User Acceptance Testing Contracts in Bristol

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol 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 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 66 78
Rank change year-on-year +16 +12 +9
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 15 7 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 2.19% 0.73% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.38% 0.88% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 7 7
10th Percentile £290 £291 £408
25th Percentile £344 £413 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.95% -9.52% +23.53%
75th Percentile £488 £500 £606
90th Percentile £588 £513 £675
South West median daily rate £438 £500 £523
% change year-on-year -12.50% -4.31% +30.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £54.25 - -
25th Percentile £56.88 - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 - -
75th Percentile £63.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £62.50 - £23.86

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 629 797 928
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 91.82% 82.85% 86.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 326 434 649
10th Percentile £235 £260 £308
25th Percentile £361 £391 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year -10.60% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £567 £588 £638
90th Percentile £641 £717 £713
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 189 114
10th Percentile £12.82 £43.75 £17.72
25th Percentile £18.87 £55.00 £52.81
Median hourly rate £32.50 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.57% +7.69% +24.40%
75th Percentile £66.75 £72.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £73.00 £80.00 £84.63
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -61.31% - +30.00%

User Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for User Acceptance Testing in Bristol

User Acceptance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Daily rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in Bristol

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in Bristol over the 6 months to 3 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User Acceptance Testing in Bristol

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Hourly rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in Bristol

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 2 (13.33%) Confluence
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (6.67%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) AWS
1 4 (26.67%) Azure
2 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (13.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) DNS
1 1 (6.67%) LAN
1 1 (6.67%) VoIP
1 1 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Power BI
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (33.33%) Finance
2 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Analyst
2 5 (33.33%) Lead
3 4 (26.67%) Test Analyst
3 4 (26.67%) Test Leader
3 4 (26.67%) Test Manager
4 3 (20.00%) Oracle Analyst
5 2 (13.33%) Data Centre Analyst
5 2 (13.33%) Data Migration Analyst
5 2 (13.33%) Data Migration Lead
5 2 (13.33%) Financial Analyst
5 2 (13.33%) Migration Analyst
5 2 (13.33%) Oracle Financials Analyst
5 2 (13.33%) Test Data Analyst
6 1 (6.67%) Lead Test Analyst
6 1 (6.67%) Security Manager
6 1 (6.67%) Security Test Manager
6 1 (6.67%) Senior
6 1 (6.67%) Technical Test Manager
6 1 (6.67%) UAT Lead
6 1 (6.67%) UAT Test Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Data Centre
2 3 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (20.00%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (13.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Android
1 1 (6.67%) Apple iOS
1 1 (6.67%) Mac OS
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Migration
2 7 (46.67%) End-to-End Testing
3 6 (40.00%) Integration Testing
4 4 (26.67%) DevOps
4 4 (26.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (26.67%) Server Migrations
4 4 (26.67%) Test Strategy
4 4 (26.67%) Validation
5 3 (20.00%) Defect Management
5 3 (20.00%) Regression Testing
5 3 (20.00%) Smoke Testing
5 3 (20.00%) System Integration Testing
5 3 (20.00%) Test Scripting
5 3 (20.00%) Unit Testing
6 2 (13.33%) Data Validation
6 2 (13.33%) Functional Testing
6 2 (13.33%) Non-Functional Testing
6 2 (13.33%) Release Management
6 2 (13.33%) Test Management
6 2 (13.33%) Test Planning
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
2 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Oracle
2 1 (6.67%) IFS