB
6 20 (2.30%) Master's Degree
7 17 (1.95%) ISEB
8 9 (1.03%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 8 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.69%) SAP Certification
11 5 (0.57%) PMP
12 4 (0.46%) CCNA
12 4 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.46%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.23%) CBAP
13 2 (0.23%) ISEB Practitioner
13 2 (0.23%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 1 (0.11%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (16.32%) QA
2 36 (4.14%) Data Quality
3 16 (1.84%) SLA
4 15 (1.72%) PMO
5 11 (1.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 9 (1.03%) EMIR
7 8 (0.92%) Disclosure Scotland
8 7 (0.80%) MiFID
9 5 (0.57%) Accessibility
9 5 (0.57%) GDPR
10 4 (0.46%) GxP
11 3 (0.34%) Dodd-Frank
11 3 (0.34%) HL7
11 3 (0.34%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 2 (0.23%) Basel III
12 2 (0.23%) COREP
12 2 (0.23%) FINREP
13 1 (0.11%) PCI DSS
13 1 (0.11%) PMBOK
System Software
1 25 (2.87%) Active Directory
2 21 (2.41%) Firmware
3 5 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.23%) Docker
5 1 (0.11%) HDFS
5 1 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 26 (2.99%) SCCM
2 21 (2.41%) Sysprep
2 21 (2.41%) WSUS
3 7 (0.80%) HP Quality Center
4 6 (0.69%) EMC NetWorker
4 6 (0.69%) HP Data Protector
4 6 (0.69%) NetBackup
5 5 (0.57%) HP ALM
6 4 (0.46%) Iperf
6 4 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.34%) Control-M
7 3 (0.34%) Kubernetes
7 3 (0.34%) SysTrack
8 2 (0.23%) CEMLI
9 1 (0.11%) BladeLogic
9 1 (0.11%) Grafana
9 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.11%) Podman
9 1 (0.11%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 129 (14.83%) SAP
2 121 (13.91%) Microsoft
3 98 (11.26%) Oracle
4 24 (2.76%) Salesforce
5 20 (2.30%) Citrix
5 20 (2.30%) ION Trading
6 14 (1.61%) Cisco
7 13 (1.49%) ServiceNow
8 12 (1.38%) HP
9 11 (1.26%) Google
10 8 (0.92%) Bloomberg
10 8 (0.92%) Workday
11 7 (0.80%) Databricks
12 6 (0.69%) Brocade
12 6 (0.69%) Calypso
12 6 (0.69%) EMC
12 6 (0.69%) Refinitiv
12 6 (0.69%) Reuters
12 6 (0.69%) Sitecore
12 6 (0.69%) Symantec