User Acceptance Testing Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring User Acceptance Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 48 47
Rank change year-on-year -16 -1 +16
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 9 21 19
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 1.25% 3.04% 2.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.40% 3.49% 3.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 13 10
10th Percentile £223 £456 £346
25th Percentile £377 £500 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £713 £475
Median % change year-on-year -28.07% +50.00% -5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £756 £547
90th Percentile £629 - £650
West Midlands median daily rate £489 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -11.18% +10.00% +3.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 644 601 620
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 89.44% 87.10% 84.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 416 404 406
10th Percentile £221 £197 £286
25th Percentile £370 £381 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £638 £600
90th Percentile £638 £738 £694
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 16 18
10th Percentile £12.62 £14.70 £13.03
25th Percentile £13.75 £21.63 £14.78
Median hourly rate £18.87 £30.23 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.57% -49.63% +233.33%
75th Percentile £20.38 £52.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £25.00 £56.25 £67.88
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £23.60 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.04% +2.61% +29.80%

User Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

User Acceptance Testing job vacancy trend in Birmingham

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

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

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in Birmingham over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User Acceptance Testing in Birmingham

User Acceptance Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

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

User Acceptance Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 (11.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Cash Management
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (11.11%) SAP CO
1 1 (11.11%) SAP EWM
1 1 (11.11%) SAP FI
1 1 (11.11%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
1 1 (11.11%) SaaS
1 1 (11.11%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (11.11%) Power BI
2 1 (11.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (11.11%) General Ledger
3 1 (11.11%) Law
3 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
3 1 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Consultant
1 2 (22.22%) Project Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Business Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Data Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Junior
2 1 (11.11%) Junior Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Junior Business Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Migration Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Network Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Trainer
2 1 (11.11%) SAP CO Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) SAP Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) SAP FI Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) SAP FI/CO Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) SAP Manager
2 1 (11.11%) SAP Project Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Service Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) CMDB
1 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
1 1 (11.11%) e-Learning
1 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
1 1 (11.11%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Data Migration
1 3 (33.33%) Migration
2 2 (22.22%) Agile
2 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (22.22%) Project Management
2 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (22.22%) Test Scripting
2 2 (22.22%) Validation
3 1 (11.11%) Accounts Payable
3 1 (11.11%) Accounts Receivable
3 1 (11.11%) Backlog Management
3 1 (11.11%) Conflict Resolution
3 1 (11.11%) Impact Assessments
3 1 (11.11%) Operational Acceptance Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Project Delivery
3 1 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (11.11%) Sprint Backlog
3 1 (11.11%) Test Strategy
3 1 (11.11%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) CCNP
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (11.11%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) SAP
2 1 (11.11%) Alteryx
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco
2 1 (11.11%) F5
2 1 (11.11%) Intapp
2 1 (11.11%) Juniper
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) NetScout
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Palo Alto
2 1 (11.11%) Sage
2 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow
2 1 (11.11%) Xero