User Acceptance Testing Contracts in Bedfordshire

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
East of England > Bedfordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 29 22
Rank change year-on-year -2 -7 +2
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 6 2 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 2.44% 1.10% 6.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.82% 1.21% 6.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 9
10th Percentile - - £388
25th Percentile - - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.82%
75th Percentile - - £538
90th Percentile - - £585
East of England median daily rate £375 £518 £450
% change year-on-year -27.64% +15.17% -1.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £42.50
Median hourly rate - - £45.00
75th Percentile - - £47.50
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate - - £45.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 213 165 271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 86.59% 91.16% 94.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 115 149
10th Percentile £304 £208 £263
25th Percentile £409 £316 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £482
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -1.35% +13.29%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £538
90th Percentile £700 £629 £638
East of England median daily rate £458 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -3.68% - +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 6 18
10th Percentile £15.32 £18.50 £14.68
25th Percentile £15.39 £29.31 £44.69
Median hourly rate £21.50 £63.75 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -66.27% +15.91% +243.75%
75th Percentile £32.90 £87.50 £61.44
90th Percentile £65.75 £90.00 £68.75
East of England median hourly rate £40.00 £22.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year +81.82% +41.94% -15.16%

User Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for User Acceptance Testing in Bedfordshire

User Acceptance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in Bedfordshire

User Acceptance Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in Bedfordshire

User Acceptance Testing
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 4 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
Luton 0 4 £700 - 4
Dunstable - 1 - -
User Acceptance Testing
East of England

User Acceptance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint 2010
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (16.67%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 3 (50.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Functions
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (16.67%) Power Automate
2 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
2 1 (16.67%) PowerApps
2 1 (16.67%) Serverless
2 1 (16.67%) ShareGate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Delta Lake
1 1 (16.67%) MS Access
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (16.67%) GitLab
2 1 (16.67%) Subversion
2 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Data Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) SharePoint Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (16.67%) .NET
2 1 (16.67%) jQuery
2 1 (16.67%) React
2 1 (16.67%) SPFx
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Target Operating Model
2 2 (33.33%) Unit Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (16.67%) Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Business Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (16.67%) Change Management
3 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (16.67%) Data Mapping
3 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
3 1 (16.67%) ETL
3 1 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (16.67%) Storytelling
3 1 (16.67%) System Integration Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
3 1 (16.67%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) C#
1 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) SAP
2 1 (16.67%) Alteryx
2 1 (16.67%) Ariba
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Talend