User Acceptance Testing Contract Job Trends in Basildon

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Essex > Basildon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Basildon requiring User Acceptance Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Basildon 12.82% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.51% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 - -
Essex median daily rate £300 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Basildon

User Acceptance Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Basildon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37 18 42
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Basildon 94.87% 94.74% 85.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 11 14
10th Percentile £341 £315 £102
25th Percentile £500 £320 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £400 £575
Median % change year-on-year +30.63% -30.43% +14.43%
75th Percentile £600 £487 £600
90th Percentile - £488 £653
Essex median daily rate £425 £400 £475
% change year-on-year +6.25% -15.79% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 26
10th Percentile £12.55 £32.00 £52.50
25th Percentile £31.90 £35.00 £54.75
Median hourly rate £55.00 £40.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -50.00% +27.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £45.00 -
90th Percentile £67.00 £48.00 -
Essex median hourly rate £17.88 £30.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -40.42% -45.45% +27.91%

User Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Basildon

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing User Acceptance Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Basildon.

User Acceptance Testing job vacancy trend in Basildon

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Basildon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Basildon citing User Acceptance Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Basildon citing User Acceptance Testing

User Acceptance Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Basildon

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Basildon citing User Acceptance Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Basildon citing User Acceptance Testing

User Acceptance Testing
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 (20.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub
1 1 (20.00%) Sauce Labs
1 1 (20.00%) TestFlight
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) Android Studio
2 1 (20.00%) Appium
2 1 (20.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) JMeter
2 1 (20.00%) Postman
2 1 (20.00%) Selenium
2 1 (20.00%) Sourcetree
2 1 (20.00%) Xcode
General
1 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (60.00%) Banking
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Business Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Tester
2 1 (20.00%) QA Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) QA Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Tester
2 1 (20.00%) UAT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (20.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) SDLC
3 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (40.00%) Analytical Thinking
4 2 (40.00%) API Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Business Analysis
4 2 (40.00%) Conflict Management
4 2 (40.00%) Customer-Centricity
4 2 (40.00%) Emotional Intelligence
4 2 (40.00%) High Availability
4 2 (40.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (40.00%) People Management
4 2 (40.00%) Project Delivery
4 2 (40.00%) Scenario Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Software Delivery
4 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (40.00%) System Integration Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (40.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Java
1 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Grafana
1 1 (20.00%) HP Quality Center
1 1 (20.00%) Kibana
1 1 (20.00%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) SAP
2 2 (40.00%) Ingenico
3 1 (20.00%) Atlassian
3 1 (20.00%) Fiserv
3 1 (20.00%) HP