User Acceptance Testing Contracts in Buckinghamshire

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire 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 45 66
Rank change year-on-year +17 +21 -21
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 10 9 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 4.24% 1.89% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.57% 2.29% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 9
10th Percentile £384 £338 £311
25th Percentile £405 £375 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -20.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £491 £425 £600
90th Percentile £549 £470 £630
South East median daily rate £413 £575 £475
% change year-on-year -28.26% +21.05% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £24.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +114.29% -60.80% +78.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 219 393 821
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 92.80% 82.56% 93.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 271 663
10th Percentile £281 £255 £307
25th Percentile £400 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year +5.37% -1.04% +1.05%
75th Percentile £588 £580 £575
90th Percentile £646 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 31 1
10th Percentile - £15.85 -
25th Percentile - £18.50 £9.50
Median hourly rate £14.20 £25.00 £10.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.20% +150.00% -7.15%
75th Percentile £39.13 £30.00 £10.50
90th Percentile £62.50 £48.75 -
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

User Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for User Acceptance Testing in Buckinghamshire

User Acceptance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Daily rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in Buckinghamshire

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

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

Daily rate histogram for User Acceptance Testing in Buckinghamshire

User Acceptance Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Hourly rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in Buckinghamshire

User Acceptance Testing
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire 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
Milton Keynes +14 7 £418 +4.38% 15
Amersham - 2 £500 -
Marlow -1 1 £525 +5.00%
User Acceptance Testing
South East

User Acceptance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 2 (20.00%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (10.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (10.00%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) SAP Commerce Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (10.00%) SaaS
2 1 (10.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (20.00%) BigQuery
3 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Retail
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Business Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Lead
3 2 (20.00%) Salesforce Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Salesforce Business Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Test Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Test Leader
4 1 (10.00%) Applications Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Applications Support
4 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
4 1 (10.00%) CRM Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365 Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Integration Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Integration Specialist
4 1 (10.00%) Mainframe Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Mainframe Support
4 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Node.js
1 2 (20.00%) Parceljs
1 2 (20.00%) RESTful
2 1 (10.00%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (10.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Scenario Testing
1 4 (40.00%) Test Strategy
2 2 (20.00%) API Integration
2 2 (20.00%) Conversational UI
2 2 (20.00%) CRM
2 2 (20.00%) Customer Service
2 2 (20.00%) ERP
2 2 (20.00%) Integration Testing
2 2 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (20.00%) Order Management
2 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (20.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (20.00%) Project Management
2 2 (20.00%) System Integration Testing
2 2 (20.00%) Test Assurance
2 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (20.00%) User Experience
2 2 (20.00%) User Stories
2 2 (20.00%) UX Design
2 2 (20.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (10.00%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) CTC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Oracle
2 2 (20.00%) Salesforce
2 2 (20.00%) SAP
3 1 (10.00%) CheckPoint