User Acceptance Testing Contract Job Trends in Bournemouth

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Dorset > Bournemouth

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bournemouth requiring User Acceptance Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 11 -
Rank change year-on-year -3 - -
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 6 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bournemouth 7.06% 2.17% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.82% 2.44% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £410 - -
25th Percentile £446 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 - -
75th Percentile £523 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Dorset median daily rate £450 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Bournemouth

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 Bournemouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 68 41 57
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bournemouth 80.00% 89.13% 87.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 18 44
10th Percentile £385 £203 £175
25th Percentile £409 £273 £269
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £438 £450
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +12.50%
75th Percentile £675 £530 £506
90th Percentile £738 £595 £685
Dorset median daily rate £538 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +13.16% -2.56% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 13 5
10th Percentile £18.34 - -
25th Percentile - £15.25 £14.41
Median hourly rate £21.00 £15.50 £15.62
Median % change year-on-year +35.48% -0.77% -25.62%
75th Percentile £25.38 £15.75 -
90th Percentile £27.25 - £21.36
Dorset median hourly rate £39.25 £15.50 £20.40
% change year-on-year +153.23% -24.02% -63.89%

User Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Bournemouth

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

User Acceptance Testing job vacancy trend in Bournemouth

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Bournemouth

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

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

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Bournemouth

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in Bournemouth over the 6 months to 8 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for User Acceptance Testing in Bournemouth

User Acceptance Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Bournemouth

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

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

User Acceptance Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bournemouth 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) HP UFT
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) Selenium
General
1 4 (66.67%) Banking
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
1 4 (66.67%) Investment Banking
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Financial Institution
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Test Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Test Automation Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Senior
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Test Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Lead
4 1 (16.67%) Test Leader
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) End-to-End Testing
2 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (50.00%) Defect Management
3 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (33.33%) Programme Management
4 2 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Validation
5 1 (16.67%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Java
1 3 (50.00%) Python
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft