UAT Engineer Contract Job Trends in Basildon

User Acceptance Testing Engineer
Essex > Basildon

The median User Acceptance Testing Engineer daily rate in Basildon is £300, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 February 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a UAT Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Basildon 5.26% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 5.26% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 - -
Essex median daily rate £300 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Basildon

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Basildon. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Basildon with a recognized job title 19 12 37
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% 100.00% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 19
10th Percentile £138 - £213
25th Percentile £248 £315 £273
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £320 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -28.89% -10.00%
75th Percentile £617 £321 £581
90th Percentile £689 £451 £621
Essex median daily rate £375 £318 £450
% change year-on-year +17.84% -29.28% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 14
10th Percentile - - £38.12
25th Percentile £46.25 - £52.50
Median hourly rate £56.25 £30.00 £55.25
Median % change year-on-year +87.50% -45.70% +24.16%
75th Percentile £66.25 - £73.51
90th Percentile £68.50 - £78.50
Essex median hourly rate £22.04 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -32.19% - +60.49%

UAT Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Basildon

For the 6 months to 5 February 2026, UAT Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Basildon region featuring UAT Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Android
1 1 (100.00%) Android Studio
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Appium
1 1 (100.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Black-Box Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Fintech
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Kibana
1 1 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) pytest
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) Rundeck
1 1 (100.00%) Sauce Labs
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Sourcetree
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation

UAT Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Basildon by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) Sauce Labs
1 1 (100.00%) TestFlight
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Android Studio
1 1 (100.00%) Appium
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Sourcetree
1 1 (100.00%) Xcode
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Black-Box Testing
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Fintech
1 1 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Time Management
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) White-Box Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kibana
1 1 (100.00%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Atlassian