User Acceptance Testing Contracts in Bedfordshire

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire requiring User Acceptance Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited User Acceptance Testing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 29 31
Rank change year-on-year +1 +2 -8
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 5 6 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 3.21% 2.44% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.40% 2.82% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £350 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £700 -
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% - -
75th Percentile £580 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £425 £375 £518
% change year-on-year +13.33% -27.64% +15.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 147 213 169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 94.23% 86.59% 91.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 123 120
10th Percentile £463 £303 £207
25th Percentile £500 £406 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.48% +10.53% -3.06%
75th Percentile £675 £575 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £626
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 35 6
10th Percentile £20.26 £15.33 £18.50
25th Percentile £28.21 £15.39 £29.31
Median hourly rate £60.75 £21.50 £63.75
Median % change year-on-year +182.56% -66.27% +15.91%
75th Percentile £81.25 £38.33 £87.50
90th Percentile £88.00 £65.75 £90.00
East of England median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £24.62
% change year-on-year +6.25% +62.47% +58.84%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 1 May 2025. 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 +1 3 £580 -17.14% 6
Dunstable +4 1 £350 -
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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Chatbot
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Power BI
2 2 (40.00%) Data Lake
2 2 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Manufacturing
1 2 (40.00%) Pharmaceutical
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Business Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Data Analytics Specialist
1 2 (40.00%) SAP Financial Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) 1st Line Support
2 1 (20.00%) Functional Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Functional Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) IT Support
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Life Science
2 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Analytics
1 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (40.00%) Inventory Management
1 2 (40.00%) Logistics
1 2 (40.00%) Profit Centre Accounting
1 2 (40.00%) Record to Report
1 2 (40.00%) User Stories
2 1 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (20.00%) Business Transformation
2 1 (20.00%) Conversational UI
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Functional Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (20.00%) Requirements Workshops
2 1 (20.00%) Storyboarding
2 1 (20.00%) Wireframes
2 1 (20.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
2 2 (40.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (20.00%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (40.00%) PMO
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Anaplan
1 2 (40.00%) Ariba
1 2 (40.00%) Hyperion
1 2 (40.00%) SAP
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Salesforce